How does it decay? Blackholes have hawking radiation, neutron stars don't need to decay that way of course but they must eventually decay
If a neutron star emits enough energy to pass below the limit that keeps the pressure as neutrons --- and neutrons have a half-life of 14 minutes outside an atom --- do the neutrons decay into a proton (hydrogen) and an electron and become hydrogen and then start fusing again into helium?
You should be able to plug your Linux box into a TV using an HDMI port today.
I don't really see where you are going with this. Few people are going to want a SteamBox because it is Linux, they will want it for the "Steam DRM Service" otherwise they would just use Linux.
And I can plug my Windows box into my TV today using HDMI and run Steam or free games like your example.
Maybe there is some non-obvious point you guys are making, but from my perspective you seem exciting about plugging a Linux box into a TV and you are able to do this today and this isn't the point of a Steam Box.
It doesn't matter if it is a "push for transparency", just whether or not it sounds like it is in a TV commercial or political pamphlet when he runs for whatever office he clearly has in mind.
Valve is a billion dollar company that specializes in DRM. Repeat: They specialize IN DRM.
So when you say "Sounds a damn sight more open than any other 'console' out there."
I say: I am glad you are optimistic and interpret it the way you want to hear it.
But when a company that specializes in DRM --- and Steam is great, by the way, and I enjoy playing No More Room In Hell as one example --- but they still specialize in DRM and the idea of optimistically assuming the ultimately awesome best out-of-this-world groovy scenario might work for you.
This extreme optimism doesn't work for me. Steam is a DRM-based platform, I cannot imagine any scenario where it resembles "open". Regardless of how it "sounds" (which is something called "marketing" in some corners of the world).
"The current generation of "smart" TV's with every brand having their own interface is getting a bit tedious. Give me Android, give me Firefox OS, even give me iOS if you have to."
I'm not disagreeing with this.
But there is little difference between a TV and flat panel monitor these days, I can hook an XBox up to either of them as an example.
All they need to do is standardize plugging a smart phone into a TV or monitor and make a wireless keyboard or game controller work and all of these issues about "some OS running on some anarchronism of device" --- and face it, in ten years the idea of a "monitor" that can only function as a TV (which is what we have today) --- is going to sound mighty stupid.
" We are all enemies of the State now. It's starting to look like those divisions have just been artificially put in place in order to make us easier to control. When we're fighting each other, we're not paying attention to the real bad guys."
I disagree and strongly. People argue as much as ever. The NSA doesn't give a crap about your Facebook page or your dramatic political rant on Slashdot with conspiracy sprinkles and mint frosting. There are more political rants than ever and the availability and freedom to rant, think and engage in discourse has never been higher.
Your post is an example of the unprecedented freedom to rant on the internet, making much ado about nothing. Your behavior is virtually normal in the modern age, don't you know?
Copyright is made out of people. This isn't a joke or being funny, by the way and as a result it will NEVER be "right".
Since copyright is made out of people, and people come up with laws to try to maximize productivity and creation, there will always be scavengers and predators looking to exploit copyright for private gain.
Google, for example, loves weaker copyright protection so they can sell 3rd party content. Media companies and small-time authors love copyright because it rewards the creation of works.
Meanwhile, fans dislike copyright because it creates an imbalance between quality vs. convenience (cracked software is ALWAYS better) or availability (a movie or game isn't available in a certain region or is no longer sold).
Because copyright is made of out of people, there isn't going to be a "final solution" --- it must always be subject to revision because any legal system is subject to exploits.
I'm not implying "you shouldn't try", actually I'm saying you always SHOULD try to improve it.
But the results will be imperfect next time too... because there are always at least 2 angles for exploit (the too lax exploit and the too strict exploit). This will, in fact, be a perpetual issue...
n-body calculations are hard enough with Newtonian physics. The "Einsteinian physics" calculations must be a bit maddening, but at least they have found a star system to test it out.
Online voting has many security vulnerabilities including the need to trust your ISP, your router, your computer and every telecom that is an intermediary in the middle.
Requires the trust of numerous parties. Probably requires the trust of your email provider too. And this doesn't even address the ability to verify the user.
Credit card fraud is common online. Identity theft is common online.
"Monochromatic" ---- very interesting descriptive term.
Human resources is with little doubt one of those necessary evils, and acts as a firewall against the unwashed masses which includes quite a mix of people ranging from liars to incompetent to "don't understand the market", etc. And the nature of the work means constantly dealing with people you have never seen before.
This article only reinforces the value of social media in evaluating future job performance in the human resources industry. I'll explain!
Since there is zero correlation, it is like reading tea leaves and a headhunter can reach any interpretation possible. Meanwhile, the zero correlation means any tea leaf reading cannot be falsified.
Arbitrary opinions and no valid way of measurement --- which makes the interpretations completely subject to whim! It is the perfect industry, possibly only surpassed by the "how to write a successful resume" sector of the economy!
With no right or wrong answers, what's not to LOVE!!!
Of course, when the Milky Way and Andromeda do merge, Galactic taxes will likely go up and this could lead to the Trade Federation complaining and threatening a planetary embargo... but this just conjecture.
When the Milky Way and Andromeda "collide" no stars will collide. Star formation will begin a new due to the exchange of interstellar gases and the two galaxies will merge.
So that isn't exact the "end" of anything, just the start of a larger galaxy.
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The IT department is there to support senior management. So it is ok if they don't follow security policy.
Seriously.
Security policy is so a $9/hour drone doesn't screw things up. If a big-wig with a hefty 6 figure check messes up, it isn't the same story.
Film at 11.
Boring! Wake me up when it can do 360 x 360 degrees of video.
Then I'll be like, ZOMG! I can record video in every direction at ONCE!!!!
Oscar Wilde: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
On the internet, if you give him a mask "he will start trolling".
So let's say you have a neutron star.
How does it decay? Blackholes have hawking radiation, neutron stars don't need to decay that way of course but they must eventually decay
If a neutron star emits enough energy to pass below the limit that keeps the pressure as neutrons --- and neutrons have a half-life of 14 minutes outside an atom --- do the neutrons decay into a proton (hydrogen) and an electron and become hydrogen and then start fusing again into helium?
You should be able to plug your Linux box into a TV using an HDMI port today.
I don't really see where you are going with this. Few people are going to want a SteamBox because it is Linux, they will want it for the "Steam DRM Service" otherwise they would just use Linux.
And I can plug my Windows box into my TV today using HDMI and run Steam or free games like your example.
Maybe there is some non-obvious point you guys are making, but from my perspective you seem exciting about plugging a Linux box into a TV and you are able to do this today and this isn't the point of a Steam Box.
It doesn't matter if it is a "push for transparency", just whether or not it sounds like it is in a TV commercial or political pamphlet when he runs for whatever office he clearly has in mind.
After you put on your suicide-bomber jacket, you attach the limb. Sheesh --- newbies.
Truth. ^^
You can give the gift of goat.se for free!
And all cultures can relate to this gift --- it is language neutral and culturally independent. Which as they say in Canada is "Really good deal!"
Valve is a billion dollar company that specializes in DRM. Repeat: They specialize IN DRM.
So when you say "Sounds a damn sight more open than any other 'console' out there."
I say: I am glad you are optimistic and interpret it the way you want to hear it.
But when a company that specializes in DRM --- and Steam is great, by the way, and I enjoy playing No More Room In Hell as one example --- but they still specialize in DRM and the idea of optimistically assuming the ultimately awesome best out-of-this-world groovy scenario might work for you.
This extreme optimism doesn't work for me. Steam is a DRM-based platform, I cannot imagine any scenario where it resembles "open". Regardless of how it "sounds" (which is something called "marketing" in some corners of the world).
"With an open platform, you should be free to use whatever input device you want."
Um. You think because the SteamBox platform is Linux that the SteamStuffs running on the SteamBox is an "open platform"?
Exactly what are you thinking here, captain?
[Congrats, I guess, on an astoundingly dishonest and exploitive signature by the way.]
"The current generation of "smart" TV's with every brand having their own interface is getting a bit tedious. Give me Android, give me Firefox OS, even give me iOS if you have to."
...
I'm not disagreeing with this.
But there is little difference between a TV and flat panel monitor these days, I can hook an XBox up to either of them as an example.
All they need to do is standardize plugging a smart phone into a TV or monitor and make a wireless keyboard or game controller work and all of these issues about "some OS running on some anarchronism of device" --- and face it, in ten years the idea of a "monitor" that can only function as a TV (which is what we have today) --- is going to sound mighty stupid.
If you get my drift
Shit! You mean all these rubber sheets I bought are worthless?
" We are all enemies of the State now. It's starting to look like those divisions have just been artificially put in place in order to make us easier to control. When we're fighting each other, we're not paying attention to the real bad guys."
I disagree and strongly. People argue as much as ever. The NSA doesn't give a crap about your Facebook page or your dramatic political rant on Slashdot with conspiracy sprinkles and mint frosting. There are more political rants than ever and the availability and freedom to rant, think and engage in discourse has never been higher.
Your post is an example of the unprecedented freedom to rant on the internet, making much ado about nothing. Your behavior is virtually normal in the modern age, don't you know?
Copyright is made out of people. This isn't a joke or being funny, by the way and as a result it will NEVER be "right".
... because there are always at least 2 angles for exploit (the too lax exploit and the too strict exploit). This will, in fact, be a perpetual issue ...
Since copyright is made out of people, and people come up with laws to try to maximize productivity and creation, there will always be scavengers and predators looking to exploit copyright for private gain.
Google, for example, loves weaker copyright protection so they can sell 3rd party content. Media companies and small-time authors love copyright because it rewards the creation of works.
Meanwhile, fans dislike copyright because it creates an imbalance between quality vs. convenience (cracked software is ALWAYS better) or availability (a movie or game isn't available in a certain region or is no longer sold).
Because copyright is made of out of people, there isn't going to be a "final solution" --- it must always be subject to revision because any legal system is subject to exploits.
I'm not implying "you shouldn't try", actually I'm saying you always SHOULD try to improve it.
But the results will be imperfect next time too
n-body calculations are hard enough with Newtonian physics. The "Einsteinian physics" calculations must be a bit maddening, but at least they have found a star system to test it out.
Online voting has many security vulnerabilities including the need to trust your ISP, your router, your computer and every telecom that is an intermediary in the middle.
Requires the trust of numerous parties. Probably requires the trust of your email provider too. And this doesn't even address the ability to verify the user.
Credit card fraud is common online. Identity theft is common online.
Meat is food.
...
And people are made out of meat.
I'm am very concerned where this is leading
For security reasons, this why I only browse the web with Internet Explorer 6 with Java disabled.
Yes times 100.
"Monochromatic" ---- very interesting descriptive term.
Human resources is with little doubt one of those necessary evils, and acts as a firewall against the unwashed masses which includes quite a mix of people ranging from liars to incompetent to "don't understand the market", etc. And the nature of the work means constantly dealing with people you have never seen before.
This article only reinforces the value of social media in evaluating future job performance in the human resources industry. I'll explain!
Since there is zero correlation, it is like reading tea leaves and a headhunter can reach any interpretation possible. Meanwhile, the zero correlation means any tea leaf reading cannot be falsified.
Arbitrary opinions and no valid way of measurement --- which makes the interpretations completely subject to whim! It is the perfect industry, possibly only surpassed by the "how to write a successful resume" sector of the economy!
With no right or wrong answers, what's not to LOVE!!!
Of course, when the Milky Way and Andromeda do merge, Galactic taxes will likely go up and this could lead to the Trade Federation complaining and threatening a planetary embargo ... but this just conjecture.
When the Milky Way and Andromeda "collide" no stars will collide. Star formation will begin a new due to the exchange of interstellar gases and the two galaxies will merge.
So that isn't exact the "end" of anything, just the start of a larger galaxy.
By the way, your signature rocks! Well stated.