Their CEO seems like kind of a tool with that haircut... and the marketing campaign makes me feel like they're trying to be more of a hipster brand than iOS is. The UI looks like the bastard child of Metro and Android, too.
My god, the navigator on their WebGL globe sucks so bad. Don't they know how to do an intersection test and move the surface as far as the mouse moves instead of some random distance? It's so clumsy...
The HYG Database they linked to is enough stars; I used it at work to create a realistic star map for a geospatial visualization by mapping their spherical coordinates to a unit sphere and drawing in 3D (OpenGL) and using their magnitude and temperature for color/brightness.
The HYG Database is all the visible-to-the-naked-eye stars within 20 parsecs; when you say, "that's not that many stars" well, you can't see much more than that anyway so it's a good start.
I voted non R or D as well but saying that you only vote for Libertarian because it's not an R or a D is the same crap that everyone else who does for R or D says. Make an educated decision and choose who would be best for the job; not who you feel is running with the party you connect to more.
However, I'd like to assume that you chose Johnson because of his platform and I commend you for doing so; but please, don't say you did it because he wasn't blue or red. (I love how blue and red and gold are colors of rival gangs)
I honestly wish they would hide all personally identifiable information from running for office; don't allow anyone to state their party affiliation, no personal meet-and-greets, dark rooms with voice changers for debates, then lets see who wins when people would actually have to decide by way of merit who wins.
split all the cell companies (and cable isps) into two separate companies: 1. infrastructure company that leases bandwidth to anyone and 2. service company that manages services and allows access to leased bandwidth. Then, hopefully, the infrastructure company would be able to sell to anyone (give them special funding to help with keeping costs as low as possible if necessary) but then the service companies could start up with little upfront costs and then they could compete on services instead of "hey, our cell towers are bigger than your cell towers but we're still gonna fuck you in the ass without lube"
I should have RTFA; they state that two requests to remove the content were ignored. I blame Edublogs for all this bullshit (and the copyright system).
All aside regarding how a 38 year old questionnaire still being protected under copyright and whether that is right or wrong, how does taking 1.5 million sites offline because of one site having a DMCA takedown request? Doesn't that seem completely ridiculous? That's like burning down the Library of Congress because we found termites in a shed out back.
It's not ridiculous to complain about Saudis asking for censorship laws; they deserve it. However, it is ridiculous that we allow those other laws to stay on the books, not that we don't allow the new laws because the old laws exist.
I never stated that holocaust denying laws were okay but muslim laws weren't; they're both not okay. I said they should get over it and stop worrying what other people said about them; they're only words and words can be ignored. It doesn't matter if it's realistic; it's still the right thing to do.
With my Prius at 45mpg and $4.10/gal, I haven't even spent that much on gas yet (and gas has been mostly cheaper as long as I've owned it). I'm at about 128,000 miles right now and $14,000 @ $4.10 would get me 153,658 miles.
However, there is utility in having a hobby working on something you love, too.
Still, the publishers NEVER have to lower their prices to Amazon. Amazon needs them as much as they need Amazon and if the publishers keep their wholesale prices constant, what can Amazon do to get them to lower them? It's not like someone else has the rights to sell specific books...
If Amazon is paying up-front to the author and/or publisher, why do the publishers even care? Set a price that you're happy with and let Amazon give them away. If they're allowing Amazon to give away without paying it's their own damn fault.
Now, I understand why Apple cares because if Amazon is willing to under-cut the wholesale book prices, Apple will end up with less business (though, they could just not allow a Kindle app on iOS and their herd of "customers" would have no choice). But the publishers are big enough to not let Amazon push them around; wtf?
I was thinking the same thing; if this actually worked reliably, the ~20 minutes to talk to mars would be instantaneous and voyager wouldn't take 20 hours to send shit back home (and both might use substantially less power)
And you can teach your children whatever you like; just don't force schools to stop teaching for the good of the public just because you might not believe in something as true.
How do I have it backwards, then? Creationists don't want to teach their children things they themselves don't believe in or understand. I thought I had it pretty close to his meaning...
Prove to me that your faith is reliable using facts from memory; asshat.
The thing is, faith is just your own intuition. Science can at least be proven and as we learn more we can prove more. We have things called hypotheses because we cannot prove them and haven't tried yet. We have theories because we have tried to prove them and, so far, it looks good but it's not 100%. Then we get to Laws; these we know are true and you can go shove them up your God's ass.
Note: to those who can safely straddle the line of spiritual/religious and scientific, I apologize for my rude demeanor.
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No, its *.amazon (the TLD is in question, not the domain name itself)
Their CEO seems like kind of a tool with that haircut... and the marketing campaign makes me feel like they're trying to be more of a hipster brand than iOS is. The UI looks like the bastard child of Metro and Android, too.
My god, the navigator on their WebGL globe sucks so bad. Don't they know how to do an intersection test and move the surface as far as the mouse moves instead of some random distance? It's so clumsy...
Oops, I meant 50 parsecs. Slashdot should really allow comment editing for logged-in users...
The HYG Database they linked to is enough stars; I used it at work to create a realistic star map for a geospatial visualization by mapping their spherical coordinates to a unit sphere and drawing in 3D (OpenGL) and using their magnitude and temperature for color/brightness.
The HYG Database is all the visible-to-the-naked-eye stars within 20 parsecs; when you say, "that's not that many stars" well, you can't see much more than that anyway so it's a good start.
I voted non R or D as well but saying that you only vote for Libertarian because it's not an R or a D is the same crap that everyone else who does for R or D says. Make an educated decision and choose who would be best for the job; not who you feel is running with the party you connect to more.
However, I'd like to assume that you chose Johnson because of his platform and I commend you for doing so; but please, don't say you did it because he wasn't blue or red. (I love how blue and red and gold are colors of rival gangs)
I honestly wish they would hide all personally identifiable information from running for office; don't allow anyone to state their party affiliation, no personal meet-and-greets, dark rooms with voice changers for debates, then lets see who wins when people would actually have to decide by way of merit who wins.
split all the cell companies (and cable isps) into two separate companies: 1. infrastructure company that leases bandwidth to anyone and 2. service company that manages services and allows access to leased bandwidth. Then, hopefully, the infrastructure company would be able to sell to anyone (give them special funding to help with keeping costs as low as possible if necessary) but then the service companies could start up with little upfront costs and then they could compete on services instead of "hey, our cell towers are bigger than your cell towers but we're still gonna fuck you in the ass without lube"
I should have RTFA; they state that two requests to remove the content were ignored. I blame Edublogs for all this bullshit (and the copyright system).
Or forward the DMCA request to Edublogs and, if within a reasonable amount of time they do not comply, then knock them off.
All aside regarding how a 38 year old questionnaire still being protected under copyright and whether that is right or wrong, how does taking 1.5 million sites offline because of one site having a DMCA takedown request? Doesn't that seem completely ridiculous? That's like burning down the Library of Congress because we found termites in a shed out back.
It's not ridiculous to complain about Saudis asking for censorship laws; they deserve it. However, it is ridiculous that we allow those other laws to stay on the books, not that we don't allow the new laws because the old laws exist.
I never stated that holocaust denying laws were okay but muslim laws weren't; they're both not okay. I said they should get over it and stop worrying what other people said about them; they're only words and words can be ignored. It doesn't matter if it's realistic; it's still the right thing to do.
How about we tell them to stop being so sensitive and they can just ignore it.
With my Prius at 45mpg and $4.10/gal, I haven't even spent that much on gas yet (and gas has been mostly cheaper as long as I've owned it). I'm at about 128,000 miles right now and $14,000 @ $4.10 would get me 153,658 miles. However, there is utility in having a hobby working on something you love, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Payment_Transaction_tax
Still, the publishers NEVER have to lower their prices to Amazon. Amazon needs them as much as they need Amazon and if the publishers keep their wholesale prices constant, what can Amazon do to get them to lower them? It's not like someone else has the rights to sell specific books...
If Amazon is paying up-front to the author and/or publisher, why do the publishers even care? Set a price that you're happy with and let Amazon give them away. If they're allowing Amazon to give away without paying it's their own damn fault.
Now, I understand why Apple cares because if Amazon is willing to under-cut the wholesale book prices, Apple will end up with less business (though, they could just not allow a Kindle app on iOS and their herd of "customers" would have no choice). But the publishers are big enough to not let Amazon push them around; wtf?
I was thinking the same thing; if this actually worked reliably, the ~20 minutes to talk to mars would be instantaneous and voyager wouldn't take 20 hours to send shit back home (and both might use substantially less power)
SilverFox
"this time locating a multiple planets orbiting a Binary Stars"
w.t.f.?
I got a troll rating for people probably not reading the comment title ;(
And you can teach your children whatever you like; just don't force schools to stop teaching for the good of the public just because you might not believe in something as true.
How do I have it backwards, then? Creationists don't want to teach their children things they themselves don't believe in or understand. I thought I had it pretty close to his meaning...
Prove to me that your faith is reliable using facts from memory; asshat.
The thing is, faith is just your own intuition. Science can at least be proven and as we learn more we can prove more. We have things called hypotheses because we cannot prove them and haven't tried yet. We have theories because we have tried to prove them and, so far, it looks good but it's not 100%. Then we get to Laws; these we know are true and you can go shove them up your God's ass.
Note: to those who can safely straddle the line of spiritual/religious and scientific, I apologize for my rude demeanor.