Well yeah, JavaScript was not designed for these things but it is more widespread than java or flash. That's why it's cool that they did this using just javascript. BTW, the program worked pretty good for me except the fact that there is no right click:P. Anyway my point is that for every task you have to do some compromises and choose a balance between the properties that are opposed. In this case you can have a very portable program but it probably won't be quick. If you want to make it quick you have to get to more low level programming which leads to java (faster but less widespread), flash (which also has the downside of sucking) and ultimately to platform specific. Do you have any suggestion that would actually combine the best of those 2 worlds? I cannot see any way of accomplishing that in a simple, elegant matter.
Well thanks captain obvious. But if they meant that they should have said that. "The first of its kind"<>"The first of its kind that didn't blew up". Also, might I add that it didn't blew up because it hasn't been launched yet? And yeah, it could have meant that its the first kind (like in model) of its kind or something like that. Yeah, this is slashdot so I'm kinda used to that.
That was exactly his point. That the government might do that even though it would never work. I have to agree that it seems most governments do this kind of shit every day. Instead of fixing the underlying problems they just patch up the effects those problems cause.
Well it wouldn't affect the Earth if the it will orbit each other or something (even then, if the black hole has enough gravity it might still change the orbit of the Earth around the Sun). If the black hole collides with the Earth it would blow up. A cooler way would be if the black hole is small enough (or slow enough) that it doesn't blow up the Earth but instead lands on the surface. Then it would suck it slowly at first and faster as it grows. There would be no way of stopping it.
Yeah, or if people fork it they should at least make it compatible with the official product. Needing to install 3-4 different environments that change all the time is worse (IMO) than having only 1 closed source.
Yes but the popular videos are IMO crap. Look at the most viewed videos every day/week/month. 50% of them have a semi-naked woman in the thumbnail and a sex connotative title. Most users, especially partners are now whoring themselves to get more views.
Look at AtheneWins: he tries to tell people some of his ideas and I think don't think it's for money because he is not a partner although he has like 60mil views. But the way he's making himself heard is not a morally correct one.
Hotforwords is another example but I guess she might be excused because her motto is "intelligence is sexy".
Ilumistream is doing the same thing because although they do give sex advice they don't need to put a naked woman to make their point, also they do that even when it's not a sex related video.
Now, I have to admit I like youtube and the ease and freedom they give you (unless you upload something controversial or infringes someones rights but that's another story). What I don't like is the craze of getting more views which tends to become what happens on TV (the reason I don't watch TV anymore). Even a simple solution like getting the thumbnail of a video from a random point would change a lot. I'd like to see youtube get back to what it was a few years back.
Also, I want to add that not all movies that use a 'catchy' thumbnail are bad but there are many videos out there that have a lot less views but are funnier/more interesting/etc. You might argue that that's what featured videos are for and I agree that works but it's not enough. Sure, I like some of those but you can see that they are movies chosen explicitly to refer to an audience as large as possible (again TV thinking) and are mostly cliches or boring.
A few days ago when I replied to a post it would show my post in the right place. Now it shows it as its parent's reply. Does anyone else has that problem?
No, distances are not better explained in terms of Hummer lengths rather than miles. That's because people use miles all day and can relate to them (actually kilometers in my case but that's another story). And at least me, when someone tells me that there are 20km from point A to B I still need to compare that to some other distance I know (like from my home to my school, or from my city to my cousin's). Also, they do give technical information about the power usage. They just put an additional information that helps people not familiar with them. I don't see your problem with that, if it doesn't help you let it be, it probably helps someone else. Not everyone thinks like you, try to be more tolerant.
Still it's nice to have a working model. Of course you can think of many ways of making a chip last a long time but actually building one is the important part. This chip could be used for example for a time capsule. Put information on a computer or something, power it off and put a chip like this to wait for an input. When someone discovers the capsule it will start the computer and show what it has to show. Of course the computer would have to be made to last corrosion and other factors it would encounter. Again, I can think of it, maybe have some ideas on how to do it but the idea is pointless without building it for real.
Doesn't "10 times less" equal "1 tenth". If your being funny, good for you, but if you want to be serious then you are really funny.
Disclaimer: English is not my first language so if my assumption is wrong then so be it but I can't see where is the misunderstanding.
And they are right. I don't work with watts every day so I don't understand exactly what 30pW mean. This is how the human brain works: comparisons with other things in life. You know that a Hummer is big because most other vehicles are smaller. A sky scraper is big only when compared to a 10 story building (which in turn you must compare to your own height). Stop picking on these details, it's pointless. And BTW, your condescending way of saying "I am smart because I can understand the real way of measuring power" is just stupid. Grow up.
Nobody cares what you say (it's not that important anyway). Leave Roland be, he made mistakes, he probably learned from them. If he didn't, it's not like he is forcing his bullshit on you. Just read the summary, if you see Roland close the tab or whatever and move on. Is it that hard?
What's wrong with you? It's just an analogy to make us realize just how little power that chip uses. Most people know batteries don't last very long. Posting some battery types and giving information about how much they last isn't going to show people you are smart, just that you are trying to get a +insightful or +informative for some obvious non-important bullshit. Why do people have to pick on all these details and criticize every other word someone says in here? (like I do now)
That's why we need a healthy dose of skepticism. The idea of being a skeptic is now perverted by the large number of trolls these days (from the higher levels of intelligence like UFO skeptics to the lower ones like the 'FAKE' yelling youtubers). Being a skeptic shouldn't be a way of life, it should be a stance you adopt when confronted with something that you can't understand at that time. In science at least, once you have enough information, you should know for a fact if the event or statement is true or false, you shouldn't have to 'believe' in something.
That would be perfect if you could decide which patent ideas are trivial and which are not. In the end this delimitation cannot be made objectively because everybody has a different way of thinking.
In the past there were no patents and science was going better. Sure, all the major accomplishments were credited to anyone else but the inventor.
This, however, gives an interesting side-effect: when people created they knew there are little chances of getting rich from it, so they did it because they wanted to do it. It's different than all the patent trolls these days that rush to make something patent worthy for some quick bucks.
Well for time they are thinking in Martian time. Especially for scheduling experiments. They are working themselves in a Martian timezone. They said that in a conference I saw on NasaTV.
That doesn't stop at making people look like pedophiles. You can make them look like they are doing anything you want. Bush kissing with Hillary or something like that. Anyway, the images in the article don't seem that realistic, maybe they are just examples of certain technologies, I didn't have the patience to read it.
Baidu just offers their users something they want so they get more hits. That's exactly what capitalism is all about. Those bullshit companies that make all those commercial songs are complete hypocrites.
Exactly, what can you expect? The difference is huge between a game that was developed when 3D games were just starting and a game developed for the era where graphics is everything for most of the gamers. I think their main problem is pleasing the crowd expecting the same Duke Nukem ambience while also pleasing the ones that want realistic monsters and special effects. They probably changed the gameplay and storyline several times, apart from the problems with the engines and staff.
I wasn't referring to what he did with computers. I know that most of it is possible (or was) but I don't think the security in a government institution works in such a way that a teen can escape, tap into some console and find anything he wants. In most movies with themes like these, there always is a glitch or a mistake that some idiot makes that helps the hero when nothing else would work. I don't think that happens in the real world because, if it did, a lot of the problems of today wouldn't exist anymore.
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Well yeah, JavaScript was not designed for these things but it is more widespread than java or flash. That's why it's cool that they did this using just javascript. BTW, the program worked pretty good for me except the fact that there is no right click :P. Anyway my point is that for every task you have to do some compromises and choose a balance between the properties that are opposed. In this case you can have a very portable program but it probably won't be quick. If you want to make it quick you have to get to more low level programming which leads to java (faster but less widespread), flash (which also has the downside of sucking) and ultimately to platform specific. Do you have any suggestion that would actually combine the best of those 2 worlds? I cannot see any way of accomplishing that in a simple, elegant matter.
Well thanks captain obvious. But if they meant that they should have said that. "The first of its kind"<>"The first of its kind that didn't blew up". Also, might I add that it didn't blew up because it hasn't been launched yet? And yeah, it could have meant that its the first kind (like in model) of its kind or something like that. Yeah, this is slashdot so I'm kinda used to that.
I actually made a program that chose randomly from a list of options. I ran it until I was happy with the result :D
That was exactly his point. That the government might do that even though it would never work. I have to agree that it seems most governments do this kind of shit every day. Instead of fixing the underlying problems they just patch up the effects those problems cause.
Well it wouldn't affect the Earth if the it will orbit each other or something (even then, if the black hole has enough gravity it might still change the orbit of the Earth around the Sun). If the black hole collides with the Earth it would blow up. A cooler way would be if the black hole is small enough (or slow enough) that it doesn't blow up the Earth but instead lands on the surface. Then it would suck it slowly at first and faster as it grows. There would be no way of stopping it.
Yeah, or if people fork it they should at least make it compatible with the official product. Needing to install 3-4 different environments that change all the time is worse (IMO) than having only 1 closed source.
Yes but the popular videos are IMO crap. Look at the most viewed videos every day/week/month. 50% of them have a semi-naked woman in the thumbnail and a sex connotative title. Most users, especially partners are now whoring themselves to get more views.
Look at AtheneWins: he tries to tell people some of his ideas and I think don't think it's for money because he is not a partner although he has like 60mil views. But the way he's making himself heard is not a morally correct one.
Hotforwords is another example but I guess she might be excused because her motto is "intelligence is sexy".
Ilumistream is doing the same thing because although they do give sex advice they don't need to put a naked woman to make their point, also they do that even when it's not a sex related video.
Now, I have to admit I like youtube and the ease and freedom they give you (unless you upload something controversial or infringes someones rights but that's another story). What I don't like is the craze of getting more views which tends to become what happens on TV (the reason I don't watch TV anymore). Even a simple solution like getting the thumbnail of a video from a random point would change a lot. I'd like to see youtube get back to what it was a few years back.
Also, I want to add that not all movies that use a 'catchy' thumbnail are bad but there are many videos out there that have a lot less views but are funnier/more interesting/etc. You might argue that that's what featured videos are for and I agree that works but it's not enough. Sure, I like some of those but you can see that they are movies chosen explicitly to refer to an audience as large as possible (again TV thinking) and are mostly cliches or boring.
A few days ago when I replied to a post it would show my post in the right place. Now it shows it as its parent's reply. Does anyone else has that problem?
It was when marketing started to destroy the world. I know it's an exaggeration but not by far.
That is affect, and no, you are not being a smartass because effect really doesn't work here.
And if you live in that twisted world of AM/PM.
No, distances are not better explained in terms of Hummer lengths rather than miles. That's because people use miles all day and can relate to them (actually kilometers in my case but that's another story). And at least me, when someone tells me that there are 20km from point A to B I still need to compare that to some other distance I know (like from my home to my school, or from my city to my cousin's). Also, they do give technical information about the power usage. They just put an additional information that helps people not familiar with them. I don't see your problem with that, if it doesn't help you let it be, it probably helps someone else. Not everyone thinks like you, try to be more tolerant.
Still it's nice to have a working model. Of course you can think of many ways of making a chip last a long time but actually building one is the important part. This chip could be used for example for a time capsule. Put information on a computer or something, power it off and put a chip like this to wait for an input. When someone discovers the capsule it will start the computer and show what it has to show. Of course the computer would have to be made to last corrosion and other factors it would encounter. Again, I can think of it, maybe have some ideas on how to do it but the idea is pointless without building it for real.
Doesn't "10 times less" equal "1 tenth". If your being funny, good for you, but if you want to be serious then you are really funny.
Disclaimer: English is not my first language so if my assumption is wrong then so be it but I can't see where is the misunderstanding.
And they are right. I don't work with watts every day so I don't understand exactly what 30pW mean. This is how the human brain works: comparisons with other things in life. You know that a Hummer is big because most other vehicles are smaller. A sky scraper is big only when compared to a 10 story building (which in turn you must compare to your own height). Stop picking on these details, it's pointless. And BTW, your condescending way of saying "I am smart because I can understand the real way of measuring power" is just stupid. Grow up.
Dear AC troll,
Nobody cares what you say (it's not that important anyway). Leave Roland be, he made mistakes, he probably learned from them. If he didn't, it's not like he is forcing his bullshit on you. Just read the summary, if you see Roland close the tab or whatever and move on. Is it that hard?
What's wrong with you? It's just an analogy to make us realize just how little power that chip uses. Most people know batteries don't last very long. Posting some battery types and giving information about how much they last isn't going to show people you are smart, just that you are trying to get a +insightful or +informative for some obvious non-important bullshit. Why do people have to pick on all these details and criticize every other word someone says in here? (like I do now)
That's why we need a healthy dose of skepticism. The idea of being a skeptic is now perverted by the large number of trolls these days (from the higher levels of intelligence like UFO skeptics to the lower ones like the 'FAKE' yelling youtubers). Being a skeptic shouldn't be a way of life, it should be a stance you adopt when confronted with something that you can't understand at that time. In science at least, once you have enough information, you should know for a fact if the event or statement is true or false, you shouldn't have to 'believe' in something.
That would be perfect if you could decide which patent ideas are trivial and which are not. In the end this delimitation cannot be made objectively because everybody has a different way of thinking.
In the past there were no patents and science was going better. Sure, all the major accomplishments were credited to anyone else but the inventor.
This, however, gives an interesting side-effect: when people created they knew there are little chances of getting rich from it, so they did it because they wanted to do it. It's different than all the patent trolls these days that rush to make something patent worthy for some quick bucks.
Well for time they are thinking in Martian time. Especially for scheduling experiments. They are working themselves in a Martian timezone. They said that in a conference I saw on NasaTV.
That doesn't stop at making people look like pedophiles. You can make them look like they are doing anything you want. Bush kissing with Hillary or something like that. Anyway, the images in the article don't seem that realistic, maybe they are just examples of certain technologies, I didn't have the patience to read it.
Baidu just offers their users something they want so they get more hits. That's exactly what capitalism is all about. Those bullshit companies that make all those commercial songs are complete hypocrites.
Exactly, what can you expect? The difference is huge between a game that was developed when 3D games were just starting and a game developed for the era where graphics is everything for most of the gamers. I think their main problem is pleasing the crowd expecting the same Duke Nukem ambience while also pleasing the ones that want realistic monsters and special effects. They probably changed the gameplay and storyline several times, apart from the problems with the engines and staff.
I wasn't referring to what he did with computers. I know that most of it is possible (or was) but I don't think the security in a government institution works in such a way that a teen can escape, tap into some console and find anything he wants. In most movies with themes like these, there always is a glitch or a mistake that some idiot makes that helps the hero when nothing else would work. I don't think that happens in the real world because, if it did, a lot of the problems of today wouldn't exist anymore.
What?