Jenny Horn was burned at the stake for witchcraft in either 1722 or 1727 depending on your source. Outside of England, there were still occasional witch executions going on in Europe until 1792. This is pretty close to 200 years ago, so I think the original poster's comment was at least reasonably close, if not precisely accurate. In fact, it's well above average for accuracy on Slashdot.
As long as you use the pronunciation most commonly accepted by astronomers (emphasis on the first syllable, the letter 'a' voiced as a schwa) there's nothing funny about it.
The chief U.S. negotiator, Richard Benedick, in his book Ozone Diplomacy is quoted as saying "...the most extraordinary aspect of the treaty was the imposition os significant costs against unproven future dangers...."
Oh, yeah. The economy was devastated by the massive costs of switching to CFC-free refrigerants and aerosol propellants. Kind of like how being required to put seat belts in cars drove the automakers to financial ruin, or how the VCR crushed the once-vibrant Hollywood studios.
Now if only they could figure out how to add that to a game, we would never have to worry about FPS again. Other than the fact that with today's hardware we'd get about.2 FPS to acheive an effect like that of course.
IANAFPSD, but it seems that all you'd have to do is render two frames, then do some sort of morph-type thing between them. Since the game engine knows where all the vertices are in the rendered images, it has all the info it needs to figure out which objects are going which way. It would definitely be a performance hit, but surely you could do it faster than 5 seconds/frame if it were implemented in the GPU itself.
One caveat though - if you're in a complex scene and your framerate drops really low, the motion blur should probably turn off - both to get the rate back up, and to prevent your screen from just being a mess of blurred players and rockets screaming toward your head.
And then the rice boyz would poke holes in the speaker to make the sound as annoying as possible. Either that or they'd find some way to modify it to sound like a weed eater. Of course, they'd also have to bolt on a 6-inch diameter tube somewhere, since the fuell cell's actual exhaust would probably be tastefully hidden.
If we allowed the Open Source developer community complete access to this new electrifying technology they would be able to improve efficiency dramatically.
No, they'd spend five years coming up with two (or more) different and incompatible types of fuell cells, neither of which was really any better than the five-year-old GM product. Then they'd get into huge flame wars over which of their designs was better. Finally, they'd whine like babies when a commercial interest chose to use the best features of both designs to create something that had half a chance of competing with GM's product. Of course, by then the GM fuel cell would be far advanced from the prototypes which the open source folks originally tried to improve upon.
Wow, GM is right - it will be like the car has been reinvented, only this time they'll be profiting from the entire life cycle of the vehicle and its consumables. And you can bet that as long as we have a Presidential administration and a Congress that kowtow to big business interests, this turn of events will benefit no one except GM and the politicians whom they bribe, oops, I mean to whom they contribute campaign funding.
I remember 3rd party companies selling cool replacement panels to make your fiero extra-sexy.
This must be some alternate definition of "sexy" of which I was not previously aware. The Fiero mods I remember looked like rejected ideas for Hot Wheels toys.
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The only one worse than IV was V, and I'm wavering even on that.
At least IV had some moments that teetered on the edge of being humorous. V was just a giant turd that fell out of Shatner's ass, which he tried to wipe on 70mm film stock.
Humorous alternate titles for the odd-numbered Treks:
Star Trek: The Motionless Picture Star Trek III: The Search For Plot Star Trek V: Oh God, Book 14,763 Star Trek: Genitalia Star Trek: Inflammation
I don't for a moment imagine than any MS employees (or stockholders for that matter) are going to loose sleep over this.
I'm sure they won't loose (release, make loose, undo, detach, relax) any sleep, but they might lose (fail to retain possesion of, be deprived of, fail to use) sleep. Are these two words really that hard to keep straight?
Actually, when it was first released, his name wasn't Mario - he was called Jumpman. Anyway, Super Mario Brothers plays more like Pitfall than it does like DK. But, it probably would be fair to call DK the real father of the platform genre. I can't think of anything earlier off the top of my head (I wish KLOV was searchable by genre and/or year).
Thank you, Mr. Obvious. We know it's a different format, but the reason (one of the reasons, I should say) it hasn't been supported in hardware players is that the available implementations of the codec required floating-point math.
With that requirement nixed, we might start seeing hardware that supports Ogg as well as MP3 (and WMA... that's been showing up in hardware players lately too).
But I guess Norway just wasn't meant to produce cars.. The last attempt at this was Troll, which produced 5 cars (yes, five) before going out of business.
Maybe you guys should come up with better names for your cars. Troll and Think? Brilliant - one is something people do when they post on Slashdot, the other is something people should -but usually don't - do when posting on Slashdot.
Which is which, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
Actually, this particular tree-hugger (Ok, I'm not really a tree-hugger, but I do believe in taking reasonable care of the environment wherever feasible) doesn't have a problem with it. In fact, I kinda think it's a good thing - those Think "cars" are jokes and give a bad name to electric vehicles.
It appears that you are correct, but I have seen a creationist web site that did make some allegations similar to what the original poster claimed.
My quick Google search for it has turned up only one link (http://members.truepath.com/objective/propaganda. html) that might be it but that link is broken now.
As for the 38 questions, I'll leave that for someone with more time to waste tilting at windmills.
Because once one part of the Bible is dismissed as not being straight fact, what other parts of the Bible are also not straight fact?
The entire book of Job is an allegory, to name one. Why would you think God didn't use myths to express Himself in the Old Testament, when parables were His main lesson style in His human form as Jesus?
They encouraged me to research the topic myself and then decide. So I did, and after looking at the evidence I now believe in a literal six-day creation.
What evidence, other than the Bible itself, shows that creation took six days? By that I mean evidence that shows that the period of time between the first light on Earth (day 1, let there be light) and humans (day 6, let us create man in our image) was 120 hours or thereabouts. It must have been pretty substantial to change your beliefs like that.
I'm not really expecting an answer, but if you feel like it, keep in mind that I'm not even worried about when creation happened - 6,000 or 6 billion years ago, I could care less. I want to hear about the evidence that made you believe it only took six days.
Of course, I just realized I'm replying to an AC, so you might not even know I've asked. I don't think that's what Jesus intended when He asked you to preach the Good News to all nations!
The fact is though that I believe nature shows truth about God and that the Bible shows truth about God. I don't believe that either are in error but that our view of one or the other is.
Well obviously nature isn't in error. Unless the Bible is like the Hitchhiker's Guide - where it disagrees with reality, reality has it wrong.
Hmm... I'm a CD Professor at Cornell (with a PhD from Berkeley), a professor at Indiana, assoc. professor of Media Arts & Sciences at MIT, a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a librarian, and a jazz saxophonist from New Zealand. I've also written a guide on Bonsai and an IRC client for PalmOS.
No telling how many pages I'd have to go through to find the real me. That's what I get for having one of the most common English last names though.
OTOH, searching for my slashdot id, almost all I find is me. Including some of my/. posts about cats, buttered toast, and perpetual motion. There is apparently another shavenyak on an astronomy discussion site - it's actually quite surprising that this isn't me, and I bet someone else searching who knew me would think it was.
The only real problem is that you can't put an mp3 player on a for pay distribution of GPL'd software, even though the value of the player is a minute fraction of the value of all the other software on the disk.
Super-simple, perfectly legal workaround: RedHat could leave the mp3 players in the downloadable distribution (it's freely available, so isn't violating the patent), and the boxed set could have a feature in the installer which would ask "would you like to install the FREE mp3 software blah blah". The user clicks the "YES" box, and the system downloads and installs the decoders.
Actually, the user likely wouldn't be connected to the 'net while installing, so maybe it should happen the first time they connect to RedHat to get updates. Or does RedHat offer to download updates during the install now (I know Mandrake does in the latest betas)? That would be the perfect time to do it.
To lump them together is equivalent to labelling a murdering Satanist as a Christian.
Yeah, sort of, except that Jedi and Sith are both dealing with the same Force, just two different sides of it. The Jedi seem to believe that the two sides should be in balance, while the Sith seem to want the Dark Side to prevail. Christians generally believe that God and Satan are two completely separate and diametrically opposed entities. Satanists (at least, members of the official Church of Satan) tend not to believe that either God or Satan actually exist. Satan is more of a mythological icon to be emulated than a being to be worshipped.
I think the Jedi/Sith comparison is more like two Hindu faithful, one who devotes his life to Vishnu and one who devotes his to Shiva. Both the followers realize that they are worshipping two different aspects of the same divine reality.
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Jenny Horn was burned at the stake for witchcraft in either 1722 or 1727 depending on your source. Outside of England, there were still occasional witch executions going on in Europe until 1792. This is pretty close to 200 years ago, so I think the original poster's comment was at least reasonably close, if not precisely accurate. In fact, it's well above average for accuracy on Slashdot.
As long as you use the pronunciation most commonly accepted by astronomers (emphasis on the first syllable, the letter 'a' voiced as a schwa) there's nothing funny about it.
The chief U.S. negotiator, Richard Benedick, in his book Ozone Diplomacy is quoted as saying "...the most extraordinary aspect of the treaty was the imposition os significant costs against unproven future dangers...."
Oh, yeah. The economy was devastated by the massive costs of switching to CFC-free refrigerants and aerosol propellants. Kind of like how being required to put seat belts in cars drove the automakers to financial ruin, or how the VCR crushed the once-vibrant Hollywood studios.
Now if only they could figure out how to add that to a game, we would never have to worry about FPS again. Other than the fact that with today's hardware we'd get about .2 FPS to acheive an effect like that of course.
IANAFPSD, but it seems that all you'd have to do is render two frames, then do some sort of morph-type thing between them. Since the game engine knows where all the vertices are in the rendered images, it has all the info it needs to figure out which objects are going which way. It would definitely be a performance hit, but surely you could do it faster than 5 seconds/frame if it were implemented in the GPU itself.
One caveat though - if you're in a complex scene and your framerate drops really low, the motion blur should probably turn off - both to get the rate back up, and to prevent your screen from just being a mess of blurred players and rockets screaming toward your head.
And then the rice boyz would poke holes in the speaker to make the sound as annoying as possible. Either that or they'd find some way to modify it to sound like a weed eater. Of course, they'd also have to bolt on a 6-inch diameter tube somewhere, since the fuell cell's actual exhaust would probably be tastefully hidden.
If we allowed the Open Source developer community complete access to this new electrifying technology they would be able to improve efficiency dramatically.
No, they'd spend five years coming up with two (or more) different and incompatible types of fuell cells, neither of which was really any better than the five-year-old GM product. Then they'd get into huge flame wars over which of their designs was better. Finally, they'd whine like babies when a commercial interest chose to use the best features of both designs to create something that had half a chance of competing with GM's product. Of course, by then the GM fuel cell would be far advanced from the prototypes which the open source folks originally tried to improve upon.
Wow, GM is right - it will be like the car has been reinvented, only this time they'll be profiting from the entire life cycle of the vehicle and its consumables. And you can bet that as long as we have a Presidential administration and a Congress that kowtow to big business interests, this turn of events will benefit no one except GM and the politicians whom they bribe, oops, I mean to whom they contribute campaign funding.
I remember 3rd party companies selling cool replacement panels to make your fiero extra-sexy.
This must be some alternate definition of "sexy" of which I was not previously aware. The Fiero mods I remember looked like rejected ideas for Hot Wheels toys.
The only one worse than IV was V, and I'm wavering even on that.
At least IV had some moments that teetered on the edge of being humorous. V was just a giant turd that fell out of Shatner's ass, which he tried to wipe on 70mm film stock.
Humorous alternate titles for the odd-numbered Treks:
Star Trek: The Motionless Picture
Star Trek III: The Search For Plot
Star Trek V: Oh God, Book 14,763
Star Trek: Genitalia
Star Trek: Inflammation
I don't for a moment imagine than any MS employees (or stockholders for that matter) are going to loose sleep over this.
I'm sure they won't loose (release, make loose, undo, detach, relax) any sleep, but they might lose (fail to retain possesion of, be deprived of, fail to use) sleep. Are these two words really that hard to keep straight?
But there aren't enough nocturnal midget microsurgeons available to do that either!
Perhaps the RIAA could recruit... the Underpants Gnomes!
1. Implant DRM device in everyone's ears
2. ???
3. Profit!
Donkey Kong was the first Mario Title
Actually, when it was first released, his name wasn't Mario - he was called Jumpman. Anyway, Super Mario Brothers plays more like Pitfall than it does like DK. But, it probably would be fair to call DK the real father of the platform genre. I can't think of anything earlier off the top of my head (I wish KLOV was searchable by genre and/or year).
Thank you, Mr. Obvious. We know it's a different format, but the reason (one of the reasons, I should say) it hasn't been supported in hardware players is that the available implementations of the codec required floating-point math.
With that requirement nixed, we might start seeing hardware that supports Ogg as well as MP3 (and WMA... that's been showing up in hardware players lately too).
I'd say it's a tie between Pitfall! and Super Mario Bros. as to which game really invented the platform game genre.
Pitfall was Game of the Year in 1982. Super Mario Brothers came out in 1985 according to KLOV. So, it's obviously not a tie.
But I guess Norway just wasn't meant to produce cars.. The last attempt at this was Troll, which produced 5 cars (yes, five) before going out of business.
Maybe you guys should come up with better names for your cars. Troll and Think? Brilliant - one is something people do when they post on Slashdot, the other is something people should -but usually don't - do when posting on Slashdot.
Which is which, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
Actually, this particular tree-hugger (Ok, I'm not really a tree-hugger, but I do believe in taking reasonable care of the environment wherever feasible) doesn't have a problem with it. In fact, I kinda think it's a good thing - those Think "cars" are jokes and give a bad name to electric vehicles.
It appears that you are correct, but I have seen a creationist web site that did make some allegations similar to what the original poster claimed.
. html) that might be it but that link is broken now.
My quick Google search for it has turned up only one link (http://members.truepath.com/objective/propaganda
As for the 38 questions, I'll leave that for someone with more time to waste tilting at windmills.
Because once one part of the Bible is dismissed as not being straight fact, what other parts of the Bible are also not straight fact?
The entire book of Job is an allegory, to name one. Why would you think God didn't use myths to express Himself in the Old Testament, when parables were His main lesson style in His human form as Jesus?
They encouraged me to research the topic myself and then decide. So I did, and after looking at the evidence I now believe in a literal six-day creation.
What evidence, other than the Bible itself, shows that creation took six days? By that I mean evidence that shows that the period of time between the first light on Earth (day 1, let there be light) and humans (day 6, let us create man in our image) was 120 hours or thereabouts. It must have been pretty substantial to change your beliefs like that.
I'm not really expecting an answer, but if you feel like it, keep in mind that I'm not even worried about when creation happened - 6,000 or 6 billion years ago, I could care less. I want to hear about the evidence that made you believe it only took six days.
Of course, I just realized I'm replying to an AC, so you might not even know I've asked. I don't think that's what Jesus intended when He asked you to preach the Good News to all nations!
The fact is though that I believe nature shows truth about God and that the Bible shows truth about God. I don't believe that either are in error but that our view of one or the other is.
Well obviously nature isn't in error. Unless the Bible is like the Hitchhiker's Guide - where it disagrees with reality, reality has it wrong.
I hunted all the unicorns to extinction.
You bastard, I bet you killed all the snipes too, and now my children will never know the joys of snipe hunting!
At least there are still a few jackalopes left!
Hmm... I'm a CD Professor at Cornell (with a PhD from Berkeley), a professor at Indiana, assoc. professor of Media Arts & Sciences at MIT, a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a librarian, and a jazz saxophonist from New Zealand. I've also written a guide on Bonsai and an IRC client for PalmOS.
/. posts about cats, buttered toast, and perpetual motion. There is apparently another shavenyak on an astronomy discussion site - it's actually quite surprising that this isn't me, and I bet someone else searching who knew me would think it was.
No telling how many pages I'd have to go through to find the real me. That's what I get for having one of the most common English last names though.
OTOH, searching for my slashdot id, almost all I find is me. Including some of my
The only real problem is that you can't put an mp3 player on a for pay distribution of GPL'd software, even though the value of the player is a minute fraction of the value of all the other software on the disk.
Super-simple, perfectly legal workaround: RedHat could leave the mp3 players in the downloadable distribution (it's freely available, so isn't violating the patent), and the boxed set could have a feature in the installer which would ask "would you like to install the FREE mp3 software blah blah". The user clicks the "YES" box, and the system downloads and installs the decoders.
Actually, the user likely wouldn't be connected to the 'net while installing, so maybe it should happen the first time they connect to RedHat to get updates. Or does RedHat offer to download updates during the install now (I know Mandrake does in the latest betas)? That would be the perfect time to do it.
Don't you mean OGG? I think OOG is the format the cavemen used. No, wait, that's UGH. Sorry.
To lump them together is equivalent to labelling a murdering Satanist as a Christian.
Yeah, sort of, except that Jedi and Sith are both dealing with the same Force, just two different sides of it. The Jedi seem to believe that the two sides should be in balance, while the Sith seem to want the Dark Side to prevail. Christians generally believe that God and Satan are two completely separate and diametrically opposed entities. Satanists (at least, members of the official Church of Satan) tend not to believe that either God or Satan actually exist. Satan is more of a mythological icon to be emulated than a being to be worshipped.
I think the Jedi/Sith comparison is more like two Hindu faithful, one who devotes his life to Vishnu and one who devotes his to Shiva. Both the followers realize that they are worshipping two different aspects of the same divine reality.
Tee hee, that's funny. Also, are they still running Hotmail on Apache/BSD or did they finally get it moved to IIS?