"they found the suspected weapons in containers of brown sugar"
Oh no! He's building a calorie bomb! That's the only type of bomb Americans could easily just roll with without much damage, lol.
I think they're going to pull a "Parks and Recs" on them and they'll open up the box of first chips and every one will have "go fuck yourself" etched into it and basically be solid ceramics.
I noticed during my limited interactions with Facebook that people who are morons in real life are twice and annoying, rude, and stupid on Facebook. So much for an idealized, sanitized, celebrity version of themselves. I don't think it's true for everyone or even close to the majority.
For a couple weeks, I had a fake account representing Rusty Shackleford from King of the Hill (a notorious anti-government, pro-privacy character of course). There were a couple hundred other Rusty Shacklefords too. Is that not what you meant by celebrity version of myself? lol.
I noticed that a ton of IT students at my college don't use Facebook. And it wasn't some hippie fine arts college or something with people bringing typewriters in to be ironic, it's a low cost public one. So I researched it and in the #1 most likely demographics to use Facebook, the least likely group within it is IT professionals. I have a feeling we're all on to something, as I don't use it either.
The flicker fusion amount isn't a number. A DLP projector at 120Hz will drive me crazy but 240Hz is less noticeable. A CRT set to 60Hz will just about make my eyes bleed but 75Hz won't. An LCD set to 60Hz looks like a smooth motion to me. DLP merges RGB with a noticeable dark gap between them. CRTs have a high amount of luminosity difference between the frames so it's more noticeable. LCDs are very subtle and can get away with a lower Hz without humans noticing it. So not only is it different between people but it's different depending on how different color or brightness-wise the frames actually are.
So (in cases other than this DNA one) a company spending billions on research for something and then making a basic effort to prevent bottom-feeding generic companies and foreigners from ripping off their work with zero investment in the initial research causes Earth's elite population to move to an exclusive space station orbiting Earth called Elysium? I think this article is a little overblown, as is my hyperbolic oversimplification of it.
The real issue here is stupid patents. People patenting round corners and touch to open and the wheel or whatever other stupidity the patent office lets pass by. Those pretty much result in extortion to other companies. But then you've got Dungeons and Dragons. The company invents something that cost a fortune to develop with staff time, spell checking, math, balancing, etc. Someone shouldn't be able to rip it off freely and resell it or give it away just because it's intellectual property and not "real" property. Some copyrights and patents reflect actual value and some are made up BS to go around suing people over. THAT is what needs to be fixed. Depriving the poor masses of their right to D&D information by lording it over them with patents and copyrights is a completely made up fantasy though (pun intended).
"The image on a standard television screen is updated 60 times per second"
I'm fairly certain that all US broadcast TV is around 27 FPS and non-HD cable is the same and there's no way satellite wastes bandwidth on high FPS. I think only HD is 60FPS. Just because an LCD is refreshing at 60 or 120Hz doesn't mean that's what the tower or cable company is sending.
Also, dog TV is a stupid idea. The last thing I want is my dog ramming and clawing to death my expensive television.
Fill disclosure: I don't actually have a dog or a TV. I'm allergic and live in an apartment and I use a tuner card on my PC.
Someone should give Obama the "best arming of rebels" award now too just to really rub in how stupid that decision was. Foreigners need to keep their opinions and million dollar prizes out of our elections. Snowden, however, should get one. Well, except that he probably worsened foreign relationships and might actually cause a war. But just on merit, why not?
I was picturing them simply slamming on an instant braking system and the people flying a mile or two and landing on a giant mattress. That would only require 1/2G acceleration lol.
Anyway, since this isn't in deep space, I assumed 1G horizontal and 1G downward is 2 total G's, just in 2 directions. So them saying the trip has 1G total is not true.
I had pictured Futurama tubes:-P They're not going straight up so that 1G is horizontal. So since there's 1G going downward from gravity and 1G going perpendicular. Doesn't that exceed 1G already total on a vector 45 degrees off from each axis? So I assume it's impossible to do because of that. Regardless, they act like 1G is some magical, unnoticeable amount. 1G down and 1G backwards at the same time is nausea inducing and disorienting. I seem immune to any kind of motion sickness or G-force problems. I even ride the Gravitron for fun (look it up) but not everyone is like me. It still beats flying though.
Spelling isn't important in programming, lol. That's what the IDE is for. Coincidentally, most IDEs for javascript have little to no spelling assistance, lol.
I learned C++ then VB.NET then C# then JavaScript. I was shocked at how "anything goes" it was and I assumed it was a memory nightmare. Considering my i5-2400 sometimes maxes out on pages with complicated javascript, I'm not surprised. I heard that JS can take 10x more memory than it needs at any given time realistically.
The one thing I can't wrap my head around is if it was made a "real" language, would it be a gigantic security disaster? Or could it be limited enough to not turn into Flash, Java, etc?
I think you mean minorities. CNN is like one gigantic machine powered by special interest groups and minorities' viewership. If it's pro-gay, vegetarian, conspiracy nut, tea party, black, or muslim, they hop on it like it's made out of crack.
I feel I should point out that maintaining 1G constantly (or anything near it) to get that distance in 30 minutes and reach that speed is completely impossible. The math just isn't there.
So Google thought maybe MS would simply forget about it and not pay any attention to whether or not the injunction was being followed? Riiiight. Shocker, now they're suing.
Paraphrased but mostly directly quoted Steve Balmer:
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. I'm going to fucking kill Google. I know, let's embed Bing into Windows 8.1, track everything, make everything touch, turn the Xbox into a disaster that nobody could ever possibly buy, and see if people are stupid enough to rent Office 2013 on a subscription for 5x more TCO. Then we're fucked I can go down with the ship like a famous captain and be all famous and noble and stuff."
Yeeeeah, he deserves much more hate than he's getting. He's a raving lunatic that's out of touch with reality.
Typical Asian companies. Lie, cheat, steal, build underperforming crap and then cover it up, fake weights, break safety guidelines, all in the name of honor and status and prosperity and profit for themselves and their family. They don't import much from the US and morals certainly isn't on that list. Not one single US company should be surprised that some of their Asian manufactured shipments just sank into the ocean. That is the epitome of Asian company quality standards. If they pulled their head out of their ass for a second, they'd notice that a 30 day wait in their supply chain for their inventory to sail over on a sketchy boat from a country with zero industrial quality standards might not be "cheaper" than a US-sourced product after all.
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That reminds me of my 10 pound KNO3 and 7 pound sugar smoke bomb I made. This looks like it could launch a rocket:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMITFo66qWg
"they found the suspected weapons in containers of brown sugar"
Oh no! He's building a calorie bomb! That's the only type of bomb Americans could easily just roll with without much damage, lol.
EVERY Apple customer EVER. Blame everyone else. They're themselves perfect. Ultra arrogant and living in their own little world.
I think they're going to pull a "Parks and Recs" on them and they'll open up the box of first chips and every one will have "go fuck yourself" etched into it and basically be solid ceramics.
I noticed during my limited interactions with Facebook that people who are morons in real life are twice and annoying, rude, and stupid on Facebook. So much for an idealized, sanitized, celebrity version of themselves. I don't think it's true for everyone or even close to the majority.
For a couple weeks, I had a fake account representing Rusty Shackleford from King of the Hill (a notorious anti-government, pro-privacy character of course). There were a couple hundred other Rusty Shacklefords too. Is that not what you meant by celebrity version of myself? lol.
I noticed that a ton of IT students at my college don't use Facebook. And it wasn't some hippie fine arts college or something with people bringing typewriters in to be ironic, it's a low cost public one. So I researched it and in the #1 most likely demographics to use Facebook, the least likely group within it is IT professionals. I have a feeling we're all on to something, as I don't use it either.
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It's called a "range." You may have learned about it in 4th grade math.
The flicker fusion amount isn't a number. A DLP projector at 120Hz will drive me crazy but 240Hz is less noticeable. A CRT set to 60Hz will just about make my eyes bleed but 75Hz won't. An LCD set to 60Hz looks like a smooth motion to me. DLP merges RGB with a noticeable dark gap between them. CRTs have a high amount of luminosity difference between the frames so it's more noticeable. LCDs are very subtle and can get away with a lower Hz without humans noticing it. So not only is it different between people but it's different depending on how different color or brightness-wise the frames actually are.
So (in cases other than this DNA one) a company spending billions on research for something and then making a basic effort to prevent bottom-feeding generic companies and foreigners from ripping off their work with zero investment in the initial research causes Earth's elite population to move to an exclusive space station orbiting Earth called Elysium? I think this article is a little overblown, as is my hyperbolic oversimplification of it.
The real issue here is stupid patents. People patenting round corners and touch to open and the wheel or whatever other stupidity the patent office lets pass by. Those pretty much result in extortion to other companies. But then you've got Dungeons and Dragons. The company invents something that cost a fortune to develop with staff time, spell checking, math, balancing, etc. Someone shouldn't be able to rip it off freely and resell it or give it away just because it's intellectual property and not "real" property. Some copyrights and patents reflect actual value and some are made up BS to go around suing people over. THAT is what needs to be fixed. Depriving the poor masses of their right to D&D information by lording it over them with patents and copyrights is a completely made up fantasy though (pun intended).
"The image on a standard television screen is updated 60 times per second"
I'm fairly certain that all US broadcast TV is around 27 FPS and non-HD cable is the same and there's no way satellite wastes bandwidth on high FPS. I think only HD is 60FPS. Just because an LCD is refreshing at 60 or 120Hz doesn't mean that's what the tower or cable company is sending.
Also, dog TV is a stupid idea. The last thing I want is my dog ramming and clawing to death my expensive television.
Fill disclosure: I don't actually have a dog or a TV. I'm allergic and live in an apartment and I use a tuner card on my PC.
Is this your first time on the internet?
You should be. Since I'm the IT manager, I'd fire you with an attitude like that.
Someone should give Obama the "best arming of rebels" award now too just to really rub in how stupid that decision was. Foreigners need to keep their opinions and million dollar prizes out of our elections. Snowden, however, should get one. Well, except that he probably worsened foreign relationships and might actually cause a war. But just on merit, why not?
That doesn't explain the volume of netbooks at pawn shops or the price. It only explains why vendors stopped pushing them. They're just awful!
I was picturing them simply slamming on an instant braking system and the people flying a mile or two and landing on a giant mattress. That would only require 1/2G acceleration lol.
Anyway, since this isn't in deep space, I assumed 1G horizontal and 1G downward is 2 total G's, just in 2 directions. So them saying the trip has 1G total is not true.
I had pictured Futurama tubes :-P They're not going straight up so that 1G is horizontal. So since there's 1G going downward from gravity and 1G going perpendicular. Doesn't that exceed 1G already total on a vector 45 degrees off from each axis? So I assume it's impossible to do because of that. Regardless, they act like 1G is some magical, unnoticeable amount. 1G down and 1G backwards at the same time is nausea inducing and disorienting. I seem immune to any kind of motion sickness or G-force problems. I even ride the Gravitron for fun (look it up) but not everyone is like me. It still beats flying though.
Spelling isn't important in programming, lol. That's what the IDE is for. Coincidentally, most IDEs for javascript have little to no spelling assistance, lol.
I learned C++ then VB.NET then C# then JavaScript. I was shocked at how "anything goes" it was and I assumed it was a memory nightmare. Considering my i5-2400 sometimes maxes out on pages with complicated javascript, I'm not surprised. I heard that JS can take 10x more memory than it needs at any given time realistically.
The one thing I can't wrap my head around is if it was made a "real" language, would it be a gigantic security disaster? Or could it be limited enough to not turn into Flash, Java, etc?
I think you mean minorities. CNN is like one gigantic machine powered by special interest groups and minorities' viewership. If it's pro-gay, vegetarian, conspiracy nut, tea party, black, or muslim, they hop on it like it's made out of crack.
I feel I should point out that maintaining 1G constantly (or anything near it) to get that distance in 30 minutes and reach that speed is completely impossible. The math just isn't there.
So Google thought maybe MS would simply forget about it and not pay any attention to whether or not the injunction was being followed? Riiiight. Shocker, now they're suing.
Paraphrased but mostly directly quoted Steve Balmer:
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. I'm going to fucking kill Google. I know, let's embed Bing into Windows 8.1, track everything, make everything touch, turn the Xbox into a disaster that nobody could ever possibly buy, and see if people are stupid enough to rent Office 2013 on a subscription for 5x more TCO. Then we're fucked I can go down with the ship like a famous captain and be all famous and noble and stuff."
Yeeeeah, he deserves much more hate than he's getting. He's a raving lunatic that's out of touch with reality.
Typical Asian companies. Lie, cheat, steal, build underperforming crap and then cover it up, fake weights, break safety guidelines, all in the name of honor and status and prosperity and profit for themselves and their family. They don't import much from the US and morals certainly isn't on that list. Not one single US company should be surprised that some of their Asian manufactured shipments just sank into the ocean. That is the epitome of Asian company quality standards. If they pulled their head out of their ass for a second, they'd notice that a 30 day wait in their supply chain for their inventory to sail over on a sketchy boat from a country with zero industrial quality standards might not be "cheaper" than a US-sourced product after all.