While I do enjoy seeing my girlfriends face, I hate web cam chats. Most of the time I end up just typing on my keyboard because either there isn't enough bandwidth for the sound to sync or transmit properly (she's on a very heavily used campus network) or I'm somewhere where I don't want to shout at the computer in order for the crappy little microphone to pick up on my voice. Speakerphone is annoying enough when it's just you in a car, I can't imagine what it'll be like on a bus where everyone in a call is holding their phone at arms length shouting just so the person on the other end can hear and see them. Plus why do I want the person next to see who I'm talking to? Sure in certain situations a 3D holographic projection would be fantastic, but those situations would most likely be in the privacy of your own home, not surrounded by dozens of people on a packed NYC bus during rush out. And if you're going to end up using the technology while at home, then why even put it on a cell phone when a normal desktop or laptop computer would be far better at handling the task?
I somewhat agree with the parent post, though not entirely. I don't want a mac mini, I want to be able to upgrade my computer and have a powerful video card, possibility for water cooling and overclocking, room to work with, etc. But some of the cases for "modders" that are coming out today are just obscene. I build computers all the time, and my best work is done in a plain black mid tower case. I feel like a clean empty computer case that's also a powerhouse is an impressive feat. Sure your full tower monstrosity of a case with 12 case fans, 6 CCDs, huge plastic front that lights up has quad SLI an i7 extreme 32 gigs of ram and 4TB of storage but my plain mid tower case has the same specs with a lower case temp, less noise, weighs half as much, fits on my desk nicely, and had the customizations I want rather than what the company selling the case thinks every teenage boy wants. Plus when I build a computer, EVERYTHING gets hidden away. My ideal computer wouldn't have a single visible wire in front of the motherboard. When someone opens the side panel on one of my computers (or looks in the window) there isn't usually a wire in site. I use as few power connectors from the PSU as I can just so I can hide the rest away (or in a modular PSU I just don't connect them.) It helps a lot with air flow and is much more pleasing to the eyes than a huge mess of cables running every which way.
I think the cases now days just look terrible, they're the computer equivalent of rice burners. A lot of the cases in this article look just like that, I appreciate a different design, like the computer case that looks like an old radio, or the pico atx wooden case design.
Firefox 3.6.12 here, 8 core Mac Pro running at 2.8GHz with 7GB of RAM. Runs at 28fps using up 80% cpu and it's noticeably laggy. I think his point is quite valid.
One thing you can be assured of is that it will have a different personality (anamality?).
Personality is a breed/environment thing. The breed is going to be exactly the same of course, the only difference would be the environment, but if you were the previous owners of the pet then it's not likely that the environment will change much. So it's really unlikely that the new pet will have a different personality given that all other factors remained (relatively) the same.
I have personally seen non-classified photos from reconnaissance satellites where I could clearly read street signs and license plates.
Those couldn't have been from satellites, it would require a huge mirror to be able to clearly read anything like a street sign or a license plate. Those photos were more likely from something like a plane.
So rather than 10 crashes because people fell asleep...
We have 20 crashes because rather than stopping for a coffee and a rest people relied on this and crashed when the alarm went off...
If you are driving tired you are an accident waiting to happen.. falling asleep is just the worst case
I imagine the opposite, where the alarm sounds off and the driver goes and takes a rest rather than continuing driving. Or in a scenario with passengers, one of the passengers say 'Hey you're falling asleep let me drive/take a rest.' It'd be harder for the driver to say 'I'm fine to drive' when there's an alarm like this going off ever few minutes.
Yes, at that light people will likely not run the red, but when they come to the next light that doesn't have as long a yellow they might run the red thinking "Oh it'll stay yellow for another x seconds." It took a while adjusting from NYC to upstate NY, then back from upstate NY to NYC. Even traffics lights upstate, some would stay yellow for a long time, then some maybe a mile down the road would be quick, it seemed so random and I would end up stopping at yellows and driving through reds a lot.
By that logic, you wouldn't mind if we went ahead and aired some of your private conversation as well, right?
It depends on the conversation, I've never said anything at work that I wouldn't want being aired, and I deal with customers all day. Not to say that I want everything I say at work to be recorded, but I've never had a conversation where I thought "What if this gets out!" I especially wouldn't want someone to face 16 years in prison for airing ANYTHING I've ever said at work. Even extremely private conversations with co-workers, 16 years is HARSH.
Honestly, non nerdy friends do listen to us when we say, "oh god no, dont buy that, it has this major problem with it"
It's been my experience that most of my non nerdy friends don't listen to my suggestions regarding certain items. This would likely be one of those cases where my friends say "It's so shiny! I MUST HAVE IT" to which I reply, "But I said it has a self destruct mechanism built into it." A suggestion they will simply ignore, then 2 months from now they'll say "Hey can you hack my phone so I can get free apps, wait what do you mean the phone will self destruct? Can you try anyway?"
Look how many developers on this site alone were bitching and moaning about UAC when Vista and Windows 7 added that in. Hey buddy: your program triggers UAC prompts *because it is buggy!!* The only thing that changed from XP to Vista, permissions-wise, is that Microsoft's attitude changed from "grin and bear it" to "let's give these developers a little hint that their apps are broken."
Yes, we all know a program is horribly broken when it wants to be installed somewhere crazy like in the %Program Files% directory...
UAC was a hacky way of defending against malware (it worked for a little while till malware writers found ways of going around it.) On Vista it's been nothing but a nuisance, I've never seen it actually stop anything unwanted from running though I have observed many users growing so used to the pop up that they disregard it without reading (since it pops up so frequently.) On Windows 7 it seems much more refined, only coming up when it's important rather than every time you try to run anything.
In what way is a 2 or 2.5 gigahertz Dual PowerPC CPU an "aging system"?
They haven't been made in almost 5 years, and in computer terms that's quite an old system. As far as buying a brand new machine that's "equivalent", a brand new machine costing you $400 would wipe the floor with a Quad Power Mac G5 2.8GHz system which would have cost a few grand brand new, while using far less power and requiring far less cooling.
As an aside I have flash running on a netbook just fine, it certainly doesn't require 3GHz though it runs must smoother on Windows than any other platform.
3: SSDs using a different port than SATA. Perhaps have it interface as a direct PCI-E device with a custom bus to add more SSD capacity in a similar form factor to RAM DIMMs.
Unfortunately(or fortunately) once a person writes out a threat (even if its in a riddle within a haiku) that constitutes a crime because you are stating your intentions to harm someone.
Worst comment ever. Harm should come to only you, with big pointy teeth.
Crazy idea, how about doing the statistical correlation of multiple contributors in realtime and display that information on an overall map of the Moon so there's some sense of progress at the task.
Sure sounds good in theory but it's much easier to have a bunch of people skew the results if they're posted in real time. Imagine the Colbert Report picking up on this and deciding to tell the viewers to classify every crater as being Stephen Colbert's age... It'd make the automated process much harder and they'll have to spend much more time combing the skewed results.
That might be too obvious. Lots of Chinese restaurants, including the quick take-out ones, have shady back-room business going on. Chinese gift shops in Chinatown most definitely do; several women have told me of how simple it is to get legitimate luxury handbags at a fraction of the price from these places.
Those are counterfeits made in sweatshops. Far cheaper and easier to obtain than stolen legit handbags but illegal to sell due to trademark infringement.
I'm just trying to figure out, what exactly stops malicious content? Does it rely on the community to say "Woah this mod does some bad stuff to your PC!" or is there some other way to catch it? What if someone is the editor on a hugely popular mod, get's his account hacked (or just has a malicious roomate) and starts uploading some content that does harm to users computers? Or is that not possible due to the mods being sandboxed? The article is quite lacking in what exactly this system does or is capable of doing...
How is it homophobic to use the term "teabagger" especially given the context. Tea bagging isn't strictly a homosexual act, even the article you linked to shows a woman tea bagging a man.
I've had the beta for a month now, haven't played it once. Not that I haven't tried I just haven't been able to get the game to work. First I had an issue where I couldn't login to the server (it kept telling me I wasn't authorized to play) then the game just told me it wasn't up to date, I couldn't get any patches ANYWHERE (except of course cracked versions of the beta) and the support wasn't helpful at all. It doesn't help that I work a lot and just don't have the time to sit around just trying to get a game to work so I can test it. Perhaps when they release the game there won't be any issues but I highly doubt that'll be the case.
Found it. The universe is expanding and the objects move inside the universe with it's expansion, so they're not traveling faster than the speed of light. It's like a passenger on a train might walk to the front of the train at a rate of 1mph in relation to the train, but since the train is moving at 60mph the passenger is moving at 61 mph in relation to the ground.
Two trains leave City A in opposite directions, traveling 60 mph.
And in 1 hour they'll be 120 miles apart each having traveled 60mph in opposite directions from one central point. If the universe is only 20 billion years old, and light speed is the maximum speed you can travel, then it would seem that the universe can't be larger than 40 billion light years across if it all started from one central point. But apparently it is, why is that?
Follow suit? I already have ads in some of my apps (Hi AIM, and Hi MSN come to mind immediately.) They're unobtrusive and the apps were free anyway. I don't mind these small text based google ads on these apps if that's what it takes to get them free.
I think his point was the same as what I was just thinking. If nothing travels faster than light, and a light year is the distance light travels in one year, and the universe is at most (according to the grand parents post) 20 billion years old, how could stars have traveled 46 billion years away from us? The universe could only be at most 40 billion light years across. I'm sure I'm missing something important I just don't understand this stuff well enough to figure out what it is.
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While I do enjoy seeing my girlfriends face, I hate web cam chats. Most of the time I end up just typing on my keyboard because either there isn't enough bandwidth for the sound to sync or transmit properly (she's on a very heavily used campus network) or I'm somewhere where I don't want to shout at the computer in order for the crappy little microphone to pick up on my voice. Speakerphone is annoying enough when it's just you in a car, I can't imagine what it'll be like on a bus where everyone in a call is holding their phone at arms length shouting just so the person on the other end can hear and see them. Plus why do I want the person next to see who I'm talking to? Sure in certain situations a 3D holographic projection would be fantastic, but those situations would most likely be in the privacy of your own home, not surrounded by dozens of people on a packed NYC bus during rush out. And if you're going to end up using the technology while at home, then why even put it on a cell phone when a normal desktop or laptop computer would be far better at handling the task?
I somewhat agree with the parent post, though not entirely. I don't want a mac mini, I want to be able to upgrade my computer and have a powerful video card, possibility for water cooling and overclocking, room to work with, etc. But some of the cases for "modders" that are coming out today are just obscene. I build computers all the time, and my best work is done in a plain black mid tower case. I feel like a clean empty computer case that's also a powerhouse is an impressive feat. Sure your full tower monstrosity of a case with 12 case fans, 6 CCDs, huge plastic front that lights up has quad SLI an i7 extreme 32 gigs of ram and 4TB of storage but my plain mid tower case has the same specs with a lower case temp, less noise, weighs half as much, fits on my desk nicely, and had the customizations I want rather than what the company selling the case thinks every teenage boy wants. Plus when I build a computer, EVERYTHING gets hidden away. My ideal computer wouldn't have a single visible wire in front of the motherboard. When someone opens the side panel on one of my computers (or looks in the window) there isn't usually a wire in site. I use as few power connectors from the PSU as I can just so I can hide the rest away (or in a modular PSU I just don't connect them.) It helps a lot with air flow and is much more pleasing to the eyes than a huge mess of cables running every which way.
I think the cases now days just look terrible, they're the computer equivalent of rice burners. A lot of the cases in this article look just like that, I appreciate a different design, like the computer case that looks like an old radio, or the pico atx wooden case design.
Firefox 3.6.12 here, 8 core Mac Pro running at 2.8GHz with 7GB of RAM. Runs at 28fps using up 80% cpu and it's noticeably laggy. I think his point is quite valid.
One thing you can be assured of is that it will have a different personality (anamality?).
Personality is a breed/environment thing. The breed is going to be exactly the same of course, the only difference would be the environment, but if you were the previous owners of the pet then it's not likely that the environment will change much. So it's really unlikely that the new pet will have a different personality given that all other factors remained (relatively) the same.
I have personally seen non-classified photos from reconnaissance satellites where I could clearly read street signs and license plates.
Those couldn't have been from satellites, it would require a huge mirror to be able to clearly read anything like a street sign or a license plate. Those photos were more likely from something like a plane.
So rather than 10 crashes because people fell asleep...
We have 20 crashes because rather than stopping for a coffee and a rest people relied on this and crashed when the alarm went off ...
If you are driving tired you are an accident waiting to happen .. falling asleep is just the worst case
I imagine the opposite, where the alarm sounds off and the driver goes and takes a rest rather than continuing driving. Or in a scenario with passengers, one of the passengers say 'Hey you're falling asleep let me drive/take a rest.' It'd be harder for the driver to say 'I'm fine to drive' when there's an alarm like this going off ever few minutes.
Yes, at that light people will likely not run the red, but when they come to the next light that doesn't have as long a yellow they might run the red thinking "Oh it'll stay yellow for another x seconds." It took a while adjusting from NYC to upstate NY, then back from upstate NY to NYC. Even traffics lights upstate, some would stay yellow for a long time, then some maybe a mile down the road would be quick, it seemed so random and I would end up stopping at yellows and driving through reds a lot.
By that logic, you wouldn't mind if we went ahead and aired some of your private conversation as well, right?
It depends on the conversation, I've never said anything at work that I wouldn't want being aired, and I deal with customers all day. Not to say that I want everything I say at work to be recorded, but I've never had a conversation where I thought "What if this gets out!" I especially wouldn't want someone to face 16 years in prison for airing ANYTHING I've ever said at work. Even extremely private conversations with co-workers, 16 years is HARSH.
600mm is not all the way, it's just half-way there!
Honestly, non nerdy friends do listen to us when we say, "oh god no, dont buy that, it has this major problem with it"
It's been my experience that most of my non nerdy friends don't listen to my suggestions regarding certain items. This would likely be one of those cases where my friends say "It's so shiny! I MUST HAVE IT" to which I reply, "But I said it has a self destruct mechanism built into it." A suggestion they will simply ignore, then 2 months from now they'll say "Hey can you hack my phone so I can get free apps, wait what do you mean the phone will self destruct? Can you try anyway?"
Yeah! Let's ban these rotting brained children before they become mindless zombies!
Look how many developers on this site alone were bitching and moaning about UAC when Vista and Windows 7 added that in. Hey buddy: your program triggers UAC prompts *because it is buggy!!* The only thing that changed from XP to Vista, permissions-wise, is that Microsoft's attitude changed from "grin and bear it" to "let's give these developers a little hint that their apps are broken."
Yes, we all know a program is horribly broken when it wants to be installed somewhere crazy like in the %Program Files% directory...
UAC was a hacky way of defending against malware (it worked for a little while till malware writers found ways of going around it.) On Vista it's been nothing but a nuisance, I've never seen it actually stop anything unwanted from running though I have observed many users growing so used to the pop up that they disregard it without reading (since it pops up so frequently.) On Windows 7 it seems much more refined, only coming up when it's important rather than every time you try to run anything.
In what way is a 2 or 2.5 gigahertz Dual PowerPC CPU an "aging system"?
They haven't been made in almost 5 years, and in computer terms that's quite an old system. As far as buying a brand new machine that's "equivalent", a brand new machine costing you $400 would wipe the floor with a Quad Power Mac G5 2.8GHz system which would have cost a few grand brand new, while using far less power and requiring far less cooling.
As an aside I have flash running on a netbook just fine, it certainly doesn't require 3GHz though it runs must smoother on Windows than any other platform.
3: SSDs using a different port than SATA. Perhaps have it interface as a direct PCI-E device with a custom bus to add more SSD capacity in a similar form factor to RAM DIMMs.
Seriously...?
Unfortunately(or fortunately) once a person writes out a threat (even if its in a riddle within a haiku) that constitutes a crime because you are stating your intentions to harm someone.
Worst comment ever.
Harm should come to only you,
with big pointy teeth.
Crazy idea, how about doing the statistical correlation of multiple contributors in realtime and display that information on an overall map of the Moon so there's some sense of progress at the task.
Sure sounds good in theory but it's much easier to have a bunch of people skew the results if they're posted in real time. Imagine the Colbert Report picking up on this and deciding to tell the viewers to classify every crater as being Stephen Colbert's age... It'd make the automated process much harder and they'll have to spend much more time combing the skewed results.
That might be too obvious. Lots of Chinese restaurants, including the quick take-out ones, have shady back-room business going on. Chinese gift shops in Chinatown most definitely do; several women have told me of how simple it is to get legitimate luxury handbags at a fraction of the price from these places.
Those are counterfeits made in sweatshops. Far cheaper and easier to obtain than stolen legit handbags but illegal to sell due to trademark infringement.
I'm just trying to figure out, what exactly stops malicious content? Does it rely on the community to say "Woah this mod does some bad stuff to your PC!" or is there some other way to catch it? What if someone is the editor on a hugely popular mod, get's his account hacked (or just has a malicious roomate) and starts uploading some content that does harm to users computers? Or is that not possible due to the mods being sandboxed? The article is quite lacking in what exactly this system does or is capable of doing...
What whoosh? "Teabaggers" is a sexual slur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag_(sexual_act) which makes it particularly inappropriate for the president to use.
How is it homophobic to use the term "teabagger" especially given the context. Tea bagging isn't strictly a homosexual act, even the article you linked to shows a woman tea bagging a man.
Oh, and "teabaggers?"
Why the homophobic language?
Whoosh.
I've had the beta for a month now, haven't played it once. Not that I haven't tried I just haven't been able to get the game to work. First I had an issue where I couldn't login to the server (it kept telling me I wasn't authorized to play) then the game just told me it wasn't up to date, I couldn't get any patches ANYWHERE (except of course cracked versions of the beta) and the support wasn't helpful at all. It doesn't help that I work a lot and just don't have the time to sit around just trying to get a game to work so I can test it. Perhaps when they release the game there won't be any issues but I highly doubt that'll be the case.
Found it. The universe is expanding and the objects move inside the universe with it's expansion, so they're not traveling faster than the speed of light. It's like a passenger on a train might walk to the front of the train at a rate of 1mph in relation to the train, but since the train is moving at 60mph the passenger is moving at 61 mph in relation to the ground.
Two trains leave City A in opposite directions, traveling 60 mph.
And in 1 hour they'll be 120 miles apart each having traveled 60mph in opposite directions from one central point. If the universe is only 20 billion years old, and light speed is the maximum speed you can travel, then it would seem that the universe can't be larger than 40 billion light years across if it all started from one central point. But apparently it is, why is that?
If it's successful expect Android to follow suit.
Follow suit? I already have ads in some of my apps (Hi AIM, and Hi MSN come to mind immediately.) They're unobtrusive and the apps were free anyway. I don't mind these small text based google ads on these apps if that's what it takes to get them free.
I think his point was the same as what I was just thinking. If nothing travels faster than light, and a light year is the distance light travels in one year, and the universe is at most (according to the grand parents post) 20 billion years old, how could stars have traveled 46 billion years away from us? The universe could only be at most 40 billion light years across. I'm sure I'm missing something important I just don't understand this stuff well enough to figure out what it is.