No, hypocrisy, and the penchant to deny others the very thing they claim to hold so dear for their own gains.
Obliterating all terrorist-sponsoring states is the morally appropriate action because it would be an act of self-defense; these terrorists initiated the use of force, therefore, they and the governments who sanction their existence, have forfeited their right to exist and a severe counter attack is what is owed. Of course innocent people may be killed, but those responsible for their deaths are the terrorists who orchestrated the crimes, and the governments who openly allow these organizations to operate.
So mass murder of innocents is morally appropriate? Congrats, you've just proven that you'd feel right at home among those terrorists - you share their core beliefs.
If their country is decimated, morale will shortly follow;
Either way, the civilized world wins.
By denouncing civilization itself? Great idea, why don't you board some jet plane and ram it into a skyscraper like your buddies did.
Moron. Retalitation will not stop anybody (we are talking about suicide attackers, remember?), it will only create more innocent victims with good reasons to hate the US so much that they don't care about hurting innocents.
Unfortunately, I think it's actually the mutation of the story into something worse.
I've never encountered a game that was even remotely as captivating on a storytelling level as a good book or movie. Face it: True interactivity kills stories because you can't ensure that the player will follow the script, and without a planned script (which cannot realistically have more than a few branches), the story goes to shambles. On the other hand, if you force the player to stick to the planned script, they feel constrained and the interactivity becomes a travesty. The only way to avoid this is with other gaming elements, like the combat in RPGs, but that tends to become tedious in itself.
When I look at console RPGs, I see interesting characters and promises of an interesting story, but I really don't have time to spend 100 hours to uncover a story that really isn't any better than what I get in a 500 page book or 2 hour movie.
Had something similar at TUM a while ago... A computer room had the door opener wired to the serial port of one of the workstations so you could open the door by typing "door" at the command line. The use was that it would allow any authorized users to get into the room at any time via the older serial terminal in front of the room which was connected to the other serial port of the same workstation.
However, that workstation could also be logged into remotely. And the door opener did its job accompanied by a quite loud buzzer. Now imagine the fun you could have logging in from home and executing that command repeatedly... Well, not much fun since you couldn't see the results, that's probably why nobody did it.
If you mean "high capacity", you're wrong. The amount of data you can put on air is positively pathetic compared with fiber, especially if you take into account the cost.
Also, that article from yesterday regarding the spy satellites, I remember someone stating that the satellites could have it's course changed. So, I'm wondering, what do they use for propulsion?
Normal rocekt fuel, AFAIK.
If it's gaseous, then I assume there's a limited supply of propellant on the satellite, and changes to it's orbital course would have to be minimalized.
Yup, that's the case, though it's not such a big problem since those satellites aren't planned to last very long anyway, having a really low orbit and everything.
Oh yeah. In the computer room in my university, they have a couple of HDs hanging on the wall, beginning with a platter from 59 IIRC. Capacity: 8MB. Size: about 1 meter across..
Isn't that quite obvious? No more need to create a separate account with a gazillion websites. You already have an account when you get there the first time. Easy, convenient and unsecure as hell. But Joe User likes easy and convenient and has been brainwashed to never think about security.
Actually, Pioneer was the first company to release more than 2 episodes per tape. 1 or two episodes for $30 used to be the norm, and some other companies still do that. Think Viz or ADV.
But give the fans something, anything, a little cheaper, and they immediately start whining about how "grossly overpriced" everything else is.
I'd say that you'll learn next to nothing from watching anime, except for a few phrases and fragments which you won't know how to apply properly.
On the other hand, it's not a bad way to train Japanese skills acquired through real, solid lessons. But you have to be pretty good to really benefit from it.
Now it would be harder to do, but imagine a worm written in C that would spread as source code and then recompile on various client computers, thereby appearing to be different viruses on different platforms...
Your imagination lags far behind reality. This is exactly how the first really widely spread virus, the
Internet Worm spread in 1988.
Actually, a channel straight from Japan would be a huge disappointment to the average otaku, because they'd finally be force-fed the reality that anime is mainly for kids. What's published in the US is just the relatively mature shows, but on Japanese TV, you get 90% mindless kiddie fare.
The AMD core breaks up an x86 instruction into RISC-like "micro-ops" or ROPs, and then various RISC-like execution units go to work executing the ROPs. Up to 9 ROPs can be executed at the same time! This is why the Athlon so thoroughly stomps all over the Intel chips at equivalent clock rates
Bull. Intel does the very same thing. Maybe not as well, but they both use RISC cores, translate x86 to RISC internally and benefit from it by having multiple execution units and deep pipelines.
To spell out "numerically": in each iteration, you basically compute for each particle the total vector of gravity pulling at it and then move it a bit in that direction. Lather, rinse, repeat. Many, many times.
The studies who originally showed a clear superiority of the Dvorak layout were rigged by Dvorak himself who had of course a vested interest to sell his idea. And if it did put less strain on your fingers, it would also improve typing speed in the long run, but this has not been observed.
I know this is common knowledge but qwerty was developed with the opposite of usability in mind
This is actually an urban myth, and a false one. QWERTY was developed with ergonomics and optimal typing speed in mind. It was also influenced by some mechanical restriction that are not anymore a problem, but that wasn't all. Unbiased studies have never shown QWERTY to be significantly slower (or faster) than alternative layouts.
Microsoft only invented the most popular operating system in the world!
That's not invention, that's development. And actually it's not true, they bought the core of DOS from some other company, and everything since then has been protection of market shares and adoption by questionable means and adoption of ideas from others.
BTW. if what you say is true, Linus trovold didn't invent anything either.
Largely true, actually. There's probably a couple of details original to him, but unlike Gates, he never claimed to be a big innovator either, as far as I know.
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No, hypocrisy, and the penchant to deny others the very thing they claim to hold so dear for their own gains.
Obliterating all terrorist-sponsoring states is the morally appropriate action because it would be an act of self-defense; these terrorists initiated the use of force, therefore, they and the governments who sanction their existence, have forfeited their right to exist and a severe counter attack is what is owed. Of course innocent people may be killed, but those responsible for their deaths are the terrorists who orchestrated the crimes, and the governments who openly allow these organizations to operate.
So mass murder of innocents is morally appropriate? Congrats, you've just proven that you'd feel right at home among those terrorists - you share their core beliefs.
If their country is decimated, morale will shortly follow;
Either way, the civilized world wins.
By denouncing civilization itself? Great idea, why don't you board some jet plane and ram it into a skyscraper like your buddies did.
Also chock full of quotes supporting slavery and a lot of other not so nice things...
By giving monetary and military support to dictatorships whenever it suits their interests? Yeah, freedom and democracy, sure...
Moron. Retalitation will not stop anybody (we are talking about suicide attackers, remember?), it will only create more innocent victims with good reasons to hate the US so much that they don't care about hurting innocents.
I've never encountered a game that was even remotely as captivating on a storytelling level as a good book or movie. Face it: True interactivity kills stories because you can't ensure that the player will follow the script, and without a planned script (which cannot realistically have more than a few branches), the story goes to shambles. On the other hand, if you force the player to stick to the planned script, they feel constrained and the interactivity becomes a travesty. The only way to avoid this is with other gaming elements, like the combat in RPGs, but that tends to become tedious in itself.
When I look at console RPGs, I see interesting characters and promises of an interesting story, but I really don't have time to spend 100 hours to uncover a story that really isn't any better than what I get in a 500 page book or 2 hour movie.
However, that workstation could also be logged into remotely. And the door opener did its job accompanied by a quite loud buzzer. Now imagine the fun you could have logging in from home and executing that command repeatedly... Well, not much fun since you couldn't see the results, that's probably why nobody did it.
If you mean "high capacity", you're wrong. The amount of data you can put on air is positively pathetic compared with fiber, especially if you take into account the cost.
Also, I'd say that the cost factor of having such a complicated system for such a small payload would make it impractical.
Normal rocekt fuel, AFAIK. If it's gaseous, then I assume there's a limited supply of propellant on the satellite, and changes to it's orbital course would have to be minimalized.
Yup, that's the case, though it's not such a big problem since those satellites aren't planned to last very long anyway, having a really low orbit and everything.
Actually, they do. Just because CNN doesn't spoonfeed it to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Sure you can, at least in mathematics. In reality, it's of course always a "we're pretty sure" at best.
Oh yeah. In the computer room in my university, they have a couple of HDs hanging on the wall, beginning with a platter from 59 IIRC. Capacity: 8MB. Size: about 1 meter across..
Isn't that quite obvious? No more need to create a separate account with a gazillion websites. You already have an account when you get there the first time. Easy, convenient and unsecure as hell. But Joe User likes easy and convenient and has been brainwashed to never think about security.
The new series will follow the OAV storyline, that's been known for months. Read the interview.
For such a long-awaited title, the delay should be small, about half a year.
But give the fans something, anything, a little cheaper, and they immediately start whining about how "grossly overpriced" everything else is.
On the other hand, it's not a bad way to train Japanese skills acquired through real, solid lessons. But you have to be pretty good to really benefit from it.
Your imagination lags far behind reality. This is exactly how the first really widely spread virus, the Internet Worm spread in 1988.
Actually, a channel straight from Japan would be a huge disappointment to the average otaku, because they'd finally be force-fed the reality that anime is mainly for kids. What's published in the US is just the relatively mature shows, but on Japanese TV, you get 90% mindless kiddie fare.
Bull. Intel does the very same thing. Maybe not as well, but they both use RISC cores, translate x86 to RISC internally and benefit from it by having multiple execution units and deep pipelines.
The way I remember it, some of them could distinguish it with significant certainty, though not 100%.
To spell out "numerically": in each iteration, you basically compute for each particle the total vector of gravity pulling at it and then move it a bit in that direction. Lather, rinse, repeat. Many, many times.
The studies who originally showed a clear superiority of the Dvorak layout were rigged by Dvorak himself who had of course a vested interest to sell his idea. And if it did put less strain on your fingers, it would also improve typing speed in the long run, but this has not been observed.
This is actually an urban myth, and a false one. QWERTY was developed with ergonomics and optimal typing speed in mind. It was also influenced by some mechanical restriction that are not anymore a problem, but that wasn't all. Unbiased studies have never shown QWERTY to be significantly slower (or faster) than alternative layouts.
That's not invention, that's development. And actually it's not true, they bought the core of DOS from some other company, and everything since then has been protection of market shares and adoption by questionable means and adoption of ideas from others.
BTW. if what you say is true, Linus trovold didn't invent anything either.
Largely true, actually. There's probably a couple of details original to him, but unlike Gates, he never claimed to be a big innovator either, as far as I know.