I know what you mean... I mean, if we could bug the developers and get them to port Q3A and unreal tournament, maybe that could get the ball rolling. Well, maybe we should have them port Descent 3 too, just for the non-FPS crowd.
Oh, wait, you say they already did those? Well then something else must be holding them back.
Could be worse. I killed the ruler of hell with fireballs, of all things. He's immune to lightning and resistant (but not immune) to fire... go figure.
Ah, but energy and mass has to go somewhere. If we attempt to create a WIMP with a particle accelerator and have energy or mass unaccounted for in the result, it suggests that a WIMP was created. Of course, there are other low interaction particles as well. You'd have to make sure the quantity of mass and energy missing was the correct proportion to the mass and energy of a WIMP, and not just a bunch of neutrinos or something.
If I remember correctly, it's not so much needing matter for a 'Big Crunch' as for explaining galactic rotation. Galaxies rotate too fast for them to stick together based on visible mass alone.
There are other things that need dark matter to explain, too, I just can't remember what they are.
Well, then, why are you reading it? I don't like every single article I see on Slashdot, but I don't go and complain about them. I just skip over them and read something else./. is not made for you alone - judging by the comments, many others found this at least a little interesting (myself included) so it was somewhat relevant.
Everyone seems to think the entire issue is about whether or not we have the right to view pornography in a library. This has nothing to do with it. Very few think children(or even adults) should be viewing porn in a library. This is about information... and our access to it.
But the filters just stop porn, right?
No. The filters stop just about *anything* to do with sex. This includes statistics on teen pregnancy, sites suggesting abstinance, docs on safe sex, and even sites that use 'sex' to describe gender.
But that's not all. The filters block lots of things that have nothing to do with sex. Fact is, they're faulty. Sex sites slip through and normal sites get blocked, because these things use bots, and bots are a shotgun approach.
So, the next time you get blocked from any kind of sign-up because they want to know what sex you are, and the next time your high school paper on teen pregnancy is derailed, you know what to blame.
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If you think no good has came of the colonies (and later america) then get the hell off the internet, because we invented it (I would say designing and implementing ARPAnet counts as inventing the 'net.) And then we made it international. Maybe something like this could come from mars research? How can we know? Well maybe by spending the money to advance humanity instead of maintaining miserable quality of life for thousands of people and helping overpopulation along.
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Problems with this argument -
1. It is not the US government's responsibility to feed the starving people of other countries. The US government exists to protect the people of the US, which may or may not include feeding its own citizens. Responibility for the starving people of other countries lies with their governments or the people themselves.
2. We spend plenty trying to feed the poor in our own country, and frankly, if you starve in the US, you are an idiot. The money would be better spent on housing or education, if that.
3. Many scientific advances stem from the space program. The money spent will pay for itself in advanced technology if nothing else. Some of this advanced technology may be of use feeding the poor.
4. NASA's budget would be a drop in a bucket. 30 billion couldn't feed 1 billion people... not for any length of time. 30 billion dollars equals 3 per person... not counting distrobution costs (which would be massive) that's one good meal for everyone.
There's also the "This doesn't belong on Slashdot because it's not about Linux." faction, despite the fact that probably everyone else read and enjoyed it.
Assuming the process could be used on computer DVDs - Degrading DVD + DVD required to run = Nagware IIRC Nagware is software you have to pay for by number of uses or time used. Nagware has failed so far partly because it's difficult to enforce... But this would make it simple and easy. And who doesn't hate nagware? I hope I never see software that uses this technique. Although this would make great demo/beta versions.
I believe he was talking about the ocean subductive zone... that's totally different then the ocean. The ocean subductive zone is where the Earth's crust re-enters the mantle. There would be NO negative consequences for dumping stuff there, in fact, it would be as close as we could come to putting it back in it's original place. It would be kind of like throwing it into a volcano, except that it would go back into the crust instead of being spit back out at us. The problem with dumping stuff with it is two-fold, and PR has nothing to do with it. 1. It's very deep in the ocean and increadibly hard to get at. In fact, it would probably be easier to shoot it into the sun. 2. We might need the stuff someday. I could have sworn I read an article on a expirimental nuclear power plant that used waste from the normal ones.
Think... what do supermarkets have in them? Pharmicies. Usually owned by the chain. They could sell information on your medications to health insurance companies, causing them to deny coverage. Lawyers could subpoena them to release information. This could seriously affect court cases (especially in the case of anti-depressents.) The church could get a list of everyone on the pill. At least here in Wyoming, supermarkets have attacked liquor stores. Want your auto insurance revoked? Maybe if you drink frequently, you're too high of a risk... Do you want to risk it?
Why don't they let you take bots into quake? The same reason they don't let you drive cars in a marathon. The thing is, Quake is not a real world application, but a game. Letting someone use a bot in quake is like letting them take a machete into a boxing ring... it's just not right. On the other hand, I would like to see a mod or recompilation that lets you do this. It sounds like a good idea, but I don't want unwary players to be subjected to it.
It might be difficult to do a good D-A conversion, but you only have to do it once per film. It doesn't really matter if the converter costs $10 million or so, because there only needs to be one in existance. (unless you need to convert a lot, fast.)
Yeah, I still play it (using Zdoom.) Even though I have Quake 1 and 2, and Unreal tournament, Doom still has unique qualities and a level of fun equal to or greater than the new games. Plus, it's cheap and it will run on almost anything.
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I know what you mean... I mean, if we could bug the developers and get them to port Q3A and unreal tournament, maybe that could get the ball rolling. Well, maybe we should have them port Descent 3 too, just for the non-FPS crowd.
Oh, wait, you say they already did those? Well then something else must be holding them back.
Could be worse. I killed the ruler of hell with fireballs, of all things. He's immune to lightning and resistant (but not immune) to fire... go figure.
Ah, but energy and mass has to go somewhere. If we attempt to create a WIMP with a particle accelerator and have energy or mass unaccounted for in the result, it suggests that a WIMP was created. Of course, there are other low interaction particles as well. You'd have to make sure the quantity of mass and energy missing was the correct proportion to the mass and energy of a WIMP, and not just a bunch of neutrinos or something.
If I remember correctly, it's not so much needing matter for a 'Big Crunch' as for explaining galactic rotation. Galaxies rotate too fast for them to stick together based on visible mass alone.
There are other things that need dark matter to explain, too, I just can't remember what they are.
Well, then, why are you reading it? I don't like every single article I see on Slashdot, but I don't go and complain about them. I just skip over them and read something else. /. is not made for you alone - judging by the comments, many others found this at least a little interesting (myself included) so it was somewhat relevant.
Everyone seems to think the entire issue is about whether or not we have the right to view pornography in a library. This has nothing to do with it. Very few think children(or even adults) should be viewing porn in a library. This is about information... and our access to it.
But the filters just stop porn, right?
No. The filters stop just about *anything* to do with sex. This includes statistics on teen pregnancy, sites suggesting abstinance, docs on safe sex, and even sites that use 'sex' to describe gender.
But that's not all. The filters block lots of things that have nothing to do with sex. Fact is, they're faulty. Sex sites slip through and normal sites get blocked, because these things use bots, and bots are a shotgun approach.
So, the next time you get blocked from any kind of sign-up because they want to know what sex you are, and the next time your high school paper on teen pregnancy is derailed, you know what to blame.
If you think no good has came of the colonies (and later america) then get the hell off the internet, because we invented it (I would say designing and implementing ARPAnet counts as inventing the 'net.) And then we made it international. Maybe something like this could come from mars research? How can we know? Well maybe by spending the money to advance humanity instead of maintaining miserable quality of life for thousands of people and helping overpopulation along.
Problems with this argument -
1. It is not the US government's responsibility to feed the starving people of other countries. The US government exists to protect the people of the US, which may or may not include feeding its own citizens. Responibility for the starving people of other countries lies with their governments or the people themselves.
2. We spend plenty trying to feed the poor in our own country, and frankly, if you starve in the US, you are an idiot. The money would be better spent on housing or education, if that.
3. Many scientific advances stem from the space program. The money spent will pay for itself in advanced technology if nothing else. Some of this advanced technology may be of use feeding the poor.
4. NASA's budget would be a drop in a bucket. 30 billion couldn't feed 1 billion people... not for any length of time. 30 billion dollars equals 3 per person... not counting distrobution costs (which would be massive) that's one good meal for everyone.
There's also the "This doesn't belong on Slashdot because it's not about Linux." faction, despite the fact that probably everyone else read and enjoyed it.
Probably there is just some religious guy watching them scroll by, and nothing is stored locally. Of course, they could be intercepted en route...
1600x1200? You could probably do that with a overclocked Athlon and a voodoo 5. If you even needed that.
Maybe, but there is no way you'd ever get 4 or 5 years in jail for it. Maybe a year probation if you trashed the lock.
Assuming the process could be used on computer DVDs - Degrading DVD + DVD required to run = Nagware IIRC Nagware is software you have to pay for by number of uses or time used. Nagware has failed so far partly because it's difficult to enforce... But this would make it simple and easy. And who doesn't hate nagware? I hope I never see software that uses this technique. Although this would make great demo/beta versions.
I believe he was talking about the ocean subductive zone... that's totally different then the ocean. The ocean subductive zone is where the Earth's crust re-enters the mantle. There would be NO negative consequences for dumping stuff there, in fact, it would be as close as we could come to putting it back in it's original place. It would be kind of like throwing it into a volcano, except that it would go back into the crust instead of being spit back out at us. The problem with dumping stuff with it is two-fold, and PR has nothing to do with it. 1. It's very deep in the ocean and increadibly hard to get at. In fact, it would probably be easier to shoot it into the sun. 2. We might need the stuff someday. I could have sworn I read an article on a expirimental nuclear power plant that used waste from the normal ones.
Think... what do supermarkets have in them? Pharmicies. Usually owned by the chain. They could sell information on your medications to health insurance companies, causing them to deny coverage. Lawyers could subpoena them to release information. This could seriously affect court cases (especially in the case of anti-depressents.) The church could get a list of everyone on the pill. At least here in Wyoming, supermarkets have attacked liquor stores. Want your auto insurance revoked? Maybe if you drink frequently, you're too high of a risk... Do you want to risk it?
Emulating DVD code to use a DVD you buy is like picking a lock that you own (which is completely legal, of course.)
Why don't they let you take bots into quake? The same reason they don't let you drive cars in a marathon. The thing is, Quake is not a real world application, but a game. Letting someone use a bot in quake is like letting them take a machete into a boxing ring... it's just not right. On the other hand, I would like to see a mod or recompilation that lets you do this. It sounds like a good idea, but I don't want unwary players to be subjected to it.
It might be difficult to do a good D-A conversion, but you only have to do it once per film. It doesn't really matter if the converter costs $10 million or so, because there only needs to be one in existance. (unless you need to convert a lot, fast.)
Yeah, I still play it (using Zdoom.) Even though I have Quake 1 and 2, and Unreal tournament, Doom still has unique qualities and a level of fun equal to or greater than the new games. Plus, it's cheap and it will run on almost anything.