It's likely that you cannot exceed c. However, current theories do not preclude the existence of wormholes, or heck, the creation of them. A wormhole would technically allow travel between two points in space in a time much shorter than what would be required going at near c outside the wormhole, all while never going faster than c, by "folding" space so that the two points are effectively closer together.
That's just one way we know. It's also possible that other methods would work.
Incorrect. Things appear to be moving at a speed that is faster than light, but they are in fact moving at a speed below that of light, and it is space itself which is at the same time expanding, causing the effective distance between those objects and us to grow at a rate which exceeds the speed of light.
Perhaps, yes. Thing is, in order to find such exceptions, we need data that documents these. We can't just randomly start to modify existing theories to fit what we'd like to see and then find data that corroborates it. That's biased sampling and it's bad science.
If you have data that shows hyperspace travel is possible and that documents what happens in that case, be sure to show it.
And even so, theorists were very enthusiastic about trying to modify SR accomodate the superluminal neutrino results from 2011. Unfortunately those results turned out to be due to a loose cable.
Yep, and that's a very good thing indeed. It's when science becomes dogmatic that we should worry. Taking results in contradiction with models and attempting to modify the models so that the results fit is how science works. Sometimes you can make the models work, sometimes you need entirely new models, and sometimes it's something in between.
You do realize that this isn't about interactions with other players, right?
TOR is a very story-driven game, and thus this is all about NPCs having dialogue options which include romance options. Many such NPCs already have romance options, but up to now only heterosexual ones. What's been decided there is that apparently homosexual romance can only happen on this one planet, which is part of a paid-for expansion pack.
This isn't about other players doing unsolicited homosexual romancing. It's about the player having the ability to, if he/she so chooses, romance other characters of the same sex.
The difference is that bulimia is a mental disorder first and foremost. People go in cycles of bulimia and anorexia, they often aren't actually fat, and they'll usually have binges of eating before vomiting. On top of that, they'll rarely actually say anything to anyone.
I can't see this not being supervised by a doctor, considering the tubes going in your body and all that. It's not the kind of thing you can do in your kitchen. It'll come with restrictions attached and a strict diet, if anything, so that people can get the tubes removed as soon as possible.
Well hey, 1) The patent is novel. I mean, who the fuck would've thought of this before? 2) It's not obvious to one skilled in the arts. After all, it doesn't even work. 3) It protects everyone from others attempting to use the same "concept" to shaft people without a clue.
Overall, I'd say the patent examiners did their job just fine. A patent isn't guaranteed to work.
A local provider has a brand new offering, it's a bit crazy: 200mbit down, 30mbit up. The pricing is also mad (200/mo), but that's not the kicker: it's got a 200Gb cap down and 50Gb cap up. Yep, you can use up your download cap in a little over 2 hours provided you use your full allotted speed.
Even my more moderate 30mbit down with a 120Gb cap (combined, this time!) means I could use it all up in less than 10 hours downloading at full speed. Who in their right mind would try streaming movies with that kind of net? Sure, it'd play fine, but you'd be over your cap in no time!
Xi3 looks like a small corporation. They likely don't have the kind of economies of scale that Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo have. They also probably have fairly high margins to compensate for their low volume.
With Valve putting their weight behind it, however, I'd expect production to ramp up, hardware makers to be interested in partnerships, and margins to shrink. Heck, Valve could even sell it at a loss or bundle Steam gift cards to sweeten the deal.
Except he's right. Steam is not DRM. Steamworks is the DRM, and it's not mandatory.
You're missing the point: it's not Steam or Valve's fault if the games you buy use DRM. It's the publisher's decision. If the game wasn't on Steam, it'd have another form of (likely much more annoying/shitty) DRM. What Steam provides is fairly mild DRM (yes, I say mild, because honestly I prefer having an account that adds a lot of value to my games versus limited activation, phone home schemes, or plain and simply unreliable bullshit ala StarForce).
But Steam doesn't force anyone to use the DRM in their games.
No, the questions asked in most "ask Slashdot" questions related to this are about a means of preserving them for a long period of time. The problem's that this is not the good way around it.
Instead of attempting to find a CD that'll last 100 years or tapes that last 200 or engraved sapphires that last 1000, make your photo albums part of your living data. Keep them on your hard drive, properly backed up (preferably one on-site and one off-site) and just transfer them around as necessary. If one backup or the main copy is damaged or destroyed, restore it and keep going.
I have photos dating from ten years now which have just followed along with my data. I have an external HDD and use Crashplan for offsite backup. The 50 dollars a year are well worth the simplicity and peace of mind. All of them are stored in either common formats (JPG largely) or manufacturer-specific RAW image formats. Should the format become obsolete for whatever reason, I'd just convert the data while it's still possible to do so.
Looking at state news channels (CBC, BBC PBS to an extent, etc.) compared to private news channels (FOX, NBC, CNN, etc.), I think being state-owned is actually preferable...
It used to be tiny, but right now thanks to an explosion of indie games (the vast, vast majority of which have no DRM of any kind) on Steam, it's getting better.
There are also a few games which use their own DRM instead of Steam's, but that's a minority and usually from big publishers.
Not saying that a lot of games don't have DRM, but there are some that do not. It's also worth reiterating that Steamworks DRM is fairly tame in comparison to past DRM solutions, and Steamworks actually adds value for a lot of people through things such as cloud saves, fairly good matchmaking (certainly better than Gamespy or GFWL), achievements, friends, etc. I'd rather have all that without DRM, but I'll take what I can get.
No. Steam is a distribution system. Steamworks is a DRM, community and cloud integration API which is provided through Steam, but which is entirely optional. There's a fair number of games available on Steam that already do not use Steamworks DRM, or any sort of DRM.
I'm not sure what's implied here but AMD's got Windows 8 drivers for their HD2000 series, which was released in 2006. That's, I'd say, a fairly good legacy hardware support timespan.
Saying "Open source the server" is easy. Doing it is hard.
What if the server (and heck, the client too!) uses proprietary third party libraries? Chances are they won't be able to license those for free.
What if the code has some patent infringing code, whether knowingly or not? With the utter plethora of software patents, it's a minefield to release any commercial code.
What if, more simply, the code ties into a lot of their centralized libraries, such as user account data and such? Removing such connections could become a nightmare.
All of this deployment takes a lot of time and resources. It's something very few companies could do, and even fewer would see a purpose in doing. What, after all, is their gain in letting others run their own product while they see not a cent from it? A product which might, later down the line, compete with a new product of their own.
Plus, this is Zynga we're talking about. Pincus would screw his own grandmother if he had a chance.
If Steam shut down tomorrow (and assuming no transition was made available to backup games and get standalone installers), a whole lot of people would immediately turn to piracy.
(the example used was RMS's distaste for C++, not exactly a strong point against RMS)
That offhand remark was a rather obvious red flag. Regardless of what you think on the subject, your opinion has no place in what should be a neutral, objective summary relating facts. Sigh.
The problem is that usually, in such a scenario, the relative/friend then screws up and asks you to fix it. Not wanting to fix it, after you've shown that you are well capable of it, will end up causing issues for you with said person.
If you could wash your hands of the whole matter, it wouldn't be an issue, but I've just about never seen a situation where this is the case.
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It's likely that you cannot exceed c. However, current theories do not preclude the existence of wormholes, or heck, the creation of them. A wormhole would technically allow travel between two points in space in a time much shorter than what would be required going at near c outside the wormhole, all while never going faster than c, by "folding" space so that the two points are effectively closer together.
That's just one way we know. It's also possible that other methods would work.
Incorrect. Things appear to be moving at a speed that is faster than light, but they are in fact moving at a speed below that of light, and it is space itself which is at the same time expanding, causing the effective distance between those objects and us to grow at a rate which exceeds the speed of light.
They do not however travel at FTL speeds.
Perhaps, yes. Thing is, in order to find such exceptions, we need data that documents these. We can't just randomly start to modify existing theories to fit what we'd like to see and then find data that corroborates it. That's biased sampling and it's bad science.
If you have data that shows hyperspace travel is possible and that documents what happens in that case, be sure to show it.
And even so, theorists were very enthusiastic about trying to modify SR accomodate the superluminal neutrino results from 2011. Unfortunately those results turned out to be due to a loose cable.
Yep, and that's a very good thing indeed. It's when science becomes dogmatic that we should worry. Taking results in contradiction with models and attempting to modify the models so that the results fit is how science works. Sometimes you can make the models work, sometimes you need entirely new models, and sometimes it's something in between.
You do realize that this isn't about interactions with other players, right?
TOR is a very story-driven game, and thus this is all about NPCs having dialogue options which include romance options. Many such NPCs already have romance options, but up to now only heterosexual ones. What's been decided there is that apparently homosexual romance can only happen on this one planet, which is part of a paid-for expansion pack.
This isn't about other players doing unsolicited homosexual romancing. It's about the player having the ability to, if he/she so chooses, romance other characters of the same sex.
The difference is that bulimia is a mental disorder first and foremost. People go in cycles of bulimia and anorexia, they often aren't actually fat, and they'll usually have binges of eating before vomiting. On top of that, they'll rarely actually say anything to anyone.
I can't see this not being supervised by a doctor, considering the tubes going in your body and all that. It's not the kind of thing you can do in your kitchen. It'll come with restrictions attached and a strict diet, if anything, so that people can get the tubes removed as soon as possible.
And at author's death + 69 years, a new law is passed to extend copyright to author's death + 140 years.
Well hey,
1) The patent is novel. I mean, who the fuck would've thought of this before?
2) It's not obvious to one skilled in the arts. After all, it doesn't even work.
3) It protects everyone from others attempting to use the same "concept" to shaft people without a clue.
Overall, I'd say the patent examiners did their job just fine. A patent isn't guaranteed to work.
Speed isn't the worst of it. Caps are.
A local provider has a brand new offering, it's a bit crazy: 200mbit down, 30mbit up. The pricing is also mad (200/mo), but that's not the kicker: it's got a 200Gb cap down and 50Gb cap up. Yep, you can use up your download cap in a little over 2 hours provided you use your full allotted speed.
Even my more moderate 30mbit down with a 120Gb cap (combined, this time!) means I could use it all up in less than 10 hours downloading at full speed. Who in their right mind would try streaming movies with that kind of net? Sure, it'd play fine, but you'd be over your cap in no time!
Xi3 looks like a small corporation. They likely don't have the kind of economies of scale that Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo have. They also probably have fairly high margins to compensate for their low volume.
With Valve putting their weight behind it, however, I'd expect production to ramp up, hardware makers to be interested in partnerships, and margins to shrink. Heck, Valve could even sell it at a loss or bundle Steam gift cards to sweeten the deal.
Except he's right. Steam is not DRM. Steamworks is the DRM, and it's not mandatory.
You're missing the point: it's not Steam or Valve's fault if the games you buy use DRM. It's the publisher's decision. If the game wasn't on Steam, it'd have another form of (likely much more annoying/shitty) DRM. What Steam provides is fairly mild DRM (yes, I say mild, because honestly I prefer having an account that adds a lot of value to my games versus limited activation, phone home schemes, or plain and simply unreliable bullshit ala StarForce).
But Steam doesn't force anyone to use the DRM in their games.
Not necessarily. There are quite a few modern shells that use stabilizers instead of rotation to improve accuracy.
Pipe the heat into the sea then. It just so happens to be an excellent heat sink.
Well hey, dying is an activity practised at least once by the entire population of this planet.
No, the questions asked in most "ask Slashdot" questions related to this are about a means of preserving them for a long period of time. The problem's that this is not the good way around it.
Instead of attempting to find a CD that'll last 100 years or tapes that last 200 or engraved sapphires that last 1000, make your photo albums part of your living data. Keep them on your hard drive, properly backed up (preferably one on-site and one off-site) and just transfer them around as necessary. If one backup or the main copy is damaged or destroyed, restore it and keep going.
I have photos dating from ten years now which have just followed along with my data. I have an external HDD and use Crashplan for offsite backup. The 50 dollars a year are well worth the simplicity and peace of mind. All of them are stored in either common formats (JPG largely) or manufacturer-specific RAW image formats. Should the format become obsolete for whatever reason, I'd just convert the data while it's still possible to do so.
Looking at state news channels (CBC, BBC PBS to an extent, etc.) compared to private news channels (FOX, NBC, CNN, etc.), I think being state-owned is actually preferable...
It used to be tiny, but right now thanks to an explosion of indie games (the vast, vast majority of which have no DRM of any kind) on Steam, it's getting better.
There are also a few games which use their own DRM instead of Steam's, but that's a minority and usually from big publishers.
Not saying that a lot of games don't have DRM, but there are some that do not. It's also worth reiterating that Steamworks DRM is fairly tame in comparison to past DRM solutions, and Steamworks actually adds value for a lot of people through things such as cloud saves, fairly good matchmaking (certainly better than Gamespy or GFWL), achievements, friends, etc. I'd rather have all that without DRM, but I'll take what I can get.
No. Steam is a distribution system. Steamworks is a DRM, community and cloud integration API which is provided through Steam, but which is entirely optional. There's a fair number of games available on Steam that already do not use Steamworks DRM, or any sort of DRM.
I'm not sure what's implied here but AMD's got Windows 8 drivers for their HD2000 series, which was released in 2006. That's, I'd say, a fairly good legacy hardware support timespan.
Saying "Open source the server" is easy. Doing it is hard.
What if the server (and heck, the client too!) uses proprietary third party libraries? Chances are they won't be able to license those for free.
What if the code has some patent infringing code, whether knowingly or not? With the utter plethora of software patents, it's a minefield to release any commercial code.
What if, more simply, the code ties into a lot of their centralized libraries, such as user account data and such? Removing such connections could become a nightmare.
All of this deployment takes a lot of time and resources. It's something very few companies could do, and even fewer would see a purpose in doing. What, after all, is their gain in letting others run their own product while they see not a cent from it? A product which might, later down the line, compete with a new product of their own.
Plus, this is Zynga we're talking about. Pincus would screw his own grandmother if he had a chance.
If Steam shut down tomorrow (and assuming no transition was made available to backup games and get standalone installers), a whole lot of people would immediately turn to piracy.
(the example used was RMS's distaste for C++, not exactly a strong point against RMS)
That offhand remark was a rather obvious red flag. Regardless of what you think on the subject, your opinion has no place in what should be a neutral, objective summary relating facts. Sigh.
Perhaps the author was misled into believing writing good articles was easy?
The problem is that usually, in such a scenario, the relative/friend then screws up and asks you to fix it. Not wanting to fix it, after you've shown that you are well capable of it, will end up causing issues for you with said person.
If you could wash your hands of the whole matter, it wouldn't be an issue, but I've just about never seen a situation where this is the case.
Then install a filtering tool on your own network and leave the rest of the country alone.