Well, the experiments in the simulated room would eventually hit the granularity of the simulation, bumping against the smallest units the simulation is set up to deal with, such as the smallest unit of length and... Oh, fuck.
What we know about the likelihood of life elsewhere in the Universe amounts to precisely fuck-all, since our current sample size is exactly one. That's not exactly rocket surgery.
So, while technically correct, this "analysis" has probably more to do with riling the nerds for LOLs than any serious or enlightening purpose.
Except that if you bother to watch the clip in question, the 2001 tablets show no sign of being a touchscreen device and have a clear row of keys at the bottom. That's just Samsung either clutching at straws or taking us for imbeciles.
The answer is the same as to the question "why don't they shove a brace of firecrackers up their butt, light them, and put it on YouTube for our amusement?", which is: "and why should they?"
They have built upon an open standard to develop their own propietary format, which they are forcing no one to adopt. This is entirely legitimate, and the market will decide whether it's also good business.
This is the kind of arrant bullshit that just begs to be disrupted to death. Smartphones were shit and the companies that were complacent with that state got murdered by Apple. Digital music distribution was shit - same thing. Authentication is in an absolutely dire state, and ripe to be disrupted in the same way, as soon as a company with a bit of vision and a pair of balls takes charge. Apple, Google? Fuck knows, but it's going to happen, count on it. "Shitty" is not a stable, long term state in technology - even Windows has been shamed into becoming halfway-useable.
Well, to be fair, if you are sort of right-wing yourself, you need to find some way to make Stalin look worse in comparison, so low-balling the Holocaust and high-balling Stalin's purges is par for the course.
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Well, the experiments in the simulated room would eventually hit the granularity of the simulation, bumping against the smallest units the simulation is set up to deal with, such as the smallest unit of length and... Oh, fuck.
Yeah, who needs mathematics and other weird and upsetting sciencey stuff when you have gut feelings and good horse-sense?
Specially for the facial hair...
Dan Lyons is a fucking cunt, and anything he says in the defense of Scott Thompson is by definition a further indictment.
What we know about the likelihood of life elsewhere in the Universe amounts to precisely fuck-all, since our current sample size is exactly one. That's not exactly rocket surgery. So, while technically correct, this "analysis" has probably more to do with riling the nerds for LOLs than any serious or enlightening purpose.
"We fucked up royally" needed further clarification or elaboration.
Finland also. Works well.
How do you know if someone has read Schopenhauer? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
Except that if you bother to watch the clip in question, the 2001 tablets show no sign of being a touchscreen device and have a clear row of keys at the bottom. That's just Samsung either clutching at straws or taking us for imbeciles.
I don't know if it's luddism or some kind of tech variant of Diogenes Syndrome.
You know, if you announce the end of the world every day for the next ten billion years or so, some day you're bound to be correct.
The answer is the same as to the question "why don't they shove a brace of firecrackers up their butt, light them, and put it on YouTube for our amusement?", which is: "and why should they?" They have built upon an open standard to develop their own propietary format, which they are forcing no one to adopt. This is entirely legitimate, and the market will decide whether it's also good business.
I thought it was because "Apple is teh ebil"?
Typing this on a 2006 Mac.
This is the kind of arrant bullshit that just begs to be disrupted to death. Smartphones were shit and the companies that were complacent with that state got murdered by Apple. Digital music distribution was shit - same thing. Authentication is in an absolutely dire state, and ripe to be disrupted in the same way, as soon as a company with a bit of vision and a pair of balls takes charge. Apple, Google? Fuck knows, but it's going to happen, count on it. "Shitty" is not a stable, long term state in technology - even Windows has been shamed into becoming halfway-useable.
Back during the Soviet occupation they used to be Freedom Fighters, though, and deserving of all kinds of help, support and training...
Less than tobacco, then?
Well, to be fair, if you are sort of right-wing yourself, you need to find some way to make Stalin look worse in comparison, so low-balling the Holocaust and high-balling Stalin's purges is par for the course.
Yikes! At least they can't be accused of wasting too much money on the web site...
I'm pretty sure they will beat h.264 in the long run because free wins in the end.
Fuck me, I must have slept through the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
Sounds like a typical case of shit-for-brains submitter. :-/
I don't have any moderation points, but... THIS.
Chances are they already do.
Technical term for "propulsion achieved by firing pellets from the rear".
Well, I can't moderate you up, but at least I can congratulate you on a well-chosen quote.