"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks." -Fight Club Narrator
Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is estimated to be approximately 2300–2400 km in diameter, and 27% more massive than Pluto, or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass.
Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year.
We're basically blind. Something around Pluto's size with 27% more mass was just discovered in 2005... That doesn't mean it wasn't there until 2005, it means we need more eyes in the sky. What if it had been on a collision course with us?! We'd have been kicking ourselves for not "wasting" more money on the space program for the previous 35 years then, eh? (Eris is a big reason why Pluto isn't called a planet anymore, don't you keep up with the basic solar system science? I mean, you're posting about it...)
The dinosaurs didn't have a space program. Not looking for asteroids doesn't make them go away. While you're burring your head in the sand, how do you ignore the fossil record within it?
If we start RIGHT NOW, we might have enough time to get some pioneers like Elon Musk and his SpaceX team out to the asteroid belt, bump a few big rocks into Lunar Orbit, ready to sling them at any incoming to use as a gravity tug or to hit the planet-killers (you don't have to smash it, just tap it). Hell, maybe even mine a few while we're at it, but at least we'd be somewhat armed. A blind sniper is useless.
We won't be able to stop something the size of Eris this late in the game, but we may be able to set up a few permanent self sustainable colonies so all our eggs aren't in one fucking basket. I wish people like you would just go die in a fire before you condemn us all to such a fate.. Your moronic votes deprive us of space exploration funding, and could mean the end of mankind all because you're just an ignorant fool who thinks they know a hell of a lot more than they actually do.
You're joking, right? If countries exploited that silly technicality, then the response would be to put a flag on a diplomatic wheelchair or diplomatic rollerskates to get from the car to the plane.
I need me some of those diplomatic rollerskates. Do they make an inline model, or better yet a diplomatic skateboard? There's some capitol hills than need grinding and thrashing.
Their attraction was undeniable. Fully exposed, their bodies drew rapidly closer. Nearness awakened every fiber of each form to the other's. Her lithe curves and easy undulation betrayed her ample experience, some of which she would soon impart to him. Her awesome presence caused him to quake softly in response, this being his first time.
With only her incredible closeness she called forth the very tip of his being. Their bodies touched first only at a single point, from which searing waves of heat rushed forth, mirrored in them both, ripping away all resistance to their inevitable purpose. An ageless eternity passed between them in a moment, and instantly all of her knew all of him.
When their intense furious coupling had subsided, she drifted at the edge of his perception. The heart of his being was left glowing brighter than a billion suns. No one knew what seed had been planted that day, but it was certain he was changed and could never be the same again.
-The Big Bang A story of Universal creation by VortexCortex
This story is so offensive to "Puritanical busybodies" on so many levels, that I email it to them in a response to their Kitty Porn, and I never hear from them again.
Some "undeveloped" peoples run around nearly naked. Their sons and daughters know what penises, vaginas and breasts are. They help to cook food, and thus see the gory innards of slain beasts.
In the developed world most of their children have no clue that opposite sexes even exist. Children often know the issue of "where babies come from" is uncomfortable to their parents long before they even learn the truth. They're vastly undereducated as to the urges their hormones bring... They have little sense of the finality of death, or of nature. They bring their own children up in the same fashion, where censorship is more easily condoned, where ignorance is praised, where they don't abhor violence or war.
Goodbye Humans. You've decided to destroy yourselves. I'll have no part in it.
The Java TCK ensures deprecated stuff sticks around, so you can run older stuff on newer Java Virtual Machines. One of the reasons Java is so bloated is because they want to ensure backwards compatibility...
The simplest solution is to raise the minimum salary for all H1B employees to something more reasonable, like between $100,000 to $150,000
I see a flaw... A gallon of milk will just cost $40, and that $20k minimum wage slave will make $200k. ...absolute values don't account for inflation well.
If netflix loses, so do disabled people. Because netflix will simply remove the videos that dont have CC. Then nobody will see those movies. At least prviously disabled people could use transcribing software.
Oh, gods, please let them sue Youtube uploaders next!
GET SOME DAMN EARS. We have the technology. You know why I'm not providing a spoken audio recording with this message for the blind? Because we have the technology to turn text into speech. It's really unfortunate when disabled people have problems due to their disability, but hindering the herd needlessly is just retarding.
Let's be grown ups about this. Shite doth occur. Not everyone can live the same lives. Life isn't always fair, nor can anyone force it to be at all times. Compromise is key. Rationality is an important thing.
Now, I can see where local TV could have an impact on disabled people's lives because they provide local news and weather and if none provided CC, then who else would provide that content... but Netflix? Seriously? That's a luxury item. Many folks are disabled with poverty, and can't even afford Netflix. Hey, ADA, Why don't you force them to give them Netflix for free? Hey, my MS Windows is disabled! It kept getting viruses until it died, the install CD was scratched, so now I have to use Linux... Waaaaah! I can't use Netflix on Linux! I'm being discriminated against because of my proprietary software disability! ADA, make them give me a Netflix that runs on Linux! (No, instead I write them emails and sign petitions, letting them know there is a problem.)
I can see wheelchair ramps at grocery stores and side walks, but what about jungle gyms? Should there be a wheelchair ramp or elevator for disabled kids who can't walk so they can get to the top? What about folks with seizures? Oh, screw them, eh? My local nightly news is constantly showing scenes with police and ambulance lights flashing. Shouldn't they be forced not to show that? Wait, let's go to the source, shouldn't we just get rid of all flashing lights on police and emergency vehicles to make it easier for disabled folks with photosensitive seizures to live normal lives? What about kick-ball or badminton? Shouldn't we outlaw sports in schools that aren't accessible to quadriplegics?
I make videogames. Should I have to limit my game designs to ensure mentally retarded people can still win, and make the controls simple enough that it can be played by blowing through a straw? Shouldn't my games have to come with a sentient robot that can speak out loud what's going on in the game, for the blind? That, or should all videogames be text only?
We have to ask ourselves: What's Reasonable To Do? What's an acceptable effort level to assist the disabled? Not even trying to provide for the disabled is one thing. Sometimes people are just ignorant that a small change or addition could help out the disabled. We don't all think about every disability in everything we do, certainly not in indie games. Human society is a collective hive of minds, so fire off some signals if attention is needed! Open up discourse before getting lawyers involved -- Seriously, lawyers screw everything up forever and always. The money I'd spend on getting the accessibility features installed in my products would be wasted as legal fees. So, the end result when legal action is involved would be: No product for anyone. That's harmful to society. People who harm society deserve to be excluded from it (See also: jails). Yes, unreasonable and absurd actions beget unreasonable and absurd reactions.
Being unreasonable and removing content or a service that isn't as accessible as desired makes folks without disabilities have crappier lives for what purpose? To make it harder for the rest of society to be sympathetic to the cause? I'm really seeing zero benefit for anyone here.
Sure Netflix should get the ball rolling and get CC in their works. Some works have CC already, so they have the technology to improve the accessibility. Suing them over the lack of the feature? That's just fucking asinine: it makes everything worse for everyone; The lawyers get paid from the pool that gets you better services faster.
She Think's My Tractor's sexy? Really? At least that's about country-ish stuff. You pick that as an example of shite country music over: Online?
Matrix-y background graphics... Lyrics about being a slashdotter, I think. Is a steel guitar and fake draws all that's needed to classify as country music?
You can't shut off your ears, and they're connected directly to your brain. Unlike other art forms where people direct their attention at what they want to absorb, the waveforms you see in music are already recreated inside your brain before you begin appreciating them.
I think you're hung up on the distinction between musicians and composers. Musicians play music. Composers use instruments to play people. One can be both.
I doubt that the descendants of today's housecats will be much different in one million years, unless there is a catastrophic change in the housecats' environment.
Say what? How can you actually say such a thing when we have vastly changed both cats and dogs in less time using selective breeding.
Either I just got trolled hard, or you're a moron.
The centrifugal force is counteracted by the fact they're SUCKING AIR IN. Think about it really really hard... If the centrifugal forces keep dust out... why don't they keep the air out? Furthermore, air friction generates LIGHTNING. Well, on a small scale like this, it only generates static electricity. As with any new innovation, say the Microsoft Surface or the Knifork, don't believe it until you can buy it.
I just invented a machine that generates infinite energy!::tosses a rock into the air:: Watch as it sticks to the ground! Try picking it up! Feel that energy pulling straight down?! It NEVER runs out!
"The militia has been ordered my federal forces to disban, due to drought. The separatists see this as an unconstitutional act, and only further strengthens their position that the government is severely corrupt."
A wise man chooses battles carefully.
"A lot of the problem we have out here is a lack of common sense."
Fortunately, the lack of common sense is a self correcting problem... In this instance, the morons are attempting to immolate themselves. Darwin strikes again!
I agree. I mean... maybe not tomorrow, but soon, it won't fucking matter, there won't be a GPU, the CPU will have massive parallelism too and another CPU would take the GPUs place and power consumption. The more they close up their shite, the faster it accelerates the transition away from dedicated hardware. It's happened before, it'll all happen again.
Slashdot Mirror
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks."
-Fight Club Narrator
When was the last time in recorded history an asteroid landed on people?
We're fucking overdue you twit.
Our current Asteroid watchers miss REALLY HUGE THINGS drifting around in the back yard...
Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is estimated to be approximately 2300–2400 km in diameter, and 27% more massive than Pluto, or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass.
Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year.
We're basically blind. Something around Pluto's size with 27% more mass was just discovered in 2005... That doesn't mean it wasn't there until 2005, it means we need more eyes in the sky. What if it had been on a collision course with us?! We'd have been kicking ourselves for not "wasting" more money on the space program for the previous 35 years then, eh? (Eris is a big reason why Pluto isn't called a planet anymore, don't you keep up with the basic solar system science? I mean, you're posting about it...)
The dinosaurs didn't have a space program. Not looking for asteroids doesn't make them go away. While you're burring your head in the sand, how do you ignore the fossil record within it?
If we start RIGHT NOW, we might have enough time to get some pioneers like Elon Musk and his SpaceX team out to the asteroid belt, bump a few big rocks into Lunar Orbit, ready to sling them at any incoming to use as a gravity tug or to hit the planet-killers (you don't have to smash it, just tap it). Hell, maybe even mine a few while we're at it, but at least we'd be somewhat armed. A blind sniper is useless.
We won't be able to stop something the size of Eris this late in the game, but we may be able to set up a few permanent self sustainable colonies so all our eggs aren't in one fucking basket. I wish people like you would just go die in a fire before you condemn us all to such a fate.. Your moronic votes deprive us of space exploration funding, and could mean the end of mankind all because you're just an ignorant fool who thinks they know a hell of a lot more than they actually do.
You're joking, right? If countries exploited that silly technicality, then the response would be to put a flag on a diplomatic wheelchair or diplomatic rollerskates to get from the car to the plane.
I need me some of those diplomatic rollerskates. Do they make an inline model, or better yet a diplomatic skateboard? There's some capitol hills than need grinding and thrashing.
Their attraction was undeniable. Fully exposed, their bodies drew rapidly closer. Nearness awakened every fiber of each form to the other's. Her lithe curves and easy undulation betrayed her ample experience, some of which she would soon impart to him. Her awesome presence caused him to quake softly in response, this being his first time.
With only her incredible closeness she called forth the very tip of his being. Their bodies touched first only at a single point, from which searing waves of heat rushed forth, mirrored in them both, ripping away all resistance to their inevitable purpose. An ageless eternity passed between them in a moment, and instantly all of her knew all of him.
When their intense furious coupling had subsided, she drifted at the edge of his perception. The heart of his being was left glowing brighter than a billion suns. No one knew what seed had been planted that day, but it was certain he was changed and could never be the same again.
-The Big Bang
A story of Universal creation by VortexCortex
This story is so offensive to "Puritanical busybodies" on so many levels, that I email it to them in a response to their Kitty Porn, and I never hear from them again.
Some "undeveloped" peoples run around nearly naked. Their sons and daughters know what penises, vaginas and breasts are. They help to cook food, and thus see the gory innards of slain beasts.
In the developed world most of their children have no clue that opposite sexes even exist. Children often know the issue of "where babies come from" is uncomfortable to their parents long before they even learn the truth. They're vastly undereducated as to the urges their hormones bring... They have little sense of the finality of death, or of nature. They bring their own children up in the same fashion, where censorship is more easily condoned, where ignorance is praised, where they don't abhor violence or war.
Goodbye Humans. You've decided to destroy yourselves. I'll have no part in it.
The Java TCK ensures deprecated stuff sticks around, so you can run older stuff on newer Java Virtual Machines. One of the reasons Java is so bloated is because they want to ensure backwards compatibility...
The simplest solution is to raise the minimum salary for all H1B employees to something more reasonable, like between $100,000 to $150,000
I see a flaw...
...absolute values don't account for inflation well.
A gallon of milk will just cost $40, and that $20k minimum wage slave will make $200k.
TechWeekEurope found 17 of the top 50 British universities scored C or worse on the SSL Labs tool
All right, which of you tossers went and buggered the curve?
Lightning Weapon?
Just stand stand where the weapon previously struck and you're virtually impervious.
If netflix loses, so do disabled people. Because netflix will simply remove the videos that dont have CC. Then nobody will see those movies. At least prviously disabled people could use transcribing software.
Oh, gods, please let them sue Youtube uploaders next!
GET SOME DAMN EARS. We have the technology. You know why I'm not providing a spoken audio recording with this message for the blind? Because we have the technology to turn text into speech. It's really unfortunate when disabled people have problems due to their disability, but hindering the herd needlessly is just retarding.
Let's be grown ups about this. Shite doth occur. Not everyone can live the same lives. Life isn't always fair, nor can anyone force it to be at all times. Compromise is key. Rationality is an important thing.
Now, I can see where local TV could have an impact on disabled people's lives because they provide local news and weather and if none provided CC, then who else would provide that content... but Netflix? Seriously? That's a luxury item. Many folks are disabled with poverty, and can't even afford Netflix. Hey, ADA, Why don't you force them to give them Netflix for free? Hey, my MS Windows is disabled! It kept getting viruses until it died, the install CD was scratched, so now I have to use Linux... Waaaaah! I can't use Netflix on Linux! I'm being discriminated against because of my proprietary software disability! ADA, make them give me a Netflix that runs on Linux! (No, instead I write them emails and sign petitions, letting them know there is a problem.)
I can see wheelchair ramps at grocery stores and side walks, but what about jungle gyms? Should there be a wheelchair ramp or elevator for disabled kids who can't walk so they can get to the top? What about folks with seizures? Oh, screw them, eh? My local nightly news is constantly showing scenes with police and ambulance lights flashing. Shouldn't they be forced not to show that? Wait, let's go to the source, shouldn't we just get rid of all flashing lights on police and emergency vehicles to make it easier for disabled folks with photosensitive seizures to live normal lives? What about kick-ball or badminton? Shouldn't we outlaw sports in schools that aren't accessible to quadriplegics?
I make videogames. Should I have to limit my game designs to ensure mentally retarded people can still win, and make the controls simple enough that it can be played by blowing through a straw? Shouldn't my games have to come with a sentient robot that can speak out loud what's going on in the game, for the blind? That, or should all videogames be text only?
We have to ask ourselves: What's Reasonable To Do? What's an acceptable effort level to assist the disabled? Not even trying to provide for the disabled is one thing. Sometimes people are just ignorant that a small change or addition could help out the disabled. We don't all think about every disability in everything we do, certainly not in indie games. Human society is a collective hive of minds, so fire off some signals if attention is needed! Open up discourse before getting lawyers involved -- Seriously, lawyers screw everything up forever and always. The money I'd spend on getting the accessibility features installed in my products would be wasted as legal fees. So, the end result when legal action is involved would be: No product for anyone. That's harmful to society. People who harm society deserve to be excluded from it (See also: jails). Yes, unreasonable and absurd actions beget unreasonable and absurd reactions.
Being unreasonable and removing content or a service that isn't as accessible as desired makes folks without disabilities have crappier lives for what purpose? To make it harder for the rest of society to be sympathetic to the cause? I'm really seeing zero benefit for anyone here.
Sure Netflix should get the ball rolling and get CC in their works. Some works have CC already, so they have the technology to improve the accessibility. Suing them over the lack of the feature? That's just fucking asinine: it makes everything worse for everyone; The lawyers get paid from the pool that gets you better services faster.
Is it just me or does anyone actually support the actions of our government besides the government?
EU nations to citizens: "We voted against it, what more coupld we do?"
Your Freudian slip answered the question.
DOSBox.
Didn't we make beats in NoiseTracker (remember Mahoney & Kaktus) on the Amiga back in the late 80s? So the sound sucks by today's standards,
Chiptuners would disagree. I guess, like all standards, it's more like a guideline?
crap, WTF happened to the html link? Screw it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqNmYwxK2Z4
She Think's My Tractor's sexy? Really? At least that's about country-ish stuff. You pick that as an example of shite country music over: Online?
Matrix-y background graphics... Lyrics about being a slashdotter, I think. Is a steel guitar and fake draws all that's needed to classify as country music?
"Beat making software."
This just confirms my theory that "Hip Hop" is not a real form of music.
What do you think of Beethoven, Bach, and all the other composers of the world then?
You can't shut off your ears, and they're connected directly to your brain. Unlike other art forms where people direct their attention at what they want to absorb, the waveforms you see in music are already recreated inside your brain before you begin appreciating them.
I think you're hung up on the distinction between musicians and composers.
Musicians play music. Composers use instruments to play people.
One can be both.
I doubt that the descendants of today's housecats will be much different in one million years, unless there is a catastrophic change in the housecats' environment.
Say what? How can you actually say such a thing when we have vastly changed both cats and dogs in less time using selective breeding.
Either I just got trolled hard, or you're a moron.
The centrifugal force is counteracted by the fact they're SUCKING AIR IN. Think about it really really hard... If the centrifugal forces keep dust out... why don't they keep the air out? Furthermore, air friction generates LIGHTNING. Well, on a small scale like this, it only generates static electricity. As with any new innovation, say the Microsoft Surface or the Knifork, don't believe it until you can buy it.
I just invented a machine that generates infinite energy! ::tosses a rock into the air:: Watch as it sticks to the ground! Try picking it up! Feel that energy pulling straight down?! It NEVER runs out!
"The militia has been ordered my federal forces to disban, due to drought. The separatists see this as an unconstitutional act, and only further strengthens their position that the government is severely corrupt."
A wise man chooses battles carefully.
"A lot of the problem we have out here is a lack of common sense."
Fortunately, the lack of common sense is a self correcting problem...
In this instance, the morons are attempting to immolate themselves. Darwin strikes again!
Fanatical "open source or GTFO" movement isn't look pretty in this either.
To be fair, neither is the proprietary planned obsolescence movement.
I agree. I mean... maybe not tomorrow, but soon, it won't fucking matter, there won't be a GPU, the CPU will have massive parallelism too and another CPU would take the GPUs place and power consumption. The more they close up their shite, the faster it accelerates the transition away from dedicated hardware. It's happened before, it'll all happen again.