The one IC engine could be considered a single point failure, meaning you are shafted. The multiple electric motors offer redundancy, so if one fails you can still drive somewhere to have it fixed.
"I never understood sitting in a coffee shop"
It's called the rule of: doing what makes you happy. I don't understand why certain things make certain people happy, but then I don't have to. I just know what makes me happy. And that happens to be coffee shops and book stores. For you it isn't (at least the coffee shop part). It's really not a mystery.
Brilliant idea, genius - it would work beutifully until one of the sharks sinks it teeth into a nice bite of inflatable screen.
Brilliant, Watson, just brilliant.;-)
Wrong story. "Sarcasm" was a couple posts ago. This is the "inflatable doll jokes" story.
droid hulk is slowly "blown" backwards and off the spaceship, presumably by "space wind"?
Yeah, that bothered me too. That and when the ship tilted, everyone was thrown to one side. Both are explainable, but you shouldn't have to do extracurricular explanations to validate a movie.
If the ship with the dead droid had accelerated, it would give the illusion of it falling off, but as I recall it appeared to be flapping in the wind a little bit.
The ship tilting causing everyone to fall could be explained by the planet's gravity, if we assume that the whole battle sequence wasn't orbiting so much as wasting fuel by maintaining position. Or maybe something weird happend to it's gravity generator or whatever.
Anyway, I'm watching a little bit of episode 2 right now, and man, I forgot how bad the dialogue was in that one. In Ep 3 it's actually not bad. A few bad things here and their, but mostly I didn't notice.
"Somebody else took the plunge and was satisfied, thus allowing somebody whose opinion you probably respect to personally recommend a product/service"
That's the one I was thinking of. We don't trust a company that is telling us how great their product is because that is a conflict of interest. A friend isn't trying to get our money when they tell us how great product X is.
Although there is the occasional person who is trying to justify buying something they regret by telling you how great it is.
Wow. You are awesome. Just incredible. You use your current computer WITHOUT a mouse, monitor and keyboard? Wow. Can you bestow your super powers on us mere mortals?
Now I have to pinch my leg every time I take a leak JUST to make sure I'm not dreaming of being awake and thinking about dreaming.
I've pinched my leg in dreams on a couple occasions. It doesn't work. You're screwed.
That's only if you use the pad more than once, right? I mean, if it was used only once then there is no way to know when you've decrypted the message properly. This post could be the cypher text of a message, and with however many keys there are available, you could decrypt it into any other message you wanted, and never know which one was right.
A lot of people call themselves Christians, and many of them aren't. Sometimes it seems like most of them aren't.
Catholic or Protestant, if you have accepted and received Christ and have faith in Him, then you are a Christian. That is referring to the Christ of the Hebrew scripture and the New Testament.
this is proof that carmack doesn't exist anymore. he uploaded himself to his computer to make the doom engine. my friends, this is how the matrix gets started.
"How would they dupe it anyway, considering the universe collapses?"
I think God collapses the universe to enforce Slashdot's promise. If they didn't make the promise, it wouldn't fullfill the prophecy, and then there wouldn't be any need to collapse the universe.
Those aspects you "believe" about physics are proven scientific facts.
And yet all scientific proofs need a starting point that is believed to be true. In some cases this consists of another "proven" idea, but if you keep doing a back trace on this, eventually you come to a point where something is taken to true but can't be proven and is called an Axiom. So keep that in mind when throwing around phrases like "proven scientific facts." You are using more faith than you realize, and mostly about things you already believe to be true.
Another interesting thing that seems related is that there is an idea called Solipsism which can't be proven false (or true). Solipsism says that everything around you is a construct of your mind, and doesn't necessarily exist. Have a look here. Reality may not be so neat and tidy as we like to think. All of science that we believe to be true may in fact be some crazy crackpot idea floating around in our own mind, having existence nowhere else. Because this theory is not (yet) disprovable, we are forced to take it on faith that it isn't true.
Now, for those who believe in Christianity and the Bible, is their faith without supporting data or evidence? No. There is a lot of supporting data and evidence for the accounts in the Bible--more so for the New Testament than the Old Testament. If you look at it from an eye witness point of view, the apostles who wrote the books of the new testament had nothing to gain from their works, and in fact most were crucified for it. From a documentation reliability point of view, there are over 5000 copies of the New Testament in its original Greek language, some dating back to the first century. That's a gap of about 100 years between authorship and copy. In contrast, books like homer's illiad have a gap of 400 years between authorship and copy, and I beleive the shortest gap between any of Plato's writings and earliest existing copy is 1300 or 1400 years. Additionally, the fact that we have copies that are in the original language, throws out the idea of things being lost in repeated translations and re-translations.
So it isn't correct to say our belief in science requires no faith, nor is it correct to say that having faith in something means there is no supporting data or evidence.
"However, writing a web front-end to a database (which is what a *LOT* of people end up doing for years and years) requires practically NO math 90% of the time."
Does it even require a degree? It wasn't that long ago when all the would be programmers were asking if they should even bother with a degree. Many were getting hired straight out of high-school.
Most of us have that ego thing where we like to think that we are somehow gifted because we know how to program and our parents have trouble setting up their e-mail accounts, but I think the reality is that most programming jobs are pretty simple. They don't require much critical thinking... when you get down to it they are about as complex as writing an essay in a foreign language.
And yet we complain very loudly when our jobs are shipped overseas. I think this comes from the idea that society owes us something because we think we are somehow smart. Instead, we should be using this supposed intelligence to find something useful to contribute back.
"One would assume that a petabit-meter is a measure of petabits versus meters."
Distance does seem like a strange thing to through in there, but I think their point is that it is difficult to deliver the high bandwidth over distance.
If I told you I came up with a way to transfer a petabyte per second, that would seem terrific. And then if I threw in distance to the units, and it came out to be 1 byte-meter/second, it wouldn't seem so great anymore. It was a phenominal transfer speed, but only useful at microscopic distances.
Slashdot Mirror
"on top of the $25 million"
That money didn't just vaporize, you know.
The one IC engine could be considered a single point failure, meaning you are shafted. The multiple electric motors offer redundancy, so if one fails you can still drive somewhere to have it fixed.
"what is a teet hacker?"
It's a dairy farmer.
"I never understood sitting in a coffee shop" It's called the rule of: doing what makes you happy. I don't understand why certain things make certain people happy, but then I don't have to. I just know what makes me happy. And that happens to be coffee shops and book stores. For you it isn't (at least the coffee shop part). It's really not a mystery.
Brilliant idea, genius - it would work beutifully until one of the sharks sinks it teeth into a nice bite of inflatable screen. Brilliant, Watson, just brilliant. ;-)
Wrong story. "Sarcasm" was a couple posts ago. This is the "inflatable doll jokes" story.
droid hulk is slowly "blown" backwards and off the spaceship, presumably by "space wind"?
Yeah, that bothered me too. That and when the ship tilted, everyone was thrown to one side. Both are explainable, but you shouldn't have to do extracurricular explanations to validate a movie.
If the ship with the dead droid had accelerated, it would give the illusion of it falling off, but as I recall it appeared to be flapping in the wind a little bit.
The ship tilting causing everyone to fall could be explained by the planet's gravity, if we assume that the whole battle sequence wasn't orbiting so much as wasting fuel by maintaining position. Or maybe something weird happend to it's gravity generator or whatever.
Anyway, I'm watching a little bit of episode 2 right now, and man, I forgot how bad the dialogue was in that one. In Ep 3 it's actually not bad. A few bad things here and their, but mostly I didn't notice.
"Somebody else took the plunge and was satisfied, thus allowing somebody whose opinion you probably respect to personally recommend a product/service"
That's the one I was thinking of. We don't trust a company that is telling us how great their product is because that is a conflict of interest. A friend isn't trying to get our money when they tell us how great product X is. Although there is the occasional person who is trying to justify buying something they regret by telling you how great it is.
I fail to see how one game became "some of the newer arcade video games."
If you ate a single slice of pizza for lunch, would you be wrong in saying you had some pizza for lunch?
TLDs suck. All of them. They shouldn't exist. I want to be able to type "chuck's plywood emporium" instead of blahblahblah.com.
Wow. You are awesome. Just incredible. You use your current computer WITHOUT a mouse, monitor and keyboard? Wow. Can you bestow your super powers on us mere mortals?
It's called a laptop, jackass.
Now I have to pinch my leg every time I take a leak JUST to make sure I'm not dreaming of being awake and thinking about dreaming. I've pinched my leg in dreams on a couple occasions. It doesn't work. You're screwed.
That's only if you use the pad more than once, right? I mean, if it was used only once then there is no way to know when you've decrypted the message properly. This post could be the cypher text of a message, and with however many keys there are available, you could decrypt it into any other message you wanted, and never know which one was right.
A lot of people call themselves Christians, and many of them aren't. Sometimes it seems like most of them aren't.
Catholic or Protestant, if you have accepted and received Christ and have faith in Him, then you are a Christian. That is referring to the Christ of the Hebrew scripture and the New Testament.
this is proof that carmack doesn't exist anymore. he uploaded himself to his computer to make the doom engine. my friends, this is how the matrix gets started.
did you even read the post? It's about the EU trying to force this on the US for a change.
"... anyone has chosen their forehead." Or right hand for that matter.
Were they given a choice for the RFID implant or was it just the tattoos?
"How would they dupe it anyway, considering the universe collapses?"
I think God collapses the universe to enforce Slashdot's promise. If they didn't make the promise, it wouldn't fullfill the prophecy, and then there wouldn't be any need to collapse the universe.
I could be wrong, but I believe IPC in this context means Instructions Per Clock.
"Don't forget, when the Pentium first came out it was refered to unoffically as the 586"
I always heard that they called it a pentium instead of 586 because when they powered up the new processor and added 100 to 486, they got 585.999871.
"What is the maximum sustainable speed in Mb/s of the Alcatel 8100 series router?"
European or African?
Those aspects you "believe" about physics are proven scientific facts.
And yet all scientific proofs need a starting point that is believed to be true. In some cases this consists of another "proven" idea, but if you keep doing a back trace on this, eventually you come to a point where something is taken to true but can't be proven and is called an Axiom. So keep that in mind when throwing around phrases like "proven scientific facts." You are using more faith than you realize, and mostly about things you already believe to be true.
Another interesting thing that seems related is that there is an idea called Solipsism which can't be proven false (or true). Solipsism says that everything around you is a construct of your mind, and doesn't necessarily exist. Have a look here. Reality may not be so neat and tidy as we like to think. All of science that we believe to be true may in fact be some crazy crackpot idea floating around in our own mind, having existence nowhere else. Because this theory is not (yet) disprovable, we are forced to take it on faith that it isn't true.
Now, for those who believe in Christianity and the Bible, is their faith without supporting data or evidence? No. There is a lot of supporting data and evidence for the accounts in the Bible--more so for the New Testament than the Old Testament. If you look at it from an eye witness point of view, the apostles who wrote the books of the new testament had nothing to gain from their works, and in fact most were crucified for it. From a documentation reliability point of view, there are over 5000 copies of the New Testament in its original Greek language, some dating back to the first century. That's a gap of about 100 years between authorship and copy. In contrast, books like homer's illiad have a gap of 400 years between authorship and copy, and I beleive the shortest gap between any of Plato's writings and earliest existing copy is 1300 or 1400 years. Additionally, the fact that we have copies that are in the original language, throws out the idea of things being lost in repeated translations and re-translations.
So it isn't correct to say our belief in science requires no faith, nor is it correct to say that having faith in something means there is no supporting data or evidence.
"Yes, but the super efficient Honda Insight can credit most of its fuel efficiency to extremely light weight"
Yes, but that fat nerd behind the wheel neutralizes any benifit.
"Orwellian in the sense that all animals are equal, but some are more equal."
Ah, thank you. I just immediately thought of 1984, and totally forgot about Animal Farm. The reference makes much more sense now.
"However, writing a web front-end to a database (which is what a *LOT* of people end up doing for years and years) requires practically NO math 90% of the time."
Does it even require a degree? It wasn't that long ago when all the would be programmers were asking if they should even bother with a degree. Many were getting hired straight out of high-school.
Most of us have that ego thing where we like to think that we are somehow gifted because we know how to program and our parents have trouble setting up their e-mail accounts, but I think the reality is that most programming jobs are pretty simple. They don't require much critical thinking... when you get down to it they are about as complex as writing an essay in a foreign language.
And yet we complain very loudly when our jobs are shipped overseas. I think this comes from the idea that society owes us something because we think we are somehow smart. Instead, we should be using this supposed intelligence to find something useful to contribute back.
"One would assume that a petabit-meter is a measure of petabits versus meters."
Distance does seem like a strange thing to through in there, but I think their point is that it is difficult to deliver the high bandwidth over distance.
If I told you I came up with a way to transfer a petabyte per second, that would seem terrific. And then if I threw in distance to the units, and it came out to be 1 byte-meter/second, it wouldn't seem so great anymore. It was a phenominal transfer speed, but only useful at microscopic distances.