I think that that question is just as pointless, as asking what was before time, or what is outside of everything. Because “operation” is only defined in terms of a progressing time.
But you could ask how the world would look if something like that existed, and then compare it to reality with experiments, to find out if it is at all possible. (Just like the final argument of (I think) Bohr against Einstein in the great debate about quantum physics.)
Starting out with more bugs than a jungle, and the only patches available being on gamecopyworld.com And then having up to 3 seconds of input lag (time between pressing a key, and the car reacting).
But only when you saw how crappy the graphics were, and how the game was slow like a dog, did you know that it was a console port. The graphics card was irrelevant. The only thing that counter, was if you had more than 2 cores. Because apparently, they implemented the PS3 vector processors in the CPU, instead of the vastly more powerful graphics cards.
Well, since a virtual crime can only be punished with a virtual punishment in a virtual court...
But hey, who says that a virtual world has to have the same laws as the real one. After all, other rules are often the whole POINT of that virtual world!
Yeah, riiight. That’s the excuse I’d have given. Doctor: Terrible news. You’re the first human to contract AIDS. Patient: How would I have gotten that? Doctor: Two ways: One: You were fucking a chimp up the ass. Patient: LOL. Pff. Fucking a chimp up the ass... Me? No way.... How else could I have gotten it? Doctor: Oh, you could have carried bloody prey on your back, while your back had abrasio... Patient: That one! (Credit goes to Ricky Gervais.:)
I hate “we all know this” statements in situations that only exist because not everybody knows this.
Microwave radiation from mobile phones can by definition (=frequency=energy) not ionize anything. It can only heat things up. In case of human flesh that is 0.1-0.2 degrees Celsius. (Warning: Only the rotation causes the strong heating in microwave ovens. Not the resonance or radiation energy itself.) Do you know what Van-den-Waals bondings are? Look up their bonding energy. Now take the above quantum energy the radiation (as a function related to penetration depth e.g. into the brain, balls, etc) [like SAR], and you know if it can denature proteins. (It’s not that hard, and quite interesting. Especially to know it for sure.)
See. That way nobody can just make (stupid) bold statements or (even dumber) take sides, without knowing shit about the topic. (Notice how I myself did not take sides but only stated mere facts based on quantum physics. You have to not accept them, to not accept this.)
Well, guess who profits from this? See, there you got the reason why this is a story.
(For the uninformed: Apple pays lots of money to have at least a story about Apple on Slashdot every week.) (And I’m in no way saying that this would make them worse than anybody else doing it. They’re just better at it.;)
Dammit! I meant to say “But everything ELSE was awful.”. Slipped right trough the preview, apparently.
Oh, and nontheless, experimenting, and coming up with new ways and ideas, is always a great thing. Even when the result is sometimes bad. Because it always puts us one step forward.:)
Set up a couple of solar thermal power plants (e.g. in Arizona), lay a couple of high-voltage DC lines, or convert it to hydrogen, or any form or battery, and be good. We will have left this planet, long before we use more energy than the sun can deliver (especially when you add space-based power plants). And the technology is cheap, simple (a poor African nation could do it without having to having to take a loan), recyclable, and there is a lot of really dead and hot land out there (certainly deader than what our power plants stand on nowadays).
They just don’t want to set them up, so they can keep their power.
Frankly, the basic idea was not that bad. But everything was awful.
Basically, Firefox with Ubiquity had at least 3 things, to do the exact same thing: 1. The search input field (top right): Choose a search and enter the query. 2. The keyword search (URL field): Enter the keyword (e.g. dict), followed by the query. 3. Use Ubiquity, enter the keyword, and the parameters/query.
Of course, Ubiquity was more. Because it was a generalization of [1] and [2] to GET/POSTs with multiple fields. But that could have easily be implemented right in the URL bar. (Or search field for people who prefer that. [Although I don’t know why.])
Then again, if you think that thing trough to the end, you gonna end up with a general property/option box and a general communication protocol between servers and clients. And such general solutions are great because they usually offer huge emergence (the ability to do much with little interface complexity). But we already have that. More than once. And the newest standard is XForms. Doesn’t make much sense to cram it into the browser UI itself though.
And I haven’t even talked about how when you think it trough to the very end, you just end up with algorithms and data structures again.
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Also, we are actually talking about 4 kilobyte sectors. TFS refers to it as 4096k, which would be a 4 megabyte sector. (Which is wildly wrong.)
Wanna bet TFS was written by a Verizon employee? ;)
And we are the goo...
that transforms every resource to poo.
Yes, because life is something that (locally) reverses thermodynamics. In fact the only thing.
I think that that question is just as pointless, as asking what was before time, or what is outside of everything. Because “operation” is only defined in terms of a progressing time.
But you could ask how the world would look if something like that existed, and then compare it to reality with experiments, to find out if it is at all possible. (Just like the final argument of (I think) Bohr against Einstein in the great debate about quantum physics.)
Well, that’s just the intermediate form. Since investors are going to translate it into “Saves money. Lots of money!”.
I can’t see how this is a bad thing.
(Except of course if they patent the algorithm and have draconian terms.)
Some portions are contrary to all countries’ current laws, let alone their cultures’ mindset or philosophy.
There, fixed that for ya.
Yeah, until someone comes at it with a cross-site scripting attack. ^^
Starting out with more bugs than a jungle, and the only patches available being on gamecopyworld.com
And then having up to 3 seconds of input lag (time between pressing a key, and the car reacting).
But only when you saw how crappy the graphics were, and how the game was slow like a dog, did you know that it was a console port.
The graphics card was irrelevant. The only thing that counter, was if you had more than 2 cores.
Because apparently, they implemented the PS3 vector processors in the CPU, instead of the vastly more powerful graphics cards.
Well, since a virtual crime can only be punished with a virtual punishment in a virtual court...
But hey, who says that a virtual world has to have the same laws as the real one.
After all, other rules are often the whole POINT of that virtual world!
It better be the “very close ABOVE” kind, or they just admitted to not giving you what they advertise. Which would be illegal, wouldn’t it?
Pff, how primitive. When you can simply redefine “evil” at will.
Well, in the end it all comes down to natural selection. Either you win. Or you lose. It’s only a matter of time. ;)
You can guess my choice.
By the way: Are treehuggers just vegetarian facehuggers? ;)
Move to another country.
There must be one with better conditions out there.
Yeah, riiight. That’s the excuse I’d have given. ... How else could I have gotten it? :)
Doctor: Terrible news. You’re the first human to contract AIDS.
Patient: How would I have gotten that?
Doctor: Two ways: One: You were fucking a chimp up the ass.
Patient: LOL. Pff. Fucking a chimp up the ass... Me? No way.
Doctor: Oh, you could have carried bloody prey on your back, while your back had abrasio...
Patient: That one!
(Credit goes to Ricky Gervais.
Yeah! Capitalism RULES! Oh, wait...
He just hates himself. ;)
You will stop laughing when you’ll notice that I actually did it, and am the only one not being affected in the next crisis. ^^
I hate “we all know this” statements in situations that only exist because not everybody knows this.
Microwave radiation from mobile phones can by definition (=frequency=energy) not ionize anything. It can only heat things up. In case of human flesh that is 0.1-0.2 degrees Celsius. (Warning: Only the rotation causes the strong heating in microwave ovens. Not the resonance or radiation energy itself.)
Do you know what Van-den-Waals bondings are? Look up their bonding energy. Now take the above quantum energy the radiation (as a function related to penetration depth e.g. into the brain, balls, etc) [like SAR], and you know if it can denature proteins.
(It’s not that hard, and quite interesting. Especially to know it for sure.)
See. That way nobody can just make (stupid) bold statements or (even dumber) take sides, without knowing shit about the topic. (Notice how I myself did not take sides but only stated mere facts based on quantum physics. You have to not accept them, to not accept this.)
Well, guess who profits from this?
See, there you got the reason why this is a story.
(For the uninformed: Apple pays lots of money to have at least a story about Apple on Slashdot every week.) ;)
(And I’m in no way saying that this would make them worse than anybody else doing it. They’re just better at it.
Wow, when I do that I get modded troll (not that I care anyway).
The iTrollerators must be sleeping, wrapped in their cozy reality distortion field. ;)
IRC! ;)
Dammit! I meant to say “But everything ELSE was awful.”. Slipped right trough the preview, apparently.
Oh, and nontheless, experimenting, and coming up with new ways and ideas, is always a great thing. Even when the result is sometimes bad. Because it always puts us one step forward. :)
Set up a couple of solar thermal power plants (e.g. in Arizona), lay a couple of high-voltage DC lines, or convert it to hydrogen, or any form or battery, and be good. We will have left this planet, long before we use more energy than the sun can deliver (especially when you add space-based power plants). And the technology is cheap, simple (a poor African nation could do it without having to having to take a loan), recyclable, and there is a lot of really dead and hot land out there (certainly deader than what our power plants stand on nowadays).
They just don’t want to set them up, so they can keep their power.
Frankly, the basic idea was not that bad. But everything was awful.
Basically, Firefox with Ubiquity had at least 3 things, to do the exact same thing:
1. The search input field (top right): Choose a search and enter the query.
2. The keyword search (URL field): Enter the keyword (e.g. dict), followed by the query.
3. Use Ubiquity, enter the keyword, and the parameters/query.
Of course, Ubiquity was more. Because it was a generalization of [1] and [2] to GET/POSTs with multiple fields.
But that could have easily be implemented right in the URL bar. (Or search field for people who prefer that. [Although I don’t know why.])
Then again, if you think that thing trough to the end, you gonna end up with a general property/option box and a general communication protocol between servers and clients. And such general solutions are great because they usually offer huge emergence (the ability to do much with little interface complexity).
But we already have that. More than once. And the newest standard is XForms.
Doesn’t make much sense to cram it into the browser UI itself though.
And I haven’t even talked about how when you think it trough to the very end, you just end up with algorithms and data structures again.