Don't worry, I'm sure anti-war protesters will be all over Obama for this, not to mention his track record for higher troop deaths than under Bush and his campaign lies about pulling out all the troops and bringing them home.
When did he ever say that?
He did say he would be pulling them out of Iraq, but he never said he would pull them out of Afghanistan--or even that the ones leaving iraq would be coming home as opposed to redeploying elsewhere.
Says who? If you've got some magickal device that lets you shift something into another dimension and move it around at will, who says they'll collide when you move them back?
Intersection is equivalent to collision. Linked tori do not intersect.
That's a bit misleading...the circle you were moving would collide with the other when you attempted to move it back into the same plane. The "How do you get the circle out of the square?" problem is a clser analogy.
Actually the problem with NASA is they reboot every time a new president is elected, if not more frequently. From what I've seen, in the time it takes to plan and implement one robotic mission to another planet, NASA changes its focus 2-3 times. Consequently, it's rare for anything to go beyond LEO since the funding for anything more will be cancelled before the project is complete.
I'm trying to fathom how the ability to blend in to a group of hairless monkeys spamming "ASL?" on the internet is supposed to be construed as a valid measure of intelligence.
As an example, I thought it was utterly retarded that the recent Ubuntu 9.10 release didn't have the download torrents front and center. Why the hell not? Obviously they didn't have the bandwidth to handle all the direct downloads, as I started one just to see how slowly it would go. It crawled along at less than 1 KB/s for hours.
I had no problems with Ubuntu at all. Sure, the US servers were crawling along the first few days, but that's why there are so many mirrors. I just looked slightly further down the list, and downloaded from a server in Uzbekistan instead.
We're talking about downloading CD images, not playing an FPS online--therefore you should be trying to pick a server with few active connections, not dogpile the same server as everyone else because of its low ping.
We still have to be watchful of the RIAA and MPAA redefining what constitutes "legal" vs "illegal" activity.
Not only do we have to keep an eye on what they're trying to push through Congress, but we also need to watch hat they're pushing into shoos as well now.
Not to mention, it will be end of barbed wire fences as an effective means of containing cattle. Probably a reduction in the effectiveness of electric fences, too. Makes you wonder what kind of conditions they expect to raise the cattle under.
They must have done the survey south of the mason-dixon line, because up here in Minnesota, I have yet to meet anyone who believes that garbage.
About 1/3 of NASA's facilities are south of the Mason-Dixon line. Some of us southerners periodically meet people who walked on the moon. Try blaming it on the northwest.
Mod parent up as insightful, please. From what I've seen, most gaming on social websites is not good gaming at all. Rather, only three ways to advance toward "winning" exist. The first, "using strategy", becomes utterly useless after at most a day or two unless you employ the others. The second, "selling my online identity or shelling out cash to sponsors for game points", goes further, but has a great cost. Still, your progress runs into a brick wall unless you use the third method "spamming alliance invitations to people I've never met and have no interest in outside the game." Ultimately you have no contact with these people other than receiving invitation spam for multiple games, and the spam eventually overwhelms any attempt at communication with nongamer contacts (family, friends, people from work) that were the only incentive for joining the social network in the first place.
TL:DR? "Games" on social networks have no value as games, and eliminate any possible value of the social networks themselves. Goatse is clearly the winner.
As long as scientific results and techniques are hidden in very expensive privately-run journals and conference proceedings,
it cannot in any sense be considered open in the same sense as open-source or "fsf-free" software.
Those "expensive privately-run journals" are available to the public, though. Really, how much good is the source code if you don't have an "expensive, privately-owned machine" to compile it on, and how many internet cafes or public libraries have computers equipped with development software or allow users to install their own?
The real cost of entry into science isn't the subscription fees for journals, it's the time required to catch up on the current state of affairs. I mean, unless you actually specialize in physics or chemistry, a college education will still leave you 80-100 years behind current knowledge in the field.
There are some areas of science amateurs can contribute more than others, with astronomy being a prime example. Physics, on the other hand, requires much more time invested in learning what has already been tested, as well as the math involved.
It doesn't help that the usual bunch of people claiming to be "amateur physicists" tend to be working on perpetual motion or free energy--those get mocked, but not for being "pagans raiding the cathedral." To put it in open source programming terms, this is like someone posting here on Slashdot that "I've played minesweeper and solitaire for years, accumulating hundreds of hours of computer experience in the process. My computer expertise tells me the Linux kernel be better if we rewrote it in MS-basic instead of that obscure C stuff no one understands." They would mostly be ignored or mocked, and even if someone did offer them the helpful suggestion to at least read a C programming textbook and subscribe to LKML, you really wouldn't expect them to do anything more than continue complaining that Linux programmers are an elitist club.
Geosynchronous orbit has nothing to do with escape velocity. You'll always be a factor of sqrt(2) below escape velocity for any (circular) orbit.
That's kind of the point...your orbit wouldn't be circular unless it's also geosynchronous. Escape velocity scales as 1/sqrt(r) and velocity of an elevator passenger scales as r. At some altitude, your orbit becomes hyperbolic rather than elliptical due to the mismatch in scaling exponents.
That said, TFA sounds like someone with a space elevator fetish ordered a custom realdoll.
AOC's main problem isn't the game, but its public perception that was throughly ruined by the game's post-launch half-bakedness. If you ask newcomers who've just signed up to AOC about how they feel about it, they're usually having fun and are very much puzzled about the hate it's getting.
Everything in your post is true, but then again even at launch Tortage was a good experience. (Aside from the lack of traders, I didn't really hear that many complaints about the first 20 levels)
Based on that, I wouldn't just take the word of a newcomer unless they at least had a level 60 character. Otherwise they wouldn't have gone through the part that used to be a horrid villa grind.
A year from now, I'm going to have installed a lot of stuff, done a LOT of customizing and unless it's just time to rebuild, I'm REALLY not going to want to reinstall.
A year from now, I'll still have all my important stuff on my XP partition, which I will upgrade to Win7.
Before the upgrade, any data worth saving from the old Win7 partition will be copied to my 2nd hard drive, then copied back to my new Win7 installation after the upgrade.
Then I'll probably convert the old Win7 partition back from NTFS to EXT3 (or maybe EXT4 by then, depending) and reinstall Ubuntu (provided I can get their boot manager to work with my hard drive geometry, which it hasn't in about 2 years).
The 3d web doesn't work. What "problem" are they trying to fix? That's the main reason it keeps failing.
Going from 2d to 3d is the hard part.
This is really just an early precursor for a 10d plugin, which will be implemented on a quantum computer.
Why do you think quantum computing researchers are so obsessed with entanglement?
It's much easier to run multiple threads in all those extra dimensions, so the smoother performance from the enhanced browser will be the first useful application of superstring theory.
(What's scary is that in ten years, professional tech and science journalism will look just like this post if current trends continue)
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Hey, we're talking about Boston here.
If blinking lights on bridges and sweaters constitute "hoax devices" or "Improvised Electronic Devices" then I'm sure a blinking cursor is evidence of cyberterrorism...after all, it's a blinking light on a computer screen, right?
Those statistics work against you...99% penetration for the old, working version. The one that's giving me problems has less than 55% penetration in the US. (and hasn't reached 60% penetration anywhere)
The problem isn't just that the site works in IE but not Firefox. The site also worked in Firefox with the Flash 9 plugin, but not the Flash 10 plugin.
If it were a poorly coded site only checking for IE then flash wouldn't have worked before the upgrade. Therefore, it must be the new plugin that's defective.
Try running the Flash Player uninstaller and then doing a fresh install of the latest version. I once encountered an issue where Flash Player upgraded incorrectly and started reporting bad version information. A clean installation fixed it.
Tried this, and it made no difference whatsoever.
Ironically, I never had any troubles with flash in firefox before they supposedly "fixed" it.
Problem is, I've tried updating 5-6 times since Flash 10 came out--and the firefox version still doesn't work. (and I don't think the installer even detects Chrome, so I'm stuck using IE about 40% of the time someone uses flash on their website)
As industry devils go, Flash has fairly low levels of evil. It's proven, it fills a niche, it works, and while it's not wide open, it's not exactly locked shut either.
...For small values of "works."
Anyone else having problems with "You muct have flash 9 or greater" messages using the non-IE version of the flash plugin?
If I still have to use Microsoft's browser to get Flash to work, then it's no better than Silverlight.
Yes, but it's probably worthwhile to regenerate topsoil by composting the waste. Unless that waste contains lots of wood, in which case a low-temperature burn can serve as a carbon sink while also regenerating the topsoil.
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Don't worry, I'm sure anti-war protesters will be all over Obama for this, not to mention his track record for higher troop deaths than under Bush and his campaign lies about pulling out all the troops and bringing them home.
When did he ever say that?
He did say he would be pulling them out of Iraq, but he never said he would pull them out of Afghanistan--or even that the ones leaving iraq would be coming home as opposed to redeploying elsewhere.
Really, It should be simple enough to build one for yourself. Every outpost on Yuggoth has a few places where you can get all the parts you need.
Intersection is equivalent to collision. Linked tori do not intersect.
That's a bit misleading...the circle you were moving would collide with the other when you attempted to move it back into the same plane.
The "How do you get the circle out of the square?" problem is a clser analogy.
Actually the problem with NASA is they reboot every time a new president is elected, if not more frequently.
From what I've seen, in the time it takes to plan and implement one robotic mission to another planet, NASA changes its focus 2-3 times. Consequently, it's rare for anything to go beyond LEO since the funding for anything more will be cancelled before the project is complete.
I'm trying to fathom how the ability to blend in to a group of hairless monkeys spamming "ASL?" on the internet is supposed to be construed as a valid measure of intelligence.
As an example, I thought it was utterly retarded that the recent Ubuntu 9.10 release didn't have the download torrents front and center. Why the hell not? Obviously they didn't have the bandwidth to handle all the direct downloads, as I started one just to see how slowly it would go. It crawled along at less than 1 KB/s for hours.
I had no problems with Ubuntu at all.
Sure, the US servers were crawling along the first few days, but that's why there are so many mirrors. I just looked slightly further down the list, and downloaded from a server in Uzbekistan instead.
We're talking about downloading CD images, not playing an FPS online--therefore you should be trying to pick a server with few active connections, not dogpile the same server as everyone else because of its low ping.
We still have to be watchful of the RIAA and MPAA redefining what constitutes "legal" vs "illegal" activity. Not only do we have to keep an eye on what they're trying to push through Congress, but we also need to watch hat they're pushing into shoos as well now.
Not to mention, it will be end of barbed wire fences as an effective means of containing cattle.
Probably a reduction in the effectiveness of electric fences, too.
Makes you wonder what kind of conditions they expect to raise the cattle under.
They must have done the survey south of the mason-dixon line, because up here in Minnesota, I have yet to meet anyone who believes that garbage.
About 1/3 of NASA's facilities are south of the Mason-Dixon line. Some of us southerners periodically meet people who walked on the moon.
Try blaming it on the northwest.
Mod parent up as insightful, please.
From what I've seen, most gaming on social websites is not good gaming at all.
Rather, only three ways to advance toward "winning" exist. The first, "using strategy", becomes utterly useless after at most a day or two unless you employ the others. The second, "selling my online identity or shelling out cash to sponsors for game points", goes further, but has a great cost. Still, your progress runs into a brick wall unless you use the third method "spamming alliance invitations to people I've never met and have no interest in outside the game." Ultimately you have no contact with these people other than receiving invitation spam for multiple games, and the spam eventually overwhelms any attempt at communication with nongamer contacts (family, friends, people from work) that were the only incentive for joining the social network in the first place.
TL:DR?
"Games" on social networks have no value as games, and eliminate any possible value of the social networks themselves. Goatse is clearly the winner.
As long as scientific results and techniques are hidden in very expensive privately-run journals and conference proceedings, it cannot in any sense be considered open in the same sense as open-source or "fsf-free" software.
Those "expensive privately-run journals" are available to the public, though. Really, how much good is the source code if you don't have an "expensive, privately-owned machine" to compile it on, and how many internet cafes or public libraries have computers equipped with development software or allow users to install their own?
The real cost of entry into science isn't the subscription fees for journals, it's the time required to catch up on the current state of affairs. I mean, unless you actually specialize in physics or chemistry, a college education will still leave you 80-100 years behind current knowledge in the field.
There are some areas of science amateurs can contribute more than others, with astronomy being a prime example. Physics, on the other hand, requires much more time invested in learning what has already been tested, as well as the math involved.
It doesn't help that the usual bunch of people claiming to be "amateur physicists" tend to be working on perpetual motion or free energy--those get mocked, but not for being "pagans raiding the cathedral." To put it in open source programming terms, this is like someone posting here on Slashdot that "I've played minesweeper and solitaire for years, accumulating hundreds of hours of computer experience in the process. My computer expertise tells me the Linux kernel be better if we rewrote it in MS-basic instead of that obscure C stuff no one understands." They would mostly be ignored or mocked, and even if someone did offer them the helpful suggestion to at least read a C programming textbook and subscribe to LKML, you really wouldn't expect them to do anything more than continue complaining that Linux programmers are an elitist club.
Geosynchronous orbit has nothing to do with escape velocity. You'll always be a factor of sqrt(2) below escape velocity for any (circular) orbit.
That's kind of the point...your orbit wouldn't be circular unless it's also geosynchronous. Escape velocity scales as 1/sqrt(r) and velocity of an elevator passenger scales as r. At some altitude, your orbit becomes hyperbolic rather than elliptical due to the mismatch in scaling exponents.
That said, TFA sounds like someone with a space elevator fetish ordered a custom realdoll.
I hate to burst you bubble of ignorance, but, North Korea's first nuke test was on Oct. 9th, 2008.
You mean first successful nuke test. They could have been firing duds for decades and we wouldn't know.
AOC's main problem isn't the game, but its public perception that was throughly ruined by the game's post-launch half-bakedness. If you ask newcomers who've just signed up to AOC about how they feel about it, they're usually having fun and are very much puzzled about the hate it's getting.
Everything in your post is true, but then again even at launch Tortage was a good experience. (Aside from the lack of traders, I didn't really hear that many complaints about the first 20 levels)
Based on that, I wouldn't just take the word of a newcomer unless they at least had a level 60 character. Otherwise they wouldn't have gone through the part that used to be a horrid villa grind.
A year from now, I'm going to have installed a lot of stuff, done a LOT of customizing and unless it's just time to rebuild, I'm REALLY not going to want to reinstall.
A year from now, I'll still have all my important stuff on my XP partition, which I will upgrade to Win7.
Before the upgrade, any data worth saving from the old Win7 partition will be copied to my 2nd hard drive, then copied back to my new Win7 installation after the upgrade.
Then I'll probably convert the old Win7 partition back from NTFS to EXT3 (or maybe EXT4 by then, depending) and reinstall Ubuntu (provided I can get their boot manager to work with my hard drive geometry, which it hasn't in about 2 years).
The 3d web doesn't work. What "problem" are they trying to fix? That's the main reason it keeps failing.
Going from 2d to 3d is the hard part.
This is really just an early precursor for a 10d plugin, which will be implemented on a quantum computer.
Why do you think quantum computing researchers are so obsessed with entanglement?
It's much easier to run multiple threads in all those extra dimensions, so the smoother performance from the enhanced browser will be the first useful application of superstring theory.
(What's scary is that in ten years, professional tech and science journalism will look just like this post if current trends continue)
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Hey, we're talking about Boston here.
If blinking lights on bridges and sweaters constitute "hoax devices" or "Improvised Electronic Devices" then I'm sure a blinking cursor is evidence of cyberterrorism...after all, it's a blinking light on a computer screen, right?
99+% of desktops disagree:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html
Those statistics work against you...99% penetration for the old, working version. The one that's giving me problems has less than 55% penetration in the US. (and hasn't reached 60% penetration anywhere)
An indication of problems?
The problem isn't just that the site works in IE but not Firefox. The site also worked in Firefox with the Flash 9 plugin, but not the Flash 10 plugin.
If it were a poorly coded site only checking for IE then flash wouldn't have worked before the upgrade. Therefore, it must be the new plugin that's defective.
Did Apple/Real Networks really change their attitude in 2009?
Agreed. I've never been happy with Windows versions of Apple software.
Pick two out of three: It doesn't work, it installs unrequested and untrusted software, and it never uninstalls properly.
Compared to that, Microsoft looks positively benevolent by comparison.
Try running the Flash Player uninstaller and then doing a fresh install of the latest version. I once encountered an issue where Flash Player upgraded incorrectly and started reporting bad version information. A clean installation fixed it.
Tried this, and it made no difference whatsoever.
Ironically, I never had any troubles with flash in firefox before they supposedly "fixed" it.
Problem is, I've tried updating 5-6 times since Flash 10 came out--and the firefox version still doesn't work. (and I don't think the installer even detects Chrome, so I'm stuck using IE about 40% of the time someone uses flash on their website)
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As industry devils go, Flash has fairly low levels of evil. It's proven, it fills a niche, it works, and while it's not wide open, it's not exactly locked shut either.
...For small values of "works."
Anyone else having problems with "You muct have flash 9 or greater" messages using the non-IE version of the flash plugin?
If I still have to use Microsoft's browser to get Flash to work, then it's no better than Silverlight.
Yes, but it's probably worthwhile to regenerate topsoil by composting the waste. Unless that waste contains lots of wood, in which case a low-temperature burn can serve as a carbon sink while also regenerating the topsoil.