Essentially ruining somebody's life? Tough shit. She just *killed* somebody. Maybe it was just bad luck. I dunno. That's what courts are for. Unless she gets convicted, nobody's going to ruin her life.
Yeah, but it means that my crappy netbook with Intel graphics can drive some of the best monitors on the market. No more monitor jealousy, as everyone is brought down to the same level..
except for 27 inch iMac users, who get 2560 x 1440.
You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Reminds me of people who spoke for prohibition, and before that, for abstaining from sex.
Former got essentially swallowed up by reality, latter got caught abusing young boys. Neither is "life-threatening to go without". Which goes to show that "well, just go without!" argument has some rather serious flaws.
It's not a question of whether it's right or wrong, so much as whether or not it's inevitable.
Hacker is a shibboleth, like spelling perl in lower case (as opposed to PERL). It lets people know that you are hip to the lingo of hackers.
I'm not sure what blackhats use.
Anyway, there's a subsection on wikipedia specifically on computer related shibboleths [1], and "hacker definition controversy" gets its own bloody article [2].
I'm pretty sure everyone on Slashdot knows, and they just leave it in there to generate meaningless discussions. That's half the point of slashdot.
Debian fans don't really care. They want a nice, predictable, stable server. This goal is antagonistic to having an exciting new dev box, which is what Ubuntu is for.
Good point - downloaders are often teenagers who can't and won't pay for anything. As long as a few are still buying, then it's free advertising, right? And they'll buy the merchandise as well - ask George Lucas how that can work out.
But the US "entertainment" industry isn't interested in free advertising. The US entertainment industry doens't care if the artists make money. They want to control the whole channel - advertising, promotions, dodgey deals with reviewers, blocking distibuters who sell independent lables.
In a world where the artists can connect with fans more efficiently, the middlemen get cut out.
I see a flaw in their plan: ultra mobile devices ought to fit in your pockets.
just sayin'.
Rumour has it, there's an unnamed Japanese consumer electronics giant who has absolutely no idea what their strategy is. It seems they want all their platforms to "converge", but no business unit will give an inch in case another business unit starts to cannibalize their sales.
Also, until Windows gets resolution independent graphics, 1920 X 1080 is about as high as you want to get for a 22 inch monitor. Any higher, and I won't be able to see the graphics. Retina has 326 dpi to have the same resolution of a normal eye at 12 inches. At twice the viewing distance, you would need just 1/4 the resolution - 81.5 dpi. Any more, and you are paying good money just to make your icons smaller.
Besides, my Intel graphics can't render much more.
Dataming suggests that casting well-known actors has only a nominal impact on ticket sales. The script is much more important. But the people who throw the best parties (i.e. the ones with famous actors invited) will only invite producers and directors who cast big-name actors.
Harrison Ford was made a star by Star Wars. He wasn't famous before the movie. Nor were his co-stars.
I can't even recall any of the main stars of Avatar.
Johnny Depp has always had a few fans, but his name didn't sell until after Pirates. Same with Rush - respected actor but hardly a guy who pulls in the masses.
Lord of the Rings some really big-name characters, but mostly in smaller parts.
Professional films are *not* perfect every take. Unless they happen to be blowing up a set (or doing some other expensive effect) they will just shoot over and over and over.
Also, keep in mind that computer animation can let you shoot a scene in a blue room then animate the set. Sets are a big cost in Hollywood productions. A blue room can also have better fittings for cameras and lights, which saves a lot of money.
OK, blue rooms are kinda unimspiring, but it also lets you do otherwise impossible things.
I'm sure it's nothing like this. Websites already pay (somebody) for bandwidth. This just changes the pricing structure. Offering a tiered approach will enable providers to offer lower fees to standard websites, and better service to the sites that need it.
Assuming they actually offer lower fees, and better services, and don't just use the added confusion as an excuse to overcharge and underdeliver. Fucking confusopoplies.
Most RPG games don't allow a lot of choice. If they do, it's usually a choice between such varied fates as "Evil half-daemon wizard saves the world", "Noble barbarian warrior saves the world", and "Silver tounged theif saves the world". Oh, and you can choose to do a few side quests, some of which are unfortunately mutually exclusive.
Sometimes there's also an option to destroy the world instead, at the last possible minute, if you happen to have the right evilness rating.
If the program hasn't been maintained or updated in 10 years, wouldn't it be classified as Abandonware (much as old PC games get classified by those who want to share them?)
Like Windows 95, which has had no support since December, 2001, and no updates for 13 years?
I'm a bit of a Mac fanboy, and I do like the Core2Duo / nVidia combo, but C2D is now two generations behind. OK, IGP is roughly two generations behind nVidia, but it's harder to compare.
The only ray of hope is Intel's new mini SSD HDD - which might leave some room for discrete GPU.
Citation needed. I guess that polyglots are likely to be a bit smarter, but correlation != causation.
I'm also not so sure that all the "precious snowflake" languages in the world need to be preserved. No linguist will ever say it, but it is really quite useful for people to speak (and write) a common language. Local languages are great for holding communities together, but they are also great at keeping people from poor regions (or social strata) from getting opportunities elsewhere.
You can go to far (banning Basque may have caused a lot of problems, though those problems may also have been the result of systematic discrimination against the Basque people - not just forcing them to learn Spanish), but it's misleading to pretend that diversity is always an unambiguously good thing.
I guess a lot of non-Chinese only hear Standard Mandarin and Cantonese. They then figure that all the Chinese dialects/languages are similarly diverse, which just isn't true. Most "local languages" are much closer to Standard Mandarin.
Besides, the distinctions between "Language", "Dialect", and "Language Family" are partly political. Scots could be considered a dialect of English, but don't try telling a Scotsman. There are plenty of examples of local dialects that don't get status as a full language, and plenty of examples of languages that are suspiciously similar to the language spoken in the next country.
If history was just a little different, "Texan" might be a language.
I'm surprised scientists get sucked into this stuff, its about as sensible as playing the lottery, and self-destructive to the viability of one's own profession.
Well, who else is going to pay a scientist to do public-good research?
The only difference is that the grant money comes after results, not before.
It would be good to have some information on what other teams are doing (or just who else is in the game), and a central clearing house where they can find less popular competitions, and maybe some analytics on the profitability of past attempts. But it's not all terrible. As long as people know the risks.
Or maybe EM accelerators act on the whole airframe, while catapults need to be hooked onto specific points, so there is essentially no internal stress with the "rail gun" (except for stress on non-magnetic parts, like the pilot).
Obviously, anything made of that much steel, and capable of being tugged where you want it, has a floor value as a substantial amount of quality scrap; but I have to wonder if it has much more than that. Given its age and poor condition, refitting it will be fairly expensive and require some expertise. It also presumably lacks any refinements made in carrier design in the past 20-30 years.
Unlike, say, low end armored vehicles, for which there is always demand because even tinpot dictators have even more tinpot rebels to crush with them, aircraft carriers are sort of a "superpower or nothing" weapon. Unless you have the cash to maintain one, the air force to be worth projecting into blue water, and the support/defense/meat-shield carrier group ships to protect the thing, it is nearly useless to you. I would assume, therefore, that your standard "diamond/oil/cocaine/etc. kingpin who buys weapons because his country is a shithole with no internal industry" is basically off the table, unlike the case of some APCs or crates of RPGs or such. On the other hand, even if the ship is actually a good deal for some developing wannabe power, enough military procurement decisions are made as pork/spoils/makework deals that support for just buying the thing, rather than having some native shipyard build one, would seem doubtful, unless a country simply has no such capabilities.
Can anyone think of a buyer, without invoking Snow Crash?
I can think of a few Russian billionaires. And the CEO of a company known for its database software.
Well it certainly worked that way with the oil and diamonds.
Resources can increase or decrease stability. If the resources are easily exploited without a stable community then local warlords are able to profitably loot the country (which funds more guns and strife). If the resources need stability, then warlords won't be able to exploit them.
There's a range of factors - infrastructure, energy, labor, water, and time requirements.
Diamonds are a terrible resource, as they just require a few miners (who can be flown in from another country), and some digging machines. Oh, and a few mercenaries to guard the mine. And smugglers to move it out. And drugs to pay the smugglers. Yep, it's a healthy ecosystem.
Oil is a bit better, as you also need pipes to transport it. You either need a happy, peaceful population (who won't attack the pipes), or brutal security forces. So oil can go either way.
Stationary energy is the best. Look at China, which makes cheap coal, which it uses to create cheap energy, which it uses (along with cheap labor) to create cheap manufacturing... and all this requires a functioning state. Of course, there's emission issues, but solar should solve this.
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Essentially ruining somebody's life? Tough shit. She just *killed* somebody. Maybe it was just bad luck. I dunno. That's what courts are for. Unless she gets convicted, nobody's going to ruin her life.
Yeah, but it means that my crappy netbook with Intel graphics can drive some of the best monitors on the market. No more monitor jealousy, as everyone is brought down to the same level ..
except for 27 inch iMac users, who get 2560 x 1440.
You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Reminds me of people who spoke for prohibition, and before that, for abstaining from sex.
Former got essentially swallowed up by reality, latter got caught abusing young boys. Neither is "life-threatening to go without". Which goes to show that "well, just go without!" argument has some rather serious flaws.
It's not a question of whether it's right or wrong, so much as whether or not it's inevitable.
Hacker is a shibboleth, like spelling perl in lower case (as opposed to PERL). It lets people know that you are hip to the lingo of hackers.
I'm not sure what blackhats use.
Anyway, there's a subsection on wikipedia specifically on computer related shibboleths [1], and "hacker definition controversy" gets its own bloody article [2].
I'm pretty sure everyone on Slashdot knows, and they just leave it in there to generate meaningless discussions. That's half the point of slashdot.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shibboleths#Shibboleths_in_computer_security
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_definition_controversy
Debian fans don't really care. They want a nice, predictable, stable server. This goal is antagonistic to having an exciting new dev box, which is what Ubuntu is for.
Good point - downloaders are often teenagers who can't and won't pay for anything. As long as a few are still buying, then it's free advertising, right? And they'll buy the merchandise as well - ask George Lucas how that can work out.
But the US "entertainment" industry isn't interested in free advertising. The US entertainment industry doens't care if the artists make money. They want to control the whole channel - advertising, promotions, dodgey deals with reviewers, blocking distibuters who sell independent lables.
In a world where the artists can connect with fans more efficiently, the middlemen get cut out.
Guess who's raising the biggest fuss?
Cold feet, perhaps? What percent of them would be unable to actually pull the switch?
Answer: the people behind you on the freeway have 10 seconds to break, and about 30 seconds to swear their heads off as they overtake you.
It's also kinda ironic that despite them belonging to "Anonymous", all of them just happen to be boys aged 15-25.
I see a flaw in their plan:
ultra mobile devices ought to fit in your pockets.
just sayin'.
Rumour has it, there's an unnamed Japanese consumer electronics giant who has absolutely no idea what their strategy is. It seems they want all their platforms to "converge", but no business unit will give an inch in case another business unit starts to cannibalize their sales.
Microsoft has had their best people check on it.
Shouldn't their best people be fixing bugs in Windows, cureing cancer, inventing a Windows phone that people will want to use, or something?
Also, until Windows gets resolution independent graphics, 1920 X 1080 is about as high as you want to get for a 22 inch monitor. Any higher, and I won't be able to see the graphics. Retina has 326 dpi to have the same resolution of a normal eye at 12 inches. At twice the viewing distance, you would need just 1/4 the resolution - 81.5 dpi. Any more, and you are paying good money just to make your icons smaller.
Besides, my Intel graphics can't render much more.
Dataming suggests that casting well-known actors has only a nominal impact on ticket sales. The script is much more important. But the people who throw the best parties (i.e. the ones with famous actors invited) will only invite producers and directors who cast big-name actors.
Harrison Ford was made a star by Star Wars. He wasn't famous before the movie. Nor were his co-stars.
I can't even recall any of the main stars of Avatar.
Johnny Depp has always had a few fans, but his name didn't sell until after Pirates. Same with Rush - respected actor but hardly a guy who pulls in the masses.
Lord of the Rings some really big-name characters, but mostly in smaller parts.
Professional films are *not* perfect every take. Unless they happen to be blowing up a set (or doing some other expensive effect) they will just shoot over and over and over.
Also, keep in mind that computer animation can let you shoot a scene in a blue room then animate the set. Sets are a big cost in Hollywood productions. A blue room can also have better fittings for cameras and lights, which saves a lot of money.
OK, blue rooms are kinda unimspiring, but it also lets you do otherwise impossible things.
I'm sure it's nothing like this. Websites already pay (somebody) for bandwidth. This just changes the pricing structure. Offering a tiered approach will enable providers to offer lower fees to standard websites, and better service to the sites that need it.
Assuming they actually offer lower fees, and better services, and don't just use the added confusion as an excuse to overcharge and underdeliver. Fucking confusopoplies.
Most RPG games don't allow a lot of choice. If they do, it's usually a choice between such varied fates as "Evil half-daemon wizard saves the world", "Noble barbarian warrior saves the world", and "Silver tounged theif saves the world". Oh, and you can choose to do a few side quests, some of which are unfortunately mutually exclusive.
Sometimes there's also an option to destroy the world instead, at the last possible minute, if you happen to have the right evilness rating.
If the program hasn't been maintained or updated in 10 years, wouldn't it be classified as Abandonware (much as old PC games get classified by those who want to share them?)
Like Windows 95, which has had no support since December, 2001, and no updates for 13 years?
Can I fork that?
Double-blind tests suggest that free-range eggs taste the same as factory eggs.
But grass-fed beef tastes much better (IMO) than grain-fed.
I'm a bit of a Mac fanboy, and I do like the Core2Duo / nVidia combo, but C2D is now two generations behind. OK, IGP is roughly two generations behind nVidia, but it's harder to compare.
The only ray of hope is Intel's new mini SSD HDD - which might leave some room for discrete GPU.
Citation needed. I guess that polyglots are likely to be a bit smarter, but correlation != causation.
I'm also not so sure that all the "precious snowflake" languages in the world need to be preserved. No linguist will ever say it, but it is really quite useful for people to speak (and write) a common language. Local languages are great for holding communities together, but they are also great at keeping people from poor regions (or social strata) from getting opportunities elsewhere.
You can go to far (banning Basque may have caused a lot of problems, though those problems may also have been the result of systematic discrimination against the Basque people - not just forcing them to learn Spanish), but it's misleading to pretend that diversity is always an unambiguously good thing.
I guess a lot of non-Chinese only hear Standard Mandarin and Cantonese. They then figure that all the Chinese dialects/languages are similarly diverse, which just isn't true. Most "local languages" are much closer to Standard Mandarin.
Besides, the distinctions between "Language", "Dialect", and "Language Family" are partly political. Scots could be considered a dialect of English, but don't try telling a Scotsman. There are plenty of examples of local dialects that don't get status as a full language, and plenty of examples of languages that are suspiciously similar to the language spoken in the next country.
If history was just a little different, "Texan" might be a language.
I'm surprised scientists get sucked into this stuff, its about as sensible as playing the lottery, and self-destructive to the viability of one's own profession.
Well, who else is going to pay a scientist to do public-good research?
The only difference is that the grant money comes after results, not before.
It would be good to have some information on what other teams are doing (or just who else is in the game), and a central clearing house where they can find less popular competitions, and maybe some analytics on the profitability of past attempts. But it's not all terrible. As long as people know the risks.
Or maybe EM accelerators act on the whole airframe, while catapults need to be hooked onto specific points, so there is essentially no internal stress with the "rail gun" (except for stress on non-magnetic parts, like the pilot).
Obviously, anything made of that much steel, and capable of being tugged where you want it, has a floor value as a substantial amount of quality scrap; but I have to wonder if it has much more than that. Given its age and poor condition, refitting it will be fairly expensive and require some expertise. It also presumably lacks any refinements made in carrier design in the past 20-30 years.
Unlike, say, low end armored vehicles, for which there is always demand because even tinpot dictators have even more tinpot rebels to crush with them, aircraft carriers are sort of a "superpower or nothing" weapon. Unless you have the cash to maintain one, the air force to be worth projecting into blue water, and the support/defense/meat-shield carrier group ships to protect the thing, it is nearly useless to you. I would assume, therefore, that your standard "diamond/oil/cocaine/etc. kingpin who buys weapons because his country is a shithole with no internal industry" is basically off the table, unlike the case of some APCs or crates of RPGs or such. On the other hand, even if the ship is actually a good deal for some developing wannabe power, enough military procurement decisions are made as pork/spoils/makework deals that support for just buying the thing, rather than having some native shipyard build one, would seem doubtful, unless a country simply has no such capabilities.
Can anyone think of a buyer, without invoking Snow Crash?
I can think of a few Russian billionaires. And the CEO of a company known for its database software.
Well it certainly worked that way with the oil and diamonds.
Resources can increase or decrease stability. If the resources are easily exploited without a stable community then local warlords are able to profitably loot the country (which funds more guns and strife). If the resources need stability, then warlords won't be able to exploit them.
There's a range of factors - infrastructure, energy, labor, water, and time requirements.
Diamonds are a terrible resource, as they just require a few miners (who can be flown in from another country), and some digging machines. Oh, and a few mercenaries to guard the mine. And smugglers to move it out. And drugs to pay the smugglers. Yep, it's a healthy ecosystem.
Oil is a bit better, as you also need pipes to transport it. You either need a happy, peaceful population (who won't attack the pipes), or brutal security forces. So oil can go either way.
Stationary energy is the best. Look at China, which makes cheap coal, which it uses to create cheap energy, which it uses (along with cheap labor) to create cheap manufacturing ... and all this requires a functioning state. Of course, there's emission issues, but solar should solve this.
If only it would actually work ...