The problem with having the totality of human knowledge at one's fingertips is the necessary base knowledge. I know nothing about plant life, beyond that I need to mow the lawn every so often. I wouldn't have known to look up lichen as a possible candidate for growing on Mars. I thought lichen was like moss, and needed darkness and damp conditions.
Same here. My printer was a Lexmark, before I replaced it after moving to Ubuntu. It was a fine printer, when I was using Windows, but hardly enough to govern my choice of OS.
It's a reasonable statement to make, and I can agree with it, in general terms. Generalisations, while usually true, can't be applied to everyone. I actually find it harder to focus on one thing when there is only one thing to focus on. I can't even read a book without the dull murmur of a TV with the volume turned down just on the edge of my awareness. On the other hand, I can't concentrate on anything when there's an infomercial on...
If I remember my chemistry classes correctly (there is a high chance I don't), water would do this under lower air pressure, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, I just thought some kind of explanation would be better than "because it's on Mars".
They can't, and I acknowledged the privacy concern, and I'm not applauding it yet. If they didn't discriminate at all, it would be excellent, but thanks to capitalism, greed and corruption, the **AA have their fingers in too many pies. ISPs already spy on us all the time, so it's not like we're losing anything we haven't already lost. I like my privacy, but I'm under no illusion I actually HAVE any.
Having a local cache server, while it does spark privacy concerns, is actually probably the best solution they've come up with yet. ISPs won't have to spend a great deal of money on upgrading infrastructure, and users don't get shafted by reset packages. It's something of a compromise between doing it the right way (upgrading everything) and the wrong way (strangling the users).
Quake 4, Doom 3, Quakewars:ET, just to name a few. In recent years (particularly from id), we've seen huge increases in developers supporting Linux natively, or at least with a WINE wrapper, the way EA does it. Now with more than half of the video card market supporting Linux, developers won't be so hesitant to make a native Linux client for their games. Plus there's those Linux users who need a decent video card to use Blender. Now they're not restricted to nVidia cards.
I like the idea that I have free speech, but it's nothing but a nice sentiment. Free speech is a right, but I can't enforce it. Slander and defamation are crimes, even when they're true (or rather, especially when they're true), so speech is never free. As long as you can be sued for slander, you don't have free speech. I could go on with a rant about everything wrong with the world, specifically Australia, and our legal system, but I'll stop before I do that...
I'm sure Sweden, if this wiretapping law makes it through, will also pass a law making evasion of the law a felony. That way the people watching you don't even need to know anything about what they're doing, so you can fill the internal surveillance organisation with irreplaceable idiots, just like every other government department in the world.
I agree that String Theory is hardly a theory. I call it String Musing, since all it is is thought experiments and possibilities. However, if we ignore it entirely, then there will never be any experimental evidence of it. Right now it's nothing but a mathematical curiosity, but there is no way of telling, from today's perspective based on today's knowledge, what may come of this mathematical curiosity in the future. I'm not a supporter of String Theory (not that my support would matter anyway, since my knowledge of physics is everything from highschool plus whatever I'm curious about at the time), but more research is required before we can dismiss it outright.
But they won't. It's an organisation with a legion of Chewbacca-Defense lawyers. The one thing they're good at is smoke-screens, and if they want to hide something, or make it exceptionally difficult to find out who actually wrote that policy, they can.
I understand that raising the cost of settling out of court is meant to deter people from fighting in the first place, but considering the ludicrous fines they expect people to pay, it's a little too low. Looks to me like they're just trying to highlight their low, low prices, to avoid people setting a precedent in court, against them.
Even if it's a tiny amount in each drive, nearly a hundred hard drives must have at least an ounce of gold between them. Probably more. Not much value of gold per drive, otherwise they'd be a lot more expensive, but if you're not going to do anything else with them, that's still an ounce of gold to turn into cash. It's cash you didn't have before.
With almost a hundred hard drives, the gold leaf discs inside them must really add up in weight. What's gold trading at now? $850 or something per ounce.
First they try to foist "Digital Rights Management" on us, to the applause of many organisations, and now they try to force digital management of my right to be a prick on me? I hate hearing a phone ring at the movies (even more, I hate hearing someone answer it) as much as anyone, but people shouldn't have to have good manners forced on them by their tools/toys. If I may compare control of one's manners to control of one's bladder, this is worse than grownup diapers. It's like underwear that plugs your urethra against your will.
I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but our government exacts an extra tax called "fuel excise", which at the moment makes up about 25 or 30 cents in each liter, I think. If this "Swift Fuel" actually works well, and is broadly adopted, our government will just swallow any saving up in more fuel excise. Probably not to the tune of the almost $2 a Liter we pay in this city, but probably quite a bit.
Well I figured it was sarcasm, but it's been said before that there's no (official) way in English to denote sarcasm in text. Even if there were, there's no way to tell humorous sarcasm apart from snide sarcasm:P. I find it better to assume there is no sarcasm, and look like an idiot, than perceive everything as sarcasm, and get paranoid.
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Everyone knows a slideshow is the only way to express ideas you know nothing about.
The problem with having the totality of human knowledge at one's fingertips is the necessary base knowledge. I know nothing about plant life, beyond that I need to mow the lawn every so often. I wouldn't have known to look up lichen as a possible candidate for growing on Mars. I thought lichen was like moss, and needed darkness and damp conditions.
I don't know much about verifying myths, but I have to go feed my minotaur now. He gets grumpy when adventurers don't stumble into my labyrinth.
Same here. My printer was a Lexmark, before I replaced it after moving to Ubuntu. It was a fine printer, when I was using Windows, but hardly enough to govern my choice of OS.
My life is so dull, I donate unused excess brain power to SETI and Folding@home
It's a reasonable statement to make, and I can agree with it, in general terms. Generalisations, while usually true, can't be applied to everyone. I actually find it harder to focus on one thing when there is only one thing to focus on. I can't even read a book without the dull murmur of a TV with the volume turned down just on the edge of my awareness. On the other hand, I can't concentrate on anything when there's an infomercial on...
If I remember my chemistry classes correctly (there is a high chance I don't), water would do this under lower air pressure, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, I just thought some kind of explanation would be better than "because it's on Mars".
They can't, and I acknowledged the privacy concern, and I'm not applauding it yet. If they didn't discriminate at all, it would be excellent, but thanks to capitalism, greed and corruption, the **AA have their fingers in too many pies. ISPs already spy on us all the time, so it's not like we're losing anything we haven't already lost. I like my privacy, but I'm under no illusion I actually HAVE any.
Having a local cache server, while it does spark privacy concerns, is actually probably the best solution they've come up with yet. ISPs won't have to spend a great deal of money on upgrading infrastructure, and users don't get shafted by reset packages. It's something of a compromise between doing it the right way (upgrading everything) and the wrong way (strangling the users).
Quake 4, Doom 3, Quakewars:ET, just to name a few. In recent years (particularly from id), we've seen huge increases in developers supporting Linux natively, or at least with a WINE wrapper, the way EA does it. Now with more than half of the video card market supporting Linux, developers won't be so hesitant to make a native Linux client for their games. Plus there's those Linux users who need a decent video card to use Blender. Now they're not restricted to nVidia cards.
The map referred to in the summary is already slashdotted - that, or I'm having troubles with my internet connection. Both are equally likely...
I like the idea that I have free speech, but it's nothing but a nice sentiment. Free speech is a right, but I can't enforce it. Slander and defamation are crimes, even when they're true (or rather, especially when they're true), so speech is never free. As long as you can be sued for slander, you don't have free speech. I could go on with a rant about everything wrong with the world, specifically Australia, and our legal system, but I'll stop before I do that...
I'm sure Sweden, if this wiretapping law makes it through, will also pass a law making evasion of the law a felony. That way the people watching you don't even need to know anything about what they're doing, so you can fill the internal surveillance organisation with irreplaceable idiots, just like every other government department in the world.
I agree that String Theory is hardly a theory. I call it String Musing, since all it is is thought experiments and possibilities. However, if we ignore it entirely, then there will never be any experimental evidence of it. Right now it's nothing but a mathematical curiosity, but there is no way of telling, from today's perspective based on today's knowledge, what may come of this mathematical curiosity in the future. I'm not a supporter of String Theory (not that my support would matter anyway, since my knowledge of physics is everything from highschool plus whatever I'm curious about at the time), but more research is required before we can dismiss it outright.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!
But they won't. It's an organisation with a legion of Chewbacca-Defense lawyers. The one thing they're good at is smoke-screens, and if they want to hide something, or make it exceptionally difficult to find out who actually wrote that policy, they can.
I understand that raising the cost of settling out of court is meant to deter people from fighting in the first place, but considering the ludicrous fines they expect people to pay, it's a little too low. Looks to me like they're just trying to highlight their low, low prices, to avoid people setting a precedent in court, against them.
...until someone else holds the monopoly.
Even if it's a tiny amount in each drive, nearly a hundred hard drives must have at least an ounce of gold between them. Probably more. Not much value of gold per drive, otherwise they'd be a lot more expensive, but if you're not going to do anything else with them, that's still an ounce of gold to turn into cash. It's cash you didn't have before.
With almost a hundred hard drives, the gold leaf discs inside them must really add up in weight. What's gold trading at now? $850 or something per ounce.
First they try to foist "Digital Rights Management" on us, to the applause of many organisations, and now they try to force digital management of my right to be a prick on me? I hate hearing a phone ring at the movies (even more, I hate hearing someone answer it) as much as anyone, but people shouldn't have to have good manners forced on them by their tools/toys. If I may compare control of one's manners to control of one's bladder, this is worse than grownup diapers. It's like underwear that plugs your urethra against your will.
At least the English know not to do something like Guantanamo Bay. They tried that 220 years ago, and created Australia.
I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but our government exacts an extra tax called "fuel excise", which at the moment makes up about 25 or 30 cents in each liter, I think. If this "Swift Fuel" actually works well, and is broadly adopted, our government will just swallow any saving up in more fuel excise. Probably not to the tune of the almost $2 a Liter we pay in this city, but probably quite a bit.
Only a genuine diamond will suffice. Using a cheap imitation never ends well.
Well I figured it was sarcasm, but it's been said before that there's no (official) way in English to denote sarcasm in text. Even if there were, there's no way to tell humorous sarcasm apart from snide sarcasm :P. I find it better to assume there is no sarcasm, and look like an idiot, than perceive everything as sarcasm, and get paranoid.