Cities are benign? Only if you don't count the per-head energy and resources required to maintain the city and it's residents' way of life. If you count that, then every morsel of food must be marked up to account for the energy of bringing it from rural areas to distribution points, to warehouses, to supermarket shelves, to your pantry and then to your mouth. That's just an example. City living is nothing more than a concentration of workers to benefit industrial interests.
While I do agree that not all games have physics models that allow flight and underwater breathing, I'm pretty sure my twitch skills will allow me to take on even the scariest mobs.
I suppose leaving their homes and lining up in fields would be more to your liking?
They don't hide amongst the population any more than you would be doing tgat if an invading army came to your country and city and started bombing it. You'd fight for your home, from your home. The idea that they are "hiding amongst civilians" is a load of BS. Their homes are amongst their neighbors. If you want to bomb them from afar you can't expect them to all go stand in a conveniently isolated and exposed place.
Now, if the invading showed up and demanded battle between two equally armed forces in a designated field of battle then that'd be fine. But as it stands, it's the Americans and other invaders that are the cowards for trying to bomb people in their sleep and then saying that those people should vacate their homes to make bombing them from the safety of an armchair on the other side of the planet more convenient.
He did also say "while we compute". None the less I actually agree with your point; it is obvious that you have the equivalent amount of computing power as the average iceberg.
You jest, but given the last few years of IP cases, it's about time judges started using stronger phrasing when delivering their verdicts. Thus, I would have not problem with the following court exchange:
IP Lawyer: Your honor, it is blatantly obvious that the defendant's flagrant disregard for my client's rights under IP law is deserving of the highest punishment afforded by law, as it represents an egregious violation of the very foundation of our society.
Judge: Look here you cunt-faced anus head, get the fuck out of my court before I release the hounds. And don't be thinking I don't have hounds back here, I borrowed them from the groundskeeper at the country club. Oh, and don't forget to leave that stinking pile of neatly typed bullshit you call a legal brief behind, the lavatory is low on toilet paper.
You really think copyright protection is about copyright? It's about maintaining the monopoly on culture and social psychology that Big Money currently has. It is secondarily about ensuring that any potential threat to the current status quo vis a vis the alliance of first world governments is identified, monitored and nipped as soon as it matures into anything of substance.
Try having another French revolution with modern governmental controls in place.
They're just collecting public information, not changing the status of said information. If you beat someone to death, most courts would be of the opinion that his status had changed.
One would think that Ubuntu would package their distro with the defaults set to reasonable values. They do this for many other packages, so I don't see why the window manager would be any different.
Also, kudos to Enlightenment for sticking to their philosophy; I prefer a WM that helps me just get on with my work. I'm not a Mac user who likes staring at the shiny toolbar renderings and 3D compositing effects while watching billable hours go by. Eye candy is for time wasting. Computers are tools. Aesthetics has its place, but when more effort is spent on making a UI pretty as opposed to functional, then the whole point of the exercise has been lost.
I blame Apple, for turning computers into fashion accessories.
Yea that's the first thing I thought as well; the principle is similar to video interlacing from back in the day, except that this is more sophisticated, and could conceivably be used to capture extremely high definition, extremely high framerate footage.
If you apply this technology to high grade 50mpix Hasselblad sensors, you could conceivably acheive frame rates of thousands of frames per second in 2k or even 4k resolution using gear that costs under $100k. Currently, that sort of photography is limited to national science bodies and multi-million dollar budgets. Being able to do that sort of thing for under 6 figures would open up HUGE research possibilities for university science labs and other relatively fund-poor institutions.
"Make up your mind... is it a myth or is it real?"
You're a fucking retard. I thought I made it clear: It's a problem of allocation, resulting in localized shortages.
Allocated inefficiently enough, there isn't enough hydrogen in the universe to go around. And at the rate the US wastes stuff, they'll probably find a way to practically demonstrate it.
As an industry long timer (been running a retail store for about 10 years now) I can tell you that the cost of delivering services to you are no longer tied to how much you use. They could give everyone unlimited minutes, and as long as the 2% of crazies were kept in check*, it would make little appreciable difference to their bottom line.
Use is only restricted for the purpose of tiered billing according to the amount of use each person desires, so that they can offer a set of distinguished products.
Costs are wound up in administrative overhead, engineering and R&D expenses etc. They won't make a loss on a plan at all, ever, because total operating costs are now quite divorced from network usage, and this is only becoming more and more the case.
* The only issue is ensuring that total network traffic remains below total network capacity, and the number of users that cause this to even be an issue is small. Keep them on a leash and capacity issues don't exist.
What stops anyone from just writing an Android app that is a properly, open sourced, encrypted SIP client? If that's possible, then unless they've broken either Diffe-Hellman or AES then we'd be good to go when talking about our plot to take over the world.
The food, and more generally, resource shortage is a MYTH.
You heard me. It's a lie. A con. A steaming pile of bullshit cooked up by politicians of first world countries as an excuse for their total failure to address the profligate wastefulness of their social order. There is only a resource shortage if every country needed to consume resources at the rate as the United States. If countries could be more frugal with their resources then we'd all be fine and dandy. All 6 billion of us, and our kids.
Oh, and fuck off if you're going to chime in with "we don't all want to live in jungle grass huts". That's a stupid response from a stupid person. There are plenty of modernized countries that don't consumer anywhere near the amount of electricity, food, raw materials or produce as much waste as the US. If the US actually used the enormous amount of resources it had efficiently, it should be the country in the world with the highest standard of living. Instead, life expectancy is pretty far down the list, health care is a joke compared even to Cuba, depression, suicide and mental health issues are epidemic, and the rest of the world hates you.
So when politicians pull out statements like "biofuel will cause food shortages" despite the fact that this is only because of the absurd subsidies paid to US corn farmers that distort the market, making it artificially profitable to use this low yield/acre crop as a biofuel, the rest of the world gets pissed off because you're damaging what should be a logical part of any energy reform strategy.
The real cause of food and resource shortages are the legions of fatasses eating far more food than they need, hugely overpackaged in tin cans, glass jars and styrofoam burger boxes.
Waste is the real problem here, NOT shortage. Lets call the politicians on this BS they're feeding us.
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Cities are benign? Only if you don't count the per-head energy and resources required to maintain the city and it's residents' way of life. If you count that, then every morsel of food must be marked up to account for the energy of bringing it from rural areas to distribution points, to warehouses, to supermarket shelves, to your pantry and then to your mouth. That's just an example. City living is nothing more than a concentration of workers to benefit industrial interests.
While I do agree that not all games have physics models that allow flight and underwater breathing, I'm pretty sure my twitch skills will allow me to take on even the scariest mobs.
Have you tried a Canadian on-line watch shop?
The Chechs called. They want to know why they don't exist.
... but HOORAY FOR MICROSOFT!
"Why does America house so many nutjobs?"
Because it produces so many and issues so few passports.
Yes, this is Slashdot. You read it didn't you? So it wasted your time, right?
Mac users.
I suppose leaving their homes and lining up in fields would be more to your liking?
They don't hide amongst the population any more than you would be doing tgat if an invading army came to your country and city and started bombing it. You'd fight for your home, from your home. The idea that they are "hiding amongst civilians" is a load of BS. Their homes are amongst their neighbors. If you want to bomb them from afar you can't expect them to all go stand in a conveniently isolated and exposed place.
Now, if the invading showed up and demanded battle between two equally armed forces in a designated field of battle then that'd be fine. But as it stands, it's the Americans and other invaders that are the cowards for trying to bomb people in their sleep and then saying that those people should vacate their homes to make bombing them from the safety of an armchair on the other side of the planet more convenient.
Cowards indeed.
He did also say "while we compute". None the less I actually agree with your point; it is obvious that you have the equivalent amount of computing power as the average iceberg.
You jest, but given the last few years of IP cases, it's about time judges started using stronger phrasing when delivering their verdicts. Thus, I would have not problem with the following court exchange:
IP Lawyer: Your honor, it is blatantly obvious that the defendant's flagrant disregard for my client's rights under IP law is deserving of the highest punishment afforded by law, as it represents an egregious violation of the very foundation of our society.
Judge: Look here you cunt-faced anus head, get the fuck out of my court before I release the hounds. And don't be thinking I don't have hounds back here, I borrowed them from the groundskeeper at the country club. Oh, and don't forget to leave that stinking pile of neatly typed bullshit you call a legal brief behind, the lavatory is low on toilet paper.
You really think copyright protection is about copyright? It's about maintaining the monopoly on culture and social psychology that Big Money currently has. It is secondarily about ensuring that any potential threat to the current status quo vis a vis the alliance of first world governments is identified, monitored and nipped as soon as it matures into anything of substance.
Try having another French revolution with modern governmental controls in place.
It will tell you that the three nasty rottweilers aren't yet desperate enough to eat the newspapers, so you *might* be safe robbing the place.
Bonus points if you can make it monitor a *specific* house. My neighbor just got a sweet new home theater setup!
They're just collecting public information, not changing the status of said information.
If you beat someone to death, most courts would be of the opinion that his status had changed.
Jail for unreasonable use of deadly force?
I wonder if the "seller" will give you an equally positive rating?
"Smooth, easy transaction. Didn't make too much of a mess. Very little damage to front door. Highly recommended!"
You're such a cynicism amateur. What if they covertly own the typosquatters? Huh? HUH?
Betcha didn't think of *that*!
One would think that Ubuntu would package their distro with the defaults set to reasonable values. They do this for many other packages, so I don't see why the window manager would be any different.
Also, kudos to Enlightenment for sticking to their philosophy; I prefer a WM that helps me just get on with my work. I'm not a Mac user who likes staring at the shiny toolbar renderings and 3D compositing effects while watching billable hours go by. Eye candy is for time wasting. Computers are tools. Aesthetics has its place, but when more effort is spent on making a UI pretty as opposed to functional, then the whole point of the exercise has been lost.
I blame Apple, for turning computers into fashion accessories.
I bought 5 surplus P4 machines with 512mb ram and 40gb HDDs for my community center's library. They have *CRT* monitors. Beat that!
Yea that's the first thing I thought as well; the principle is similar to video interlacing from back in the day, except that this is more sophisticated, and could conceivably be used to capture extremely high definition, extremely high framerate footage.
If you apply this technology to high grade 50mpix Hasselblad sensors, you could conceivably acheive frame rates of thousands of frames per second in 2k or even 4k resolution using gear that costs under $100k. Currently, that sort of photography is limited to national science bodies and multi-million dollar budgets. Being able to do that sort of thing for under 6 figures would open up HUGE research possibilities for university science labs and other relatively fund-poor institutions.
"Make up your mind... is it a myth or is it real?"
You're a fucking retard. I thought I made it clear: It's a problem of allocation, resulting in localized shortages.
Allocated inefficiently enough, there isn't enough hydrogen in the universe to go around. And at the rate the US wastes stuff, they'll probably find a way to practically demonstrate it.
As an industry long timer (been running a retail store for about 10 years now) I can tell you that the cost of delivering services to you are no longer tied to how much you use. They could give everyone unlimited minutes, and as long as the 2% of crazies were kept in check*, it would make little appreciable difference to their bottom line.
Use is only restricted for the purpose of tiered billing according to the amount of use each person desires, so that they can offer a set of distinguished products.
Costs are wound up in administrative overhead, engineering and R&D expenses etc. They won't make a loss on a plan at all, ever, because total operating costs are now quite divorced from network usage, and this is only becoming more and more the case.
* The only issue is ensuring that total network traffic remains below total network capacity, and the number of users that cause this to even be an issue is small. Keep them on a leash and capacity issues don't exist.
What stops anyone from just writing an Android app that is a properly, open sourced, encrypted SIP client? If that's possible, then unless they've broken either Diffe-Hellman or AES then we'd be good to go when talking about our plot to take over the world.
The food, and more generally, resource shortage is a MYTH.
You heard me. It's a lie. A con. A steaming pile of bullshit cooked up by politicians of first world countries as an excuse for their total failure to address the profligate wastefulness of their social order. There is only a resource shortage if every country needed to consume resources at the rate as the United States. If countries could be more frugal with their resources then we'd all be fine and dandy. All 6 billion of us, and our kids.
Oh, and fuck off if you're going to chime in with "we don't all want to live in jungle grass huts". That's a stupid response from a stupid person. There are plenty of modernized countries that don't consumer anywhere near the amount of electricity, food, raw materials or produce as much waste as the US. If the US actually used the enormous amount of resources it had efficiently, it should be the country in the world with the highest standard of living. Instead, life expectancy is pretty far down the list, health care is a joke compared even to Cuba, depression, suicide and mental health issues are epidemic, and the rest of the world hates you.
So when politicians pull out statements like "biofuel will cause food shortages" despite the fact that this is only because of the absurd subsidies paid to US corn farmers that distort the market, making it artificially profitable to use this low yield/acre crop as a biofuel, the rest of the world gets pissed off because you're damaging what should be a logical part of any energy reform strategy.
The real cause of food and resource shortages are the legions of fatasses eating far more food than they need, hugely overpackaged in tin cans, glass jars and styrofoam burger boxes.
Waste is the real problem here, NOT shortage. Lets call the politicians on this BS they're feeding us.