This could definitely have an adverse impact on the environment by changing wind patterns
This was so dumb I just had to laugh. +5 funny. As if anything mechanical we humans can build could take enough energy out of GLOBAL wind patterns to alter them in a significant way. As if we could build any device that had the stopping power of say, a mountain range. Gee and Earth is FULL of mountain ranges. Perhaps you should outlaw tectonic plate movement and vulcanism, since apparently these also pose a risk of melting the icecaps...
Once you graduate, marry, and have two or three children, how many gaming PCs per person will you have?
They don't teach THAT in college... isn't it great to blow your parents' cash on beer and computers without a care in the world?
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Aren't they just trying to speed up their internet for the average user
No, they're not. How does using method A vs method B change the amount of megabytes of data that user X wants to download? It's irrelevant, unless you can prove to me that their "method" uses less "overhead" (the amount of stuff in each packet that isn't actual data). But downloading 400MB via bittorrent, limewire, Kermit or a binary dump is still going to amount to a 400MB download.
However you may have a bright future in either marketing or politics.
The end goal is great technology and happy people. How we get there is much less important.
OK, but we have determined that the optimal path includes you giving me all your assets and equity, and you being executed. Please report to the nearest clearing station.
Oh wait, now suddenly the way we do it seems more important doesn't it? There's such a thing as ethics, you know.
could someone remind me again what this "NBC" thing is, and why I should care?
It's this place where people watch programs interrupted by commercials at the time least convenient to them, and have to wait a whole week between episodes; instead of downloading them one season at a time and watching them whenever you want...
Let's protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet for the past 60 years - most of which have been peaceful, and completely ignore the US occupation of Iraq. In fact it's a great excuse to forget Iraq completely, right?
Really? France's resistance to our entering Iraq didn't amount to anything, did it?
Yes, a lot of anti-French sentiment in the US, and a lot of laughter and "I told you so's" in France. Now hush, or I shall be forced to taunt you once again. I fart in your general direction.
The game sucked. I'm sure the movie will too. Movies based on books are bad enough. Now they have to turn computer games into movies too? Wing Commander the movie sucked. Doom the movie sucked. This will be the same boring plotline in the "bioshock universe". Pass. I hope they lose a lot of money, and then (of course) blame "piracy".
So if you break US IP law in a country like say, Australia, you can be extradited and shipped for trial/prosecution in the US. But you have no problem with breaking French law by placing the servers inside the US?
IE - USA! USA! USA! We'll do whatever we want, only when it suits us.
The reason is that if people see that they can get away with small stuff, they will push the boundaries and see all what else they can get away with.
Are you sure about this theory of yours? Because although I have smoked marijuana in the past, some 20 years ago, and gotten away with it; I haven't really felt the need to kill or rape anyone so far...
Not only that, but speaking as a doctor - if politicians and judges are not allowed to practice medicine, corporations certainly shouldn't be. Now if this judge claims he has discovered a new disease and can determine cause of death based on forensic evidence, I plan to file a complaint about him practicing medicine without a license. Because as far as I know, only a medical pathologist (ie the coroner) can determine a cause of death. And the "state appointed" coroner's word is FINAL, whether the judge likes it or not.
I am not a lawyer (obviously), but this ruling is rubbish and will probably be overturned at the drop of a heat - or at least another dead taser victim.
I wasn't much older when this came out, maybe 9 years old. But everything is explained so clearly and so simply, it truly is a masterpiece despite the now "dated" computer graphics.
Wait just a second here... Standards are good unless they mean you get less? Kilo is 1000 not 1024.. Yes the computing industry has been using it as 1024 since the beginning of time, but thats incorrect and has always been incorrect.
But isn't it the industry that gets to define the "standard"? After all, what exactly is a "horsepower"? What if my horse is stronger than your horse? Who has the right horse? Then someone comes up with something completely new - called "brake horsepower" and decides to use a pony as a horse... what does it all mean then?
Kilo in computer terms has always meant the closest approximation available in powers of 2, because digital things can only have 2 states - on or off. If memory chip producers can get it exactly right - to the bit, how come hard disk manufacturers get a free ride?
This technology dies after the first lawsuit from someone going into anaphylactic shock due to hypersensitivity to one of the chemicals used to generate the scent from the phone of the guy in the other row at the movie theatre.
There's intelligent life on Earth? Where? Certainly there isn't much intelligence among the misnamed species H. sapiens. Oh we like to THINK we're intelligent, as if pulling sticky black stuff out of the ground and burning it or covering the earth with it was intelligent, or continually breeding without regards to our finite resources was intelligent, or our occasional fits of mass murder when we slaughter millions of our own for ideals which a mere couple generations later are completely forgotten was proof of intelligence.
Oh there are some bright people out there. Perhaps enough to fill a stadium. However even these, our very brightest, only have limited intelligence as they are constantly interrupted by primal needs and emotions.
I'm not so convinced there IS intelligent life on this planet. Sentient yes. Occasionally predictable and rational? Yes. But the signal is very faint, and the noise very high.
brain activity can be used to predict the likelihood of someone making an error about six seconds in advance
Any way to make this technology mandatory for use on voters just before they cast their ballots so that they don't elect the "wrong" candidate (again)?
Yes, it was a feeble attempt at humor disguised under a veil of sarcasm. Mods, go to hell.
Yes because shooting an Iraqi car that has 2 people inside with AK-47s with a $100,000 Javelin missile is not enough. Bring on the $30,000,000 pick up truck killer!
IANAL, but as a professional in another field (medicine) that has a lot to do with lawyers these days, we're forced to take some legal courses.
I'll always remember having it explained to me in my legal medicine class:
Citizens have the right to everything possibly imaginable. Laws are created to put certain limits on citizens, for their own or others' protection. However you are "born" with the "right" to anything unless there is a law that specifically prohibits it.
Government, on the other hand, has absolutely NO RIGHTS whatsoever - unless a law is created that specifically gives them a right - for example the right to lock you up if you're proven guilty of a crime, the right to tax you, etc.
However from what I read online, in the US I am seeing it interpreted as being the other way around more and more frequently. Government can do what it wants, and the citizen is limited to what the "Bill of Rights" says. Anything else is a "privilege". Bullshit. And I'm glad I don't live in the US. Call me when the next revolution starts, I might help fund some of it.
The growth of asian economies leads to competition, and since the prices were "jump-started", so to speak, they aren't going to drop. Production and consumption are up, but neither are the main cause behind the high prices, that would be our weak economy and inability to guarantee continued consumption in the event of economic collapse.
Some argue that US economic collapse would only leave more oil available for other (BRIC) nations that wouldn't be as affected by US problems as they were in the past.
However I've dealt in commodities (mainly coffee). The "market" sets the price, in Chicago. The guys who push the pieces of paper and the futures around. The farmer/grower wants to get as much as he can, and the purchaser/reseller doesn't want to pay more than the current price. However this price has NOTHING TO DO with either the farmer or the purchaser. Neither of them trade on the CBOE (ok maybe the purchaser does but the farmer certainly doesn't). It has to do with traders playing with paper. Example - around 1993 there was a surprise frost in Brazil. It damaged perhaps 5% of the world's coffee crop (not to mention the fact that Brazil produces very low grade "robusta" type coffee, not the "arabica" beans that are in greater demand). Still, the price jumped virtually overnight from around $50 a bushel to $200 a bushel.
The farmers didn't want to sell for less (they'd hit jackpot - finally they could make some money). So the purchasers were stuck with having to pay the higher prices (and passing on the part of the cost to the consumer). However destroying 5% of the supply (and the lesser quality at that) in no way bears any proportion to QUADRUPLING the price. I doubt the demand curve is that steep - this is coffee not heroin. That price jump was the work of Wall St. (ok, the CBOE).
I think the same is happening with oil. I think we're both arguing the same point - an initial "shock" followed by speculators driving up the price. I also agree that growth in other nations means we're never going to see $30/barrel again. However I just don't buy the excuse that $119+ oil "is China's fault". That's just xenophobic talk and sounds suspiciously like the kind of spin the current administration likes to put on things (like the $50M "toy recall" that Mattel later had to admit to being an overreaction but which surprisingly came only one week after China refused to devalue the Yuan at the US' request). China = "BAD". But we can't say TOO many bad things about them because then who will make our stuff and buy our technology?
By the way coffee is still over $100/bushel last time I looked.
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This could definitely have an adverse impact on the environment by changing wind patterns
This was so dumb I just had to laugh. +5 funny. As if anything mechanical we humans can build could take enough energy out of GLOBAL wind patterns to alter them in a significant way. As if we could build any device that had the stopping power of say, a mountain range. Gee and Earth is FULL of mountain ranges. Perhaps you should outlaw tectonic plate movement and vulcanism, since apparently these also pose a risk of melting the icecaps...
Once you graduate, marry, and have two or three children, how many gaming PCs per person will you have?
They don't teach THAT in college... isn't it great to blow your parents' cash on beer and computers without a care in the world?
Aren't they just trying to speed up their internet for the average user
No, they're not. How does using method A vs method B change the amount of megabytes of data that user X wants to download? It's irrelevant, unless you can prove to me that their "method" uses less "overhead" (the amount of stuff in each packet that isn't actual data). But downloading 400MB via bittorrent, limewire, Kermit or a binary dump is still going to amount to a 400MB download.
However you may have a bright future in either marketing or politics.
The end goal is great technology and happy people. How we get there is much less important.
OK, but we have determined that the optimal path includes you giving me all your assets and equity, and you being executed. Please report to the nearest clearing station.
Oh wait, now suddenly the way we do it seems more important doesn't it? There's such a thing as ethics, you know.
What's linux?
The future.
could someone remind me again what this "NBC" thing is, and why I should care?
It's this place where people watch programs interrupted by commercials at the time least convenient to them, and have to wait a whole week between episodes; instead of downloading them one season at a time and watching them whenever you want...
Let's protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet for the past 60 years - most of which have been peaceful, and completely ignore the US occupation of Iraq. In fact it's a great excuse to forget Iraq completely, right?
Really? France's resistance to our entering Iraq didn't amount to anything, did it?
Yes, a lot of anti-French sentiment in the US, and a lot of laughter and "I told you so's" in France. Now hush, or I shall be forced to taunt you once again. I fart in your general direction.
Did anyone actually PLAY bioshock?
The game sucked. I'm sure the movie will too. Movies based on books are bad enough. Now they have to turn computer games into movies too? Wing Commander the movie sucked. Doom the movie sucked. This will be the same boring plotline in the "bioshock universe". Pass. I hope they lose a lot of money, and then (of course) blame "piracy".
So if you break US IP law in a country like say, Australia, you can be extradited and shipped for trial/prosecution in the US. But you have no problem with breaking French law by placing the servers inside the US?
IE - USA! USA! USA! We'll do whatever we want, only when it suits us.
Those days are over, mon ami.
The reason is that if people see that they can get away with small stuff, they will push the boundaries and see all what else they can get away with.
Are you sure about this theory of yours? Because although I have smoked marijuana in the past, some 20 years ago, and gotten away with it; I haven't really felt the need to kill or rape anyone so far...
Not only that, but speaking as a doctor - if politicians and judges are not allowed to practice medicine, corporations certainly shouldn't be. Now if this judge claims he has discovered a new disease and can determine cause of death based on forensic evidence, I plan to file a complaint about him practicing medicine without a license. Because as far as I know, only a medical pathologist (ie the coroner) can determine a cause of death. And the "state appointed" coroner's word is FINAL, whether the judge likes it or not.
I am not a lawyer (obviously), but this ruling is rubbish and will probably be overturned at the drop of a heat - or at least another dead taser victim.
Seconded --
I wasn't much older when this came out, maybe 9 years old. But everything is explained so clearly and so simply, it truly is a masterpiece despite the now "dated" computer graphics.
Mark me redundant, but I just don't feel like these lawsuits represent a good use of the legal system.
Sure they do. They lawyers made money, didn't they?
Wait just a second here... Standards are good unless they mean you get less? Kilo is 1000 not 1024.. Yes the computing industry has been using it as 1024 since the beginning of time, but thats incorrect and has always been incorrect.
But isn't it the industry that gets to define the "standard"? After all, what exactly is a "horsepower"? What if my horse is stronger than your horse? Who has the right horse? Then someone comes up with something completely new - called "brake horsepower" and decides to use a pony as a horse... what does it all mean then?
Kilo in computer terms has always meant the closest approximation available in powers of 2, because digital things can only have 2 states - on or off. If memory chip producers can get it exactly right - to the bit, how come hard disk manufacturers get a free ride?
This technology dies after the first lawsuit from someone going into anaphylactic shock due to hypersensitivity to one of the chemicals used to generate the scent from the phone of the guy in the other row at the movie theatre.
intelligent life on earth
There's intelligent life on Earth? Where? Certainly there isn't much intelligence among the misnamed species H. sapiens. Oh we like to THINK we're intelligent, as if pulling sticky black stuff out of the ground and burning it or covering the earth with it was intelligent, or continually breeding without regards to our finite resources was intelligent, or our occasional fits of mass murder when we slaughter millions of our own for ideals which a mere couple generations later are completely forgotten was proof of intelligence.
Oh there are some bright people out there. Perhaps enough to fill a stadium. However even these, our very brightest, only have limited intelligence as they are constantly interrupted by primal needs and emotions.
I'm not so convinced there IS intelligent life on this planet. Sentient yes. Occasionally predictable and rational? Yes. But the signal is very faint, and the noise very high.
brain activity can be used to predict the likelihood of someone making an error about six seconds in advance
Any way to make this technology mandatory for use on voters just before they cast their ballots so that they don't elect the "wrong" candidate (again)?
Yes, it was a feeble attempt at humor disguised under a veil of sarcasm. Mods, go to hell.
wen u get pwned can I haz ur lewt?
I don't think that Mr. Clarke would like to be remembered for inventing a weapon.
Neither do I. His last couple books were bad enough. My eyes STILL hurt, that shit was worse than pepper spray.
Yes because shooting an Iraqi car that has 2 people inside with AK-47s with a $100,000 Javelin missile is not enough. Bring on the $30,000,000 pick up truck killer!
Let's all get our umbrellas out and get ready to dance and sing as the possibly solidifying, molten metal safely comes crashing down on our heads!
This is going to call for a radical new design of our tinfoil hats.
IANAL, but as a professional in another field (medicine) that has a lot to do with lawyers these days, we're forced to take some legal courses.
I'll always remember having it explained to me in my legal medicine class:
Citizens have the right to everything possibly imaginable. Laws are created to put certain limits on citizens, for their own or others' protection. However you are "born" with the "right" to anything unless there is a law that specifically prohibits it.
Government, on the other hand, has absolutely NO RIGHTS whatsoever - unless a law is created that specifically gives them a right - for example the right to lock you up if you're proven guilty of a crime, the right to tax you, etc.
However from what I read online, in the US I am seeing it interpreted as being the other way around more and more frequently. Government can do what it wants, and the citizen is limited to what the "Bill of Rights" says. Anything else is a "privilege". Bullshit. And I'm glad I don't live in the US. Call me when the next revolution starts, I might help fund some of it.
The growth of asian economies leads to competition, and since the prices were "jump-started", so to speak, they aren't going to drop. Production and consumption are up, but neither are the main cause behind the high prices, that would be our weak economy and inability to guarantee continued consumption in the event of economic collapse.
Some argue that US economic collapse would only leave more oil available for other (BRIC) nations that wouldn't be as affected by US problems as they were in the past.
However I've dealt in commodities (mainly coffee). The "market" sets the price, in Chicago. The guys who push the pieces of paper and the futures around. The farmer/grower wants to get as much as he can, and the purchaser/reseller doesn't want to pay more than the current price. However this price has NOTHING TO DO with either the farmer or the purchaser. Neither of them trade on the CBOE (ok maybe the purchaser does but the farmer certainly doesn't). It has to do with traders playing with paper. Example - around 1993 there was a surprise frost in Brazil. It damaged perhaps 5% of the world's coffee crop (not to mention the fact that Brazil produces very low grade "robusta" type coffee, not the "arabica" beans that are in greater demand). Still, the price jumped virtually overnight from around $50 a bushel to $200 a bushel.
The farmers didn't want to sell for less (they'd hit jackpot - finally they could make some money). So the purchasers were stuck with having to pay the higher prices (and passing on the part of the cost to the consumer). However destroying 5% of the supply (and the lesser quality at that) in no way bears any proportion to QUADRUPLING the price. I doubt the demand curve is that steep - this is coffee not heroin. That price jump was the work of Wall St. (ok, the CBOE).
I think the same is happening with oil. I think we're both arguing the same point - an initial "shock" followed by speculators driving up the price. I also agree that growth in other nations means we're never going to see $30/barrel again. However I just don't buy the excuse that $119+ oil "is China's fault". That's just xenophobic talk and sounds suspiciously like the kind of spin the current administration likes to put on things (like the $50M "toy recall" that Mattel later had to admit to being an overreaction but which surprisingly came only one week after China refused to devalue the Yuan at the US' request). China = "BAD". But we can't say TOO many bad things about them because then who will make our stuff and buy our technology?
By the way coffee is still over $100/bushel last time I looked.
I still listen to your music for free, you insensitive clod!
Fix'd. Ahhh internet.