i couldnt agree more, at my previous job they used notes for email/intarweb resources/databases, and i nearly whept tears of joy when i saw my machine at my current job had outlook on it
and as usual, michio kaku glosses over all the actually hard bits of solving the problem.
Sending nano-probes (no relation to the borg technology) to do a single scan/measurement might work, since once you get them going at.1 c, that doesnt impede them from doing that measurement, and sending back data. However, constructing a space station orbiting some planet (probably somewhere around 25-50k km/h) is going to be very hard when you are a nano probe passing through a system at.1 c
Also DNA + mental state != complete human, if you take the same DNA and have the resulting creature grow up under very different circumstances, you invariably end up with different hardware to load that mental state into
i did the same when i got my first 128mb mp3 player, encoding to 128kbit made it somewhat possible to carry *two* whole albums with me, without the quality being too bad. I even tried 64 kbps for a few days, allowing me to take 4 whole albums with me, for variation, but the audio quality was just too horrid, even on cheapy earbuds.
Honestly though, on your garden variety speakers/earbuds, going above 192kbps doesnt really improve anything, the only reason to go higher is if you have above average audio equipment
good god i hope they dont ship 11.04. Your average gnome 2.4 desktop is mildly understandable for joe sipack (especially once you move to just one panel, at the bottom), but unity is a fricking usability disaster. Once they ship eee's with 11.04, they will have a repeat of the original eee 701 on their hands, massive returns by clueless commoners unable to connect to their wireless and start ther browser.
i've tried installing 11.04 on my oldish laptop, and the thing is horribly unstable, and basicaly unusable, while old versions of ubuntu run without a hitch
Honestly, the first system i buy with ubuntu 11.04 pre-installed will have its drive wiped as if it were running vista
do you need actual rendering power on your third screen? todays budget cards are more then powerfull enough for anything save high end gaming and rendering. For 2d stuff, even your basic old S3 card would do.
at the current exchange rates, 150 dollars is about 105 euros, i (as a junior code back then) had my hourly rate higher then that before the recession. Granted, i didnt get payed that, but third parties paid that to my employer back then for my services.
The same applies to computers by the way, at my previous employer it took a LOT of nagging and chasing my manager to finally get an extra gig of ram, and even with the total of 3g, my machine was a bit sluggish, thought the extra gig really helped. It probably cost like 30 bucks too...
Internet's Vectormatic: Gabe Newell's brain broken.
I dont care about online MP these days, but if this even so much as creeps near Valve's single player titles they can fuck off, i like my games single player and without influence from random internet people thank you very much, that includes the price
Still, they are every-frickin-where. Here in Utrecht (big city in the netherlands), there are billboards all over the train station about how the 21st is going to be judgement day and how we should call to god (including a big "the bible guarantuees it" sticker)
yes fucking please! Bring me a new timesplitters and i will buy it outright, hell, if needed i will buy a new console to run it on. TS2 was pure unadulterd briliance, the most fun i've had multiplaying any FPS and TS:FP put in an awesome storyline too, not to mention a much more expanded multiplayer mode, the level editing was groundbreaking
i dont really understand the animosity towards spirits within. Sure it wasnt traditional final fantasy, but it provided a decent Sci-fi storyline/setting and breathtaking visuals. This was in the DVD age, and the visuals just blew me away.
I remember walking into a gamestore where they had it playing on a ps2, and i watched the scene with the drop-troopers landing in that green goo, and my instant response was "what is that game? i must have it, even if i have to buy a PS2 for it"
so you hate all post 7 FFs, but you still bought the majority of them? perhaps Square are getting mixed signals then, people bitching about your games but still buying them in droves doesnt exactly tell you that you screwed up.
Not trying to be an ass here, just pointing out that so long as people still buy their stuff, square thinks they're golden.
Apparently that trend seems to have shifted for FFXIV
my only real expierence with FF is crisis core on the PSP, which i liked, if not for the suddenly inbeatable bosses
Fission reactors are based on the premise of controlling something that runs away from you if you let it.
early design surely were, but today we have enough design with safety features that are built in such a way, that when control is lost, the reactors shuts down on its own.
What did you switch too? i find myself doing pretty much the same thing (lots of non-coding compared to actual coding), yet i cant think of something else i'd really enjoy (and which would provide me with the same income)
I'm not fed up enough to switch careers by a long shot, but those meetings do get a bit old..
Was one of them an ex-tomcat pilot, who picked up naval law because of his night blindness, and the other a slightly unconventional but seriously hot chick?
i really doubt teabagging and grieffing the pirates is gonne be the solution.
Also, i agree with some earlier posters, just sink the damn pirates, the only modification i propose is leaving one pirate from every ship alone, to return home and tell the other would-be pirates of what happens to pirates. But you can just set that one adrift in a life-raft somewhere near the cost, the rest can be made to walk the plank after seeing their ship burned and sunk.
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i couldnt agree more, at my previous job they used notes for email/intarweb resources/databases, and i nearly whept tears of joy when i saw my machine at my current job had outlook on it
*cries his eyes out imagining updating to lion on a 56K line*
(and yes, i know the modem sends binairy signals over the analog line and all)
and as usual, michio kaku glosses over all the actually hard bits of solving the problem.
Sending nano-probes (no relation to the borg technology) to do a single scan/measurement might work, since once you get them going at .1 c, that doesnt impede them from doing that measurement, and sending back data. However, constructing a space station orbiting some planet (probably somewhere around 25-50k km/h) is going to be very hard when you are a nano probe passing through a system at .1 c
Also DNA + mental state != complete human, if you take the same DNA and have the resulting creature grow up under very different circumstances, you invariably end up with different hardware to load that mental state into
nuclear weapons arent a defense against invasion, what are you gonna do, nuke manhattan the moment $ENEMY_POWER starts landing troops there?
Still, i agree the US military could probably do with losing a few pounds, all that foreign meddling seems a bit unnecessary at times
have you ever tried orbitting an asteroid? Nuking it just to be sure is going to be HARD!
which is why you have proper user privilige management in your os..
running anything but trusted code as root/administrator is dumb
i did the same when i got my first 128mb mp3 player, encoding to 128kbit made it somewhat possible to carry *two* whole albums with me, without the quality being too bad. I even tried 64 kbps for a few days, allowing me to take 4 whole albums with me, for variation, but the audio quality was just too horrid, even on cheapy earbuds.
Honestly though, on your garden variety speakers/earbuds, going above 192kbps doesnt really improve anything, the only reason to go higher is if you have above average audio equipment
good god i hope they dont ship 11.04. Your average gnome 2.4 desktop is mildly understandable for joe sipack (especially once you move to just one panel, at the bottom), but unity is a fricking usability disaster. Once they ship eee's with 11.04, they will have a repeat of the original eee 701 on their hands, massive returns by clueless commoners unable to connect to their wireless and start ther browser.
i've tried installing 11.04 on my oldish laptop, and the thing is horribly unstable, and basicaly unusable, while old versions of ubuntu run without a hitch
Honestly, the first system i buy with ubuntu 11.04 pre-installed will have its drive wiped as if it were running vista
i dont know here you live, but let's assume the USA:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709+600038364+4025+600001667&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&AdvancedSearch=1&srchInDesc=
newegg has 28 low profile cards under $50, and you can choose between pci, agp or pci-e and ati or nvidia
if that 150 bucks is the difference between staying afloat and having to lay off people, you have bigger issues then screen real-estate.
do you need actual rendering power on your third screen? todays budget cards are more then powerfull enough for anything save high end gaming and rendering. For 2d stuff, even your basic old S3 card would do.
just get a cheapo radeon and be done with it
at the current exchange rates, 150 dollars is about 105 euros, i (as a junior code back then) had my hourly rate higher then that before the recession. Granted, i didnt get payed that, but third parties paid that to my employer back then for my services.
The same applies to computers by the way, at my previous employer it took a LOT of nagging and chasing my manager to finally get an extra gig of ram, and even with the total of 3g, my machine was a bit sluggish, thought the extra gig really helped. It probably cost like 30 bucks too...
Internet's Vectormatic: Gabe Newell's brain broken.
I dont care about online MP these days, but if this even so much as creeps near Valve's single player titles they can fuck off, i like my games single player and without influence from random internet people thank you very much, that includes the price
Still, they are every-frickin-where. Here in Utrecht (big city in the netherlands), there are billboards all over the train station about how the 21st is going to be judgement day and how we should call to god (including a big "the bible guarantuees it" sticker)
Timesplitters
yes fucking please! Bring me a new timesplitters and i will buy it outright, hell, if needed i will buy a new console to run it on. TS2 was pure unadulterd briliance, the most fun i've had multiplaying any FPS and TS:FP put in an awesome storyline too, not to mention a much more expanded multiplayer mode, the level editing was groundbreaking
i dont really understand the animosity towards spirits within. Sure it wasnt traditional final fantasy, but it provided a decent Sci-fi storyline/setting and breathtaking visuals. This was in the DVD age, and the visuals just blew me away.
I remember walking into a gamestore where they had it playing on a ps2, and i watched the scene with the drop-troopers landing in that green goo, and my instant response was "what is that game? i must have it, even if i have to buy a PS2 for it"
so you hate all post 7 FFs, but you still bought the majority of them? perhaps Square are getting mixed signals then, people bitching about your games but still buying them in droves doesnt exactly tell you that you screwed up.
Not trying to be an ass here, just pointing out that so long as people still buy their stuff, square thinks they're golden.
Apparently that trend seems to have shifted for FFXIV
my only real expierence with FF is crisis core on the PSP, which i liked, if not for the suddenly inbeatable bosses
yes there is, not putting your frickin backup generators in the basement!
Fission reactors are based on the premise of controlling something that runs away from you if you let it.
early design surely were, but today we have enough design with safety features that are built in such a way, that when control is lost, the reactors shuts down on its own.
What did you switch too? i find myself doing pretty much the same thing (lots of non-coding compared to actual coding), yet i cant think of something else i'd really enjoy (and which would provide me with the same income)
I'm not fed up enough to switch careers by a long shot, but those meetings do get a bit old..
We also had 2 Navy lawyers on-board
Was one of them an ex-tomcat pilot, who picked up naval law because of his night blindness, and the other a slightly unconventional but seriously hot chick?
i really doubt teabagging and grieffing the pirates is gonne be the solution.
Also, i agree with some earlier posters, just sink the damn pirates, the only modification i propose is leaving one pirate from every ship alone, to return home and tell the other would-be pirates of what happens to pirates. But you can just set that one adrift in a life-raft somewhere near the cost, the rest can be made to walk the plank after seeing their ship burned and sunk.
man, sucks to be you
wow, imagine that, google stepping up to the RIAA, an AC linking carefully with NSFW while a low (relatively anyway) UID just blasts profinaty
I guess the end is nigh, and all those may 21st judgement day loonies are right
buying beer coins at a festival/concert?
I never really tried this, but i could see the organisation refusing to buy back unspent coins