Seriously. Pluto is a fucking planet. All the morons who herpderp about it not meeting the "requirements" for being a planet need to STFU. Any "requirements" are arbitrarily-defined. Pluto was a planet for both the common and technical definitions for quite some time. To later redefine the already arbitrary term is absurd. If you don't like the term planet, make a new term. Don't change an existing term that has widespread common and technical use, has been used in publications, etc. All you do is create ambiguity with regards to what definition someone means when they use the term. The same shit goes for "kibibytes" - you don't have to like kilobytes being 1024 bytes, but you do have to accept it. Adding "kibibytes" just creates confusion where there was none before.
This will unfairly effect those with one car, persons with two or more cars will be likely able to circumvent this. Carpooling will only go so far as everyone will have to get out at the same place or risk the driver receiving a ticket.
Real Solution: Move out of ancient, crowded, poorly-maintained city.
"Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space."
TV Radio Newspaper
There's one mega site "everybody" uses, just like how there used to be one mega network "everybody" watched (NBC) and one mega network "everybody" listened to (NBC again under RCA), etc.
The only thing different with social media is that since people are providing their own shit as content, they end up more closely tied to a particular site because of its content than they were with TV, radio, newspapers, bards, etc. That said, Facebook may be a behemoth but it's certainly not the only behemoth - there's Twitter and Youtube, for example. "everybody" is on Twitter, and "everybody" watches videos on Youtube.
The 1 year term describes the subsistence as indefinate, as it includes all the growing seasons \ harvests. If you only need to feed 1 person for a few months out of the year, the allocation would shift.
There is no "1 year term" in what he posted. He posted "per year". A 1 year term would not describe something something over an "indefinate" amount of time, it would describe it over a definite amount of time - 1 year.
A "per year" term is indefinite - and irrelevant since the amount of land required doesn't increase or decrease over time (provided you have enough to rotate your crops, fallow, etc. as appropriate, and a single acre is plenty of space to manage that for a single person). The only way "per year" even means anything is if you're referring to the yield as in "how long can I live off of this". Farming up X years worth of food for stockpiling in a bomb shelter or some shit, for example. But you wouldn't do that for subsistence farming (eat as needed and sell/trade any excess) or any long-term farming (if X > 1 you better be selling your excess or you're just wasting it as it spoils).
"Per year" would only make sense if it were a one-time harvest of a specific crop or if you planned to not farm the land afterward / were preparing for a bad harvest in the future. In either case the "per year" term is redundant as you can simply reduce the acreage requirement by the same factor.
If you could get 3 years worth of stockpiled grain for a person out of an acre of land in a single harvest of an annual crop, you would just say the requirement per person was 1/3 acre per person, not 1 acre per person per 3 years, every year.
If you need to feed 1 person for a few months, then you would be talking about specific seasons and crops - you wouldn't mention "per year" at all.
You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you. I use it all the time (along with the movie/TV streaming) and it's a helluva bargain, even with a $20 price bump. And I haven't even looked into the extras I could get on the Kindle.
"$100 is too much for Prime." "You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
"$120 is too much for Prime." "You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
"$140 is too much for Prime." "You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
"$160 is too much for Prime." "You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."...
You draw a line where you draw a line. Others may draw it somewhere else. But to say "+$X is still worth it" is retarded when you don't know where someone draws their line. It's especially retarded when they just told you that +$X was past their line.
Sorry, I meant that subsistence requires one acre per person per year. Much less for solely vegetarian diets, about a quarter to half off the top of my head. Maybe 1 acre per small family, less if you don't like your kids too much.
Either way, it's only going to provide a pretty small chunk of the diet.
Why the fuck is it per year? It's just 1 acre per person, for as long as they subsist on it. You're not going to need 10 acres for 1 person over 10 years, just 1 acre for 10 years for 1 person for 10 years. The years cancel out.
The color "orange" used to be called red-yellow. The color is named after the fruit. The fact that you claim to have invented the color yet refer to it by its adopted name instead of the original proves that you're a liar who has nothing to do with the color's invention/naming/use.
Don't store important shit on your phone. When your shit gets stolen, just change the passwords to any accounts it was authorized to. Don't be one of those idiots who uses 2-factor authentication with one of those RSA hash clock apps on their phone. You'll just end up locking yourself out of shit when you lose your phone.
Encrypting your phone does nothing because you decrypt it every time you power it on, and you always have your phone on, don't you? Passwords / locks will stop casual thieves from getting in, but they don't want in - they just want to sell the phone. Passwords / locks will NOT stop thieves who want your information. If your info is worth enough to be targeted it's worth enough for a 0-day bounty. (And with Android you don't even need that - it's likely to be a 6+ month old bug that your manufacturer / carrier never patched / pushed out the patch for).
You may as well ask how to make sure your car can't be stolen. Can't win, don't try. Just minimize the impact.
http://ara.wipac.wisc.edu/home 6 kilometer radius. The Earth's curvature results in less than 3 meters of drop from the center to the furthest station, so it actually works in your favor.
Why not microwave transmission? Line of sight should be relatively easy to deal with over there. Not a lot of buildings in the way.
Clouds, snow?
Clouds are much higher than you'd need to build the towers for LoS.
Precipitation isn't an issue either. Antarctica gets only 6.5 inches of precipitation a year, almost all of it snow. The air is also very dry. Remember - Antarctica is a desert. You would need only a very small amount of battery capacity at each endpoint to handle interruptions due to weather.
Ummm... You want to build towers out in the middle of nowhere tens and hundreds of miles away and use microwaves to send usable amounts of power between them?
Obviously not going to work. Full Stop.
The towers don't have to be that tall. There's not much blocking LoS. They're currently building and maintaining power generation sites at each endpoint. There's no need to if they use microwaves.
Right, so you have one power station that distributes power over a wide range. Kind of like how most of the rest of the world does it. Instead of laying cables that drop to locations all over the place, you just erect endpoint receivers. They don't even have to be that tall because they're nothing else out there.
Seems a lot better than having many smaller power generation installations (at each endpoint).
Ahhhh, I see now... Hey, look over there, an early-morning all you can eat buffet restaurant!
Ahem. That taken care of, I move we lower the age of candidacy for all public offices to 18. Do I hear a second?
I'll give you your second if you add in language to put in an upper limit of 60 years old and attach a rider declaring BMO from Adventure Time is awesome.
You got a hand-me-down DVD player and it glitched out, what a shocker
Buy yourself a decent BluRay player that has LAN access and the ability to either decode video itself or can pick up an XBMC server and then boosh you have all your videos on your TV
I bought an LG a few years ago that can play most of my videos right off a network share or use my Plex Media Server and it still does BluRay and DVD
So yeah, disc media may be declared dying but having a cheap ($200) cross media player in your living room is pretty goddamn handy
Do not count on using your BluRay player as a player for any ripped content. They all have (or will soon have) Cinavia DRM built in, which will trigger on any ripped content that has that watermark. There is currently no known way to detect and remove the Cinavia watermark.
I rip all my shit and play it via an old Windows box using CCCP http://cccp-project.net/ (and it all works even in Windows Media Player if you disable the media foundation thing). All HD audio formats are bitstreamed to my receiver, and you get full control over whateverthefuck you want. A PC is the ONLY true solution to playing content, because it's the only one you have any real control over. The only real drawback is the space / power requirements. You're not going to compete with those small media player boxes or the shit built into your TV, but they're come with DRM, compatibility issues (or future compatibility issues), and more often tan not a shitty interface.
Because optical media fares better for long term storage compared to mechanical drives.
Not recordable optical media. It turns to useless shit very rapidly. Pressed discs fare much better, but you won't be pressing discs unless you're distributing thousands of copies of the same data.
I've owned a BluRay burner for years and have yet to burn a BluRay. This week will be my first attempt, and I have very low hopes. Luckily, I got a 3 pack for $7.
It's something that still works if you loose your internet connection or the DRM server goes down.
If your bluray player's private key is exposed, then publishers can place that key on a blacklist and include that blacklist on future discs. When your player plays the disc, it will check the blacklist and refuse to play until you get a new key, which will require you to update the firmware on your player. All bluray players are required to be firmware updatable, either via USB, via a burned disc with the firmware on it, or via the internet. Regardless, the ultimate source of the update will be the internet. If you own prominent bluray player model, you could get lucky and the firmware update may be included on the disc.
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Seriously.
Pluto is a fucking planet. All the morons who herpderp about it not meeting the "requirements" for being a planet need to STFU. Any "requirements" are arbitrarily-defined. Pluto was a planet for both the common and technical definitions for quite some time. To later redefine the already arbitrary term is absurd. If you don't like the term planet, make a new term. Don't change an existing term that has widespread common and technical use, has been used in publications, etc. All you do is create ambiguity with regards to what definition someone means when they use the term. The same shit goes for "kibibytes" - you don't have to like kilobytes being 1024 bytes, but you do have to accept it. Adding "kibibytes" just creates confusion where there was none before.
This will unfairly effect those with one car, persons with two or more cars will be likely able to circumvent this.
Carpooling will only go so far as everyone will have to get out at the same place or risk the driver receiving a ticket.
Real Solution: Move out of ancient, crowded, poorly-maintained city.
Oh great, so you need to be a Jew in order to make a formal denial? This atheist thing is starting to be more troublesome than I imagined.
Kosher is also commonly defined as "legitimate".
"she consulted lawyers to make sure everything was kosher" is actually an example sentence if you type, "define: kosher" into google.
That covers the kosher but, sure, but not the lawyer bit.
I think Rusty Shackleford could get away with it.
How do you slice a stone so thin that it becomes transparent?
I have enough trouble with blocks of cheese.
"Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space."
TV
Radio
Newspaper
There's one mega site "everybody" uses, just like how there used to be one mega network "everybody" watched (NBC) and one mega network "everybody" listened to (NBC again under RCA), etc.
The only thing different with social media is that since people are providing their own shit as content, they end up more closely tied to a particular site because of its content than they were with TV, radio, newspapers, bards, etc. That said, Facebook may be a behemoth but it's certainly not the only behemoth - there's Twitter and Youtube, for example. "everybody" is on Twitter, and "everybody" watches videos on Youtube.
unless you're carrying you tablet/notepad around in your briefcase you're doing it wrong. Dead trees went out of fashion in 2000
Are you posting from your paperless office?
Do you have quick-charging batteries and efficient solar panels? What about decent AI?
The 1 year term describes the subsistence as indefinate, as it includes all the growing seasons \ harvests. If you only need to feed 1 person for a few months out of the year, the allocation would shift.
There is no "1 year term" in what he posted. He posted "per year".
A 1 year term would not describe something something over an "indefinate" amount of time, it would describe it over a definite amount of time - 1 year.
A "per year" term is indefinite - and irrelevant since the amount of land required doesn't increase or decrease over time (provided you have enough to rotate your crops, fallow, etc. as appropriate, and a single acre is plenty of space to manage that for a single person). The only way "per year" even means anything is if you're referring to the yield as in "how long can I live off of this". Farming up X years worth of food for stockpiling in a bomb shelter or some shit, for example. But you wouldn't do that for subsistence farming (eat as needed and sell/trade any excess) or any long-term farming (if X > 1 you better be selling your excess or you're just wasting it as it spoils).
"Per year" would only make sense if it were a one-time harvest of a specific crop or if you planned to not farm the land afterward / were preparing for a bad harvest in the future. In either case the "per year" term is redundant as you can simply reduce the acreage requirement by the same factor.
If you could get 3 years worth of stockpiled grain for a person out of an acre of land in a single harvest of an annual crop, you would just say the requirement per person was 1/3 acre per person, not 1 acre per person per 3 years, every year.
If you need to feed 1 person for a few months, then you would be talking about specific seasons and crops - you wouldn't mention "per year" at all.
You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you. I use it all the time (along with the movie/TV streaming) and it's a helluva bargain, even with a $20 price bump. And I haven't even looked into the extras I could get on the Kindle.
"$100 is too much for Prime."
"You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
"$120 is too much for Prime."
"You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
"$140 is too much for Prime."
"You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
"$160 is too much for Prime." ...
"You must not use it much if an extra $20 a year is a deal-breaker for you."
You draw a line where you draw a line. Others may draw it somewhere else.
But to say "+$X is still worth it" is retarded when you don't know where someone draws their line. It's especially retarded when they just told you that +$X was past their line.
Hint: The satellites are the other points.
Sorry, I meant that subsistence requires one acre per person per year. Much less for solely vegetarian diets, about a quarter to half off the top of my head. Maybe 1 acre per small family, less if you don't like your kids too much.
Either way, it's only going to provide a pretty small chunk of the diet.
Why the fuck is it per year?
It's just 1 acre per person, for as long as they subsist on it. You're not going to need 10 acres for 1 person over 10 years, just 1 acre for 10 years for 1 person for 10 years. The years cancel out.
I invented the colour Orange. Prove me wrong.
The color "orange" used to be called red-yellow. The color is named after the fruit.
The fact that you claim to have invented the color yet refer to it by its adopted name instead of the original proves that you're a liar who has nothing to do with the color's invention/naming/use.
the same group that claimed Hawkings would be dead if he got healthcare in England.
Who is Hawkings?
Don't store important shit on your phone.
When your shit gets stolen, just change the passwords to any accounts it was authorized to.
Don't be one of those idiots who uses 2-factor authentication with one of those RSA hash clock apps on their phone. You'll just end up locking yourself out of shit when you lose your phone.
Encrypting your phone does nothing because you decrypt it every time you power it on, and you always have your phone on, don't you?
Passwords / locks will stop casual thieves from getting in, but they don't want in - they just want to sell the phone.
Passwords / locks will NOT stop thieves who want your information. If your info is worth enough to be targeted it's worth enough for a 0-day bounty. (And with Android you don't even need that - it's likely to be a 6+ month old bug that your manufacturer / carrier never patched / pushed out the patch for).
You may as well ask how to make sure your car can't be stolen. Can't win, don't try. Just minimize the impact.
Curvature of the earth?
Interesting idea, but simply NOT workable.
http://ara.wipac.wisc.edu/home 6 kilometer radius.
The Earth's curvature results in less than 3 meters of drop from the center to the furthest station, so it actually works in your favor.
Actually there aren't in the area they plan to work in.
Why not microwave transmission? Line of sight should be relatively easy to deal with over there. Not a lot of buildings in the way.
Clouds, snow?
Clouds are much higher than you'd need to build the towers for LoS.
Precipitation isn't an issue either. Antarctica gets only 6.5 inches of precipitation a year, almost all of it snow. The air is also very dry. Remember - Antarctica is a desert. You would need only a very small amount of battery capacity at each endpoint to handle interruptions due to weather.
Ummm... You want to build towers out in the middle of nowhere tens and hundreds of miles away and use microwaves to send usable amounts of power between them?
Obviously not going to work. Full Stop.
The towers don't have to be that tall. There's not much blocking LoS.
They're currently building and maintaining power generation sites at each endpoint. There's no need to if they use microwaves.
Right, so you have one power station that distributes power over a wide range.
Kind of like how most of the rest of the world does it.
Instead of laying cables that drop to locations all over the place, you just erect endpoint receivers. They don't even have to be that tall because they're nothing else out there.
Seems a lot better than having many smaller power generation installations (at each endpoint).
What, no one? Oh, right, sorry...
EVERYONE SURPRISED, RAISE YOUR HAND
Ahhhh, I see now... Hey, look over there, an early-morning all you can eat buffet restaurant!
Ahem. That taken care of, I move we lower the age of candidacy for all public offices to 18. Do I hear a second?
I'll give you your second if you add in language to put in an upper limit of 60 years old and attach a rider declaring BMO from Adventure Time is awesome.
Why not microwave transmission? Line of sight should be relatively easy to deal with over there. Not a lot of buildings in the way.
You got a hand-me-down DVD player and it glitched out, what a shocker
Buy yourself a decent BluRay player that has LAN access and the ability to either decode video itself or can pick up an XBMC server and then boosh you have all your videos on your TV
I bought an LG a few years ago that can play most of my videos right off a network share or use my Plex Media Server and it still does BluRay and DVD
So yeah, disc media may be declared dying but having a cheap ($200) cross media player in your living room is pretty goddamn handy
Do not count on using your BluRay player as a player for any ripped content.
They all have (or will soon have) Cinavia DRM built in, which will trigger on any ripped content that has that watermark. There is currently no known way to detect and remove the Cinavia watermark.
I rip all my shit and play it via an old Windows box using CCCP http://cccp-project.net/ (and it all works even in Windows Media Player if you disable the media foundation thing). All HD audio formats are bitstreamed to my receiver, and you get full control over whateverthefuck you want. A PC is the ONLY true solution to playing content, because it's the only one you have any real control over. The only real drawback is the space / power requirements. You're not going to compete with those small media player boxes or the shit built into your TV, but they're come with DRM, compatibility issues (or future compatibility issues), and more often tan not a shitty interface.
Because optical media fares better for long term storage compared to mechanical drives.
Not recordable optical media. It turns to useless shit very rapidly. Pressed discs fare much better, but you won't be pressing discs unless you're distributing thousands of copies of the same data.
Like Blu-ray XL, consumers will not see these discs. Get ready to stream 90 GB 4K movies?
Amazon says they will, if they're willing to pony up the dough.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...
I've owned a BluRay burner for years and have yet to burn a BluRay. This week will be my first attempt, and I have very low hopes.
Luckily, I got a 3 pack for $7.
whats a disc?
It's something that still works if you loose your internet connection or the DRM server goes down.
If your bluray player's private key is exposed, then publishers can place that key on a blacklist and include that blacklist on future discs.
When your player plays the disc, it will check the blacklist and refuse to play until you get a new key, which will require you to update the firmware on your player.
All bluray players are required to be firmware updatable, either via USB, via a burned disc with the firmware on it, or via the internet. Regardless, the ultimate source of the update will be the internet. If you own prominent bluray player model, you could get lucky and the firmware update may be included on the disc.