I wouldn't assume because the OSI model works that way means its the right model for a video container format.
And, given the plethora of systems out there that have had to add functionality to introspect higher layers while routing lower layers, I wouldn't even assume the OSI model is actually the right one for networking, either.
1) You don't need exotic types of propulsion. You just need a lot of time. We're likely a matter of a half dozen decades from molecular manufacturing, and substantially increasing lifespan. The two together are all that's needed for *us* to colonize the galaxy. (And if you doubt that, think of a list of problems with it, and then ask yourself what a mastery of genetics and molecular engineering would do for all of those problems.)
2) Ask yourself what reason we'd have, in that scenario, to need weapons any more potent than what we've got now. You assume the aliens would.
3) We rarely spot fairly large mile-plus asteroids before they actually pass us. What makes you think we could spot even MASSIVE spacecraft with any warning?
The problem with your statement boils down to the fact that you never really *know* that its terminal until the patient dies. If you cure 1/3, and turn out to demonstratably kill 1/3, a few bad things happen: you get sued, and your trial gets shut down (likely forever).
You don't get a chance to figure out if it was a dosing issue, or if there is some other condition or marker that could've indicated the risk to the other 1/3.
Science works because it is meticulous. If you think you have a drug that works on something and you just hand it out to everyone, that isn't science.
"if you're hiding behind a crate and want to take out enemies without popping up from behind it, shoot a hole in it."
If we're looking for realism, I'm pretty sure in the real world a crate you can shoot a hole through is one the guy on the other side can shoot a hole through.
There's a difference between a script, which sounds good and is just fine for its target audience, and what scientists know or believe.
You neither know he happily narrated that, nor that he was under the impression it was true.
And considering there is vast amounts of life that has no relation to the sun (chemeosynthesis), and its not a grand secret, its not all that entrenched of a thought.
However, relative to the discussion at hand, there's a HUGE difference between not assuming a particular form of life CAN'T happen, and showing that it, in fact, HAS.
There have been a lot of games written over the last 15-20 years, certainly, that attempted to make a usable game doing 4D-2D projections.
Some were fun, most I played with just gave me headaches. I remember one (can't recall its name) that ran on one of SGI's high end imaging systems using active shutter LCDs so it was 4D->2.5D. That one *really* gave me headaches.
On an unrelated note, Quake ran really nicely on that box:)
The people you refer to are not skeptics. They're neo-skeptics, a massive upswelling of people (at least here in the US) who think being "intellectual" or a "skeptic" means accepting pretty much any claim made by someone who feigns authority claiming the masses are being mislead by (insert authority figure here). The global warming "skeptics" are in that crowd, as are the (strangely congruent) creationists, gun owners who were convinced Obama would take their guns, dimwits like Jenny McCarthy who insisted vaccines caused autism, or any of a thousand other over-popularized examples around the world today.
That is not skepticism. That's faith and dogmatism.
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HP (in the form of Compaq) created the smartphone market.
They're still one of the largest WinMo phone manufacturers.
Their market cap is 125 billion dollars.
That makes the half the size of Apple, but five times Dell's size.
I wouldn't assume because the OSI model works that way means its the right model for a video container format.
And, given the plethora of systems out there that have had to add functionality to introspect higher layers while routing lower layers, I wouldn't even assume the OSI model is actually the right one for networking, either.
I'm sure you can spend five minutes on Google to educate yourself on the difference ...
If there are unfiled design or technology patents, they lose them.
If there is anything strategic about the information related to the iPhone that their competitors glean, they lose that advantage, too.
How many hundreds of thousands of iPhones are not going to sell between now and then because people know what is coming and decide to wait?
Damages could *easily* be in the millions, and could be vastly higher if they lose patent protection because of the gaffe.
Why is simple -- it replaces the firmware, by booting the phone into a mode where the firmware can be updated via USB (and the OS isn't running).
You can't easily upgrade an OS out from under itself.
How in the world did you get from "here's how caller ID maps numbers to name" to "they're transmitting SSNs over the network"?
"Insightful"? Did the moderators not read the story either?
Strange that we rarely, if ever, use rockets to slow down when we approach planets around the solar system.
And in this solar system, Lisa, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
There's a bunch of fallacies in that:
1) You don't need exotic types of propulsion. You just need a lot of time. We're likely a matter of a half dozen decades from molecular manufacturing, and substantially increasing lifespan. The two together are all that's needed for *us* to colonize the galaxy. (And if you doubt that, think of a list of problems with it, and then ask yourself what a mastery of genetics and molecular engineering would do for all of those problems.)
2) Ask yourself what reason we'd have, in that scenario, to need weapons any more potent than what we've got now. You assume the aliens would.
3) We rarely spot fairly large mile-plus asteroids before they actually pass us. What makes you think we could spot even MASSIVE spacecraft with any warning?
Very few games are 100% internally developed code these days.
If the engines and other libraries used are not free, the game will not be either.
Life is a terminal disease.
The problem with your statement boils down to the fact that you never really *know* that its terminal until the patient dies. If you cure 1/3, and turn out to demonstratably kill 1/3, a few bad things happen: you get sued, and your trial gets shut down (likely forever).
You don't get a chance to figure out if it was a dosing issue, or if there is some other condition or marker that could've indicated the risk to the other 1/3.
Science works because it is meticulous. If you think you have a drug that works on something and you just hand it out to everyone, that isn't science.
Generally if you're part of an experimental trial, you're not paying for it anyway.
So what you describe is exactly how it works.
Thats why you buy groceries and dinner in MA.
I think that's my first first-post in 13 years of Slashdot!
*wipes away tear*
(And to you damn kids with mod points who want to mark this off-topic, give an old man a break... Some day you'll be old, too!)
(Oh, and get off my lawn.)
Sales tax!? Bah, if you give up schools and paved roads, you can do without it entirely.
We do!
"if you're hiding behind a crate and want to take out enemies without popping up from behind it, shoot a hole in it."
If we're looking for realism, I'm pretty sure in the real world a crate you can shoot a hole through is one the guy on the other side can shoot a hole through.
Probably not good cover.
Mine would like like a porno.
Only the Cinemax kind where nothing really ever happens.
Sucks.
Curb stomping my friends will be so much more satisfying if I'm actually curb stomping my friends ...
Unicellular life -- the branch of life we consider "plants" after the point the atmosphere changed over to an oxygen/nitrogen one.
There's a difference between a script, which sounds good and is just fine for its target audience, and what scientists know or believe.
You neither know he happily narrated that, nor that he was under the impression it was true.
And considering there is vast amounts of life that has no relation to the sun (chemeosynthesis), and its not a grand secret, its not all that entrenched of a thought.
However, relative to the discussion at hand, there's a HUGE difference between not assuming a particular form of life CAN'T happen, and showing that it, in fact, HAS.
Only on Slashdot would that be moderated "interesting" and not "funny".
That that to He-Man. He had the power.
There have been a lot of games written over the last 15-20 years, certainly, that attempted to make a usable game doing 4D-2D projections.
Some were fun, most I played with just gave me headaches. I remember one (can't recall its name) that ran on one of SGI's high end imaging systems using active shutter LCDs so it was 4D->2.5D. That one *really* gave me headaches.
On an unrelated note, Quake ran really nicely on that box :)
Your ignorance in your original post insulted you, not anything I said. I just pointed it out.
Wall of degrees? Assuming you're not lying, I suppose that tells you something about the quality of higher education in the US.
The people you refer to are not skeptics. They're neo-skeptics, a massive upswelling of people (at least here in the US) who think being "intellectual" or a "skeptic" means accepting pretty much any claim made by someone who feigns authority claiming the masses are being mislead by (insert authority figure here). The global warming "skeptics" are in that crowd, as are the (strangely congruent) creationists, gun owners who were convinced Obama would take their guns, dimwits like Jenny McCarthy who insisted vaccines caused autism, or any of a thousand other over-popularized examples around the world today.
That is not skepticism. That's faith and dogmatism.