On a gun that decides when it's time to fire, I hope there's a cancel button.
I also bet there's someone that gets this, pulls the trigger at a picture of someone they hate, and then leaves the gun lying around their house. It wouldn't work, not that it wouldn't be fun to try.
In my first world western democratic country, we call that illegal corruption, and will prosecute that politician to the fullest extent of the law. ( and have done so in the past, hence this country has one of the lowest levels of corruption in the world )
Just because you are used to corruption in the USA, doesn't mean its like that the world over.
You actually *dont* have to put up with political corruption and bribery in America. It is actually OK to protest against corruption. Seriously. ( im not trolling )
Of course? How is it obvious that it is not bribery? I dont see anything obvious as to why it is not.
Giving a politician money for the purpose of influencing said politicians support of legislation is corruption, fair and square.
There are no ifs or buts, it is corruption.
And this corruption is so widespread, and so accepted ( and even expected ), that the American people think nothing of it, and accept it as simply a part of doing politics.
Leader of the Free World my ass.
I live in a first world western democracy, and here, this sort of corruption is illegal. Why is this allowed in the USA?
This is why having humans onboard beats robotics. An event like this on an unmanned craft could be crippling. With humans onboard, it was quickly found and fixed.
Though it is only a question of time before robotics will be dexterous and smart enough to go out and replace a broken module like what just happened. In the meantime, Humans +1 | Robots +0.
Slashdot has become awash with political crap. Let's return to a site for nerds, stuff that matters. Not stuff that rallies the libertarians and the collectivists, okay?
I would mod you up even more for your insightful words, but you are already at +5.
Slashdot, *please* go back to News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters! And while im in rant mode, *please* realise that not all of us are Americans, Stuff that Matters shouldnt be about some democrat vs republican bullshit.
10GB of online storage completely free? What, like services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Mega etc?
Why go through all the hassle of encrypting your data as a QR code video, when you could just upload your encrypted files to one of these fine services?
Even funnier if they're still around for the aftermath of the joke. Don't decapitate --- just a precise shot of paralytic to the top of the spinal cord, followed by a photorealistic rendering (through the goggles) of the goggles being removed... to reveal the severed-head's view of the "real world" simulation room. Dim lights to black; leave them there to contemplate.
Why go through the hassle of that. If you *truly* want your 'victim' to think they are going to die, and go through what it actually feels like to die, but bring them back from the very brink of death, waterboard them.
Dont believe me? Ask the CIA, they know all about it.
You have no choice. What are you going to do, stop using Photoshop?
No, but luckily, we already bought enough copies and ours don't stop working at the end of the month.
And as I noted, buying legal buy second-hand copies is also a possibility, and nothing Adobe does is likely to change the legal position on that in Europe on the evidence so far.
So you are basically betting your company on luck and hope? You are now stuck on the current version of PS, with no improvements or new features ever again. I hope you wont suffer from feature envy when the newest whiz bang features get released for PS, but are now out of your reach. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Think of it like finding a needle in a haystack ( assuming an average ordinary everyday haystack ). The haystacks get bigger over time ( way bigger ), but there are only so many needles, and you have to go through a *lot* of hay to find one. It costs time and energy to find the needles.
Since the biggest gripe on Slashdot seems to be the cost of electricity of running gaming rigs to mine bitcoins....hmm...i think i now have a use for that spare 160W solar panel ive got lying around, and all those Spartan6 FPGA development boards i happen to have sitting around consume very little power each....
1) Idle equipment and free electricity 2) Spare Time 3) ???? 4) Profit
There are a few free options available, by free I mean as in beer.
For 8 bit work, you can go with Atmel ATMega and ATTiny, using the free AVRStudio. Theres also MPLAB IDE for PIC micros, also free.
For 16/32 bit work, you cant go past ARM. You have Eclipse and CooCox as options for free IDE's ( coocox is more integrated, and has open source hardware debuggers available that can be easily used). Both are based on GCC toolchain.
Id recommend the ARM route, as the Cortex M series is very good for the price ( esp the LPC1700 series from NXP ), and the programmer and debugging tools are cheap and non proprietary.
As this is Slashdot, due to your misspelling of the word 'cooperative', all points that you have raised, and all factual information given, is now incorrect. Your argument has been officially dismantled.
...for this to go down in history with the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.
Me neither. Its inevitable considering how internet spaceships and fantasy sword and sorcery are so alike in almost every way imaginable.
Remember, CCP Games had to change the name of the game to EvE because they were about to get sued for copyright and trademark infringement for the word-for-word similarity that Dungeons and Dragons has to EvE Online. Almost every person who has ever seen these two games side by side actually cannot tell them apart, such is the similarity in evidence here.
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On a gun that decides when it's time to fire, I hope there's a cancel button.
I also bet there's someone that gets this, pulls the trigger at a picture of someone they hate, and then leaves the gun lying around their house. It wouldn't work, not that it wouldn't be fun to try.
The abort would be when you release the trigger.
Is it me, or do reaction wheels seem to be the most failure prone part of space telescopes?
I do not wear any watch, I have a smartphone that does this job fine.
You wear a smartphone?
In my first world western democratic country, we call that illegal corruption, and will prosecute that politician to the fullest extent of the law. ( and have done so in the past, hence this country has one of the lowest levels of corruption in the world )
Just because you are used to corruption in the USA, doesn't mean its like that the world over.
You actually *dont* have to put up with political corruption and bribery in America. It is actually OK to protest against corruption. Seriously. ( im not trolling )
" Was this bribery? Of course not! "
Of course? How is it obvious that it is not bribery? I dont see anything obvious as to why it is not.
Giving a politician money for the purpose of influencing said politicians support of legislation is corruption, fair and square.
There are no ifs or buts, it is corruption.
And this corruption is so widespread, and so accepted ( and even expected ), that the American people think nothing of it, and accept it as simply a part of doing politics.
Leader of the Free World my ass.
I live in a first world western democracy, and here, this sort of corruption is illegal. Why is this allowed in the USA?
This is why having humans onboard beats robotics. An event like this on an unmanned craft could be crippling. With humans onboard, it was quickly found and fixed.
Though it is only a question of time before robotics will be dexterous and smart enough to go out and replace a broken module like what just happened. In the meantime, Humans +1 | Robots +0.
How would the Onion look then?
Smugly pleased.
There are actually a few positive effects nicotine possesses, the negative effects of smoking are mediated by the oxidation products of cigarettes..
Don't forget the addictive nature of nicotine.
No, Dont mod parent up, This is Slashdot, not some fucking American political bullshit discussion site.
Slashdot should be:
NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS!
Slashdot has become awash with political crap. Let's return to a site for nerds, stuff that matters. Not stuff that rallies the libertarians and the collectivists, okay?
I would mod you up even more for your insightful words, but you are already at +5.
Slashdot, *please* go back to News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters!
And while im in rant mode, *please* realise that not all of us are Americans, Stuff that Matters shouldnt be about some democrat vs republican bullshit.
Fingers.
10GB of online storage completely free? What, like services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Mega etc?
Why go through all the hassle of encrypting your data as a QR code video, when you could just upload your encrypted files to one of these fine services?
"This can only end poorly for FB"
You say it like its a bad thing.
Even funnier if they're still around for the aftermath of the joke. Don't decapitate --- just a precise shot of paralytic to the top of the spinal cord, followed by a photorealistic rendering (through the goggles) of the goggles being removed... to reveal the severed-head's view of the "real world" simulation room. Dim lights to black; leave them there to contemplate.
Why go through the hassle of that. If you *truly* want your 'victim' to think they are going to die, and go through what it actually feels like to die, but bring them back from the very brink of death, waterboard them.
Dont believe me? Ask the CIA, they know all about it.
I LOLed when you implied that creative professionals are programmers.
You have no choice. What are you going to do, stop using Photoshop?
No, but luckily, we already bought enough copies and ours don't stop working at the end of the month.
And as I noted, buying legal buy second-hand copies is also a possibility, and nothing Adobe does is likely to change the legal position on that in Europe on the evidence so far.
So you are basically betting your company on luck and hope?
You are now stuck on the current version of PS, with no improvements or new features ever again. I hope you wont suffer from feature envy when the newest whiz bang features get released for PS, but are now out of your reach.
You are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Thats what I was thinking too.
Wouldn't it be best for them to announce something when they actually get the experiment working?
It would stop everyone getting disappointed if it turns out not to work, and make the announcement more credible if it does work.
Yes.
Think of it like finding a needle in a haystack ( assuming an average ordinary everyday haystack ). The haystacks get bigger over time ( way bigger ), but there are only so many needles, and you have to go through a *lot* of hay to find one. It costs time and energy to find the needles.
Since the biggest gripe on Slashdot seems to be the cost of electricity of running gaming rigs to mine bitcoins....hmm...i think i now have a use for that spare 160W solar panel ive got lying around, and all those Spartan6 FPGA development boards i happen to have sitting around consume very little power each....
1) Idle equipment and free electricity
2) Spare Time
3) ????
4) Profit
Why is it taking Virgin Galactic so long for development?
Space is hard.
There are a few free options available, by free I mean as in beer.
For 8 bit work, you can go with Atmel ATMega and ATTiny, using the free AVRStudio.
Theres also MPLAB IDE for PIC micros, also free.
For 16/32 bit work, you cant go past ARM. You have Eclipse and CooCox as options for free IDE's ( coocox is more integrated, and has open source hardware debuggers available that can be easily used). Both are based on GCC toolchain.
Id recommend the ARM route, as the Cortex M series is very good for the price ( esp the LPC1700 series from NXP ), and the programmer and debugging tools are cheap and non proprietary.
Im sure there are other options out there too.
If the plant is genetically engineered, can it still be called natural?
As this is Slashdot, due to your misspelling of the word 'cooperative', all points that you have raised, and all factual information given, is now incorrect. Your argument has been officially dismantled.
Welcome to Slashdot. Thanks for playing.
*rolls*
ThePeices places a Critical Hit against Bieeanda with Biting Sarcasm and Intellectual Dry Wit.
...for this to go down in history with the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.
Me neither. Its inevitable considering how internet spaceships and fantasy sword and sorcery are so alike in almost every way imaginable.
Remember, CCP Games had to change the name of the game to EvE because they were about to get sued for copyright and trademark infringement for the word-for-word similarity that Dungeons and Dragons has to EvE Online. Almost every person who has ever seen these two games side by side actually cannot tell them apart, such is the similarity in evidence here.