So people are actually giving you cash money for your bitcoins? I highly doubt that, as anyone with real cash money actually sees no value in bitcoins. Bitcoin fans have such sorry lives that they put personal value on making their CPUs and GPUs do stuff and accumulate points. Nerds love to accumulate points (see the slashdot karma system), because they lack anything truly fulfilling in their lives.
iPhone/iPod/iTunes; probably the best designed/marketed/developed products in 50 years.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, please, go on. Oh my god, you even put that piece of shit iTunes in there for an additional touch, man, you're good.
But he has a low UID which means he has a HUGE slashdick and he posts at +3. He must be doing something right. I've altered my sig to dip into that reverse psychology shit that always works on the dumb fucktards that moderate here. I define my happiness by my karma score because I have no life.
The hoverboard WOULD be possible if we had magnetic roads and pathways, or at least feasible, unfortunatley the hover-car is something a bit more difficult to acheive, but as we have seen with fan propelled flying cars, it too isn't very far off.
This is both an exciting time and a terrifying time to be alive.
Indeed. People can't have hover cars until they're completely self-controlled (the cars). A lot of people can't even drive down the road on 4 wheels without fucking everything up.
I wouldn't bang my head on the desk looking at someone else's code and trying to learn from it. So many people write the most obfuscated shit -- spaghetti code and using extreme levels of shorthand when it doesn't actually improve any performance and makes the code hard to read. Don't cuddle your braces./ducks.
Get your self a real IDE. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is available as a free download from Microsoft. You can get a free key for it with a Google search. I got mine from a Youtube video. You're free to install updates for life, and there is no DRM in it. Microsoft does this because they take fucking care of their developers (even us hobbyists that can't live without the features of VS Ultimate).
If you like games, then get the XNA Game Studio and use C#/.NET. The performance is great, and using unmanaged C or C++ for a game (with XNA available) is premature optimization in my opinion. You can call C code from your C# code and use unmanaged code whenever you want AFTER it's warranted by benchmarking and profiling. There are plenty of performance tracking classes in.NET and the profiler in VSS 2010 Ultimate is amazing. No cross-platforminess, though. I guess if you want to develop for Linux, then you'll have to settle for slightly inferior tools and APIs.
Why not just make them take a safety course before allowing someone to own one? Then you are not taking any of their rights away but just making sure they see first hand that these can be quite dangerous and aren't a toy.
A safety course? See my post above. These things aren't guns. They're laboratory tools (if that - I doubt the laser light is clean enough to be useful in a lab) and there is no safety course to teach other than what is already taught regarding laser safety in a controlled laboratory.
No one needs one of these any more than they need a ball of plutonium and two hemispheres of beryllium. "Oh, but I've got my radiation shielding coat (laser safety goggles) and I've got my safety course and certification, so I should most certainly be able to buy a ball of plutonium from this Russian company... Even though I have no use for it at all other than it's cool and geeky."
Good points. I'd consider these lasers from this company to be far worse instruments than firearms with regard to how dangerous they are. Lasers maim. They can maim entire crowds of people at the speed of light. Bullets don't go that fast. As you pointed out, lasers can start fires. Bullet firing guns have various limitations regarding firing speed and spread. Guns go boom. Lasers don't. Guns typically hold a finite amount of ammo. These lasers can be considered to have virtually unlimited ammo (yea, I know they have batteries but a battery lasting an hour continuously is like a truck of bullets on one long belt being feed into a gun). Guns leave a projectile behind with ballistics info and maybe a shell casing with finger prints. Lasers don't. Finally, I would bet that people in general consider firearms more dangerous than these lasers. That in itself is a big problem.
Regulation of these lasers should be nothing like firearms. These lasers should never exist outside of a lab. If you have a lab, you should require a license to own a laser of this power. It's use should be strictly regulated. I'm assuming there are regulations on possessing certain types and amounts of nuclear material (if there aren't, there should be), and these lasers should be regulated like that.
I'll extinguish cigarettes into the eyes of the asshole that blinds me or a friend or family member with one of these (if they even get caught). And it will most likely be an ignorant, stupid teenager or young adult who can be considered luckier and luckier every second he goes without blinding himself from the moment he turns it on for the first time.
I second this. Especially the prisons. The prisoners should have to pay rent and should be set free if they cannot pay the rent. That will teach the socialist fucks!
Fuck me, I read half way through this discussion, and it was a bunch of geeks arguing about using lights to see the tanks, then other geeks arguing that lights can be remotely controlled, then other geeks arguing about how fast military weapons can blow up lights, then other geeks arguing about putting lights on top of civilian sheds, and some other geeks arguing about hacking satellites.
I'm surprised you geeks haven't started arguing about putting a light in orbit and space ships shooting them down and people hacking the lights and how many fucking lights there are (there are four lights).
I work for a small employer, and agree wholeheartedly. The big companies are on the verge of collapse. Enjoy the show, and stay out of debt! Don't buy a house now and rent for a couple of more years.
Holy shit! My old account is still active. Now I can stop trolling as AC!
Mod me off topic motherfuckers! My UID (dick size ) speaks for itself. Haven't posted in years and don't give a shit about 9/11 conspiracy anymore. You'd think I've grown up... And I have. But not on here, folks. I think I was 14 or younger when I signed up.
And android still sucks for developing apps for profit. Market is flooded with shit, and you have to be very lucky or a marketing genius to make money off it. Marketing geniuouses will not be developing apps, so that leaves the very lucky option. You're probably not going to develop the next Angry Birds, and OGL kind of sucks compared to XNA. Also Java cs C#/.NET - putting aside cross-platforminess, C# wins hands down.
Just my opinion. Fuck off.
PS: No 10 minute wait time?!?!
Spunkee is a dumb name, and it's incredible I remembered the password. I thought slashdot purged inactive accounts years ago...
Actually, it's fewest assumptions -- not "simplest logical explanation". This invalidates the remainder of your post, but I'll bite anyway.
911 for example... 12 uneducated Muslim extremists hijack 4 aircraft simultaneously and manage to crash 3 of them into buildings. They use box knives for this. They were able to fly the aircraft with pinpoint precision with only commercial pilot licenses at best (airline transport licenses really are required for this level of precision).
They were in fact so precise that they managed to hit the Pentagon at 530 mph without even grazing the lawn. Just look at the pics. No conspiracy here. No doctored pics. Further, they managed to vaporize all but a supposed APU wheel. They managed to lower the melting point of titanium. The one piece of wreckage with an AA logo they did find had no scratches or fire burns. Amazing.
Try that in Flight Sim X with a 747 (smaller than the 757 that hit the Pentagon). I would bet you cash money that you overshoot or undershoot it your first 10 tries. These guys had one shot at it. Remember, you have to do this while avoiding the lawn entirely.
In fact, I don't think you'd even be able to pull off the turn toward the Pentagon without going into a high-speed stall.
Also, one of the hijacker's passport managed to fly out of the aircraft, out of the trade tower, onto the sidewalk below, where it was conveniently found... Hmm.
All of this in the most secure nation on Earth.
Now that's an awful lot of assumptions. If we went over everything in the 911 Omission Report, we would find even more.
The alternative explanations (that I won't bother reiterating here) make far fewer assumptions.
The mass of the Earth would increase as the number of humans increase up to a theoretical limit approaching infiniti.
They wouldn't fit comfortably, and you'd certainly have to stack them. The acceleration of gravity would increase as more humans were added to the mass of the Earth.
Possibly, you'd have to import food from throughout the universe... I'm not sure if conservation of mass applies to a planet and all living (or not living) entities on it... Debris from space that enters Earth's atmosphere may or may not be useful in reproducing humans.
Of course, as the mass approaches infiniti the universe would begin to be pulled toward Earth eventually ending in one big-assed mass. Maybe. Smoke some weed, drop some acid, and figure it out for yourself. Most of you are so left-brained a little mental exploration would probably be good for you.
No shit. Well call me completely uninformed. I thought this stuff was still in the "it's impossible and you're crazy for saying it isn't" stage. Seriously.
Sensitive are we? It is old news. Good news. Interesting news. But nothing new. Jesus christ what's wrong with you people are touchy. Mod the post as flamebait no less.
What the kid did is amazing. All CF experiments are, and I'm happy to see any progress in the field. The "old news" part was a bit of a joke? Good god man.
1G is equal to earth's gravitional acceleration. I don't think anything can experience 0G. Everywhere in known space something is causing a gravitational force.
Most cops have small dicks. I should know. I've slept with 144 of them. Compare this to nerds who have average to large size dicks. Their is a direct correlation between general ethical behavior and dick size. Larger dicks lead to more ethical behavior. Smaller dicks lead to less ethical behavior. The dick size is one of many determining factors when a young man decides to become a cop. What you end up with, by a vast majority, are a bunch of cops walking around with small dicks and inferiority complexes. This combination immediately leads to violence, abuse of power, corruption, and homosexuality. Just observer the average cop's nose and/or hand size for qualitative evidence of these claims.
Spot on. Getting tased hurts like shit. I know. All you geek nerd bitches out there that keep saying he deserved FIVE fucking shots are gay with small dicks (like the pigs). One is enough for almost anyone. Two if they continue to move. It's their use of FIVE shots after they themselves KNOW how one feels that is the problem here. They have to be shot with one once to be issued one.
Maybe they didn't properly identify themselves. Criminals dress as cops all the time to take advantage of someone. Obviously they didn't want to give their badge numbers, so they probably did not properly identify themselves. Most pigs don't, and they get real pissed when you question anything about them. That's because they have small dicks acording to the latest CNN-USA Today Gallup Poll.
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So people are actually giving you cash money for your bitcoins? I highly doubt that, as anyone with real cash money actually sees no value in bitcoins. Bitcoin fans have such sorry lives that they put personal value on making their CPUs and GPUs do stuff and accumulate points. Nerds love to accumulate points (see the slashdot karma system), because they lack anything truly fulfilling in their lives.
A Pokemon joke? Sheesh, it's like everything old is new again. Next we'll be seeing links to Shiny Mudkips...
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While watching Natalie Portman with hot grits down our pants.
iPhone/iPod/iTunes; probably the best designed/marketed/developed products in 50 years.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, please, go on.
Oh my god, you even put that piece of shit iTunes in there for an additional touch, man, you're good.
But he has a low UID which means he has a HUGE slashdick and he posts at +3. He must be doing something right. I've altered my sig to dip into that reverse psychology shit that always works on the dumb fucktards that moderate here. I define my happiness by my karma score because I have no life.
They're still completely profit driven and will screw people over to make one cent. They are obviously pulling some shady shit.
The hoverboard WOULD be possible if we had magnetic roads and pathways, or at least feasible, unfortunatley the hover-car is something a bit more difficult to acheive, but as we have seen with fan propelled flying cars, it too isn't very far off.
This is both an exciting time and a terrifying time to be alive.
Indeed. People can't have hover cars until they're completely self-controlled (the cars). A lot of people can't even drive down the road on 4 wheels without fucking everything up.
I wouldn't bang my head on the desk looking at someone else's code and trying to learn from it. So many people write the most obfuscated shit -- spaghetti code and using extreme levels of shorthand when it doesn't actually improve any performance and makes the code hard to read. Don't cuddle your braces. /ducks.
Get your self a real IDE. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is available as a free download from Microsoft. You can get a free key for it with a Google search. I got mine from a Youtube video. You're free to install updates for life, and there is no DRM in it. Microsoft does this because they take fucking care of their developers (even us hobbyists that can't live without the features of VS Ultimate).
If you like games, then get the XNA Game Studio and use C#/.NET. The performance is great, and using unmanaged C or C++ for a game (with XNA available) is premature optimization in my opinion. You can call C code from your C# code and use unmanaged code whenever you want AFTER it's warranted by benchmarking and profiling. There are plenty of performance tracking classes in .NET and the profiler in VSS 2010 Ultimate is amazing. No cross-platforminess, though. I guess if you want to develop for Linux, then you'll have to settle for slightly inferior tools and APIs.
Have fun.
Why not just make them take a safety course before allowing someone to own one? Then you are not taking any of their rights away but just making sure they see first hand that these can be quite dangerous and aren't a toy.
A safety course? See my post above. These things aren't guns. They're laboratory tools (if that - I doubt the laser light is clean enough to be useful in a lab) and there is no safety course to teach other than what is already taught regarding laser safety in a controlled laboratory.
No one needs one of these any more than they need a ball of plutonium and two hemispheres of beryllium. "Oh, but I've got my radiation shielding coat (laser safety goggles) and I've got my safety course and certification, so I should most certainly be able to buy a ball of plutonium from this Russian company... Even though I have no use for it at all other than it's cool and geeky."
Good points. I'd consider these lasers from this company to be far worse instruments than firearms with regard to how dangerous they are. Lasers maim. They can maim entire crowds of people at the speed of light. Bullets don't go that fast. As you pointed out, lasers can start fires. Bullet firing guns have various limitations regarding firing speed and spread. Guns go boom. Lasers don't. Guns typically hold a finite amount of ammo. These lasers can be considered to have virtually unlimited ammo (yea, I know they have batteries but a battery lasting an hour continuously is like a truck of bullets on one long belt being feed into a gun). Guns leave a projectile behind with ballistics info and maybe a shell casing with finger prints. Lasers don't. Finally, I would bet that people in general consider firearms more dangerous than these lasers. That in itself is a big problem.
Regulation of these lasers should be nothing like firearms. These lasers should never exist outside of a lab. If you have a lab, you should require a license to own a laser of this power. It's use should be strictly regulated. I'm assuming there are regulations on possessing certain types and amounts of nuclear material (if there aren't, there should be), and these lasers should be regulated like that.
I'll extinguish cigarettes into the eyes of the asshole that blinds me or a friend or family member with one of these (if they even get caught). And it will most likely be an ignorant, stupid teenager or young adult who can be considered luckier and luckier every second he goes without blinding himself from the moment he turns it on for the first time.
Good luck finding some place (any place) that will give you cash in exchange for a random personal check that says "Cash" in the payee field.
I second this. Especially the prisons. The prisoners should have to pay rent and should be set free if they cannot pay the rent. That will teach the socialist fucks!
Fuck me, I read half way through this discussion, and it was a bunch of geeks arguing about using lights to see the tanks, then other geeks arguing that lights can be remotely controlled, then other geeks arguing about how fast military weapons can blow up lights, then other geeks arguing about putting lights on top of civilian sheds, and some other geeks arguing about hacking satellites.
I'm surprised you geeks haven't started arguing about putting a light in orbit and space ships shooting them down and people hacking the lights and how many fucking lights there are (there are four lights).
I work for a small employer, and agree wholeheartedly. The big companies are on the verge of collapse. Enjoy the show, and stay out of debt! Don't buy a house now and rent for a couple of more years.
Holy shit! My old account is still active. Now I can stop trolling as AC!
Mod me off topic motherfuckers! My UID (dick size ) speaks for itself. Haven't posted in years and don't give a shit about 9/11 conspiracy anymore. You'd think I've grown up... And I have. But not on here, folks. I think I was 14 or younger when I signed up.
And android still sucks for developing apps for profit. Market is flooded with shit, and you have to be very lucky or a marketing genius to make money off it. Marketing geniuouses will not be developing apps, so that leaves the very lucky option. You're probably not going to develop the next Angry Birds, and OGL kind of sucks compared to XNA. Also Java cs C#/.NET - putting aside cross-platforminess, C# wins hands down.
Just my opinion. Fuck off.
PS: No 10 minute wait time?!?!
Spunkee is a dumb name, and it's incredible I remembered the password. I thought slashdot purged inactive accounts years ago...
Actually, it's fewest assumptions -- not "simplest logical explanation". This invalidates the remainder of your post, but I'll bite anyway.
911 for example... 12 uneducated Muslim extremists hijack 4 aircraft simultaneously and manage to crash 3 of them into buildings. They use box knives for this. They were able to fly the aircraft with pinpoint precision with only commercial pilot licenses at best (airline transport licenses really are required for this level of precision).
They were in fact so precise that they managed to hit the Pentagon at 530 mph without even grazing the lawn. Just look at the pics. No conspiracy here. No doctored pics. Further, they managed to vaporize all but a supposed APU wheel. They managed to lower the melting point of titanium. The one piece of wreckage with an AA logo they did find had no scratches or fire burns. Amazing.
Try that in Flight Sim X with a 747 (smaller than the 757 that hit the Pentagon). I would bet you cash money that you overshoot or undershoot it your first 10 tries. These guys had one shot at it. Remember, you have to do this while avoiding the lawn entirely.
In fact, I don't think you'd even be able to pull off the turn toward the Pentagon without going into a high-speed stall.
Also, one of the hijacker's passport managed to fly out of the aircraft, out of the trade tower, onto the sidewalk below, where it was conveniently found... Hmm.
All of this in the most secure nation on Earth.
Now that's an awful lot of assumptions. If we went over everything in the 911 Omission Report, we would find even more.
The alternative explanations (that I won't bother reiterating here) make far fewer assumptions.
The mass of the Earth would increase as the number of humans increase up to a theoretical limit approaching infiniti.
They wouldn't fit comfortably, and you'd certainly have to stack them. The acceleration of gravity would increase as more humans were added to the mass of the Earth.
Possibly, you'd have to import food from throughout the universe... I'm not sure if conservation of mass applies to a planet and all living (or not living) entities on it... Debris from space that enters Earth's atmosphere may or may not be useful in reproducing humans.
Of course, as the mass approaches infiniti the universe would begin to be pulled toward Earth eventually ending in one big-assed mass. Maybe. Smoke some weed, drop some acid, and figure it out for yourself. Most of you are so left-brained a little mental exploration would probably be good for you.
No shit. Well call me completely uninformed. I thought this stuff was still in the "it's impossible and you're crazy for saying it isn't" stage. Seriously.
Sensitive are we? It is old news. Good news. Interesting news. But nothing new. Jesus christ what's wrong with you people are touchy. Mod the post as flamebait no less.
What the kid did is amazing. All CF experiments are, and I'm happy to see any progress in the field. The "old news" part was a bit of a joke? Good god man.
1G is equal to earth's gravitional acceleration. I don't think anything can experience 0G. Everywhere in known space something is causing a gravitational force.
To tilt requires acceleration. They measure acceleration first. Then tilt indirectly.
sixaxis is a palindrome. clever.
This has been replicated over 300 times. Maybe 500. Old news. Real news will be when our government finally funds this research.
Most cops have small dicks. I should know. I've slept with 144 of them. Compare this to nerds who have average to large size dicks. Their is a direct correlation between general ethical behavior and dick size. Larger dicks lead to more ethical behavior. Smaller dicks lead to less ethical behavior. The dick size is one of many determining factors when a young man decides to become a cop. What you end up with, by a vast majority, are a bunch of cops walking around with small dicks and inferiority complexes. This combination immediately leads to violence, abuse of power, corruption, and homosexuality. Just observer the average cop's nose and/or hand size for qualitative evidence of these claims.
Spot on. Getting tased hurts like shit. I know. All you geek nerd bitches out there that keep saying he deserved FIVE fucking shots are gay with small dicks (like the pigs). One is enough for almost anyone. Two if they continue to move. It's their use of FIVE shots after they themselves KNOW how one feels that is the problem here. They have to be shot with one once to be issued one.
Maybe they didn't properly identify themselves. Criminals dress as cops all the time to take advantage of someone. Obviously they didn't want to give their badge numbers, so they probably did not properly identify themselves. Most pigs don't, and they get real pissed when you question anything about them. That's because they have small dicks acording to the latest CNN-USA Today Gallup Poll.