Don't get me wrong, I like hearing about space updates. But it feels like there's been a ton of "there may be signs that may indicate signs of biological life from stuff we may or may not have overlooked before. Also? It might not be caused by a biological thing."
I want a "we found fucking life" article. Stop teasing me with this nonsense.
You kind of think inside the human box. I realize our current understanding of the universe and physics puts maximum travel speed at what you specified, or even somewhat close to the speed of light. But I'm kind of assuming that in 200-500 years from now, our understanding will be fundamentally different, and we will find ways that seem extremely impossible right now to travel great distances at faster speeds. I guess that sounds like a sci-fi argument, but I just don't really think our understanding of spacetime and physics is very good at the moment.
Yea I agree with you. I've been around Tokyo quite a few times and I have never ran into a no foreigners thing. I've even been to places in Tokyo most foreigners never go. I have heard that outside of Tokyo it's not nearly as foreigner friendly though.
I've been to Akihabara before and it's extremely confusing, much like the rest of Tokyo, so I'm really happy about this guide. I watched a few clips from it and it's easy to follow and the google maps addition is great. My only request is if you can do it for the rest of Tokyo:)
After going to Tokyo a few times, and living in Canada, the fact that North America sucks becomes pretty apparent. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Canada and the US has its moments too, but the sheer amount of technology and the railway infrastructure in Japan, along with the fact that you can find something to do at any moment there is kind of.. well, it just really puts things into perspective.
Fuck them and fuck their bitching. As a Canadian, I'm quite happy with the way our laws our (currently). And I do "still" buy music, both from iTunes and CDs, so these guys can.. complain.. somewhere else.
Not only do you not know where you're going to end up, but also the service can track your behaviour. Obviously this latter reason is why all the companies want to do it.
So, how do you get around it? I don't even think we can. I think we're screwed, to be honest. It's just going to be like that, perhaps until the day an exploit comes out and re-targets all of a services re-directs (i.e. tinyurl) to some hostile domain. Then, and perhaps only then, would it get enough attention to bring it to the "mainstream" users that it might be a bad idea.
I was in university about 6 years ago, right during the shift when students were just starting to bring laptops (at least, where I went). I never had one, and I liked the fact that with notepaper I wasn't limited in any way: I can write, draw, colour, do whatever since a pen has no restrictions.
That said, the amount of paper I had to lug around sucked, so definitely an iPad or similar device would help. If I went back to school now, I can honestly say I would definitely try an electronic solution first, but if I felt any slower or that I couldn't get all the notes down, I would switch back.
One thing I never got is the students who recorded the whole hour lecture. I could barely even sit through them once... ah, who am I kidding, I often didn't:).
Well, one thing I noticed on the reuters article is that many of the witnesses are nuclear missile , as in, they worked closely on or near the nuclear weapons. Isn't there a chance that, considering almost all were in close contact with nuclear weapons, the radiation was screwing with their head? Or, possibly, whatever they use on nuclear missile bases were?
I'm not discounting the fact that maybe aliens are indeed screwing with nuclear weapons for whatever reason, but it just seems more likely that all these people have something in common, and that commonality is causing them to believe what they saw..
The summary kind of makes it sound like he's a kid who was looking for exploits and then used it to make a virus. This doesn't seem to be the case at all. According to the TFA he saw some people using CSS in their twitter posts, and wondered if he could use HTML/JavaScript (as I would be too). He found he could, did some experimenting, and his followers then started doing it too and it went viral (the idea), and then some malicious people found it, and went viral (the code).
I assume no punishment is being leveraged against him, but I'm sure many will misunderstand what happened and call for it anyways. Curiosity should be encouraged.
I don't know how others feel, but I've never felt some sort of stigma against using swear words. The only time I refrain is when it's socially unacceptable (i.e. at a funeral) because then other people would potentially become upset towards me. At my funeral though? I'm going to encourage it. From the grave.
I would be worried, as I use Chrome at work, about searching for "po"..."st office". I mean, that term among many others.
There's always increased traffic usage, though I doubt that affects work much. I wonder also if they'll push this on the page where you have to choose a search engine (when you install it). "If you use google, you get this feature too."
So hundreds of people can be served by 1 computer (no need for sales people, which would require many to drive to/from the store), at home (they don't have to travel themselves), using the power they have on at home anyways (no need for store power), and this is somehow more than the store? I understand the actual product has shipping pollution, but I mean come on, that can't make up for everything else.
I read the notes, noticed the Column and WHEN triggers. Is this in other SQL databases? If it is, I haven't seen it before. In any case, it's pretty cool that you can setup triggers on a conditional statement. That would really help me out in a lot of scenarios, as I work in the BI space, so alerting is a big deal.
Is there instructions somewhere on how to compile this and such on the different platforms?
Whenever ID releases stuff like this I'm interested in playing with it but after 5 minutes of not knowing how to build it I usually just give up and move on. I do admit part of the confusion is probably because I'm a.NET developer, and almost all my experience is with csc and VS. I guess I shouldn't say that on/., since I'll get trolled for being a MS developer, but..
I read TFA and his answer is two fold: 1. stop burning waste or plowing it from forests/farms and instead pile it (as the summary says), and 2. plant more trees and plants.
It's a pretty interesting idea, but it seems like it would be really hard to get traction because people won't believe it work. To be fair, while the theory seems pretty sound to me, it still seems like it wouldn't work. Why this is, I cannot say. Perhaps because it seems too easy.
At the very least, this should show the MPAA that no matter what kind of resources they have, 4Chan can muster the same or more. I mean, obviously this didn't have any short or long term effect other than someone probably saying "oh, our websites are down." But ya, if they are capable of this (with sheer numbers), they could be capable of more.
Basically I'm for anything that scares the MPAA somewhat, or at least is a force fighting them, even if the "fighting" (in this case) is rather pointless and somewhat childish.
The article says it, but not in the way I want: by extending their own platform, they do hurt their third party developers. Presumably the idea they do it though is to be able to track that stuff for themselves, and presumably to try and "do it better" with better integration.
I don't really use twitter, so I can't comment, but I ask of you who do: is this the case? Is what twitter is starting to offer "in house" better than what's available from 3rd party, or can they even improve on it enough and faster?
Remember the days when mobile phones couldn't render full web pages, and we used Opera Mobile which rendered it on their servers and streamed an image back?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is exactly the same, isn't it? That's awesome. And sad.
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Don't get me wrong, I like hearing about space updates. But it feels like there's been a ton of "there may be signs that may indicate signs of biological life from stuff we may or may not have overlooked before. Also? It might not be caused by a biological thing."
I want a "we found fucking life" article. Stop teasing me with this nonsense.
You kind of think inside the human box. I realize our current understanding of the universe and physics puts maximum travel speed at what you specified, or even somewhat close to the speed of light. But I'm kind of assuming that in 200-500 years from now, our understanding will be fundamentally different, and we will find ways that seem extremely impossible right now to travel great distances at faster speeds. I guess that sounds like a sci-fi argument, but I just don't really think our understanding of spacetime and physics is very good at the moment.
Yea I agree with you. I've been around Tokyo quite a few times and I have never ran into a no foreigners thing. I've even been to places in Tokyo most foreigners never go. I have heard that outside of Tokyo it's not nearly as foreigner friendly though.
I've been to Akihabara before and it's extremely confusing, much like the rest of Tokyo, so I'm really happy about this guide. I watched a few clips from it and it's easy to follow and the google maps addition is great. My only request is if you can do it for the rest of Tokyo :)
After going to Tokyo a few times, and living in Canada, the fact that North America sucks becomes pretty apparent. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Canada and the US has its moments too, but the sheer amount of technology and the railway infrastructure in Japan, along with the fact that you can find something to do at any moment there is kind of.. well, it just really puts things into perspective.
Fuck them and fuck their bitching. As a Canadian, I'm quite happy with the way our laws our (currently). And I do "still" buy music, both from iTunes and CDs, so these guys can.. complain.. somewhere else.
Not only do you not know where you're going to end up, but also the service can track your behaviour. Obviously this latter reason is why all the companies want to do it.
So, how do you get around it? I don't even think we can. I think we're screwed, to be honest. It's just going to be like that, perhaps until the day an exploit comes out and re-targets all of a services re-directs (i.e. tinyurl) to some hostile domain. Then, and perhaps only then, would it get enough attention to bring it to the "mainstream" users that it might be a bad idea.
Not.. that I'm suggesting anything... 4chan.
I was in university about 6 years ago, right during the shift when students were just starting to bring laptops (at least, where I went). I never had one, and I liked the fact that with notepaper I wasn't limited in any way: I can write, draw, colour, do whatever since a pen has no restrictions.
That said, the amount of paper I had to lug around sucked, so definitely an iPad or similar device would help. If I went back to school now, I can honestly say I would definitely try an electronic solution first, but if I felt any slower or that I couldn't get all the notes down, I would switch back.
One thing I never got is the students who recorded the whole hour lecture. I could barely even sit through them once... ah, who am I kidding, I often didn't :).
Well, one thing I noticed on the reuters article is that many of the witnesses are nuclear missile , as in, they worked closely on or near the nuclear weapons. Isn't there a chance that, considering almost all were in close contact with nuclear weapons, the radiation was screwing with their head? Or, possibly, whatever they use on nuclear missile bases were?
I'm not discounting the fact that maybe aliens are indeed screwing with nuclear weapons for whatever reason, but it just seems more likely that all these people have something in common, and that commonality is causing them to believe what they saw..
The summary kind of makes it sound like he's a kid who was looking for exploits and then used it to make a virus. This doesn't seem to be the case at all. According to the TFA he saw some people using CSS in their twitter posts, and wondered if he could use HTML/JavaScript (as I would be too). He found he could, did some experimenting, and his followers then started doing it too and it went viral (the idea), and then some malicious people found it, and went viral (the code).
I assume no punishment is being leveraged against him, but I'm sure many will misunderstand what happened and call for it anyways. Curiosity should be encouraged.
I don't know how others feel, but I've never felt some sort of stigma against using swear words. The only time I refrain is when it's socially unacceptable (i.e. at a funeral) because then other people would potentially become upset towards me. At my funeral though? I'm going to encourage it. From the grave.
I would be worried, as I use Chrome at work, about searching for "po"..."st office". I mean, that term among many others.
There's always increased traffic usage, though I doubt that affects work much. I wonder also if they'll push this on the page where you have to choose a search engine (when you install it). "If you use google, you get this feature too."
Sounds like he just made a real life Thunderfury.
Now I can just start jerking off and it'll show me porn, instead of me having to find the porn first.
Thanks, auto-detect camera.
Really? Are they uh.. well I didn't know, that they were so close. Married, as it were. I guess when two companies love each other..
So hundreds of people can be served by 1 computer (no need for sales people, which would require many to drive to/from the store), at home (they don't have to travel themselves), using the power they have on at home anyways (no need for store power), and this is somehow more than the store? I understand the actual product has shipping pollution, but I mean come on, that can't make up for everything else.
I'm confused.
I read the notes, noticed the Column and WHEN triggers. Is this in other SQL databases? If it is, I haven't seen it before. In any case, it's pretty cool that you can setup triggers on a conditional statement. That would really help me out in a lot of scenarios, as I work in the BI space, so alerting is a big deal.
A big cloud in a box? Like, a mainframe? From the 70s/80s?
I think I misunderstand this whole cloud thing, because to me it just seems like going back to what we had years ago..
Is there instructions somewhere on how to compile this and such on the different platforms?
Whenever ID releases stuff like this I'm interested in playing with it but after 5 minutes of not knowing how to build it I usually just give up and move on. I do admit part of the confusion is probably because I'm a .NET developer, and almost all my experience is with csc and VS. I guess I shouldn't say that on /., since I'll get trolled for being a MS developer, but..
I read TFA and his answer is two fold: 1. stop burning waste or plowing it from forests/farms and instead pile it (as the summary says), and 2. plant more trees and plants.
It's a pretty interesting idea, but it seems like it would be really hard to get traction because people won't believe it work. To be fair, while the theory seems pretty sound to me, it still seems like it wouldn't work. Why this is, I cannot say. Perhaps because it seems too easy.
At the very least, this should show the MPAA that no matter what kind of resources they have, 4Chan can muster the same or more. I mean, obviously this didn't have any short or long term effect other than someone probably saying "oh, our websites are down." But ya, if they are capable of this (with sheer numbers), they could be capable of more.
Basically I'm for anything that scares the MPAA somewhat, or at least is a force fighting them, even if the "fighting" (in this case) is rather pointless and somewhat childish.
The article says it, but not in the way I want: by extending their own platform, they do hurt their third party developers. Presumably the idea they do it though is to be able to track that stuff for themselves, and presumably to try and "do it better" with better integration.
I don't really use twitter, so I can't comment, but I ask of you who do: is this the case? Is what twitter is starting to offer "in house" better than what's available from 3rd party, or can they even improve on it enough and faster?
Now I know the sequel is going to take place underwater. You fuckers ruined it for me!
Remember the days when mobile phones couldn't render full web pages, and we used Opera Mobile which rendered it on their servers and streamed an image back?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is exactly the same, isn't it? That's awesome. And sad.
Oh ya, you're quite right about that. My rant was on the topic of HTML5, not the article :)