Has it ever occured to you that words along the lines of Amerindian are common in languages other than yours?:) Namely, Romance languages, such as French, which is an official language in Canada.
Around here 100 mbit optic fiber is the default internet connection that comes with your cable and you can access their TV channels from "the cloud", so every iPad is now a portable TV. Thanks to the joys of "FON" (http://corp.fon.com), if you allow your wifi router to resell unused bandwidth, you can have free wifi anywhere in the country, so long as you stumble upon a FON link. And they're everywhere. But apart from that, we do have flat-rate everything, including 3G, to the extent that some non-TV-watching people prefer to buy 3G access for their laptop instead of a normal internet connection.
You get a free gun and a free trip to a remote place? Get a boat and try to live off the sea? North Korea?:) There was a corrupt politician here in Portugal who fled to the other end of Brazil, to a small town practically in the Amazon. People all know each other and notice you arriving. Any place hooked up to the global media is essentially the same place where you are right now. Your picture will end up in the newspapers. Buy a farm house in an absurdly isolated place, and you'll still have a paper trail.
I thought the whole car thing was dying because we're running out of oil. Can you build a UAV that carries a whole person AND a stack of lithium batteries? Mass transit is still the way to go whether you're flying or not. See, for instance, London's new Cable Car. I live in a hilly place and I can't for the life of me imagine why nobody thought it would be useful to simply go from hill to hill.
And they hate everything all the time, as a result of passive-aggressiveness during the depressive phases, or mere aggressiveness and grandiosity on the manic ones, or simply a tendency to hyperbolize their description of the world based on their own extreme feelings and disinhibition. They will also, of course, get into angry arguments.
There will be no future archaeologists. How can they assume a huge cultural discontinuity that would require archaeology? The only reason we have any archaeology is because people didn't write anything down.
I can find out precisely when a building was built, sold, and how many times it was repaired, just by visiting the online city hall archives. Not only that, I can get a map of my city for every century, and then some. Everything that ever happened here since God knows when. Like 1850 or so? I can get a list of all the people that lived in any given place since the 16th century, when the Church started keeping track of baptismal records. Online.
Why would things ever stop being archived and kept track of? Seriously. Are we going to have a nuclear war or something? The whole archive would probably fit on a USB pen drive. Making 1000 copies every year would be a rounding error on the city's budget.
Well I'm not an astrophysicist but in my admittedly poor understanding of this, they finally got around to measuring something, whereas before it was just a hypothesis. We assumed, for decades, that other planetary systems would be like ours, simply because we hadn't seen them. It doesn't need any sort of new physics. We just need a better hypothesis on what causes the Sun's magnetic field. NASA does screw up, sometimes, but it's not like some wacko in the middle of India looked at red-tinted rain and said it was some kind of alien lifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala#Extraterrestrial_hypothesis
I have to ask myself what happened to the pioneering entrepreneurial spirit that made America into the most prosperous country in the world. You've already done the employment thing. You need to ask yourself what you really want to do with your life, rather than what you can do to "keep employable". You're not getting any younger. Surely you have some unfullfilled childhood dream. There's more to life than the rat race. If you really do want to stay in the industry, I have found it a lot easier to get my foot inside their door as a business owner with a solid value proposition than as yet another resume in the stack. Get into some entrepreneurial education program, learn how to do a business plan and where to find investors, or put something up on kickstarter, or just be a middleman for random freelancers on the internet. That's something you can do from any laptop at any gorgeous beach in any country. I did that for a few years and it was great. But ultimately I realized that herding cats and hunting down contracts was not my type of thing. I'd really just rather sit in a corner and be left alone.
Computer games have done that since the dawn of time. *grabs cane* Why, back in MY day, being able to watch VIDEO on your computer was HUGE! We didn't have animations. Overlaying things and doing transitions was the norm. So yes. A lot of what you youngsters call "cutscenes" was made with static images, not video or 3D data.
I think you're confusing us with America. The US produces almost all the (mass-market) content in the world and, well, Europe is composed of 45 countries. The EU is not a cohesive country either - there's 27 of us. We all have different laws and we're bound together by separate treaties, most of which only include parts of Europe, some which even include non-EU countries. The Euro zone (common currency) is one thing, the Schengen space (freedom of travel) is another one, etc.
It's very very complicated - but we're not a federation and what the bureaucrats do in Brussels is largely their problem. We're hardly ever *forced* to agree - the guy did say "reccomendation". We generally agree on implementing reccomendations when the public supports it. I believe this will be the case with Net Neutrality, and France can go on pretending it's still a major power in the world, and that we all give a damn about what it does.
The vast majority of countries in Europe do not have opressive ISP policies or draconian copyright law enforcement, so the whole net neutrality thing won't even register on our radar.
(I'm not a politician, so I could be wrong on the whole EU thing)
My primary computer is a 7 year old laptop with 512M of RAM and it works great. After you turn off all the crap, XP takes up like 50M of RAM plus 100M of "System Cache", whatever that is.I haven't fully tweaked it out of sheer laziness: some guy built a "Micro XP" distro that can get it to run in 64M. Thing is, any stupid browser takes up more memory than the entire operating system, and leaks *heavily* due to the insanity that is JavaScript. The browser alone will easily eat all the RAM available. Don't get me started on the crashy Flash plugin. The Remote Desktop that comes with Windows is awesome, though. If I ever need to do something heavier than browsing the web, I can launch it on the other computer.
The web was always seen as the future, and here we are, after the biggest boom and bust I can remember, where some companies were 1000% overvalued. See: Gartner Hype Cycle.
This website is 5 years old and has been covered on Slashdot before. It has nothing to do with NASA. Altitude information was alledgedly taken from NASA, but you could well have done it with Google Maps API. Or simply by superimposing a transparent blue layer on Google Earth at the altitude(s) of your choice.
Do you even read what you write? The data came after the overwrite, meaning, it was written there again after the multiple zerofills. On top of what the parent posters said about sector size etc. we have the fact that bits are perpendicular to the platter nowadays.
I'm terribly sorry, Professor Minton, but didn't the early Earth had far greater volcanic activity, a thinner crust, a hotter mantle, faster plate tectonics, and meteors constantly hitting it?
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He's being mean to me!
*sigh*
The word exists and is in use.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amerindian
"a specialist word, esp in linguistics and anthropology, for American Indian"
http://www.le-dictionnaire.com/definition.php?mot=Amerindien
"relatif aux Indiens d'Amérique"
2 580 000 results for Amerindian (English)
1 330 000 results for Amerindiens (French)
957 000 results for Amerindi (Italian)
881 000 results for Amerindios (Spanish / Portuguese)
Has it ever occured to you that words along the lines of Amerindian are common in languages other than yours? :)
Namely, Romance languages, such as French, which is an official language in Canada.
Around here 100 mbit optic fiber is the default internet connection that comes with your cable and you can access their TV channels from "the cloud", so every iPad is now a portable TV.
Thanks to the joys of "FON" (http://corp.fon.com), if you allow your wifi router to resell unused bandwidth, you can have free wifi anywhere in the country, so long as you stumble upon a FON link. And they're everywhere.
But apart from that, we do have flat-rate everything, including 3G, to the extent that some non-TV-watching people prefer to buy 3G access for their laptop instead of a normal internet connection.
You must have a very interesting job. I think I've designed an actual algorithm once a year, on average.
The rest is mindless factory work.
You get a free gun and a free trip to a remote place? Get a boat and try to live off the sea? North Korea? :)
There was a corrupt politician here in Portugal who fled to the other end of Brazil, to a small town practically in the Amazon. People all know each other and notice you arriving. Any place hooked up to the global media is essentially the same place where you are right now. Your picture will end up in the newspapers. Buy a farm house in an absurdly isolated place, and you'll still have a paper trail.
I thought the whole car thing was dying because we're running out of oil.
Can you build a UAV that carries a whole person AND a stack of lithium batteries?
Mass transit is still the way to go whether you're flying or not.
See, for instance, London's new Cable Car. I live in a hilly place and I can't for the life of me imagine why nobody thought it would be useful to simply go from hill to hill.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/23828.aspx
In my evil socialist european country, the surviving spouse gets 100% for the rest of his/her life.
And they hate everything all the time, as a result of passive-aggressiveness during the depressive phases, or mere aggressiveness and grandiosity on the manic ones, or simply a tendency to hyperbolize their description of the world based on their own extreme feelings and disinhibition. They will also, of course, get into angry arguments.
"First commercially successful portable computer" according to the almighty wiki, launched in 1981.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
Go select one or upload your own CSS / Javascript:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering
There will be no future archaeologists. How can they assume a huge cultural discontinuity that would require archaeology?
The only reason we have any archaeology is because people didn't write anything down.
I can find out precisely when a building was built, sold, and how many times it was repaired, just by visiting the online city hall archives.
Not only that, I can get a map of my city for every century, and then some. Everything that ever happened here since God knows when. Like 1850 or so? I can get a list of all the people that lived in any given place since the 16th century, when the Church started keeping track of baptismal records. Online.
Why would things ever stop being archived and kept track of? Seriously. Are we going to have a nuclear war or something?
The whole archive would probably fit on a USB pen drive. Making 1000 copies every year would be a rounding error on the city's budget.
Is it time to stop ending titles with question marks?
Boy, you sure have very expensive fruit over there.
It's called Google. Here's a whole bunch of places where you can see a similar article:
http://www.science-news.eu/astronomy-news/cluster142794/
And here's the actual paper:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.3173v1.pdf
Well I'm not an astrophysicist but in my admittedly poor understanding of this, they finally got around to measuring something, whereas before it was just a hypothesis. We assumed, for decades, that other planetary systems would be like ours, simply because we hadn't seen them.
It doesn't need any sort of new physics. We just need a better hypothesis on what causes the Sun's magnetic field.
NASA does screw up, sometimes, but it's not like some wacko in the middle of India looked at red-tinted rain and said it was some kind of alien lifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala#Extraterrestrial_hypothesis
I have to ask myself what happened to the pioneering entrepreneurial spirit that made America into the most prosperous country in the world. You've already done the employment thing. You need to ask yourself what you really want to do with your life, rather than what you can do to "keep employable". You're not getting any younger. Surely you have some unfullfilled childhood dream. There's more to life than the rat race.
If you really do want to stay in the industry, I have found it a lot easier to get my foot inside their door as a business owner with a solid value proposition than as yet another resume in the stack.
Get into some entrepreneurial education program, learn how to do a business plan and where to find investors, or put something up on kickstarter, or just be a middleman for random freelancers on the internet. That's something you can do from any laptop at any gorgeous beach in any country. I did that for a few years and it was great. But ultimately I realized that herding cats and hunting down contracts was not my type of thing. I'd really just rather sit in a corner and be left alone.
Yes, it's part of the worm lifecycle. Sandtrouts encircle water and hold it underground. That's why Arrakis is a desert.
Quoth the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandtrout#Sandworm_life_cycle
Computer games have done that since the dawn of time. *grabs cane*
Why, back in MY day, being able to watch VIDEO on your computer was HUGE!
We didn't have animations. Overlaying things and doing transitions was the norm.
So yes. A lot of what you youngsters call "cutscenes" was made with static images, not video or 3D data.
One of my favorite games still does that: http://defendersquest.com/
I think you're confusing us with America. The US produces almost all the (mass-market) content in the world and, well, Europe is composed of 45 countries. The EU is not a cohesive country either - there's 27 of us. We all have different laws and we're bound together by separate treaties, most of which only include parts of Europe, some which even include non-EU countries. The Euro zone (common currency) is one thing, the Schengen space (freedom of travel) is another one, etc.
It's very very complicated - but we're not a federation and what the bureaucrats do in Brussels is largely their problem. We're hardly ever *forced* to agree - the guy did say "reccomendation". We generally agree on implementing reccomendations when the public supports it. I believe this will be the case with Net Neutrality, and France can go on pretending it's still a major power in the world, and that we all give a damn about what it does.
The vast majority of countries in Europe do not have opressive ISP policies or draconian copyright law enforcement, so the whole net neutrality thing won't even register on our radar.
(I'm not a politician, so I could be wrong on the whole EU thing)
My primary computer is a 7 year old laptop with 512M of RAM and it works great.
After you turn off all the crap, XP takes up like 50M of RAM plus 100M of "System Cache", whatever that is.I haven't fully tweaked it out of sheer laziness: some guy built a "Micro XP" distro that can get it to run in 64M.
Thing is, any stupid browser takes up more memory than the entire operating system, and leaks *heavily* due to the insanity that is JavaScript. The browser alone will easily eat all the RAM available. Don't get me started on the crashy Flash plugin.
The Remote Desktop that comes with Windows is awesome, though. If I ever need to do something heavier than browsing the web, I can launch it on the other computer.
The web was always seen as the future, and here we are, after the biggest boom and bust I can remember, where some companies were 1000% overvalued. See: Gartner Hype Cycle.
http://sembassy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gartner-hype-cycle-2012.gif
This website is 5 years old and has been covered on Slashdot before. It has nothing to do with NASA.
Altitude information was alledgedly taken from NASA, but you could well have done it with Google Maps API.
Or simply by superimposing a transparent blue layer on Google Earth at the altitude(s) of your choice.
Do you even read what you write? The data came after the overwrite, meaning, it was written there again after the multiple zerofills.
On top of what the parent posters said about sector size etc. we have the fact that bits are perpendicular to the platter nowadays.
I'm terribly sorry, Professor Minton, but didn't the early Earth had far greater volcanic activity, a thinner crust, a hotter mantle, faster plate tectonics, and meteors constantly hitting it?