That just illustrates the problem really. There are several package manager attempts, each made for different reasons and each widly incompatable with one another. Of the three you mentioned, Steam is one that I actually like, and Valve have released tools to allow other companies to use similar and compatabile technologies, but it isn't even anywhere near comprehensive just for games, let alone any other type of application. A package manager needs to be fairly universal to be useful. If Microsoft can set up one that lots of developers actually use it would be a very positive step for windows usability and security.
I may have missed the point of this, but it really looks to me like an attempt to give windows a package manager without ever having to admit that any other package managers were a good idea.
Assuming you get to become the registrar for domains using the new TLD, you're paying for an opportunity to sell domains. People will find lots of ways to make money from so many new domains, and ICANN see no sense in giving away moneymaking opportunities for free to whoever comes first.
Seconded. I get the feeling that a lot of the USians are getting sick of anti-americanism and (maybe not consciously) trying to find a way to fight back.
Back on topic, there are plenty of good ISPs here that just resell bandwidth packages. Most of them are small enough that the costs of adding extra hardware to keep track of bandwidth use would be a large fraction of their income and so they don't bother. I don't think there is a single large ISP that is worth giving your money to anymore, and even if the advertising standards agency fixed this, there would still be dozens of ways that they attempt to screw you over.
It has to be understood that not many people really care about the cameras here, apart from the traffic cameras which really irritate drivers. The reason is that it's quite difficult to find ways to abuse the power they give. So far the worst that has happened is that local councils have used them to prosecute people for not cleaning up dogshit after specifically promising that they wouldn't do that.
Most of the scariest stories, including this one, coming from the UK are proposed plans that the government would have to fight tooth and nail to actually implement. From what I've seen, most of the scary plans in the US actually happen.
As quantum encryption key trading is only currently used by large organisations, and seems likely to stay that way for a while, yes, that is the argument. I should perhaps say part of the argument. To state it differently, there is no likely situation at the moment for which the expense of quantum key exchanges couldn't be better used for increasing security elsewhere... because some moron is going to give away their password.
The average death rate for London is somewhere just under 150/day. On the day of the transport bombings, there were actually fewer deaths than usual even just for the inner city, because there were fewer people on the roads having accidents, fewer people out walking to get mugged, and lots of people thinking of committing suicide decided that that wasn't the best day for a cry for attention.
It consistently amazes me that anybody cares about such things, not because of the breach of security but because it implies that you otherwise trust what your game playing PC does. My gaming PC is XP SP1 with no antivirus or firewall, simply because I wouldn't trust the thing no matter what security software was on it. This is the machine that has all the little indie games run on it, executables and installers picked up from links on social sites and blogs. It's no risk at all because the only purpose of this computer is gaming. Everything even slightly valuable or private is done on the Ubuntu PC next to it. Even in the bad old days of having only one computer I used to dual boot to get the same effect. I don't understand how anybody who likes PC games can do things differently.
Debating abstract philosophical concepts is a very different matter to living your life by them. An omnipotent deity is impossible to prove or disprove, but so are many other ideas that most people dismiss immediately as silly, such as various types of solipsism. The greater the consequence of an action, the more evidence you should demand of the logic you are using to decide to do it.
I'm sympathetic to this kind of argument, and I do think that eventually it will be inevitable to treat religion as a sort of mental illness. Note "eventually" as in probably more than a hundred years from now maybe a lot more. You lost my support with calling for religion to be illegal though, nobody should ever be punished for being wrong.
On an only vaguely related point, one of the first uses of calculus was Newton attempting to determine a limit on the second coming of Christ based on population statistics. He calculated that it would have to be before the 3000s because it would be around then that christianity died out.
Too big to fit into our current spaceships is nowhere near unbelievable.
The range of unbelievable scale starts at 1000m. This idea could work for a rotating mirror that large, but not on the moon unless you're willing to lay rather a lot of maglev track to support the weight of the outer edges of the mirror, or to take a ludicrous amount of support structure to the moon.
Who said anything about the nature of dark matter? It is detectable in astronomy only by its gravity so the best we can say is that it has mass, doesn't emit light and interacts feebly at best by any force other than gravity. What I claim is that there's good evidence that there is unseen mass out there other than boring things like cold gas and brown dwarfs.
a link to one of the prettier pictures of mass distribution, and another link showing a collision between galaxy clusters in which most visible matter collided and slowed, but which gravitational lensing shows that most of the invisible mass of the galaxies continued on its path unaffected by the collision.
Don't worry, I'm sure the dark matter still likes you even if you do say such hurtful things.
More seriously, I used to hope that the evidence of gravity anomalies would be some recognisable pattern in the force itself rather than the matter distribution. ANything that threw a spanner in general relativity's works would give clues to a unified field theory. The evidence for invisible extra mass is pretty hard to argue with by now though, to the point where we can produce images of its distribution and work out how it got there.
There's no reason why they have to be let loose in the body. The only requirement is that tissue fluid be allowed to get in to provide sugars or ATP, so you can stick them in a cage lined with semipermeable membrane. The article hinted that they would be used this way.
I was hoping that this would be some form of practical followup work to an experiment that was attempted a few years back involving a camera and a grid of electrodes placed on the human back or tongue. A small computer which the test subjects had to carry around translated camera input into signals to the electrodes, and after a while the subjects reported that they had not only learned how to gain useful image information from the electrodes but genuinely visualised it, as though it were equal to input as from the eye, although lower resolution.
Bonus points go to anybody who can find a reference for this, because I can't be bothered.
A BEC happens when spin 0.5 fermions combine in pairs to form something vaguely like integer spin bosons. The number of effective particles halves, the mass doesn't.
Ah yes, I had forgotten that, there is a pretty hefty heat gradient allowing the helium to take heat energy from the surrounding environment. Still the point stands that there is a limited supply of energy available, it's never going to be a craterworthy explosion. I wouldn't want to be standing nearby if it did get a coolant rupture though... I have a mental image of the "I am invincible!" scene from goldeneye.
Helium isn't explosive, it's the most inert material you can get. If you want to make it explode it's going to have to be taking in energy from the magnetic field it is in, so the LHC's helium can never explode any more powerfully than a loss of superconductivity in the magnets would do anyway. Conservation of energy.
Are scientologists required by their beliefs to silence all criticism no matter what the cost is? My respect for Hubbard will increase a lot if they are... adding a self destruct commandment to his cult in case it ever got out of control.
I know of at least one person who uses it as their main desktop operating system, and yes, they do consider themselves to have magical powers. It's all a bit depressing.
This is one area where the antipiracy propoganda is absolutely correct. At the time of release, the pirate film in shaky-cam-o-vision can't compete in quality to the cinema showing. ,br>A noisy crowded cinema is just one more failing business idea, but cinema in general is not a broken model. The cinema near where I live has plenty of seats, the people are polite, even the food is reasonably priced. I am perfectly willing to pay to go there.
It is when piracy and DVDs compete that the legitimate offerings suffer because the way I see it, the only value that DVDs add to the transaction are ridiculous animated menus, unskippable ads, and the direct insult of making me pay extra just because I happen to live in region 2.
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That just illustrates the problem really. There are several package manager attempts, each made for different reasons and each widly incompatable with one another. Of the three you mentioned, Steam is one that I actually like, and Valve have released tools to allow other companies to use similar and compatabile technologies, but it isn't even anywhere near comprehensive just for games, let alone any other type of application. A package manager needs to be fairly universal to be useful. If Microsoft can set up one that lots of developers actually use it would be a very positive step for windows usability and security.
I may have missed the point of this, but it really looks to me like an attempt to give windows a package manager without ever having to admit that any other package managers were a good idea.
Assuming you get to become the registrar for domains using the new TLD, you're paying for an opportunity to sell domains. People will find lots of ways to make money from so many new domains, and ICANN see no sense in giving away moneymaking opportunities for free to whoever comes first.
Seconded. I get the feeling that a lot of the USians are getting sick of anti-americanism and (maybe not consciously) trying to find a way to fight back.
Back on topic, there are plenty of good ISPs here that just resell bandwidth packages. Most of them are small enough that the costs of adding extra hardware to keep track of bandwidth use would be a large fraction of their income and so they don't bother. I don't think there is a single large ISP that is worth giving your money to anymore, and even if the advertising standards agency fixed this, there would still be dozens of ways that they attempt to screw you over.
It has to be understood that not many people really care about the cameras here, apart from the traffic cameras which really irritate drivers. The reason is that it's quite difficult to find ways to abuse the power they give. So far the worst that has happened is that local councils have used them to prosecute people for not cleaning up dogshit after specifically promising that they wouldn't do that.
Most of the scariest stories, including this one, coming from the UK are proposed plans that the government would have to fight tooth and nail to actually implement. From what I've seen, most of the scary plans in the US actually happen.
As quantum encryption key trading is only currently used by large organisations, and seems likely to stay that way for a while, yes, that is the argument. I should perhaps say part of the argument. To state it differently, there is no likely situation at the moment for which the expense of quantum key exchanges couldn't be better used for increasing security elsewhere... because some moron is going to give away their password.
The average death rate for London is somewhere just under 150/day. On the day of the transport bombings, there were actually fewer deaths than usual even just for the inner city, because there were fewer people on the roads having accidents, fewer people out walking to get mugged, and lots of people thinking of committing suicide decided that that wasn't the best day for a cry for attention.
50 people just isn't significant.
It consistently amazes me that anybody cares about such things, not because of the breach of security but because it implies that you otherwise trust what your game playing PC does. My gaming PC is XP SP1 with no antivirus or firewall, simply because I wouldn't trust the thing no matter what security software was on it. This is the machine that has all the little indie games run on it, executables and installers picked up from links on social sites and blogs. It's no risk at all because the only purpose of this computer is gaming. Everything even slightly valuable or private is done on the Ubuntu PC next to it. Even in the bad old days of having only one computer I used to dual boot to get the same effect. I don't understand how anybody who likes PC games can do things differently.
Debating abstract philosophical concepts is a very different matter to living your life by them. An omnipotent deity is impossible to prove or disprove, but so are many other ideas that most people dismiss immediately as silly, such as various types of solipsism. The greater the consequence of an action, the more evidence you should demand of the logic you are using to decide to do it.
I'm sympathetic to this kind of argument, and I do think that eventually it will be inevitable to treat religion as a sort of mental illness. Note "eventually" as in probably more than a hundred years from now maybe a lot more. You lost my support with calling for religion to be illegal though, nobody should ever be punished for being wrong.
On an only vaguely related point, one of the first uses of calculus was Newton attempting to determine a limit on the second coming of Christ based on population statistics. He calculated that it would have to be before the 3000s because it would be around then that christianity died out.
Too big to fit into our current spaceships is nowhere near unbelievable.
The range of unbelievable scale starts at 1000m. This idea could work for a rotating mirror that large, but not on the moon unless you're willing to lay rather a lot of maglev track to support the weight of the outer edges of the mirror, or to take a ludicrous amount of support structure to the moon.
Who said anything about the nature of dark matter? It is detectable in astronomy only by its gravity so the best we can say is that it has mass, doesn't emit light and interacts feebly at best by any force other than gravity. What I claim is that there's good evidence that there is unseen mass out there other than boring things like cold gas and brown dwarfs.
a link to one of the prettier pictures of mass distribution, and another link showing a collision between galaxy clusters in which most visible matter collided and slowed, but which gravitational lensing shows that most of the invisible mass of the galaxies continued on its path unaffected by the collision.
Don't worry, I'm sure the dark matter still likes you even if you do say such hurtful things.
More seriously, I used to hope that the evidence of gravity anomalies would be some recognisable pattern in the force itself rather than the matter distribution. ANything that threw a spanner in general relativity's works would give clues to a unified field theory. The evidence for invisible extra mass is pretty hard to argue with by now though, to the point where we can produce images of its distribution and work out how it got there.
There's no reason why they have to be let loose in the body. The only requirement is that tissue fluid be allowed to get in to provide sugars or ATP, so you can stick them in a cage lined with semipermeable membrane. The article hinted that they would be used this way.
I was hoping that this would be some form of practical followup work to an experiment that was attempted a few years back involving a camera and a grid of electrodes placed on the human back or tongue. A small computer which the test subjects had to carry around translated camera input into signals to the electrodes, and after a while the subjects reported that they had not only learned how to gain useful image information from the electrodes but genuinely visualised it, as though it were equal to input as from the eye, although lower resolution.
Bonus points go to anybody who can find a reference for this, because I can't be bothered.
A BEC happens when spin 0.5 fermions combine in pairs to form something vaguely like integer spin bosons. The number of effective particles halves, the mass doesn't.
Ah yes, I had forgotten that, there is a pretty hefty heat gradient allowing the helium to take heat energy from the surrounding environment. Still the point stands that there is a limited supply of energy available, it's never going to be a craterworthy explosion. I wouldn't want to be standing nearby if it did get a coolant rupture though... I have a mental image of the "I am invincible!" scene from goldeneye.
Helium isn't explosive, it's the most inert material you can get. If you want to make it explode it's going to have to be taking in energy from the magnetic field it is in, so the LHC's helium can never explode any more powerfully than a loss of superconductivity in the magnets would do anyway. Conservation of energy.
also, lolwtfsig
Can we just tag this "yes" and move on?
If somebody's giving out ponies, can I have one in black? Preferably one that doesn't mind living in a second floor room.
Are scientologists required by their beliefs to silence all criticism no matter what the cost is? My respect for Hubbard will increase a lot if they are... adding a self destruct commandment to his cult in case it ever got out of control.
I know of at least one person who uses it as their main desktop operating system, and yes, they do consider themselves to have magical powers. It's all a bit depressing.
That's not the joke going over their head, that's ducking to avoid it.
This is one area where the antipiracy propoganda is absolutely correct. At the time of release, the pirate film in shaky-cam-o-vision can't compete in quality to the cinema showing.
,br>A noisy crowded cinema is just one more failing business idea, but cinema in general is not a broken model. The cinema near where I live has plenty of seats, the people are polite, even the food is reasonably priced. I am perfectly willing to pay to go there.
It is when piracy and DVDs compete that the legitimate offerings suffer because the way I see it, the only value that DVDs add to the transaction are ridiculous animated menus, unskippable ads, and the direct insult of making me pay extra just because I happen to live in region 2.