Camera doesn't really care if it's upside down or downside up. Just flip the image in the viewscreen 180 degrees. Granted, it'll be a bit of bother when the viewpoint shifts some 20 odd centimeters up and down every now and then and the legs might be in the way of panorama. But I can see ways to adjust for that. (one camera per side of the triangle, mounted inside the body and you're done. Three legged recon unit.)
You know, as soon as you know you're more likely to die than to live another year an author who has the least bit respect for his fans would coredump everything about the end onto a few reliable persons.
Jordan strikes me as one of those. He wanted us to know the end when he got there.
Wake me up when slashdotters stop fighting over who's geekpeen is the biggest...
Wait, cancel that never coming wake up call... I'll just wake when the stars are right and devour you all.
Well, I'll give you that. It's still just bandying words though. The term "Mass arrestation" is as far as I can remember only truly appliable to the US for the japanese roundups during WWII, the McCarthy processes and the post-9/11 debacle. That there are a lot of people in prison is another animal alltogether.
Do not confuse a high crimerate with the failure of the democratic system.
80%?
That's crap. It's not the sign of a flourishing democracy. Both Saddam Husseins Irak and North Korea have had 100% voter turnout in the latest elections. And even better, 99% of the registered voters voted on the party candidate. That's what I call the will of the people...
...wait...
Point being, neither elections nor voting is a sign of democracy. They had elections back in Soviet russia as well (only there the politicians voted for you). They have elections in Iran, but you'd hardly call that a democracy. Elections is the furnishings of democracy, but unless backed up by freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press it's potemkin villages, smoke and mirrors, a gilded cage.
Russia isn't a democracy. We like to pretend that it is, because it's no longer a communist dictatiorship and we want part of the emmerging market. But it tends to lack those fundamental values that we like to claim are integral to democracy.
Just because you're allowed to vote doesn't make it democratic.
And the US...
Well, let's just say that the US used to be democratic and that it's future status is being considered.;)
Because I need it to move from my desk to management whenever they have IT-problems so that they understand the particulars of our relationship.
"Oh no, IT-support is thundering our way. It'd better be a real problem this time and not just someone who forgot to plug in the ethernet cable, or else there will be smiting."
Democracy hasn't seemed to work all that well lately, at least in a two party system.
History teaches us two things:
#1) There is no better form of government than an enlightened dictator.
#2) Dictators tend to be unenlightened.
Also it could be argued that while democracy is a really shitty way of running things it has merits over the others based on the lack of mass imprisonments the innefective secret police and the slightly lower grade of corruption.
As Winston Churchill is attributed to have said:
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
On the other hand... he also said:
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Of course, on his own turf Tom Bombadill is probably the most powerfull being on Middle Earth and would just sing and dance you into submission making you his bitch for when Goldenberry isn't around. You might want to avoid that.
Now it makes sense and I'm sure this would mean less exposure for niche artistes. Gotta love an industry that's trying to hammer nails in its own coffin
You're acting as if diversity is something that the music industry likes. The current situation where the music industry has to promote diffrent artists and spend money on huge ad campaigns for them isn't exactly ideal. If everyone listened to Brittney Spears the profits would be enormous.
So, you made a bad joke about a bad joke.
The redundancy of the situation is staggering. Have we created a black hole for jokes?
No need to be sorry. Paranoid and defensive is my default setting for Slashdot.
Can't for sure say how it is with US laws, but I think snippets of text fall under the right to free quotation at least in swedish law.
i e You're allowed to freely quote up to X amount of text (can't remember the real number, but it ammounts to a quarter of a printed page or something like that).
The amzing thing is that I wasn't even aiming for Hitler, I just expected the joke to be more obvious if I used 1939 than if I used for example AD 367, AD 1873, 213 BC, AD 325, AD 1085, AD 1242, AD 1497, AD 1562, AD 1842, AD 1948, AD 1952, AD 1988 or any of the Harry Potter burnings. (Potter was ruled out since I thought it moot to put in book burnings at a date that superceeds CD burning).
But of course since I was obviously flagrantly tresspassing Goodwins territory feel free to amend my original post to any of the non nazi dates you find above.
I'm just trying to joke about the development of memory here.;P
Wouldn't it be rather redundant calling Goodwin's law unto a obviously humorous post?
It's not as if I tried to make a point about anyone being a nazi or do anything past a pretty harmless joke about the concept of burning information onto media.
I'd even go so far as saying that invoking Goodwin's law unto a joke is akin to being a...
Anything would be better than the current way my hard drive works. Spinning discs on a platter?! A thousand moving parts?! What is this, the Stone Age?!
Well, actually it's worse than the stone age. Back then we had "Monoliths" which (apart from glacial shift and other geological "features" - or "bugs" as anyone outside sales management called them) had no moving (of movable even) parts at all.
When the storage space on a monolith wasn't enough you could expand to a "Circle".
Still, the space on a full circle even with a connected "Altar" and a full set of "Druids" and "Maidens" peripheals wasn't more than perhaps 256 bytes. So the monolith system was later on replaced by paper which had the benefit of portability but the drawback of reduced lifespan.
Paper was a very popular form of storage, though with some flaws. For example attempts at "burning" information onto papers were done several times in recorded history (for instance back in 1939) but even if it was a fast and effective way to handle the information it was totally destructive to the media and had to be abandoned.
Burning then lay dormant as a form of inprinting information on media until the discovery of CD's.
CD's are a hybrid technology combining one not very moving part with several moving parts that moves the unmoving part around. No clever explanation for this behaviour has ever been found and most scientists just doesn't like to talk about it.
conveniently allowing me to pick up a quarter-pound burger for a late-night snack on my way home.
Well, you might be intrested to know that I would buy a quarter-pounder even here in Sweden, if I could just force myself to enter a McDonalds.
It's a brand name. Much like in lots of parts of the world the word for a Large Lorry is "Scania" or how an american might Hoover his apartment to get rid of the dirt on the floor.
So that last part just isn't a good example.
The pint in the pub isn't very good either, since it's an established volume of alcohol. You can buy Pints in Sweden as well, though we prefer the "Big Strong" volume instead.
The pints of milk in the super market is a decent argument against the metrification of the UK though. And the speed limits. But surely you can see the diffrence.
Well, thousend gigahertz would be a terrahertz, and then we've got thousand terrahertz which would be a petaherts. Then a thousand petahertz is what we're looking for and that's an exahertz. closely followed by zettaherts and yottahertz.
And Cannon Fodder was inspired by the battle sequences in Cinemaware's "Lords of the Rising Sun" (not that these philistines would know anything about Cinemaware... and Lords was inspired by the battle sequences in that Jeanne d'arc game which name I can't even remember at the moment.
I've had this discussion before and to be honest it bores me to tears. Almost every success in this industry was build upon the back of giants and thus we could either settle for only protecting "Space War" or we could just accept that it will be pretty arbitrary and "who got there first" isn't really as important as what made the biggest splash?
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What we do is this. Plot a course with the newer faster ships using the same trajectory and then latch onto the ark and transfer it's passengers.
Otherwise it'd be troublesome when a shipfull of aliens arrive looking exactly like us.
Imagine a culture of humans totally isolated in their own spaceship traveling to a distant goal... wait... Harry Martinsson allready did that... Aniara
Isn't that provided by others as part of the "service" to their fellow man?
Then again, it would be considered a service to your fellow man to do it yourself and free them of that particular duty.
Also, if you're handy and not afraid of washing your sheets once in a while you can probably sneak some of it into your eight hours of sleep.
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Camera doesn't really care if it's upside down or downside up. Just flip the image in the viewscreen 180 degrees. Granted, it'll be a bit of bother when the viewpoint shifts some 20 odd centimeters up and down every now and then and the legs might be in the way of panorama. But I can see ways to adjust for that. (one camera per side of the triangle, mounted inside the body and you're done. Three legged recon unit.)
You know, as soon as you know you're more likely to die than to live another year an author who has the least bit respect for his fans would coredump everything about the end onto a few reliable persons. Jordan strikes me as one of those. He wanted us to know the end when he got there.
Wake me up when slashdotters stop fighting over who's geekpeen is the biggest...
Wait, cancel that never coming wake up call... I'll just wake when the stars are right and devour you all.
That'd be Linux Is Not UniX thank you very much. Capitalization is very important. Only the totally Non-N00b know that.
Well, I'll give you that. It's still just bandying words though. The term "Mass arrestation" is as far as I can remember only truly appliable to the US for the japanese roundups during WWII, the McCarthy processes and the post-9/11 debacle. That there are a lot of people in prison is another animal alltogether.
Do not confuse a high crimerate with the failure of the democratic system.
80%?
...wait...
That's crap. It's not the sign of a flourishing democracy. Both Saddam Husseins Irak and North Korea have had 100% voter turnout in the latest elections. And even better, 99% of the registered voters voted on the party candidate. That's what I call the will of the people...
Point being, neither elections nor voting is a sign of democracy. They had elections back in Soviet russia as well (only there the politicians voted for you). They have elections in Iran, but you'd hardly call that a democracy. Elections is the furnishings of democracy, but unless backed up by freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press it's potemkin villages, smoke and mirrors, a gilded cage.
Russia isn't a democracy. We like to pretend that it is, because it's no longer a communist dictatiorship and we want part of the emmerging market. But it tends to lack those fundamental values that we like to claim are integral to democracy. ;)
Just because you're allowed to vote doesn't make it democratic.
And the US...
Well, let's just say that the US used to be democratic and that it's future status is being considered.
you insensitive lout.
Why?
Because I need it to move from my desk to management whenever they have IT-problems so that they understand the particulars of our relationship.
"Oh no, IT-support is thundering our way. It'd better be a real problem this time and not just someone who forgot to plug in the ethernet cable, or else there will be smiting."
Democracy hasn't seemed to work all that well lately, at least in a two party system.
History teaches us two things:
#1) There is no better form of government than an enlightened dictator.
#2) Dictators tend to be unenlightened.
Also it could be argued that while democracy is a really shitty way of running things it has merits over the others based on the lack of mass imprisonments the innefective secret police and the slightly lower grade of corruption.
As Winston Churchill is attributed to have said:
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
On the other hand... he also said:
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Of course, on his own turf Tom Bombadill is probably the most powerfull being on Middle Earth and would just sing and dance you into submission making you his bitch for when Goldenberry isn't around. You might want to avoid that.
Now it makes sense and I'm sure this would mean less exposure for niche artistes. Gotta love an industry that's trying to hammer nails in its own coffin
You're acting as if diversity is something that the music industry likes. The current situation where the music industry has to promote diffrent artists and spend money on huge ad campaigns for them isn't exactly ideal. If everyone listened to Brittney Spears the profits would be enormous.
So, you made a bad joke about a bad joke. The redundancy of the situation is staggering. Have we created a black hole for jokes?
No need to be sorry. Paranoid and defensive is my default setting for Slashdot.
Can't for sure say how it is with US laws, but I think snippets of text fall under the right to free quotation at least in swedish law. i e You're allowed to freely quote up to X amount of text (can't remember the real number, but it ammounts to a quarter of a printed page or something like that).
The amzing thing is that I wasn't even aiming for Hitler, I just expected the joke to be more obvious if I used 1939 than if I used for example AD 367, AD 1873, 213 BC, AD 325, AD 1085, AD 1242, AD 1497, AD 1562, AD 1842, AD 1948, AD 1952, AD 1988 or any of the Harry Potter burnings. (Potter was ruled out since I thought it moot to put in book burnings at a date that superceeds CD burning). But of course since I was obviously flagrantly tresspassing Goodwins territory feel free to amend my original post to any of the non nazi dates you find above. ;P
I'm just trying to joke about the development of memory here.
Wouldn't it be rather redundant calling Goodwin's law unto a obviously humorous post?
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It's not as if I tried to make a point about anyone being a nazi or do anything past a pretty harmless joke about the concept of burning information onto media.
I'd even go so far as saying that invoking Goodwin's law unto a joke is akin to being a...
Now, wait just a minute...
Anything would be better than the current way my hard drive works. Spinning discs on a platter?! A thousand moving parts?! What is this, the Stone Age?!
Well, actually it's worse than the stone age. Back then we had "Monoliths" which (apart from glacial shift and other geological "features" - or "bugs" as anyone outside sales management called them) had no moving (of movable even) parts at all.
When the storage space on a monolith wasn't enough you could expand to a "Circle".
Still, the space on a full circle even with a connected "Altar" and a full set of "Druids" and "Maidens" peripheals wasn't more than perhaps 256 bytes. So the monolith system was later on replaced by paper which had the benefit of portability but the drawback of reduced lifespan.
Paper was a very popular form of storage, though with some flaws. For example attempts at "burning" information onto papers were done several times in recorded history (for instance back in 1939) but even if it was a fast and effective way to handle the information it was totally destructive to the media and had to be abandoned. Burning then lay dormant as a form of inprinting information on media until the discovery of CD's.
CD's are a hybrid technology combining one not very moving part with several moving parts that moves the unmoving part around. No clever explanation for this behaviour has ever been found and most scientists just doesn't like to talk about it.
conveniently allowing me to pick up a quarter-pound burger for a late-night snack on my way home. Well, you might be intrested to know that I would buy a quarter-pounder even here in Sweden, if I could just force myself to enter a McDonalds. It's a brand name. Much like in lots of parts of the world the word for a Large Lorry is "Scania" or how an american might Hoover his apartment to get rid of the dirt on the floor. So that last part just isn't a good example. The pint in the pub isn't very good either, since it's an established volume of alcohol. You can buy Pints in Sweden as well, though we prefer the "Big Strong" volume instead. The pints of milk in the super market is a decent argument against the metrification of the UK though. And the speed limits. But surely you can see the diffrence.
Well, thousend gigahertz would be a terrahertz, and then we've got thousand terrahertz which would be a petaherts. Then a thousand petahertz is what we're looking for and that's an exahertz. closely followed by zettaherts and yottahertz.
I concurr, to not include Elite in a list of the ten most imporant games in the history of gaming is a crime against humanity.
And Cannon Fodder was inspired by the battle sequences in Cinemaware's "Lords of the Rising Sun" (not that these philistines would know anything about Cinemaware... and Lords was inspired by the battle sequences in that Jeanne d'arc game which name I can't even remember at the moment. I've had this discussion before and to be honest it bores me to tears. Almost every success in this industry was build upon the back of giants and thus we could either settle for only protecting "Space War" or we could just accept that it will be pretty arbitrary and "who got there first" isn't really as important as what made the biggest splash?
running a bunch of these in a Beowulf cluster.
$666 thousand? Who bought them? The devil?
What we do is this. Plot a course with the newer faster ships using the same trajectory and then latch onto the ark and transfer it's passengers.
Otherwise it'd be troublesome when a shipfull of aliens arrive looking exactly like us.
Imagine a culture of humans totally isolated in their own spaceship traveling to a distant goal... wait... Harry Martinsson allready did that... Aniara
Isn't that provided by others as part of the "service" to their fellow man? Then again, it would be considered a service to your fellow man to do it yourself and free them of that particular duty. Also, if you're handy and not afraid of washing your sheets once in a while you can probably sneak some of it into your eight hours of sleep.