Still, I hadn't seen that, and he took the time and effort to make it/. compatible. Since/. doesn't support any web technology older than 1974, well, I appreciate the effort.
Heh, don't feel bad, I get about 30 positive karma a week and I haven't received mod points for a couple of years now. Guess I shouldn't have criticized Dice...
That... doesn't even make sense. As long as the rocket exhaust is accelerated "backwards" in the rest frame of the fuel, there's been a net acceleration of the rocket, regardless of the rocket's speed in that frame. Sure, if in the rockets frame you stop the incoming fuel, then you'll need to accelerate it back to a speed faster than you're moving, but why do that?
"we need some time to find a way around your blocking so we can continue being shitty".
Well, sure, but not much time, and consider that products like the Java installer bundle this crap. This change is very broad, and doesn't just affect fly-by-night malware bundlers like Sourceforge.
I wonder when microsoft will get around to getting their vendors to stop accepting kickbacks for shitty adware on new systems.
Arguably, the Nokia acquisition is partly their way of addressing that. Now that MS will also sell hardware, you'll at least have one vendor who doesn't lard up the system with junk.
I know you! You're the guy who bought an adapter to charge his cell phone from the power available from a landline connector, just to rub it in, aren't you?
You're thinking too small. All these problems come from moving the ship away from a convenient star. If you're thinking big, just move the star, with a Shkadov thruster. But my "revolution in physics needed" point remains.
There's no difference in my house. Where Win95 earned the hatred of geeks everywhere was for corporate office use, and it took MS forever in internet years to figure out the markets were so different - not until Win2000 did they have a sane OS for the business desktop.
That's what made Tau Zero such a cool story (the faster you scoop fuel, the more power you have for your scoop/shield, and the more that everything looks like fuel).
Sure, that's only ~5 TWH/ton. By comparison, the US as a whole consumes on average about 1 TW. If you spent 100 years of that time boosting, you'd need about ~5 MW of power generation (including 100 years of fuel) per ton of spaceship. So we're back to "revolution in physics".
It almost has to be a deliberate backdoor for testing that someone forgot to take out. I can't imagine "Trim()ing as password. But then I couldn't have believed anyone would smash case on a password before I heard Blizzard did it. I guess there's nothing so stupid that we should rule it out.
They're the people who invented "press cancel to log in" for windows 95.
Which was fine. Win95 was intended as a single-user system with no local security. That login screen was for using network resources, and was irrelevant for local access.
And if you don't encrypt your drives, your modern OS is no more secure than Win95 to someone with physical access.
You keep repeating "but they're wrong", exactly like the pro-life crowd. I don't care who's right, I care about the process of political debate. Perhaps you've heard the line "I don't agree with what he says, but I'll fight to the death for his right to say it".
Freedom of right-thinking speech is no freedom at all. If we support a culture of personally punishing people for their "wrong" political expression/advocacy, that's the road to no freedom at all.
Managed C++ is absolutely wonderful for one narrow purpose: to marshal between the managed and unmanaged worlds. The.NET marshaller blows goats, but writing your own shim to transfer between.NET and STL classes is easy, runs quite fast, and (unlike the marshaller), can actually be debugged.
I can't imagine using managed C++ for anything else though. Eesh.
The point of exploring the stars will never be to "reduce the surplus population". That's not likely to be a real problem in any case.
The point is to broaden humanity's knowledge, perspective, and diversity. To make us, collectively, more than we are now.
But the stars are out of reach without some revolutionary new understanding of physics. The energy budget for interstellar travel is insane, assuming we want to get somewhere within a generation. It's far beyond workable fusion power needed for a starship: either some sort of warp drive, or antimatter fuel and a rocket with near-light speed exhaust.
The nice thing is, relativity means you can travel ridiculously long distances in subjective time and with an energy budget not much worse than going 100 light years. Humanity on Earth, not to mention the Sun, may be long gone when you get there, but you can visit other galaxies if only you had a magical power source.
He "acted" by participating in the political process. If you don't value freedom of political expression (as the left increasingly doesn't), just be upfront about that.
But remember, the rule won't be "people can't argue for change that Kookus finds offensive", it will be "people can't argue for change that the Tyrant, May He Live Forever, finds offensive". You won't like where it ends.
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Is this progress? Moving from 1-minute fill up to 20 minutes and it requires an attendant? Not in my book.
I can see the appeal of a plug-in hybrid: charge at home for short trips, a great 80% solution, gas for everything else.
Still, I hadn't seen that, and he took the time and effort to make it /. compatible. Since /. doesn't support any web technology older than 1974, well, I appreciate the effort.
Heh, don't feel bad, I get about 30 positive karma a week and I haven't received mod points for a couple of years now. Guess I shouldn't have criticized Dice ...
When we spread to the stars, the only thing linking the offshoots of humanity will be history. We will see evolution, not preservation.
That ... doesn't even make sense. As long as the rocket exhaust is accelerated "backwards" in the rest frame of the fuel, there's been a net acceleration of the rocket, regardless of the rocket's speed in that frame. Sure, if in the rockets frame you stop the incoming fuel, then you'll need to accelerate it back to a speed faster than you're moving, but why do that?
"we need some time to find a way around your blocking so we can continue being shitty".
Well, sure, but not much time, and consider that products like the Java installer bundle this crap. This change is very broad, and doesn't just affect fly-by-night malware bundlers like Sourceforge.
I wonder when microsoft will get around to getting their vendors to stop accepting kickbacks for shitty adware on new systems.
Arguably, the Nokia acquisition is partly their way of addressing that. Now that MS will also sell hardware, you'll at least have one vendor who doesn't lard up the system with junk.
I know you! You're the guy who bought an adapter to charge his cell phone from the power available from a landline connector, just to rub it in, aren't you?
You're thinking too small. All these problems come from moving the ship away from a convenient star. If you're thinking big, just move the star, with a Shkadov thruster. But my "revolution in physics needed" point remains.
There's no difference in my house. Where Win95 earned the hatred of geeks everywhere was for corporate office use, and it took MS forever in internet years to figure out the markets were so different - not until Win2000 did they have a sane OS for the business desktop.
But it's less of a problem than 100 years ago, and far less than 100 years before that.
I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen
BRB, bricking my $100k car ...
Thanks!
Yes, I sure did! Have a link by any chance? That would be awesometacular in awesome sauce, or some similar form of squee.
That's what made Tau Zero such a cool story (the faster you scoop fuel, the more power you have for your scoop/shield, and the more that everything looks like fuel).
All of which would be bugfuck insane from a security perspective, but after Bliz admitting their password are case insensitive, I'll believe anything.
Sure, that's only ~5 TWH/ton. By comparison, the US as a whole consumes on average about 1 TW. If you spent 100 years of that time boosting, you'd need about ~5 MW of power generation (including 100 years of fuel) per ton of spaceship. So we're back to "revolution in physics".
It's another sign that MS is changing their ways. I remain hopeful but skeptical, but this could be the dawn of a good era for MS-ville.
It almost has to be a deliberate backdoor for testing that someone forgot to take out. I can't imagine "Trim()ing as password. But then I couldn't have believed anyone would smash case on a password before I heard Blizzard did it. I guess there's nothing so stupid that we should rule it out.
They're the people who invented "press cancel to log in" for windows 95.
Which was fine. Win95 was intended as a single-user system with no local security. That login screen was for using network resources, and was irrelevant for local access.
And if you don't encrypt your drives, your modern OS is no more secure than Win95 to someone with physical access.
Hehe, they did more than outlive the universe. Awesome short novel.
You keep repeating "but they're wrong", exactly like the pro-life crowd. I don't care who's right, I care about the process of political debate. Perhaps you've heard the line "I don't agree with what he says, but I'll fight to the death for his right to say it".
Freedom of right-thinking speech is no freedom at all. If we support a culture of personally punishing people for their "wrong" political expression/advocacy, that's the road to no freedom at all.
Managed C++ is absolutely wonderful for one narrow purpose: to marshal between the managed and unmanaged worlds. The .NET marshaller blows goats, but writing your own shim to transfer between .NET and STL classes is easy, runs quite fast, and (unlike the marshaller), can actually be debugged.
I can't imagine using managed C++ for anything else though. Eesh.
The point of exploring the stars will never be to "reduce the surplus population". That's not likely to be a real problem in any case.
The point is to broaden humanity's knowledge, perspective, and diversity. To make us, collectively, more than we are now.
But the stars are out of reach without some revolutionary new understanding of physics. The energy budget for interstellar travel is insane, assuming we want to get somewhere within a generation. It's far beyond workable fusion power needed for a starship: either some sort of warp drive, or antimatter fuel and a rocket with near-light speed exhaust.
The nice thing is, relativity means you can travel ridiculously long distances in subjective time and with an energy budget not much worse than going 100 light years. Humanity on Earth, not to mention the Sun, may be long gone when you get there, but you can visit other galaxies if only you had a magical power source.
He "acted" by participating in the political process. If you don't value freedom of political expression (as the left increasingly doesn't), just be upfront about that.
But remember, the rule won't be "people can't argue for change that Kookus finds offensive", it will be "people can't argue for change that the Tyrant, May He Live Forever, finds offensive". You won't like where it ends.