Stargate? I was playing both Beachhead and BeachheadII on my C64 way back in the '80s.
(Yes we all wore embarrassing clothes, yes it was a crap game, and yes we were happy with it at the time, you see Quake III wasn't open sourced yet. Come to think of it, John Carmack himself wasn't even out of beta in those days)
dissenting blogs - one of the last bastions of effective political change.
That's a bold claim. I'm not very familiar with Chinese politics. Can you give me an example of political change that is a direct effect of the existence of these dissenting blogs?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom speech and I seriously hope you're right, but without substantiation, that claim has about as much value as "*BSD is dying!"
Yup, it's badly formed English. So bad in fact that it has your brain racing, thinking "inspire the next WHAT???" So bad that you can't think of anything else. So bad that you have to post about in on an online forum.
It is a basic trick of Ericksonian hypnosis. Whether this case is just a lucky coincidence or a planned strategy doesn't matter anymore (although many copywriters are enamoured with neuroliguistic programming techniques). You and me and everyone else has "Hitachi: Inspire the next" burned in our brains. (On the bright side, it does stop that 'get perpendicular' song looping in your head.)
No. it's the square of the distance. Imagine a sphere with the sun at it's centre. The total amount of light from the sun passes through the surface of the sphere regardless of it's radius.
Now the surface of the sphere is a constant (4*pi) times the radius squared, while the total flux stays constant, which means that when you move twice as far from the centre, you have to divide the total amount of light by a surface that is 2^2 times as big, giving an inverse square law.
excerpt: The intensity of light radiating from a point source (energy per unit of area perpendicular to the source) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.
I'm serious. You really need to lighten up. Heart failure is not a pretty way to go.
You made a lot of points, that I don't feel the need to reply to, partly because they don't apply to me and partly because this thread is pointless. (Just try to find one post by me where I actually pointed out the existence of a dupe. I for one can't be bothered to check if I ever made one. If I did, it will be a very old post.)
But if you're so concerned about petty point scoring, then yes, I admit it: Your dick is bigger than mine. Happy now?
Ok. Now breathe deep, slowly step away from the computer and go outside. Now sit on a park bench and look at the passers by, repeating to yourself:"Equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha..."
And perhaps lay off the caffeine for a while. A silly website like this is not worth getting worked up about.
The magic number is roughly 43% , about the same as a cloudy day on earth. Human Martians may develop S.A.D, but it's not a major problem for colonization.
Mars is nearer than you think.
Here's a quick calculation to support my statement: Mars is 1.52 times farther from the sun than the earth. Light intensity falls off with the square of the distance (the sun is roughly a point source at these distances),so the local sun brightness is 1/(1.52^2) =0,4328 compared to Earth
Don't shoot the messenger. It's not only a dupe, but it's also old news. I'm not getting tired of the dupe gestapo. It shows that even if the paid editors can't be bothered to do the most rudimentary checks on a story, at least the audience is paying attention.
In my next post I will be defending the position of Grammar Nazis, and debate the following question with my alternate personality: "The GNAA. Evil trolls or persecuted minority?"
It's not the abuse that is the problem. If it were, extremists sites inciting the bombing of abortion clinics and the shooting of doctors (with details like their home address and pictures) would have triggered such a move long ago. (Here in Europe, we have 'animal rights' groups employing the same tactics ) Not to mention the number of militant racist sites on the web.
It's simply the government's desire to spy on it's citizens, and this is the one cause in which it actually has a chance to pass laws to that effect without causing too much of a protest.
Well, if they're doing nothing wrong, they've got nothing to hide, so they shouldn't be so sensitive about it.
Funny, that when citizens try to protect their secrets, they are branded as potential criminals and terrorists, but when governments are doing the same, they shamelessly play the terrorism card (+5 paranoia) and get away with it.
Why not call him the Grand Potus? That would be a cool name for a leader.
"Oh Grand Potus, we bring glorious news from the east!" That sounds absolutely great!
I will call myself Grand Potus when my plans for word domination succeed.(Did I type that last bit out loud? Oh well, now I have to kill you all. Nothing personal, you understand?)
in our society we consider that people can have intellectual, as well as physical property.
Please define "we". Just because an industry cartel with UN sanction has invented the legal fiction of "intellectual property" doesn't mean it is universally accepted as the right thing to do. A couple of centuries ago you could be hanged for grazing your cattle on the land of the king, and you were entitled to have slaves (although today they would probably be called "human property") attitudes change, and what is accepted as just one day isn't accepted a couple of years and a few martyrs later (think of universal suffrage for a more recent example)
investments are made based upon the notion that the investment, plus at least some small bit of profit, will be incurred at some point.
If music isn't profitable anymore, investors will invest in something else and society will not collapse. (See my comment about the slave trade above. The same arguments were made against abolition of slavery, giving up colonies etc,etc.)
and if sufficient music is stolen, then the parties involved could be put in a situation where creating and distributing music isn't worth it any more.
Copyright infringement isn't theft, but I'll let that slide for now. I don't really see a problem with the demise of the music industry. Music was made for at least 5000 years before the rise of the music industry, and there is no reason to assume that music won't be around 5000 years after it's demise.
How, once you have hidden every trace of an anonymous source's identity, and someone contacts you claiming to by the same anonymous source, how do prove (even to yourself) that they are or are not?
One solution:
Let the source supply a public key in the first message, and sign each subsequent message.
"innocent cvilians" is one of those handy key phrases, and the great thing is, all sides in every conflict use it in equal measure.
Innocent civilians were killed by bombs London, Innocent civilians were killed by helicopters in Palestine, an innocent Brazilian citizen was shot seven times in the head for not conforming to fashion trends, to protect the innocent civilians on the train, innocent civilians were shot at a US checkpoint near Baghdad.
Everytime you read it, you know instantly that you are dealing with propaganda, either original propaganda or mindlessly parroted propaganda. When you find yourself saying it, it is time to take a step back and look intently at your own views.
The only sensible alternative is that we no longer keep time based on celestial mechanics, and we abolish leap days/year, daylight savings and the 365 day year too. Those are annoying to programmers like myself too.
I know that the location of the sun* in the sky is irrelevant for most of the/. audience, but I've heard that 'day' and 'night' are still relevant concepts in parts of the world.
* the 'sun' is that awfully bright thing that hurts your eyes when you let in the pizza guy.
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Stargate? I was playing both Beachhead and BeachheadII on my C64 way back in the '80s.
(Yes we all wore embarrassing clothes, yes it was a crap game, and yes we were happy with it at the time, you see Quake III wasn't open sourced yet. Come to think of it, John Carmack himself wasn't even out of beta in those days)
dissenting blogs - one of the last bastions of effective political change.
That's a bold claim. I'm not very familiar with Chinese politics. Can you give me an example of political change that is a direct effect of the existence of these dissenting blogs?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom speech and I seriously hope you're right, but without substantiation, that claim has about as much value as "*BSD is dying!"
Since it has to go to outer space, Plan 9 seems like the obvious choice.
Yup, it's badly formed English. So bad in fact that it has your brain racing, thinking "inspire the next WHAT???" So bad that you can't think of anything else. So bad that you have to post about in on an online forum.
It is a basic trick of Ericksonian hypnosis.
Whether this case is just a lucky coincidence or a planned strategy doesn't matter anymore (although many copywriters are enamoured with neuroliguistic programming techniques). You and me and everyone else has "Hitachi: Inspire the next" burned in our brains. (On the bright side, it does stop that 'get perpendicular' song looping in your head.)
Welcome to the wonderful world of advertising.
No. it's the square of the distance. Imagine a sphere with the sun at it's centre. The total amount of light from the sun passes through the surface of the sphere regardless of it's radius.
Now the surface of the sphere is a constant (4*pi) times the radius squared, while the total flux stays constant, which means that when you move twice as far from the centre, you have to divide the total amount of light by a surface that is 2^2 times as big, giving an inverse square law.
If you still don't believe me, Wikipedia has a nice writeup with diagrams
excerpt: The intensity of light radiating from a point source (energy per unit of area perpendicular to the source) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.
I'm serious. You really need to lighten up. Heart failure is not a pretty way to go.
You made a lot of points, that I don't feel the need to reply to, partly because they don't apply to me and partly because this thread is pointless. (Just try to find one post by me where I actually pointed out the existence of a dupe. I for one can't be bothered to check if I ever made one. If I did, it will be a very old post.)
But if you're so concerned about petty point scoring, then yes, I admit it: Your dick is bigger than mine. Happy now?
Ok. Now breathe deep, slowly step away from the computer and go outside. Now sit on a park bench and look at the passers by, repeating to yourself:"Equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha..."
And perhaps lay off the caffeine for a while. A silly website like this is not worth getting worked up about.
The magic number is roughly 43% , about the same as a cloudy day on earth. Human Martians may develop S.A.D, but it's not a major problem for colonization.
,so the local sun brightness is 1/(1.52^2) =0,4328 compared to Earth
Mars is nearer than you think.
Here's a quick calculation to support my statement:
Mars is 1.52 times farther from the sun than the earth. Light intensity falls off with the square of the distance (the sun is roughly a point source at these distances)
Man I'm getting tired of the dupe gestapo.
Taco? Is that you?
Don't shoot the messenger. It's not only a dupe, but it's also old news. I'm not getting tired of the dupe gestapo. It shows that even if the paid editors can't be bothered to do the most rudimentary checks on a story, at least the audience is paying attention.
In my next post I will be defending the position of Grammar Nazis, and debate the following question with my alternate personality: "The GNAA. Evil trolls or persecuted minority?"
It's not the abuse that is the problem. If it were, extremists sites inciting the bombing of abortion clinics and the shooting of doctors (with details like their home address and pictures) would have triggered such a move long ago. (Here in Europe, we have 'animal rights' groups employing the same tactics ) Not to mention the number of militant racist sites on the web.
It's simply the government's desire to spy on it's citizens, and this is the one cause in which it actually has a chance to pass laws to that effect without causing too much of a protest.
Governments are going to just love that...
Well, if they're doing nothing wrong, they've got nothing to hide, so they shouldn't be so sensitive about it.
Funny, that when citizens try to protect their secrets, they are branded as potential criminals and terrorists, but when governments are doing the same, they shamelessly play the terrorism card (+5 paranoia) and get away with it.
That's just typical of the Slashdot audience. How can you forget the sacrifices Windows '95 made? It died for your sins. Sometimes three times a day.
...the quality of this season's Hollywood crop.
You made a typo in that last word.
Hydrogen doesn't grow on trees
That's right. On the other hand, wood does grow on trees.
If only someone would invent a fireplace that could use wood as a fuel...
Oh it is, but we're catching up fast.
Why not call him the Grand Potus? That would be a cool name for a leader.
"Oh Grand Potus, we bring glorious news from the east!" That sounds absolutely great!
I will call myself Grand Potus when my plans for word domination succeed.(Did I type that last bit out loud? Oh well, now I have to kill you all. Nothing personal, you understand?)
Ahh 3D entertainment.
In the '50s they tried it with red/green glasses, and it was no more than a novelty.
In the '70s they tried it with polarized glasses, and it was no more than a novelty but in full colour.
In the '90s they tried it both with VR helmets and shutter glasses and it was a passing fad with a migraine.
(Are you starting to notice a pattern?)
Now someone wants to try it again. Good luck to them, but don't hold your breath.
in our society we consider that people can have intellectual, as well as physical property.
Please define "we". Just because an industry cartel with UN sanction has invented the legal fiction of "intellectual property" doesn't mean it is universally accepted as the right thing to do. A couple of centuries ago you could be hanged for grazing your cattle on the land of the king, and you were entitled to have slaves (although today they would probably be called "human property") attitudes change, and what is accepted as just one day isn't accepted a couple of years and a few martyrs later (think of universal suffrage for a more recent example)
investments are made based upon the notion that the investment, plus at least some small bit of profit, will be incurred at some point.
If music isn't profitable anymore, investors will invest in something else and society will not collapse. (See my comment about the slave trade above. The same arguments were made against abolition of slavery, giving up colonies etc,etc.)
and if sufficient music is stolen, then the parties involved could be put in a situation where creating and distributing music isn't worth it any more.
Copyright infringement isn't theft, but I'll let that slide for now. I don't really see a problem with the demise of the music industry. Music was made for at least 5000 years before the rise of the music industry, and there is no reason to assume that music won't be around 5000 years after it's demise.
How, once you have hidden every trace of an anonymous source's identity, and someone contacts you claiming to by the same anonymous source, how do prove (even to yourself) that they are or are not?
One solution:
Let the source supply a public key in the first message, and sign each subsequent message.
pgp / gpg can be used for this purpose.
Man, next you'll be telling us that we stopped going to the moon because the aliens don't want us to be there.
"innocent cvilians" is one of those handy key phrases, and the great thing is, all sides in every conflict use it in equal measure.
Innocent civilians were killed by bombs London, Innocent civilians were killed by helicopters in Palestine, an innocent Brazilian citizen was shot seven times in the head for not conforming to fashion trends, to protect the innocent civilians on the train, innocent civilians were shot at a US checkpoint near Baghdad.
Everytime you read it, you know instantly that you are dealing with propaganda, either original propaganda or mindlessly parroted propaganda. When you find yourself saying it, it is time to take a step back and look intently at your own views.
Think of it as a mental spam filter.
what's even worse,there are no "???" and no "Profit" steps. This is surely doomed to failure.
The only sensible alternative is that we no longer keep time based on celestial mechanics, and we abolish leap days/year, daylight savings and the 365 day year too. Those are annoying to programmers like myself too.
/. audience, but I've heard that 'day' and 'night' are still relevant concepts in parts of the world.
I know that the location of the sun* in the sky is irrelevant for most of the
* the 'sun' is that awfully bright thing that hurts your eyes when you let in the pizza guy.
So why can't we just leave the US out of this?
What? Leave the US out when the poor Hansians have been living for decades under a brutal dictatorship?
Who's going to liberate all that oil, uh I mean all those poor Hansians?
I think it means that the reviewer has read too many press-releases.