Because monitors aren't VGA anymore. We now have small laptops with 2880x1880 screens built in that are plugged into multiple monitors. If you want to drive that at a snappy response, or if you want to select a primary monitor and switch between them, you should take advantage of the hardware.
Heck, a simple one: I have a laptop with a dead built-in monitor. I use an external monitor, which works fine with X, but the console is on the internal screen.
The guy invented Cyberpunk as we know it (or at least pioneered it), and nobody credits him for it. He had avatars in the Crystal Wind (his vision of the VR net) and AIs doing battle with and against genetically engineered soldiers and telepaths, all set against a backdrop universe of UN Peacekeepers keeping a fascist regime in place with orbital lasers and a greater background spanning the whole of time. Internet addiction, flying cars that nobody was allowed to drive manually for safety reasons, and near future military equipment that makes sense (with drawbacks and idiot proofing). His universe dates back in magazines to 1983, a year before Neuromancer, but his novels were published a year later.
Plus he's been included in collections like "Star Wars: Tales from Jabba’s Palace" and "Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters".
Clifford D. Simak is another acknowledged master of the genre who seems to get short shrift in modern SF collections.
Yep. I was looking for his name in the comments. He's a joy to read, and if he seems cliche, it is because he defined many of the SF expectations and conventions.
And what exactly qualifies it as the best SF story that has "insight about human nature or society that's basically cynical or pessimistic?" The plot is quite sad, but it does seem to have at least some positive things to say about the human condition.
Well, they are in the right. Not only that, but they are legally required to defend their mark of trade. Given that, this is a very reasonable and non-antagonistic way to handle things.
JD "wins" in this case in the same way that a neighbor whose window was broken "wins": they were the victim and deserve to be compensated. If, of course, the neighbor didn't break the window (which doesn't appear to be the case here), they can easily reply in a non-hyper-legal manner. This is "uh, your kid broke my window and knocked over my lamp. I'll take care of the window... tell you what, get a new lampshade, and we're even. If you have the kid apologize, I'll even cover the lampshade."
it didn't even fix all the major known flaws (gate is the same as it ever was for instance)
I would say that it hies to the universal D&D flaws, thus retaining the core D&D feel. If you change enough of those, you wind up with an actual different game, not a progression within the same family. Of course, that's not a bad choice, but it would have resulted in a radically different end result that would have to seek a new audience. At least part of Pathfinder's appeal is that it's "a better D&D than D&D".
Because it is an annoying error, and it got cleaned up for future releases in the same way that they might remove a watch that an actor accidentally wore, or an member of the crew's hand. It's distracting from telling the story they want to tell, which is the actual goal of the work.
Sure it's post-first-release, but it's not uncommon to do a bit of touch-up with each release. That even applies to 35mm prints. Rocky Horror went through a variety of edits and soundtrack changes (mono to stereo, remixing, adding a cut scene) through the film release. Same applies to any film that goes through a long theatrical release lifespan: Sound of Music, most of Kubrick's works, etc.
Perhaps you're unaware that the modern American chic is 80s and 90s dominated. I was at the Protoman concert last night (with unexpected guest Tenacious D), and everybody was there wearing 80s style clothing. Including my wife, who has a PhD in Chemistry, and does theoretical chemistry research at Vanderbilt.
That said, while she was dressed up for the concert, she wears professional attire at work. In other words, science is a job like any other.
However, having heard her rant about things like this, she'll probably be more amused at the "piles of random glassware, all with large amounts of colored chemicals, putting out visible fumes". Ever notice there's never a hood or tiny desk in these kinds of presentations?
For anybody who wants a basic overview of Malay law regarding these matters, there's an issue of the Malayan Law Journal (actually an article supplement) that covers this in language easily understood by the layperson (and it's also in English, to boot). The PDF is located here: http://jeraldgomez.com/pdf/7cd40a1889d4539feffda786372ff33b.pdf and I would point you to page 3 (page 4 of the PDF).
Basically, they are based on English Common Law, and signed the UDHR, but have a history of legislation that allows detention without trial, originally designed to combat communism.
It is unlabeled. Several of the bodies of water, including the smaller and neighboring Gulf of Oman, and around the Arabian peninsula, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea are all labelled.
I followed your link and get Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Chrome, a deleted page, Internet Explorer, Firefox, a list that puts Safari at the top, "you can't go wrong with any", then Firefox and Chrome tied.
Well, it's probably not what you're looking for, but the next version (Jelly Bean) lists the ability to install and dual boot on a laptop as one of the goals. Reader beware: I'm not really into Android development, so I'm just going off of the Wikipedia article, which lists it as being released third quarter this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
I just read it, so if somebody could confirm, deny or provide more info, it would be interesting. Android could be a nice Linux on a desktop for many people. Assuming you actually mean Linux itself and not "X Windows, etc etc".
"Geoengineering: could lessen the effects of climate change or undermine the political will to fight it."
Isn't this a bit like the whole "teaching condoms in school is dangerous because then teens will have massive amounts of sex"? You're omitting a valid (even if imperfect) solution that may help stave off tragedy if people choose a particular path in order to defend and mandate that your "morally superior path" is the only option presented.
True. But rather than picking on the word choice, I am answering the intended assertion that they don't {movement/travel verb} in space. Space is used in the title, not "fly", so I was answering in an assumption that the complaint was regarding the term "space".
For balloons ascending to space *as* balloons, you don't need orbital velocity, just get high enough. None have broken 53km. Since the height varies between agencies (usually 100km, with some using 50 miles, which is about 80km), different people have been recognized as astronauts (USAF vs. NASA). Repeat in different countries. Looking up this balloon, it got to 30km, which is well below either definition.
So, yes... balloons have been sent to space (with other means of propulsion). No, this one did not. It failed to get halfway to the most generous limit, and less than a third of the most commonly accepted threshold.
If meddling with DNS doesn't work, network operators will simply be forced to block at the IP level, e.g. by withdrawing the BGP routes to the censored sites. Good luck circumventing this kind of blocking (still possible with proxies, and maybe distributed anonymous p2p proxies, but a nuisance anyway).
Wait. Did you just state that there was a way to reliably block sites, sarcastically wish people luck, and then parenthetically note how to defeat your invented scenario?
In that case: They could isolate all servers with blocks of hardened, compressed layers of dried pasta. Good luck circumventing this kind of blocking (still possible with trained mice who can pull ethernet cables through their tunnels, and maybe wifi on frequencies not blocked by pasta, but a nuisance anyway).
So you're basing your buying consideration on a bad example that occurred close to 20 years ago? Insanity.
You do understand that it's an illustration of a point? I am typing this (and the other comment) on a Macbook Pro. My wife is downstairs using my iPad to look at the holiday recipes she's cooking. It's a bad idea to base your buying decisions on one bad experience... which what the parent post had said.
Though you are buying one phone, you are choosing from a sea of phones and carriers. A lot of how the choice works out comes down to luck.
That is somewhat true, but it's also true for cars and laptops for many people. It's "whatever Best Buy has", or whichever car lot they happen to visit and what they are trying to move. An informed consumer can choose a phone carefully, weighing their choices. That does not mean, of course, that you'll get everything you want: the original point was a single feature: OS upgrades. That can be found. As to if anybody offers the exact feature set you want... well, that's not always available. But nor is it available for vehicles or laptops either.
Personally, my killer feature is a physical qwerty keyboard. My wife also really likes them (so she can ssh into her computing cluster). That limits our options greatly, the same as if we needed four wheel drive. That said, there are few things better documented these days than cars, phones and laptops, so you cn easily do the research to find what you want.
Possibly that figured in due to the politics of the time. Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., however, was a pretty clear trigger. They were 4 years apart, and the temperance movement had been going for a fair amount of time by the time it passed, so it's certainly reasonable.
Really, a half minute of looking it up would have found you the answer. I guarantee that you spent more time copying and pasting your quotes. Heck, the answer's even in the opening paragraphs of the Wikipedia article about the 16th amendment: It was found unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. Thus the need for an amendment to the constitution to make it... well... constitutional again.
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Because monitors aren't VGA anymore. We now have small laptops with 2880x1880 screens built in that are plugged into multiple monitors. If you want to drive that at a snappy response, or if you want to select a primary monitor and switch between them, you should take advantage of the hardware.
Heck, a simple one: I have a laptop with a dead built-in monitor. I use an external monitor, which works fine with X, but the console is on the internal screen.
The guy invented Cyberpunk as we know it (or at least pioneered it), and nobody credits him for it. He had avatars in the Crystal Wind (his vision of the VR net) and AIs doing battle with and against genetically engineered soldiers and telepaths, all set against a backdrop universe of UN Peacekeepers keeping a fascist regime in place with orbital lasers and a greater background spanning the whole of time. Internet addiction, flying cars that nobody was allowed to drive manually for safety reasons, and near future military equipment that makes sense (with drawbacks and idiot proofing). His universe dates back in magazines to 1983, a year before Neuromancer, but his novels were published a year later.
Plus he's been included in collections like "Star Wars: Tales from Jabba’s Palace" and "Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters".
And almost nobody has heard of him.
Clifford D. Simak is another acknowledged master of the genre who seems to get short shrift in modern SF collections.
Yep. I was looking for his name in the comments. He's a joy to read, and if he seems cliche, it is because he defined many of the SF expectations and conventions.
And what exactly qualifies it as the best SF story that has "insight about human nature or society that's basically cynical or pessimistic?" The plot is quite sad, but it does seem to have at least some positive things to say about the human condition.
How does Google TV factor in? I know only vaguely about it, but it would seem to have 10 foot interface apps.
Well, they are in the right. Not only that, but they are legally required to defend their mark of trade. Given that, this is a very reasonable and non-antagonistic way to handle things.
JD "wins" in this case in the same way that a neighbor whose window was broken "wins": they were the victim and deserve to be compensated. If, of course, the neighbor didn't break the window (which doesn't appear to be the case here), they can easily reply in a non-hyper-legal manner. This is "uh, your kid broke my window and knocked over my lamp. I'll take care of the window... tell you what, get a new lampshade, and we're even. If you have the kid apologize, I'll even cover the lampshade."
it didn't even fix all the major known flaws (gate is the same as it ever was for instance)
I would say that it hies to the universal D&D flaws, thus retaining the core D&D feel. If you change enough of those, you wind up with an actual different game, not a progression within the same family. Of course, that's not a bad choice, but it would have resulted in a radically different end result that would have to seek a new audience. At least part of Pathfinder's appeal is that it's "a better D&D than D&D".
Because it is an annoying error, and it got cleaned up for future releases in the same way that they might remove a watch that an actor accidentally wore, or an member of the crew's hand. It's distracting from telling the story they want to tell, which is the actual goal of the work.
Sure it's post-first-release, but it's not uncommon to do a bit of touch-up with each release. That even applies to 35mm prints. Rocky Horror went through a variety of edits and soundtrack changes (mono to stereo, remixing, adding a cut scene) through the film release. Same applies to any film that goes through a long theatrical release lifespan: Sound of Music, most of Kubrick's works, etc.
Perhaps you're unaware that the modern American chic is 80s and 90s dominated. I was at the Protoman concert last night (with unexpected guest Tenacious D), and everybody was there wearing 80s style clothing. Including my wife, who has a PhD in Chemistry, and does theoretical chemistry research at Vanderbilt.
That said, while she was dressed up for the concert, she wears professional attire at work. In other words, science is a job like any other.
However, having heard her rant about things like this, she'll probably be more amused at the "piles of random glassware, all with large amounts of colored chemicals, putting out visible fumes". Ever notice there's never a hood or tiny desk in these kinds of presentations?
They didn't survive? Well, neither has anyone else who was born in 1897.
Dina Manfredini and Jiroemon Kimura are alive, and they were both born in 1897. As is Besse Cooper, who was born in 1896.
For anybody who wants a basic overview of Malay law regarding these matters, there's an issue of the Malayan Law Journal (actually an article supplement) that covers this in language easily understood by the layperson (and it's also in English, to boot). The PDF is located here: http://jeraldgomez.com/pdf/7cd40a1889d4539feffda786372ff33b.pdf and I would point you to page 3 (page 4 of the PDF).
Basically, they are based on English Common Law, and signed the UDHR, but have a history of legislation that allows detention without trial, originally designed to combat communism.
It is unlabeled. Several of the bodies of water, including the smaller and neighboring Gulf of Oman, and around the Arabian peninsula, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea are all labelled.
I followed your link and get Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Chrome, a deleted page, Internet Explorer, Firefox, a list that puts Safari at the top, "you can't go wrong with any", then Firefox and Chrome tied.
I think your example is failing upon examination.
Well, it's probably not what you're looking for, but the next version (Jelly Bean) lists the ability to install and dual boot on a laptop as one of the goals. Reader beware: I'm not really into Android development, so I'm just going off of the Wikipedia article, which lists it as being released third quarter this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
I just read it, so if somebody could confirm, deny or provide more info, it would be interesting. Android could be a nice Linux on a desktop for many people. Assuming you actually mean Linux itself and not "X Windows, etc etc".
"Geoengineering: could lessen the effects of climate change or undermine the political will to fight it."
Isn't this a bit like the whole "teaching condoms in school is dangerous because then teens will have massive amounts of sex"? You're omitting a valid (even if imperfect) solution that may help stave off tragedy if people choose a particular path in order to defend and mandate that your "morally superior path" is the only option presented.
Apple is always right. Evidence, and logic, are irrelevant.
Really. You're making baseless accusations of sainthood with zero evidence, and you're standing in judgement of ethics?
Hunh.
(Still not quite sure why this was a reply to my post, but hey, might as well play along).
Really. You're making baseless accusations of serious crimes with zero evidence, and you're standing in judgement of ethics?
Hunh.
True. But rather than picking on the word choice, I am answering the intended assertion that they don't {movement/travel verb} in space. Space is used in the title, not "fly", so I was answering in an assumption that the complaint was regarding the term "space".
Better let NASA know that they haven't sent up balloons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_satellite
For balloons ascending to space *as* balloons, you don't need orbital velocity, just get high enough. None have broken 53km. Since the height varies between agencies (usually 100km, with some using 50 miles, which is about 80km), different people have been recognized as astronauts (USAF vs. NASA). Repeat in different countries. Looking up this balloon, it got to 30km, which is well below either definition.
So, yes... balloons have been sent to space (with other means of propulsion). No, this one did not. It failed to get halfway to the most generous limit, and less than a third of the most commonly accepted threshold.
What are you talking about? He asked a question. Here's a link to the question. Does that help?
If meddling with DNS doesn't work, network operators will simply be forced to block at the IP level, e.g. by withdrawing the BGP routes to the censored sites. Good luck circumventing this kind of blocking (still possible with proxies, and maybe distributed anonymous p2p proxies, but a nuisance anyway).
Wait. Did you just state that there was a way to reliably block sites, sarcastically wish people luck, and then parenthetically note how to defeat your invented scenario?
In that case: They could isolate all servers with blocks of hardened, compressed layers of dried pasta. Good luck circumventing this kind of blocking (still possible with trained mice who can pull ethernet cables through their tunnels, and maybe wifi on frequencies not blocked by pasta, but a nuisance anyway).
Kind of fun. Now somebody else go!
So you're basing your buying consideration on a bad example that occurred close to 20 years ago? Insanity.
You do understand that it's an illustration of a point? I am typing this (and the other comment) on a Macbook Pro. My wife is downstairs using my iPad to look at the holiday recipes she's cooking. It's a bad idea to base your buying decisions on one bad experience... which what the parent post had said.
Though you are buying one phone, you are choosing from a sea of phones and carriers. A lot of how the choice works out comes down to luck.
That is somewhat true, but it's also true for cars and laptops for many people. It's "whatever Best Buy has", or whichever car lot they happen to visit and what they are trying to move. An informed consumer can choose a phone carefully, weighing their choices. That does not mean, of course, that you'll get everything you want: the original point was a single feature: OS upgrades. That can be found. As to if anybody offers the exact feature set you want... well, that's not always available. But nor is it available for vehicles or laptops either.
Personally, my killer feature is a physical qwerty keyboard. My wife also really likes them (so she can ssh into her computing cluster). That limits our options greatly, the same as if we needed four wheel drive. That said, there are few things better documented these days than cars, phones and laptops, so you cn easily do the research to find what you want.
Possibly that figured in due to the politics of the time. Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., however, was a pretty clear trigger. They were 4 years apart, and the temperance movement had been going for a fair amount of time by the time it passed, so it's certainly reasonable.
When was it found unconstitutional?
Really, a half minute of looking it up would have found you the answer. I guarantee that you spent more time copying and pasting your quotes. Heck, the answer's even in the opening paragraphs of the Wikipedia article about the 16th amendment: It was found unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. Thus the need for an amendment to the constitution to make it... well... constitutional again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock_v._Farmers'_Loan_%26_Trust_Co.