OMG someone who knows what they're talking about posted on Slashdot! What's next, flying pigs? 3 amigas but yeah, when a $50 VLB Cirrus Logic video card on the PC started trashing what the amgia's chipset could do, it was the beginning of the end for amigas. I really don't understand why there's still an amiga community. There are so many other good alternatives even w/out Linux (like QNX - free for non-commercial use, microkernel distributed OS with many hardware targets including x86 PCs).
Yes it is. Anyone who works with classified material knows this. Just because someone else "leaks" the documents does not change their classification, and viewing them is still a security violation if the viewer does not have the appropriate clearance and a need to know. The reminder to servicemen is appropriate. As usual, the slashdot crowd is clueless yet feels free to mock and ridicule.
Exactly. Either give NASA a REAL mission (not making video games, and NOT reaching out to predominantly Muslim nations - SOMETHING RELATED TO REAL SPACE EXPLORATION) and the necessary budget to achieve the mission objectives, or else disband it and let the Air Force absorb the talent needed for military use.
The point he's making successfully is that it wasn't humans who caused the last "global warming", which was a good thing, and it's not humans now who are causing it, wether it is a good thing or not. It's simple, we produce a fraction of a percent of the CO2 in the atmosphere, and CO2 is again a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gasses that contribute to warming. He's also making the point that the ice caps on mars have also been melting, and we probably haven't been driving Hummers on Mars...
Think for yourselves, don't fall for all this bullshit.
And mankind had as much to do with that as we do with global warming. The time period during which we've been collecting data is insignificant compared to the age of the earth. You know what the most prevalent "greenhouse gas" is? Water. Yeah H2O. Whoever figures out how to sell capping and trading H2O will be even richer than Al Gore.
I don't understand any of this. Why am I reading this? Can we have more of a set up if you're going to submit a story? Are we just going to start posting blind links now?
Sailing requires work and attention if you don't want to die. Unfortunately for many, telecommuting == doing anything but work, which makes it so hard for us to get our employers to take telecommuting seriously. So no, sailing around the world while telecommuting probably would not work since you are either going to work or sail but not both. Unless your job was to sail around the world...
No there really isn't anything more to it. That's why every game in the past has had online and LAN play. It was just a question of how did your game get the socket addresses of the other player's games. As stated before the only reason for requiring an internet connection is to
1. Reduce piracy.
2. Prevent used game sales.
It's just a business decision.
There is no other way to get rid of it safely...
Maybe if people actually found out what the article is talking about first, they wouldn't make asses of themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_ice_bomb
How else would you disarm it? That's part of the problem with a dry ice bomb. They can an do cause property and personal damage. This isn't a baking soda volcano.
How about the satirical cartoon app? How about things like that which are not approved and after there is some outcry and they become embarassing are approved? Come on - it is a totally arbitrary process w/no recourse to the losers. It's almost like dealing with Google.
Here's the thing that all these multimonitor solutions (including matrox's triple head to go, etc.) Most games are written with one eyepoint. For dual head or triple head to work properly, you have to have multiple eyepoints. Each monitor is like a window into the virtual world. If you're wanting to get a straight ahead view and two side views, say at 45 degrees, you need 3 eyepoints, one looking straight ahead, one looking 45 deg to the left, one 45 deg to the right.
Games don't do that. They think they're rendering to 1 display, one eyepoint. Then these multi-display solutions take that one image and spread it accross multiple monitors. That's why it never looks right.
People have found good uses for the extra monitor space, say in a flight sim dragging your instrument panels to the other monitors, or in WoW using a viewport mod and putting all your addons on the other monitors, etc.
It's nice that there are now 3 and 6 channel cards from ATI. Just need games to support them properly.
But until games support multiple eyepoints it won't be working like what we want.
Supreme Commander 1 does support 2 independent eyepoints in 2 monitor full screen mode, but it's an RTS.
So scientists who challenge the prevailing politically-correct liberal thesis are "climate deniers" - this is the basic problem.
Even the term is ridiculous. Compare it to "holocaust denier". The holocaust was undeniably real - because there are still some living eye witnesses, photographs, original videos, documents etc. that clearly prove that it happened.
What does it mean to be a "climate denier"? No one denies there is "climate".
For too long people who challenged the "science" behind global warming were shouted down and ridiculed by their "peers". Now for a little bit, the shoe is on the other foot, and they don't like it a bit.
BTW - CFL bulbs are a perfect example of why this type of "science" really has to be tried before accepted, and not pitch a fit if it is challenged - http://www.energystar.gov/ia/products/lighting/cfls/downloads/CFL_Cleanup_and_Disposal.pdf
Just think about that - what about places where there is no window, where the only ventilation is forced air. Give me an incandescent bulb anyday. If it breaks, worst you worry about is a cut. When it burns out, you can safely toss it w/out worry about what its components will do to the environment or your local groundwater. Not to mention that the CFLs do not last anywhere as long as promised if you don't follow their optimal usage pattern (leave on for at least 15 mins, etc.)
Certainly there are places where they are appropriate, but "environmentalists" pushing them down everyone's throat, and corporate greed (Walmart) jumping on the green bandwagon and being dishonest with people - you wonder why people with a brain are skeptical? If they posted the cleanup instructions next to the bulbs on the shelf, would people still be buying these?
When I wanted to sit on my comfy chair on my deck wrapped in a blanket with a coffee in one hand and/. in the other.
Hahahahaha lol hahah omg lulz waaaaah lol hahahaha.
Puh-leaze.
Everyone who's every wanted to sit on their comfy chair on their deck wrapped in a blanket with a coffee in one hand and/. in the other please post.
Cloud is a new name for Software as a Service (SaaS), or hosted apps. Which failed to replace PCs the first time around, while succeeding where it made sense. Not worried about the "cloud" turning PCs into commodities. They are already commodities if you know what you're doing.
He said gamers would get a better deal with this approach. And then didn't expound. I'm still waiting...
BTW I won't buy a game that costs more than $10 without a demo. All of the games I've bought in the last few years are due to playing a FREE demo and enjoying it enough to buy the game. There have been a few games I've decided not to buy based on the demo as well.
So if the game industry wants all its sales to come out of the bargain bin, well then this sounds like a good plan.
A spas writes an angry paranoid post rife with "it could do this, now it doesn't actually do this, but someday it could and oh boy then u best watch out!" and kdawson points to it from slashdot. Nothing to see here, move along.
As someone who uses OpenBSD from a command line for most of my professional life and who turns to Apple as soon as my time is my own, I have to say I think most of the Apple hate amongst the fellow nerds here is just jealousy.
Yes, it has to be jealousy! There can be no other explanation. The Jobs Reality Distortion Field is strong with this one.
Forgot to mention why I initially thought of him as a dope. Instead of doing a normal install, where you burn the DVD ISO to a DVD, he fucks around with a USB drive. Some mobos require driver updates before things like the USB controllers work right. Whenever you make things more complicated, you're just asking for trouble. Take the simplest approach when installing an OS, especially if it is a new (to you) hardware configuration.
While this turned out not to be his problem, continued reading only further reinforced my initial opinion - he's a dope.
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OMG someone who knows what they're talking about posted on Slashdot! What's next, flying pigs? 3 amigas but yeah, when a $50 VLB Cirrus Logic video card on the PC started trashing what the amgia's chipset could do, it was the beginning of the end for amigas. I really don't understand why there's still an amiga community. There are so many other good alternatives even w/out Linux (like QNX - free for non-commercial use, microkernel distributed OS with many hardware targets including x86 PCs).
Yes it is. Anyone who works with classified material knows this. Just because someone else "leaks" the documents does not change their classification, and viewing them is still a security violation if the viewer does not have the appropriate clearance and a need to know. The reminder to servicemen is appropriate. As usual, the slashdot crowd is clueless yet feels free to mock and ridicule.
Exactly. Either give NASA a REAL mission (not making video games, and NOT reaching out to predominantly Muslim nations - SOMETHING RELATED TO REAL SPACE EXPLORATION) and the necessary budget to achieve the mission objectives, or else disband it and let the Air Force absorb the talent needed for military use.
The point he's making successfully is that it wasn't humans who caused the last "global warming", which was a good thing, and it's not humans now who are causing it, wether it is a good thing or not. It's simple, we produce a fraction of a percent of the CO2 in the atmosphere, and CO2 is again a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gasses that contribute to warming. He's also making the point that the ice caps on mars have also been melting, and we probably haven't been driving Hummers on Mars... Think for yourselves, don't fall for all this bullshit.
And mankind had as much to do with that as we do with global warming. The time period during which we've been collecting data is insignificant compared to the age of the earth. You know what the most prevalent "greenhouse gas" is? Water. Yeah H2O. Whoever figures out how to sell capping and trading H2O will be even richer than Al Gore.
I don't understand any of this. Why am I reading this? Can we have more of a set up if you're going to submit a story? Are we just going to start posting blind links now?
That's what will happen - Fox News traffic will be given priority by your ISP... Al Franken should go back to being a somewhat funny comedian.
Sailing requires work and attention if you don't want to die. Unfortunately for many, telecommuting == doing anything but work, which makes it so hard for us to get our employers to take telecommuting seriously. So no, sailing around the world while telecommuting probably would not work since you are either going to work or sail but not both. Unless your job was to sail around the world...
No there really isn't anything more to it. That's why every game in the past has had online and LAN play. It was just a question of how did your game get the socket addresses of the other player's games. As stated before the only reason for requiring an internet connection is to 1. Reduce piracy. 2. Prevent used game sales. It's just a business decision.
My thoughts exactly. This is why Obama is so brilliant - he knew NASA would have this problem and that's why he made NASA's #1 priority mission improving relations with Muslim nations. The guy is brilliant! http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/nasa-official-walks-claim-muslim-outreach-foremost-mission/
Why don't they pay extra to people who shack up with their girlfriends? Why do the gays get special treatment?
There is no other way to get rid of it safely... Maybe if people actually found out what the article is talking about first, they wouldn't make asses of themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_ice_bomb How else would you disarm it? That's part of the problem with a dry ice bomb. They can an do cause property and personal damage. This isn't a baking soda volcano.
The author of the article doesn't seem to understand the difference.
How about the satirical cartoon app? How about things like that which are not approved and after there is some outcry and they become embarassing are approved? Come on - it is a totally arbitrary process w/no recourse to the losers. It's almost like dealing with Google.
And you will get burned. I feel for the OP. Apple approved 3 releases of his software, then yanked it? Wow. Yeah, screw developing for the iPhone.
Here's the thing that all these multimonitor solutions (including matrox's triple head to go, etc.) Most games are written with one eyepoint. For dual head or triple head to work properly, you have to have multiple eyepoints. Each monitor is like a window into the virtual world. If you're wanting to get a straight ahead view and two side views, say at 45 degrees, you need 3 eyepoints, one looking straight ahead, one looking 45 deg to the left, one 45 deg to the right. Games don't do that. They think they're rendering to 1 display, one eyepoint. Then these multi-display solutions take that one image and spread it accross multiple monitors. That's why it never looks right. People have found good uses for the extra monitor space, say in a flight sim dragging your instrument panels to the other monitors, or in WoW using a viewport mod and putting all your addons on the other monitors, etc. It's nice that there are now 3 and 6 channel cards from ATI. Just need games to support them properly. But until games support multiple eyepoints it won't be working like what we want. Supreme Commander 1 does support 2 independent eyepoints in 2 monitor full screen mode, but it's an RTS.
Think before you type.
Think before typing? You realize this is Slashdot, right?
So scientists who challenge the prevailing politically-correct liberal thesis are "climate deniers" - this is the basic problem. Even the term is ridiculous. Compare it to "holocaust denier". The holocaust was undeniably real - because there are still some living eye witnesses, photographs, original videos, documents etc. that clearly prove that it happened. What does it mean to be a "climate denier"? No one denies there is "climate". For too long people who challenged the "science" behind global warming were shouted down and ridiculed by their "peers". Now for a little bit, the shoe is on the other foot, and they don't like it a bit. BTW - CFL bulbs are a perfect example of why this type of "science" really has to be tried before accepted, and not pitch a fit if it is challenged - http://www.energystar.gov/ia/products/lighting/cfls/downloads/CFL_Cleanup_and_Disposal.pdf Just think about that - what about places where there is no window, where the only ventilation is forced air. Give me an incandescent bulb anyday. If it breaks, worst you worry about is a cut. When it burns out, you can safely toss it w/out worry about what its components will do to the environment or your local groundwater. Not to mention that the CFLs do not last anywhere as long as promised if you don't follow their optimal usage pattern (leave on for at least 15 mins, etc.) Certainly there are places where they are appropriate, but "environmentalists" pushing them down everyone's throat, and corporate greed (Walmart) jumping on the green bandwagon and being dishonest with people - you wonder why people with a brain are skeptical? If they posted the cleanup instructions next to the bulbs on the shelf, would people still be buying these?
When I wanted to sit on my comfy chair on my deck wrapped in a blanket with a coffee in one hand and /. in the other.
Hahahahaha lol hahah omg lulz waaaaah lol hahahaha. Puh-leaze. Everyone who's every wanted to sit on their comfy chair on their deck wrapped in a blanket with a coffee in one hand and /. in the other please post.
400lbs is on the light side for a gorilla.
Cloud is a new name for Software as a Service (SaaS), or hosted apps. Which failed to replace PCs the first time around, while succeeding where it made sense. Not worried about the "cloud" turning PCs into commodities. They are already commodities if you know what you're doing.
He said gamers would get a better deal with this approach. And then didn't expound. I'm still waiting... BTW I won't buy a game that costs more than $10 without a demo. All of the games I've bought in the last few years are due to playing a FREE demo and enjoying it enough to buy the game. There have been a few games I've decided not to buy based on the demo as well. So if the game industry wants all its sales to come out of the bargain bin, well then this sounds like a good plan.
A spas writes an angry paranoid post rife with "it could do this, now it doesn't actually do this, but someday it could and oh boy then u best watch out!" and kdawson points to it from slashdot. Nothing to see here, move along.
As someone who uses OpenBSD from a command line for most of my professional life and who turns to Apple as soon as my time is my own, I have to say I think most of the Apple hate amongst the fellow nerds here is just jealousy.
Yes, it has to be jealousy! There can be no other explanation. The Jobs Reality Distortion Field is strong with this one.
Forgot to mention why I initially thought of him as a dope. Instead of doing a normal install, where you burn the DVD ISO to a DVD, he fucks around with a USB drive. Some mobos require driver updates before things like the USB controllers work right. Whenever you make things more complicated, you're just asking for trouble. Take the simplest approach when installing an OS, especially if it is a new (to you) hardware configuration. While this turned out not to be his problem, continued reading only further reinforced my initial opinion - he's a dope.