And why do you need both hands for ctrl+ins and shift+ins?
Because he is used to hitting the left Ctrl key blind, he has to split his focus to hit the one at the right side.
Speaking of habits, focus splits, Google and Ctrl+f, don't you find it annoying that hitting "/" doesn't work on Chrome for string matching, plus after hitting Ctrl+f the search box is out of focus and you have to stroke it with clicks to get on with your lives?
Hats off to You for this reference, Sir! Amazing that this is not a science fiction book. Should you, however, fancy extrapolations about a universe with trading speed limited by the speed of light and subjective time, may I counter-recommend Ken McLeod's "Engines of Light" trilogy.
It should be the other way around; you are better off being undead in rural places, lots of brains available. An offset would be prudent if you held undead status in, say, Siberia. Or the ocean floor.
Especially given the price I can pick up industrial single card 386-SX boards
Why are you mentioning the price? Even if you buy hundreds, the electric billing is going to cost you dearly; those chips need much more electricity to do much less work than modern chips.
Besides the 'just for the f*ck of it' argument, what is the point of using said hardware and, in particular, lots of it?
You got your favorite example wrong; that was 150 years ago, it was one scientist (Lord Kelvin), and -according to his descriptions from fellow scientists- he was quite opinionated and difficult to argue with. Scientists had long suspected that there had to be something more at play (the world did not know of nuclei and radioactivity back then) because the figures did not add up.
Bad examples are the ones that stand up more, so they make a greater impression in your head and you think they are way more than they actually are; it could be that you hear about this one scientist and you think everyone is like this. As a car analogy, just because you once drove a Ford that misbehaved does not mean that Ford doesn't make some helluva wheels.
I think you are in a hurry to be dismissive; "making some shit up" worked fine for the nuclear and sub-nuclear structures (Bohr - Rutherford), quantum photoelectric phenomena (Einstein), superconductivity (Leon Cooper with his "Cooper pairs") and even the long term behavior of spacetime itself and its interactions with matter and energy. On that particular account, Einstein made boatloads of "shit" up that still explain the universe's behavior much better than "shit" other people have come up with since then. And it's been decades.
Not just environmentalists' brains; the administration is also concerned about sociopaths that turn those things into exploding devices, and they have to make sure that there are safeguards in place before everybody gets one. That is why fertilizers are tightly and federally monitored, why the police raids your place when you want to build your own nuclear reactor in a country as free as Sweden, and why flying cars are all but common- can you imagine how easy it would be for Ahmed (or anybody else for that matter) to fly them through buildings?
Hard to say without more quantitative analysis- this moon hasn't always had a 'far side'. There where times where its rotation was not tidaly locked with Earth -i.e. it has not been always showing Earth the same face, this is something that needs time to happen.
As long as they do not convert the mass I am using for my survival and, uhm, for my existence in the material plane (as in "my body"), I think we can get along- should they get any ideas of messing with my synapses though, I would like to have access to a kill switch.
I obviously did not make myself understood; I mentioned Minecraft because it is popular (so many people would have something to say about it), it runs on many platforms (so comparisons between different OSs can be made), and its performance depends on your card and drivers- that last point, by the way, being what this thread is about.
Though I did not intend to mention Minecraft implying that it is CAD software (and apparently offend a bunch), in retrospect, I should point out that there are very many people who use it for art.
'Local' nations? Try 'all naval nations'. Piracy is at an international choke point, very busy with traffic. Every large vessel that does international trading will pass near there at some point or another- this elevates it into an international issue, certainly not local.
[..] but they'll have to pay for it.
I do not think that people keen enough to make a fortune out of trade (I am talking about the legitimate ones here) are not aware of this option; a plausible explanation is that it is cheaper to just pay the ransom every now and then- depending on cargo etc. And who knows what arrangements they have with their insurance companies.
On the other hand, keeping the military sharp is a reward in itsself- with the added bonus of making them appear as heroes to the public.
Given that the pirates are using any old junk to mount their attacks
This assumption is wrong; under their current business model, they (the warlords) reinvest the ransom into better hardware and manpower- what they lack in style they make up with fast boats, many hands, and *lots* of ammo.
This piracy thing is in no way a one-time-only gig; look how it goes on and on.
Slashdot Mirror
What Apple did was adding a mix of marketing and design.
and lawyers.
And why do you need both hands for ctrl+ins and shift+ins?
Because he is used to hitting the left Ctrl key blind, he has to split his focus to hit the one at the right side.
Speaking of habits, focus splits, Google and Ctrl+f, don't you find it annoying that hitting "/" doesn't work on Chrome for string matching, plus after hitting Ctrl+f the search box is out of focus and you have to stroke it with clicks to get on with your lives?
Google search anthropologist
wow
and this handy future value formula.
Hats off to You for this reference, Sir! Amazing that this is not a science fiction book. Should you, however, fancy extrapolations about a universe with trading speed limited by the speed of light and subjective time, may I counter-recommend Ken McLeod's "Engines of Light" trilogy.
Still, the sky looks black, and you can see Earth's curvature.
You got at least 10g deceleration on impact.
Where did you get this number from?
If a jet loses power in its engines, it still is a decent enough glider to safely get you to the ground in most cases.
Unless it is computers doing the actual bookkeeping that makes flight possible, in which case you ease down to the ground as elegantly as a rock.
1. Invent internet
2. Invest in travelling to other stars
3. Expand internet to said stars
4. ???
5. Profit!
by harnessing the immense power
.. of a Neutron Star?
Dude, chill.
Take a good, hard look at the motherfucking B.O.A.T. -
which should be followed nine days later by Dragon berthing at the ISS
Dragons roost- they do not 'berth'.
landing astronauts on a space rock by 2025, and on the Red Planet by the mid 2030s
I am sorry, I am just not buying it.
It's to offset the standard ..
It should be the other way around; you are better off being undead in rural places, lots of brains available. An offset would be prudent if you held undead status in, say, Siberia. Or the ocean floor.
Especially given the price I can pick up industrial single card 386-SX boards
Why are you mentioning the price? Even if you buy hundreds, the electric billing is going to cost you dearly; those chips need much more electricity to do much less work than modern chips.
Besides the 'just for the f*ck of it' argument, what is the point of using said hardware and, in particular, lots of it?
You got your favorite example wrong; that was 150 years ago, it was one scientist (Lord Kelvin), and -according to his descriptions from fellow scientists- he was quite opinionated and difficult to argue with. Scientists had long suspected that there had to be something more at play (the world did not know of nuclei and radioactivity back then) because the figures did not add up.
Bad examples are the ones that stand up more, so they make a greater impression in your head and you think they are way more than they actually are; it could be that you hear about this one scientist and you think everyone is like this. As a car analogy, just because you once drove a Ford that misbehaved does not mean that Ford doesn't make some helluva wheels.
If I just make some shit up ..
I think you are in a hurry to be dismissive; "making some shit up" worked fine for the nuclear and sub-nuclear structures (Bohr - Rutherford), quantum photoelectric phenomena (Einstein), superconductivity (Leon Cooper with his "Cooper pairs") and even the long term behavior of spacetime itself and its interactions with matter and energy. On that particular account, Einstein made boatloads of "shit" up that still explain the universe's behavior much better than "shit" other people have come up with since then. And it's been decades.
words 'car' and 'radioactiver' used together
Not just environmentalists' brains; the administration is also concerned about sociopaths that turn those things into exploding devices, and they have to make sure that there are safeguards in place before everybody gets one. That is why fertilizers are tightly and federally monitored, why the police raids your place when you want to build your own nuclear reactor in a country as free as Sweden, and why flying cars are all but common- can you imagine how easy it would be for Ahmed (or anybody else for that matter) to fly them through buildings?
This is not original work, it has been around for years now. As long as they do not publish any details, I will have to assume that they have ripped off RONJA, put a couple of arrays in parallel and thrive on plagiarism.
Hard to say without more quantitative analysis- this moon hasn't always had a 'far side'. There where times where its rotation was not tidaly locked with Earth -i.e. it has not been always showing Earth the same face, this is something that needs time to happen.
Well spoken- if I had mod points, they would be yours.
As long as they do not convert the mass I am using for my survival and, uhm, for my existence in the material plane (as in "my body"), I think we can get along- should they get any ideas of messing with my synapses though, I would like to have access to a kill switch.
On our way to space-faring nanomachines, that may employ a collective intelligence.
It would be such a shame if they cannot replicate. After all, what can POSSIBLY go wrong?
You *really* didnt just make a comparison [..]
I obviously did not make myself understood; I mentioned Minecraft because it is popular (so many people would have something to say about it), it runs on many platforms (so comparisons between different OSs can be made), and its performance depends on your card and drivers- that last point, by the way, being what this thread is about.
Though I did not intend to mention Minecraft implying that it is CAD software (and apparently offend a bunch), in retrospect, I should point out that there are very many people who use it for art.
If local nations want to retain the services [..]
'Local' nations? Try 'all naval nations'. Piracy is at an international choke point, very busy with traffic. Every large vessel that does international trading will pass near there at some point or another- this elevates it into an international issue, certainly not local.
[..] but they'll have to pay for it.
I do not think that people keen enough to make a fortune out of trade (I am talking about the legitimate ones here) are not aware of this option; a plausible explanation is that it is cheaper to just pay the ransom every now and then- depending on cargo etc. And who knows what arrangements they have with their insurance companies.
On the other hand, keeping the military sharp is a reward in itsself- with the added bonus of making them appear as heroes to the public.
Given that the pirates are using any old junk to mount their attacks
This assumption is wrong; under their current business model, they (the warlords) reinvest the ransom into better hardware and manpower- what they lack in style they make up with fast boats, many hands, and *lots* of ammo.
This piracy thing is in no way a one-time-only gig; look how it goes on and on.