Except that the entire reason for the conflict with the natives was that their home tree rested on the largest and most accessible unobtanium deposit on the entire moon. If gigantic mountain sized rocks of the shit were just floating around for everyone to see, then what the heck?
Another huge problem, if I remember correctly, is that the strength of the Meissner effect on a superconductor is proportional to its surface area, while its weight in a gravitational field is proportional to its volume, and any magnetic field strong enough to lift a mountain would be lethal to life as we (and Avatar) know it.
Face it, you can't rescue the ridiculously bad script and poorly thought-out scientific mumbo jumbo with handwavy references to background material. The script and story were just plain bad. Period. Anyone that isn't capable of switching off their brain just won't enjoy the movie.
Obviously you never read any of your employment contracts:). I have a relative with a number of patents for steps used to refine petroleum. Obviously he's not a billionaire just because the technologies in his patents are used during the processing of a quarter billion gallons of oil each day!
"The Employee hereby assigns and transfers to the Company without further consideration his entire right, title and interest in and to all Inventions developed while in the employ of the Company."
Sign on the dotted line or you're not hired! The article mentions the professor may start a company to exploit his discovery. To do so, he will have to license the technology from Stanford, even though the patent is in his name!
Lol, fair enough, though most everyone that doesn't live in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, Puerto Rico, Argentina, or Brazil (and until 2006, South Korea and Germany) probably has other superstores to shop at. The meat of my complaint didn't depend on the specific identity of the store.
That's obviously false. The example given in the meme just uses very short and common words in an easy to understand context. Also, the words are clearly jumbled in a fashion so as not to obscure the original word too much.
Try this one: "Taht bhilLUST was FIREBATcad by a partMAGIC paeioatvcrrr wtih a pNEPOTISry for ooaaictrrl sotIRONY wchih is too PENISlatoc to be EDULIPISTEOXY aiaistemLSD."
Not impossible, but many won't be able to read it at all, and of those that can, it took them a while, and they've probably heard the phrase before, to boot.
Wow, are you ever an elitist prick. I guarantee you almost everyone on Slashdot shops at Wal-Mart, because almost everyone on Slashdot is "plain" and normal in almost every respect. If the PC is sold out, 85% of it is because of dorks like you and me. The other 15% is people that didn't know what they were buying.
Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation.
The thing that irks me the most about Slashdot is the way that the majority of posters and commenters so maladroitly feign expertise in the sciences. Anyway, you meant to say "Tsar Bomba's rate of energy release, for a period of 39 nanoseconds, was ~1% of the Sun's rate of luminous energy release (which has been maintained continuously for ~4.5 billion years.)"
Molecular interference fit? I should say something smarmy about people who do a poor job at feigning knowledge and expertise, but since there's no Wikipedia article on the phenomenon I'll let it slide. What you are talking about is optical contacting, and has nothing to do with molecular interference. (I'm not even sure what that means in this context.)
* Rendering is noticeably slower than Opera, despite lofty speed claims on their website. * The application itself loads very slowly on Windows. * The application window draws very slowly on Windows, for example, restoring/maximizing the application window takes about half a second. * The interface annoyingly emulates the look and feel of application windows in OSX. (It's an attractive design, but it is not appropriate for Windows users expecting Windows functionality.) * Example 1: No draggable window borders. * Example 2: The designers went so far as to hide the standard button/icon in the top left of normal Windows applications, and though the missing button is still accessible with Alt+Space, only the Close option is available. * Example 3: Something is wrong with the default Safari font. It's either not the default Windows font or it's smoothed weirdly somehow.
Really, this is not even a competition. Let's put up two sets that cost the same and are exclusive to each format. Still then, Blu-Ray is going to win because it's the more popular format.
#1 Planet Earth - DVD ($53.99)
#6 Planet Earth - HD-DVD ($66.95)
#25 Planet Earth - Blu-Ray ($66.95)
I don't own any HD movies or players, and couldn't care less who wins this "war", but what is everyone arguing about? Unless you want to attribute the above data to the demographics of the people that tend to buy movies for each type of player, it appears that HD-DVD is the vastly preferred HD format. Even if you do make the demographic argument, I'm skeptical that is enough to account for such a large difference.
What those optimistic web application developers actually deliver is certainly a far cry from what they envision. That certainly isn't a reason not to try, but just because it's OSS doesn't mean they get kudos for promises they some day really hope to be able to fulfill.
But was SWG fun to play in any of its incarnations? As someone who participated in the beta and then wouldn't have played the retail version of the game had SOE paid me the monthly fee, I don't really see what the allure of a server emulator is. It's like releasing a perfume that smells like poo.
I'm just curious, do the editors ever bother to read their own posts before submitting? You went through this whole rigamorole recently to update Slashdot to a more modern and professional look and feel, but what really needs modification is the operators of the site, not the site itself. If you would bother to spellcheck, and bother to read each other's posts to prevent dupes... well, I wouldn't have anything to talk about.
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Except that the entire reason for the conflict with the natives was that their home tree rested on the largest and most accessible unobtanium deposit on the entire moon. If gigantic mountain sized rocks of the shit were just floating around for everyone to see, then what the heck?
Another huge problem, if I remember correctly, is that the strength of the Meissner effect on a superconductor is proportional to its surface area, while its weight in a gravitational field is proportional to its volume, and any magnetic field strong enough to lift a mountain would be lethal to life as we (and Avatar) know it.
Face it, you can't rescue the ridiculously bad script and poorly thought-out scientific mumbo jumbo with handwavy references to background material. The script and story were just plain bad. Period. Anyone that isn't capable of switching off their brain just won't enjoy the movie.
Obviously you never read any of your employment contracts :). I have a relative with a number of patents for steps used to refine petroleum. Obviously he's not a billionaire just because the technologies in his patents are used during the processing of a quarter billion gallons of oil each day!
"The Employee hereby assigns and transfers to the Company without further consideration his entire right, title and interest in and to all Inventions developed while in the employ of the Company."
Sign on the dotted line or you're not hired! The article mentions the professor may start a company to exploit his discovery. To do so, he will have to license the technology from Stanford, even though the patent is in his name!
Lol, fair enough, though most everyone that doesn't live in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, Puerto Rico, Argentina, or Brazil (and until 2006, South Korea and Germany) probably has other superstores to shop at. The meat of my complaint didn't depend on the specific identity of the store.
That's obviously false. The example given in the meme just uses very short and common words in an easy to understand context. Also, the words are clearly jumbled in a fashion so as not to obscure the original word too much.
Try this one: "Taht bhilLUST was FIREBATcad by a partMAGIC paeioatvcrrr wtih a pNEPOTISry for ooaaictrrl sotIRONY wchih is too PENISlatoc to be EDULIPISTEOXY aiaistemLSD."
Not impossible, but many won't be able to read it at all, and of those that can, it took them a while, and they've probably heard the phrase before, to boot.
Wow, are you ever an elitist prick. I guarantee you almost everyone on Slashdot shops at Wal-Mart, because almost everyone on Slashdot is "plain" and normal in almost every respect. If the PC is sold out, 85% of it is because of dorks like you and me. The other 15% is people that didn't know what they were buying.
I take it you've never actually *read* a paper by the average high school or college student ...
Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation.
The thing that irks me the most about Slashdot is the way that the majority of posters and commenters so maladroitly feign expertise in the sciences. Anyway, you meant to say "Tsar Bomba's rate of energy release, for a period of 39 nanoseconds, was ~1% of the Sun's rate of luminous energy release (which has been maintained continuously for ~4.5 billion years.)"
Molecular interference fit? I should say something smarmy about people who do a poor job at feigning knowledge and expertise, but since there's no Wikipedia article on the phenomenon I'll let it slide. What you are talking about is optical contacting, and has nothing to do with molecular interference. (I'm not even sure what that means in this context.)
* Rendering is noticeably slower than Opera, despite lofty speed claims on their website.
* The application itself loads very slowly on Windows.
* The application window draws very slowly on Windows, for example, restoring/maximizing the application window takes about half a second.
* The interface annoyingly emulates the look and feel of application windows in OSX. (It's an attractive design, but it is not appropriate for Windows users expecting Windows functionality.)
* Example 1: No draggable window borders.
* Example 2: The designers went so far as to hide the standard button/icon in the top left of normal Windows applications, and though the missing button is still accessible with Alt+Space, only the Close option is available.
* Example 3: Something is wrong with the default Safari font. It's either not the default Windows font or it's smoothed weirdly somehow.
Really, this is not even a competition. Let's put up two sets that cost the same and are exclusive to each format. Still then, Blu-Ray is going to win because it's the more popular format.
Are you sure? Check out the top-sellers on Amazon today: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd
#1 Planet Earth - DVD ($53.99)
#6 Planet Earth - HD-DVD ($66.95)
#25 Planet Earth - Blu-Ray ($66.95)
I don't own any HD movies or players, and couldn't care less who wins this "war", but what is everyone arguing about? Unless you want to attribute the above data to the demographics of the people that tend to buy movies for each type of player, it appears that HD-DVD is the vastly preferred HD format. Even if you do make the demographic argument, I'm skeptical that is enough to account for such a large difference.
Well, it's not called "Games for Linux" for a reason. But I suppose you can hate Microsoft for any reason, really, even for being honest.
What those optimistic web application developers actually deliver is certainly a far cry from what they envision. That certainly isn't a reason not to try, but just because it's OSS doesn't mean they get kudos for promises they some day really hope to be able to fulfill.
But was SWG fun to play in any of its incarnations? As someone who participated in the beta and then wouldn't have played the retail version of the game had SOE paid me the monthly fee, I don't really see what the allure of a server emulator is. It's like releasing a perfume that smells like poo.
I'm just curious, do the editors ever bother to read their own posts before submitting? You went through this whole rigamorole recently to update Slashdot to a more modern and professional look and feel, but what really needs modification is the operators of the site, not the site itself. If you would bother to spellcheck, and bother to read each other's posts to prevent dupes ... well, I wouldn't have anything to talk about.