Exactly. People are moving all up ons about HD and the next-gen optical media when nothing important has happened yet. Cable can't even carry a decent lineup of 1080p programming, much less provide sufficient HD content to justify a move. I think what will determine *this* market will be burners. Whoever has the cheapest burner first will cause a move to their format, since people should be able to take all their HDDVDs or Blu-rays and convert them to the opposing format.
Fuck that, you know some countries have near-ubiquitous internet in the megabit range, and for a fraction of the cost that the states pays? Cisco is full of shit. The internet ain't heading for a crash (first of all because it's _not possible_). ISPs need to buck up and figure out how to GASP spend money on upgrading their goddamn infrastructure. There's money to be made here, but only on people who can fuck their shareholders gently (and give them some smooches too).
Hell for Nerds! I was reading that yesterday and thought it was particularly relevant. My favorite part is when the girl kills herself because her character died.
Nice Futurama reference. According to slickypedia, however, any increase in precision of lightspeed would change the length of the meter, instead. Imagine the bedlam- meter sticks everywhere would be obsolete!
Oh christ, this is some crap. Tell me exactly how someone can be statistically happier? Before I quote Mark Twain on this one, why do people enjoy basing their life decisions on statistics? Seriously, do people really become abstinent because they feel like it has an 'empirically demonstrated potential to decrease the chances of my unhappiness'? Does anyone besides me realize how absurdly stupid this logic is? How do you even quantify this? The biggest problem I find with your post is that it assumes everyone is a monogamist, which isn't true by a long stretch now-a-days. Some singles don't intend to settle down, and don't intend to marry, and this is an increasingly common lifestyle among young adults; possibly, just maybe because we all grew up during the reganist social prohibitionism bullshit that permeates american life to this day. Rather than seek a sexually satisfying marriage by eliminating all other options, perhaps the better alternative is to find a marriage that is both sexually and emotionally satisfying; a good choice of a mate, rather than the first nice christian girl/boy that comes along.
Long long ago, primitive man made fire. Now, in 2007, Verizon is putting it out. *woosh, special effects* Small Child: "One thing you have to realize about extinguishing the fire... there is no fire."
Louder isn't necessarily worse, except with MP3 it really is. I'd say there's something to be said for loud music, just not on the pure basis of it being loud. I think the bigger problem is that artists have lost *dynamics*. Fortissimo on its own is okay- listen to Pink Floyd's Animals and near the end of the record it approaches the volume of a lot of modern music, but there's no contrast, there's no piano or sotto voce to tell listeners what normal sound is. Then again, are CDs inferior to vinyl by definition, since you lose frequency ranges on the compact disc that are available in vinyl format?:3
So?! It's better than me giving up driving my SUV to work every day! Those damn communists want me to take the *TRAIN* to work from 20 miles out of town, can you believe them?! You do what you have to for your survival, and I'll do what I have to to maintain my pathetic dependence on petrol!
> A. N. Onymous sends us to OLPCNews for an account of kids' reactions to the OLPC XO
Do I really have to RTFA to figure out WTF this is trying to tell me? IIRC, the OP should actively RTFA and make decoding TLAs a little more fun than being on the receiving end of a DVDA.
"We've analyzed rock samples on the planet Mars and found that, in fact, its red color is not from iron oxide, but from pure revolutionary glory- praise the people's republic!"
You want to talk about intellectual property? What about these cheap liver-cell knockoffs these mice are producing? I'll bet they're tainted with antifreeze or something...
fuck you zonk! no, I've had enough of your bullshit! take this goddamn article down right fucking now and change the title you worthless fucking excuse for a yellow journalist! For fucksake you READ the goddamn article before you post it, I HOPE. Fucking immune from moderation troll-assed motherfucker, I will sacrifice my "excellent" karma to bring you down!
I guess it never crossed your mind that a Creator set in motion all physical and chemical actions/reactions/properties/laws that we experience today. It seems unlikely to me on a few fronts: 1) When you say that *a* creator set in motion all physical and chemical actions/reactions/properties/laws, it would be reasonable to identify *which* creator. Yahweh? Jehovah? Allah? Shiva? Cthulhu? I challenge you to find any divine creation story that actually meets all the physical evidence our scientists have accumulated over the years. Read the creation stories and you'll find:
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day. (Genesis 1)
clear contradictions to what we know is so- there is space above the sky, not water. 2) For a creator to create the ultimate illusion of inexistence- what does it imply? First of all, how do you love something that will hide their existence from you? Or even better, the theory that God makes science 'appear' true, but he really created the world 6,000 years ago: I heard it best described as 'childish, I'm-not-touching-you on a cosmic scale'. If such a God exists, why would you even care?
Finally, in answer to your exercise, please realize that that's not the way science works. Science doesn't get asked "why" and deliver an answer immediately- the "why" is what drives science to poke and prod and use reason to derive an answer.
I thought I'd tack this onto the FP, but the OP is severely mistaken. First of all, Ingo was the one who finally submitted the patch, and it was also Ingo who made the 'faster than all the improvements over the last 10 years combined' statement. If you don't believe me RTFA. I just wish the OP had actually read the article before submitting it.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been kept current Are you fucking serious? Sure, Darwin's original ideas have been tested and built upon, but the idea of competition driving genetic variance still holds pretty fucking strongly. See, the thing about evolution is, by most scientific standards of today, a good majority of the principles Darwin outlined in The Origin of Species are actually provable. I'm guessing you think they aren't just because the fundies and IDers are yelling loud enough.
On the more flamebait side, when one of those nutjobs are lecturing in the main mall of your local university, try asking them what they think about crystal lattices- complex, beautiful geometrical structures which will form naturally, and ask if there was an intelligent designer forming the covalent bonds in your ice tray this morning.
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Exactly. People are moving all up ons about HD and the next-gen optical media when nothing important has happened yet. Cable can't even carry a decent lineup of 1080p programming, much less provide sufficient HD content to justify a move.
I think what will determine *this* market will be burners. Whoever has the cheapest burner first will cause a move to their format, since people should be able to take all their HDDVDs or Blu-rays and convert them to the opposing format.
Fuck that, you know some countries have near-ubiquitous internet in the megabit range, and for a fraction of the cost that the states pays? Cisco is full of shit. The internet ain't heading for a crash (first of all because it's _not possible_). ISPs need to buck up and figure out how to GASP spend money on upgrading their goddamn infrastructure.
There's money to be made here, but only on people who can fuck their shareholders gently (and give them some smooches too).
One of my better friends met her boyfriend through D&D. Also, her parents met through D&D.
Although on the same wavelength, she and her family are wiccan.
About $450
Hell for Nerds! I was reading that yesterday and thought it was particularly relevant.
My favorite part is when the girl kills herself because her character died.
Nice Futurama reference.
According to slickypedia, however, any increase in precision of lightspeed would change the length of the meter, instead. Imagine the bedlam- meter sticks everywhere would be obsolete!
Oh christ, this is some crap. Tell me exactly how someone can be statistically happier? Before I quote Mark Twain on this one, why do people enjoy basing their life decisions on statistics? Seriously, do people really become abstinent because they feel like it has an 'empirically demonstrated potential to decrease the chances of my unhappiness'? Does anyone besides me realize how absurdly stupid this logic is? How do you even quantify this?
The biggest problem I find with your post is that it assumes everyone is a monogamist, which isn't true by a long stretch now-a-days. Some singles don't intend to settle down, and don't intend to marry, and this is an increasingly common lifestyle among young adults; possibly, just maybe because we all grew up during the reganist social prohibitionism bullshit that permeates american life to this day.
Rather than seek a sexually satisfying marriage by eliminating all other options, perhaps the better alternative is to find a marriage that is both sexually and emotionally satisfying; a good choice of a mate, rather than the first nice christian girl/boy that comes along.
Long long ago, primitive man made fire. Now, in 2007, Verizon is putting it out.
*woosh, special effects*
Small Child: "One thing you have to realize about extinguishing the fire... there is no fire."
This December...
The Firetrix has you...
Louder isn't necessarily worse, except with MP3 it really is. I'd say there's something to be said for loud music, just not on the pure basis of it being loud. I think the bigger problem is that artists have lost *dynamics*. Fortissimo on its own is okay- listen to Pink Floyd's Animals and near the end of the record it approaches the volume of a lot of modern music, but there's no contrast, there's no piano or sotto voce to tell listeners what normal sound is. :3
Then again, are CDs inferior to vinyl by definition, since you lose frequency ranges on the compact disc that are available in vinyl format?
As it was intended. Also, I had some extra karma to burn, so I figured why not flame. (but whatthefuck, I got +5 on that shit?!)
Also, in way after "disregard that I suck cocks".
protip: it's not that either.
So?! It's better than me giving up driving my SUV to work every day! Those damn communists want me to take the *TRAIN* to work from 20 miles out of town, can you believe them?!
You do what you have to for your survival, and I'll do what I have to to maintain my pathetic dependence on petrol!
> A. N. Onymous sends us to OLPCNews for an account of kids' reactions to the OLPC XO
Do I really have to RTFA to figure out WTF this is trying to tell me? IIRC, the OP should actively RTFA and make decoding TLAs a little more fun than being on the receiving end of a DVDA.
*woosh*
"We've analyzed rock samples on the planet Mars and found that, in fact, its red color is not from iron oxide, but from pure revolutionary glory- praise the people's republic!"
I'm commenting on your reply, but you'll have to wait for about a day- please read it, stamps are expensive!
You want to talk about intellectual property? What about these cheap liver-cell knockoffs these mice are producing? I'll bet they're tainted with antifreeze or something...
I have a serious feeling that Metallica's not going to die if they don't sell over 100,000 records. Many artists make money from shows, not discs.
fuck you zonk!
no, I've had enough of your bullshit! take this goddamn article down right fucking now and change the title you worthless fucking excuse for a yellow journalist! For fucksake you READ the goddamn article before you post it, I HOPE.
Fucking immune from moderation troll-assed motherfucker, I will sacrifice my "excellent" karma to bring you down!
Sure, it sounds like "Congratulations on your new mortgage Mr. Shackleford!"
It seems unlikely to me on a few fronts:
1) When you say that *a* creator set in motion all physical and chemical actions/reactions/properties/laws, it would be reasonable to identify *which* creator. Yahweh? Jehovah? Allah? Shiva? Cthulhu? I challenge you to find any divine creation story that actually meets all the physical evidence our scientists have accumulated over the years. Read the creation stories and you'll find:
clear contradictions to what we know is so- there is space above the sky, not water.
2) For a creator to create the ultimate illusion of inexistence- what does it imply? First of all, how do you love something that will hide their existence from you? Or even better, the theory that God makes science 'appear' true, but he really created the world 6,000 years ago: I heard it best described as 'childish, I'm-not-touching-you on a cosmic scale'. If such a God exists, why would you even care?
Finally, in answer to your exercise, please realize that that's not the way science works. Science doesn't get asked "why" and deliver an answer immediately- the "why" is what drives science to poke and prod and use reason to derive an answer.
I thought I'd tack this onto the FP, but the OP is severely mistaken. First of all, Ingo was the one who finally submitted the patch, and it was also Ingo who made the 'faster than all the improvements over the last 10 years combined' statement.
If you don't believe me RTFA. I just wish the OP had actually read the article before submitting it.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been kept current
Are you fucking serious? Sure, Darwin's original ideas have been tested and built upon, but the idea of competition driving genetic variance still holds pretty fucking strongly.
See, the thing about evolution is, by most scientific standards of today, a good majority of the principles Darwin outlined in The Origin of Species are actually provable. I'm guessing you think they aren't just because the fundies and IDers are yelling loud enough.
On the more flamebait side, when one of those nutjobs are lecturing in the main mall of your local university, try asking them what they think about crystal lattices- complex, beautiful geometrical structures which will form naturally, and ask if there was an intelligent designer forming the covalent bonds in your ice tray this morning.
Come on, man. 60 more kids and I think their study would be one of the most elite studies ever!
If you don't get this joke, you don't belong on slashdot.
Agreed.
Moreover, if one machine goes down due to security vulnerabilities, and it has my social security number on it...