Did you know that every dead battery you've every thrown away had only used up to 20% of battery life.
That's an out and out lie.
Not true. According to E=MC^2, a single AA battery contains 0.023 kg * c^2 = 2x10^15 Joules of energy. When have you ever used more than 20% of that!!?!?!
I believe that JustNiz is the slashdot handle of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After a long hard day of writing a majority decision protecting our 4th Amendment rights, she decided to relax by reading some good 'ol nerdy slashdot stories.
Unfortunately instead of escape, she ran into this story, which understandably griefed her a bit. Now she has to put up with your meany comments about her not caring about rights.
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful arithmetic controlling everything. No math controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
It's also understandable why US tried to fight for copyrights so much - that's basically the only thing they produce now. Rest of the world produces actual products.
That's fiction. US manufacturing output is still far ahead of every other country. [1][2]
I would say I'm amazed at the economic illiteracy of/.'ers
That quote really ties your post together. Most people are able to see right through the bullshit statistics you cite. I would have assumed all/.'ers would see right through them. You, however, have let yourself be totally manipulated by them. But, the best part is that you believe that others disagree because they are not as informed as you.
Companies should not be permitted to purchase gasoline from other companies that have it. Those companies that use less than their government alloted ration are in compliance. Those companies who use more gasoline are fined. You either follow the law or you don't. Commerce is a farce. If we allow commerce to happen, next people will be using it to buy and sell illicit drugs.
That people are doing this is a sign of a broken fiancial system (as if fiat currency based on debt didn't already establish that). They are not producing anything. They are buying low and selling high units of wealth that others have produced. They are not creating wealth, they are redistributing it.
The are producing something, liquidity. Liquidity has value. It's like saying cab drivers don't do "real" work, they just redistribute people who do.
Amusement parks are "entertainment, no more," and they're governed by the ADA as well.
Amusement parks are covered by the ADA because they are commercial facilities.
The ADA specifies 5 covered entities. Tell me which if these is a video game:
* Employment: no * Public Entity: no * Public Transportation: no * Public Accommodation: no * Commercial Facility: no (virtual doesn't count) * Telecommunication: That's as close as you're going to get, but I'm going to go with 'no' on this as well.
A video game is not a commercial facility, nor is it employment, public facility, public transportation, or telecommunication.
Step 1) Put a big round ball on a stick on top of each forklift, each a different color. (perhaps even lit up with infra-red colors). Use some colors you don't have a lot of around.
Step 2) Put cameras around the area frequently taking stills, and using edge detection (with color filter masks) to locate balls in the camera's 2-D space.
Step 3) Read a book about computer vision and how you can recover the 3-D posotion of something, given it's 2-D position from multiple cameras (5 cameras per ball is best).
straight from the speech text: the biggest challenge facing parents is the Internet... we worry about content... Back in 1997, the Clinton Administration... called for the development of more sophisticated filtering software... no filter is 100% effective... it kind of becomes a game and a challenge to get around the filtering... One of our challenges, therefore, is that technology keeps advancing
Translation:
Youg people these days aren't growing up in exactly the same world we did. We must use our power as old people to stop time, keeping everying as it was in the "good old days" tm).
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Even worse, if you watch their promo video - Dave mentions this at the end of his vblog - it goes actually says:
Did you know that every dead battery you've every thrown away had only used up to 20% of battery life.
That's an out and out lie.
Not true. According to E=MC^2, a single AA battery contains 0.023 kg * c^2 = 2x10^15 Joules of energy. When have you ever used more than 20% of that!!?!?!
I believe that JustNiz is the slashdot handle of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After a long hard day of writing a majority decision protecting our 4th Amendment rights, she decided to relax by reading some good 'ol nerdy slashdot stories.
Unfortunately instead of escape, she ran into this story, which understandably griefed her a bit. Now she has to put up with your meany comments about her not caring about rights.
Like many technically-minded people, I don't have a lot of time to keep up with sports.
The word you're looking for is "Nerd". It's OK to say it, it's in the title-bar of Slashdot.
In California, lack of correlation doesn't prove lack of causation.
Driving is a privilege, not a right (there's no Constitutional right to drive a car)
Please see the 9th Amendment.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
And stop construing.
my interest in the hobby is essentially gone and I've not been a visitor to my own site in well over two years.
CmdrTaco, is that you?
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful arithmetic controlling everything. No math controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
I had a more direct conversation:
User: Are you human?
Cleverbot: No.
Mod Parent Up. S&P didn't just "make a perfectly valid assumption", they were given
A=X
B=X+2
C=A-4
and concluded
C=X-2
(because they used B instead of A)
It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979
the C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998
So you're saying the "first iteration" took 19 years. You must use the word "iteration" differently at your shop than we do at mine.
It's also understandable why US tried to fight for copyrights so much - that's basically the only thing they produce now. Rest of the world produces actual products.
That's fiction. US manufacturing output is still far ahead of every other country. [1] [2]
That quote really ties your post together. Most people are able to see right through the bullshit statistics you cite. I would have assumed all /.'ers would see right through them. You, however, have let yourself be totally manipulated by them. But, the best part is that you believe that others disagree because they are not as informed as you.
Classic. Really classic.
I really dig my iPad, and have no reason to get this new one.
Except..Apple is going to make me download the new OS, making my iPad 1 slow to a crawl. Just like they did to my iPhone 3G.
Yes I know I could never update. But, that doesn't seem like a reasonable thing to ask your customers to do.
The iPad 1 already has video-out: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A
It only works with certain apps, but you definitely can do presentations and such on a 50" screen, from your iPad.
Now make the same argument about gasoline:
Companies should not be permitted to purchase gasoline from other companies that have it. Those companies that use less than their government alloted ration are in compliance. Those companies who use more gasoline are fined. You either follow the law or you don't. Commerce is a farce. If we allow commerce to happen, next people will be using it to buy and sell illicit drugs.
GP: Mono is not portable
P: Yes it is! Here is a link to its license!
Being open source doesn't make something portable.
The are producing something, liquidity. Liquidity has value. It's like saying cab drivers don't do "real" work, they just redistribute people who do.
Monday October 11th.
Here are the most recent 350 examples: http://www.learnaboutguns.com/tag/self-defense-example/
So your defense of the former USSR nations is that they are slightly more enlightened in 2010 than the US was in the 18th century.
What do you suggest we do differently?
Leave. The government of Iraq and Afghanistan have been conquered. Their nations, as one would expect, lie in ruin. Well done, let's go home.
Amusement parks are "entertainment, no more," and they're governed by the ADA as well.
Amusement parks are covered by the ADA because they are commercial facilities.
The ADA specifies 5 covered entities. Tell me which if these is a video game:
* Employment: no
* Public Entity: no
* Public Transportation: no
* Public Accommodation: no
* Commercial Facility: no (virtual doesn't count)
* Telecommunication: That's as close as you're going to get, but I'm going to go with 'no' on this as well.
A video game is not a commercial facility, nor is it employment, public facility, public transportation, or telecommunication.
You see an Agent, you do what we do. Run.
The brilliance of CS is the combo of only having 1 life, and really quick games.
If poeple are rushing (like they should) the game is won or lost in about 1 minute, over in no more than 2. Worst case it lasts 5.
Just enough sitting out to make dying painful, but quick enough turnaround that you don't want to leave.
It works way better than "die all you want" games like Unreal and Quake.
Step 1) Put a big round ball on a stick on top of each forklift, each a different color. (perhaps even lit up with infra-red colors). Use some colors you don't have a lot of around.
Step 2) Put cameras around the area frequently taking stills, and using edge detection (with color filter masks) to locate balls in the camera's 2-D space.
Step 3) Read a book about computer vision and how you can recover the 3-D posotion of something, given it's 2-D position from multiple cameras (5 cameras per ball is best).
straight from the speech text:
.. ... ... ... ... ...
the biggest challenge facing parents is the Internet.
we worry about content
Back in 1997, the Clinton Administration
called for the development of more sophisticated filtering software
no filter is 100% effective
it kind of becomes a game and a challenge to get around the filtering
One of our challenges, therefore, is that technology keeps advancing
Translation:
Youg people these days aren't growing up in exactly the same world we did. We must use our power as old people to stop time, keeping everying as it was in the "good old days" tm).