He is almost certainly referring to the in-game scripts which users have written. When you account for the fact that many users would of wrote the same scripts multiple times, and that a lot of the scripts will be duplicated over many people's accounts, you can understand how he would come up with a figure that sounds so ridiculous. It would of been nice if he had of clarified that in the first place, tho.
The problem is that the extra weight needed to carry the wings for the two spacecraft you mention (the shuttle and SS1) will add more weight to the craft, and thus need extra fuel anyway. The space shuttle's wings were only designed how they were so that the shuttle could carry satellites back to earth - so it is possible to make a much lighter configuration, but I imagine it would still only be on par with a VTOVL vehicle at best, and in reality probably still worse in terms of fuel.
This could have some awesome applications, especially on space missions. Imagine the next generation of mars probes and the resolution of the pictures taken if a camera near the size of current ones could have thousands of times the resolution. And of course, you also need to think about spy satellites. But perhaps the coolest application would be on space telescopes...
I am not an interface designer, but it seems to me that it would actually be a stupid item to put there by way of usability. As a designer, you don't want the majority of users (i.e. not you) to place a few milliseconds into avoiding a button they'll never click every time the press login. Its best to keep the most used buttons in the most obvious places, and place more obscure alternative configuration choices somewhere separate, which isn't often displayed while the user is browsing.
By the same argument you are putting forward, we may as well put the "Use a master password" option in the same pop-up dialog. And just for the hell of it, we'll add a link to the exceptions box, just in case people actually want to use the exceptions button. Oh, and don't forget the change master password button, we can't have people going into the settings box to change the settings... </sarcasm>
Shhhh.... don't tell the big polluters about this. Soon enough we're going to be hearing about the benefits of global warming and how it is creating more jobs and empowering the consumer, or something else equally as true.
Anybody who has used Linux or any other OS would be aware of the very powerful and feature rich text editor Vi
Sorry to be a smartass, but i'm pretty sure most windows users would not have the foggiest clue what the "powerful and feature rich text editor Vi" is:-) For all they care, somebody probably mispelled some useful word like "vice" or "vine". The only people that weren't included in the summary as being aware of Vi are people that havn't used computers, or people that have used a computer without using the OS.
/me goes off to ask his high school aged sister about the great features of Vi
My first reaction was "w00t, MS is being fined > 1 billion". But, then I thought about it for a bit. Does even microsoft deserve that kind of ruling? They actually have made some changes, like the windows version without windows media player. And > 1 billion hardly seems to be a fair amount to charge for not documenting your software properly, even if you are a monopoly. It just somehow feels like theres something not right about it, even if it does give me the "eat that microsoft" feelings... call me strange if you want.
I was curious, seeing it was a big banner saying "the FUTURE of the INTERNET." Not your normal banner asking you to buy stuff. So I clicked it.
Turns out its a whole lot of propaganda from the ISPs. However, it explains the whole net neutrality in a way which kinda is total bullshit. For one, it uses the same traffic jam analogy that the senator used. And while it does use trucks and cars, it also does call "net neutrality" a "dumb pipe", which would also explain how this guy got the idea of tubes. Hes probably knows more about plumbing than networking, which would explain how he would equate the two.
I seriosuly reckon this guy has watched that movie... it would explain where he got his warped ideas from. The question begs tho, if him trying to explain what he saw in that movie creates sparks, why doesn't that movie itself create sparks? Why on earth was slashdot accepting money for showing that movie? I'm not trying to defend the senator here... hes a dumbass for trying to explain something based on a flash propaganda movie when he is in his position. However, he is a good representative of the majority of people.
I know that realistically it doesn't matter what the people think, but theoretically American politics is based on the people's ideas (at least as far as I know, I could be an ignorant Australian). However, with movies like that being made by the telco industry, it would seem to me that even *if* the senator knew what he was talking about, the people would probably make the same decision as him anyhow - not many people are tech saavy enough to see where that movie goes wrong. Writing to politicians is always a good idea, but maybe an even better course of action in this case would be to figure out a way to pwn the telco industry for their deceiving propaganda?
After I RTFA, I basically got one thing out of it. The writer was complaining that unless you keep working at a website you made, you are going to not earn as much money.
I've got news for him - you can't expect to earn money out of nothing. I know some people manage to do it, and good for them. But its not something you can expect to do. If you don't work on improving your site, and others do, its not the search engine companies' fault that people will be more interested in their work and so they can afford more on advertising.
I do see his point - the search engines will get paid more because your work improves, and other's work improves. But this is not something that is unique to search engines. It is part of advertising in general. The larger a company gets, the more it can put into advertising, which means the competing companies need to keep up with them and put more into advertising themselves. It works in a bit of a different way, but its the same concept.
It doesn't matter what advertising it is - TV, Radio, Newspaper, Search Engine - the way the companies make their money is the same. Google, microsoft, yahoo, etc. are not doing anything new here, they are just brining proven concepts to a new medium. Why do we critisize them for it? If anything we should be critisizing the people who have drummed it into many a programmer that once you've written something, you shuoldn't need to maintain it.
Its also scaring me that people can confuse NASA and JAXA. They only have a difference of what... 1000km? (rough estimate). Oh, don't forget thousands of years of cultural differences and customs, and what have you.
Seriosuly, of course you are getting confused between Computer stuff and Space technology if you can't even tell the difference between the US of A and Japan.
Why all the people saying microsoft should have googled for the name first? Obviosuly, microsoft would have used the msn search. Perhaps that explains why they didn't realize that the name is already taken.
Since it wasn't linked in the main thingamjig, you might want to check this out: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Notice, when you look at that, LFS is now at version 6.0. Solid proof that this isn't actually "new" at all. =) I can remember building LFS 3.0 actually on an old pentium 150... just made some scripts for it and left the PC on overnight.
"The gist of it is that no further evolution will occur unless humans can be separated into isolated groups."
Well, if we are seperated into seperate environments that would probably have the same effect as being seperated into seperate groups. That probably means that we will evolve in space. It makes sense as well, we could still evolve to "work better" in microgravity... we could still evolve to run better on different air, maybe purer or less pure oxygen. And since we're in smaller gruops in space, according to this, we are going to have an even greater chance of evolution.
So, is space travel going to bring on the next stage of human evolution?
heh this one was great, almost as good as the time i got a guy to get rid of ntldr off his pc saying it was a virus. Pretty old tho... I wonder why this one finally got on slashdot while others like the infamous zairo one and the many different ones we see at "cyberarmy" havn't ever been accepted? ah well. Maybe the fact that this one doesn't involve people telling the guy to screw up his own computer soo much, but the fact that he basically did it himself gave it a bit less of a "dark" humor rating. Any other ideas?
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He is almost certainly referring to the in-game scripts which users have written. When you account for the fact that many users would of wrote the same scripts multiple times, and that a lot of the scripts will be duplicated over many people's accounts, you can understand how he would come up with a figure that sounds so ridiculous. It would of been nice if he had of clarified that in the first place, tho.
The problem is that the extra weight needed to carry the wings for the two spacecraft you mention (the shuttle and SS1) will add more weight to the craft, and thus need extra fuel anyway. The space shuttle's wings were only designed how they were so that the shuttle could carry satellites back to earth - so it is possible to make a much lighter configuration, but I imagine it would still only be on par with a VTOVL vehicle at best, and in reality probably still worse in terms of fuel.
Minority Report, anybody?
Mod parent up. How sad can a society get?
What? Bush doesn't end with 'R'?
This could have some awesome applications, especially on space missions. Imagine the next generation of mars probes and the resolution of the pictures taken if a camera near the size of current ones could have thousands of times the resolution. And of course, you also need to think about spy satellites. But perhaps the coolest application would be on space telescopes...
I am not an interface designer, but it seems to me that it would actually be a stupid item to put there by way of usability. As a designer, you don't want the majority of users (i.e. not you) to place a few milliseconds into avoiding a button they'll never click every time the press login. Its best to keep the most used buttons in the most obvious places, and place more obscure alternative configuration choices somewhere separate, which isn't often displayed while the user is browsing.
By the same argument you are putting forward, we may as well put the "Use a master password" option in the same pop-up dialog. And just for the hell of it, we'll add a link to the exceptions box, just in case people actually want to use the exceptions button. Oh, and don't forget the change master password button, we can't have people going into the settings box to change the settings... </sarcasm>
Umm, I hate to break it to you, but we don't measure in meters per gallon. The rest of the world actually uses kilometers per litre.
To be nice to the editors, I have seen a lot less dupes lately than we were seeing a few months ago. Nobody is perfect.
Shhhh.... don't tell the big polluters about this. Soon enough we're going to be hearing about the benefits of global warming and how it is creating more jobs and empowering the consumer, or something else equally as true.
Anybody who has used Linux or any other OS would be aware of the very powerful and feature rich text editor Vi
Sorry to be a smartass, but i'm pretty sure most windows users would not have the foggiest clue what the "powerful and feature rich text editor Vi" is :-) For all they care, somebody probably mispelled some useful word like "vice" or "vine". The only people that weren't included in the summary as being aware of Vi are people that havn't used computers, or people that have used a computer without using the OS.
/me goes off to ask his high school aged sister about the great features of Vi
My first reaction was "w00t, MS is being fined > 1 billion". But, then I thought about it for a bit. Does even microsoft deserve that kind of ruling? They actually have made some changes, like the windows version without windows media player. And > 1 billion hardly seems to be a fair amount to charge for not documenting your software properly, even if you are a monopoly. It just somehow feels like theres something not right about it, even if it does give me the "eat that microsoft" feelings... call me strange if you want.
A few weeks ago, I saw this an ad for this flash cartoon on slashdot:
http://www.internetofthefuture.org/
I was curious, seeing it was a big banner saying "the FUTURE of the INTERNET." Not your normal banner asking you to buy stuff. So I clicked it.
Turns out its a whole lot of propaganda from the ISPs. However, it explains the whole net neutrality in a way which kinda is total bullshit. For one, it uses the same traffic jam analogy that the senator used. And while it does use trucks and cars, it also does call "net neutrality" a "dumb pipe", which would also explain how this guy got the idea of tubes. Hes probably knows more about plumbing than networking, which would explain how he would equate the two.
I seriosuly reckon this guy has watched that movie... it would explain where he got his warped ideas from. The question begs tho, if him trying to explain what he saw in that movie creates sparks, why doesn't that movie itself create sparks? Why on earth was slashdot accepting money for showing that movie? I'm not trying to defend the senator here... hes a dumbass for trying to explain something based on a flash propaganda movie when he is in his position. However, he is a good representative of the majority of people.
I know that realistically it doesn't matter what the people think, but theoretically American politics is based on the people's ideas (at least as far as I know, I could be an ignorant Australian). However, with movies like that being made by the telco industry, it would seem to me that even *if* the senator knew what he was talking about, the people would probably make the same decision as him anyhow - not many people are tech saavy enough to see where that movie goes wrong. Writing to politicians is always a good idea, but maybe an even better course of action in this case would be to figure out a way to pwn the telco industry for their deceiving propaganda?
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After I RTFA, I basically got one thing out of it. The writer was complaining that unless you keep working at a website you made, you are going to not earn as much money.
I've got news for him - you can't expect to earn money out of nothing. I know some people manage to do it, and good for them. But its not something you can expect to do. If you don't work on improving your site, and others do, its not the search engine companies' fault that people will be more interested in their work and so they can afford more on advertising.
I do see his point - the search engines will get paid more because your work improves, and other's work improves. But this is not something that is unique to search engines. It is part of advertising in general. The larger a company gets, the more it can put into advertising, which means the competing companies need to keep up with them and put more into advertising themselves. It works in a bit of a different way, but its the same concept.
It doesn't matter what advertising it is - TV, Radio, Newspaper, Search Engine - the way the companies make their money is the same. Google, microsoft, yahoo, etc. are not doing anything new here, they are just brining proven concepts to a new medium. Why do we critisize them for it? If anything we should be critisizing the people who have drummed it into many a programmer that once you've written something, you shuoldn't need to maintain it.
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Its also scaring me that people can confuse NASA and JAXA. They only have a difference of what... 1000km? (rough estimate). Oh, don't forget thousands of years of cultural differences and customs, and what have you.
Seriosuly, of course you are getting confused between Computer stuff and Space technology if you can't even tell the difference between the US of A and Japan.
*sigh*
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Why all the people saying microsoft should have googled for the name first? Obviosuly, microsoft would have used the msn search. Perhaps that explains why they didn't realize that the name is already taken.
Since it wasn't linked in the main thingamjig, you might want to check this out: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Notice, when you look at that, LFS is now at version 6.0. Solid proof that this isn't actually "new" at all. =) I can remember building LFS 3.0 actually on an old pentium 150... just made some scripts for it and left the PC on overnight.
"The gist of it is that no further evolution will occur unless humans can be separated into isolated groups." Well, if we are seperated into seperate environments that would probably have the same effect as being seperated into seperate groups. That probably means that we will evolve in space. It makes sense as well, we could still evolve to "work better" in microgravity... we could still evolve to run better on different air, maybe purer or less pure oxygen. And since we're in smaller gruops in space, according to this, we are going to have an even greater chance of evolution. So, is space travel going to bring on the next stage of human evolution?
heh this one was great, almost as good as the time i got a guy to get rid of ntldr off his pc saying it was a virus. Pretty old tho... I wonder why this one finally got on slashdot while others like the infamous zairo one and the many different ones we see at "cyberarmy" havn't ever been accepted? ah well. Maybe the fact that this one doesn't involve people telling the guy to screw up his own computer soo much, but the fact that he basically did it himself gave it a bit less of a "dark" humor rating. Any other ideas?