What? pop-stars that, while pretty good, were way over-hyped, and whose later stuff was crap influenced by a woman who's very name has become synonymous with breaking up bands by turning their music to crap?
You should be custom-mapping your keys anyway. Possibly to the numeric keypad (it puts your keyboard at odd angles, but you actually get more keys, more logically located) and possibly using custom macros to.. say.. cycle through a different, small class of weapons on each of several weapon-switchout keys. Or separating your jetpack from the jump key so you don't automatically do both every time.
They clashed briefly with police clad in riot gear...A couple of protesters threw bottles before the presidential limousine arrived, and one hurled an egg that landed near the motorcade...
A reality where peaceful protesting doesn't include hard, glass projectiles and violence.
I thought the robots were intended at least partially as allegory to slaves in the first place. Consider Elijah Baley's treatment of Daneel to the Solarians, or the Aurorans' treatment of Giskard.
Near me (one state over) they were going to put in a whole farm, ten miles off shore with 200' high towers (200' diameter rotors I believe.) It would've looked like a few dark toothpicks from the shore, but that and the alleged birdstrikes, and trumped up claims of navigational hazard for tankers (which the locals also don't like..). They were going to build them on shoals for goodness sakes. Who's going to run a tanker over shoals?
I think they're pretty, but not the answer to our energy needs for the same reason that shaving every day isn't going to solve a weight problem. (heck it doesn't even really solve a hair problem...) But if people think they can get these things to work, I'd like to see that. I wouldn't mind being wrong, especially if I don't have to pay for the proof.
The problem is that the people who find them unattractive or noisy (noisy?? I live near one, i've never heard it. The highway on the other hand...) are the same people who want to get rid of coal (because of the soot), oil (because of the carbon), Hydroelectric (because of the fishes), nuclear (because of the bomb), solar-dynamic (because of the 7-years bad luck), and probably have some kind of cockamamie objection to geothermal, too.
These are the same people that move in near airports (because of the low-prices) and then complain about the noise and occasional fuel dump. THAT'S WHY THE PRICES WERE LOW. The airport's been there for 80 years, so you had to know what you were getting yourself into.
I'm a GW skeptic, but I'm all about buying efficient devices and trying alternative energy, especially if a non-governmental organization has found a way actually make something profitable. I get disheartened and disillusioned with "environmentalism" when the very people clamoring for alternative energy are the ones shooting down the projects.
We should have some kind of survey, and have people check off the kinds of power they don't want near them, and if they check off too many items, they're not allowed to talk.
I know we tend to put burger flipping in the bottom rung of jobs, but that's pretty messed up if you ask me. Do you really want the dregs of the dregs Preparing your food?
And by untrusted I assume you mean at least one of the following:
A program not written by you, compiled using a compiler not built from scratch by you, And inputted directly in machine code, On a computer not built from ICs by you, With microcode not programmed by you, Using a home-made voltage source
Did I miss anything? How soon can we expect the first "Gentoo for the really paranoid?"
Do you live on top of, below, or beside someone who's using a lot of heat? Perhaps your apartment is not properly insulated? Do you leave the windows open? Are you running a server farm? Underpowered, leaky AC workin' overtime to ice up the heat-exchanger*? $250/month is awfully high for a studio. The power companies in many states are required to give you an efficiency check and recommendations, I don't know if OK has such a law, but you might want to check into it.
*I have actually had this problem in an apartment. After a few maintenance calls, they eventually found a huge hole in the condenser (covered by some grime or something. so they didn't notice it right away. Heck, I didn't notice it right away, frog boiling and so on.) Anyway, they replaced the unit and it got a lot colder and cheaper after that.
Exactly. It's like that story about the sectaries who, instead of properly shredding and/or incinerating sensitive documents, tore them in half and threw them in the regular trash. If you put your sensitive data on something that's easily broken, you might as well just publish it a full-page ad with a bright red sticker that says, "I'm trying to hide this."
Why would you think that fax over voice over IP would even work? I mean, yeah it might be convenient, so give it a shot, but I cannot fathom the thought process that would lead to the expectation that it would work.
I suppose next someone will be complaining that, after hooking a modem up to their vonage phone, they can't get skype to work.
Ah, but what about the accuracy? We can keep making corrections to the position of our hand right up to impact. We've got good feedback systems, but the 'algorithm' itself need not be very precise at all. Perhaps, in your head, sin(x)=x all the time.
But the point is that CNN doesn't have any interest in covering 'presumptive, unpopular upstarts' that upsets their model of power-brokering. However they have a vested interest in stories showing 'that thing you thought was good doing something horribly wrong.'
I have an exposed pentium chip lying around somewhere, It was a promotional thing I got from MIT once. They really are quite big.
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Microsoft had nearly $50 billion in revenue last year. This compares favorably with the entire domestic motion picture industry. If they don't want to do something, they have enormous bargaining power. More likely is that they are complicit, or actively engaged in DRM advocacy. To pretend they don't have a dog in the fight is naive.
AMD supporting DRM however will not be viewed as reducing freedom. It will be viewed as adding the freedom to access DRM protected content.
Very true. I would add that the tribal chiefs begin to appear even in the presence of an existing government, if the existing government fails to serve its people: there is even a free market in governments.
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What? pop-stars that, while pretty good, were way over-hyped, and whose later stuff was crap influenced by a woman who's very name has become synonymous with breaking up bands by turning their music to crap?
You should be custom-mapping your keys anyway. Possibly to the numeric keypad (it puts your keyboard at odd angles, but you actually get more keys, more logically located) and possibly using custom macros to.. say.. cycle through a different, small class of weapons on each of several weapon-switchout keys. Or separating your jetpack from the jump key so you don't automatically do both every time.
Indeed. As an exercise: "stewardesses."
A reality where peaceful protesting doesn't include hard, glass projectiles and violence.
I thought the robots were intended at least partially as allegory to slaves in the first place. Consider Elijah Baley's treatment of Daneel to the Solarians, or the Aurorans' treatment of Giskard.
You're calling Nationalist Socialists right-wing?
Near me (one state over) they were going to put in a whole farm, ten miles off shore with 200' high towers (200' diameter rotors I believe.) It would've looked like a few dark toothpicks from the shore, but that and the alleged birdstrikes, and trumped up claims of navigational hazard for tankers (which the locals also don't like..). They were going to build them on shoals for goodness sakes. Who's going to run a tanker over shoals?
I think they're pretty, but not the answer to our energy needs for the same reason that shaving every day isn't going to solve a weight problem. (heck it doesn't even really solve a hair problem...) But if people think they can get these things to work, I'd like to see that. I wouldn't mind being wrong, especially if I don't have to pay for the proof.
The problem is that the people who find them unattractive or noisy (noisy?? I live near one, i've never heard it. The highway on the other hand...) are the same people who want to get rid of coal (because of the soot), oil (because of the carbon), Hydroelectric (because of the fishes), nuclear (because of the bomb), solar-dynamic (because of the 7-years bad luck), and probably have some kind of cockamamie objection to geothermal, too.
These are the same people that move in near airports (because of the low-prices) and then complain about the noise and occasional fuel dump. THAT'S WHY THE PRICES WERE LOW. The airport's been there for 80 years, so you had to know what you were getting yourself into.
I'm a GW skeptic, but I'm all about buying efficient devices and trying alternative energy, especially if a non-governmental organization has found a way actually make something profitable. I get disheartened and disillusioned with "environmentalism" when the very people clamoring for alternative energy are the ones shooting down the projects.
We should have some kind of survey, and have people check off the kinds of power they don't want near them, and if they check off too many items, they're not allowed to talk.
I know we tend to put burger flipping in the bottom rung of jobs, but that's pretty messed up if you ask me. Do you really want the dregs of the dregs Preparing your food ?
Well they do have that one-button mouse, so you could certainly use a Mac while wearing mittens.
And by untrusted I assume you mean at least one of the following:
A program not written by you,
compiled using a compiler not built from scratch by you,
And inputted directly in machine code,
On a computer not built from ICs by you,
With microcode not programmed by you,
Using a home-made voltage source
Did I miss anything? How soon can we expect the first "Gentoo for the really paranoid?"
Do you live on top of, below, or beside someone who's using a lot of heat? Perhaps your apartment is not properly insulated? Do you leave the windows open? Are you running a server farm? Underpowered, leaky AC workin' overtime to ice up the heat-exchanger*? $250/month is awfully high for a studio. The power companies in many states are required to give you an efficiency check and recommendations, I don't know if OK has such a law, but you might want to check into it.
*I have actually had this problem in an apartment. After a few maintenance calls, they eventually found a huge hole in the condenser (covered by some grime or something. so they didn't notice it right away. Heck, I didn't notice it right away, frog boiling and so on.) Anyway, they replaced the unit and it got a lot colder and cheaper after that.
I didn't know what you were talking about. Fortunately, there was a resource online where I could get a brief overview...
But then, will our progeny debate the relative merits of evolution vs. intelligent design?
That assumes they are the ONLY oil company. They can only sit on a patent for 20 years.
Exactly. It's like that story about the sectaries who, instead of properly shredding and/or incinerating sensitive documents, tore them in half and threw them in the regular trash. If you put your sensitive data on something that's easily broken, you might as well just publish it a full-page ad with a bright red sticker that says, "I'm trying to hide this."
To be able to reproduce sounds of up to 100khz. duh.
Why would you think that fax over voice over IP would even work? I mean, yeah it might be convenient, so give it a shot, but I cannot fathom the thought process that would lead to the expectation that it would work.
I suppose next someone will be complaining that, after hooking a modem up to their vonage phone, they can't get skype to work.
Ah, but what about the accuracy? We can keep making corrections to the position of our hand right up to impact. We've got good feedback systems, but the 'algorithm' itself need not be very precise at all. Perhaps, in your head, sin(x)=x all the time.
But the point is that CNN doesn't have any interest in covering 'presumptive, unpopular upstarts' that upsets their model of power-brokering. However they have a vested interest in stories showing 'that thing you thought was good doing something horribly wrong.'
I have an exposed pentium chip lying around somewhere, It was a promotional thing I got from MIT once. They really are quite big.
Microsoft had nearly $50 billion in revenue last year. This compares favorably with the entire domestic motion picture industry. If they don't want to do something, they have enormous bargaining power. More likely is that they are complicit, or actively engaged in DRM advocacy. To pretend they don't have a dog in the fight is naive.
AMD supporting DRM however will not be viewed as reducing freedom. It will be viewed as adding the freedom to access DRM protected content.
I would like to learn more about this "pre-modded" of which you speak. Is there a wiikey wiki?
Very carefully?
Very true. I would add that the tribal chiefs begin to appear even in the presence of an existing government, if the existing government fails to serve its people: there is even a free market in governments.