Now you can barely spot the full moon anywhere outside North Korea.
I can spot the full moon quite fine. Indeed, even when the moon is almost gone, I can see it quite well. And I'm living in a place with no lack of light pollution. I guess you know the sky only as seen from inside a big city, where there's not only lots of light pollution, but also enough of regular pollution which both dims the light from the sky and increases the effect of the light pollution by scattering back much more light than relatively clean air would.
However you're right that light pollution makes it more or less impossible to spot dim comets.
That's why you should use a car (turning mineral oil into mechanical energy) instead of walking (turning food into mechanical energy);-) Oh, and don't think. Thinking involves turning food into electricity (in the neurons), and therefore also is a sin.
It's pretty disgusting that you can monetize images of someone's brain. I wonder how Einstein would feel about that.
Well, he DID work at the patent office...
Yes, that's where he realized that everything is relative. If something to be patented was already known before, you just change the frame of reference to change the temporal order of events.:-)
Wouldn't it have been more useful to have scans of his brain when he was alive and thinking? I mean, Hannibal Lecter might have a use for this but who else?
Unfortunately we still haven't figured out how to build time machines, in order to get the modern scanners back in time to when Einstein lived. And then, how to scan his brain back then without altering the past.
I've got news to you: The satellites of a country don't generally stay above that country. With the exception of geostationary satellites, of course, but those are the least interesting to track.
If you need whooshing to tell you that ignoring a smiley is neither desirable nor likely to be a winning horse, you have a bigger problem than the perception of humour.
So I just have to expect hell to be a happy place, and then I can do whatever evil I want and as "punishment" I get brought to a happy place after death?:-)
I wouldn't mind some advertising as long as it is not aggressive (e.g. Google's text ads were quite decent; if it were not for the tracking, I'd have no problems in enabling them; note that I don't know if they are still decent because it's quite some time since I've last seen one, and I won't change that as long as I have to assume those ads comes with tracking —which probably means forever).
Just steer the discussion to another point of wasted energy. Do you have an idea how much energy it costs to decrypt DRMed media? I'm sure if you add up the extra power needed for all those DRMed media every time they are used, I'm sure you'd get a very impressive number, too.
While you didn't explicitly say it, you implied it because of the implicit assumption that what you write is relevant for the question at hand. The fact that you accept that BSD is open source (which is just accepting a fact, so nothing special) is only relevant to your accepting or non-accepting of NVidia's driver if that driver is under the BSD license. And BTW, Stallmann accepts BSD as free software license. He just doesn't recommend it.
Vs AMD which says "Here's 1000 pages of Spec" you guys can write code to do what ever you want.
I'm not on the whole "BSD License is the Devil, GPL for life!" bandwagon. They're both open source. Nvidia actually provides timely updates and it works. My AMD machine on the other hand
Since when is NVidias driver under the BSD license?
Using UTF-8 encoding is not the same as supporting Unicode. Try to use a Cent sign (U+00A2), for example. That's even in latin1, but Slashdot will eat it anyway.
I hereby introduce Maxwell Demon's Law of Headlines: Whenever a headline ends in a question mark on Slashdot, there will be no shortage of comments mentioning or implicitly referring to Betteridge's Law Of Headlines.
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Now you can barely spot the full moon anywhere outside North Korea.
I can spot the full moon quite fine. Indeed, even when the moon is almost gone, I can see it quite well. And I'm living in a place with no lack of light pollution. I guess you know the sky only as seen from inside a big city, where there's not only lots of light pollution, but also enough of regular pollution which both dims the light from the sky and increases the effect of the light pollution by scattering back much more light than relatively clean air would.
However you're right that light pollution makes it more or less impossible to spot dim comets.
10 AD is outside the range of dates in which the birth of Jesus could have happened. At that time, Herod was already dead for over a decade.
If you are interested in a good overview on the theories about the star of Bethlehem, I've found this page quite informative.
Something about the Mayans and December 21st, etc.
-AI
You mean, the Mayans miscalculated by one year?
FTFS: But the ball of ice and rocks might become visible to the naked eye for a few months in late 2013 and early 2014
Can anyone explain any advantage to these rules, other than "it makes the cops job easier".
It provides extra backups for your mail. Lost a mail? Just ask ASIC, they still have a copy. ;-)
In the US. I think for this case the Spanish and Dutch laws are more relevant.
That's why you should use a car (turning mineral oil into mechanical energy) instead of walking (turning food into mechanical energy) ;-)
Oh, and don't think. Thinking involves turning food into electricity (in the neurons), and therefore also is a sin.
If the Chinese have 20% of the world's population, they should also have 20% of the world's stupid people.
It's pretty disgusting that you can monetize images of someone's brain. I wonder how Einstein would feel about that.
Well, he DID work at the patent office...
Yes, that's where he realized that everything is relative. If something to be patented was already known before, you just change the frame of reference to change the temporal order of events. :-)
Wouldn't it have been more useful to have scans of his brain when he was alive and thinking? I mean, Hannibal Lecter might have a use for this but who else?
Unfortunately we still haven't figured out how to build time machines, in order to get the modern scanners back in time to when Einstein lived. And then, how to scan his brain back then without altering the past.
I've got news to you: The satellites of a country don't generally stay above that country. With the exception of geostationary satellites, of course, but those are the least interesting to track.
Didn't you read the title? The whole thing is there to get first post. Therefore it obviously tracks Slashdot stories.
If you need whooshing to tell you that ignoring a smiley is neither desirable nor likely to be a winning horse, you have a bigger problem than the perception of humour.
So I just have to expect hell to be a happy place, and then I can do whatever evil I want and as "punishment" I get brought to a happy place after death? :-)
I wouldn't mind some advertising as long as it is not aggressive (e.g. Google's text ads were quite decent; if it were not for the tracking, I'd have no problems in enabling them; note that I don't know if they are still decent because it's quite some time since I've last seen one, and I won't change that as long as I have to assume those ads comes with tracking —which probably means forever).
The DNT header is the equivalent not of a "give me money" sign, but of a "do not enter" sign.
Just steer the discussion to another point of wasted energy. Do you have an idea how much energy it costs to decrypt DRMed media? I'm sure if you add up the extra power needed for all those DRMed media every time they are used, I'm sure you'd get a very impressive number, too.
Save the environment! Fight DRM! :-)
While you didn't explicitly say it, you implied it because of the implicit assumption that what you write is relevant for the question at hand. The fact that you accept that BSD is open source (which is just accepting a fact, so nothing special) is only relevant to your accepting or non-accepting of NVidia's driver if that driver is under the BSD license. And BTW, Stallmann accepts BSD as free software license. He just doesn't recommend it.
Vs AMD which says "Here's 1000 pages of Spec" you guys can write code to do what ever you want.
I'm not on the whole "BSD License is the Devil, GPL for life!" bandwagon. They're both open source. Nvidia actually provides timely updates and it works. My AMD machine on the other hand
Since when is NVidias driver under the BSD license?
I think they'd miss out on large parts of the graphics card computing market if they didn't support Linux.
They'll probably add a feed for the buzzword of the week. ;-)
I use software to create paychecks. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
So I get you are working in the accounting department?
HTML will never be finished. It's a continuously updated "standard".
Using UTF-8 encoding is not the same as supporting Unicode. Try to use a Cent sign (U+00A2), for example. That's even in latin1, but Slashdot will eat it anyway.
2001::0192:0168:0000:0001 (For IPv4 fans)
2001::436F:6D70:7574:6572 (For people who know ASCII)
I hereby introduce Maxwell Demon's Law of Headlines: Whenever a headline ends in a question mark on Slashdot, there will be no shortage of comments mentioning or implicitly referring to Betteridge's Law Of Headlines.