Oh, then it would be useful if they made it an offroader, capable of flying, landing on water, and driving on all terrain on land. Land anywhere, even in the middle of the jungle, and still be able to go anywhere!
Please forgive my ignorance, I'm not an iPhone user, but why does a comic have to be an iPhone app that can be rejected? Can the iPhone visit any webpage? Why not just make the comic a webpage?
Ok, first of all, it's not a light bulb, it's LEDs. Secondly, it's not the first, solar powered light has existed for decades! Third, I hope they didn't get a patent for the idea of combining solar cells with LEDs.
I once read a bit about black holes, and one of the things I read was: a black hole doesn't necessarily have to be very dense. It can also be sparse (and the larger, the sparser it can be). For example, if you'd take a lot of stars and planets, and put them together (but not too close together), then at one point if you make this large enough, it'll also be a black hole: there appears an event horizon around all this matter. But inside of it are still stars with gaps between them, maybe some planets orbiting around them,... So now I wonder, if the above is true: can someone live inside that? Would there be any noticeable difference between being inside of that, and the other side (the outside) of this event horizon?
I can see that integrated graphics in a CPU can be handy for some applications, like low-power mobile stuff and such.
But for a desktop PC, isn't this a disadvantage? If you're using a proper graphics card, couldn't that space in the CPU be used for better things than a redundant graphics circuit?
The position and distance between the two camera checkpoints on Earth is known. And the time when you're at both checkpoints is known. Seems like a simple calculation to me. Why is there a satellite needed for this?
If it were a camera on the satellite that recognizes the plates, now that would have been scary!
It's not a computer because it's not Turing complete. And the reason it's not Turing complete, is that it can't run any program. And the reason it can't run any program is the app store moderation.
It has a lot of properties from a Turing machine, but the tape is bounded by people accepting and rejecting certain patterns.
I fail to see why this is a problem. Can't he put his cartoons online somewhere? The world isn't made out of iPhones, and there exist general purpose computers for running programs...
There's a limit to how much calculations can be done in a given amount of space in a given time, and when taking up more space, lightspeed hinders communication for fast calculations.
So the singularity you describe cannot happen:)
The technological singularity I meant, is the one where machines become smarter than humans, so that not humans, but machines, decide the rest of the technological course.
I'd think all these intelligent races would end up with a technological singularity. And maybe the super-intelligent artificial entities that result out of that, have reasons to cloak themselves...
-they work in Linux -they're free (granted, some aren't) -there are MANY of them and some are really really good (the gemcraft zero series for example) -despite lesser graphics, you get an as fun gameplay experience as many modern 100-million costing games -some are addicting, with features like earning medals, upgrades, etc... -they load fast -you can play them while doing other things (waiting for a compile,...), because it's simply something in a browser, not somthing that takes over your entire PC
Playing Flash games from NG or other sites on any phone would be soooo nice. The only problem would be the controls. Flash games are usually made for mouse and specific keyboard keys and I can't imagine playing them in an efficient way on a small touch screen without keyboard shortcuts.
If these big publishers leave the PC market, I don't think much of value is lost. There still is a market for proper shooters and RTS games for PC, so good such games without exaggerated DRM will still appear anyway. Also, games cost more than 100 times as much money to develop than 15 years ago. And yet I don't find them 100 times as fun as the games from 15 years ago. On the contrary, often.
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Oh, then it would be useful if they made it an offroader, capable of flying, landing on water, and driving on all terrain on land. Land anywhere, even in the middle of the jungle, and still be able to go anywhere!
Please forgive my ignorance, I'm not an iPhone user, but why does a comic have to be an iPhone app that can be rejected? Can the iPhone visit any webpage? Why not just make the comic a webpage?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Belgian one is more complex!
Ok, first of all, it's not a light bulb, it's LEDs. Secondly, it's not the first, solar powered light has existed for decades! Third, I hope they didn't get a patent for the idea of combining solar cells with LEDs.
So it PAPER cuts itself.
I once read a bit about black holes, and one of the things I read was: a black hole doesn't necessarily have to be very dense. It can also be sparse (and the larger, the sparser it can be). For example, if you'd take a lot of stars and planets, and put them together (but not too close together), then at one point if you make this large enough, it'll also be a black hole: there appears an event horizon around all this matter. But inside of it are still stars with gaps between them, maybe some planets orbiting around them, ... So now I wonder, if the above is true: can someone live inside that? Would there be any noticeable difference between being inside of that, and the other side (the outside) of this event horizon?
Apparently it's so hard to use that they can't even reproduce it at Apple.
And it seems this movie will contain a lot more dialog than the first FLOSS movie (where the only conversation was: "emo." "EMO!" "emo?").
You could always bring in some real cards to play solitaire. Or play heads-up poker with the copilot :)
Nah, just kidding, really.
I can see that integrated graphics in a CPU can be handy for some applications, like low-power mobile stuff and such.
But for a desktop PC, isn't this a disadvantage? If you're using a proper graphics card, couldn't that space in the CPU be used for better things than a redundant graphics circuit?
The position and distance between the two camera checkpoints on Earth is known. And the time when you're at both checkpoints is known. Seems like a simple calculation to me. Why is there a satellite needed for this?
If it were a camera on the satellite that recognizes the plates, now that would have been scary!
It's not a computer because it's not Turing complete. And the reason it's not Turing complete, is that it can't run any program. And the reason it can't run any program is the app store moderation.
It has a lot of properties from a Turing machine, but the tape is bounded by people accepting and rejecting certain patterns.
No, the difference is that this time it's for real!
An iPad can multitask more, it can do 3 tasks at once: you can put a beer glass, the bottle and some food on it at the same time!
I fail to see why this is a problem. Can't he put his cartoons online somewhere? The world isn't made out of iPhones, and there exist general purpose computers for running programs...
There's a limit to how much calculations can be done in a given amount of space in a given time, and when taking up more space, lightspeed hinders communication for fast calculations.
So the singularity you describe cannot happen :)
The technological singularity I meant, is the one where machines become smarter than humans, so that not humans, but machines, decide the rest of the technological course.
I'd think all these intelligent races would end up with a technological singularity. And maybe the super-intelligent artificial entities that result out of that, have reasons to cloak themselves...
That is if you aren't a Newgrounds user.
Why I play Flash games:
-they work in Linux ...), because it's simply something in a browser, not somthing that takes over your entire PC
-they're free (granted, some aren't)
-there are MANY of them and some are really really good (the gemcraft zero series for example)
-despite lesser graphics, you get an as fun gameplay experience as many modern 100-million costing games
-some are addicting, with features like earning medals, upgrades, etc...
-they load fast
-you can play them while doing other things (waiting for a compile,
Playing Flash games from NG or other sites on any phone would be soooo nice. The only problem would be the controls. Flash games are usually made for mouse and specific keyboard keys and I can't imagine playing them in an efficient way on a small touch screen without keyboard shortcuts.
If these big publishers leave the PC market, I don't think much of value is lost. There still is a market for proper shooters and RTS games for PC, so good such games without exaggerated DRM will still appear anyway. Also, games cost more than 100 times as much money to develop than 15 years ago. And yet I don't find them 100 times as fun as the games from 15 years ago. On the contrary, often.
On a second look... I like the nerdiness of these movies! Nice!
Dude this wasn't funny, I don't like moving images in my browser at work, and now I can't even load /. without them!
No look, the article is clearly from March 30.
Do you really expect them to announce including Silverlight too? Why?
Youtube can switch. But newgrounds is flash! I love newgrounds, and the flash games on it. HTML will never replace that.
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