... of robotics and artificial limbs/hearts. No more of this servo/gear nonsense that creates slow, jerky movement. The future is artificial muscle, connected to artificial joints by artificial tendons. We are the templates of the future.
All viruses used in this manner are wired not to reproduce. It means you need to inject a lot more copies of the virus, but there's no chance of mutation in a virus that can't reproduce. And no, they can't spontaneously redevelop the huge number of genes necessary to reproduce; they don't even have the opportunity to do so. It's completely safe.
Flash is a plugin. Bug the people who make it -Adobe, not Mozilla- if you want to use it on mobile devices.
Flash is already supported on Android, but the browser itself, in this case Firefox, has to actually implement support for the plugin. To date, Mozilla hasn't done this for the Android version of Firefox.
...they object to the idea that there is a random process out there which is not directed by God.
Who says it's undirected? To us mortals, a lot of things seem random (radioactive decay, genetic mutations, etc.), but who says these things are undirected? A process which seems random to us could make perfect sense to a deity, and could even be directly controlled by said deity. I don't see the need for mutual exclusion here.
Reminds me of the people who insist that any sort of business conversation happen in person, no matter how far away they are. Need to have a 15 minute chat with some guy in California? Here's your plane ticket, see you in 3 days. VoIP? Never heard of him, here's your taxi to the airport.
Paragraph 1: "We support the First Amendment." (It's scary enough that you even have to say such a thing nowadays)
Paragraph 2: "No First Amendment activities in the trains, boarding areas, or any other part of our property." (I love the "expressive activities" buzzphrase in this one)
For example, take removing the status bar. Chrome will expand the little URL popup that replaced the status bar if you continue hovering a link. Firefox 4 and 5 don't. And for some reason they randomly switch between left-aligning it and right-aligning the popup. And for fuck's sake, why don't you just expand the popup to fill the entire horizontal width of the window?! I've got the room to display the entire URL! Why doesn't Firefox bother doing so?!
This isn't anything like the Ubisoft situation, which consists mainly of a bunch of PHBs making bad decisions about piracy. From TFA:
The characters you can create in Diablo III, up to a limit of 10, will be stored on Blizzard's servers, and therefore require a constant internet connection to access. This applies to all modes of the game, from co-op to player-versus-player to solo play.
Honestly I think this is a good thing. It was always too tempting to load up a character editor and give myself lots of cool toys. Now, when someone sees you in D3, they know you've put effort (or money, lol) into what you've accomplished with that character. Also, it's The Cloud (TM), so all your characters are there-- even the single player ones-- no matter which machine you use.
As for the real-money auction thing, that does seem a bit off, but I think it's worth waiting to see how it pans out.
I am in absolute awe after watching the video about the new rover. As people bicker over whether NASA's miniscule budget is worth it, because "space isn't important", it's nice that NASA can still bring out that child-like wonder in me. How can you not be amazed that we can send a robot like this to another planet, land it safely with precision, and study the composition of the planet from millions of miles away? Isn't that awe worth a few billion dollars a year, even if "it doesn't benefit me"?
(Also, it has a laser tricorder. I mean, come on.)
With Europeans, Indians and the Chinese doing all real science and engineering today, it's just something that Americans don't need to know about.
That's a nice self-fulfilling prophecy there: "Why should I bother trying to climb out of this well when I'm just going to spend the rest of my life in this well anyway?"
Isn't the whole point of the "20% time" over at Google that people can just work on whatever they want, useful or not? Labs seemed like a great place for this sort of work to live, whether it became a "real" product eventually or not. I'm not really sure I understand the logic behind closing it down to "focus" on their main products. If that's their goal, they should eliminate the 20% time completely.
On another note, does this mean all the labs in Gmail, etc are going away as well?
In the U.S. we have a similar industry-enforced classification called AO (Adults Only). But it's completely worthless, as no store will carry any AO games. So even if you got the classification, it wouldn't necessarily make it any easier to actually produce an adult game.
I'm not quite sure you understand what's going on here. The highest game rating in Australia is 15, which is analogous to the highest movie rating in the US being PG-13. Anything unsuitable for a 15 year old simply cannot be sold there. The rating they're trying to introduce in Australia is similar to our M rating for games (i.e. R rated movies). With this rating, games containing violence/language/sex suitable for an adult, but not a 15 year old, can be sold on the market. X-rated games are a whole other issue.
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... of robotics and artificial limbs/hearts. No more of this servo/gear nonsense that creates slow, jerky movement. The future is artificial muscle, connected to artificial joints by artificial tendons. We are the templates of the future.
All viruses used in this manner are wired not to reproduce. It means you need to inject a lot more copies of the virus, but there's no chance of mutation in a virus that can't reproduce. And no, they can't spontaneously redevelop the huge number of genes necessary to reproduce; they don't even have the opportunity to do so. It's completely safe.
Life finds a way.
This has always hurt my brain: from our frame of reference, if this supernova is ~40Mly away, is it happening now or did it happen 40M years ago?
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Flash is a plugin. Bug the people who make it -Adobe, not Mozilla- if you want to use it on mobile devices.
Flash is already supported on Android, but the browser itself, in this case Firefox, has to actually implement support for the plugin. To date, Mozilla hasn't done this for the Android version of Firefox.
...they object to the idea that there is a random process out there which is not directed by God.
Who says it's undirected? To us mortals, a lot of things seem random (radioactive decay, genetic mutations, etc.), but who says these things are undirected? A process which seems random to us could make perfect sense to a deity, and could even be directly controlled by said deity. I don't see the need for mutual exclusion here.
"Solving the global warming problem once and for all!"
"But..."
"Once and for all!"
rule #1 - stop digging.
Dig up, stupid!
Reminds me of the people who insist that any sort of business conversation happen in person, no matter how far away they are. Need to have a 15 minute chat with some guy in California? Here's your plane ticket, see you in 3 days. VoIP? Never heard of him, here's your taxi to the airport.
Thanks for letting us know that typing is a useful skill, I guess.
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Also, the title/summary calls it "Apps Engine", which confuses App Engine (cloud hosting) with Google Apps (domain/email/document hosting).
Paragraph 1: "We support the First Amendment." (It's scary enough that you even have to say such a thing nowadays)
Paragraph 2: "No First Amendment activities in the trains, boarding areas, or any other part of our property." (I love the "expressive activities" buzzphrase in this one)
This week on CS:GO, the Jetsons travel back in time to visit de_bedrock.
For example, take removing the status bar. Chrome will expand the little URL popup that replaced the status bar if you continue hovering a link. Firefox 4 and 5 don't. And for some reason they randomly switch between left-aligning it and right-aligning the popup. And for fuck's sake, why don't you just expand the popup to fill the entire horizontal width of the window?! I've got the room to display the entire URL! Why doesn't Firefox bother doing so?!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
There's a menu option for that? I just use Ctrl-U (Cmd-U on Mac).
The characters you can create in Diablo III, up to a limit of 10, will be stored on Blizzard's servers, and therefore require a constant internet connection to access. This applies to all modes of the game, from co-op to player-versus-player to solo play.
Honestly I think this is a good thing. It was always too tempting to load up a character editor and give myself lots of cool toys. Now, when someone sees you in D3, they know you've put effort (or money, lol) into what you've accomplished with that character. Also, it's The Cloud (TM), so all your characters are there-- even the single player ones-- no matter which machine you use.
As for the real-money auction thing, that does seem a bit off, but I think it's worth waiting to see how it pans out.
I'm pretty sure different groups of researchers can work on all of those problems simultaneously.
I am in absolute awe after watching the video about the new rover. As people bicker over whether NASA's miniscule budget is worth it, because "space isn't important", it's nice that NASA can still bring out that child-like wonder in me. How can you not be amazed that we can send a robot like this to another planet, land it safely with precision, and study the composition of the planet from millions of miles away? Isn't that awe worth a few billion dollars a year, even if "it doesn't benefit me"?
(Also, it has a laser tricorder. I mean, come on.)
With Europeans, Indians and the Chinese doing all real science and engineering today, it's just something that Americans don't need to know about.
That's a nice self-fulfilling prophecy there: "Why should I bother trying to climb out of this well when I'm just going to spend the rest of my life in this well anyway?"
"We're in agreement that this should be done, but not that we should actually do it."
Google has decided to eliminate this "lunch" you speak of, as it was detracting from their core products.
Isn't the whole point of the "20% time" over at Google that people can just work on whatever they want, useful or not? Labs seemed like a great place for this sort of work to live, whether it became a "real" product eventually or not. I'm not really sure I understand the logic behind closing it down to "focus" on their main products. If that's their goal, they should eliminate the 20% time completely.
On another note, does this mean all the labs in Gmail, etc are going away as well?
In the U.S. we have a similar industry-enforced classification called AO (Adults Only). But it's completely worthless, as no store will carry any AO games. So even if you got the classification, it wouldn't necessarily make it any easier to actually produce an adult game.
I'm not quite sure you understand what's going on here. The highest game rating in Australia is 15, which is analogous to the highest movie rating in the US being PG-13. Anything unsuitable for a 15 year old simply cannot be sold there. The rating they're trying to introduce in Australia is similar to our M rating for games (i.e. R rated movies). With this rating, games containing violence/language/sex suitable for an adult, but not a 15 year old, can be sold on the market. X-rated games are a whole other issue.
Unfortunately, he will be ridiculed for this, just like Jimmy Carter was for putting solar panels on the White House.
Right, magic, got it.