Why is it that I don't see anyone complaining about "Slashvertisement" when EVE Online is being pushed? It gets a disproportionately large number of articles, compared to user base. Why?
I have an ingenious explanation which explains why nobody is screaming 'slashvertisement', *and* why this article was posted considering the mind-boggingly enormously huge number of articles compared to the userbase...
OK, want to know why? OK,get ready....this is big-sky thinking sort of stuff, and in many circles this sort of thinking may be highly controversial, but im going to put it out there, and watch what sort of reaction happens once the world is presented with this utterly incredible, stunning level of enlightened thought.....
"Its not a slashvertisement"
Now, 'whoa' I hear you cry, ' this is indeed a level of thinking that goes above mere mortals, a level of genius that makes Einstein look like G.W. Bush', and I wholeheartedly agree with you, and am humbly appreciative of your kind, kind words, but I dont do this for myself, I perform these feats of stunning intellect for the benefit of the human race itself.
Enjoy your now enlightened view on this situation.
...that we are definitely made of matter. If we were made of anti-matter, wouldn't matter actually look like anti-matter to us, only because it isn't what we're made of?
Not really. We have defined an electron (matter) as the electron-particle that has a negative electric charge. A positron (anti-electron, antimatter) is an electron with a positive charge. Same goes for protons etc, and we know for certain that we and all the matter around us are composed of the 'matter' version.
Also, if matter and anti-matter existed in equal amounts at the beginning, wouldn't the remaining particles, regardless of what they are (after all the self-annihilation and whatnot) be considered matter by default?
No, because if they were equal in quantity, the left over particles would be a 50-50 mix of matter and antimatter, but this is not the case in reality.
but won't somebody think of the Mercury? Or toxins, or radio waves, or autism that LEDs cause?
What mercury? Ain't none in LED's. LED's don't emit radio waves. The power supply might ( but utterly harmless levels ), but not LED's LED's don't cause autism.
LED's don't do anything, except emit light and get a bit warm.
I currently use my brain to control my Galaxy S3. Its uses an ingenious "series of tubes" coupled to a mind boggling number of complex electrochemical reactions within a complex neural network to control the muscle tissue that connects to the tendons that drive my fingers which directly connect to the Galaxy S3.
Samsung should stop this R&D ( why reinvent the wheel when you can licence the design for cheaper ) and simply start paying me royalties for every Smartphone and tablet they sell.
Where I live, we had this huge shallow mag 6.3 aftershock right next to the city. The cellular networks performed pretty well during the massive emergency call spike dealing with all of the dead and injured, even while dealing with the widescale infrastructure damage that had just occurred. Emergency calls were mostly available in the hours after the quake, and the two main carriers handled the load well all things considered.
We found that SMS messaging was the best method for communicating with friends and family, as voice was under heavy use at the time and best left for emergency use. SMS was good enough really, as it does not require realtime delivery.
The main telco also immediately set every payphone to allow free calling to any phone nationwide, cell or landline for weeks after, and started putting up free WiFi on the top of many payphones. ( The free WiFi is still there today )
Overall, not a bad result from the technology. Good emergency planning can and did save lives.
You wear these glasses on you for the world to see and notice. OP had a point. Think look-at-me geektoys like the Segway, bluetooth headsets etc.
I cant see Glasses going mainstream as they are just too odd looking, and there will be a backlash from people who dont like having a camera recording everything they say and do when interacting with somebody wearing Glasses. Apple could possibly remove the geeky feel from a product like Glasses if they designed one, but that doesnt remove that creepy "is he recording me right now" feeling that everybody would have when the guy wearing Glasses looks at them.
Starvation is primarily a problem of politics, not one of funding. Otherwise, Bill Gates could have solved world hunger - and I bet he would have loved to. Instead, he's finding himself wasting money on education - which is similarly hampered by politics.
Unless its Education in America, then its hampered by politics AND religion.
Most posts here are on whether there is an App Bubble or not, but thats not the question.
Even if there is an App Bubble or not, it is still a worthwhile question to ask what other technologies are worth spending time to learn if you want to broaden your professional horizons.
Money is evidence? You socialist whore. Should we throw all the Wall Street bankers and CEOs in jail?
Are you trolling, or is this a rhetorical question?
Also, you should probably clarify that you are using the American definition of socalist ( you seem to use it like a curse word, so im guessing you are ), vs the rest-of-the-world definition. Makes it confusing to figure out exactly what you are trying to say.
It also makes one wonder...can you think of *any* sin that would make it moral or ethical to put somebody through a literal eternity of extreme torture and torment?
Lets say I decide not to beleive in God. The majority of Christians would say that im guaranteed to go to hell.
Do you think the punishment would be enough to justify the "crime" after say, a million years of unbelievable torture and suffering? How about a million million years? How about a trillion years for every subatomic particle that exists in the entire universe? Do you think that would be enough? And remember folks, even that insanely high number of years of abject torture and torment is not even the most insignificant fraction of eternity.
Doesnt this seem a bit too far fetched to be an accurate description of reality? Not to mention that whatever God created this system would easily be classed as an unethical immoral evil monster.
And whats the whole point of torturing a soul for all eternity? To make the victim feel better?
What about heaven? Being self aware and conscious for all eternity seems like torture in and of itself. Youll never die, and have no choice but to live, no matter how bored you get. Utter blissful happiness now becomes the new normal. Youll never fell sad, so your existance will start to become a neverending groundhog day of utter normalcy. ANd remember this folks, there have only been people in heaven for a few tens of thousands years at most. Nobody in Heaven has reached their first million years yet. I wonder how everybody is going to feel after they have reached their first 10^100000000000000000000000000000000 years, knowing full well that their self awareness will never ever end.
That's the problem with trying to prove anything against an omnipotent deity - omnipotent means he can do *anything* including faking fossil records, making people suffer for no apparent reason (even young children), and filling the universe with CMB.
Sure, youre right, but do you know what it also tells us?
That this God fellow is one hell of an evil lying monster.
Faking fossil and geological and cosmic records, evolution and tons of independent, consistent physical evidence, all for the purpose of tricking us into not believing in Him, when the punishment for not believing is an infinite number of years of abject torture in some hell that will exist for a literal eternity?
You make many logical and valid points as any pedant worth their salt is apt to do, but unfortunately it all falls to pieces when I point out that "lucky to be alive" is actually what we like to call "a figure of speech".
But please don't feel bad, misunderstandings like these happen to pedants of all ages, we are human after all.
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Why is it that I don't see anyone complaining about "Slashvertisement" when EVE Online is being pushed? It gets a disproportionately large number of articles, compared to user base. Why?
I have an ingenious explanation which explains why nobody is screaming 'slashvertisement', *and* why this article was posted considering the mind-boggingly enormously huge number of articles compared to the userbase...
OK, want to know why? OK,get ready....this is big-sky thinking sort of stuff, and in many circles this sort of thinking may be highly controversial, but im going to put it out there, and watch what sort of reaction happens once the world is presented with this utterly incredible, stunning level of enlightened thought.....
"Its not a slashvertisement"
Now, 'whoa' I hear you cry, ' this is indeed a level of thinking that goes above mere mortals, a level of genius that makes Einstein look like G.W. Bush', and I wholeheartedly agree with you, and am humbly appreciative of your kind, kind words, but I dont do this for myself, I perform these feats of stunning intellect for the benefit of the human race itself.
Enjoy your now enlightened view on this situation.
...that we are definitely made of matter. If we were made of anti-matter, wouldn't matter actually look like anti-matter to us, only because it isn't what we're made of?
Not really. We have defined an electron (matter) as the electron-particle that has a negative electric charge. A positron (anti-electron, antimatter) is an electron with a positive charge. Same goes for protons etc, and we know for certain that we and all the matter around us are composed of the 'matter' version.
Also, if matter and anti-matter existed in equal amounts at the beginning, wouldn't the remaining particles, regardless of what they are (after all the self-annihilation and whatnot) be considered matter by default?
No, because if they were equal in quantity, the left over particles would be a 50-50 mix of matter and antimatter, but this is not the case in reality.
but won't somebody think of the Mercury? Or toxins, or radio waves, or autism that LEDs cause?
What mercury? Ain't none in LED's.
LED's don't emit radio waves. The power supply might ( but utterly harmless levels ), but not LED's
LED's don't cause autism.
LED's don't do anything, except emit light and get a bit warm.
OP: Education. Get one.
Sad thing is you imply your willingness for planes to crash to make it easier on everyone.
So you had your feelings hurt once, therefore he should be OK with having his name hijacked and diplomatically damaging posts posted under his name.
Thats some mighty impressive logic and deductive reasoning you have used there sir.
Color me like, totally impressed dude.
Just like to confirm that I also do not get this impression from the summary.
In fact, my impression was exactly as described in TFA.
I beat Samsung to it.
I currently use my brain to control my Galaxy S3. Its uses an ingenious "series of tubes" coupled to a mind boggling number of complex electrochemical reactions within a complex neural network to control the muscle tissue that connects to the tendons that drive my fingers which directly connect to the Galaxy S3.
Samsung should stop this R&D ( why reinvent the wheel when you can licence the design for cheaper ) and simply start paying me royalties for every Smartphone and tablet they sell.
How can it kill you?
His usage was perfectly cromulent.
What does star trek have to do with this?
Where I live, we had this huge shallow mag 6.3 aftershock right next to the city. The cellular networks performed pretty well during the massive emergency call spike dealing with all of the dead and injured, even while dealing with the widescale infrastructure damage that had just occurred. Emergency calls were mostly available in the hours after the quake, and the two main carriers handled the load well all things considered.
We found that SMS messaging was the best method for communicating with friends and family, as voice was under heavy use at the time and best left for emergency use. SMS was good enough really, as it does not require realtime delivery.
The main telco also immediately set every payphone to allow free calling to any phone nationwide, cell or landline for weeks after, and started putting up free WiFi on the top of many payphones. ( The free WiFi is still there today )
Overall, not a bad result from the technology. Good emergency planning can and did save lives.
Do you ride or wear tablets, cellphones and PC's?
You wear these glasses on you for the world to see and notice. OP had a point. Think look-at-me geektoys like the Segway, bluetooth headsets etc.
I cant see Glasses going mainstream as they are just too odd looking, and there will be a backlash from people who dont like having a camera recording everything they say and do when interacting with somebody wearing Glasses. Apple could possibly remove the geeky feel from a product like Glasses if they designed one, but that doesnt remove that creepy "is he recording me right now" feeling that everybody would have when the guy wearing Glasses looks at them.
Better hope hes not a perv....
Amazing! You make something available people actually want, and they buy it. No hard push advertising required!
This is a novel idea, and should be looked into further.
I wholeheartedly approve of this product and/or service!
Why on earth would you release something like that on iOS?.
Because if you are cool enough to fly spy drones, you need to be seen doing it with the bestest phone in the whole wide world.
Would Steve (peace be upon him, hallowed be His name) be caught dead controlling spy drones on an Android? Of course not, and neither should you.
But is a huge increase in computing power going to make my computing experience that much better than it already is?
I doubt it. Fast enough is good enough.
Next up, sharks.
Why is this moderated as +5 Funny ?
Are there people out there who, after all these years of the same stale tired old joke, still find this genuinely funny?
Really? Seriously?
Yeah, I thought not.
Starvation is primarily a problem of politics, not one of funding. Otherwise, Bill Gates could have solved world hunger - and I bet he would have loved to. Instead, he's finding himself wasting money on education - which is similarly hampered by politics.
Unless its Education in America, then its hampered by politics AND religion.
Sorry, somebody had to.
Most posts here are on whether there is an App Bubble or not, but thats not the question.
Even if there is an App Bubble or not, it is still a worthwhile question to ask what other technologies are worth spending time to learn if you want to broaden your professional horizons.
Money is evidence? You socialist whore. Should we throw all the Wall Street bankers and CEOs in jail?
Are you trolling, or is this a rhetorical question?
Also, you should probably clarify that you are using the American definition of socalist ( you seem to use it like a curse word, so im guessing you are ), vs the rest-of-the-world definition. Makes it confusing to figure out exactly what you are trying to say.
The real problem here is everybody expecting proper justice from the US justice system.
Its like expecting a rabid dog to not bite you, then getting all upset when it does.
It also makes one wonder...can you think of *any* sin that would make it moral or ethical to put somebody through a literal eternity of extreme torture and torment?
Lets say I decide not to beleive in God. The majority of Christians would say that im guaranteed to go to hell.
Do you think the punishment would be enough to justify the "crime" after say, a million years of unbelievable torture and suffering? How about a million million years? How about a trillion years for every subatomic particle that exists in the entire universe? Do you think that would be enough? And remember folks, even that insanely high number of years of abject torture and torment is not even the most insignificant fraction of eternity.
Doesnt this seem a bit too far fetched to be an accurate description of reality? Not to mention that whatever God created this system would easily be classed as an unethical immoral evil monster.
And whats the whole point of torturing a soul for all eternity? To make the victim feel better?
What about heaven? Being self aware and conscious for all eternity seems like torture in and of itself. Youll never die, and have no choice but to live, no matter how bored you get. Utter blissful happiness now becomes the new normal. Youll never fell sad, so your existance will start to become a neverending groundhog day of utter normalcy. ANd remember this folks, there have only been people in heaven for a few tens of thousands years at most. Nobody in Heaven has reached their first million years yet. I wonder how everybody is going to feel after they have reached their first 10^100000000000000000000000000000000 years, knowing full well that their self awareness will never ever end.
This whole thing just reeks of falseness.
Fuck that, give me oblivion.
"What I have a problem with is getting what I want."
That pretty much sums up all of the worlds problems right there.
" Also, there is no such thing as a victimless crime. "
I LOLed
"From what I can tell, this will not get rid of the need for the anti-aliasing."
You ALWAYS need antialiasing when you discretize.
I think the word you are looking for is "quantize"
That's the problem with trying to prove anything against an omnipotent deity - omnipotent means he can do *anything* including faking fossil records, making people suffer for no apparent reason (even young children), and filling the universe with CMB.
Sure, youre right, but do you know what it also tells us?
That this God fellow is one hell of an evil lying monster.
Faking fossil and geological and cosmic records, evolution and tons of independent, consistent physical evidence, all for the purpose of tricking us into not believing in Him, when the punishment for not believing is an infinite number of years of abject torture in some hell that will exist for a literal eternity?
A monster of the highest order.
Greetings pedant!
You make many logical and valid points as any pedant worth their salt is apt to do, but unfortunately it all falls to pieces when I point out that "lucky to be alive" is actually what we like to call "a figure of speech".
But please don't feel bad, misunderstandings like these happen to pedants of all ages, we are human after all.
In all honesty, we here at Slashdot forgive you.