The fact that the implementation involves everything running on that turing-complete machine.
I don't give a shit what it has to do with TFA, it has to do with your dumb comment above ("You don't think it's possible to formally prove a sandbox?").
Simple - drop our political occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever the fuck else we station our troops.
Let those fuckers sort their own shit out while we fight an actual war.
Oh, Iran doesn't have nukes yet and doesn't even possess the capability of launching anything our way?
Let Israel deal with it. And let them deal with it alone.
Not our fucking problem.
Russia and China will be the ones to fucking worry about it before we do. When they get to the point of realizing the UN is more impotent than <Insert troll here>, and they need to act, then we can give a shit.
Bullshit. I hate the fucking bullshit line about not being able to prove a negative.
You can in many fucking cases prove a negative.
Simply define your negative as contrary to a provable positive, then prove the positive.
Green is not Red. This ball is red. Ergo, this ball is not green.
Not an easy thing to do in many real-world cases, sure. But the reason why it's hard is not because it's hard to define something as contrary to another, but because it's hard to prove anything - positive or negative.
Typically, bitching about proving a negative involves undermining the confidence of the observations, and relying on the "fact" that the universe is infinite (the universe is quantum, finite, and deterministic damn it). "...thus, there is no God." will always be met with some form of "He exists outside of your observations, measurements, and enumerations.".
The same "logic" could be used for any proof of anything. "Maybe there are in fact a finite number of primes, and there's a flaw in that proof no one has seen yet." "Maybe there exists something contrary to what you have proven, but we haven't found it yet."
Prove that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons: Enumerate all nuclear facilities in Iran. Prove the purpose of each as "weapons", "power", or "both".
If you argue that you can't do either of those things, then what you're really arguing is that you can't prove these two positives: Iran has a finite number of nuclear facilities. Each nuclear facility has an observable purpose of weapons, power, or both.
The difficulty in proving a negative does not come from anything inherent to negatives, it comes from the difficulty in proving anything at all.
It all boils down to the simple "can't know anything for certain" issue. And when you're throwing that one around, you've effectively removed yourself from the conversation.
Do you really think the bullshit in Iraq or Afghanistan is a full showing of force for the American military?
They're political occupations designed to stagnate and fail.
It won't be until the next real war, where American soil is under threat of attack or takeover, that the US military will unleash some of the new toys its been hiding.
In theory you can prove a sandbox is secure. The actual code for its implementation? Nope.
Also, I've never seen a sandbox without sand all around outside of it. It's a terrible name, though apt, as there are indeed exploits for sandboxes, and as they become more popular, more exploits will follow.
They can't buy their own ticket? Popcorn at the theaters is fucking trash.
Either way, with blurays, surround sound, an hdtv, a hot air popcorn popper, and a goose-down couch, I go to the dentist more often than I go to the theater.
ANY GAME for the mainstream consoles (fuck your Jaguar, 3D0, whatever bullshit) was $50.
If you paid more you were an idiot. Just read the ads in the Sunday paper. Some store invariably advertises the game you want at $50. Price match at local store of choice.
It's no wonder these same people accept the $60 (+$DLC, +$Subscription, +$Collector's Edition) price. They didn't give a shit back then and are all too happy to continue not giving a shit today. But now, they love to chime in and say "I paid $80 for Chrono Trigger!" when they could have had it for $50 at Toys R Us.
Development costs rise, sure. But the video game market as a whole has grown too. A lot.
$60 is bullshit for 99% of games, yet publishers people wonder why 99% of games don't turn a profit.
Games need to be priced individually, according to worth. If the average retard thinks your $40 game is shittier than the $60 copy of Madden 2010 because of the price, then fire your marketing team.
"A developer may notice their game sales are slowing down so they do a price cut weekend which is impossible to do with the classic distribution chain."
Because price drops, sales, coupons, and other promotions/incentives don't exist.
Since when was 30% over asking price "close enough"?
And who in their right mind would buy L4D with L4D2 coming out so soon?
Valve seriously dropped the ball / got greedy with L4D. We were promised tons, and got shit. But hey, we should all go out and buy the sequel which promises the exact same things!
From a helpdesk point of view, they'll suffer one heck of a beeting everytime it goes down.
In may day we threw onions. Onions we tied to our belts, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
If the charging circuitry and materials are up to snuff.
New shit is always great. Then they outsource to China. Then they substitute shitty materials.
Then the product is barely any better than the last generation.
There are no "charge cycles" for Lithium based rechargeables. All charging is based on the individual cells, and any "charge cycle" is based on the average of all cells. Cells get irreparably destroyed if completely drained or overcharged, and lose capacity over time. All three of these effects cause the battery as a whole to lose capacity over time.
New materials only help one aspect (individual cells losing capacity over time).
Nearly all Li-Ion battery failures (going out with a boom, pop, or fizzle) are a result of inferior materials being substituted in the manufacturing process.
Li-Ion battery cells (the individual cells containing your delicious electrons - millions in a single manufactured cell, several of those in a single packaged battery) are expected to pop.
Over-charge them? Pop. Drain them too fast? Pop. Result? Slightly diminished capacity. Over time, the capacity gets lower and lower.
The trick is they're isolated, and you don't get enough of them popping at once to cause a noticeable failure (flame, explosion, etc.).
But when you have shitty charging circuitry, shitty components measuring and regulating the current and voltage, and shitty material (like fucking paper) inside the thing, yeah, shit's gonna go up in flames.
Ni-MH is the superior fucking choice. But the self-discharge rate is too high for the plebes to accept. They've got ones that sacrifice capacity for a lower self-discharge rate (such as Sanyo's Eneloop design), but Li-Ion is firmly entrenched, unfortunately.
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My contest is to design a contest.
Thus, NASA has already chosen my entry, and I have already won!
Quickly! To the entry submission form!
I'll get modded offtopic for it, but I'm betting most people don't get the reference, and don't get teh funniez.
http://www.dagsrule.com/pestle.html
Immah let you finish AC, but AC had one best posts ending in an ellipsis of all time.
There's no indication to suggest that staying and wasting untold billions will improve anything.
The fact that the implementation involves everything running on that turing-complete machine.
I don't give a shit what it has to do with TFA, it has to do with your dumb comment above ("You don't think it's possible to formally prove a sandbox?").
I don't know about you, but I fucking loved how Wolf Blitzer utterly failed on Celebrity Jeopardy!.
I was lollin'.
Simple - drop our political occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever the fuck else we station our troops.
Let those fuckers sort their own shit out while we fight an actual war.
Oh, Iran doesn't have nukes yet and doesn't even possess the capability of launching anything our way?
Let Israel deal with it. And let them deal with it alone.
Not our fucking problem.
Russia and China will be the ones to fucking worry about it before we do. When they get to the point of realizing the UN is more impotent than <Insert troll here>, and they need to act, then we can give a shit.
Bullshit. I hate the fucking bullshit line about not being able to prove a negative.
You can in many fucking cases prove a negative.
Simply define your negative as contrary to a provable positive, then prove the positive.
Green is not Red.
This ball is red.
Ergo, this ball is not green.
Not an easy thing to do in many real-world cases, sure. But the reason why it's hard is not because it's hard to define something as contrary to another, but because it's hard to prove anything - positive or negative.
Typically, bitching about proving a negative involves undermining the confidence of the observations, and relying on the "fact" that the universe is infinite (the universe is quantum, finite, and deterministic damn it).
"...thus, there is no God." will always be met with some form of "He exists outside of your observations, measurements, and enumerations.".
The same "logic" could be used for any proof of anything. "Maybe there are in fact a finite number of primes, and there's a flaw in that proof no one has seen yet." "Maybe there exists something contrary to what you have proven, but we haven't found it yet."
Prove that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons:
Enumerate all nuclear facilities in Iran.
Prove the purpose of each as "weapons", "power", or "both".
If you argue that you can't do either of those things, then what you're really arguing is that you can't prove these two positives:
Iran has a finite number of nuclear facilities.
Each nuclear facility has an observable purpose of weapons, power, or both.
The difficulty in proving a negative does not come from anything inherent to negatives, it comes from the difficulty in proving anything at all.
It all boils down to the simple "can't know anything for certain" issue. And when you're throwing that one around, you've effectively removed yourself from the conversation.
Of course it can.
Do you really think the bullshit in Iraq or Afghanistan is a full showing of force for the American military?
They're political occupations designed to stagnate and fail.
It won't be until the next real war, where American soil is under threat of attack or takeover, that the US military will unleash some of the new toys its been hiding.
In theory you can prove a sandbox is secure.
The actual code for its implementation? Nope.
Also, I've never seen a sandbox without sand all around outside of it. It's a terrible name, though apt, as there are indeed exploits for sandboxes, and as they become more popular, more exploits will follow.
The sand must flow, or some such.
Getting a Tetris is very sexual.
(It's where you jam the long 1x4 piece into the slot, and clear 4 lines at once)
They can't buy their own ticket?
Popcorn at the theaters is fucking trash.
Either way, with blurays, surround sound, an hdtv, a hot air popcorn popper, and a goose-down couch, I go to the dentist more often than I go to the theater.
No. No. Horseshit.
Everyone says this. It's bullshit.
ANY GAME for the mainstream consoles (fuck your Jaguar, 3D0, whatever bullshit) was $50.
If you paid more you were an idiot.
Just read the ads in the Sunday paper.
Some store invariably advertises the game you want at $50.
Price match at local store of choice.
It's no wonder these same people accept the $60 (+$DLC, +$Subscription, +$Collector's Edition) price. They didn't give a shit back then and are all too happy to continue not giving a shit today. But now, they love to chime in and say "I paid $80 for Chrono Trigger!" when they could have had it for $50 at Toys R Us.
Development costs rise, sure.
But the video game market as a whole has grown too. A lot.
$60 is bullshit for 99% of games, yet publishers people wonder why 99% of games don't turn a profit.
Games need to be priced individually, according to worth. If the average retard thinks your $40 game is shittier than the $60 copy of Madden 2010 because of the price, then fire your marketing team.
"A developer may notice their game sales are slowing down so they do a price cut weekend which is impossible to do with the classic distribution chain."
Because price drops, sales, coupons, and other promotions/incentives don't exist.
Since when was 30% over asking price "close enough"?
And who in their right mind would buy L4D with L4D2 coming out so soon?
Valve seriously dropped the ball / got greedy with L4D. We were promised tons, and got shit. But hey, we should all go out and buy the sequel which promises the exact same things!
Tetris was free with my Game Boy.
Best game ever.
Not best video game.
Best game.
Ever.
A movie ticket costs me $6.75 at the matinee.
That's not $15.
You're trolling windows because it's windows, and you dismiss the same jobs held by the same people that do the same thing for linux.
Troll.
From a helpdesk point of view, they'll suffer one heck of a beeting everytime it goes down.
In may day we threw onions. Onions we tied to our belts, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
Obligatory Little Bobby Tables reference.
If the charging circuitry and materials are up to snuff.
New shit is always great.
Then they outsource to China.
Then they substitute shitty materials.
Then the product is barely any better than the last generation.
There are no "charge cycles" for Lithium based rechargeables. All charging is based on the individual cells, and any "charge cycle" is based on the average of all cells. Cells get irreparably destroyed if completely drained or overcharged, and lose capacity over time. All three of these effects cause the battery as a whole to lose capacity over time.
New materials only help one aspect (individual cells losing capacity over time).
There are entire job classifications based on the premise that Linux "doesn't work".
There are entire job classifications based on the premise that the $10,000 copier you just bought "doesn't work".
You're a troll.
You have confused Ni-MH and Ni-Cad.
Any legal action would be against the state.
It's not that complicated.
The court is choosing to jail this guy for a debt they could easily collect on. They do not need his cooperation.
Step 1: Stop manufacturing them in China
Nearly all Li-Ion battery failures (going out with a boom, pop, or fizzle) are a result of inferior materials being substituted in the manufacturing process.
Li-Ion battery cells (the individual cells containing your delicious electrons - millions in a single manufactured cell, several of those in a single packaged battery) are expected to pop.
Over-charge them? Pop.
Drain them too fast? Pop.
Result? Slightly diminished capacity.
Over time, the capacity gets lower and lower.
The trick is they're isolated, and you don't get enough of them popping at once to cause a noticeable failure (flame, explosion, etc.).
But when you have shitty charging circuitry, shitty components measuring and regulating the current and voltage, and shitty material (like fucking paper) inside the thing, yeah, shit's gonna go up in flames.
Ni-MH is the superior fucking choice. But the self-discharge rate is too high for the plebes to accept. They've got ones that sacrifice capacity for a lower self-discharge rate (such as Sanyo's Eneloop design), but Li-Ion is firmly entrenched, unfortunately.