What society needs is a brainwave analyzer and a dream counter, so dreams can be taxed and lost productivity converted to money
No, it's much worse than that. While you are daydreaming you are not consuming entertainment. Daydreaming is worse than piracy, because pirates at least may work as advertisement, an honest consumer may end up buying the product he sees at his pirate friend's house.
Daydreaming should be outlawed, along with singing, whistling, or humming songs.
simply allowing users to stick with old versions of the service for a year after new changes launch would garner a lot of attention
Only problem is it would take a year for that to gather attention. Meanwhile you don't have those $100 million that could have been used to something immediately profitable. And you can bet Facebook wouldn't stand still, as soon as you implement something good they would copy it.
Maybe. I've only somewhat-recently found myself occasionally wanting more than 512MB on a graphics card; perhaps I am just insufficiently hardcore (I can live with that).
That said: If 512MB is adequate for my not-so-special wants and needs, and 2GB is "just too small" for some other folks' needs, then a target of 8GB seems to be rather near-sighted.
The most awesome upgrade I ever had was when I went from EGA to a Tseng SVGA card with 1 MB memory. The next awesomest was when I upgraded from a 4 MB card to a Riva TNT2 with 32 MB. Every time I upgrade my video card there's less shock and awe effect. I'm willing to bet that going from 2 GB to 8 GB would be barely perceptible to most people.
I think the top graphics cards today have gone over the local maximum point of realism. What I have been noticing a lot lately is the "uncanny valley" effect. The only upgrade I'd seriously consider today would be to absolute lifelike perfection, anything less isn't worthwhile.
Probably the next step in graphics cards will be real time ray tracing, I think that would be the next line of development that would justify an upgrade.
Other than its existence, not very much was revealed. Even the five photos there seem carefully posed. You see no work in progress, there aren't metal chips around the lathe, this is that never happens in an actual working shop.
Who is glad? who are you helping? are you helping yourself?
No, it is some person named "Glad I" who could help.
I'm pretty sure Glad I is dead by now, otherwise he would be known simply as "Glad". The reason they call him Glad I is to differentiate him from his successor, Glad II.
Your points are very relevant about the roll your own vs. use a framework debate, but Drupal is not the only framework available.
What I would like to see is a comparison between Drupal, Rails, and Django. The problem is finding a way to compare those three without falling immediately into a flame war.
Does this mean we should resurrect the old arguments comparing the cost of Apollo to the amount of money spent on makeup in the same period?
OK, if you want it, here it is: according to Wikipedia, the total cos of building, launching and operating the International Space Station for 30 years is US$160 billion, and the total turnover of the worldwide cosmetics industry was US$170 billion in 2006.
the original space race was only prompted by the U.S. realization that the USSR was WAY ahead of us in astronautics
That was the perception at the time, but it was probably not correct. There was the missile gap that turned out to be just a political ploy. Also, the US had plans to launch a satellite at least a year before the Soviets launched the first Sputnik, but president Eisenhower didn't approve it.
What they are doing is fraud. Sue them and use *AA scales to calculate compensatory damages. Assume each false-404 corresponds to one music download, charge the normal $75000 per song.
I've been working with SCADA and real-time control systems for 30+ years and I see one security hole cannot be plugged by any of the steps you mention.
Ultimately, data must be *analyzed*. Your telemetry files will have to be brought in some manner to an engineer's desktop for that. A system that has no way to transfer data to less secure networks is useless.
For me, the most secure control system would be a Linux system. In Linux, differently from closed-source OSes, you can configure exactly what's running. You can strip down the system to allow only the needed functions.
With Linux you can make the data transfer as unidirectional as possible, allowing downloads for analysis but uploads only in a very controlled manner for carefully vetted upgrades.
"I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet."
Then perhaps he will be so kind to tell me where can I find some OC-71 germanium transistors to repair my 1950s vintage radio. Or a 25Z5 rectifier vacuum tube for my 1940s radio.
His assertion is valid only for a sufficiently broad definition of "species of technology". There are still some types of vacuum tubes being made, but AFAIK, no mercury arc rectifiers, or even the common vacuum diode rectifier like the 25Z5 I mentioned above. There are still some germanium transistors, but not the alloy junction transistors like the OC-71.
Well, is there really anything worth it in the moon?
There's a low-gravity, no-atmosphere location from where it's possible to launch missions to anywhere in the solar system much cheaper than from the earth.
There's local supply of building materials, ample material for shielding against radiation, and things don't need to be so flimsy and fragile as something that's built in orbit.
Besides, there's the possibility of mining Helium 3, which has been assumed to be one of the possible means to obtain nuclear fusion power.
I can't see what would be the reason, either technical or financial, to go to Mars before building a permanent moon base.
Then perhaps Mata Hari was not a spy after all. The secret ink found in her room which was used as evidence against her could have been left by one of her lovers.
Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath â" steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.... Do not inhale fumes.
This recipe is terrible, and tastes like shit.
I knew it tasted bad, but had no idea that this is how shit tastes.
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The Apple names sound like powerful and respected WWII Nazi tanks.
Funny, I never heard of a Nazi "Macintosh" tank.
I think you mean "Gaping Goatse".
What society needs is a brainwave analyzer and a dream counter, so dreams can be taxed and lost productivity converted to money
No, it's much worse than that. While you are daydreaming you are not consuming entertainment. Daydreaming is worse than piracy, because pirates at least may work as advertisement, an honest consumer may end up buying the product he sees at his pirate friend's house.
Daydreaming should be outlawed, along with singing, whistling, or humming songs.
simply allowing users to stick with old versions of the service for a year after new changes launch would garner a lot of attention
Only problem is it would take a year for that to gather attention. Meanwhile you don't have those $100 million that could have been used to something immediately profitable. And you can bet Facebook wouldn't stand still, as soon as you implement something good they would copy it.
Maybe. I've only somewhat-recently found myself occasionally wanting more than 512MB on a graphics card; perhaps I am just insufficiently hardcore (I can live with that).
That said: If 512MB is adequate for my not-so-special wants and needs, and 2GB is "just too small" for some other folks' needs, then a target of 8GB seems to be rather near-sighted.
The most awesome upgrade I ever had was when I went from EGA to a Tseng SVGA card with 1 MB memory. The next awesomest was when I upgraded from a 4 MB card to a Riva TNT2 with 32 MB. Every time I upgrade my video card there's less shock and awe effect. I'm willing to bet that going from 2 GB to 8 GB would be barely perceptible to most people.
I think the top graphics cards today have gone over the local maximum point of realism. What I have been noticing a lot lately is the "uncanny valley" effect. The only upgrade I'd seriously consider today would be to absolute lifelike perfection, anything less isn't worthwhile.
Probably the next step in graphics cards will be real time ray tracing, I think that would be the next line of development that would justify an upgrade.
Other than its existence, not very much was revealed. Even the five photos there seem carefully posed. You see no work in progress, there aren't metal chips around the lathe, this is that never happens in an actual working shop.
Glad I isn't dead. He just abdicated.
I see. He abdicated to marry a divorced woman and became a duke.
You call that a sentence?
Who is glad? who are you helping? are you helping yourself?
No, it is some person named "Glad I" who could help.
I'm pretty sure Glad I is dead by now, otherwise he would be known simply as "Glad". The reason they call him Glad I is to differentiate him from his successor, Glad II.
Your points are very relevant about the roll your own vs. use a framework debate, but Drupal is not the only framework available.
What I would like to see is a comparison between Drupal, Rails, and Django. The problem is finding a way to compare those three without falling immediately into a flame war.
Does this mean we should resurrect the old arguments comparing the cost of Apollo to the amount of money spent on makeup in the same period?
OK, if you want it, here it is: according to Wikipedia, the total cos of building, launching and operating the International Space Station for 30 years is US$160 billion, and the total turnover of the worldwide cosmetics industry was US$170 billion in 2006.
the original space race was only prompted by the U.S. realization that the USSR was WAY ahead of us in astronautics
That was the perception at the time, but it was probably not correct. There was the missile gap that turned out to be just a political ploy. Also, the US had plans to launch a satellite at least a year before the Soviets launched the first Sputnik, but president Eisenhower didn't approve it.
China first launched an astronaut in orbit eight years ago.
Seven years after the US launched its first astronaut in orbit, they had sent people to the moon.
Perhaps its because no one has been there since 1960.
So, doing something no one has done since 1960 is now a record?
Wait, the Library of Congress is only one of the dimensions. The others are the Volkswagen Beetle and the Football Field.
"You can hire some giant squid to come over with a sledgehammer and just start bashing away on that glass sphere. And it won't hurt it."
That's correct. The glass sphere won't hurt a giant squid.
What they are doing is fraud. Sue them and use *AA scales to calculate compensatory damages. Assume each false-404 corresponds to one music download, charge the normal $75000 per song.
I've been working with SCADA and real-time control systems for 30+ years and I see one security hole cannot be plugged by any of the steps you mention.
Ultimately, data must be *analyzed*. Your telemetry files will have to be brought in some manner to an engineer's desktop for that. A system that has no way to transfer data to less secure networks is useless.
For me, the most secure control system would be a Linux system. In Linux, differently from closed-source OSes, you can configure exactly what's running. You can strip down the system to allow only the needed functions.
With Linux you can make the data transfer as unidirectional as possible, allowing downloads for analysis but uploads only in a very controlled manner for carefully vetted upgrades.
According to Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired:
"I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet."
Then perhaps he will be so kind to tell me where can I find some OC-71 germanium transistors to repair my 1950s vintage radio. Or a 25Z5 rectifier vacuum tube for my 1940s radio.
His assertion is valid only for a sufficiently broad definition of "species of technology". There are still some types of vacuum tubes being made, but AFAIK, no mercury arc rectifiers, or even the common vacuum diode rectifier like the 25Z5 I mentioned above. There are still some germanium transistors, but not the alloy junction transistors like the OC-71.
Well, is there really anything worth it in the moon?
There's a low-gravity, no-atmosphere location from where it's possible to launch missions to anywhere in the solar system much cheaper than from the earth.
There's local supply of building materials, ample material for shielding against radiation, and things don't need to be so flimsy and fragile as something that's built in orbit.
Besides, there's the possibility of mining Helium 3, which has been assumed to be one of the possible means to obtain nuclear fusion power.
I can't see what would be the reason, either technical or financial, to go to Mars before building a permanent moon base.
That one is too easy, I won't even try
Then perhaps Mata Hari was not a spy after all. The secret ink found in her room which was used as evidence against her could have been left by one of her lovers.
Putting a story about the unemployed on "Idle"...
Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath â" steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.... Do not inhale fumes.
This recipe is terrible, and tastes like shit.
I knew it tasted bad, but had no idea that this is how shit tastes.
That one I learned as a kid: either orange juice or sugar dissolved in water makes invisible ink. Heat the paper with a clothes iron to develop.
A right-triangle chart would contain the same information
Yes, but the problem is that the right-triangle chart is patented.