But no...everyone has to attach a racist tag to it.
Well, that is sort of the origin of the word: a segregated neighborhood of the city. Usually jews, but more recently for black neighborhoods in the US. They don't even have to be all impoverished but generally are as groups that have economic power usually aren't force to live someplace. To somebody that's never been told where they have to live, it might have a more generally meaning, but as that red-lining is still going on, it might have different meaning to those who actually have to live there.
In this case, the taxpayer is the victim. Using government money to promote this scam "art" means more will be produced, which is a tragedy.
"Whenever somebody puts quotation marks around the word art, I imagine a stuffy guy with a square jaw glaring at a Maplethorpe photograph. And through his twisted, disgusted sneer he says "they call this 'art'! Can you believe it! 'Art,' they call it!" And he stands there, being disgusted for hours on end, just staring at it..."
Actually it is called "concrete block one story buildings are cheap when built on rural land".
Perhaps they get it built in a place where close proximity to urban environment is a must for a lot of servers. Perhaps in NYC right next to the stock exchange.
facebook is full-blown junk food: lots of empty calories and zero nutrition.
That is actually pretty dependent on the reader and their friends. If their friends only post fluff and the reader doesn't hide it, then that's all they'll get. Otherwise, it has turned out more reliable method of communication with contacts than email. It's a convenient and easy place to organize and advertise events from dinner parties to national major events. Plenty of real work gets done for clubs and groups that form their own pages and use that as their communication point.
We post crap stories. People read them and comment on them, so they must want crap stories. We give them SJW stories, people read them, and comment. Therefore they must want SJW stories. Slashdot isn't any different than the junk food of Facebook and Twitter.
It's outrage culture, more than just the internet is based on it. MTV doesn't show videos any more because more people watch shitty reality shows (mostly to watch the trainwrecks of the people on them.) all while complaining they want their videos back. People may want intelligent, well supported articles on the web, but they don't bother to read them.
The probes accelerates up, then separates part of its sail. The laser then bounces off the sail back to the probe, slowing it down.
That's not going to be very useful since the laser beam will be millions of times more powerful when close to Earth than it'll be at the deceleration point.
It's all must a matter of figuring out the equations for when to start and stop the various process to get the desired results. I mean, really, at this point, it's all a pipe dream and 100 million probably won't even put up a test system to see if they can even get it to work and send something out of earth orbit, so complaining about technical details for a plan that is supposed to happen around Alpha Centauri doesn't really pertain here as everything we are discussing is theoretical futuretech anyway.
The write up on Ars Technica basically stated this... accelerate it to 20% speed of light within a very short span (half hour if I remember correctly), and send multiple devices for redundancy... Once the technology was built, there'd be no reason not to send thousands of them.
So let me get this straight. By my calculations they're going to hit something weighing in at a less than a kilogram with a 42,000 megawatt laser for half an hour. I can see it accelerating up to speed, but not as anything but plasma.
I noticed that Batman seems to have this armor as he can deflect bullets. However, I always wondered why don't the bad guys just shoot him in the mouth? It is completely exposed.
That's why he has a big yellow target on his chest.
Google+ didn't take off because everybody was already on Facebook. That's the one and only reason for its failure.
Not quite. It went to market feature poor. There were several past big FB hate events, and Google+ happened to give invites to my group of friends all around that time and we all joined and were using it for a day or two. The big killer was there was no feature at that point to create and organize events and have them be linked to our Google calendars. Since that was the main use for FB besides wasting time, we all ended up going back almost immediately.
FB has its place. It is extremely good at getting your message out to everyone you care about.
Not really, much of what people post as messages scroll by much too quickly even if FB ever even decides to show me their post. FB is pretty much good for collecting people as contacts so you can message them, scheduling events and inviting people to them, organizing and connecting small groups on a page, and wasting time. Mostly that last one.
"Whenever somebody puts quotation marks around the word art, I imagine a stuffy guy with a square jaw glaring at a Maplethorpe photograph. And through his twisted, disgusted sneer he says "they call this 'art'! Can you believe it! 'Art,' they call it!" And he stands there, being disgusted for hours on end, just staring at it..."
Yep, that's the American culture. Of course, that is pretty much where you go in and order one entree for your entire dinner which is pretty standard, not counting the occasional appetizer. Some restaurants, tending towards the nicer ones, will even charge a plate fee if one person orders one and you try to share which can go up to the cost of another entree. Newer trend is for small plates, and then we can just order one or two at a time till we're full.
We were roughly 50-50, older students coming back for a Masters, and "kids" fresh out of undergrad. And uniformly, I noticed that the "kids" had absolutely horrible language skills: they could not spell, EVEN with spell-check. They could not write coherently, they had serious problems articulating a reasoned argument from evidence.
Somehow, I suspect this is due to the difference in ages. I bet if you took a bunch of baby boomer's writings from their early 20's and showed them to other baby boomers today, they'd say the same thing. 25+ years is a long time to refine those language skills.
What the hell kind of alien goes out of his way to visit a planet where the most technologically advanced species still kill each other over tribal god-images and petrochemicals?
No, the problem simply lies in the mentality of 'bigger is better'. Many of the other developed countries just do not share that same (weirdly nationalistic) mindset.
Take cars, for instance. Even on Last Week Tonight (which could be considered a 'liberal' show), they mock small 'European' cars. That, to me, is a sign of how pervasive the mindset is.
Well, let's be honest, for a restaurant, bigger is better. As a customer, I have been to places where I ordered a dinner and wasn't full afterwards. I can tell you that I never went back to that place again. People will rarely avoid a place because they were given too much food. Even if they don't eat it they'll just take it home. It's death for a restaurant to risk having people leaving feeling they didn't get enough to eat. If nothing else, most will pad out a dinner with bread or a starch.
Minimum wage increases killing jobs is a ridiculous notion - prices can always raise as well
Not true. You can't just arbitrarily raise prices when there are substitute goods available.
Well, it doesn't really seem to be an arbitrary raise in prices as just adjusting them to what they should be with inflation over the years. Right now we are pretty much in a "eating out" bubble because of both historically cheap food and cheap labor. On the labor side of things, this is just a correction, which might cause some people caught in the bubble but will generally be better over all.
Cyber-Vandal, you need to watch a movie called Idiocracy, it's the world we'd end up with if people didn't have any real purpose in life.
Number one, Idiocracy was just a movie, a work of fiction with no basis. Two, it wasn't about the result of people not having a real purpose, it was about humanity self selectively breeding for stupidity to the point they out perform the intelligent members of society at survival. This also is a work of fiction with no basis to believe there is any basis for it besides to fit the plot.
But Oculus wants you to believe it's ready because they're already a couple billion dollars in the hole and would need to a few million units just to break even.
Then they need a 'killer app'. So long as everybody is talking about the device and not the game or other feature that people must have, it's going to be lack luster.
Slashdot Mirror
But no...everyone has to attach a racist tag to it.
Well, that is sort of the origin of the word: a segregated neighborhood of the city. Usually jews, but more recently for black neighborhoods in the US. They don't even have to be all impoverished but generally are as groups that have economic power usually aren't force to live someplace. To somebody that's never been told where they have to live, it might have a more generally meaning, but as that red-lining is still going on, it might have different meaning to those who actually have to live there.
In this case, the taxpayer is the victim. Using government money to promote this scam "art" means more will be produced, which is a tragedy.
"Whenever somebody puts quotation marks around the word art, I imagine a stuffy guy with a square jaw glaring at a Maplethorpe photograph. And through his twisted, disgusted sneer he says "they call this 'art'! Can you believe it! 'Art,' they call it!" And he stands there, being disgusted for hours on end, just staring at it..."
Actually it is called "concrete block one story buildings are cheap when built on rural land".
Perhaps they get it built in a place where close proximity to urban environment is a must for a lot of servers. Perhaps in NYC right next to the stock exchange.
facebook is full-blown junk food: lots of empty calories and zero nutrition.
That is actually pretty dependent on the reader and their friends. If their friends only post fluff and the reader doesn't hide it, then that's all they'll get. Otherwise, it has turned out more reliable method of communication with contacts than email. It's a convenient and easy place to organize and advertise events from dinner parties to national major events. Plenty of real work gets done for clubs and groups that form their own pages and use that as their communication point.
We post crap stories. People read them and comment on them, so they must want crap stories. We give them SJW stories, people read them, and comment. Therefore they must want SJW stories. Slashdot isn't any different than the junk food of Facebook and Twitter.
It's outrage culture, more than just the internet is based on it. MTV doesn't show videos any more because more people watch shitty reality shows (mostly to watch the trainwrecks of the people on them.) all while complaining they want their videos back. People may want intelligent, well supported articles on the web, but they don't bother to read them.
I hope this is a joke.
No, this is a troll. I blocked Vice a long time ago, even on FB where I go to waste time.
That's not going to be very useful since the laser beam will be millions of times more powerful when close to Earth than it'll be at the deceleration point.
It's all must a matter of figuring out the equations for when to start and stop the various process to get the desired results. I mean, really, at this point, it's all a pipe dream and 100 million probably won't even put up a test system to see if they can even get it to work and send something out of earth orbit, so complaining about technical details for a plan that is supposed to happen around Alpha Centauri doesn't really pertain here as everything we are discussing is theoretical futuretech anyway.
The write up on Ars Technica basically stated this... accelerate it to 20% speed of light within a very short span (half hour if I remember correctly), and send multiple devices for redundancy... Once the technology was built, there'd be no reason not to send thousands of them.
So let me get this straight. By my calculations they're going to hit something weighing in at a less than a kilogram with a 42,000 megawatt laser for half an hour. I can see it accelerating up to speed, but not as anything but plasma.
Since its propulsion source would be a laser somewhere in our solar system I am not sure that's feasible.
It is. The probes accelerates up, then separates part of its sail. The laser then bounces off the sail back to the probe, slowing it down.
I noticed that Batman seems to have this armor as he can deflect bullets. However, I always wondered why don't the bad guys just shoot him in the mouth? It is completely exposed.
That's why he has a big yellow target on his chest.
Google+ didn't take off because everybody was already on Facebook. That's the one and only reason for its failure.
Not quite. It went to market feature poor. There were several past big FB hate events, and Google+ happened to give invites to my group of friends all around that time and we all joined and were using it for a day or two. The big killer was there was no feature at that point to create and organize events and have them be linked to our Google calendars. Since that was the main use for FB besides wasting time, we all ended up going back almost immediately.
FB has its place. It is extremely good at getting your message out to everyone you care about.
Not really, much of what people post as messages scroll by much too quickly even if FB ever even decides to show me their post. FB is pretty much good for collecting people as contacts so you can message them, scheduling events and inviting people to them, organizing and connecting small groups on a page, and wasting time. Mostly that last one.
You are either ignorant, heartless or both.
Nope. They're just a troll.
Are they "art"?
"Whenever somebody puts quotation marks around the word art, I imagine a stuffy guy with a square jaw glaring at a Maplethorpe photograph. And through his twisted, disgusted sneer he says "they call this 'art'! Can you believe it! 'Art,' they call it!" And he stands there, being disgusted for hours on end, just staring at it..."
If Bush sent 22 million emails, he didn't have time to be President.
He was a big fan of forwarding emails to everybody on his contacts list.
Yep, that's the American culture. Of course, that is pretty much where you go in and order one entree for your entire dinner which is pretty standard, not counting the occasional appetizer. Some restaurants, tending towards the nicer ones, will even charge a plate fee if one person orders one and you try to share which can go up to the cost of another entree. Newer trend is for small plates, and then we can just order one or two at a time till we're full.
We were roughly 50-50, older students coming back for a Masters, and "kids" fresh out of undergrad. And uniformly, I noticed that the "kids" had absolutely horrible language skills: they could not spell, EVEN with spell-check. They could not write coherently, they had serious problems articulating a reasoned argument from evidence.
Somehow, I suspect this is due to the difference in ages. I bet if you took a bunch of baby boomer's writings from their early 20's and showed them to other baby boomers today, they'd say the same thing. 25+ years is a long time to refine those language skills.
What the hell kind of alien goes out of his way to visit a planet where the most technologically advanced species still kill each other over tribal god-images and petrochemicals?
One looking for new markets to sell to.
No, the problem simply lies in the mentality of 'bigger is better'. Many of the other developed countries just do not share that same (weirdly nationalistic) mindset. Take cars, for instance. Even on Last Week Tonight (which could be considered a 'liberal' show), they mock small 'European' cars. That, to me, is a sign of how pervasive the mindset is.
Well, let's be honest, for a restaurant, bigger is better. As a customer, I have been to places where I ordered a dinner and wasn't full afterwards. I can tell you that I never went back to that place again. People will rarely avoid a place because they were given too much food. Even if they don't eat it they'll just take it home. It's death for a restaurant to risk having people leaving feeling they didn't get enough to eat. If nothing else, most will pad out a dinner with bread or a starch.
...and have neglected what made most of their customers subscribe to their service in the first place.
They've been ignoring their DVD rental via mail?
Minimum wage increases killing jobs is a ridiculous notion - prices can always raise as well
Not true. You can't just arbitrarily raise prices when there are substitute goods available.
Well, it doesn't really seem to be an arbitrary raise in prices as just adjusting them to what they should be with inflation over the years. Right now we are pretty much in a "eating out" bubble because of both historically cheap food and cheap labor. On the labor side of things, this is just a correction, which might cause some people caught in the bubble but will generally be better over all.
Cyber-Vandal, you need to watch a movie called Idiocracy, it's the world we'd end up with if people didn't have any real purpose in life.
Number one, Idiocracy was just a movie, a work of fiction with no basis. Two, it wasn't about the result of people not having a real purpose, it was about humanity self selectively breeding for stupidity to the point they out perform the intelligent members of society at survival. This also is a work of fiction with no basis to believe there is any basis for it besides to fit the plot.
Solar array in space? How stupid! Don't they realize how long the extension cord down to the grid will be?
We can just run it down the space elevator.
. . .otherwise, one could argue that the lack of Pirates causes Global Warming. . . .
Considering they are both side effects of a stable industrialized global society, it's probably a pretty good correllation.
But Oculus wants you to believe it's ready because they're already a couple billion dollars in the hole and would need to a few million units just to break even.
Then they need a 'killer app'. So long as everybody is talking about the device and not the game or other feature that people must have, it's going to be lack luster.