Punks made their own clothes, music and culture out of nothing. If you listen to 70s (and later) punk lyrics they are often politically and socially motivated. Chavs are just consumers, programmed to consume and nothing else figures for them. They mug for branded clothing something which punks would never have done. Their music is just chatting over samples with little creativity. I would go on but I won't . . .
Every sign tells us there will be a shortage of scientists in the future.
Richard Ayoade (the black guy, Moss) is an apalling actor.
I've got to disagree there - I loved this guy since Garth Marenghi (and some appearances on the Mighty Boosh). He seemed believable as a nerd. I'm sure one day he'll be huge.
Otoh, this show is totally lame. I don't buy the Irish guy or the girl at all. Worse thing Chris Morris (the boss) has been in too. I think C4 see the need for this kind of show (and there is a big audience for it) but this is not the vehicle. Too much shouting and not enough jokes. It's not enough to put a Commodore Pet and a ZX81 in the background and hope for the best.
I've been a keen BT user for years now and rave on about it to friends when asked where I get some of my stuff from. Inevitably they're interested and go off and try it and I'll even send them a torrent file to get them started. However what happens next is that they complain of slow speeds or no seeds on torrents which I know are flowing well. The reason for this is always the same: port forwarding and not entering their external IP address (for some set-ups). As soon as I say, 'You'll have to edit your modem/router configuration slightly to get it to work' they'll throw their hands up in horror and there ends their great BT experiment. It doesn't help that some wireless systems move the internal IP assignment around via DHCP requiring port 6881 to be re-pointed again. That sort of stuff is simply beyond most regular users and they 'just don't go there'.
So for me, the issue is not clients (I use BitTorrent for OSX very happily as if it mattered) but the way the protocol handles NAT/DHCP routing - surely it could be automatic? If it were BT use would explode and we'll all get faster speeds as a benefit. Anyone know if that could happen one day?
I, for one (to use the standard/. form), wouldn't touch Belkin drivers if you paid me. This sounds like a good idea but in practise? You know there'll be big headaches.
Bushco using the emotive power of child pr0n to gain access to private information from Google. Who'd have thought? This meme has been floating about for quite a while.
My cynical side says this is already happening - it's not like the gov cares which rights they illegally trample on and they have already shown that with wiretapping.
When we first started producing copper (centuries ago) the ore had a purity of about 30-50% Cu by weight. We are now down to mining copper which has a purity of less than 1%. It takes a huge amount of heat energy to extract copper from low grade ore like this. So everything is against copper production right now - impending energy shortages and diminishing quantities left in the Earth - not to mention increasing demand.
So, buy stocks in Cu - expect to see 10x increase over a decade
Agreed. Someone else said it here too. I'm no expert on this but I never really bought the 'dark' stuff. It seems a bit magicky and wrong somehow. They've probably missed an entire force out or something. I think we're light years from a GUT too. I mean Riemann's hypothesis isn't proven yet - what hope do we have at a GUT?
It would appear you don't know much about where food comes from, how fertilizers are made, and the huge energy crisis we are walking into right now (to name but three). We WILL be part of the mass extinction (the sixth extinction the Earth has seen) because we do not live outside nature - we can only live inside nature and the environments and resources provided. It is the height of arrogance to think we are above these systems now - we are not, nor will we ever be so.
I would say (using data based on agriculture and natural gas production) we will only be able to feed 1bn-2bn people by 2040. That's going to be a lot of people dead in just a few decades now. Free market economies do not produce resources from nowhere - only what nature provides.
It's a big argument but I must say I would have agreed with what you were saying 5-10 years ago - I used to believe similar things.
I kind of agree with that in a metaphysical way. All societies have myths and one of ours is the myth of the future as described by a thousand works of sci-fi. I don't think we will ever voyage around the Universe a la Captain Kirk, in fact as resources dwindle it will become harder to even fly around the globe. However, thinking like that is unpopular round here - most/.ers are raised on sci-fi and it goes against some hard-to-change assumptions.
AFAIK Buffet moved out of the stock market altogether a few years ago. He moved into commodites and also became very involved in global silver trade. He wouldn't invest in something he doesn't understand, and for him that means the tech market. He basically has little to no faith in the US stock market....
"Despite the Pentagon's development of a new generation of hypersonic missile, the U.S. is still a decade behind Russia in high-speed cruise-missile design, according to defense analysts. According to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the U.S. military is developing a new hypersonic robot missile reported to be capable of traveling in excess of six times the speed of sound and armed with its own miniature smart bombs. The new weapon, called the Advanced Rapid Response Missile Demonstrator, or ARRMD, is designed to cruise at over 4,000 miles an hour and strike targets hundreds of miles away in only a few seconds. "
Wow! This type of weapon would be a devastating weapon that could penetrate any defense system known today. A missile moving toward a target at 4,000 miles per hour would move so quickly through even the most sophisticated defense system that no computer could react quickly enough to shoot it down before it blew the targeted ship out of the water. Thank God we are working on it, and not the Russians and Chinese. Right? Wrong!!
"Nevertheless, defense analysts agree that the U.S. is fully a decade behind Russia in high-speed cruise missile designs. Russia currently deploys and exports the supersonic SS-N-22 Moskit cruise missile, NATO codenamed "Sunburn." The SS-N-22 is considered the most lethal anti-ship missile in the world, and flies at over 2.5 times the speed of sound only a few feet from the surface of the water." [This speed amounts to almost 1,700 miles per hour, or 28 miles per minute].
So Mach2.5 for the Russians right now, but they are still ahead.
The Russians apparently lead the way in hypersonic missiles which are practically unstoppable while travelling at Mach4 or 5. The US is behind on this technology hence the rig...
44.1kHz was chosen because it's a sub-carrier of the PAL frequency used to broadcast TV in Europe/Asia. There are two types even: pro and consumer (44100 and 44109 I think but I forget the details). It was to make the broadcast of digital sound (Like NICAM) easier to do over analogue pictures. Nobody predicted digital pictures at that time, just digital sound. What you've said is an urban myth.
I can imagine "parties" occuring in these pods, where 4 or 5 kids crowd into them, drink themselves into a coma and vomit all over the place - don't think it could happen ? - heh, try living here.
Why do you think it's called a coffin hotel? Probably more like a coughing hotel.
If we're going to have all these nuclear plants (Europe needs about 650 to replace fossil fuel use completely) there isn't actually enough Uranium to power them all. Uranium is fairly rare and there isn't an endless supply of it. It's also completely under valued right now so expect to see dramatic growth in its price over the next five years. This is probably the best stock tip you'll see today;-)
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Every sign tells us there will be a shortage of scientists in the future.
yus, I think you nailed it there. Not enough interaction with 'norms' etc.
I've got to disagree there - I loved this guy since Garth Marenghi (and some appearances on the Mighty Boosh). He seemed believable as a nerd. I'm sure one day he'll be huge.
Otoh, this show is totally lame. I don't buy the Irish guy or the girl at all. Worse thing Chris Morris (the boss) has been in too. I think C4 see the need for this kind of show (and there is a big audience for it) but this is not the vehicle. Too much shouting and not enough jokes. It's not enough to put a Commodore Pet and a ZX81 in the background and hope for the best.
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/cr edits/colecoint.shtml
Anyone remember the controllers!!!!
Thanks for that - great tip and I will pass it on to some people I know.
Second point: half my clients/users STILL seem to think that MSFT invented the internet and the only way to see it is using IE.
I've been a keen BT user for years now and rave on about it to friends when asked where I get some of my stuff from. Inevitably they're interested and go off and try it and I'll even send them a torrent file to get them started. However what happens next is that they complain of slow speeds or no seeds on torrents which I know are flowing well. The reason for this is always the same: port forwarding and not entering their external IP address (for some set-ups). As soon as I say, 'You'll have to edit your modem/router configuration slightly to get it to work' they'll throw their hands up in horror and there ends their great BT experiment. It doesn't help that some wireless systems move the internal IP assignment around via DHCP requiring port 6881 to be re-pointed again. That sort of stuff is simply beyond most regular users and they 'just don't go there'.
So for me, the issue is not clients (I use BitTorrent for OSX very happily as if it mattered) but the way the protocol handles NAT/DHCP routing - surely it could be automatic? If it were BT use would explode and we'll all get faster speeds as a benefit. Anyone know if that could happen one day?
I, for one (to use the standard /. form), wouldn't touch Belkin drivers if you paid me. This sounds like a good idea but in practise? You know there'll be big headaches.
Bushco using the emotive power of child pr0n to gain access to private information from Google. Who'd have thought? This meme has been floating about for quite a while.
My cynical side says this is already happening - it's not like the gov cares which rights they illegally trample on and they have already shown that with wiretapping.
When we first started producing copper (centuries ago) the ore had a purity of about 30-50% Cu by weight. We are now down to mining copper which has a purity of less than 1%. It takes a huge amount of heat energy to extract copper from low grade ore like this. So everything is against copper production right now - impending energy shortages and diminishing quantities left in the Earth - not to mention increasing demand.
So, buy stocks in Cu - expect to see 10x increase over a decade
Agreed. Someone else said it here too. I'm no expert on this but I never really bought the 'dark' stuff. It seems a bit magicky and wrong somehow. They've probably missed an entire force out or something. I think we're light years from a GUT too. I mean Riemann's hypothesis isn't proven yet - what hope do we have at a GUT?
We won't notice a mass extinction event?!?!??
It would appear you don't know much about where food comes from, how fertilizers are made, and the huge energy crisis we are walking into right now (to name but three). We WILL be part of the mass extinction (the sixth extinction the Earth has seen) because we do not live outside nature - we can only live inside nature and the environments and resources provided. It is the height of arrogance to think we are above these systems now - we are not, nor will we ever be so.
I would say (using data based on agriculture and natural gas production) we will only be able to feed 1bn-2bn people by 2040. That's going to be a lot of people dead in just a few decades now. Free market economies do not produce resources from nowhere - only what nature provides.
It's a big argument but I must say I would have agreed with what you were saying 5-10 years ago - I used to believe similar things.
I kind of agree with that in a metaphysical way. All societies have myths and one of ours is the myth of the future as described by a thousand works of sci-fi. I don't think we will ever voyage around the Universe a la Captain Kirk, in fact as resources dwindle it will become harder to even fly around the globe. However, thinking like that is unpopular round here - most /.ers are raised on sci-fi and it goes against some hard-to-change assumptions.
Q: How many Newtons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.
AFAIK Buffet moved out of the stock market altogether a few years ago. He moved into commodites and also became very involved in global silver trade. He wouldn't invest in something he doesn't understand, and for him that means the tech market. He basically has little to no faith in the US stock market....
and fair elections.
No, not quite. Just a few more years to go. Perhaps it's about 1981 now. The thought police are coming!
"Despite the Pentagon's development of a new generation of hypersonic missile, the U.S. is still a decade behind Russia in high-speed cruise-missile design, according to defense analysts. According to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the U.S. military is developing a new hypersonic robot missile reported to be capable of traveling in excess of six times the speed of sound and armed with its own miniature smart bombs. The new weapon, called the Advanced Rapid Response Missile Demonstrator, or ARRMD, is designed to cruise at over 4,000 miles an hour and strike targets hundreds of miles away in only a few seconds. "
Wow! This type of weapon would be a devastating weapon that could penetrate any defense system known today. A missile moving toward a target at 4,000 miles per hour would move so quickly through even the most sophisticated defense system that no computer could react quickly enough to shoot it down before it blew the targeted ship out of the water. Thank God we are working on it, and not the Russians and Chinese. Right? Wrong!!
"Nevertheless, defense analysts agree that the U.S. is fully a decade behind Russia in high-speed cruise missile designs. Russia currently deploys and exports the supersonic SS-N-22 Moskit cruise missile, NATO codenamed "Sunburn." The SS-N-22 is considered the most lethal anti-ship missile in the world, and flies at over 2.5 times the speed of sound only a few feet from the surface of the water." [This speed amounts to almost 1,700 miles per hour, or 28 miles per minute].
So Mach2.5 for the Russians right now, but they are still ahead.
The Russians apparently lead the way in hypersonic missiles which are practically unstoppable while travelling at Mach4 or 5. The US is behind on this technology hence the rig...
MicroSoft are doing a massive PR job this year?
All was quiet for a while and now it seems like a BS tsunami.
44.1kHz was chosen because it's a sub-carrier of the PAL frequency used to broadcast TV in Europe/Asia. There are two types even: pro and consumer (44100 and 44109 I think but I forget the details). It was to make the broadcast of digital sound (Like NICAM) easier to do over analogue pictures. Nobody predicted digital pictures at that time, just digital sound. What you've said is an urban myth.
Brilliant - best comment for months :-)
Can't mod it but want to show appreciation
CRaP - it's radioactive
Jeez I was designed using sqrt(2). No wonder girls don't like me.
Why do you think it's called a coffin hotel? Probably more like a coughing hotel.
If we're going to have all these nuclear plants (Europe needs about 650 to replace fossil fuel use completely) there isn't actually enough Uranium to power them all. Uranium is fairly rare and there isn't an endless supply of it. It's also completely under valued right now so expect to see dramatic growth in its price over the next five years. This is probably the best stock tip you'll see today ;-)