/sarcasm Gee, if only someone would invent dual signage.. it would solve the problem of foreigners not understanding the local system and locals would eventually learn to understand a foreign measurement.
What a concept! Nah, that would never work...
... albeit it would need several transition phases.
> Which language? English, French, or Spanish?
/sarcasm It's too bad NO other country has figured this out. I wish there was a to write laws in multiple languages... maybe someone who specialized in understand multiple languages and could read/write. Nah, that would never work...
> truly accurate measurements of size will be infinite.
Total nonsense. The Planck Length isn't zero. It is a discrete amount. Furthermore we aren't measuring at the sub-atomic level. Accuracy +/- of some _#_ meters is more then "good enough". i.e. 33,333 km +/- 10 km.
But (some) Americans are so damn arrogant that they think they own the bloody (northern) continent.
I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for having a contrary opinion but I wish the USA would just get it over and annex Canada and Mexico already. Once people get over the knee-jerk reaction and actually think about what this would mean -- having a unified currency, logistics, roads, units, language, military, border, etc. would provide numerous long term benefits -- albeit it would need several transition phases. Sadly the cult of nationalism / pride of patriotism keeps people focused on bullshit short-term "issues." i.e. (Some) Americans are pretty hypocritical about immigration considering they hijacked the land from the native Americans -- Go Figure.
Allegedly (*) the same way you herd cats -- with great difficulty. =P
(*) I've never met anyone who has actually done (**) this yet everyone is magically an "armchar expert".
(**) I don't understand what the big deal is -- you just wait till everyone is hung and then string them along with food. How hard (***) could it be?:-)
Show me ANY physics theory or equations that relies on a time quantum smaller then the Planck second (5.39 x 10^-44s) -- that isn't "magically instantaneous" and that isn't behind a fucking paywall.
Furthermore, if space was quantized and time not, or vice versa, how would _exactly_ would that work?
Logically, either both space and time are discrete (as Planck posited), OR both space and time and continuous.
This is one of the million dollar questions in Physics:
Q. Does time exist at a smaller quantum then the Planck Second? A. Modern Science: We don't know.
Considering the smallest time we can measure is 10^-25s we have a LONG ways to go to reach 10^-44s.
Events as short as about 10^-25 second have been indirectly inferred in extremely energetic collisions in the largest particle accelerators.
Too bad Zeno couldn't grok that space and time are quantized which is just another way of saying the universe is digital, not analog, at its lowest level. i.e. Plank time, Plank meter
* Time * Space * Money * Power * Scenery -- how many fucking billboards do we need visually polluting our spaces??
I'm almost of the opinion that:
Corporate ads are immoral.
The sooner we ban these fuckers the less corporate bullshit distractions have to put up with.
I can see the future going one of two ways:
* Corporations data-mine the fuck out of you, everything fucking place you go -- blasting these ads to you the instant you step foot in a corporate space * Or people say I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore, and ban these fuckers.
Sadly, the majority are wussies and won't do anything about it.:-(
> How would someone who has submitted a work to such a portal convert a Flash animation to an HTML5 vector animation,* or a Flash game to an HTML5 game?
The PS2 game Ico was great. It even got remastered for the PS3.
Oh wait, you mean ICO = Initial Coin Offering.
Hey, fucktard/. editors, how about doing your fucking JOB and describing an acronym the first time it is used. Oh wait, that would involve actual work.
After 20+ years you STILL can't do this?
You had ONE job... *facepalm*
Yes, I'm not new here -- and I'll keep kvitching about their incompetence.
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> Which units? US or SI?
What a concept! Nah, that would never work
> Which language? English, French, or Spanish?
> quantum particles, which strictly speaking have neither a definite size nor position,
Did you miss the memo that the wave function collapses when you measure them?
> truly accurate measurements of size will be infinite.
Total nonsense. The Planck Length isn't zero. It is a discrete amount. Furthermore we aren't measuring at the sub-atomic level. Accuracy +/- of some _#_ meters is more then "good enough". i.e. 33,333 km +/- 10 km.
Yes, and so is Mexico.
But (some) Americans are so damn arrogant that they think they own the bloody (northern) continent.
I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for having a contrary opinion but I wish the USA would just get it over and annex Canada and Mexico already. Once people get over the knee-jerk reaction and actually think about what this would mean -- having a unified currency, logistics, roads, units, language, military, border, etc. would provide numerous long term benefits -- albeit it would need several transition phases. Sadly the cult of nationalism / pride of patriotism keeps people focused on bullshit short-term "issues." i.e. (Some) Americans are pretty hypocritical about immigration considering they hijacked the land from the native Americans -- Go Figure.
--
Main St. built America,
Wall St. robbed it.
South Park parodied this back in 2011
I Agreed by Accident
There is even an article about HumancentiPad
Whoops, Freudian (?) slip.
s/hung/hungry
Allegedly (*) the same way you herd cats -- with great difficulty. =P
(*) I've never met anyone who has actually done (**) this yet everyone is magically an "armchar expert".
(**) I don't understand what the big deal is -- you just wait till everyone is hung and then string them along with food. How hard (***) could it be? :-)
(***) Famous last words.
/sarcasm Ah, cool, another alternative to for:
Show me ANY physics theory or equations that relies on a time quantum smaller then the Planck second (5.39 x 10^-44s) -- that isn't "magically instantaneous" and that isn't behind a fucking paywall.
Furthermore, if space was quantized and time not, or vice versa, how would _exactly_ would that work?
Logically, either both space and time are discrete (as Planck posited), OR both space and time and continuous.
This is one of the million dollar questions in Physics:
Q. Does time exist at a smaller quantum then the Planck Second?
A. Modern Science: We don't know.
Considering the smallest time we can measure is 10^-25s we have a LONG ways to go to reach 10^-44s.
This news isn't exactly new.
There is a fantastic documentary Mission Blue about the ocean that discusses the coral dying back in 2014.
Other great documentaries include:
2. End of the Line
3. The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans
4. Sushi: the Global Catch
5. Turtle: The Incredible Journey
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Main St. built America
Wall St. destroyed it.
Too bad Zeno couldn't grok that space and time are quantized which is just another way of saying the universe is digital, not analog, at its lowest level.
i.e. Plank time, Plank meter
Stay classy! /s
For anyone interested, found this article about GPU passthrough, Linux, and Windows:
GPU passthrough: gaming on Windows on Linux
Ah, yes, a VM would work.
How's the performance of GPU pass through for 3D graphics / games? (This is the first time I've heard of it.)
Yup. Typical government knee-jerk reaction.
Blame the symptom instead of fixing the problem.
I have zero plans to let Microsoft's spyware, Windows 10, on my systems.
Its worse then that.
Ads have ZERO respect for your:
* Time
* Space
* Money
* Power
* Scenery -- how many fucking billboards do we need visually polluting our spaces??
I'm almost of the opinion that:
Corporate ads are immoral.
The sooner we ban these fuckers the less corporate bullshit distractions have to put up with.
I can see the future going one of two ways:
* Corporations data-mine the fuck out of you, everything fucking place you go -- blasting these ads to you the instant you step foot in a corporate space
* Or people say I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore, and ban these fuckers.
Sadly, the majority are wussies and won't do anything about it. :-(
You'll have to find someone who knows how to parse the proprietary Shockwave file format -- I'm not doing your job for you.
> How would someone who has submitted a work to such a portal convert a Flash animation to an HTML5 vector animation,* or a Flash game to an HTML5 game?
You're doing it wrong.
Use WebGL which uses the GPU instead of Flash which still uses the CPU for rendering
The magic search phrase is: webgl vector graphics
>> I would recommend using your time to do something else.
> Suppose I don't heed your advice.
Then don't come back whining how your site doesn't work in "modern" browsers.
The hand-writing is on the wall. Ignore it at your own peril.
Cool story, bro.
Stay classy!
> Microsoft couldn't have come out with a design like that before the iPhone,
> On the other hand, would you resent also having things offered to you for free ?
Aids or other STD's? Yes.
Windows 10? Yes.
Money? Probably not.
Windows 7 license? The more the merrier!
Methinks you need to stop viewing the world in a binary context -- context IS what is important, not "only" the choices.
> when did Big Pasta Corp become a thing?
Probably when they finally figured out in the 80's that they didn't know what the fuck they were doing W.R.T. marketing pasta sauce.
Episode is: Perfect Pasta Sauce (The Jimquisition REMASTERED)
> AG's department is only 1 person
Show me where I said they were only 1 person?
You completely missed the point. Out of ALL the problems they _could_ be focusing on, they decide to look at a problem that is almost non-existent?!?!
How is "investigating" Exchanges that don't even do business with New York going to solve anything???
The PS2 game Ico was great. It even got remastered for the PS3.
Oh wait, you mean ICO = Initial Coin Offering.
Hey, fucktard /. editors, how about doing your fucking JOB and describing an acronym the first time it is used. Oh wait, that would involve actual work.
After 20+ years you STILL can't do this?
You had ONE job ... *facepalm*
Yes, I'm not new here -- and I'll keep kvitching about their incompetence.