What really annoys me about this one is that plenty of games could happily run at 60fps for 80-90% of the time, but the developers don't want you thinking their game is slowing the system down when the action starts. So they just cap it to 30fps all the time for consistently crappy gameplay. I'd sooner do without a few effects.
Bioshock on the PS3 springs to mind, only because they included an option to turn off the framerate cap.
Jail every idiot who spews unfounded accusations under the guise of "freedom of the press."
Calling someone "as bad as" (if indeed that's what was said) isn't a direct - if any kind of - accusation. There is a judgement call to be made here, and it's been made.
the law should come down hard on the side of integrity without room for weasel-words.
It's not a crime to lack integrity. The law also has to come down hard on the side of freedom of expression, whether you like what's being said or not.
You can never make everyone happy when you try to come down hard on both sides of the fence (and you'll crush your nuts).
The legal system is seriously fucked up if it considers such minor differences
The legal system is pretty much there to consider exactly these minor differences, and it (should) strives to do so consistently and at the same as balancing both public opinion and the rights of the individual. Sounds impossible? Well, it is. You're welcome to suggest a better alternative.
Guy who is really really good at chess beats quite smart guy of unknown chess-playing ability at chess.
This is news?
Regardless, it took 23-year-old Magnus Carlsen, a "grandmaster" Chess player since the age of 13 and new world Chess champion, just 71 seconds to defeat Gates in a friendly game of Chess
What do you mean, "regardless"? There's no "regardless" about it. It's like comparing a guy who won a gajillion dollars on a scratchcard to Warren Buffett (except for the fact that you could never get richer than Warren Buffett with any scratchcard). There is no comparison.
Or are we really now meant to re-appraise Bill Gates's intelligence and business acumen in light of this spectacular failure to hold out against a chess grandmaster?
using anniversary for things other than turnings of whole years diminishes the significance and meaning of 'anniversary'.
I can't think of anyone who wouldn't know exactly what was meant if one said "tenth anniversary." And by co-opting the word - the root of which isn't English, and of which most English speakers are probably unaware in day-to-day conversation - we've now got a quick convenient way of expressing a wider range of passages of time than just years.
It's not like we're losing anything or introducing any real ambiguity, as is the case with "literally" and "begging the question."
If anything, it's a measure of English's efficiency and flexibility that it's expanded in this way instead of inventing "weekiversary" and "monthiversary."
It's because a 10th anniversary occurs after the passage of 11 years.
Maybe in Bizarro World...
The first happened at the end of year one.
Yes, after one year had passed. See how all the numbers are the same?
1st anniversary, end of year one, one year has passed. 10th anniversary, end of year ten, ten years have passed.
This is the start of the 10th year for Opportunity
The start of the first year of Opporunity's Mars journey occurred in January 2004. We're now in January 2014. This is the start of its 1st+10=11th year.
its 9th anniversary and 10th year anniversary.
I think the fourth character of your username needs to be moved back a couple of places.
I've always wondered why there had to be a singularity at the centre of a black hole. Now, it seems, there might not be!
If Hawking is correct, there could even be no singularity at the core of the black hole. Instead, matter [...] never quite crunch down to the centre.
I've been trying to tell people this for years (no, not in a serious crackpot physicist way, just a vague pet idea). Should've tried it with a voice synthesizer...
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I'm even betting the man who wrote the screenplay for the epic "Sharknado" is on the case.
Someone wrote that? I assumed it was the result of a buffer overflow.
The UK has more tornadoes by area than any other country, and more in total than any other European country.
But they only pick up cats, not cows. Or towns.
Or 1080p 30 fps to 60 fps?
What really annoys me about this one is that plenty of games could happily run at 60fps for 80-90% of the time, but the developers don't want you thinking their game is slowing the system down when the action starts. So they just cap it to 30fps all the time for consistently crappy gameplay. I'd sooner do without a few effects.
Bioshock on the PS3 springs to mind, only because they included an option to turn off the framerate cap.
Nope. He's replacing the word "remain" from the quoted post.
Jail every idiot who spews unfounded accusations under the guise of "freedom of the press."
Calling someone "as bad as" (if indeed that's what was said) isn't a direct - if any kind of - accusation. There is a judgement call to be made here, and it's been made.
the law should come down hard on the side of integrity without room for weasel-words.
It's not a crime to lack integrity. The law also has to come down hard on the side of freedom of expression, whether you like what's being said or not.
You can never make everyone happy when you try to come down hard on both sides of the fence (and you'll crush your nuts).
The legal system is seriously fucked up if it considers such minor differences
The legal system is pretty much there to consider exactly these minor differences, and it (should) strives to do so consistently and at the same as balancing both public opinion and the rights of the individual. Sounds impossible? Well, it is. You're welcome to suggest a better alternative.
And you, sir, are worse than Hitler.
A team of researchers at Virginia Tech University have developed a battery with energy density an order of magnitude higher than lithium-ion batteries
Bloody scientists. Why can't they just say "about ten times"?
Guy who is really really good at chess beats quite smart guy of unknown chess-playing ability at chess.
This is news?
Regardless, it took 23-year-old Magnus Carlsen, a "grandmaster" Chess player since the age of 13 and new world Chess champion, just 71 seconds to defeat Gates in a friendly game of Chess
What do you mean, "regardless"? There's no "regardless" about it. It's like comparing a guy who won a gajillion dollars on a scratchcard to Warren Buffett (except for the fact that you could never get richer than Warren Buffett with any scratchcard). There is no comparison.
Or are we really now meant to re-appraise Bill Gates's intelligence and business acumen in light of this spectacular failure to hold out against a chess grandmaster?
using anniversary for things other than turnings of whole years diminishes the significance and meaning of 'anniversary'.
I can't think of anyone who wouldn't know exactly what was meant if one said "tenth anniversary." And by co-opting the word - the root of which isn't English, and of which most English speakers are probably unaware in day-to-day conversation - we've now got a quick convenient way of expressing a wider range of passages of time than just years.
It's not like we're losing anything or introducing any real ambiguity, as is the case with "literally" and "begging the question."
If anything, it's a measure of English's efficiency and flexibility that it's expanded in this way instead of inventing "weekiversary" and "monthiversary."
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It's because a 10th anniversary occurs after the passage of 11 years.
Maybe in Bizarro World...
The first happened at the end of year one.
Yes, after one year had passed. See how all the numbers are the same?
1st anniversary, end of year one, one year has passed.
10th anniversary, end of year ten, ten years have passed.
This is the start of the 10th year for Opportunity
The start of the first year of Opporunity's Mars journey occurred in January 2004. We're now in January 2014. This is the start of its 1st+10=11th year.
its 9th anniversary and 10th year anniversary.
I think the fourth character of your username needs to be moved back a couple of places.
So then GR isn't trivially shown to be wrong. Right?
Decades of trolling the physics community and still going strong. Keep it up, Wheels!
<McBain>That was the joke.</McBain>
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Could you really not stretch for the extra three characters to put a more readable "and" in there?
You don't even see this in print nowadays.
The theory of relativity wasn't that hard to comprehend.
That's not how you measure the brilliance of the theory's formulator.
But, true, Laplace, and someone else who's name I'm forgetting,
John Michell? He published a paper which (as I recall) largely describes the concept of black holes in 1783.
Just out of curiousity, where did you get your doctorate in physics?
And the engineers say they are twice as big as they need to be.
We can all tell that by looking at them. They could do with a haircut, too.
It's trivial to show General Relativity is wrong: It doesn't match observations.
Couldn't it instead be that our observations are incomplete? The as-yet lack of observation of WIMPs, for example.
I've always wondered why there had to be a singularity at the centre of a black hole. Now, it seems, there might not be!
If Hawking is correct, there could even be no singularity at the core of the black hole. Instead, matter [...] never quite crunch down to the centre.
I've been trying to tell people this for years (no, not in a serious crackpot physicist way, just a vague pet idea). Should've tried it with a voice synthesizer...
Zut alors! Mais il n'est pas UTF, maintenant:
Et voilà! L'UTF, c'est votre ami.
The Wombles have been doing this for years.
And yet, regardless of the rest of the content, you have no problem with a post that starts w/ the "N" word.
So, what you're saying is, you know that all black people feel a certain way about something...