I of course meant 2nd World AND very poor. Hence the average, or 2.5th world. However, I believe E.Germany has made an impressive recovery and is no longer either. Oh well, it's just a joke anyhow.
The vast majority of people in the US, especially/. readers, have very little connection to agriculture. Invent a new phone, don't, it really doesn't effect 3rd worlders. So rather than do nothing but try to make more food/apply economics to solve the starvation problem, a problem which ideally takes less than 5% of the U.S. population to solve, we deploy the remaining 95% to 'frivolous' projects, such as new technology, etc. WTF else are we supposed to do?
It's just easier currently to process a magnetic disc and make a few points (the read/write heads) smaller, and to test those, than it is to layer, minify, and test the entirety of a multilayer IC board. The magnetic disc requires surprisingly little processing, compared to an IC. As soon as the flash cards are switched to a smaller mask, and processing costs drop a few percent more, you'll see your 10GB flash cards.
Nintendo probably cornered the market with 3 things. Battery life, price, and later, backwards compatability. How can you compete with a system that launches with a library of 1000 games? Helped out Sony a little with the PS2 at launch too.
Oh, and we can't forget a legion of brainwashed Nintendo Power subscribers, back in the day.
I would think being able to transform your equipment to the equipment and OS best suited to play the game would work well (aside from the performance hit emulation causes). Being able to cancel execution of windows in a subwindow when it crashes is a plus too.
Nothing can make an infinitely greater amount of energy than coal does. You could get several orders of magnitude more energy than coal, but not infinite! If infinity was the case, then since a single coal molecule reacting produces a few eV of energy, then a single atom of He3 would produce infinity times as much energy per reaction, or infinity energy. Thus, we wouldn't need the moon, only a single atom of He3, which we could find on earth easily! He3 reactions are only somewhere in the neighborhood of a million times more energetic than coal oxidation.
6, 2 and 13 are probably signifigant numbers in the Bible too, for different reasons.
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Using the Leidenfrost effect. The temperature of the iron will hold steady at whatever the melting point of iron is. Another blob of metal at the center of the iron will hold at its melting point. Continue with a couple more layers of shielding of this type, and your sensor pack can be held at an operable temperature for long enough to reach the center of the earth.
Violence and obesity counter productive. If videogames incite violence AND obesity, then what's the harm? It's not like the resulting barrels of lard can actually get anywhere carrying a weapon. "Oh no, it's a gun, let's run". Everyone leaves room, fat kid with gun passes out trying to chase them down.
I meant to reply to the redirect. Do not reply to the email. Go to the website they're trying to sell you something from. That is what I meant by reply. Crash the website some company is paying them to direct you to, and said company will cease to be profitable.
Reply to EVERY spam. Heck, set up a site where a spam is displayed, and every member of said site goes to the spam's link at say 12:00 EST. The resulting delta-function like demand should break their server, and prevent their legitimate customers from entering. So sending spams, or paying direct advertisers will COST your business. 100000 spams won't be worth $50, but $-50000.
Batteries do have a fixed (but very high) current limit, due to internal resistance. Capacitors inherently don't (Ohms compared to milliOhms). But for disintegration, I was thinking a kF or so, I believe (enough electons to displace a good portion of the ones in the body). My mistake.
Until you short one with something you care about. 50C of charge flowing down something in a fraction of a second (or 50-500A of current) is not what I want to think about. "Instant disintegration" comes to mind.
I have the karma to have a +1 by default. My original comment was not modded up. There is no ridiculous situation here (aside from me having karma).
Eyesight itself requires resources. If you were born with no eyes whatsoever, they could be redirected elsewhere. As for somebody with astigmatism or whatnot, how do you know it's not caused by something like a novel protien, or a mutation, such as a mutation that prevents the AIDS virus from binding to cells, or reduces the rate of telomere decay, or clears up radicals. Genetics is a system with ~10^23 variables. Proteomics is even more complicated. You can't fix one thing without breaking a dozen others. A good analogy would be randomly altering the source code to an OS. Some versions will do the task you want the OS to do better, some will do it worse. But the judgement is task based. Mutations cause many bad things, some neutral things, and a few good things to happen to the organism.
But a better example would be sickle cell anemia. People are 'inferior' who have it, becoming tired more easily. They are also very resistant to malaria. So most genetic drawbacks are also genetic advantages.
Good vision costs resources. If you devote more to good vision than to say, your immune system, you will die in a plague. It's all well and good to aim spears well, but in a society that doesn't hunt for food anymore, good eyesight is a waste of flesh. If I'm dumb, but I don't buy the farm from disease X, it's still a good idea for me to stick around in the gene pool. The future will determine what genes are good to have around, not us.
Unable to increase sales any other way, and losing some (very few) customers to piracy, they have now relied upon releasing new DRM with groups that aren't selling to increase the sales by way of all l33t d00ds out there buying said CD just to disable the DRM. That's a genius tactic, as people buy what they didn't want, and don't distribute it all that much, because they don't really like the music.
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I of course meant 2nd World AND very poor. Hence the average, or 2.5th world. However, I believe E.Germany has made an impressive recovery and is no longer either. Oh well, it's just a joke anyhow.
Um, it's Microsoft that traditionally knocks off Apple!
East Germany was 2.5th world, I seem to recall.
A family then forms a compilation.
The vast majority of people in the US, especially /. readers, have very little connection to agriculture. Invent a new phone, don't, it really doesn't effect 3rd worlders. So rather than do nothing but try to make more food/apply economics to solve the starvation problem, a problem which ideally takes less than 5% of the U.S. population to solve, we deploy the remaining 95% to 'frivolous' projects, such as new technology, etc. WTF else are we supposed to do?
It's just easier currently to process a magnetic disc and make a few points (the read/write heads) smaller, and to test those, than it is to layer, minify, and test the entirety of a multilayer IC board. The magnetic disc requires surprisingly little processing, compared to an IC. As soon as the flash cards are switched to a smaller mask, and processing costs drop a few percent more, you'll see your 10GB flash cards.
Nintendo probably cornered the market with 3 things. Battery life, price, and later, backwards compatability. How can you compete with a system that launches with a library of 1000 games? Helped out Sony a little with the PS2 at launch too.
Oh, and we can't forget a legion of brainwashed Nintendo Power subscribers, back in the day.
I would think being able to transform your equipment to the equipment and OS best suited to play the game would work well (aside from the performance hit emulation causes). Being able to cancel execution of windows in a subwindow when it crashes is a plus too.
Nothing can make an infinitely greater amount of energy than coal does. You could get several orders of magnitude more energy than coal, but not infinite! If infinity was the case, then since a single coal molecule reacting produces a few eV of energy, then a single atom of He3 would produce infinity times as much energy per reaction, or infinity energy. Thus, we wouldn't need the moon, only a single atom of He3, which we could find on earth easily! He3 reactions are only somewhere in the neighborhood of a million times more energetic than coal oxidation.
After all, you are the Merovingian, the ruling elite of Ancient Feudal France.
6, 2 and 13 are probably signifigant numbers in the Bible too, for different reasons.
Using the Leidenfrost effect. The temperature of the iron will hold steady at whatever the melting point of iron is. Another blob of metal at the center of the iron will hold at its melting point. Continue with a couple more layers of shielding of this type, and your sensor pack can be held at an operable temperature for long enough to reach the center of the earth.
Violence and obesity counter productive. If videogames incite violence AND obesity, then what's the harm? It's not like the resulting barrels of lard can actually get anywhere carrying a weapon. "Oh no, it's a gun, let's run". Everyone leaves room, fat kid with gun passes out trying to chase them down.
I'd hire my sysadmin to run the farm. Force that arrogant S.O.B. to do a real day's work! That'd show 'em some humility!
I meant to reply to the redirect. Do not reply to the email. Go to the website they're trying to sell you something from. That is what I meant by reply. Crash the website some company is paying them to direct you to, and said company will cease to be profitable.
Reply to EVERY spam. Heck, set up a site where a spam is displayed, and every member of said site goes to the spam's link at say 12:00 EST. The resulting delta-function like demand should break their server, and prevent their legitimate customers from entering. So sending spams, or paying direct advertisers will COST your business. 100000 spams won't be worth $50, but $-50000.
Because I have a choice. If I fail to choose, I will have no choice in the future. Competition is good for capitalism.
Batteries do have a fixed (but very high) current limit, due to internal resistance. Capacitors inherently don't (Ohms compared to milliOhms). But for disintegration, I was thinking a kF or so, I believe (enough electons to displace a good portion of the ones in the body). My mistake.
Just run your lesser lights off of the main battery. (requires a moderately complex power regulation circuit)
Until you short one with something you care about. 50C of charge flowing down something in a fraction of a second (or 50-500A of current) is not what I want to think about. "Instant disintegration" comes to mind.
"Wanged" Penny-Arcade yet?
I have the karma to have a +1 by default. My original comment was not modded up. There is no ridiculous situation here (aside from me having karma).
Eyesight itself requires resources. If you were born with no eyes whatsoever, they could be redirected elsewhere. As for somebody with astigmatism or whatnot, how do you know it's not caused by something like a novel protien, or a mutation, such as a mutation that prevents the AIDS virus from binding to cells, or reduces the rate of telomere decay, or clears up radicals. Genetics is a system with ~10^23 variables. Proteomics is even more complicated. You can't fix one thing without breaking a dozen others. A good analogy would be randomly altering the source code to an OS. Some versions will do the task you want the OS to do better, some will do it worse. But the judgement is task based. Mutations cause many bad things, some neutral things, and a few good things to happen to the organism.
But a better example would be sickle cell anemia. People are 'inferior' who have it, becoming tired more easily. They are also very resistant to malaria. So most genetic drawbacks are also genetic advantages.
Good vision costs resources. If you devote more to good vision than to say, your immune system, you will die in a plague. It's all well and good to aim spears well, but in a society that doesn't hunt for food anymore, good eyesight is a waste of flesh. If I'm dumb, but I don't buy the farm from disease X, it's still a good idea for me to stick around in the gene pool. The future will determine what genes are good to have around, not us.
Unable to increase sales any other way, and losing some (very few) customers to piracy, they have now relied upon releasing new DRM with groups that aren't selling to increase the sales by way of all l33t d00ds out there buying said CD just to disable the DRM. That's a genius tactic, as people buy what they didn't want, and don't distribute it all that much, because they don't really like the music.
I'll bet they won't have the four letter spell codes anymore then. Those rocked!