So you would rather they continue to support oppressive regimes than try to be progressive and move away from those policies and do so through passage of laws explicitly prohibiting support?
You clearly don't like what they did before so why the hell are you whining about them trying to rectify that and ensure it happens less in the future? It's like your'e bitching for the sake of bitching.
"The ground, meanwhile, might leap into the sky. There's growing evidence that fine particles of moondust might actually float, ejected from the lunar surface by electrostatic repulsion. This could create a temporary nighttime atmosphere of dust ready to blacken spacesuits, clog machinery, scratch faceplates (moondust is very abrasive) and generally make life difficult for astronauts."
If this were the case, the entire moon's surface-particles floating above the planet 6 days each month, we would have already seen it. If not with naked eyes then with telescopes. We can see localized dust storms on Mars, I can only imagine what a planet-wide de-surfacing would look like. Ridiculous.
This will never happen. For myself and most people I know, the internet is about acquiring information about things we aren't familiar with, not about rehashing information which we already know. Whether that information be used for personal enjoyment - learning something new for the sake of learning something new - or for personal research, like say looking up probable diseases you may have based on symptoms. For anything like this, social networking information will never provide you with what you need.
The only realm where such a thing were to exist is in adolescents. Your friend discovered an new Naruto website with awesome backgrounds and your interest in Naruto, which is listed in your profile, allows the network to make the connection.
I don't know anyone who gets their news from blogs. Not a soul. The only times I've ever seen people read them is when actual journalists from established news organizations are at some technology conference of some sort and post as it happens. I can't imagine using a blog or even several blogs as a replacement for the multitude of legitimate news organizations.
You're right. I guess Douglas McArthur, like you, really UNDERSTOOD the art of war. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor he withdrew all marine craft from the pacific and focused entirely on defense. The next several years saw Japan make several unsuccessful invasions of the American heartland, thankfully America's invulnerable defense ensured our safety. Eventually Japan became disheartened and gave up attacking America, thus ending WWII. Sure we lost the Philippines, Australia, and eastern China is still part of the Great Japanese Empire, but that's all history.
I don't know how extensive their knowledge of other mechanical subjects would be considering they never even invented the wheel. Yeah, you could argue some nebulous notion that they didn't have the right "conditions" for the development of the wheel, but the fact remains they never did.
I would imagine, aside from extensive treatises on stellar movements and religious documents, that the Mayan documents contained little information of worth. Worth equating to natural of philosophical sciences (they were extreme traditionalist to a fault).
This seems very reasonable. No ports, no disc drive, completely metallic instead of plastic. I could see how it would set of some warning bells that there might be more to this guy's laptop than he claims. Taken in this light it actually raises my views of the TSA and certainly makes it seem like they're actually looking out for potential safety threats.
Either way, had he been there a little earlier he could have had plenty of time to explain his new gadget and boarded the plane. TSA (and common sense) - 1, jackass blogger - 0.
Once we discover a large reservoir of concentrated easy to mine hydrogen it will make sense to have a hydrogen energy economy. Currently, I can't think of many things more idiotic than burning carbon fuels to make energy at low efficiency, which is transmitted at low efficiency to a plant, which is harnessed at low efficiency to make hydrogen, which is transported by a familiar large infrastructure of energy using vehicles, to a station where you can fill up your hydrogen car that can burn the hydrogen at low efficiency. I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of energy being consumed (at the plant) compared to the amount actually usable by the hydrogen car is near 1%. What a fucking waste.
Or we could just cut all that shit and have cars that run at 20-40% efficiency burning carbon fuels.
Wait a second, are you really suggesting that definitions of words don't change over time? I thought it was pretty clear that he was using the contemporary definition of first-world rather than your admitted archaic meaning.
and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of medicines - is such a ridiculous statement that has no basis in anything factual aside from creating sensationalist news articles. They might as well have said and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of space travel, AI, nuclear fusion reactors, stem cell research, or whatever.
Sure it MAY have an impact on all those, but only in the same way as a hobo taking a shit in an alleyway MAY have an impact on those things.
Part-time second jobs. Living with a roommate to ameliorate the expenses. From experience I can tell you its very possible to escape poverty and America has possibly the greatest social mobility. Those that stay at the poverty level (in most instances) do so by choice - in that they choose not to make the necessary sacrifices or put forward the effort toward actively acquiring a better life.
I don't know why you're asking the parent to recall that evolution is a consequence of environmental pressure when his question is asking whether there is evolution, rather than just more random mutations, since it seems to him that there is less environmental pressure. You're asking him to recall the very fact that he is using to ask his question.
You not only completely misunderstood the parent post but then contradicted your own by saying that evolution is just change (it's not, that's mutation) and then in the next line correctly saying that evolution is actually a consequence of environmental pressure (which is true, as it works on mutations). Also you were somehow modded up regardless of all that. Ugh.
Exactly. No other country has a history of free-speech like the US, nor do they have it so prominently featured in their government, nor do they have a history of holding free-speech in very high regard. Yeah, the government may overtly monitor traffic (as I'm sure all governments do!) but that really has no basis for who controls the internet. Why in the hell would give the single most open tool for communication to regimes that are the defacto standards for censorship and oppression?
Seriously slashdot, why are you so stupid sometimes?
Great post and completely true. I think the grandparent shows what happens when computer-inclined people know nothing or relatively little of a field but use anecdotal evidence and guess work to make a point. They get modded up since the mods don't have the knowledge necessary to judge whether they are true or false for the same reason. Very frustrating.
As an example: The use of technology is actually what is driving up healthcare costs. Per hospital visit, the major increase in cost for the last decade has been almost entirely in imaging, taking up somewhere around a third of all cost. In fact, insurance companies are now attempting to reduce physicians' use of them as they've become - as a direct quote from a internal medicine attending - "Pretty much a part of the P.D." (physical diagnosis).
Another neat factoid: hospitals have a mean turnover rate of CT scanners of about 2-3 years. An entirely new machine every 2 years to fight obsolescence.
But hey, I guess its more fun on slashdot to be paranoid about any organization, how they might kill you and are filled with technologically ignorant savages.
It's comments like these that show how detached from society some slashdot readers are. The average American doesn't know, doesn't use and doesn't care about on demand video. The average American is happy to buy DVDs. Yes, you as a tech savy individual use it, know its benefits etc. How many families have a video-out from their computer to TV? Less than a tenth of a percent?
Remember, you don't represent the average individual.
Don't be dense. I'm sure as the elevator is lowering cars its being braked by a giant magnet and reclaiming most of the energy it used to lift the car. Just pretend its a giant a hybrid car.
I think you hit it the issue right on its head. The main problem is this:
1 - games are either shitty multiplatform/not designed for the control scheme games. 2 - games ARE designed with the proper control scheme etc. but play awfully as the wiimote is simply not precise enough to use it for its intended purposes.
example: Twilight Princess. A really fun game, but I felt like nothing was gained by having it on the Wii vs Gamecube. Everyone of course wanted to control his sword; swing the wiimote and Link reflects your swing. Instead we see "gesture" buttons. Shake controller = B button.
It seems the only games that can actually be designed and well implemented with the control scheme are those that require tilting/rolling inputs, since those are the only sensors responsive enough to illict any meaningful interactive experience. This limits the amount of games companies can produce for it and the effect is really noticable even to casual gamers who use the wii for any length of time.
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So you would rather they continue to support oppressive regimes than try to be progressive and move away from those policies and do so through passage of laws explicitly prohibiting support?
You clearly don't like what they did before so why the hell are you whining about them trying to rectify that and ensure it happens less in the future? It's like your'e bitching for the sake of bitching.
Good question. I must have read the first sentence 10 times, it still makes no sense.
"WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote"
what the hell does that even mean? its like some abortion of a palindrome "Wii --> Super Hero --> action figure -- Super Hero -- Wii."
"The ground, meanwhile, might leap into the sky. There's growing evidence that fine particles of moondust might actually float, ejected from the lunar surface by electrostatic repulsion. This could create a temporary nighttime atmosphere of dust ready to blacken spacesuits, clog machinery, scratch faceplates (moondust is very abrasive) and generally make life difficult for astronauts."
If this were the case, the entire moon's surface-particles floating above the planet 6 days each month, we would have already seen it. If not with naked eyes then with telescopes. We can see localized dust storms on Mars, I can only imagine what a planet-wide de-surfacing would look like. Ridiculous.
This will never happen. For myself and most people I know, the internet is about acquiring information about things we aren't familiar with, not about rehashing information which we already know. Whether that information be used for personal enjoyment - learning something new for the sake of learning something new - or for personal research, like say looking up probable diseases you may have based on symptoms. For anything like this, social networking information will never provide you with what you need.
The only realm where such a thing were to exist is in adolescents. Your friend discovered an new Naruto website with awesome backgrounds and your interest in Naruto, which is listed in your profile, allows the network to make the connection.
I don't know anyone who gets their news from blogs. Not a soul. The only times I've ever seen people read them is when actual journalists from established news organizations are at some technology conference of some sort and post as it happens. I can't imagine using a blog or even several blogs as a replacement for the multitude of legitimate news organizations.
You said billion twice for emphasis, even though it clearly says million even in the article's damn title.
You're right. I guess Douglas McArthur, like you, really UNDERSTOOD the art of war. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor he withdrew all marine craft from the pacific and focused entirely on defense. The next several years saw Japan make several unsuccessful invasions of the American heartland, thankfully America's invulnerable defense ensured our safety. Eventually Japan became disheartened and gave up attacking America, thus ending WWII. Sure we lost the Philippines, Australia, and eastern China is still part of the Great Japanese Empire, but that's all history.
I don't know how extensive their knowledge of other mechanical subjects would be considering they never even invented the wheel. Yeah, you could argue some nebulous notion that they didn't have the right "conditions" for the development of the wheel, but the fact remains they never did.
I would imagine, aside from extensive treatises on stellar movements and religious documents, that the Mayan documents contained little information of worth. Worth equating to natural of philosophical sciences (they were extreme traditionalist to a fault).
They're nearly perfect mirrors of one another. Really the only difference between this year and lasts was the word "Air."
iPod touch, however, has a processing power comparable to a mid-level PDA, but it's almost completely locked down.
Might that be because it's not a PDA but an mp3 player?
This seems very reasonable. No ports, no disc drive, completely metallic instead of plastic. I could see how it would set of some warning bells that there might be more to this guy's laptop than he claims. Taken in this light it actually raises my views of the TSA and certainly makes it seem like they're actually looking out for potential safety threats.
Either way, had he been there a little earlier he could have had plenty of time to explain his new gadget and boarded the plane. TSA (and common sense) - 1, jackass blogger - 0.
Once we discover a large reservoir of concentrated easy to mine hydrogen it will make sense to have a hydrogen energy economy. Currently, I can't think of many things more idiotic than burning carbon fuels to make energy at low efficiency, which is transmitted at low efficiency to a plant, which is harnessed at low efficiency to make hydrogen, which is transported by a familiar large infrastructure of energy using vehicles, to a station where you can fill up your hydrogen car that can burn the hydrogen at low efficiency. I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of energy being consumed (at the plant) compared to the amount actually usable by the hydrogen car is near 1%. What a fucking waste.
Or we could just cut all that shit and have cars that run at 20-40% efficiency burning carbon fuels.
Wait a second, are you really suggesting that definitions of words don't change over time? I thought it was pretty clear that he was using the contemporary definition of first-world rather than your admitted archaic meaning.
What the hell was the point of your post?
It's like reverse 1984.
Is this some retarded ARG that you have to subscribe to?
and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of medicines - is such a ridiculous statement that has no basis in anything factual aside from creating sensationalist news articles. They might as well have said
and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of space travel,
AI,
nuclear fusion reactors,
stem cell research,
or whatever.
Sure it MAY have an impact on all those, but only in the same way as a hobo taking a shit in an alleyway MAY have an impact on those things.
Part-time second jobs. Living with a roommate to ameliorate the expenses. From experience I can tell you its very possible to escape poverty and America has possibly the greatest social mobility. Those that stay at the poverty level (in most instances) do so by choice - in that they choose not to make the necessary sacrifices or put forward the effort toward actively acquiring a better life.
I don't know why you're asking the parent to recall that evolution is a consequence of environmental pressure when his question is asking whether there is evolution, rather than just more random mutations, since it seems to him that there is less environmental pressure. You're asking him to recall the very fact that he is using to ask his question.
You not only completely misunderstood the parent post but then contradicted your own by saying that evolution is just change (it's not, that's mutation) and then in the next line correctly saying that evolution is actually a consequence of environmental pressure (which is true, as it works on mutations). Also you were somehow modded up regardless of all that. Ugh.
Exactly. No other country has a history of free-speech like the US, nor do they have it so prominently featured in their government, nor do they have a history of holding free-speech in very high regard. Yeah, the government may overtly monitor traffic (as I'm sure all governments do!) but that really has no basis for who controls the internet. Why in the hell would give the single most open tool for communication to regimes that are the defacto standards for censorship and oppression?
Seriously slashdot, why are you so stupid sometimes?
Great post and completely true. I think the grandparent shows what happens when computer-inclined people know nothing or relatively little of a field but use anecdotal evidence and guess work to make a point. They get modded up since the mods don't have the knowledge necessary to judge whether they are true or false for the same reason. Very frustrating.
As an example: The use of technology is actually what is driving up healthcare costs. Per hospital visit, the major increase in cost for the last decade has been almost entirely in imaging, taking up somewhere around a third of all cost. In fact, insurance companies are now attempting to reduce physicians' use of them as they've become - as a direct quote from a internal medicine attending - "Pretty much a part of the P.D." (physical diagnosis).
Another neat factoid: hospitals have a mean turnover rate of CT scanners of about 2-3 years. An entirely new machine every 2 years to fight obsolescence.
But hey, I guess its more fun on slashdot to be paranoid about any organization, how they might kill you and are filled with technologically ignorant savages.
I think this might be the most ignorant statement I've ever read on slashdot, superceding even pro-creationism.
I am not exaggerating.
It's comments like these that show how detached from society some slashdot readers are. The average American doesn't know, doesn't use and doesn't care about on demand video. The average American is happy to buy DVDs. Yes, you as a tech savy individual use it, know its benefits etc. How many families have a video-out from their computer to TV? Less than a tenth of a percent?
Remember, you don't represent the average individual.
Don't be dense. I'm sure as the elevator is lowering cars its being braked by a giant magnet and reclaiming most of the energy it used to lift the car. Just pretend its a giant a hybrid car.
I think you hit it the issue right on its head. The main problem is this:
1 - games are either shitty multiplatform/not designed for the control scheme games.
2 - games ARE designed with the proper control scheme etc. but play awfully as the wiimote is simply not precise enough to use it for its intended purposes.
example: Twilight Princess. A really fun game, but I felt like nothing was gained by having it on the Wii vs Gamecube. Everyone of course wanted to control his sword; swing the wiimote and Link reflects your swing. Instead we see "gesture" buttons. Shake controller = B button.
It seems the only games that can actually be designed and well implemented with the control scheme are those that require tilting/rolling inputs, since those are the only sensors responsive enough to illict any meaningful interactive experience. This limits the amount of games companies can produce for it and the effect is really noticable even to casual gamers who use the wii for any length of time.
I'm not sure really why you were modded up since you're either misinformed or just BSing.
How can I make such a accusation? Because I have the trilogy and I can run Tie Fighter just fine in DX9 and on XP.
Also good job on that smooth tirade transition.