People will be insisting that those potions you drink in Fantasy RPG's have prior FDA approval...
Dear people who call for censorship: It's not MY fault that you have trouble separating reality from fiction. If you have trouble doing this, you are the one who needs help, not me.
In my eyes, this is a good time to start discussing taking the human factor out of flying?
Sure, and just have planes crash when the computer can't handle a situation - eg flight 1549.
Fully automated flying is a _BAD IDEA_ for passenger jets. Yes an autopilot helps with the tedium of long distance level flight. However you need the pilots there for the emergency scenario. And AFAIK, pilots still take off and land manually.
The French have tried to build sophisticated computer software to automate as much as the flying as possible in their Airbus planes, and these systems work well most of the time. However when they fail, they usually fail catastrophically. Would you like to die just because the computer encountered a problem it wasn't smart enough to work through? I always want a guy up there who's able to hit the "OFF" switch, and take over. Even if it doesn't work, at least it's an extra back up system and was worth a shot.
Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free
Dear submitter,
Since you insist on doling out pharmaceutical advice be aware that your statement is utterly false. Fortunately you won't be held as accountable as we practitioners are. Lucky you. I could lose my house because of something like this.
You obviously have never heard of analgesic rebound headaches.
I can't wait for IBM to sue BMW because after all, both of them share the letters "BM" and that might confuse a lot of people. Disney could probably have a go at McDonald's because after all, Donald is the name of a famous Disney character....
Hopefully Sparkfun won't get a retarded judge, and this will be laughed out of court.
"are inhibiting developing nations from enjoying productive use of the internet -- like online banking and market tools."
There are different levels of development, you know. Do you really think that someone who is starving and has no idea what a computer is for (apart from the kids who play starcraft in internet cafes) needs online banking? What, are those banks starting to accept cows, goats and chickens as deposits? Does a bank really cares about those whole $50 the village managed to save last year? You can pay someone to stand in line for you at the bank, and they will gladly stand there all day for a dollar. And then you think they will open an account? No, that dollar is going straight to the liquor store... or whatever vice is fashionable in their neighborhood.
I LIVE in the "developing world" and know whereof I speak. Those who have money - those who drive the economies, even of these small or poor countries, can afford internet at any price, by satellite or whatever. But Poor Joe Average, well no, he can't afford the internet. And he'd have no idea what to do with it. There's a whole learning curve him and the rest of the population have to go through. But learning takes time and money, and if you're on the verge of starvation, you don't HAVE time and money. You keep doing what you always did.
Lack of internet is not "holding people back". Lack of EDUCATION is, education to get them more productive at whatever it is they do, more efficient, less wasteful of time and resources. THEN they start making money. However someone is still going to have to sew your bras and socks and shirts, someone is going to have to poison himself in the factory making cheap goods for the "developed world", and someone is always going to have to be on the bottom. Though exactly who gets to be on the bottom changes from time to time... kinda like sex.
This bug was reported on Oct 15th, and fixed on Oct 22nd. What more do you want?
Of course if you're a Microsoft slave, you can wait for a bug to be fixed "when we get around to it", which will probably be in SP1 in 4-6 months or so - depending on how buggy THIS Windows version is... (sometimes they have to release the SP faster, like with Vista).
1. Create a bad analogy 2. Get lost in your own analogy because it's so bad 3. Make sure you submit story title as a question 4. YESNOMAYBE
PS: Publishers suck. Haven't you noticed how hard it's getting to find PC games, even in game stores like Gamestop? THEY have decided to shift everything to consoles, because consoles "can't be pirated". They are middlemen that often add little value to software, and yet expect EVERYONE (devs AND consumers) to dance to their tune.
It's the 21st century. If Steam/Gamersgate/whoever can sell me a game online as a download and/or as a boxed set, ANY developer can. This model has worked successfully in the past for independent companies that have chosen to implement it. The cost of the bandwidth is nothing compared to what the publisher is going to screw you with.
Not to rain on the parade, but electrical activity does not correlate with "intelligence". Otherwise all epileptics would be super-gifted during their fits...
"What might be surprising is that Windows 7's multithreading changes did not deliver more of a performance punch"
Umm, it may be surprising to any alien who is just visiting our planet, however for people who have bought Microsoft software in the past, this is the norm. Every OS successor ever written by Microsoft (except perhaps MS-DOS 5.0) has 1) required faster hardware, greater memory and has delivered 2) The same or inferior performance. It's not all _bad_, Microsoft does tend to add some bells and whistles. However these are hard to justify (eg: why the FUCK does my Microsoft Keyboard driver consist of 80 MEGABYTES?) - especially when now most of those bells and whistles involve "protecting" the user (and especially Hollywood) from "pirated software"... or trying to dance around huge holes in the OS' security by spamming the user every 5 mins so that their legal team can turn around and say "if your machine got infected, it had to be YOUR fault".
No, if you want to see REAL performance improvements, I suggest linux.
This post will be modded down by Microsoft shills in 5, 4, 3...
the sheer level of rage released from Slashdot would probably be enough to melt monitors on the other side of the world.
You are probably the only person on slashdot NOT running linux. What rage? Microsoft can do what it wants with it's POS OS. In fact, it's perfectly legally entitled to. Enjoy your tax.
it's not a quantum leap to assume that other solar systems have them too. I wonder what more information we'll be able to learn about our system, and therefore be able to infer about other systems, due to this discovery.
v = u + at
6000m/s = 0 + a(0.367s)
6000m/s / 0.367s = a
16348m/s^2 = a
g = roughly 10m/s^2 (ok ok 9.8)
So your projectile has to be engineered to survive 1635 g's for a third of a second while blasted out of this gun. I'm not taking into account any heat - generated by gases or friction along the gun barrel, either. Now apart from rocks, exactly WHAT functional stuff do they plan on hurling into space with this?
I call BS - or an attempt at getting free grant money...
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People will be insisting that those potions you drink in Fantasy RPG's have prior FDA approval...
Dear people who call for censorship: It's not MY fault that you have trouble separating reality from fiction. If you have trouble doing this, you are the one who needs help, not me.
So tell me, how does "bait and switch" add anything to the argument?
We're talking about fully automated flying. You're talking about sleeping pilots.
I don't really see what the problem is. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time...
Also: IT'S A GAME, IDIOTS
In my eyes, this is a good time to start discussing taking the human factor out of flying?
Sure, and just have planes crash when the computer can't handle a situation - eg flight 1549.
Fully automated flying is a _BAD IDEA_ for passenger jets. Yes an autopilot helps with the tedium of long distance level flight. However you need the pilots there for the emergency scenario. And AFAIK, pilots still take off and land manually.
The French have tried to build sophisticated computer software to automate as much as the flying as possible in their Airbus planes, and these systems work well most of the time. However when they fail, they usually fail catastrophically. Would you like to die just because the computer encountered a problem it wasn't smart enough to work through? I always want a guy up there who's able to hit the "OFF" switch, and take over. Even if it doesn't work, at least it's an extra back up system and was worth a shot.
Yes. The best way to get out of a recession is by imposing new taxes. Well done.
But what should I expect, you got us INTO this mess...
Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free
Dear submitter,
Since you insist on doling out pharmaceutical advice be aware that your statement is utterly false. Fortunately you won't be held as accountable as we practitioners are. Lucky you. I could lose my house because of something like this.
You obviously have never heard of analgesic rebound headaches.
Just in case you don't believe me. There, I'm bored. You look for the rest.
A tip - if you have constant headaches, see your doctor instead of taking aspirin or some other analgesic every day.
Love,
A physician.
I can't wait for IBM to sue BMW because after all, both of them share the letters "BM" and that might confuse a lot of people. Disney could probably have a go at McDonald's because after all, Donald is the name of a famous Disney character....
Hopefully Sparkfun won't get a retarded judge, and this will be laughed out of court.
The counter-suit should be interesting. Hey, maybe SPARC would like to hire Darl to take care of that? I hear he's looking for work now.
"are inhibiting developing nations from enjoying productive use of the internet -- like online banking and market tools."
There are different levels of development, you know. Do you really think that someone who is starving and has no idea what a computer is for (apart from the kids who play starcraft in internet cafes) needs online banking? What, are those banks starting to accept cows, goats and chickens as deposits? Does a bank really cares about those whole $50 the village managed to save last year? You can pay someone to stand in line for you at the bank, and they will gladly stand there all day for a dollar. And then you think they will open an account? No, that dollar is going straight to the liquor store... or whatever vice is fashionable in their neighborhood.
I LIVE in the "developing world" and know whereof I speak. Those who have money - those who drive the economies, even of these small or poor countries, can afford internet at any price, by satellite or whatever. But Poor Joe Average, well no, he can't afford the internet. And he'd have no idea what to do with it. There's a whole learning curve him and the rest of the population have to go through. But learning takes time and money, and if you're on the verge of starvation, you don't HAVE time and money. You keep doing what you always did.
Lack of internet is not "holding people back". Lack of EDUCATION is, education to get them more productive at whatever it is they do, more efficient, less wasteful of time and resources. THEN they start making money. However someone is still going to have to sew your bras and socks and shirts, someone is going to have to poison himself in the factory making cheap goods for the "developed world", and someone is always going to have to be on the bottom. Though exactly who gets to be on the bottom changes from time to time... kinda like sex.
A huge Koala has trashed my hall with a load of dirty socks, and is now fucking my girlfriend!
Well the Koala is getting sloppy seconds, but I think your girlfriend was starting to enjoy the Jackalope.
Oh wait, what are we talking about? This is slashdot. You don't HAVE a girlfriend...
This bug was reported on Oct 15th, and fixed on Oct 22nd. What more do you want?
Of course if you're a Microsoft slave, you can wait for a bug to be fixed "when we get around to it", which will probably be in SP1 in 4-6 months or so - depending on how buggy THIS Windows version is... (sometimes they have to release the SP faster, like with Vista).
Just the fact that their press release is in Microsoft Word format says a lot about what we can expect for so called "net neutrality".
1. Create a bad analogy
2. Get lost in your own analogy because it's so bad
3. Make sure you submit story title as a question
4. YESNOMAYBE
PS: Publishers suck. Haven't you noticed how hard it's getting to find PC games, even in game stores like Gamestop? THEY have decided to shift everything to consoles, because consoles "can't be pirated". They are middlemen that often add little value to software, and yet expect EVERYONE (devs AND consumers) to dance to their tune.
It's the 21st century. If Steam/Gamersgate/whoever can sell me a game online as a download and/or as a boxed set, ANY developer can. This model has worked successfully in the past for independent companies that have chosen to implement it. The cost of the bandwidth is nothing compared to what the publisher is going to screw you with.
can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text
Wait, how many Libraries of Congress is that??? Now I'm totally confused, you keep switching the units on me!
On second thoughts, it can probably store 1 copy of Windows 8.
People still use ThePirateBay? LOL
Rule #1: don't get caught.
Trouble with cops? See rule #1 - you got caught. Game over.
If you need a key, you are doing it wrong...
I have no idea how much coke it must have taken for these people to get such an overblown sense of their own importance, but I'm hoping they carry on.
The problem isn't that they're doing coke. It's that their pet politicians share the same dealer...
Not to rain on the parade, but electrical activity does not correlate with "intelligence". Otherwise all epileptics would be super-gifted during their fits...
"What might be surprising is that Windows 7's multithreading changes did not deliver more of a performance punch"
Umm, it may be surprising to any alien who is just visiting our planet, however for people who have bought Microsoft software in the past, this is the norm. Every OS successor ever written by Microsoft (except perhaps MS-DOS 5.0) has 1) required faster hardware, greater memory and has delivered 2) The same or inferior performance. It's not all _bad_, Microsoft does tend to add some bells and whistles. However these are hard to justify (eg: why the FUCK does my Microsoft Keyboard driver consist of 80 MEGABYTES?) - especially when now most of those bells and whistles involve "protecting" the user (and especially Hollywood) from "pirated software"... or trying to dance around huge holes in the OS' security by spamming the user every 5 mins so that their legal team can turn around and say "if your machine got infected, it had to be YOUR fault".
No, if you want to see REAL performance improvements, I suggest linux.
This post will be modded down by Microsoft shills in 5, 4, 3...
Engine that hasn't really been invented yet might rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb....
Of course as a nationalized Costa Rican citizen, perhaps I should celebrate the fact that Franklin Chang Diaz is the creator of this engine, however let's wait and see until it has actually been tested before we make specific claims, yes?
the sheer level of rage released from Slashdot would probably be enough to melt monitors on the other side of the world.
You are probably the only person on slashdot NOT running linux. What rage? Microsoft can do what it wants with it's POS OS. In fact, it's perfectly legally entitled to. Enjoy your tax.
it's not a quantum leap to assume that other solar systems have them too. I wonder what more information we'll be able to learn about our system, and therefore be able to infer about other systems, due to this discovery.
But it's on the INTERNET, it HAS to be true!
Not only that, but consider this:
The gun barrel is 1100m long. The velocity of the projectile, as it leaves the barrel, is 6m/s.
Using the equations of motion:
s = 1/2(u + v)t
1100m = 1/2(0 + 6000m/s)t
1100m = (3000m/s)t
t = 1100m/3000m/s = 0.367 seconds.
To find out the acceleration:
v = u + at
6000m/s = 0 + a(0.367s)
6000m/s / 0.367s = a
16348m/s^2 = a
g = roughly 10m/s^2 (ok ok 9.8)
So your projectile has to be engineered to survive 1635 g's for a third of a second while blasted out of this gun. I'm not taking into account any heat - generated by gases or friction along the gun barrel, either. Now apart from rocks, exactly WHAT functional stuff do they plan on hurling into space with this?
I call BS - or an attempt at getting free grant money...