" Is it inconcievable for you to imagine that your post was so lame it enticed multiple people to cut you?"
Oh bullshit, it was you the whole time. You gave yourself away by registerring a new nick just to post a "me too!" comment, and you cambe back to challenge my response. Nice try.:)
"What exactly would be the use for one of these? Unless you wanted to say, break someone out of jail or have your neighbors house collapse due to lack of dirt underneath it...."
Makes you wonder what Homer would do to Ned with this thing.
"You wouldn't happen to have a link for that, would you?"
It wasn't online. But if ya go down to Barnes and Noble and see the latest Star Trek Communicator, it's in there.
"And as for the DVDs, yes, would that I could afford them. I suppose in a few years I'll be buying the set off ebay for twice it's original price."
Heh I doubt it. DS9 has always been treated like the black sheep of the series for some unknown reason. I imagine the prices will go down. I know $100 a season is steep, but works itself out to like $4 an episode.
The difference is that the Romulans never fired on Federation ships. (I don't have the series memorized, but I just recently watched it all in order... I love DVDs.)
And yes, that was a kick ass episode. It was titled "In the Pale Moon Light". Again, I don't have them memorized, I just read an article about it a couple of days ago. It was about how war turned people, even Star Trek captains with a strong moral compass, into people that had evil moments. Cool article.;)
"...the bits will probably be in the hundreds of nanometers large. That's still much larger than atoms."
OT, but this reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine about quantum computers. It took her a second to realize why I had a funny look on my face when she said "Imagine what you could do with only a handful of atoms."
"... and the one-liner response didn't do it justice."
I disagree. It wasn't the most informative post in the world, but what he said is basically what we were all thinking. "Yeah right, like they're going to give that up."
"However it counts as a troll because much of the following discussion got derailed..."
That ain't his fault. The following posts should be modded down if they're 'derailing', but his was fine.
"Not-to mention that the guy's wrong because it's not even a tax. "
The post that was modded down never mentioned tax. So if the parent to that post was wrong, why is he to blame? I guess I'm just not sure why you brought that up.
"I stand by the mod's decision and my metamod vote that de-railing a perfectly good discussion by throwing out an uninformed opinion as a fact is a form of trolling."
I disagree that his post was a troll. I disagree that he derailed the conversation. If anything, the parent post about whether or not the cd-r money will disappear was the post responsible for any 'off-topic' banter. He did not post opinion as fact, he posted what amounted to "what reason is there to think that it would stop?"
I doubt I've convinced you that this moderation was unfair. No hard feelings if I didn't. For the record, though, I wouldn't have objected to "Overrated". Labelling it 'troll' just puts the message in the wrong context.
I would meta-mod this as unfair (and I will if the opportunity is granted to me) because modding it as troll served no useful purpose other than to ding a guy's comment for no particularly strong reason.
"Won't all these relatively linear improvements to the fabrication tech be irrelevant once purely optical chips are rolling."
No. Not at all.
1.) It will be a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time before all chips are optical. It will take a while for the optical processors to be developed so that they are as fast as whatever the current batch of processors is, and as cheap. Even then, it's difficult to imagine all the chip makers scrapping all their factories and going all optical.
2.) I imagine there'll be some big reason why you use electricity based processors in one situation, and optical in another. Maybe one day electric processors will be totally destroyed by optical, but as I said, it's a long ways off.
3.) As long as the modern processor has life to it, they're going to take it as far as possible.
We're in a big sluggish market when it comes to adopting new techniques like this. I mean, look at LCD. It's superior in a lot of ways, but CRTs are still holding on. CRTs will probably still be around when OLEDs hit the scene. Who knows?
To be fair, your wife's problems are far broader than just Flash. You've got TV, video games, movies, and just plain old walking down the street to worry about.
I don't agree with you that they should be outlawed, but I do think creating an promoting a "seizure safe" guideline would be prudent. I'll tell you right now, as somebody who does animation for a living, I'd read it very carefully.
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Most of those posts were you. A whole 3 people didn't like my post (one of them being a moderator). Doesn't bug me, wasn't exactly my best effort.
" Is it inconcievable for you to imagine that your post was so lame it enticed multiple people to cut you?"
:)
Oh bullshit, it was you the whole time. You gave yourself away by registerring a new nick just to post a "me too!" comment, and you cambe back to challenge my response. Nice try.
"So was the Family Guy."
Family guy was cheaper to make, fit in a shorter time slot, and appealed to a much wider audience.
"it's like Microsoft saw the wheel and thought "we gotta get us some of that!"
And in four years, the Open Source Community will finish making a free copy of it.
Gee, you posted again, surprise surprise.
Apology accepted, have a good night, man.
I can't believe you posted the same comment 4 times. Get over it.
Troll? Oh yeah, that comment nearly started a riot. How inciteful!
Shipping? Ouch. If I give them my GPS co-ordinates, can they just point it in the right direction and hit auto-pilot?
"What exactly would be the use for one of these? Unless you wanted to say, break someone out of jail or have your neighbors house collapse due to lack of dirt underneath it...."
Makes you wonder what Homer would do to Ned with this thing.
I can finally get down to my Technodrome!!
Has that business model ever actually worked?
"You wouldn't happen to have a link for that, would you?"
It wasn't online. But if ya go down to Barnes and Noble and see the latest Star Trek Communicator, it's in there.
"And as for the DVDs, yes, would that I could afford them. I suppose in a few years I'll be buying the set off ebay for twice it's original price."
Heh I doubt it. DS9 has always been treated like the black sheep of the series for some unknown reason. I imagine the prices will go down. I know $100 a season is steep, but works itself out to like $4 an episode.
The difference is that the Romulans never fired on Federation ships. (I don't have the series memorized, but I just recently watched it all in order... I love DVDs.)
;)
And yes, that was a kick ass episode. It was titled "In the Pale Moon Light". Again, I don't have them memorized, I just read an article about it a couple of days ago. It was about how war turned people, even Star Trek captains with a strong moral compass, into people that had evil moments. Cool article.
"Kick back and watch 6 hours of Dilbert without the need of a DVD changer"
6 hours? That many? What'd they do, add commercials to the discs?
"...the bits will probably be in the hundreds of nanometers large. That's still much larger than atoms."
OT, but this reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine about quantum computers. It took her a second to realize why I had a funny look on my face when she said "Imagine what you could do with only a handful of atoms."
"Does it run linux?
Come on, you were thinking it!"
Only cos I was low on karma.
"I'd say people like the military, ship crewmen..." and those of us that live in Portland.
"... and the one-liner response didn't do it justice."
I disagree. It wasn't the most informative post in the world, but what he said is basically what we were all thinking. "Yeah right, like they're going to give that up."
"However it counts as a troll because much of the following discussion got derailed..."
That ain't his fault. The following posts should be modded down if they're 'derailing', but his was fine.
"Not-to mention that the guy's wrong because it's not even a tax. "
The post that was modded down never mentioned tax. So if the parent to that post was wrong, why is he to blame? I guess I'm just not sure why you brought that up.
"I stand by the mod's decision and my metamod vote that de-railing a perfectly good discussion by throwing out an uninformed opinion as a fact is a form of trolling."
I disagree that his post was a troll. I disagree that he derailed the conversation. If anything, the parent post about whether or not the cd-r money will disappear was the post responsible for any 'off-topic' banter. He did not post opinion as fact, he posted what amounted to "what reason is there to think that it would stop?"
I doubt I've convinced you that this moderation was unfair. No hard feelings if I didn't. For the record, though, I wouldn't have objected to "Overrated". Labelling it 'troll' just puts the message in the wrong context.
I would meta-mod this as unfair (and I will if the opportunity is granted to me) because modding it as troll served no useful purpose other than to ding a guy's comment for no particularly strong reason.
"Won't all these relatively linear improvements to the fabrication tech be irrelevant once purely optical chips are rolling."
No. Not at all.
1.) It will be a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time before all chips are optical. It will take a while for the optical processors to be developed so that they are as fast as whatever the current batch of processors is, and as cheap. Even then, it's difficult to imagine all the chip makers scrapping all their factories and going all optical.
2.) I imagine there'll be some big reason why you use electricity based processors in one situation, and optical in another. Maybe one day electric processors will be totally destroyed by optical, but as I said, it's a long ways off.
3.) As long as the modern processor has life to it, they're going to take it as far as possible.
We're in a big sluggish market when it comes to adopting new techniques like this. I mean, look at LCD. It's superior in a lot of ways, but CRTs are still holding on. CRTs will probably still be around when OLEDs hit the scene. Who knows?
"So why is it 38 nanometer instead of 100110 nanometer?"
100,100 nanometers? Ouch!
"Or, if searching for Janet Jackson, (*)(*)"
I'm looking for Madonna! V V
To be fair, your wife's problems are far broader than just Flash. You've got TV, video games, movies, and just plain old walking down the street to worry about.
I don't agree with you that they should be outlawed, but I do think creating an promoting a "seizure safe" guideline would be prudent. I'll tell you right now, as somebody who does animation for a living, I'd read it very carefully.
"No matter how you slice it, this is bad news."
It means funding for websites like Slashdot. Unless you'd prefer to make 'micropayments' as you browse.
"Windows-like" uptime is scary."
Yeah, rebooting once every two weeks is getting really really old.