demented geezers set the speed limits rediculously low because the cars couldn't go fast back in the 1930s
i'd like to see you drive some of the roads here at their speed limit (55). you'll be off the cliff into the river (and dead) in less than 5 minutes if your cruise control got stuck on.
speed limits aren't always too slow, and because of this i think they're fine.
insurance companies should not be able to use data that didn't cause vehicular damage (or increase the probability of vehicular damage, such as age or type of vehicle, as they do now) without there being actual vehicular damage. i'm going to protest my butt off if insurance companies or police get this data without provocation.
uhh, dude, you should direct those efforts into fixing what's there, not creating something new, doubling the whole effort just because of one thing. Sure its a non-trivial thing, but I think it would be a lot easier to fix what's there than redoing the whole thing, just because some folks can't get their exploits in time to exploit others.
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Even four 12v in series might be a problem; the extra (48-42)=6v load would be dissipated in the battery, and shorting a few volts across a battery might not be good for it.
cars batteries are actually 13.8 volts. three of these in series is exactly the new voltage (which is not exactly 42). Duh.
his plane crashed into a hedge row and was later destroyed, thus no evidence can be discerned. the house he lived in is no longer there, thus no evidence can be discerned. as you said, he denied the claim himself.
i like new zealanders. in fact if i ever move back to the southern hemisphere, i'm very likely to move to NZ, contrary to all my australian friends' pleas.
but this claim, to me, is just some grandstanding that is based on a rumor. nothing can be proven, so how can you say he was first. what time of day was it? how far did he go? how high did he go? who witnessed it? how many witnesses were there? all this is known and historically documented for the wright brothers' flight, thus they have the crown of first flight.
anyway, who gives a shit - people can fly now. it doesn't matter who's shoulders the current plane engineers are standing on, we're airborne.
so DROP THE PRETENTIOUSNESS and freaking celebrate the Wright Bros' accomplishment. When you can prove your claim, we'll all celebrate it with equal vigor, so do the same for us.
they have conspiracies about everything. they NEED to have some conspiracy to fantasize about. they'll use this post that i'm writing right now as ammunition FOR conspiracies (why else would i attempt to debunk them)
these people don't even think that their apples are safe from tracking devices, not even the ones they grow themselves.
some people just NEED to believe that they're being lied to. On a grand scale. Just like some people need to drive cars with neon under them, some people need attention in other ways. they simply cannot stand it when the world makes sense.
my brother is an everquest addict. in 7 hours of any day of the week, he completes about 1/2 of his everquest time for that day.
he complains about having no income, yet spends $100/week on drugs, $50/week on cigarettes, and about $20/week on alcohol. There is no income stream to support this, either.
It is no wonder this guy profiled has no money. he doesn't work! not hard enough, anyway. owning your own business is not a 9-5 job, and you'll fail if you make it a 9-5 job. buying this game has only worsened his business, and that's why he has no money.
my brother was depressed before he started playing everquest. He has succeeded in escaping his problems in the real world (they haven't forgotten about him though) and now finds solace in an unreal world.
massive online games can be dangerous to people that are wanting to escape the toil of the decisions they've made.
personal ambition to be a part of something that is already taking place is far different than starting something new on your own.
ask ANY business owner: they're ALL in it for the money. if they weren't, they wouldn't have started their own business, they'd be managing someone elses. sure they might call it "financial security" but that means "i'm not financially happy and i want more money"
movie studios don't make movies for the sake of making movies. they make movies for the purpose of making money. that is how all movies are measured, box office gross. no movie executive cares about or even knows about the quality of their films, or the elements of a film that make it worth producing. they care about how much money it will make them, and that's all they care about. people are promoted and fired based on how much money their movies make.
businesses grow and fail based on how much money they make. products are launched and axed based on their money making performance. games are made based on their potential marketing potential and the money making performance of other games of the same genre.
cars are designed based on popularity of the style and the potential for sales.
NOTHING is made by a business or corporation for any reason other than money. DnD games were manufactured because they knew it would sell like crazy and make money. Slashdot was bought by OSDN because they saw a money-making opportunity.
wake up - nothing done by a company is done for any reason than money. NOTHING! Not even donations. show me a company that makes donations and doesn't put it on their PR page for their image - which makes them more money ultimately.
money rules the world, whether you like it or not. get used to it. its not going to change until people actually start caring about things other than money. i'm not counting on this to happen in any significant capacity in my lifetime.
wrong. you say "unlikely to give any benefit," but the truth is that it can be beneficial.
zip an.exe file. or gzip an.so, whatever you want. then zip or gzip (or bzip2 for that matter) the file again - the doubly compressed file will be smaller than the compressed file it contains.
this is why people zip up movie files on their sites, it does make a difference, and if you only save one meg on your 40 meg movie, and 1,000 people download it, you just saved yourself one gigabyte of transfer fees, during whatever timeframe those 1000 people downloaded.
i'd say there's a benefit. it depends on what's in the compressed files, but if you're serving this file on a high traffic site it can often pay to double compress your files.
i don't think you know what hype is. xml is very much in use just about everywhere that i've worked recently, and it is showing no signs of being outdated, or lacking in any way for the projects i've seen it used in.
hype is a coordinated effort to make something appear better (you can define 'better' on your own time) than it actually is, be it through advertising, or the word on the street, or whatever. XML is great, and everyone that uses it knows it - they don't need to be told.
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I am glad to see this - i think they're finally starting to understand that they're a freaking news source, and they're finally starting to act responsible.
I didn't realize that GPS was accurate enough for that...
I think i heard once that there were two types of recievers, one was more error prone, but gave you an updated location every second, the second was very, very accurate, but took over 10 minutes to get a position fix.
but what your heighness doesn't understand is that it was a goddamn joke, not meant to be taken seriously. it was meant to make someone laugh. you know, comedy? ha ha?
welcome to the very large group of unemployed folks, Justin.;)
I think this is a great thing, other than the obvious distaste you have in your mouth right now from leaving a job. Resigning always sucks, even when it sucks a lot less than not resigning.
But I belive you can do some more cool shit now without worrying about getting your work eliminated, and I think your stuff has made the world a better place. (I don't however, believe that demanding the right to distribute other people's property is a good thing, music swappers.) gnutella is a good thing though, and waste was (is?) too.
keep using that noggin you got and keep writing more cool software. you'll be happy again (or happier) in no time.
man this is a gimme, i would shoot my dog in utter surprise if a marketing opportunity like this wasn't taken FULL advantage of. OF COURSE there is going to be a Terminator 3 game.
this isn't news until its happened, and even then, this is pure, predictable logic.
if you're 12 years old and your parents let you on the computer and internet without supervision, then nothing will get in the way of you getting into things you're not supposed to get into.
technical solutions to non-technical problems will NEVER work.
you can't select an age under 16. don't talk about that which you do not know.
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solar cells on the outside of the cooling "holster" thing-a-ma-bob dohicky he sets the glass in would probably be a better upgrade.
forget the damn cables, just wire up a collection of solar panels. Presumeably he's just sitting in the sun, and if so, he can have a remote panel collection wired to his cooler. put some thermally transmissive foam on the top of the cooling unit, to touch the most of the bottom of the glass as possible, and he'd have something worth selling.
If people buy those STUPID singing fish plaques, they'd foam at the mouth to buy these.
High level emulation. If there is a microscope for you to look through, it is being emulated, then whatever has created the microscope can program it to rewrite everything you look at with it in a way that makes sense to your species.
it would be mind-numbing to write (much less RUN) a program that would fully emulate every atom in the world at all times. all you have to do (ask anyone in movies) is emulate the minumum amount to look realistic on screen. if someone needs to look closer, emulate what they're examining properly, only while they are examining it. Otherwise you can very easily emulate a white box with bumpmaps, rather than the wood, the drywall, the paint, the electricity, and everything else that makes a wall. until someone examines the wall, you can get away with just a white box with paint-like bumpmapping.
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demented geezers set the speed limits rediculously low because the cars couldn't go fast back in the 1930s
i'd like to see you drive some of the roads here at their speed limit (55). you'll be off the cliff into the river (and dead) in less than 5 minutes if your cruise control got stuck on.
speed limits aren't always too slow, and because of this i think they're fine.
insurance companies should not be able to use data that didn't cause vehicular damage (or increase the probability of vehicular damage, such as age or type of vehicle, as they do now) without there being actual vehicular damage. i'm going to protest my butt off if insurance companies or police get this data without provocation.
uhh, dude, you should direct those efforts into fixing what's there, not creating something new, doubling the whole effort just because of one thing. Sure its a non-trivial thing, but I think it would be a lot easier to fix what's there than redoing the whole thing, just because some folks can't get their exploits in time to exploit others.
Even four 12v in series might be a problem; the extra (48-42)=6v load would be dissipated in the battery, and shorting a few volts across a battery might not be good for it.
cars batteries are actually 13.8 volts. three of these in series is exactly the new voltage (which is not exactly 42). Duh.
prove it.
his plane crashed into a hedge row and was later destroyed, thus no evidence can be discerned. the house he lived in is no longer there, thus no evidence can be discerned. as you said, he denied the claim himself.
i like new zealanders. in fact if i ever move back to the southern hemisphere, i'm very likely to move to NZ, contrary to all my australian friends' pleas.
but this claim, to me, is just some grandstanding that is based on a rumor. nothing can be proven, so how can you say he was first. what time of day was it? how far did he go? how high did he go? who witnessed it? how many witnesses were there? all this is known and historically documented for the wright brothers' flight, thus they have the crown of first flight.
anyway, who gives a shit - people can fly now. it doesn't matter who's shoulders the current plane engineers are standing on, we're airborne.
so DROP THE PRETENTIOUSNESS and freaking celebrate the Wright Bros' accomplishment. When you can prove your claim, we'll all celebrate it with equal vigor, so do the same for us.
they have conspiracies about everything. they NEED to have some conspiracy to fantasize about. they'll use this post that i'm writing right now as ammunition FOR conspiracies (why else would i attempt to debunk them)
these people don't even think that their apples are safe from tracking devices, not even the ones they grow themselves.
some people just NEED to believe that they're being lied to. On a grand scale. Just like some people need to drive cars with neon under them, some people need attention in other ways. they simply cannot stand it when the world makes sense.
Again, a Futurama Bender quote says things perfectly.
"No, THEY look like dorks!! *grumble*" (from "War is the H-Word")
heh.
my brother is an everquest addict. in 7 hours of any day of the week, he completes about 1/2 of his everquest time for that day.
he complains about having no income, yet spends $100/week on drugs, $50/week on cigarettes, and about $20/week on alcohol. There is no income stream to support this, either.
It is no wonder this guy profiled has no money. he doesn't work! not hard enough, anyway. owning your own business is not a 9-5 job, and you'll fail if you make it a 9-5 job. buying this game has only worsened his business, and that's why he has no money.
my brother was depressed before he started playing everquest. He has succeeded in escaping his problems in the real world (they haven't forgotten about him though) and now finds solace in an unreal world.
massive online games can be dangerous to people that are wanting to escape the toil of the decisions they've made.
personal ambition to be a part of something that is already taking place is far different than starting something new on your own.
ask ANY business owner: they're ALL in it for the money. if they weren't, they wouldn't have started their own business, they'd be managing someone elses. sure they might call it "financial security" but that means "i'm not financially happy and i want more money"
movie studios don't make movies for the sake of making movies. they make movies for the purpose of making money. that is how all movies are measured, box office gross. no movie executive cares about or even knows about the quality of their films, or the elements of a film that make it worth producing. they care about how much money it will make them, and that's all they care about. people are promoted and fired based on how much money their movies make.
businesses grow and fail based on how much money they make. products are launched and axed based on their money making performance. games are made based on their potential marketing potential and the money making performance of other games of the same genre.
cars are designed based on popularity of the style and the potential for sales.
NOTHING is made by a business or corporation for any reason other than money. DnD games were manufactured because they knew it would sell like crazy and make money. Slashdot was bought by OSDN because they saw a money-making opportunity.
wake up - nothing done by a company is done for any reason than money. NOTHING! Not even donations. show me a company that makes donations and doesn't put it on their PR page for their image - which makes them more money ultimately.
money rules the world, whether you like it or not. get used to it. its not going to change until people actually start caring about things other than money. i'm not counting on this to happen in any significant capacity in my lifetime.
wrong. you say "unlikely to give any benefit," but the truth is that it can be beneficial.
.exe file. or gzip an .so, whatever you want. then zip or gzip (or bzip2 for that matter) the file again - the doubly compressed file will be smaller than the compressed file it contains.
zip an
this is why people zip up movie files on their sites, it does make a difference, and if you only save one meg on your 40 meg movie, and 1,000 people download it, you just saved yourself one gigabyte of transfer fees, during whatever timeframe those 1000 people downloaded.
i'd say there's a benefit. it depends on what's in the compressed files, but if you're serving this file on a high traffic site it can often pay to double compress your files.
XML is now becoming more than just hype.
i don't think you know what hype is. xml is very much in use just about everywhere that i've worked recently, and it is showing no signs of being outdated, or lacking in any way for the projects i've seen it used in.
hype is a coordinated effort to make something appear better (you can define 'better' on your own time) than it actually is, be it through advertising, or the word on the street, or whatever. XML is great, and everyone that uses it knows it - they don't need to be told.
They were pandering to the masses.
yep, that's how companies make money. did you know that? LoTR would never have been made if it weren't for the masses, which YOU ARE A PART OF.
so yes, they did do it for the masses.
Yes. Dude, Where's My Car wasn't that funny.
The Wizard sucked, too.
The Last Starfighter kicked ass, as someone else said.
my two pence.
i think this can be put best in the words of Dr. Zoidberg: "Listen to the smart robot!"
I don't see a little * by your userid - how do you know only subscribers see that?
in other words, do you have anything to back up your assumption?
how do you know its a bug?
maybe its something they're testing? maybe they MEANT to do that. you don't know, so don't pretend like you do.
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I am glad to see this - i think they're finally starting to understand that they're a freaking news source, and they're finally starting to act responsible.
I didn't realize that GPS was accurate enough for that...
I think i heard once that there were two types of recievers, one was more error prone, but gave you an updated location every second, the second was very, very accurate, but took over 10 minutes to get a position fix.
can anyone clue me in here?
oooooooooooooooookay...
but what your heighness doesn't understand is that it was a goddamn joke, not meant to be taken seriously. it was meant to make someone laugh. you know, comedy? ha ha?
ah forget it.
if the company that owned the software (AOL) didn't officially release it, then the license is invalid.
sorry. your copies of WASTE are illegal.
welcome to the very large group of unemployed folks, Justin. ;)
I think this is a great thing, other than the obvious distaste you have in your mouth right now from leaving a job. Resigning always sucks, even when it sucks a lot less than not resigning.
But I belive you can do some more cool shit now without worrying about getting your work eliminated, and I think your stuff has made the world a better place. (I don't however, believe that demanding the right to distribute other people's property is a good thing, music swappers.) gnutella is a good thing though, and waste was (is?) too.
keep using that noggin you got and keep writing more cool software. you'll be happy again (or happier) in no time.
man this is a gimme, i would shoot my dog in utter surprise if a marketing opportunity like this wasn't taken FULL advantage of. OF COURSE there is going to be a Terminator 3 game.
this isn't news until its happened, and even then, this is pure, predictable logic.
if you're 12 years old and your parents let you on the computer and internet without supervision, then nothing will get in the way of you getting into things you're not supposed to get into.
technical solutions to non-technical problems will NEVER work.
you can't select an age under 16. don't talk about that which you do not know.
solar cells on the outside of the cooling "holster" thing-a-ma-bob dohicky he sets the glass in would probably be a better upgrade.
forget the damn cables, just wire up a collection of solar panels. Presumeably he's just sitting in the sun, and if so, he can have a remote panel collection wired to his cooler. put some thermally transmissive foam on the top of the cooling unit, to touch the most of the bottom of the glass as possible, and he'd have something worth selling.
If people buy those STUPID singing fish plaques, they'd foam at the mouth to buy these.
High level emulation. If there is a microscope for you to look through, it is being emulated, then whatever has created the microscope can program it to rewrite everything you look at with it in a way that makes sense to your species.
it would be mind-numbing to write (much less RUN) a program that would fully emulate every atom in the world at all times. all you have to do (ask anyone in movies) is emulate the minumum amount to look realistic on screen. if someone needs to look closer, emulate what they're examining properly, only while they are examining it. Otherwise you can very easily emulate a white box with bumpmaps, rather than the wood, the drywall, the paint, the electricity, and everything else that makes a wall. until someone examines the wall, you can get away with just a white box with paint-like bumpmapping.