1) Change heat dissipation => heat usage for power production.
2) Let Jelly guy be jelly
3) Think american might want to get back to work instead of speculating on the price of rice and the number of african starving to death.
4) (durable) PROFITS !
World's tallest I-got-a-fucking-747-in-da-face-then-crumbled-to-the-ground skyscraper ?
It's not stupid, it's a technological challenge, the kind that used to make the USA move forward before we lost all hope in ourselves and focused on making money speculating on how many africans are going to starve to death this year.
It's MUCH cheaper to build underground, but it's also much less sexy and confortable (I'm thinking of the light)
OTOH No underground structure has ever block sunlight from its neighbours which is kind of nice.
Troglodytes predate skyscrapers AFAIK.
... 2009 called, they want their Joke from 2007 FF memory leaks back.
Seriously just read a Web browser comparison, FF8 is the LEAST memory hungry Web Browser (from a panel of Safari, Chrome, IE9, FF8 and Opera)
I can buy hardware that is about 1 third this power for £4000 and then run it forever, or even resell it after, or transfer it to another project.
Amazon is AMAZING if you have unpredictable workload and sudden spikes of CPU power requirements. For instance if you have time sensitive workloads, things that need to be done before day X.
This is a University project so this doesn't apply at all.
You should definitely BUY your hardware. which one I don't know, it depends on the type of computation, the software and such but don't go amazon it's just NOT meant for you.
YEAH ! no...
What part of the narrative of this is isn't true ?
Could you , for the funlulz of it, define for me propaganda ? if you could use the word communist inside your definition it would totally make my day
And last but not the least how much are you paid to say something so stupid ?
How is censorship a good precedent ?
What kind of masochist sheep would think that ?
Yeah.... right.
In my country, letting people express critiscism is not stupidity. It's call freedom of speech and it's something that some of us value (you know a little... like the ability to eat of breath)
So NO it's not a no-win situation. You evaluate this as if it was a PR problem, (which it is, for apple's fucking PR departement !) but for you it's not a PR problem, if you really dig this, just go work in PR, you appear to be cynical enough for it.
But don't think that the issue is in PR, the issue is in the basic principle that this apps says things that disserve Apple's image (things that are true) so Apple yanks it.
Now imagine Amazon deleting a book from the kindle store for the same reasons...
You can only admit something that is true.
some slashdotter ill-advisedly CLAIMS that Apple invented the smartphone.
But since Apple was still playing with its own poo when the smartphone was invented and since you know it, I don't understand : why the fuss fanboy ?
Dude the bible is the most mean spirited book ever...
God basically kills several millions people in the most atrocious fashions for over 1000 pages. I mean seriously there are 2,476,633 documented murders commited by god in the bible. That must be some kind of record for the numbers of kills in a story. And that doesn't even count Sodome and Gomorra and the Flood and the really big stuff for which there are no numbers of victims provided by the Bible.
Yeah !!!!
How dare they remind us that our beloved iPhones are made by underpaid chinese suicidal workers who are at it 16hours a day, with minerals that are mined by 12 years old congoleses.
How is it moral huh ? to say it I mean. No really SAYING IT IS THE PROBLEM ! Because I was confortably numb not think about that in my couch and now I have not to give a shit actively...
idiot.
So some eco-friendly hippies make an app that teaches people how smartphone pollute and Apple takes it back because it's offensive ?
I honnestly for the life of me still don't understand how anyone can have a good image of this company.
How do they get ANY support ? They are the douchiest mean f*cks and they have no ethics whatsoever.
When you get to the point where people saying your shit doesn't smell good enough to be put in their sink gets you mad, I think it's really time to see a psychiatrist. Hopefully Jobs departure will put an end to this decade of giant ego and utter douchery (but I wouldn't hold my breath)
Actually you can play Solo being disconnected. You need a internet connection when you install the game, and if you're not connected you don't get the achievements and shit like that (which I really couldn't care less about). and you can cheat on solo.
OTOH you get a cheat free multi which is kind of amazing.
I hear blizzard is going to do a even more restrictive system of D3. This one seems really really stupid : essentially you are always on. and you can use your solo character to play on bnet. There is no closed and open battlenet anymore. You won't be able to cheat in Solo.
This is really stupid.
I was born in 88 and no everything wasn't better when I was young.
I'm really not a nostalgic or anti-progress, and honnestly as much as I played Starcraft 1 for days, I wouldn't touch it now that I've played SC2.
So I find it GREAT when real improvement is made, being graphical or anything else.
The problem is the more industrialized the game market became, the more the focus of the devellopers is shifted from content to aspect.
Apparently makes more money to advertise on technical prowess than to make a amazing game that will be cult and then capitalize on this brand. Or at least that's what the industry seems to think.
I think Fallout 2 was content-wise far superior to Fallout3.
I think Baldur's gate II was the most profound RPG ever.
If you don't agree and you think some games form 2010 can rival these I'm really interested in your suggestions.
I don't think games and getting worse, I just think the focus has shifted in a way I don't like. The aim is to seduce the wider audience possible, and it is very hard to accomodate this with taking risks is the design or satisfying the hardcore gamers.
In some genres it's easier to do than in others, and for instance SC2 is as good as SC. FPS probably didn't see much change either appart from greater graphics.
But for adventure/RPG the shift is massive and I find it damaging. (although this is just my opinion)
Omg are you stupid ?
It's not about being able to buy an iPad ! it's about relocalizing ALL the manufacturing => less unemployement, => less pressure on the work force => higher salaries.
An iPad costs currently $130 to manufacture, handle and ship. How much of that cost do you think goes to the chinese workers at foxconn ?
And would it really change the price if instead of giving $3 to a chinese guy, Apple gave $20 to an american worker ?
PS : I have no problem with china, and I'm not even American so I could care less about where Apple manufactures its product but the fact of the matter is that delocalization profits only the companies and their owners, not the consumers, because consumers are also workers..
You're an idiot, money isn't a natural ressource!
If the made-in-the-USA iPad costs $10,000 it means that the production cost is maybe $8,000 or 7,000, money which is spent INSIDE the USA, i.e payed to American consumers (i.e. You for the brain damaged) so you could afford it.
Do you think dollars hard haversted from dollars trees or do you actually have a clue of what money is and how it is created/managed ?
This is the least insighful comment I've seen modded +5 in my slashdot experience....
Buying a cd :
A] is more expensive
B] means more pollution
C] means you actually have to rip it at some point which takes times and is a pain in the Ass.
You buy CDs because you want an object not the music on it, and even more to the point : the question was more why people are happy with MP3 when they could have a lossless version?
That's probably what my post would have looked like (with more F*CKING! emphasis) had you not been faster.
I mean I know now that you're a pretty backward country but how can someone teach something he doesn't know ?
Greanted you need some sort of training to teach (a teaching degree of some sort, we call it CAPES in France) but to actually apply for the CAPES you NEED a bachelor or a masters degree in a relevant field.
We are of course talking about highschool teaching here or middleschool not primary, but I doubt you have actual biology classes in primary school do you ?
What exactly is the point of training someone to teach something he doesn't know ?
I'm really astonished for lack of a better word. This is by far the most f*cked up thing I've ever heard of.
Ok their is no logical link whatsoever between any of the lines of your post.
I suggest you go troll somewhere else, or if this is not a troll (*sic*) that you read your crap before posting it.
Because I fail to see how Hitler or Gengis Khan are leftist for starters, and I also fail to see how you transpose left and right from the 1300s to the 2000s but I guess you EXTENSIVE knowledge of global politics throughout history allows you to draw such fine analysis.
Open a fucking book PLEASE.
And please define leftist for me. (yes you can ask your daddy or his daddy or his daddy)
No it's not true because he didn't kill 40 million people...
This is total bullshit.
Khan was a ruler not a petty criminal for fuck's sake the guys ruled over half of the inhabited world at the time, set up the greatest most multicultural administration ever, a post service that covered 14,000 kilometres and used 50,000 workers and 200,000 horses !
He wasn't a fucking vampire.
Thank you.
Gengis Khan was probably the smartest ruler of this era period.
He did most of his actual conquest by submitting the local elite and using them to rule over the people but he also offered freedom in many ways : mongols didn't care for religion which at the time was uncanny.
The bloodsucking mongols is a total myth created by Europeans who were never really confronted to them.
Gengis Khan conquered the vasted territory ever, by not slaughtering everyone as you seem to suggest but on the contrary using the local elite to control the areas.
He set up the vastest communication network (some sort of pony express ancestor) with 200,000 horses and 50,000 workers, that covered more than 14,000 kilometers.
He was the first great actor of globalization, as he unified the territories between middle-east and China and permitted Jewish, Arabs and Venetians merchants to travel safely to china.
He ruled and organized the biggest and fastest expanding empire of all time, creating sets of laws, installing a very powerful administration, and HE COULDN'T EVEN READ !
Not that he was stupid or not instructed but the mongols didn't have any form of writing at the beginning of their insane conquest spree !!
He chose to adopt the writing of the first people they conquered because even though he couldn't read he knew how vital that was to an empire.
Yes he apparently was the best tactician ever but he was MUCH more than that.
Really not any more foolish than consuming petrol for energy.
Not that Nickel is even possible to synthetize, let alone easy or affordable, but all the plastic we use, we get it from petrol and we have little to no alternative right now. Burning petrol to move cars, bus, or even worse to power electrical plants is the stupidest move ever, and the only reason why we keep at it is because big Oil company put the money in the right pockets.
It's a matter of available stock and global consumption but I'm 99% sure we're better off without Nickel than without petrol (at least until we find and satisfactory replacement for it in the plastic industry)
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1) Change heat dissipation => heat usage for power production.
2) Let Jelly guy be jelly
3) Think american might want to get back to work instead of speculating on the price of rice and the number of african starving to death.
4) (durable) PROFITS !
World's tallest I-got-a-fucking-747-in-da-face-then-crumbled-to-the-ground skyscraper ?
It's not stupid, it's a technological challenge, the kind that used to make the USA move forward before we lost all hope in ourselves and focused on making money speculating on how many africans are going to starve to death this year.
It's MUCH cheaper to build underground, but it's also much less sexy and confortable (I'm thinking of the light)
OTOH No underground structure has ever block sunlight from its neighbours which is kind of nice.
Troglodytes predate skyscrapers AFAIK.
... 2009 called, they want their Joke from 2007 FF memory leaks back.
Seriously just read a Web browser comparison, FF8 is the LEAST memory hungry Web Browser (from a panel of Safari, Chrome, IE9, FF8 and Opera)
I can buy hardware that is about 1 third this power for £4000 and then run it forever, or even resell it after, or transfer it to another project.
Amazon is AMAZING if you have unpredictable workload and sudden spikes of CPU power requirements. For instance if you have time sensitive workloads, things that need to be done before day X.
This is a University project so this doesn't apply at all.
You should definitely BUY your hardware. which one I don't know, it depends on the type of computation, the software and such but don't go amazon it's just NOT meant for you.
YEAH ! no...
What part of the narrative of this is isn't true ?
Could you , for the funlulz of it, define for me propaganda ? if you could use the word communist inside your definition it would totally make my day
And last but not the least how much are you paid to say something so stupid ?
How is censorship a good precedent ?
What kind of masochist sheep would think that ?
Yeah.... right.
In my country, letting people express critiscism is not stupidity. It's call freedom of speech and it's something that some of us value (you know a little... like the ability to eat of breath)
So NO it's not a no-win situation. You evaluate this as if it was a PR problem, (which it is, for apple's fucking PR departement !) but for you it's not a PR problem, if you really dig this, just go work in PR, you appear to be cynical enough for it.
But don't think that the issue is in PR, the issue is in the basic principle that this apps says things that disserve Apple's image (things that are true) so Apple yanks it.
Now imagine Amazon deleting a book from the kindle store for the same reasons...
You can only admit something that is true.
some slashdotter ill-advisedly CLAIMS that Apple invented the smartphone.
But since Apple was still playing with its own poo when the smartphone was invented and since you know it, I don't understand : why the fuss fanboy ?
Dude the bible is the most mean spirited book ever...
God basically kills several millions people in the most atrocious fashions for over 1000 pages. I mean seriously there are 2,476,633 documented murders commited by god in the bible. That must be some kind of record for the numbers of kills in a story. And that doesn't even count Sodome and Gomorra and the Flood and the really big stuff for which there are no numbers of victims provided by the Bible.
Yeah !!!!
How dare they remind us that our beloved iPhones are made by underpaid chinese suicidal workers who are at it 16hours a day, with minerals that are mined by 12 years old congoleses.
How is it moral huh ? to say it I mean. No really SAYING IT IS THE PROBLEM ! Because I was confortably numb not think about that in my couch and now I have not to give a shit actively...
idiot.
So some eco-friendly hippies make an app that teaches people how smartphone pollute and Apple takes it back because it's offensive ?
I honnestly for the life of me still don't understand how anyone can have a good image of this company.
How do they get ANY support ? They are the douchiest mean f*cks and they have no ethics whatsoever.
When you get to the point where people saying your shit doesn't smell good enough to be put in their sink gets you mad, I think it's really time to see a psychiatrist. Hopefully Jobs departure will put an end to this decade of giant ego and utter douchery (but I wouldn't hold my breath)
I totally agree that cutting the lan feature was the most stupid stuff blizzard ever did.
Actually you can play Solo being disconnected. You need a internet connection when you install the game, and if you're not connected you don't get the achievements and shit like that (which I really couldn't care less about). and you can cheat on solo.
OTOH you get a cheat free multi which is kind of amazing.
I hear blizzard is going to do a even more restrictive system of D3. This one seems really really stupid : essentially you are always on. and you can use your solo character to play on bnet. There is no closed and open battlenet anymore. You won't be able to cheat in Solo.
This is really stupid.
I was born in 88 and no everything wasn't better when I was young.
I'm really not a nostalgic or anti-progress, and honnestly as much as I played Starcraft 1 for days, I wouldn't touch it now that I've played SC2.
So I find it GREAT when real improvement is made, being graphical or anything else.
The problem is the more industrialized the game market became, the more the focus of the devellopers is shifted from content to aspect.
Apparently makes more money to advertise on technical prowess than to make a amazing game that will be cult and then capitalize on this brand. Or at least that's what the industry seems to think.
Yes I should have mentioned Planetscape: torment which is exactly the kind of RPG you would never see now. Such a great game.
I think Fallout 2 was content-wise far superior to Fallout3.
I think Baldur's gate II was the most profound RPG ever.
If you don't agree and you think some games form 2010 can rival these I'm really interested in your suggestions.
I don't think games and getting worse, I just think the focus has shifted in a way I don't like. The aim is to seduce the wider audience possible, and it is very hard to accomodate this with taking risks is the design or satisfying the hardcore gamers.
In some genres it's easier to do than in others, and for instance SC2 is as good as SC. FPS probably didn't see much change either appart from greater graphics.
But for adventure/RPG the shift is massive and I find it damaging. (although this is just my opinion)
Omg are you stupid ?
It's not about being able to buy an iPad ! it's about relocalizing ALL the manufacturing => less unemployement, => less pressure on the work force => higher salaries.
An iPad costs currently $130 to manufacture, handle and ship. How much of that cost do you think goes to the chinese workers at foxconn ?
And would it really change the price if instead of giving $3 to a chinese guy, Apple gave $20 to an american worker ?
PS : I have no problem with china, and I'm not even American so I could care less about where Apple manufactures its product but the fact of the matter is that delocalization profits only the companies and their owners, not the consumers, because consumers are also workers..
You're an idiot, money isn't a natural ressource!
If the made-in-the-USA iPad costs $10,000 it means that the production cost is maybe $8,000 or 7,000, money which is spent INSIDE the USA, i.e payed to American consumers (i.e. You for the brain damaged) so you could afford it.
Do you think dollars hard haversted from dollars trees or do you actually have a clue of what money is and how it is created/managed ?
This is the least insighful comment I've seen modded +5 in my slashdot experience....
Buying a cd :
A] is more expensive
B] means more pollution
C] means you actually have to rip it at some point which takes times and is a pain in the Ass.
You buy CDs because you want an object not the music on it, and even more to the point : the question was more why people are happy with MP3 when they could have a lossless version?
That's probably what my post would have looked like (with more F*CKING! emphasis) had you not been faster.
I mean I know now that you're a pretty backward country but how can someone teach something he doesn't know ?
Greanted you need some sort of training to teach (a teaching degree of some sort, we call it CAPES in France) but to actually apply for the CAPES you NEED a bachelor or a masters degree in a relevant field.
We are of course talking about highschool teaching here or middleschool not primary, but I doubt you have actual biology classes in primary school do you ?
What exactly is the point of training someone to teach something he doesn't know ?
I'm really astonished for lack of a better word. This is by far the most f*cked up thing I've ever heard of.
Ok their is no logical link whatsoever between any of the lines of your post.
I suggest you go troll somewhere else, or if this is not a troll (*sic*) that you read your crap before posting it.
Because I fail to see how Hitler or Gengis Khan are leftist for starters, and I also fail to see how you transpose left and right from the 1300s to the 2000s but I guess you EXTENSIVE knowledge of global politics throughout history allows you to draw such fine analysis.
Open a fucking book PLEASE.
And please define leftist for me. (yes you can ask your daddy or his daddy or his daddy)
No it's not true because he didn't kill 40 million people...
This is total bullshit.
Khan was a ruler not a petty criminal for fuck's sake the guys ruled over half of the inhabited world at the time, set up the greatest most multicultural administration ever, a post service that covered 14,000 kilometres and used 50,000 workers and 200,000 horses !
He wasn't a fucking vampire.
Thank you.
Gengis Khan was probably the smartest ruler of this era period.
He did most of his actual conquest by submitting the local elite and using them to rule over the people but he also offered freedom in many ways : mongols didn't care for religion which at the time was uncanny.
The bloodsucking mongols is a total myth created by Europeans who were never really confronted to them.
Gengis Khan conquered the vasted territory ever, by not slaughtering everyone as you seem to suggest but on the contrary using the local elite to control the areas.
He set up the vastest communication network (some sort of pony express ancestor) with 200,000 horses and 50,000 workers, that covered more than 14,000 kilometers.
He was the first great actor of globalization, as he unified the territories between middle-east and China and permitted Jewish, Arabs and Venetians merchants to travel safely to china.
He ruled and organized the biggest and fastest expanding empire of all time, creating sets of laws, installing a very powerful administration, and HE COULDN'T EVEN READ !
Not that he was stupid or not instructed but the mongols didn't have any form of writing at the beginning of their insane conquest spree !!
He chose to adopt the writing of the first people they conquered because even though he couldn't read he knew how vital that was to an empire.
Yes he apparently was the best tactician ever but he was MUCH more than that.
Really not any more foolish than consuming petrol for energy.
Not that Nickel is even possible to synthetize, let alone easy or affordable, but all the plastic we use, we get it from petrol and we have little to no alternative right now. Burning petrol to move cars, bus, or even worse to power electrical plants is the stupidest move ever, and the only reason why we keep at it is because big Oil company put the money in the right pockets.
It's a matter of available stock and global consumption but I'm 99% sure we're better off without Nickel than without petrol (at least until we find and satisfactory replacement for it in the plastic industry)