IIRC, his work, in particular, involves fields that are dangerous to humans travelling in space.:) I can imagine him thinking: "Why do those pesky humans insist on travelling up there in defiance of MY hazardous radiation fields?"
P.S. For the pedants among us, I am aware that the radiation there is also damaging to unmanned satellites and that there is radiation beyond the belts.
It's not like many people on/. would agree with a moralising pro-ESA, pro-Christian, right-wing parent gaming website. And it's not like they have anything interesting to say (if I am mistaken, give a link to at least one article there that is not retarded in some way).
May be he wasn't a native English speaker. Why is it necessary to mock him for poor grammar (or are you all just trying to prove his point?)? May be they speak like that in Australia, because you know, English is different. In Britain they would say "who I dated", may be in Australia "which" is a correct form.
In the past I bought mostly Samsung drives because of their 3-year warranty and low reported incidence of failure. However, when a 120Gb drive actually failed, I had to wait about 6 months for a replacement. Everyone in the supply chain just messed it up (perhaps intentionally). The store I bought it sent the unit to the wholesaler, who claimed that there were scratches (which was BS), then decided they need to send it to the regional Samsung centre, then it took hell of a lot of time to determine that the drive actually died and it's not like I am just making stuff up. Then it took some more months for the news to propagate back, and noone actually cared to be prompt.
Meanwhile, the prices have dropped significantly and if I bought the drive 6 months later, it would have saved me at least 40-50 dollars or about 30% of the price. Of course, nobody though about compensating me for this.
Seriously, when I am already annoyed over the date I lost (don't tell me about backups, the DivX videos on that disk WERE backups), the last thing I want is being annoyed by an uncooperative manufacturer/store. If Seagate wants this warranty to be worth anything, they needs to work together with all their resellers.
Selling music online will eventually become profitable, there is no "may be" about it. And while selling iPods may remain profitable in the future, a lot of bad things may happen to this particular Apple product. Among them are the fact that it's much easier to design a superior MP3 player than a superiour desktop computer, and the fact that MP3 players may end up made obsolete by mobile phones (when solid state storage is sufficiently cheap that you can put a few gigabytes in a phone, there will be no reason for MP3 players to exist). We'll see who will be the last one laughing.
Mr. chillmost, I'd like to introduce you to Real - the company whose legal team is probably only slighly less dangerous and evil than their marketing team. And today it's also the company which managed to fight the most successful proponent of DRM and defend a little bit of your consumer right. Please assume the position, which for this case should be a polite deep bow.
I wonder if he got the permission from Brin to post this. This might be ok for a friendly e-mail, but I don't think David appreciates being represented by this writing on Slashdot. This is like having Linus write a sorting algorithm in Visual Basic after drinking too much Lapin Kulta and posting the result on Slashdot. Or like releasing Reugan's famous "We are nuking the Soviets" radio blooper.
You can render things that are illegal to film (snuff, zoo, pedo, etc.)
The fact is that there is practically no realistic 3D porn and what is available is more ugly than barby porn.:) The quality of girls in 3D action/adventure games (and even 3D card demos) is much better than even in the best 3D porn games (and there are no 3D porn films to speak of).
The RIAA will chalk up any losses to piracy. They won't get your message May be the intention is that they run out of crack to smoke and when they no longer have any money to buy more they will start acting like decent human beings?
As much as I despise patents, it's not like they prevented GIF and MP3 formats from being widely used. It doesn't sound too bad when patents are used not to prevent competition, but to get back some of the money you spent on research.
The point is they want to integrate into the global economy, but realistically the only thing they can do at this point is mine natural resources and grow food. And subsidies prevent them from selling the food in the USA and EU.
It's also causing huge health problems inside your own country. In particular, you eat too much corn:) because growing corn is so insanely profitable with the subsidies.
Then it would make sense to give actual estimates, like 10^20-10^30 bytes per g (cm3) of storage AND simply say that this is much more than possible today.
It's all about spin.:) There is a library of stock phrases in every news outlet. The journalists simply pick some for each story. For example, I can predict that the next nanotechnology story will say that it can be used to diagnose/treat cancer (perhaps, specifically breast cancer), whether it's relevant or not.
I just want 1920x1200 at highest quality textures and AA over 30fps I just want to note that texture quality is a pretty irrelevant indicator these days. None of the eye candy in Doom3 or any other modern game is due to higher resolution textures, like it was in late 1990s. Today pixel and vertex shaders are important. Even the medium resolution textures would generally look good in all cases, except for the extreme closeups to something and even then the quality of the picture will be determined by detail textures and all sorts of bumpmapping, polybumping, etc. Not to forget the shaders.
Receive money for what exactly? It's not like they rented their software, is it? And if someone is running legacy programs, they are most likely not interested in upgrades.
That's why we needed a push technology. Unfortunately, we were too stupid to realise it during the dot-com craze and now Netscape will probably refuse to reimplement it for us...
First, most of the kids in child porn are able to consent because they don't see anything particularly special in sex. Living on the street and working as a child prostitute to earn money to buy drugs and feed your family helps them mature rather early. Second, the abuse of being filmed for porn is much less than the abuse they usually endure. And obviously less than starving to death would be.
People need to get some perspective. Things are not as simple as some make them appear.
In related news, the ISP I work for has blocked access to websites that offer snuff films. Although no details about which sites are included in the blacklist, why we don't report them to the police, what kind of materials are there and basically any other kind of detail, will be ever disclosed, I am free to inform you that on average day we block 24,719 (or any other arbitrary figure) attempts to access snuff films. The public reaction so far has been extremely supportive. The press is pretty happy to reprint our press releases without questioning our claims, various retarded watch groups declared unconditional support for the idea of blocking snuff films, police, parliament, presidents, Roman Pope and the general public are all very supportive too. Fortunately, all kids were blocked from the Internet by BT and so noone is here to make us feel awkward by noting that the Emperor has no clothes (hope that doesn't constitute pornography), there are no snuff films and there are no child porn websites either (unless you are an insane christian fanatic pedophile in denial, such as Paul Goggins, who thinks that every photo of a child is kiddie porn).
I don't think there are any games that treat religion at anything more than a superficial level
Because treating religion seriously would be nasty and make the game banned quicker (in the overly religious USA) than any "DOOM-induced" real-life rampage would.
The article is clearly written by some retarded Christian (sorry for redundancy, folks). He even cites "and they even reward players with Biblical lessons and scripture" as one of the benefits for the 3D action game. Yeah, that's really deep. Of course, what can you expect from a parental gaming website?
Thanks, but the only kind of serious treatment of religion I want from games is that from the Painkiller where you can pin evil monks to the walls with a stake gun.:)
Communism in the USSR didn't work mainly because a lot of internal problems accumulated in the country and there was no feedback system built-in. Corruption, consumerism, counterculture, inefficient production, lots of oil, failure to adopt innovations, late adoption of ICT, formalism in many areas, lack of discussion inside the party, etc. Cold war has little to do with the collapse of the USSR, it was a systemic failure.
As for the slave state, robots don't need consciousness to do work. Your understanding of robots is unfortunately tainted by your personal experience as a human. There are countless ways to solve the ethical dilemma you describe (such as make them dumb terminals controlled by one master program who would get benefits, vacation and respect:) ). And when this is done, robots will play a very important role in solving all our problems and will make communism viable.
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IIRC, his work, in particular, involves fields that are dangerous to humans travelling in space. :) I can imagine him thinking: "Why do those pesky humans insist on travelling up there in defiance of MY hazardous radiation fields?"
P.S. For the pedants among us, I am aware that the radiation there is also damaging to unmanned satellites and that there is radiation beyond the belts.
It's not like many people on /. would agree with a moralising pro-ESA, pro-Christian, right-wing parent gaming website. And it's not like they have anything interesting to say (if I am mistaken, give a link to at least one article there that is not retarded in some way).
Whom has been dying an agonizing death for decades...
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/who.html
May be he wasn't a native English speaker. Why is it necessary to mock him for poor grammar (or are you all just trying to prove his point?)? May be they speak like that in Australia, because you know, English is different. In Britain they would say "who I dated", may be in Australia "which" is a correct form.
In the past I bought mostly Samsung drives because of their 3-year warranty and low reported incidence of failure. However, when a 120Gb drive actually failed, I had to wait about 6 months for a replacement. Everyone in the supply chain just messed it up (perhaps intentionally). The store I bought it sent the unit to the wholesaler, who claimed that there were scratches (which was BS), then decided they need to send it to the regional Samsung centre, then it took hell of a lot of time to determine that the drive actually died and it's not like I am just making stuff up. Then it took some more months for the news to propagate back, and noone actually cared to be prompt.
Meanwhile, the prices have dropped significantly and if I bought the drive 6 months later, it would have saved me at least 40-50 dollars or about 30% of the price. Of course, nobody though about compensating me for this.
Seriously, when I am already annoyed over the date I lost (don't tell me about backups, the DivX videos on that disk WERE backups), the last thing I want is being annoyed by an uncooperative manufacturer/store. If Seagate wants this warranty to be worth anything, they needs to work together with all their resellers.
Selling music online will eventually become profitable, there is no "may be" about it. And while selling iPods may remain profitable in the future, a lot of bad things may happen to this particular Apple product. Among them are the fact that it's much easier to design a superior MP3 player than a superiour desktop computer, and the fact that MP3 players may end up made obsolete by mobile phones (when solid state storage is sufficiently cheap that you can put a few gigabytes in a phone, there will be no reason for MP3 players to exist). We'll see who will be the last one laughing.
Mr. chillmost, I'd like to introduce you to Real - the company whose legal team is probably only slighly less dangerous and evil than their marketing team. And today it's also the company which managed to fight the most successful proponent of DRM and defend a little bit of your consumer right. Please assume the position, which for this case should be a polite deep bow.
I wonder if he got the permission from Brin to post this. This might be ok for a friendly e-mail, but I don't think David appreciates being represented by this writing on Slashdot. This is like having Linus write a sorting algorithm in Visual Basic after drinking too much Lapin Kulta and posting the result on Slashdot. Or like releasing Reugan's famous "We are nuking the Soviets" radio blooper.
I suggest recorded tracks of people screaming in horror and pain. :-0
That was enlightening in a way. :)
There are two important advantages of 3D porn:
The fact is that there is practically no realistic 3D porn and what is available is more ugly than barby porn. :) The quality of girls in 3D action/adventure games (and even 3D card demos) is much better than even in the best 3D porn games (and there are no 3D porn films to speak of).
The RIAA will chalk up any losses to piracy. They won't get your message
May be the intention is that they run out of crack to smoke and when they no longer have any money to buy more they will start acting like decent human beings?
As much as I despise patents, it's not like they prevented GIF and MP3 formats from being widely used. It doesn't sound too bad when patents are used not to prevent competition, but to get back some of the money you spent on research.
The point is they want to integrate into the global economy, but realistically the only thing they can do at this point is mine natural resources and grow food. And subsidies prevent them from selling the food in the USA and EU.
It's also causing huge health problems inside your own country. In particular, you eat too much corn :) because growing corn is so insanely profitable with the subsidies.
Then it would make sense to give actual estimates, like 10^20-10^30 bytes per g (cm3) of storage AND simply say that this is much more than possible today.
It's all about spin. :) There is a library of stock phrases in every news outlet. The journalists simply pick some for each story. For example, I can predict that the next nanotechnology story will say that it can be used to diagnose/treat cancer (perhaps, specifically breast cancer), whether it's relevant or not.
I just want 1920x1200 at highest quality textures and AA over 30fps
I just want to note that texture quality is a pretty irrelevant indicator these days. None of the eye candy in Doom3 or any other modern game is due to higher resolution textures, like it was in late 1990s. Today pixel and vertex shaders are important. Even the medium resolution textures would generally look good in all cases, except for the extreme closeups to something and even then the quality of the picture will be determined by detail textures and all sorts of bumpmapping, polybumping, etc. Not to forget the shaders.
Receive money for what exactly? It's not like they rented their software, is it? And if someone is running legacy programs, they are most likely not interested in upgrades.
That's why we needed a push technology. Unfortunately, we were too stupid to realise it during the dot-com craze and now Netscape will probably refuse to reimplement it for us...
First, most of the kids in child porn are able to consent because they don't see anything particularly special in sex. Living on the street and working as a child prostitute to earn money to buy drugs and feed your family helps them mature rather early. Second, the abuse of being filmed for porn is much less than the abuse they usually endure. And obviously less than starving to death would be.
People need to get some perspective. Things are not as simple as some make them appear.
In related news, the ISP I work for has blocked access to websites that offer snuff films. Although no details about which sites are included in the blacklist, why we don't report them to the police, what kind of materials are there and basically any other kind of detail, will be ever disclosed, I am free to inform you that on average day we block 24,719 (or any other arbitrary figure) attempts to access snuff films. The public reaction so far has been extremely supportive. The press is pretty happy to reprint our press releases without questioning our claims, various retarded watch groups declared unconditional support for the idea of blocking snuff films, police, parliament, presidents, Roman Pope and the general public are all very supportive too. Fortunately, all kids were blocked from the Internet by BT and so noone is here to make us feel awkward by noting that the Emperor has no clothes (hope that doesn't constitute pornography), there are no snuff films and there are no child porn websites either (unless you are an insane christian fanatic pedophile in denial, such as Paul Goggins, who thinks that every photo of a child is kiddie porn).
I find your argument tactful and insightful. I would like to continue this conversation via email, do you accept?
Sure.
I don't think there are any games that treat religion at anything more than a superficial level
:)
Because treating religion seriously would be nasty and make the game banned quicker (in the overly religious USA) than any "DOOM-induced" real-life rampage would.
The article is clearly written by some retarded Christian (sorry for redundancy, folks). He even cites "and they even reward players with Biblical lessons and scripture" as one of the benefits for the 3D action game. Yeah, that's really deep. Of course, what can you expect from a parental gaming website?
Thanks, but the only kind of serious treatment of religion I want from games is that from the Painkiller where you can pin evil monks to the walls with a stake gun.
Communism in the USSR didn't work mainly because a lot of internal problems accumulated in the country and there was no feedback system built-in. Corruption, consumerism, counterculture, inefficient production, lots of oil, failure to adopt innovations, late adoption of ICT, formalism in many areas, lack of discussion inside the party, etc. Cold war has little to do with the collapse of the USSR, it was a systemic failure.
:) ). And when this is done, robots will play a very important role in solving all our problems and will make communism viable.
As for the slave state, robots don't need consciousness to do work. Your understanding of robots is unfortunately tainted by your personal experience as a human. There are countless ways to solve the ethical dilemma you describe (such as make them dumb terminals controlled by one master program who would get benefits, vacation and respect