But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius (like Alan Turing is now rightly getting, for example) why is Tesla still languishing?
At the risk of sounding somewhat sweeping in my exemplary generalization:
Tesla is lauded in good measure wheresoever geeks may chance upon others of their kind.
Is this not enough to warm the rotting cockles of Mr. T's decaying corporeal matter?
I'd prefer cloning him, and then having the clone build it. As long as we're building a B-movie death ray, we might as well have a B-movie story to go along with it.
After we're done with him, we can have the clone battle an Edison robot, and my life will be complete.
Well, that depends, who is giving more to Obama's campaign, AT&T or Verizon. Whichever does so, he will pass a tax on those who do not buy their service in his next term, right after he passes the tax for not buying a car from GM.
Your thoughts sound very reasonable and well-put-together.
Is your name Levi Strauss? Because, you must be a jean-yus!
Is it worth upgrading from Win7 for a standard desktop or standard laptop? For most users, probably not. Windows 8 is designed for hybrid tablets, Kinect-style PC-interfacing, unusual monitor configurations, etc. It's for "non-standard" computing, generally. If benchmarking were updated to capture "usability" in many different computing environments, this is where Win8 would awkwardly hobble before falling over and obstructing the path while shouting and pissing itself ahead of its predecessor.
The types of people who can afford to fly on a hypersonic jet don't wait 2-3 hours with the cattle to get through security or catch a cab.
Exactly right!
Those people are too busy watching the hypnotic pattern their vital organs make as they thoroughly paint the passenger capsule while twined loosely in Versace linen.
Ever been to a flea market, and you see a guy selling piles of DVDs he burned on his computer?
In this case, that guy was a major enterprise software vendor and he was charging Fortune 500 companies millions for the privilege. Possibly the stupidest copyright infringement cases of all time. WTF were they thinking?
But in the end, you are correct, and slashdot will still defend this.
I won't defend an asshat for trying to build a business off copyright infringement, but I sure as hell won't equivocate copyright infringement with stealing either.
I've had laptops stolen from me, and I've had people copy my homework without my permission. I'd never mistake these two things as similar.
The average person of today is not made of the right stuff to run empires. The assertion is laughable. For the most part, those that are destined for the path of empire, are not raised in the artificial and limited "positive" and "negative" worldview framework, but the continuum of reality. Which includes every form of positive, negative, and mixture thereof.
Rather, it is the "slave" class that is raised to be afraid of the full range of human emotion and communication. Of course this leads to pervasive dishonesty and corruption which is why we end up with huge failures like Fukushima. It gets very hard to cut the crap and get to authentic facts and make quality decisions using facts. Most of the world is like this -- long on crap and short on facts -- including the individuals, the corporations, and the governments. Nothing of quality can be built on a foundation of dishonesty.
But you can go back to running your empire. Even if it is only in your favorite online game.
You won't find any frozen dino remains in Antarctica, at the time of the dinosaurs' extinction it still had a tropical climate, and only iced over after the opening of the drake passage 23 million years ago.
Not entirely true about the climate. Certainly, the continent iced over entirely long after the dinosaurs, but there is evidence for sub-freezing temperatures circa 65 million years ago.
The likelihood of finding a dinosaur or specimen with intact dinosaur DNA in ice, however, is ridiculously low. Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
The life of reconstructible DNA is so short that the likelihood of finding intact Dinosaur DNA frozen in ice or in amber is nil. Now, that doesn't rule out fragments, like those found in the second Jurassic Park Book. (Incidentally, that fragment, when examined closely, contains insertions that spell out the name of the scientist who provided Michael Crichton with the data.)
What's your point? I think almost everyone agrees you'd never find and recover a complete DNA genome from any species extinct for over one million years (let alone 65 million years).
The long-shot is finding enough DNA in a sample to recover useful information from it. When I said "intact DNA," I didn't mean an entire genome, I meant any DNA information which might lead to further developments given advanced technology. It's all rather unlikely, but still far more probable than recovering an intact genome.
Incidentally, Antarctica was probably ice free at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Sure, but it's also pretty much the best place to look if you want to find something like a dinosaur in ice. No one said it was likely. You'd likely try to look at places that would have been elevated during the time in question (plateaus, mountain ranges, etc), and therefore more likely to have freezing temperatures.
You might be interested in the wiki article detailing south polar dinosaurs if you want a bit more of an overview.
I thought there were lots of talks about this after the movie came out, and the definite answer was that it was impossible because DNA does not preserve that long, no matter how nicely that mosquito was encapsulated in amber.
True, though nobody ever said it would be impossible if the specimen were encapsulated in ice.
It may be possible if dinosaurs are ever found preserved in ice. Though, I wouldn't hold your breath.
The reason DNA degrades in amber is, among other things, due to background radiation, a factor which is less worrisome when dealing with ice.
The likelihood of finding a dinosaur or specimen with intact dinosaur DNA in ice, however, is ridiculously low. Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
I haven't met many who think the height of language is a spelling bee, but I agree there's definitely a more effective way to educate children than methods currently widespread in certain school districts.
The question, of course, is exactly how to go about implementing and monitoring such a method given the current cultural and political environment.
While these things are somewhat debatable, Baumgartner's future "space jump" is not due to take place in what most consider "space."
FTFA:
Baumgartner has his eyes on an even bigger leap, a "space jump" from 125,000 feet (38,100 m) in the next month or so. (Space, however, is generally considered to begin at an altitude of 62 miles, or 327,000 feet.)
It's still a great feat and laudable they went ahead with it despite ridiculous legal challenges:
Baumgartner and his team had hoped to attempt his record jump in 2010, but they were delayed by a legal challenge that claimed the idea of the dive was earlier suggested to Red Bull by California promoter Daniel Hogan.
Readership of large magazines and newspapers declined rather drastically since the Second World War.
In recent years, large media organizations are often using even simpler language than in previous decades.
So, I have to ask, while there will always be a small segment of the population with the desire to both be 'well-informed' and the discipline necessary to attain that goal, how are you going to bridge the gap between this small audience and the far larger one which primarily seeks non-educational entertainment?
While journalism with solid evidence and sophisticated language is an excellent ideal and a noble goal, the reality of a population with minimal desire to understand issues on a deeper level constrains the business side of things.
While the news media is partially to blame for the situation where many people are minimally educated and willfully ignorant, our education system, politics and cultural values all play a part as well. Are we going to change all of these facets of our contemporary society in order to make journalism with sophisticated language successful, and, if so, how would we go about doing so pragmatically?
I would suggest this observed lack of value and race-to-the-bottom in the Internet Advertising industry is a DIRECT result of assuming that your target audience is BLIND AND STUPID and mirrors the RIAA/MPAA model of assuming their users are IMMORAL LAWBREAKERS (and that by CHOICE, not necessity).
Let's be real here, there's very little necessity involved in any of this. It's all about choice.
But, goddamn it, there's nothing wrong with choosing to not have a web experience fucked over by incessant advertising targeting the lowest common denominator.
"Not to say about all those nice backup apps and improvements you can get for Android once you root your phone. It is not only for device compatibility."
So you have to root your phone just to back it up and you don't see that as a problem?
Backup is a loose term here. I believe the grandparent was suggesting you have to have root access to do a custom backup (specific apps; specific settings; exclude system files; etc...)
Of course, you don't need root access if all you want to do is create a non-custom mirror backup or backup files from your home folders or media folders where non-elevated users have r/w privileges.
Also note that installing a pirated application in Android only requires ticking a checkbox, wheres in iOS it needs jailbreak, which is a frightening word for some.
And even less is required to pirate for PC.
So, why does the PC gaming market still exist? For some reason, I don't think it has to do with DRM.
Android apps on both platforms are pirated 2,300% more often for the Android version vs the iOS version.
Where are the sources backing this up?
a quick google search looks to overwhelmingly confirm
A quick Google search also confirms tiny aliens were discovered in Siberia. Could we get some real references here?
a bad market experience
According to who, with what evidence and for what reasons?
Piracy is an issue we have to deal with, and there are various strategies we can use. One strategy which is likely to be among the least effective is jumping to conclusions based on rumor and hearsay.
All platforms have their strengths and shortcomings, and we always have the opportunity to acknowledge that and work with it based on solid evidence.
Slashdot Mirror
But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius (like Alan Turing is now rightly getting, for example) why is Tesla still languishing?
At the risk of sounding somewhat sweeping in my exemplary generalization:
Tesla is lauded in good measure wheresoever geeks may chance upon others of their kind.
Is this not enough to warm the rotting cockles of Mr. T's decaying corporeal matter?
But they have to build his death ray
I'd prefer cloning him, and then having the clone build it. As long as we're building a B-movie death ray, we might as well have a B-movie story to go along with it.
After we're done with him, we can have the clone battle an Edison robot, and my life will be complete.
Well, that depends, who is giving more to Obama's campaign, AT&T or Verizon. Whichever does so, he will pass a tax on those who do not buy their service in his next term, right after he passes the tax for not buying a car from GM.
Your thoughts sound very reasonable and well-put-together.
Is your name Levi Strauss? Because, you must be a jean-yus!
Is it worth upgrading from Win7 for a standard desktop or standard laptop? For most users, probably not. Windows 8 is designed for hybrid tablets, Kinect-style PC-interfacing, unusual monitor configurations, etc. It's for "non-standard" computing, generally. If benchmarking were updated to capture "usability" in many different computing environments, this is where Win8 would awkwardly hobble before falling over and obstructing the path while shouting and pissing itself ahead of its predecessor.
FTFY
The types of people who can afford to fly on a hypersonic jet don't wait 2-3 hours with the cattle to get through security or catch a cab.
Exactly right!
Those people are too busy watching the hypnotic pattern their vital organs make as they thoroughly paint the passenger capsule while twined loosely in Versace linen.
It doesn't matter anyway, they won't let you through security with the warhead you'd need to make that kind of speed worthwhile.
Actually, they will. They'll just poke and prod it a bit uncomfortably before letting you through.
If you don't want to invest in new hardware, you could use DAR or KDAR (KDE front-end for DAR).
With KDAR, what you want is the slicing settings.
There's an option to pause between slices, which gives you time to mount a new disk.
Ever been to a flea market, and you see a guy selling piles of DVDs he burned on his computer?
In this case, that guy was a major enterprise software vendor and he was charging Fortune 500 companies millions for the privilege. Possibly the stupidest copyright infringement cases of all time. WTF were they thinking?
But in the end, you are correct, and slashdot will still defend this.
I won't defend an asshat for trying to build a business off copyright infringement, but I sure as hell won't equivocate copyright infringement with stealing either.
I've had laptops stolen from me, and I've had people copy my homework without my permission. I'd never mistake these two things as similar.
Here are some other alternatives:
HiggledyPiggledy 2.0
Hunt and Poke: Home Edition
Explosive Nostril Overlayer
Thumbgasm
The average person of today is not made of the right stuff to run empires. The assertion is laughable. For the most part, those that are destined for the path of empire, are not raised in the artificial and limited "positive" and "negative" worldview framework, but the continuum of reality. Which includes every form of positive, negative, and mixture thereof.
Rather, it is the "slave" class that is raised to be afraid of the full range of human emotion and communication. Of course this leads to pervasive dishonesty and corruption which is why we end up with huge failures like Fukushima. It gets very hard to cut the crap and get to authentic facts and make quality decisions using facts. Most of the world is like this -- long on crap and short on facts -- including the individuals, the corporations, and the governments. Nothing of quality can be built on a foundation of dishonesty.
But you can go back to running your empire. Even if it is only in your favorite online game.
I guess you're not a Star Wars fan.
But what's the alternative when you're running an empire? Faith in your friends?
I don't think so.
You won't find any frozen dino remains in Antarctica, at the time of the dinosaurs' extinction it still had a tropical climate, and only iced over after the opening of the drake passage 23 million years ago.
Not entirely true about the climate. Certainly, the continent iced over entirely long after the dinosaurs, but there is evidence for sub-freezing temperatures circa 65 million years ago.
See the wiki on south polar dinosaurs.
As for it being likely you'd ever find a frozen dinosaur, the answer to that is, of course, "no."
The likelihood of finding a dinosaur or specimen with intact dinosaur DNA in ice, however, is ridiculously low. Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
The life of reconstructible DNA is so short that the likelihood of finding intact Dinosaur DNA frozen in ice or in amber is nil. Now, that doesn't rule out fragments, like those found in the second Jurassic Park Book. (Incidentally, that fragment, when examined closely, contains insertions that spell out the name of the scientist who provided Michael Crichton with the data.)
What's your point? I think almost everyone agrees you'd never find and recover a complete DNA genome from any species extinct for over one million years (let alone 65 million years).
The long-shot is finding enough DNA in a sample to recover useful information from it. When I said "intact DNA," I didn't mean an entire genome, I meant any DNA information which might lead to further developments given advanced technology. It's all rather unlikely, but still far more probable than recovering an intact genome.
Incidentally, Antarctica was probably ice free at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Sure, but it's also pretty much the best place to look if you want to find something like a dinosaur in ice. No one said it was likely. You'd likely try to look at places that would have been elevated during the time in question (plateaus, mountain ranges, etc), and therefore more likely to have freezing temperatures.
You might be interested in the wiki article detailing south polar dinosaurs if you want a bit more of an overview.
I thought there were lots of talks about this after the movie came out, and the definite answer was that it was impossible because DNA does not preserve that long, no matter how nicely that mosquito was encapsulated in amber.
True, though nobody ever said it would be impossible if the specimen were encapsulated in ice.
It may be possible if dinosaurs are ever found preserved in ice. Though, I wouldn't hold your breath.
The reason DNA degrades in amber is, among other things, due to background radiation, a factor which is less worrisome when dealing with ice.
The likelihood of finding a dinosaur or specimen with intact dinosaur DNA in ice, however, is ridiculously low. Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
I haven't met many who think the height of language is a spelling bee, but I agree there's definitely a more effective way to educate children than methods currently widespread in certain school districts.
The question, of course, is exactly how to go about implementing and monitoring such a method given the current cultural and political environment.
While these things are somewhat debatable, Baumgartner's future "space jump" is not due to take place in what most consider "space."
FTFA:
Baumgartner has his eyes on an even bigger leap, a "space jump" from 125,000 feet (38,100 m) in the next month or so. (Space, however, is generally considered to begin at an altitude of 62 miles, or 327,000 feet.)
It's still a great feat and laudable they went ahead with it despite ridiculous legal challenges:
Baumgartner and his team had hoped to attempt his record jump in 2010, but they were delayed by a legal challenge that claimed the idea of the dive was earlier suggested to Red Bull by California promoter Daniel Hogan.
Readership of large magazines and newspapers declined rather drastically since the Second World War.
In recent years, large media organizations are often using even simpler language than in previous decades.
So, I have to ask, while there will always be a small segment of the population with the desire to both be 'well-informed' and the discipline necessary to attain that goal, how are you going to bridge the gap between this small audience and the far larger one which primarily seeks non-educational entertainment?
While journalism with solid evidence and sophisticated language is an excellent ideal and a noble goal, the reality of a population with minimal desire to understand issues on a deeper level constrains the business side of things.
While the news media is partially to blame for the situation where many people are minimally educated and willfully ignorant, our education system, politics and cultural values all play a part as well. Are we going to change all of these facets of our contemporary society in order to make journalism with sophisticated language successful, and, if so, how would we go about doing so pragmatically?
Don't forget "Area man constantly telling people he doesn't have a Facebook profile".
Recently, it's more like "Area mom constantly explaining why she still uses Facebook"
I would suggest this observed lack of value and race-to-the-bottom in the Internet Advertising industry is a DIRECT result of assuming that your target audience is BLIND AND STUPID and mirrors the RIAA/MPAA model of assuming their users are IMMORAL LAWBREAKERS (and that by CHOICE, not necessity).
Let's be real here, there's very little necessity involved in any of this. It's all about choice.
But, goddamn it, there's nothing wrong with choosing to not have a web experience fucked over by incessant advertising targeting the lowest common denominator.
"Not to say about all those nice backup apps and improvements you can get for Android once you root your phone. It is not only for device compatibility."
So you have to root your phone just to back it up and you don't see that as a problem?
Backup is a loose term here. I believe the grandparent was suggesting you have to have root access to do a custom backup (specific apps; specific settings; exclude system files; etc...)
Of course, you don't need root access if all you want to do is create a non-custom mirror backup or backup files from your home folders or media folders where non-elevated users have r/w privileges.
Round-trip latency can definitely be improved. It just means using LEO satellites instead of GEO.
Or just use thousands of UAVs.
LOL I was expecting the spoon to be used instead of toilet paper when they had a dump.
Jesus H. Candycorn in a tub of cider, man!
How would that even work?
Also note that installing a pirated application in Android only requires ticking a checkbox, wheres in iOS it needs jailbreak, which is a frightening word for some.
And even less is required to pirate for PC.
So, why does the PC gaming market still exist? For some reason, I don't think it has to do with DRM.
Android apps on both platforms are pirated 2,300% more often for the Android version vs the iOS version.
Where are the sources backing this up?
a quick google search looks to overwhelmingly confirm
A quick Google search also confirms tiny aliens were discovered in Siberia. Could we get some real references here?
a bad market experience
According to who, with what evidence and for what reasons?
Piracy is an issue we have to deal with, and there are various strategies we can use. One strategy which is likely to be among the least effective is jumping to conclusions based on rumor and hearsay.
All platforms have their strengths and shortcomings, and we always have the opportunity to acknowledge that and work with it based on solid evidence.