Yeah, I hear they have transdimensional portals. Not cheap, but still cheaper than train travel in the UK, where we only lead the world in informing passengers which lines are delayed/closed...
Transdimensional portals only require 10 obsidian if you don't include the corners, saving you 4 obsidian!
I can see them going "Let me just store in my little database that "HTH NE1 (675604)" is overly concerned and probably a good spam target for anti-anxiety meds".
Just to be clear: EVERYTHING you post on the net gives someone, somewhere just a little bit of extra information. It all adds up. You've got that one right.
While it all adds up, it's pretty easy to make the weight of many of those pieces negative by putting in false info wherever possible, thus confusing the beast.
Dell is pretty good. I got mine in 2008 as well with installation media. I would hope they still do that.
They don't. I have no idea how you got it in 2008, even.
Dell laptops I ordered for other didn't come with shit other than the 3 extra partitions on the hard drive. 1 for the image, 1 for the diagnostic utilities, 1 for the who knows what.
People actually use editors without tag completion, syntax highlighting/validation and such? What a pain in the ass and slow way of developing software. I would rather gouge my eyes out than go back to the olden days.
I'd rather have the people writing code pay attention to what they were doing. Much like how cars have endless automated crap to tell idiots when to brake, tell them when they're backing up into a pole, parallel park for them, activate the headlights when it's dark, etc., too much automation for programming leads to laziness and lack of diligence. Unfortunately, when these traits occur in areas that are outside of the scope of the bubble wrap features, or, when the accumulate (as these traits tend to do over time) to the point that the retard-prevention feature can't cope, shit goes up in flames.
Why is this guy still in the news? I get it - he's a douche, and his wife Kate is an overbearing bitch, and all they both care about is making money (over $1,000,000 per episode) off of their litter. Who cares if their kids get psychologically ruined? I mean, it's not like they had a chance to become productive, sane members of society with those two as parents anyway. In a perfect world, they'd be in jail and the kids would be adopted.
But no, now this guy is being given a cushy job at Google, for what? Java? Please, that's what Amazon Mechanical Turk is for.
Joke post? If you're concerned about radiation, it'll drop off at r^2. So if you keep it 3 mm from your body (in your pocket), just put it on your desk 12 inches away from you and be over 9000 times safer.
Basically this. Going gold is BAD because everything in your device that touches your signal is copper, and the interface between gold and coppers is bad news bears. (Extremely slightly, but it has a bigger effect than going all gold would have).
Just get thick copper cables and be done with it. HDMI 1? 1.1? 1.1a? 1.3? 1.4? I got the thickest HDMI cable I could find ages ago and it works for everything. Same goes for cat 5/5e/6.
Yeah! We should ban such third world hellholes as the United States, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom! They are all in the top 10 for spamming, according to Spamhaus. The others are China, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina.
Troll troll is troll troll. Spam is sent out by botnets. Botnet operators almost all reside China, Russia, South America, etc.
And "inflammable" used to mean inflammable. In fact, it still does. The addition of "flammable" and "non-flammable" was an attempt to reduce confusion that didn't exist. The addition actually resulted in more confusion, and people actually died.
The correct words are "inflammable" and "non-inflammable".
Language "evolving" is not an inherently good thing. Or do you think that "I could care less", "irregardless", "synergy", "bromance", etc. are valuable additions to the language? Altering the definition of an existing word does nothing but create confusion and ambiguity. The word creationist means one who believes in a creator. It does not refer to any particular creation story or creator. You can huff and puff and bitch about how you want an easy-to-use label to harass a particular group of people, but you can't have the word "creationist" any more than I can have the word "atheist" to describe angsty, contrarian, internet fucks like yourself who understand nothing about the religions they actively antagonize and deride while mindlessly following and quoting a small stable of hack authors as if they were their gods. All hail Atheismo!
Not generally, no. Creationist means (to most people) that the bible is the story of how things were made by God. And I don't recall a Big Bang theory or evolution in there anywhere.
Creationist: One who believes in a creator.
Words have meanings, you can't just go making shit up, not even if you're an atheist.
A Model UN Club meeting is in progress at Springfield elementary.
SKINNER Ok, delegates, you leave tomorrow for the statewide Model U.N., so this is out last chance to bone up. And bone we will!
All of the kids break into laughter, except Lisa.
BART (to Lisa) Lighten up, Lis.
SKINNER (to Martin) Finland, let's see that naitve dance.
Martin starts dancing Lappish style.
SKINNER Smile more. Work that pelvis. No, too much smile. Sit down. (to Milhouse) Poland! Tell us about your nation's achievements!
MILHOUSE Well, uh, I heard they sent a rocket to the sun once... at night... And there was that submarine, with the screen doors...
SKINNER No, no, no, no, no, young man, you need to do some SERIOUS boning!
This time only Lisa laughs.
BART Oh, grow up, Lis.
SKINNER (to Bart) OK, Libya... exports!
BART Yes, sir, you American pig!
SKINNER (chuckles) Nice touch.
BART Uh, ahem, let's see...
Bart shuffles his blank papers, pretending to find something.
BART The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn, or as the Indians call it, "maize". Another famous Indian was "Crazy Horse". In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrast. Thank you.
A commotion interrupts Skinner before he can comment on Bart's performance. Nelson, the Japanese delegate, pinches Wendell's nose with chopsticks.
WENDELL Oww, I can't breath! Please stop him!
SKINNER I'd like to, but I'm afraid he has diplomatic immunity.
LISA Point of order, if we want to learn anything we must respec--
BART Point of odor, Lisa stinks.
All the kids laugh.
SHERRI (to Bart) Hey. Leave her alone!
NELSON (to Sherri) You leave her alone!
All the kids start fighting with each other, with one exception. Ralph, the Canadian delegate, stands.
RALPH (singing) Oh, Canada!
Skinner bangs his shoe on the table.
SKINNER Order, order! Do you kids wanna be like the real U.N., or do you just wanna squabble and waste time?
No, it's not. You wouldn't hire a math teacher who doesn't believe in calculus, would you?
Why not? The universe is quantum, thus the fundamental theorem of calculus is wrong. Calculus is still useful for everything except Planck length-scale shit.
Uh, no. Someone sent the message. Someone received the message. Choosing to not act on the message is just one option. If you believe the branching timelines shit, you believe that there is a branch which acts and a branch which doesn't. In the timeline that doesn't send a message back, the receiver of the message doesn't violate causality by not sending a message back because the sender of the message in the branch that sends it still does so, back to the parent node.
As a PS3 owner, I say more power to them. Sony stole from me when they removed the OtherOS feature.
Basically this. I'm normally against piracy, but Sony started this war. I'll fight back by never giving them another dollar. And I won't let that get in the way of my enjoying game that happen to be on their platforms.
No, because if you keep doing it, eventually some future will hit YOUR timeline, and you get a message from a different future?
Absolutely not. If you get a message that says "next week, send this message back to yourself", and you do it, then you haven't altered anything.
If you don't get any message, and then you send one back, you won't have altered anything in your timeline, because it has already branched from a timeline that didn't receive a message - it is impossible for the message-receiving timeline in the past to branch into a timeline that's the result of NOT receiving the message. Information cannot be destroyed. Branching to a timeline where the message didn't exist would be destroying information.
If you do get a message, and you don't send one back, you're merely making an incorrect assumption about the origin of the message.
Of course, the idea of sending a message back at all is all based on the completely made up idea with zero evidence or testability that multiple timelines exist, or that we could ever affect a prior state.
the BEST method for computing a square root will NEVER include deciding which method to use first.
do you need me to prove that for you? can you spell "latency"?
"doing a square root"??? you're an idiot.
You're a fucking moron, and if you're anywhere near as successful as you claim, I'll eat my hat. Deciding which method to use is absofuckinglutely a good idea.
What's the square root of 100? What's the square root of 38561039586109568104986 106804968104986140 115313522012901571333 426262221062875637 438483756287163985 726983756357827365 9827563937097?
Use the same method for both and get back to me.
Protip: The fucking size of the problem absolutely has an impact on which method is best. Just unnecessarily storing data in the wrong data type can more than double your total execution time.
How is this a troll? Because the Earth is rotating faster, we all just sped up a bit. You'll still live the same # of vibrations of a cesium atom on Earth, but to an outside observer, our cesium atoms are doin their thang a tad slower than theirs, and we will live a bit longer, relatively.
No. It's not. Data is not the plural of datum. Data is a substance. Much as you can't have too many rice, you can't have too many data. You can, however, have too much rice/data, and too many grains/points of rice/data. A datum is a single data point. Data itself is unquantifiable until you are talking about the specific points of data. When the sentence says "New data shows...", it is clear that the data in question is akin to information, knowledge, insight, measurements, etc. to every single person on the planet except the guy who took the measurements.
Finally, you'd going to have to be within about 10-15cm of the target to copy the card. I.e. hugging the person and hoping that his clothes don't cause too much interference as they often do. Not suspicious at all!
Bullshit. You can do it from 10-15 feet away, easily. This has been demonstrated many a time with similar shit like the RFID tags in your passport / credit cards. Same claims. Same bullshit.
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Yeah, I hear they have transdimensional portals. Not cheap, but still cheaper than train travel in the UK, where we only lead the world in informing passengers which lines are delayed/closed...
Transdimensional portals only require 10 obsidian if you don't include the corners, saving you 4 obsidian!
"Coastal defences should be okay in most places but obviously anyone near the coast should retreat inland if possible."
Anyone whose home is near the coast should consider moving permanently out of range. There will be more tsunamis, so planning should reflect that.
Put residential areas inland, and more expendable construction at the coast.
Something about a man building his house on the sand?
Also, if you want people who live in dangerous places to pick up and move, I hope you'll enjoy your new neighbors from florida, new orleans, etc.
I can see them going "Let me just store in my little database that "HTH NE1 (675604)" is overly concerned and probably a good spam target for anti-anxiety meds".
Just to be clear: EVERYTHING you post on the net gives someone, somewhere just a little bit of extra information. It all adds up. You've got that one right.
While it all adds up, it's pretty easy to make the weight of many of those pieces negative by putting in false info wherever possible, thus confusing the beast.
- Rusty Shackleford
Yeah, we always buy from small business and we still never get the media.
Dell is pretty good. I got mine in 2008 as well with installation media. I would hope they still do that.
They don't.
I have no idea how you got it in 2008, even.
Dell laptops I ordered for other didn't come with shit other than the 3 extra partitions on the hard drive.
1 for the image, 1 for the diagnostic utilities, 1 for the who knows what.
People actually use editors without tag completion, syntax highlighting/validation and such? What a pain in the ass and slow way of developing software. I would rather gouge my eyes out than go back to the olden days.
I'd rather have the people writing code pay attention to what they were doing.
Much like how cars have endless automated crap to tell idiots when to brake, tell them when they're backing up into a pole, parallel park for them, activate the headlights when it's dark, etc., too much automation for programming leads to laziness and lack of diligence. Unfortunately, when these traits occur in areas that are outside of the scope of the bubble wrap features, or, when the accumulate (as these traits tend to do over time) to the point that the retard-prevention feature can't cope, shit goes up in flames.
Why is this guy still in the news?
I get it - he's a douche, and his wife Kate is an overbearing bitch, and all they both care about is making money (over $1,000,000 per episode) off of their litter.
Who cares if their kids get psychologically ruined? I mean, it's not like they had a chance to become productive, sane members of society with those two as parents anyway.
In a perfect world, they'd be in jail and the kids would be adopted.
But no, now this guy is being given a cushy job at Google, for what? Java?
Please, that's what Amazon Mechanical Turk is for.
Joke post?
If you're concerned about radiation, it'll drop off at r^2.
So if you keep it 3 mm from your body (in your pocket), just put it on your desk 12 inches away from you and be over 9000 times safer.
Basically this.
Going gold is BAD because everything in your device that touches your signal is copper, and the interface between gold and coppers is bad news bears.
(Extremely slightly, but it has a bigger effect than going all gold would have).
Just get thick copper cables and be done with it.
HDMI 1? 1.1? 1.1a? 1.3? 1.4?
I got the thickest HDMI cable I could find ages ago and it works for everything.
Same goes for cat 5/5e/6.
OH NO SOMEONE FOED ME ON SLASHDOT
Oh wait, that's my goal.
Good job everyone, see you tomorrow.
People trapped and dying.
Let's worry about how much our next next motherboard will cost.
Yeah! We should ban such third world hellholes as the United States, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom! They are all in the top 10 for spamming, according to Spamhaus. The others are China, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina.
Troll troll is troll troll.
Spam is sent out by botnets. Botnet operators almost all reside China, Russia, South America, etc.
And "inflammable" used to mean inflammable. In fact, it still does.
The addition of "flammable" and "non-flammable" was an attempt to reduce confusion that didn't exist.
The addition actually resulted in more confusion, and people actually died.
The correct words are "inflammable" and "non-inflammable".
Language "evolving" is not an inherently good thing. Or do you think that "I could care less", "irregardless", "synergy", "bromance", etc. are valuable additions to the language? Altering the definition of an existing word does nothing but create confusion and ambiguity. The word creationist means one who believes in a creator. It does not refer to any particular creation story or creator. You can huff and puff and bitch about how you want an easy-to-use label to harass a particular group of people, but you can't have the word "creationist" any more than I can have the word "atheist" to describe angsty, contrarian, internet fucks like yourself who understand nothing about the religions they actively antagonize and deride while mindlessly following and quoting a small stable of hack authors as if they were their gods. All hail Atheismo!
"I love it when people think they know more than God."
That's easy to do. I also know more than Zeus, Odin and Ra.
Of course you do, the truly righteous know that Ba'al is the one true god. ;)
Krom laughs at your Ba'al.
Creationist means that they believe in a creator.
Not generally, no. Creationist means (to most people) that the bible is the story of how things were made by God. And I don't recall a Big Bang theory or evolution in there anywhere.
Creationist: One who believes in a creator.
Words have meanings, you can't just go making shit up, not even if you're an atheist.
A Model UN Club meeting is in progress at Springfield elementary.
SKINNER
Ok, delegates, you leave tomorrow for the statewide Model U.N., so this is out last chance to bone up. And bone we will!
All of the kids break into laughter, except Lisa.
BART
(to Lisa) Lighten up, Lis.
SKINNER
(to Martin) Finland, let's see that naitve dance.
Martin starts dancing Lappish style.
SKINNER
Smile more. Work that pelvis. No, too much smile. Sit down. (to Milhouse) Poland! Tell us about your nation's achievements!
MILHOUSE
Well, uh, I heard they sent a rocket to the sun once... at night... And there was that submarine, with the screen doors...
SKINNER
No, no, no, no, no, young man, you need to do some SERIOUS boning!
This time only Lisa laughs.
BART
Oh, grow up, Lis.
SKINNER
(to Bart) OK, Libya... exports!
BART
Yes, sir, you American pig!
SKINNER
(chuckles) Nice touch.
BART
Uh, ahem, let's see...
Bart shuffles his blank papers, pretending to find something.
BART
The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn, or as the Indians call it, "maize". Another famous Indian was "Crazy Horse". In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrast. Thank you.
A commotion interrupts Skinner before he can comment on Bart's performance. Nelson, the Japanese delegate, pinches Wendell's nose with chopsticks.
WENDELL
Oww, I can't breath! Please stop him!
SKINNER
I'd like to, but I'm afraid he has diplomatic immunity.
LISA
Point of order, if we want to learn anything we must respec--
BART
Point of odor, Lisa stinks.
All the kids laugh.
SHERRI
(to Bart) Hey. Leave her alone!
NELSON
(to Sherri) You leave her alone!
All the kids start fighting with each other, with one exception. Ralph, the Canadian delegate, stands.
RALPH
(singing) Oh, Canada!
Skinner bangs his shoe on the table.
SKINNER
Order, order! Do you kids wanna be like the real U.N., or do you just wanna squabble and waste time?
No, it's not. You wouldn't hire a math teacher who doesn't believe in calculus, would you?
Why not? The universe is quantum, thus the fundamental theorem of calculus is wrong.
Calculus is still useful for everything except Planck length-scale shit.
Uh, no.
Someone sent the message.
Someone received the message.
Choosing to not act on the message is just one option. If you believe the branching timelines shit, you believe that there is a branch which acts and a branch which doesn't. In the timeline that doesn't send a message back, the receiver of the message doesn't violate causality by not sending a message back because the sender of the message in the branch that sends it still does so, back to the parent node.
As a PS3 owner, I say more power to them. Sony stole from me when they removed the OtherOS feature.
Basically this.
I'm normally against piracy, but Sony started this war. I'll fight back by never giving them another dollar. And I won't let that get in the way of my enjoying game that happen to be on their platforms.
No, because if you keep doing it, eventually some future will hit YOUR timeline, and you get a message from a different future?
Absolutely not.
If you get a message that says "next week, send this message back to yourself", and you do it, then you haven't altered anything.
If you don't get any message, and then you send one back, you won't have altered anything in your timeline, because it has already branched from a timeline that didn't receive a message - it is impossible for the message-receiving timeline in the past to branch into a timeline that's the result of NOT receiving the message. Information cannot be destroyed. Branching to a timeline where the message didn't exist would be destroying information.
If you do get a message, and you don't send one back, you're merely making an incorrect assumption about the origin of the message.
Of course, the idea of sending a message back at all is all based on the completely made up idea with zero evidence or testability that multiple timelines exist, or that we could ever affect a prior state.
the BEST method for computing a square root will NEVER include deciding which method to use first.
do you need me to prove that for you? can you spell "latency"?
"doing a square root"??? you're an idiot.
You're a fucking moron, and if you're anywhere near as successful as you claim, I'll eat my hat.
Deciding which method to use is absofuckinglutely a good idea.
What's the square root of 100?
What's the square root of 38561039586109568104986 106804968104986140 115313522012901571333 426262221062875637 438483756287163985 726983756357827365 9827563937097?
Use the same method for both and get back to me.
Protip: The fucking size of the problem absolutely has an impact on which method is best. Just unnecessarily storing data in the wrong data type can more than double your total execution time.
Now i will live more miliseconds.
How is this a troll?
Because the Earth is rotating faster, we all just sped up a bit. You'll still live the same # of vibrations of a cesium atom on Earth, but to an outside observer, our cesium atoms are doin their thang a tad slower than theirs, and we will live a bit longer, relatively.
More realistically, it come out of your sleeping time.
Oh please, you know they're make you lose the microseconds during the night, AND cut them out of your pay as well.
I know how awkward it sounds, but it is plural.
No. It's not. Data is not the plural of datum. Data is a substance.
Much as you can't have too many rice, you can't have too many data. You can, however, have too much rice/data, and too many grains/points of rice/data.
A datum is a single data point. Data itself is unquantifiable until you are talking about the specific points of data. When the sentence says "New data shows...", it is clear that the data in question is akin to information, knowledge, insight, measurements, etc. to every single person on the planet except the guy who took the measurements.
Data is singular.
Finally, you'd going to have to be within about 10-15cm of the target to copy the card. I.e. hugging the person and hoping that his clothes don't cause too much interference as they often do. Not suspicious at all!
Bullshit.
You can do it from 10-15 feet away, easily. This has been demonstrated many a time with similar shit like the RFID tags in your passport / credit cards.
Same claims. Same bullshit.