I downloaded the clone of 2048, because it offered multiplayer and chromecast support.
Sometimes cloning is the only hope I (and other users) have of getting a critical but niche feature implemented if the original developer isn't interested in implementing it because it's too much effort, or clutters up their app.
The point is a proof of concept for wilder rides still.
Imagine "Dueling Dragons" with fully immersive VR, and maybe a few strategically placed propane burners near the track. I think you can begin imagine what that'd be like, and maybe even begin to comprehend just how much I'd like to ride it. (The ride is no longer operated as intended, and the incredibly complex process of tuning the synchronicity of the trains is wasted, since someone was killed by a flying flip-flop to the windpipe - this would preserve - and expand upon - the originally intended experience.)
If we're going to give them all Aegis radars, they're going to need a lot of that juice for active sensors, the computers to run them, and the cooling to keep both from melting.
I would cheerfully ride the business end of a NERVA in a return trajectory around Luna. Others have spent longer in the Van Allen belts and beyond with no ill effects, and good radiation shielding is a simple matter of math.
I would not volunteer for an explicit suicide mission to well, up.
There is a difference between pioneers and suicide bombers. Neither has a great life expectancy, but it's worth considering the relative merits of the two professions.
Old men who won't die of cancer, but will die with cancer. Actuaries would probably suggest that you haven't really made their situation significantly worse.
Mars One is planning a colony drop, not a suicide mission. Colonies have a history of failing, but they also have a history of succeeding.
If we're talking about a mission with no hope of surviving to go on speaking tours, or build the foundation for a society elsewhere, I can't really see any good reason for it.
On the other hand, throw a NERVA, Orion, or a (FSM help you!) NSWR at the problem, and suddenly it's a shorter trip than most jaunts to the space station. If Bussard was 1/10th right, deep space missions won't be suicide missions.
Everyone has a different role. The tech-heads, hackers and code monkeys turn out the lights on everything, and the community organizers, rabble-rousers and the politically inclined makes trouble and pisses people off with rallies, publicity campaigns, grassroots social media campaigns, and crowdfunding primary challengers to anyone who doesn't wash their hands of this like yesterday.
And while I discourage actual violence, I feel the need to point out that so do the gun-nuts and paranoid survivalists - by raising the cost of a brute-force approach beyond the point of impracticality, they serve as a backstop to the morals of anyone who might actually be tempted to attempt a coup.
I drive a convertible. I never back up with my seat belt on. These are related facts - the view out my window is adequate for driving in a straight line, but visibility while backing up is so bad that I have to move my head like a meter to see if someone's going to be in the path of my car as I back out, and if something's behind my other wheel. And since nobody really respects back-up lights in parking lots here - they'll walk behind you, then give you the stink-eye if you so much as twitch in their direction, whether or not you can see them, I simply continue risking my spinal column to avoid squishing idiots.
The technology is out there, but it's a lot uglier than X-10 for DIYing. This was the first control system I found that offers your sort of power management, and claimed universal, vendor-agnostic compatibility.
Can I take a small, short-acting dose of this in the form of a nasal spray, and finish reading the entire encyclopedia while I wait for my coffee pot to finish brewing? If implanted in reservoir form, in something like an insulin pump, (along, probably, with a quick-acting antidote) could I actually gain the benefit of "bullet time" when trying to avoid a car wreck when some texting-while-driving type cuts across three lanes of traffic? I believe this was touched upon in the Honor Harrington series, and it seemed like a good ideaand now somebody's gone and figured out that it's actually feasible.
Sayeth the inhabitant of that world-famous abattoir of haute-cuisine---Mississippi.
"But", you say, "there's lots of fine food in Mississippi". Agreed, but Brit food is pretty damn good.
The number of Michelin starred restaurants in Mississippi is...zero? Even Glasgow, that city mocked for deep fried everything, has a Michelin starred restaurant.
Yeah, I get the joke, but it's a stereotype that isn't actually remotely true any more,
Actually, specifically pertaining to chess, systems of expert plus computer advisor consistently outperform either the best computers or the best human grandmasters. For those who enjoy watching competitive chess, the games are decidedly not boring.
Grandma is not "no longer Grandma" at any point in this exercise, though at some point she should consider replacing everything but that mostly-nanotech brain; she's still going to have worn-out disks and arthritis, even now that her Alzheimer's is cured; she might want to move back out of that nursing home at some point.
1. I suppose so, but it did reach that at the DRAM high-water mark when Thailand flooded. It's a small concern compared to the humanitarian crisis, I suppose, but it left a mark on long-time apple buyers' memory.
2. I could cram four terabytes into my current Macbook Pro between my two bays, or using the latest from Western Digital, I can have a pair of 128 gig SSD partitions and 2tb of magnetic storage for the purposes of an enormous Fusion Drive. (well, for a laptop) A Macbook Pro currently goes up to 1 terabyte, and a Macbook Air to half a terabyte; you can't go higher for love nor money.
3. My choice would be to further upgrade my current machine, but it's a Core2 and I don't own a reflow oven. I don't think MBPs go up to 32 gigs RAM, because the modules haven't been invented yet. Also, while the SSDs are blistering fast, their absolute capacity isn't great, and their price-per-gig ratio isn't great either. I'd love to upgrade my machine as you suggest, but she's really at her limits. Had there been a 16 gig Macbook Air configuration, I'd have picked one up, never looked back, and been perfectly happy - but with the current lineup, every single Macbook offers some compromise I don't want to make. And every non-Mac means losing access to some really incredibly useful software - either repurchasing my commercial software on Windows or doing without on Linux, plus either doing without BASH (Windows) or well, I'm sorry to say, a lot of good software.
1: That's more than you'll find it for on Black Friday.
2: The new PCIe based modules are proprietary, probably based on the M2 electrical protocol over a mini-PCI physical layer. They compare favorably to RevoDrives in both price-per-gig and in performance, however. Still, there's no upgrades available at the moment.
3: Actually, no I can't - if I want a 15" macbook, it's a Retina model. If I want a Macbook Pro with discrete graphics, it's a Retina model. The non-Retina 13" model didn't even get upgraded processors, they're still kickin' it old school with the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge CPUs. Could you have at least dropped a Haswell in the socket, guys?
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I downloaded the clone of 2048, because it offered multiplayer and chromecast support.
Sometimes cloning is the only hope I (and other users) have of getting a critical but niche feature implemented if the original developer isn't interested in implementing it because it's too much effort, or clutters up their app.
The point is a proof of concept for wilder rides still. Imagine "Dueling Dragons" with fully immersive VR, and maybe a few strategically placed propane burners near the track. I think you can begin imagine what that'd be like, and maybe even begin to comprehend just how much I'd like to ride it. (The ride is no longer operated as intended, and the incredibly complex process of tuning the synchronicity of the trains is wasted, since someone was killed by a flying flip-flop to the windpipe - this would preserve - and expand upon - the originally intended experience.)
A chance to pay off your student loans without entering the glory-hole industry?
If we're going to give them all Aegis radars, they're going to need a lot of that juice for active sensors, the computers to run them, and the cooling to keep both from melting.
Shore bombardment is totally a thing.
This lets us do it from a safe range, or with surgical precision --- pick one.
Either a nuke, or a gas turbine; either coupled to a capacitor bank that's very close to inert when discharged.
I would cheerfully ride the business end of a NERVA in a return trajectory around Luna. Others have spent longer in the Van Allen belts and beyond with no ill effects, and good radiation shielding is a simple matter of math.
I would not volunteer for an explicit suicide mission to well, up.
There is a difference between pioneers and suicide bombers. Neither has a great life expectancy, but it's worth considering the relative merits of the two professions.
Old men who won't die of cancer, but will die with cancer. Actuaries would probably suggest that you haven't really made their situation significantly worse.
Actually, bullets (wrapped in duct tape) would be about the right size and consistency to patch a micrometeoroid strike.
Mars One is planning a colony drop, not a suicide mission. Colonies have a history of failing, but they also have a history of succeeding.
If we're talking about a mission with no hope of surviving to go on speaking tours, or build the foundation for a society elsewhere, I can't really see any good reason for it.
On the other hand, throw a NERVA, Orion, or a (FSM help you!) NSWR at the problem, and suddenly it's a shorter trip than most jaunts to the space station. If Bussard was 1/10th right, deep space missions won't be suicide missions.
Everyone has a different role. The tech-heads, hackers and code monkeys turn out the lights on everything, and the community organizers, rabble-rousers and the politically inclined makes trouble and pisses people off with rallies, publicity campaigns, grassroots social media campaigns, and crowdfunding primary challengers to anyone who doesn't wash their hands of this like yesterday.
And while I discourage actual violence, I feel the need to point out that so do the gun-nuts and paranoid survivalists - by raising the cost of a brute-force approach beyond the point of impracticality, they serve as a backstop to the morals of anyone who might actually be tempted to attempt a coup.
I briefly considered that, but it's too in-character and unfunny.
I drive a convertible. I never back up with my seat belt on. These are related facts - the view out my window is adequate for driving in a straight line, but visibility while backing up is so bad that I have to move my head like a meter to see if someone's going to be in the path of my car as I back out, and if something's behind my other wheel. And since nobody really respects back-up lights in parking lots here - they'll walk behind you, then give you the stink-eye if you so much as twitch in their direction, whether or not you can see them, I simply continue risking my spinal column to avoid squishing idiots.
inb4 "drop the top, dummy" - rain.
How about this:
"In Soviet Russia, telescreen protects you!"
Protip: Go look up ZigBee, Z-Wave, and Insteon.
The technology is out there, but it's a lot uglier than X-10 for DIYing. This was the first control system I found that offers your sort of power management, and claimed universal, vendor-agnostic compatibility.
I just loaded a half dozen /. stories in tabs, and now as many computer voices are reading submission summaries to me in some godawful cacophony.
What the hell?
Worse than beta, since there's no off switch.
Someone's missed the point.
Can I take a small, short-acting dose of this in the form of a nasal spray, and finish reading the entire encyclopedia while I wait for my coffee pot to finish brewing? If implanted in reservoir form, in something like an insulin pump, (along, probably, with a quick-acting antidote) could I actually gain the benefit of "bullet time" when trying to avoid a car wreck when some texting-while-driving type cuts across three lanes of traffic? I believe this was touched upon in the Honor Harrington series, and it seemed like a good ideaand now somebody's gone and figured out that it's actually feasible.
And we go and waste it on this?
*sigh*
Goddammit people.
Fixed that for you.
Actually, specifically pertaining to chess, systems of expert plus computer advisor consistently outperform either the best computers or the best human grandmasters. For those who enjoy watching competitive chess, the games are decidedly not boring.
Grandma is not "no longer Grandma" at any point in this exercise, though at some point she should consider replacing everything but that mostly-nanotech brain; she's still going to have worn-out disks and arthritis, even now that her Alzheimer's is cured; she might want to move back out of that nursing home at some point.
1. I suppose so, but it did reach that at the DRAM high-water mark when Thailand flooded. It's a small concern compared to the humanitarian crisis, I suppose, but it left a mark on long-time apple buyers' memory.
2. I could cram four terabytes into my current Macbook Pro between my two bays, or using the latest from Western Digital, I can have a pair of 128 gig SSD partitions and 2tb of magnetic storage for the purposes of an enormous Fusion Drive. (well, for a laptop) A Macbook Pro currently goes up to 1 terabyte, and a Macbook Air to half a terabyte; you can't go higher for love nor money.
3. My choice would be to further upgrade my current machine, but it's a Core2 and I don't own a reflow oven. I don't think MBPs go up to 32 gigs RAM, because the modules haven't been invented yet. Also, while the SSDs are blistering fast, their absolute capacity isn't great, and their price-per-gig ratio isn't great either. I'd love to upgrade my machine as you suggest, but she's really at her limits. Had there been a 16 gig Macbook Air configuration, I'd have picked one up, never looked back, and been perfectly happy - but with the current lineup, every single Macbook offers some compromise I don't want to make. And every non-Mac means losing access to some really incredibly useful software - either repurchasing my commercial software on Windows or doing without on Linux, plus either doing without BASH (Windows) or well, I'm sorry to say, a lot of good software.
It's also the non-Haswell, non-GPU, non-bigscreen style, which is rather irritating.
1: That's more than you'll find it for on Black Friday.
2: The new PCIe based modules are proprietary, probably based on the M2 electrical protocol over a mini-PCI physical layer. They compare favorably to RevoDrives in both price-per-gig and in performance, however. Still, there's no upgrades available at the moment.
3: Actually, no I can't - if I want a 15" macbook, it's a Retina model. If I want a Macbook Pro with discrete graphics, it's a Retina model. The non-Retina 13" model didn't even get upgraded processors, they're still kickin' it old school with the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge CPUs. Could you have at least dropped a Haswell in the socket, guys?
Are they taking a loss on any laptop they sell me?
No?
Am I advising my non-technical family and friends on what kind of computer to buy?
well duh, this is /. - of course I am.
Therefore, they want me as a customer.
Secondary finishing steps may be minimal, but even with state-of-the-art techniques, surfaces will unavoidably require polishing.