I know Amazon is trying to get everone to store everything in the cloud, but I really hope they put a media slot (micro or regular SD) on the new Kindle.
I'm seriously considering the nook tablet over the Kindle or Nexus 7, because I can't imagine doing anything on a tablet that really pushes the CPU/GPU, but I can see needing more than 16gb of storage. And not having a nearby wifi spot for the cloud, or the patience to download everything over wifi instead of swapping out a memory card.
I remember in the '90s overhearing a conversation between two RPGers at my college, waiting for the bus. There was a business-major looking guy in a suit next to them reading a newspaper.
The two nerds are talking about how the Cyber Adepts created the internet to control the world, so it's ironic that the internet is actually diluting their power.
I don't play RPGs, but most of my friends do so I recognize the talk as being about a game. The guy next to them, however, obviously does not know so he seems slightly worried about the apparently crazy people next to him.
Then the nerds start talking about wraiths as if they're real, and then casually mention "It's a good thing we nuked the wraith centers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" and the suit guy's eyes go wide and he comically moves his newspaper up to cover his face. This whole time the nerds are oblivious to how their talk sounds to non-nerds around them.
Hide your powerlevels, guys. Normals are not going to understand.
>Still, overhead sound seems like a good idea for some kinds of movie.
What kind of movie would that be? I already think the surround audio is overdoing it, since your attention is supposed to be right at the screen, not wondering what's behind you.
Recently watched Naussica Of The Valley Of Wind in a local theater, and I'm not sure the sound was even stero; all sound seemed to come from speakers behind the screen. But I didn't care, because it was an awesome movie, with good visuals and audio effects. Some of the music may be questionable, but the orchestral stuff was still tear-inducing.
Actually, yes you have to protect against vacuum, because it would cause decompression sickness (the bends) and possibly actually boil your blood because of the lowered boiling point of water.
True enough, that's what the original old-timer lament was when the university was the main source of new internet users.
The 'endless summer' comes from newer generations of net users and forums where the influx is in summer from all the kids on vacation spending their time online instead of school.
I had a friend who broke his Mac by writing his own drivers for the graphics card. The screen ended up having rainbow streaks and black spots, IIRC. It stayed after switching his driver back, so he broke the hardware somehow - maybe overheated a chip?
Despite this, he got a job writing OpenGL drivers for the chipset mfg (can't recall whether it was ATI or Nvidia). Guess learning through breaking things does work:)
You forgot Peace. There is no strict requirement that the award be for science, and in the past they've awarded the scientific prizes for social policy stuff like wiping out smallpox.
Also, the other awards are given out by different groups as well, according to wiki:
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee."
I used to run Debian, Mandrake, Fedora, played around with a few distros to learn them, and switched window managers every once in a while.
But for the past few years I have been running stock Ubuntu, and not even bothering with Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
It just has gotten to the point where everything works well enough, and I don't feel that there's anything to be gained productivity-wise by futzing around with WMs. Besides, my work gets done on Windows anyways;)
I've actually played around a bit with X Windows's remote windowing feature, which was around years before MS put similar functionality in Windows, but it was a pain to set up and get it working.
Are there any window managers/desktop environments that can utilize X's more esoteric features like these in a simple, uncomplicated fashion? Preferably without messing with the command line.
It may have been about TV, but it also featured the burning of all books and arrest of all book-owners by the state, which is actually more extreme than the Soviets or the Nazis. I think only the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia went that far.
So while it may not have been ABOUT censorship, it was certainly a major theme of the book.
I think the issue is that the more complex and sophisticated an attack, the more people you need, and then you run into an additional problem - for a criminal enterprise, the more people are involved, the more likely it is to be caught, either through carelessness or snitches.
So the "nation-state's backing" doesn't have to mean that a country's intelligence service is actively doing something, but just that they are sheltering and giving legal immunity to a group of civilian blackhats. And maybe free Mountain Dew.
Also, the deployment of this was apparently done using infected media physically planted on people or at the sites in multiple countries, so it would require some more resources than your typical spread-via-internet virus or worm.
Oh please, we are talking about the same party that won Bush vs. Gore the lawsuit, not the election.
What will happen is this: Shenanagins will occur to place Romney as the anointed child of the RNC, the Paul supporters will cry foul and file suit, the suit will wait in courts while Romney goes on to win/defeat in the election, and afterwards the court will decide that maybe some bad things happened and Paul is awarded compensation, but in the meantime the election is over and it's not like anyone will do a re-try with Paul.
That is if he isn't browbeaten or threatened into not filing suit at all.
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I know Amazon is trying to get everone to store everything in the cloud, but I really hope they put a media slot (micro or regular SD) on the new Kindle.
I'm seriously considering the nook tablet over the Kindle or Nexus 7, because I can't imagine doing anything on a tablet that really pushes the CPU/GPU, but I can see needing more than 16gb of storage. And not having a nearby wifi spot for the cloud, or the patience to download everything over wifi instead of swapping out a memory card.
I remember in the '90s overhearing a conversation between two RPGers at my college, waiting for the bus. There was a business-major looking guy in a suit next to them reading a newspaper.
The two nerds are talking about how the Cyber Adepts created the internet to control the world, so it's ironic that the internet is actually diluting their power.
I don't play RPGs, but most of my friends do so I recognize the talk as being about a game. The guy next to them, however, obviously does not know so he seems slightly worried about the apparently crazy people next to him.
Then the nerds start talking about wraiths as if they're real, and then casually mention "It's a good thing we nuked the wraith centers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" and the suit guy's eyes go wide and he comically moves his newspaper up to cover his face. This whole time the nerds are oblivious to how their talk sounds to non-nerds around them.
Hide your powerlevels, guys. Normals are not going to understand.
>Still, overhead sound seems like a good idea for some kinds of movie.
What kind of movie would that be? I already think the surround audio is overdoing it, since your attention is supposed to be right at the screen, not wondering what's behind you.
Recently watched Naussica Of The Valley Of Wind in a local theater, and I'm not sure the sound was even stero; all sound seemed to come from speakers behind the screen. But I didn't care, because it was an awesome movie, with good visuals and audio effects. Some of the music may be questionable, but the orchestral stuff was still tear-inducing.
NS:DC (Not Surround: DIdin't Care)
Actually, yes you have to protect against vacuum, because it would cause decompression sickness (the bends) and possibly actually boil your blood because of the lowered boiling point of water.
True enough, that's what the original old-timer lament was when the university was the main source of new internet users.
The 'endless summer' comes from newer generations of net users and forums where the influx is in summer from all the kids on vacation spending their time online instead of school.
At first I was surprised that there was a new posting with the DEC logo, but then it turns out it's a newbie who doesn't know what the symbol means.
It's summer, it's endless summer...
Let us start a discussion of VAX and Alpha to compensate.
Those of us still grandfathered into the unlimited plan will be forced (when upgrading)
Whelp, looks like I'm going to be stuck with this Palm phone forever. Ah, WebOS, I guess you're not that bad...
I had a friend who broke his Mac by writing his own drivers for the graphics card. The screen ended up having rainbow streaks and black spots, IIRC. It stayed after switching his driver back, so he broke the hardware somehow - maybe overheated a chip?
Despite this, he got a job writing OpenGL drivers for the chipset mfg (can't recall whether it was ATI or Nvidia). Guess learning through breaking things does work :)
The original essay was in Japanese
If only the Japanese would read it and heed its lessons...
I think that's an example of confirmation bias. You don't notice the ones that can pass as women, so the only trannys you notice are the bad ones..
Are you implying that human males who do so don't?
Really curious why you left out men there.
You forgot Peace. There is no strict requirement that the award be for science, and in the past they've awarded the scientific prizes for social policy stuff like wiping out smallpox.
Also, the other awards are given out by different groups as well, according to wiki:
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee."
I used to run Debian, Mandrake, Fedora, played around with a few distros to learn them, and switched window managers every once in a while.
But for the past few years I have been running stock Ubuntu, and not even bothering with Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
It just has gotten to the point where everything works well enough, and I don't feel that there's anything to be gained productivity-wise by futzing around with WMs. Besides, my work gets done on Windows anyways ;)
As we speak, a task force of neckbeards is descending on the area in order to create a 200-mile "proprietary software exclusion zone".
Microsoft computers found within the exclusion zone will be torpedoed and yomped.
I've actually played around a bit with X Windows's remote windowing feature, which was around years before MS put similar functionality in Windows, but it was a pain to set up and get it working.
Are there any window managers/desktop environments that can utilize X's more esoteric features like these in a simple, uncomplicated fashion? Preferably without messing with the command line.
It may have been about TV, but it also featured the burning of all books and arrest of all book-owners by the state, which is actually more extreme than the Soviets or the Nazis. I think only the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia went that far.
So while it may not have been ABOUT censorship, it was certainly a major theme of the book.
At least he wasn't made to be Nookd for a bonfire.
He will now be taking charge of a research program on the effects of alcohol on a brilliant young mind.
Or regular local police as well. How often do you hear of a police-involved shooting being investigated by the same agency that was involved?
Sadly, people who watch Fox News likely do think that way about human languages like Arabic or Persian.
People just see 'that squiggly terrorist-speak' and freak out.
I think the issue is that the more complex and sophisticated an attack, the more people you need, and then you run into an additional problem - for a criminal enterprise, the more people are involved, the more likely it is to be caught, either through carelessness or snitches.
So the "nation-state's backing" doesn't have to mean that a country's intelligence service is actively doing something, but just that they are sheltering and giving legal immunity to a group of civilian blackhats. And maybe free Mountain Dew.
Also, the deployment of this was apparently done using infected media physically planted on people or at the sites in multiple countries, so it would require some more resources than your typical spread-via-internet virus or worm.
Oh please, we are talking about the same party that won Bush vs. Gore the lawsuit, not the election.
What will happen is this: Shenanagins will occur to place Romney as the anointed child of the RNC, the Paul supporters will cry foul and file suit, the suit will wait in courts while Romney goes on to win/defeat in the election, and afterwards the court will decide that maybe some bad things happened and Paul is awarded compensation, but in the meantime the election is over and it's not like anyone will do a re-try with Paul.
That is if he isn't browbeaten or threatened into not filing suit at all.
For once, the relevant comic is not XKCD, but The Parking Lot Is Full
Correct.
Have people on this site forgotten Phil Zimmerman already?
Well, it is Illinois. They technically don't have a government, only competing factional interests, like Somalia.