This kind of meet adds a whole new sub category for picky eaters to separate into. Those who eat meat from animals and those who eat meat from a factory lab.
For those of us who already eat anything, this only matters if the production technique produces a slab of meat that tastes as good and costs less than the old fashioned method: Feeding a real pig on everything from corn and table scraps to bits of other pigs, then chopping his head off when he gets fat enough.
BTW: They might have to get some nerve tissue into this lab meat before it can be exercised. Hmm... I wonder if I qualify for the job of "Experimental R&D Chef"
This phenomenon is not unique to Games. I watched a TV Rerun of the Matrix last night and remembered that some Newspaper reviews were very harsh on it. That I would watch it again after all these years and loosing count of how many times I have seen it suggests that the reviewer has standards incompatible with my own. That is not the worse case however.
There was the Mag Innovision letter to the editor after it's 17" monitor received the worst ranking in a roundup of 17" monitors. The Editor's choice award went to a Gateway 2000 monitor. The point of the complaint letter? "This is the same monitor, we just print different labels on the ones we ship to Gateway 2000." Or words to that effect.
So as a general rule I have very little use for published reviews of any product. Word of mouth, and personal trials work best. Also it's good to know what advertisers are allowed to lie about.
"This POS is the best on the market" -: Allowable lie.
"This overpriced crap is great value for money" -: Acceptable lie.
"This 500GB drive holds more data than 750GB of data without using compression" -: dangerous ground.
While it is true that I have a computer with 192GB of RAM, that is not the box I use for enduring/.
The point is that the claim was just stupid. "100 times as much RAM, Storage or processing power as the average desktop" can be a sensible statement, If you find out what is the average for desktops currently in use or for desktops sold this year, and base the comparison on one of those numbers.
There really is no way to know how how powerful a computer each reader has. Next this writer might say "Yow Ming is two feet taller than you". That makes just as much sense.
This is what comes from deliberately inventing definition for what is really just new technology to perform an old function for which there is well established law.
In this particular case, Email is still mail. It just travels faster and as photons or electrons rather than as a collection of atoms.
So all we had to do is transpose the rules which apply to snail mail over to email. I.e. A postman is not allowed to open and read your mail. He just has to pass it on to the destination address. That same principle applies to private mail providers (FedEx, DHL etc...).
That is what should have been done. What has actually been done is quite different. The authorities routinely go throgh email in circumstances where they would not have been allowed to go throgh snail mail. They "ask" (read order) ISPs to do things that they dare not ask of FedEx.
Unwritten Rule of Acquisition #317-: " If you are a big bully, go beet up on someone who annoys the hell out of everyone else. It's highly profitable in direct Latinum and customer willingness to give you more Latinum."
Facebook should be appointed Grand Nagus for coming up with such a lucrative idea.
Ohh... So that's where my warp core fell when we had to eject it.
Good thing, my spaceship designers spent time making sure Warp core ejection was foolproof, installing seat-belts to supplement the inertial dampeners and making sure weapons fire wouldn't feed back throgh random consoles to kill junior officers on my bridge, rather than designing an artificial gravity subsystem that would still work even when the trans dimensional cloak fails and 1/2 the ship materializes in solid rock.
Flash is faster and more energy efficient than spinning disks. This creates a demand for flash which reduces the incentive of manufacturers to drop the price per GB.
Also try to understand the gap we are dealing with.
Flash is around $1.87 per GB while Hard drives are closer to 7c per GB.
That's 26 times the price. Sure SSDs are getting cheaper every day but so are hard drives. I am sure they will get so close that the price gap becomes less important than all the other features which separate them. Some time after that, SSDs may even become cheaper, or both SSDs and hard drives will be supplanted by some other technology. It just won't happen right away.
Is one more decade too pessimistic an estimate? Only time will tell. What I do know is that where SSD's advantages are more important the change has already started. You can buy a portable computer with only SSD storage today.
Everyone on Slashdot can read and the link dose in deed point to several instances of churches and their members being hauled to court, sometimes successfully for refusal to participate in gay weddings.
There have been fines, cash awards and even the revocation of none profit status.
So before you come back to this discussion go and do some research. The cases cited are not the only ones.
The one that shook me the worst was the photographer who responded to a request to shoot a gay wedding that it doesn't fit with his beliefs and so he won't do it.
Wedding services: A same sex couple in Albuquerque asked a photographer, Elaine Huguenin, to shoot their commitment ceremony. The photographer declined, saying her Christian beliefs prevented her from sanctioning same-sex unions. The couple sued, and the New Mexico Human Rights Commission found the photographer guilty of discrimination. It ordered her to pay the lesbian couple's legal fees ($6,600). The photographer is appealing.
I remember running a photography business over a decade ago. I flatly refused to film certain things. Top of my list was funerals. Apparently, I couldn't do that in NM. Not now. Go figure.
2. The public space in question is a church. After all the church owns it and keeps functions there, including church services.
3. They weren't forced to perform a ceremony. The court can't force you do anything (Except die or live in a cage). What it can do is impose consequences on you for failure to do what is commanded. In this case the court ruled that they no longer had none profit status. It is estimated that, that will cost the church $20,000 per year in perpetuity.
Like I said in another post on this topic. Where homosexuality is legally protected, pastors have been hauled to court over their refusal to marry gay couples.
Find a city where gay marriage is allowed and homosexuality has full legal protection. Then talk to the clergy in that city.
There have been lawsuits against clergymen who won't marry gays, against churches that won't make space for such ceremonies, against church run orphanages that will not offer children to gay couples etc...
Like I said in the beginning. Gays already have the right to be gay and go screw each other (Except in Iran). The debate in the west is about restricting the rights of other people to object.
BTW: Try to express yourself without foul language. It makes your point look weaker than it has to.
It's Saturday, and just last night there was an Adventist Pastor preaching against the evils of Sabbath work.
They do not open any business they own on Saturday. They also do not seek to compel the rest of us to close shop on Saturday. They simply preach what they think is right.
Biblical punishments went out with theocracy. That doesn't mean any religious person should be compelled to accept what his faith considers a sin.
And how is it expressing your first amendment right to deny your child going near homosexuals for no other reasons than their sexual orientation? It is not as if their orientation had anything to do with their ability to teach math, for example.
This gos into a little bit of science. Slashdot, bear with me.
Evolution by it's very nature, favors those traits which make procreation more likely. Homosexuality is a trait which makes procreation less likely. As such, Homosexuals in the population should dwindle to a tiny fraction of a percent. Much the same way Hermaphrodites have.
That of course assumes it's a genetic trait.
If on the other hand it is learned behavior then one should see the numbers of homosexuals increase in those places where homosexuality is accepted and homosexuals hold positions of authority over children.
In other words. It's a lot like religion. Children who attend classes tough by nuns and pastors are more likely to adopt Christianity. So far as I know, no christian group has sought to restrict a Muslim parent's right to take his child out of a priest's class, or to withdraw him from public school in favor of a private education. Gays have.
And with good reason. Nobody wants to be alone and without a strong influence in academia and on TV, the gay population will dwindle.
Homosexuals attempting to silence other people. Notice the opinion based moderation on this topic. What ever happened to moderating based on the quality of argument rather than weather you agree with it?
I'm pretty sure it's in the Bible somewhere. Are you willing to embed within the law which recognizes gay marriage that Clergy from any religion which forbids Homosexuality cannot be compelled to sanction such a union?
For the record: Christianity, Islam and Judaism are in that category. Buddhism is not.
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This kind of meet adds a whole new sub category for picky eaters to separate into. Those who eat meat from animals and those who eat meat from a factory lab.
For those of us who already eat anything, this only matters if the production technique produces a slab of meat that tastes as good and costs less than the old fashioned method: Feeding a real pig on everything from corn and table scraps to bits of other pigs, then chopping his head off when he gets fat enough.
BTW: They might have to get some nerve tissue into this lab meat before it can be exercised. Hmm... I wonder if I qualify for the job of "Experimental R&D Chef"
BTW: Neglected to mention. Editors choice awards are given out after consultation with Accounts receivables and advertising sales.
I.e. If you want to win one, just buy lots of advertising.
This phenomenon is not unique to Games. I watched a TV Rerun of the Matrix last night and remembered that some Newspaper reviews were very harsh on it. That I would watch it again after all these years and loosing count of how many times I have seen it suggests that the reviewer has standards incompatible with my own. That is not the worse case however.
There was the Mag Innovision letter to the editor after it's 17" monitor received the worst ranking in a roundup of 17" monitors. The Editor's choice award went to a Gateway 2000 monitor. The point of the complaint letter? "This is the same monitor, we just print different labels on the ones we ship to Gateway 2000." Or words to that effect.
So as a general rule I have very little use for published reviews of any product. Word of mouth, and personal trials work best. Also it's good to know what advertisers are allowed to lie about.
"This POS is the best on the market" -: Allowable lie.
"This overpriced crap is great value for money" -: Acceptable lie.
"This 500GB drive holds more data than 750GB of data without using compression" -: dangerous ground.
It will be great for people who can't drive. Like the blind or those with limited vision.
guess I am not "anybody".
/.
While it is true that I have a computer with 192GB of RAM, that is not the box I use for enduring
The point is that the claim was just stupid. "100 times as much RAM, Storage or processing power as the average desktop" can be a sensible statement, If you find out what is the average for desktops currently in use or for desktops sold this year, and base the comparison on one of those numbers.
There really is no way to know how how powerful a computer each reader has. Next this writer might say "Yow Ming is two feet taller than you". That makes just as much sense.
"...and 144 terabytes of main memory — 100,000 times as much as your computer has."
*my* Computer has 192 GB of RAM, you insensitive clod.
Meanwhile the guy with a box cutter and a few pounds of C4 smells horny (for his 70 virgins) not fearful.
What ya gona do tonight?
Same thing we do every night.
try to take over the world.!!!
This is what comes from deliberately inventing definition for what is really just new technology to perform an old function for which there is well established law.
In this particular case, Email is still mail. It just travels faster and as photons or electrons rather than as a collection of atoms.
So all we had to do is transpose the rules which apply to snail mail over to email. I.e. A postman is not allowed to open and read your mail. He just has to pass it on to the destination address. That same principle applies to private mail providers (FedEx, DHL etc...).
That is what should have been done. What has actually been done is quite different. The authorities routinely go throgh email in circumstances where they would not have been allowed to go throgh snail mail. They "ask" (read order) ISPs to do things that they dare not ask of FedEx.
Unwritten Rule of Acquisition #317-: " If you are a big bully, go beet up on someone who annoys the hell out of everyone else. It's highly profitable in direct Latinum and customer willingness to give you more Latinum."
Facebook should be appointed Grand Nagus for coming up with such a lucrative idea.
Ohh... So that's where my warp core fell when we had to eject it.
Good thing, my spaceship designers spent time making sure Warp core ejection was foolproof, installing seat-belts to supplement the inertial dampeners and making sure weapons fire wouldn't feed back throgh random consoles to kill junior officers on my bridge, rather than designing an artificial gravity subsystem that would still work even when the trans dimensional cloak fails and 1/2 the ship materializes in solid rock.
Slashdot ate my 2nd link. I will have to be more careful.
There is another factor.
Flash is faster and more energy efficient than spinning disks. This creates a demand for flash which reduces the incentive of manufacturers to drop the price per GB.
Also try to understand the gap we are dealing with.
Flash is around $1.87 per GB while Hard drives are closer to 7c per GB.
That's 26 times the price. Sure SSDs are getting cheaper every day but so are hard drives. I am sure they will get so close that the price gap becomes less important than all the other features which separate them. Some time after that, SSDs may even become cheaper, or both SSDs and hard drives will be supplanted by some other technology. It just won't happen right away.
Is one more decade too pessimistic an estimate? Only time will tell. What I do know is that where SSD's advantages are more important the change has already started. You can buy a portable computer with only SSD storage today.
There have been fines, cash awards and even the revocation of none profit status.
So before you come back to this discussion go and do some research. The cases cited are not the only ones.
The one that shook me the worst was the photographer who responded to a request to shoot a gay wedding that it doesn't fit with his beliefs and so he won't do it.
From near the bottom of the same article.
Wedding services: A same sex couple in Albuquerque asked a photographer, Elaine Huguenin, to shoot their commitment ceremony. The photographer declined, saying her Christian beliefs prevented her from sanctioning same-sex unions. The couple sued, and the New Mexico Human Rights Commission found the photographer guilty of discrimination. It ordered her to pay the lesbian couple's legal fees ($6,600). The photographer is appealing.
I remember running a photography business over a decade ago. I flatly refused to film certain things. Top of my list was funerals. Apparently, I couldn't do that in NM. Not now. Go figure.
1. that was only the 1st story. Read the rest.
2. The public space in question is a church. After all the church owns it and keeps functions there, including church services.
3. They weren't forced to perform a ceremony. The court can't force you do anything (Except die or live in a cage). What it can do is impose consequences on you for failure to do what is commanded. In this case the court ruled that they no longer had none profit status. It is estimated that, that will cost the church $20,000 per year in perpetuity.
Yahoo will be assimilated. Your Linux will become part of our Linux.
So homosexuals have not used the courts to attack Christians who object?
Guess again.
Essentially - why do you have the right to interfere with others?
Because granting legal recognition immediately leads to prosecution of churches who disagree
Like I said in another post on this topic. Where homosexuality is legally protected, pastors have been hauled to court over their refusal to marry gay couples.
Find a city where gay marriage is allowed and homosexuality has full legal protection. Then talk to the clergy in that city.
There have been lawsuits against clergymen who won't marry gays, against churches that won't make space for such ceremonies, against church run orphanages that will not offer children to gay couples etc...
Like I said in the beginning. Gays already have the right to be gay and go screw each other (Except in Iran). The debate in the west is about restricting the rights of other people to object.
BTW: Try to express yourself without foul language. It makes your point look weaker than it has to.
It's Saturday, and just last night there was an Adventist Pastor preaching against the evils of Sabbath work.
They do not open any business they own on Saturday. They also do not seek to compel the rest of us to close shop on Saturday. They simply preach what they think is right.
Biblical punishments went out with theocracy. That doesn't mean any religious person should be compelled to accept what his faith considers a sin.
And how is it expressing your first amendment right to deny your child going near homosexuals for no other reasons than their sexual orientation? It is not as if their orientation had anything to do with their ability to teach math, for example.
This gos into a little bit of science. Slashdot, bear with me.
Evolution by it's very nature, favors those traits which make procreation more likely. Homosexuality is a trait which makes procreation less likely. As such, Homosexuals in the population should dwindle to a tiny fraction of a percent. Much the same way Hermaphrodites have.
That of course assumes it's a genetic trait.
If on the other hand it is learned behavior then one should see the numbers of homosexuals increase in those places where homosexuality is accepted and homosexuals hold positions of authority over children.
In other words. It's a lot like religion. Children who attend classes tough by nuns and pastors are more likely to adopt Christianity. So far as I know, no christian group has sought to restrict a Muslim parent's right to take his child out of a priest's class, or to withdraw him from public school in favor of a private education. Gays have.
And with good reason. Nobody wants to be alone and without a strong influence in academia and on TV, the gay population will dwindle.
Right back to my original point.
Homosexuals attempting to silence other people. Notice the opinion based moderation on this topic. What ever happened to moderating based on the quality of argument rather than weather you agree with it?
I'm pretty sure it's in the Bible somewhere. Are you willing to embed within the law which recognizes gay marriage that Clergy from any religion which forbids Homosexuality cannot be compelled to sanction such a union?
For the record: Christianity, Islam and Judaism are in that category. Buddhism is not.
You also can't Marry your sister. Even if she is a consenting adult. What's your point?