God fucking DAMN it! Who the fuck keeps modding up this notorious troll?
His bullshit is 100% totally irrelevant in this case anyway, because the gliders aren't for transport, they're for monitoring sea conditions!
With slim streamlined shapes and wings, these pilot-less watercraft can be programmed to "glide" through certain routes to gather various bits of information using instruments stored inside their hulls.
Any bright ideas for monitoring deep sea conditions from the air, PhysicsGenius?
A lot of internal apps are in use for which the source code is lost.
Lowly college CS student me asks... how is it possible to run a program internally without source? If the source is "lost", that implies it was written internally... so what happens if it crashes? Just restart it? There's no vendor to go to for help... sounds messed up to me.
The camcorder-jamming project comes as directors, including "Star Wars" legend George Lucas, are creating movies designed for digital projection that aim to provide sharper and more astounding visual effects than traditional film. But the technology has raised concerns that audience members might eventually create high-quality copies of movies using handheld video cameras smuggled into theaters.
What the fuck is this supposed to mean? With digital projection, the camcorders will suddenly begin recording at 5x video quality? Morons... the awful quality of bootleg recordings is from the inferiority of the devices they're recorded with. This sounds like some really fucking stupid FUD to me.
Does this mean the games with the headset can't be rated E?
Games don't come with the headset, they're just multiplayer-compatible or not. The voice connection isn't related to the game at all.
Perhaps MS could design a parental lockout for the headset to keep the games rated E.
Yeah, I don't think Microsoft really cares about the preteen market.
Or even include some of ther voice recognition software to strips out the nasties.
Jesus, I hate systems that censor text: it's arbitrary and language n-centric, and besides, there's no way to stop people from being assholes. Luckily, this kind of Orwellian thought-hygiene isn't even close to being feasible for voice.
Seriously, don't. As the ACs pointed out, those are the defendants' websites.
We're currently/.ing the shitdyke plaintiff's website, Professor Faggot Q. Boredom's Lame-U-Cational Cocksuckery. (Alright, I stole that last bit from an Onion article. Shit, that's funny.)
While I really admire the desire of Our Brave Leaders(tm) to take away my rights...
"It may be impossible to keep illegal gambling sites off the World Wide Web, but it is entirely possible to prevent American credit card companies from completing these transactions that these crooks need to make their money, and that's what this bill does," said Rep. Joseph Pitt, R-Pa.
Yes, only crooks gamble...
"Internet gambling serves no legitimate purpose in our society [...]
I guess porn also serves "no legitimate purpose" -- let's ban that too. Also drugs. Oh wait, we already banned those.
[...] it is a danger to the family, it is a danger to society at large," Leach said.
Won't somebody please think of the children!?! Thank you, Rep. Leach, for restricting my rights to what is appropriate for children!
Lawmakers said Internet gambling especially preys on college-age youth who have access to credit cards and computers but no way to pay the bills they run up. "I think this is an extremely important bill for all America, but especially for our youth, who use computers for hours and hours per day," said Rep. Jim LaFalce, D-NY
Oh no! If we don't make this illegal, college students will waste money on fun shit, instead of alcohol! We must support our friends in the alcohol industry...
[...] in the tower of Minas Morgual, which used to be minas anor?
Minas Morgul is the tower to the east of Osgiliath; it was Minas Ithil before it fell into darkness. Minas Tirith is the tower (city) to the west of Osgiliath; it was originally Minas Anor.
Relevant quote is from Gandalf, in LotR I 2 The Shadow of the Past: "I guess they were of hobbit-kind, akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors". Gollum's only about 600 years old; not old enough to be merely "hobbit-like" instead of "hobbit".
Page numbers would be silly; everyone has a different edition.
If we figure out how to operate a 1mW 6.2 mile laser [...]
First of all, it's a 1MW laser, not a 1mW. I read that as "milli" and did a double take.
[...] With a greater percentage of a groud vehicle being able to be committed to power systems, a ground-based mobile laser will be ablt to outpower an airborne version, and likely be a LOT cheaper.
Outranged outgunned outnumbered airplanes are NOT what we want. We are trading decades or our airpower in for a few measly years of SAM and ground strike invulnerability. This direction is NOT smart for us.
Your argument doesn't make sense. You just mentioned SAMs -- ask yourself, what's the difference between rocket-based weapons and lasers? By your reasoning, ground-based vehicles armed with missiles should be able to annihilate similarly-armed aircraft. Obviously they don't, because the aircraft has the advantages of maneuverability, speed, and stealth.
Lockheed Martin believes that a 100-kilowatt laser is the minimum power level needed to be an effective weapon for a fighter.
However, "to get 100 kilowatts of light out, you've got to put a megawatt of electrical power in, so somewhere along the way you've got to deal with 900 kilowatts of cooling," Tom Burris, lead for directed energy at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, told The DAILY. "That's a ton, for a fighter that normally does tens of kilowatts of cooling."
It's a 100KW laser; that requires 1MW of energy. The energy that didn't go into the laser is lost as waste heat, hence 900KW of heat need to be dissipated. The only way to reduce the amount of heat would be increasing the laser's efficiency, and as other posters have already pointed out, 10% is excellent efficiency for this kind of system.
I know this might shock some Slashdotters, but console gaming has always had a bigger marketshare than PC gaming (current estimates put the PC market at about 1/10th the console market).
From the article:
According to NPD Techworld, a research firm, PC game sales last year hit 65.3 million units, up 3.6 percent from the previous year. But 110 million console games were sold during the same period, and sales for the category rose 9 percent.
That's 59.4%, not 1/10th, moron.
The quality of console games will always surpass the quality of PC games as long as PC gamers don't demand anything more than WarCraft, Everquest, and Quake.
[I like how those are all good games.] The quality of PC games will always surpass the quality of console games as long as console gamers don't demand anything more than endless sports games, Final Fantasy, and Crazy Taxi.
And don't talk to me about graphics...you aren't going to be playing Doom 3 in 2 years. But you are gonna be hocking the $400 waffle iron you bought to play it on eBay (you'll be lucky if you get $30.)
What the fuck does this even mean? Doom 3's graphics aren't going to compare to the graphics of PC games in 2 years? That sounds about right.
Meanwhile, in the console world, people are playing their Mario Sunshine and Grand Theft Auto 3 without worrying about driver conflicts, cheating, etc.
There's no cheating because they're not online, dipshit.
Ironically, Professor Hsu admits Safeweb itself accepted controls on its censorship-busting software in order to gain access to US public funds to trial its software last year in tandem with broadcaster Voice of America.
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Safeweb "agreed with VoA to put a filter on the server side" to screen out pornography, said Professor Hsu, acknowledging that homosexual rights sites would be blanked too.
So the program that's supposed to free the citizens of China, Saudi Arabia, etc., from their respective firewalls is itself blocking access to some content? What's the message there, "Censoring is bad, unless applied to naughty porn sites?" Disturbing.
Additionally, as the history of commercial content filtering programs (Surfwatch, etc.) shows, blocking "bad" sites (porn, racism, terrorist handbook, libertarian blogs (!?!)) inevitably cuts off access to legitimate pages as well.
I was under the impression that right and wrong were mutually exclusive.
Is abortion right, or wrong?
Should I be able to pop the hood on your car if it's in the parking lot of Wal-Mart because I'm curious as to how your car is different from mine.
If you don't fuck anything up, no harm was done, regardless of whether your actions were illegal.
An example more salient to this discussion: if your hood was open, and your windows were down, and your doors were open, etc., would you seriously expect your car to be untouched after you got out of Wal-Mart?
1. Most of them can't deal with reality.
2. They need an escapist fantasy to replace that reality.
You could level that charge at anyone who reads/watches SF or fantasy novels/movies... and it's wrong. You sound like some elitist literary critic of several decades past insulting Tolkien because it's not "real".
3. Since they were picked on during their teen years, they look back on their prepubescent days with nostaliga.
Ah, yes... mock the outcast nerds.
4. They delve into cartoons -- specifically cartoons about preadolecent kids -- to try and regain some of that fun, comfortable feel of being a kid and watching Saturday morning cartoons.
Yes, be sure to use "cartoon", since that carries connotations of Disney-style content-less kiddie flicks. Some anime is aimed at kids, and has kids as the main characters (Card Captor Sakura, etc.). Some anime deals with serious subjects. Hell, some anime is serious, and has kids in it anyway (Serial Experiments Lain).
5. Additionally, the sexual scenes are comforting in that they can live vicariously through the anime characters. This sort of bizarre fantasy can usually be traced to sexual frusteration in their teen years.
"The sexual scenes"? Anime may, or may not, contain sexual themes. Non-animated movies may, or may not, contain sexual themes. Is American Beauty a "bizarre fantasy"?
You'll notice that there aren't as many non-U.S. Anime fanboys. I believe this is due to Europe having a much healthier culture than America, where people aren't so dysfunctional about issues like bullying, drinking, and sex.
Yeah, I'm sure you've done extensive traveling in Europe.
So, basically it's a backlash from their oppressed upbringing; an unhealthy, escapist way to delve into a reality which is more "fun".
The family was churchgoing, law-abiding, and above all, faithful to the Grand Old Party. "I grew up a right-wing lunatic Republican," says Lessig. [emphasis added]
Not to mention, it's the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Now, after the useless corrections: it's hard to decide what's more fucked up in the US, copyrights or patents. Retarded patents offend the intellect and hinder tech innovation, but century-long copyrights help enforce the MPAA and RIAA's stranglehold on media in their respective industries. My solution: immediately change all copyright terms back to 14 years, as the Constitution specifies, and add a "Is this patent retarded?" test for patent examiners to focus on.
Speaking as someone who loves Adult Swim, and in fact doesn't watch anything on TV other than Adult Swim, except CNN and Farscape (ARGH!)....
... The number of kids watching Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo at midnight over the weekend, I think, is minimal. And even if it wasn't, nothing Cartoon Network actually puts out on Adult Swim merits the verbal disclaimer they show at the top of every hour, IMO.
From http://www.nasawatch.com/ksc/09.04.02.clcs.html:
The Checkout and Launch Control System (CLCS) was created differently than LPS. It provides more safety and more operator visibility into launch problems before they occur. It is expandable and capable of being upgraded. It is designed to accomplish not only today's Shuttle launches, but also provides a launch capability for any future vehicle.[emphasis added]
CLCS would apparently be flexible enough to control anything NASA needs for several decades.
Don't be a moron; RTFA. All this news is courtesy of Ben Browder and 2 of the show's producers in an official chat. In fact, there were unsubstantiated rumors flying around several days prior to this -- but now they've been confirmed.
The article gave us the numbers. It said 225 CIOs were interviewed. 31% of 225 is about 70 firms.
Additionally, since they called them CIOs (as opposed to, say, sysadmins for some tiny shops), we can infer that these are not small companies. Hence, the number of systems each company is likely to have is not insignificant.
Wow. Well, I'm pretty knowledgeable about WWII, so I can at least address that issue.
We are told the Hitler was an agressor, but he did everything to make peace with the UK. It was Churchill, who wanted to be a wartime leader, who forced Hitler into war.
Yes, Hitler did want peace with the UK... after he had already siezed the rest of Europe! Hitler wanted and expected Britain to sign a peace treaty after he overwhelmed France, and he was actually very suprised that Britain didn't. It took quite some time for his generals to begin even planning the invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion), and the Germans went about it rather lethargically, all the time hoping that Britain would back down and sign a treaty.
It would have been perverse for Churchill to accept peace with Hitler after France fell -- a perversity on par with that of Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders in the Munich Agreement with Hitler in 1938 where they abandoned Czechoslovakia to him.
In addition, your phrasing "forced Hitler into war" as regards Churchill is vastly misleading, since Britain and France had declared war on Germany together after Poland was attacked. Britain was at war with Germany from that moment, and was still at war after the the evacuation of Dunkirk and the conquest of France.
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His bullshit is 100% totally irrelevant in this case anyway, because the gliders aren't for transport, they're for monitoring sea conditions!
Any bright ideas for monitoring deep sea conditions from the air, PhysicsGenius?The Robert Novak you're thinking of is the sometimes competent and sometimes wildly partisan conservative columnist and talking head.
The Robert Novak in this story is a sociopathic bully and owner of a horrible online pet store (/., please).
We're currently /.ing the shitdyke plaintiff's website, Professor Faggot Q. Boredom's Lame-U-Cational Cocksuckery. (Alright, I stole that last bit from an Onion article. Shit, that's funny.)
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Relevant quote is from Gandalf, in LotR I 2 The Shadow of the Past: "I guess they were of hobbit-kind, akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors". Gollum's only about 600 years old; not old enough to be merely "hobbit-like" instead of "hobbit".
Page numbers would be silly; everyone has a different edition.
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Additionally, as the history of commercial content filtering programs (Surfwatch, etc.) shows, blocking "bad" sites (porn, racism, terrorist handbook, libertarian blogs (!?!)) inevitably cuts off access to legitimate pages as well.
An example more salient to this discussion: if your hood was open, and your windows were down, and your doors were open, etc., would you seriously expect your car to be untouched after you got out of Wal-Mart?
Not to mention, it's the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Now, after the useless corrections: it's hard to decide what's more fucked up in the US, copyrights or patents. Retarded patents offend the intellect and hinder tech innovation, but century-long copyrights help enforce the MPAA and RIAA's stranglehold on media in their respective industries. My solution: immediately change all copyright terms back to 14 years, as the Constitution specifies, and add a "Is this patent retarded?" test for patent examiners to focus on.
... The number of kids watching Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo at midnight over the weekend, I think, is minimal. And even if it wasn't, nothing Cartoon Network actually puts out on Adult Swim merits the verbal disclaimer they show at the top of every hour, IMO.
Don't be a moron; RTFA. All this news is courtesy of Ben Browder and 2 of the show's producers in an official chat. In fact, there were unsubstantiated rumors flying around several days prior to this -- but now they've been confirmed.
Uh, all deep /. links look like that. Slashdot uses Perl.
Stephen Hawking would probably get annoyed if we asked him to do an interview and misspelled his name.
Additionally, since they called them CIOs (as opposed to, say, sysadmins for some tiny shops), we can infer that these are not small companies. Hence, the number of systems each company is likely to have is not insignificant.
Yes, Hitler did want peace with the UK... after he had already siezed the rest of Europe! Hitler wanted and expected Britain to sign a peace treaty after he overwhelmed France, and he was actually very suprised that Britain didn't. It took quite some time for his generals to begin even planning the invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion), and the Germans went about it rather lethargically, all the time hoping that Britain would back down and sign a treaty.
It would have been perverse for Churchill to accept peace with Hitler after France fell -- a perversity on par with that of Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders in the Munich Agreement with Hitler in 1938 where they abandoned Czechoslovakia to him.
In addition, your phrasing "forced Hitler into war" as regards Churchill is vastly misleading, since Britain and France had declared war on Germany together after Poland was attacked. Britain was at war with Germany from that moment, and was still at war after the the evacuation of Dunkirk and the conquest of France.