Oh, yeah, good one. You've really blown the theory (which I was merely repeating, by the way) out of the water with that insightful collection of statistics and evidence and...
Kent Brockman: Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside? Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
Photons are not really mass less. They have mass due to their enormous speed: E=mc^2
That's an old way of thinking. These days they are treated as purely massless.
The full version of Einstein's formula is E^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2 where p is the momentum, which in photons is related to the frequency. The (mc^2)^2 bit remains 0.
Most mature intelligent people are perfectly willing to pay for content as long as that content is high quality and convenient.
Well, this is true. Trouble is, very few services are as a convenient as torrents! My old ISP had a limit on daytime use - not a terrible one, but enough to put me off streaming too much. So I wanted to download overnight. The answer: torrents.
When I got a new ISP with no daytime limits, I gave Netflix a try. Not bad. But not great. On the box I have, everything plays out at 50fps (I'm in PAL land) which means US sourced shows are a bit jittery, something I'm very sensitive too (I've worked in the TV industry so I'm picky about broadcast quality). So that's out. Ditto playing Amazon Prime video over HDMI from my laptop. And my TV isn't smart enough to connect to any of these services itself.
Even some of the free services can't beat torrents. I use BBC iPlayer a lot, which is great (especially since they added 50fps streams). ITVPlayer, though, forces you to sit through ads. Yeah, I know, it's how they make their money - but when I can download the entirety of the show I want to watch in less time than it takes to watch just the first set of ads then... what's likely to happen?
Police don't appear magically, instantly out of thin air.
Didn't have to in this case; there was an armed off-duty cop in the club when it started. I don't know what happened - only that he engaged the shooter in a "gun battle" - or whether the cop made it out alive. Hopefully whatever action he took saved lives.
Slashdot Mirror
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Is All Electric, Agile, and Has A Capable Face-Arm
You know what one word would've made that headline 20x clearer?
"Robot."
Sorry to be pedantic
No you're not.
What is the practical value of this?
What's the practical value of you?
Furthermore, there's already abundant evidence supporting relativity (which does have practical uses)
It does now. What practical uses did it have when (or before) it was discovered?
I normally use a post-it note, makes it easier to take off for when you actually need to use it.
We're still talking about webcams, right?
Wireless headphones and speakers are fine, not great.
What?
Permanent registration numbers readable from 100'?
You don't think that might not be a tad impractical, given the size of most drones?
A commercial operator must be 16 years old
That's an annoyingly specific restriction.
You've got one year to make it as a professional drone pilot, kid; then you're out.
A commercial operator may not fly over people.
I should hope not. But what about their dones?
It's not free, it just doesn't cost money. You have ads
You might, but I don't.
The link's broken. People have pointed it out already but if we spam the top level comments repeating it, it might just get fixed.
Oh, yeah, good one. You've really blown the theory (which I was merely repeating, by the way) out of the water with that insightful collection of statistics and evidence and...
Oop, no, wait a minute, you didn't.
Well of course, what stupid, bigoted, uneducated moron would?
Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud?
Me? Definitely not. I have no idea what I'm doing, so why would anyone give me their medical details? Crazy.
What, like Guantanamo Bay was going to be closed under President Obama?
We're still useful in a social sense. Grandparents can perform childcare while the parents hunt/forage.
There's a theory that there's selection for homosexuality because gay uncles and aunts provide extra child nurturing.
Right. No assault emojis.
Kent Brockman: Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
There's already a gun emoji. Windows sidesteps the issue a bit by displaying it a cartoon raygun:
http://emojipedia.org/microsof...
a $50 Million Hack
Wait, no, $5 million hack.
Oop, now it's $5,000.
Planety McCraterFace.
Yep, still funny.
Photons are not really mass less. They have mass due to their enormous speed: E=mc^2
That's an old way of thinking. These days they are treated as purely massless.
The full version of Einstein's formula is E^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2 where p is the momentum, which in photons is related to the frequency. The (mc^2)^2 bit remains 0.
Now "thanks" doesn't even sound like a word to me.
Nah, Facebook is bang on the money. Don't you all remember how video messaging made SMS obsolete?
Most mature intelligent people are perfectly willing to pay for content as long as that content is high quality and convenient.
Well, this is true. Trouble is, very few services are as a convenient as torrents! My old ISP had a limit on daytime use - not a terrible one, but enough to put me off streaming too much. So I wanted to download overnight. The answer: torrents.
When I got a new ISP with no daytime limits, I gave Netflix a try. Not bad. But not great. On the box I have, everything plays out at 50fps (I'm in PAL land) which means US sourced shows are a bit jittery, something I'm very sensitive too (I've worked in the TV industry so I'm picky about broadcast quality). So that's out. Ditto playing Amazon Prime video over HDMI from my laptop. And my TV isn't smart enough to connect to any of these services itself.
Even some of the free services can't beat torrents. I use BBC iPlayer a lot, which is great (especially since they added 50fps streams). ITVPlayer, though, forces you to sit through ads. Yeah, I know, it's how they make their money - but when I can download the entirety of the show I want to watch in less time than it takes to watch just the first set of ads then... what's likely to happen?
Is it Jeff? I hope it's Jeff. No-one likes Jeff.
Police don't appear magically, instantly out of thin air.
Didn't have to in this case; there was an armed off-duty cop in the club when it started. I don't know what happened - only that he engaged the shooter in a "gun battle" - or whether the cop made it out alive. Hopefully whatever action he took saved lives.