If a pledge / donation system was setup - and they reached the target quickly - then that would also send a strong message to the RIAA and their ilk that their "potential" customer base don't agree with the verdict.
They do not have that level of awareness. The only "message" they'll get is that they won and Pirate Bay lost. The 3.6 million is chump change to them, they do not care if it is paid or not. Their goal is to destroy Pirate Bay, not financial inconvenience them.
The sad fact is, they will succeed sooner or later. Pirate Bay needs to decide now what their future plans are to stay alive because downloading movies and cracked software is illegal no matter how you look at it, and their "not hosting, just linking" defense is lame. Their semantic haven of is quickely fading away.
I agree. This is probably a hoax. Never mind the fact that there's no blood ANYWHERE, or that there're no pictures of the ruptured gas canister itself, just look at the news sources. Do they look like credible news sites to you?
Until I see some credible evidence I'm just going to file this under urban legends. The fact is: people are liars, doubly so when juvenile shits and giggles can be had at the expense of gullible people on the internet.
Well you know the best way to avoid that is to be involved in politics and vote. Don't let the older generations keep electing these insane jackasses to office.
Getting information on a candidate by committing a felony is not acceptable. Period.
Also, in the story you linked to, she was not ignoring a court order, she ignored subpoenas. Totally different things, especially since they were related to a probe into her own activities. She has a constitutional right not to participate in a criminal investigation against herself.
I don't like Palin or the entire McCain campaign in the least... but how is this even remotely acceptable? We cry and bitch and moan about warrantless government wiretapping, yet when some group of a-holes breaks into an elected official's personal email account and posts screenshots on the web, we see it as just some more dirt on a candidate. The best word that describes that is "despicable."
Mark this as flamebait all you want, but people running for public office have constitutional rights too. I've always considered Anonymous a bit shady in their dealings, and this justs seals the deal.
It's not that we don't care about the mother and daughter, it's just that it's the machine that made them remarkable. If that seems heartless, then you've overlooked the fact that kid would've died without it. I'm just saying it's worth a little more attention.
Aside from extreme cost, lack of Earth support, lack of magnetosphere, and no real good reason for it to be there, there is one really good reason why this is a stupid idea: gravitational anomalies.
See, the moon is not a perfect sphere, nor is it homogeneous. There are wild variations in the strength of gravity at different points along its surface. The consequence of this is nothing can stay in orbit for very long. We'd have to manhandle the ISS with thrusters every few MONTHS to keep it from slamming into the Moon.
The best science comes from napkins. If we started publishing our scientific papers in napkin-form, then we'd have the cure for cancer, AIDS and the solution to the grand unified field theory inside a week. As well as the complete abolishment of greasy fingers at the Nobel ceremony fried chicken and chili cook-off after party.
1) Hardware acceleration 2) Only two versions. Home and Pro. 3) An expose function that is actually useful 4) Multiple desktops 5) IP over 1394a/b 6) NTFS support for Readyboost 7) Built-in support for running on a virtual machine 8) Better organization in the control panel and start menu.
The REAL reason is they're built as cheaply as possible to keep the cost down and margins up. Actually good consumer-grade routers are easily $100+. The WRT54G, while being a good value and a versitile product, just isn't made with quality hardware. They're like the Chevys of the home networking world.
To say that we'll never know how the brain works is just silly. We already know a great deal about its functions and have -successfully- simulated some of its structures in supercomputers. The latest, most powerful petaflop computer known as Roadrunner just simulated the human visual cortex in real time. The only limiting factor now in making human-level AIs is just hardware performance.
And, hey, we may not have all of the answers yet, but that's why we have science.
It's not that AI has been abandoned, it's just that the definition is a bit of a moving goalpost. We're still learning on how exactly intelligence and consciousness work. Every once and awhile you hear about parts of the human brain being simulated in supercomputers.
It's basically a USB hub on steroids. From what I understand it even uses the mini-USB connector as the standard plug. From what I've been able to determine from Green Plug's website, the device is about as wide as a compact disk and can power 8 devices simultaneously.
For in the home, I'm not sure how useful this would be... but imagine if libraries, coffee shops or air planes had this connector? That'd be almost as good as wireless power.
Plus, you know, anything that plans to get rid of wall warts I wholeheartedly endorse. I actually cut my USB hub's transformer cord and spliced it directly to an old molex connector so I could run it off my computer's power supply. I'm going to do the same with my scanner.
I don't know anybody who has learned how to drive from a driving school. So I guess my answer to that (which might vary by area or country) is "since always."
The manual of my SUV (a 1991 Cherokee) explicitly states that it is not a passenger vehicle and it should not be driven as such. There's even a sticker on the sun visor explaining this. Does this make the car "bad?" No. It just makes it different. I trade off some high-speed maneuverability for increased versatility. As for Gas mileage, I get 17/27, which is only slightly less than a 2009 Toyota Camery with a similar engine and transmission (19/28.)
That's really the parent's fault if they can't teach their kids to drive responsibly. An SUV isn't any more dangerous than a passenger car as long as you understand its limitations... sadly people rarely bother to pay heed to the instruction manual.
It's a neat idea but the resulting geometry is just awful. It might be good for "quick and dirty" scans of unmodeled areas, but this definitely cannot beat a human being creating a model and skinning it.
So unless the metric is making building look all melted and asymmetrical, then I guess it does beat Google Earth.
Team Fortress 2 was in development hell for 9 years. Not only did it live up to the expectations, it exceeded them.
Sometimes extremely long development phases are due to the company making the best damned product they possibly can and not accepting second rate. Anybody can shit out a video game in a few years, but it takes a long time to make something that's truly good. Especially if the developer wants to make something that's fun to play and has interesting visuals. Instead of just FPS #54936-B
"OK, you can put Bill Gates dick back in your mouth now."
I find this hilarious because you yourself are advocating Windows XP as if it's perfection. Not only are you calling the kettle black but you're saying it in Ebonics.
I did try nlite and there'd always be some bug afterwards that'd necessitate doing a clean install with the official install disk. Weird stuff like the audio driver taking up 100% of the CPU.
In fact, once at work we had just bought a new top of the line server for some scientific instruments. The scientists wanted XP on it, but it would not install. Some obscure RAID driver was needed and the manufacturer only made drivers for Server 2003, but they did have beta XP drivers. We tried everything from using nLite to Norton ghost, but we just couldn't get XP to install. It wouldn't even recognize the external floppy drive we had to use. We tried for a week without any luck.
Finally, I suggested that we try Vista to see how that'd work. It installed with no trouble whatsoever. No drivers needed to be installed. Only one bit of software needed to be updated to work with Vista.
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If a pledge / donation system was setup - and they reached the target quickly - then that would also send a strong message to the RIAA and their ilk that their "potential" customer base don't agree with the verdict.
They do not have that level of awareness. The only "message" they'll get is that they won and Pirate Bay lost. The 3.6 million is chump change to them, they do not care if it is paid or not. Their goal is to destroy Pirate Bay, not financial inconvenience them.
The sad fact is, they will succeed sooner or later. Pirate Bay needs to decide now what their future plans are to stay alive because downloading movies and cracked software is illegal no matter how you look at it, and their "not hosting, just linking" defense is lame. Their semantic haven of is quickely fading away.
I agree. This is probably a hoax. Never mind the fact that there's no blood ANYWHERE, or that there're no pictures of the ruptured gas canister itself, just look at the news sources. Do they look like credible news sites to you?
Until I see some credible evidence I'm just going to file this under urban legends. The fact is: people are liars, doubly so when juvenile shits and giggles can be had at the expense of gullible people on the internet.
This is great. Now if only Nero wasn't horrible software.
Personally I use Beyond TV and I like it. It came with a free UHF remote and it all works great on 64-bit Vista.
Well you know the best way to avoid that is to be involved in politics and vote. Don't let the older generations keep electing these insane jackasses to office.
Getting information on a candidate by committing a felony is not acceptable. Period.
Also, in the story you linked to, she was not ignoring a court order, she ignored subpoenas. Totally different things, especially since they were related to a probe into her own activities. She has a constitutional right not to participate in a criminal investigation against herself.
I don't like Palin or the entire McCain campaign in the least... but how is this even remotely acceptable? We cry and bitch and moan about warrantless government wiretapping, yet when some group of a-holes breaks into an elected official's personal email account and posts screenshots on the web, we see it as just some more dirt on a candidate. The best word that describes that is "despicable."
Mark this as flamebait all you want, but people running for public office have constitutional rights too. I've always considered Anonymous a bit shady in their dealings, and this justs seals the deal.
It's not that we don't care about the mother and daughter, it's just that it's the machine that made them remarkable. If that seems heartless, then you've overlooked the fact that kid would've died without it. I'm just saying it's worth a little more attention.
Aside from extreme cost, lack of Earth support, lack of magnetosphere, and no real good reason for it to be there, there is one really good reason why this is a stupid idea: gravitational anomalies.
See, the moon is not a perfect sphere, nor is it homogeneous. There are wild variations in the strength of gravity at different points along its surface. The consequence of this is nothing can stay in orbit for very long. We'd have to manhandle the ISS with thrusters every few MONTHS to keep it from slamming into the Moon.
Also, who the hell is Michael Benson?
Jobs is actually a tremendous dick in real life too, while Gates is a pretty cool guy. I guess it's hard to have high standards and not be an asshole.
The Lunar module was also a "napkin drawing."
The best science comes from napkins. If we started publishing our scientific papers in napkin-form, then we'd have the cure for cancer, AIDS and the solution to the grand unified field theory inside a week. As well as the complete abolishment of greasy fingers at the Nobel ceremony fried chicken and chili cook-off after party.
1) Hardware acceleration
2) Only two versions. Home and Pro.
3) An expose function that is actually useful
4) Multiple desktops
5) IP over 1394a/b
6) NTFS support for Readyboost
7) Built-in support for running on a virtual machine
8) Better organization in the control panel and start menu.
And that's just off the top of my head!
The REAL reason is they're built as cheaply as possible to keep the cost down and margins up. Actually good consumer-grade routers are easily $100+. The WRT54G, while being a good value and a versitile product, just isn't made with quality hardware. They're like the Chevys of the home networking world.
To say that we'll never know how the brain works is just silly. We already know a great deal about its functions and have -successfully- simulated some of its structures in supercomputers. The latest, most powerful petaflop computer known as Roadrunner just simulated the human visual cortex in real time. The only limiting factor now in making human-level AIs is just hardware performance.
And, hey, we may not have all of the answers yet, but that's why we have science.
It's not that AI has been abandoned, it's just that the definition is a bit of a moving goalpost. We're still learning on how exactly intelligence and consciousness work. Every once and awhile you hear about parts of the human brain being simulated in supercomputers.
It's basically a USB hub on steroids. From what I understand it even uses the mini-USB connector as the standard plug. From what I've been able to determine from Green Plug's website, the device is about as wide as a compact disk and can power 8 devices simultaneously.
For in the home, I'm not sure how useful this would be... but imagine if libraries, coffee shops or air planes had this connector? That'd be almost as good as wireless power.
Plus, you know, anything that plans to get rid of wall warts I wholeheartedly endorse. I actually cut my USB hub's transformer cord and spliced it directly to an old molex connector so I could run it off my computer's power supply. I'm going to do the same with my scanner.
I don't know anybody who has learned how to drive from a driving school. So I guess my answer to that (which might vary by area or country) is "since always."
The manual of my SUV (a 1991 Cherokee) explicitly states that it is not a passenger vehicle and it should not be driven as such. There's even a sticker on the sun visor explaining this. Does this make the car "bad?" No. It just makes it different. I trade off some high-speed maneuverability for increased versatility. As for Gas mileage, I get 17/27, which is only slightly less than a 2009 Toyota Camery with a similar engine and transmission (19/28.)
That's really the parent's fault if they can't teach their kids to drive responsibly. An SUV isn't any more dangerous than a passenger car as long as you understand its limitations... sadly people rarely bother to pay heed to the instruction manual.
It's a neat idea but the resulting geometry is just awful. It might be good for "quick and dirty" scans of unmodeled areas, but this definitely cannot beat a human being creating a model and skinning it.
So unless the metric is making building look all melted and asymmetrical, then I guess it does beat Google Earth.
That's my point. I don't want a reactor with ANY flaws. No matter how safe its default shutdown threasholds are.
Yeah, but you don't want the reactor shutting down because the computer system is shit. That is most definitely not reassuring to me.
That's like not wanting to go on a rollercoaster because it isn't realistic to an actual train ride.
Seriously, install it and play it. You'll quickly find realism to be overrated.
Well if they had just tightened up the graphics in level 3 like their game testers said, it wouldn't have been such a epic failure.
Team Fortress 2 was in development hell for 9 years. Not only did it live up to the expectations, it exceeded them.
Sometimes extremely long development phases are due to the company making the best damned product they possibly can and not accepting second rate. Anybody can shit out a video game in a few years, but it takes a long time to make something that's truly good. Especially if the developer wants to make something that's fun to play and has interesting visuals. Instead of just FPS #54936-B
64bit XP can't run half of my hardware. Including my TV card, scanner, and printer. It's not bad neccesarily it's just very poorly supported.
"OK, you can put Bill Gates dick back in your mouth now."
I find this hilarious because you yourself are advocating Windows XP as if it's perfection. Not only are you calling the kettle black but you're saying it in Ebonics.
I did try nlite and there'd always be some bug afterwards that'd necessitate doing a clean install with the official install disk. Weird stuff like the audio driver taking up 100% of the CPU.
In fact, once at work we had just bought a new top of the line server for some scientific instruments. The scientists wanted XP on it, but it would not install. Some obscure RAID driver was needed and the manufacturer only made drivers for Server 2003, but they did have beta XP drivers. We tried everything from using nLite to Norton ghost, but we just couldn't get XP to install. It wouldn't even recognize the external floppy drive we had to use. We tried for a week without any luck.
Finally, I suggested that we try Vista to see how that'd work. It installed with no trouble whatsoever. No drivers needed to be installed. Only one bit of software needed to be updated to work with Vista.