Mates, the pictures are as real as Micheal Jackson's nose. For fuck's sake, the chick lifting her arm looks as if she were bored to dead... And the pieces of yellow stuff look totally PAINTED, with a brush. The bone looks like something cooked, I dare say it's a beef bone from a stew with a steak pasted one layer below... and the Green Hand... The household products in this case haven't been used for making a drug but for making a cheap halloween make up.
The question is: does this drug work only in RGB or also in CMYK?
Heroin is a very bad example as the population of users are now resticted to an elite able to pay the price of good stuff... Here in Europe it's almost unheard off, and from what I konw about the states there haven 't been too many deads in the latter decade or even longer. And if any he/she would surely have died even of the drug was legal as there is no point in altering the stuff being it such a niche market.
It's every year the same with these Solar Alarmists liberals from the IPCC (Iluminaty Panel Chinese Catering) While their stupid theories have been debunked again and again: here : http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/ManBearPig and here: http://thehollowearthinsider.com/archives/18002 How can anybody still believe all these crap from these stupid astrologists, astrophysics and astronauts?
The sun does not exist!! It is just an invention of the international conspiracy of solar alarmists aimed at securing their jobs and selling more sun screen!!!
Sadly. iOS7 runs smoothly, and is quite good... but my wife just bought an Asus Memopad... quad core.. do I have to say more? Well, there are SD card slots, mini USB, animated backgdounds, a 5MP rear camera:_(
I went to the Android marketplace and saw dozens of free developement apps while I'm stuck with a few half cooked ones and have to pay for them
I have seen my colleague from work with his Samsung open an app on top of another:_( and this was an older model
But yes, you are right... they are so amazing... we have to have faith, faith and hope are the last things one can afford to loose
I dropped my iPad a few days ago and it fell at exactly 9,8m/s^2 I did it again after upgrading to iOS7 and same result.
Serioulsy: I don't see it being slow (iPad 3, 32GB) And yes, the above is true, the damn thing drops to the ground every few days, all the corners are completely dented. But... as it was gift from my ex-employer I don't give a fuck;)
Bwahaaaa, Apple fanboys shiver, I'm torturing and abusing one of your holy devices...
Latest news: Norway stops it's sequestration program because it's costing too much and benefits aren't clear. Seems that you where spot on on that mate.
That's not exactly the point the author of the post is making.
The point is that with today's equipment a good musician can do the musical equivalent of a whole banquet of premium burgers for the price of a McDouble.
Just recall that most classics and masterpieces of pop music history have been recorded on 4, 16 and 32 tracks. Nowadays with a good computer and open source software (I mention this because it's cheapest) you just need the hardware and you can record a full featured studio album. And not necessarily bad, not even average. As an example consider extreme metal, a genre where musicians have forcibly to be good, specially in sub-genres like death metal. I assume that this true for other genres too but metal is what I know about.
Sometimes "quality" is not what's sought but the musicians opt intentionally for a "low-fi" sound (think on Bathory) but more often than not excellent quality is delivered even in demos.
Even the very nature of concepts like "band" has changed and instead of the archetypical band with it's fixed members we have to talk about projects in which one or two musicians create whole albums completely alone, get help from fellows in order to record the studio album and later go on tour maybe with different people.
Studios are mostly small and many times belong to members of such projects.
What I mentioned before about the changes is indeed a full-blown paradigm shift as the important concept now is not the band but the artistic product itself. While in the past people made bands to become famous in these niche scenes the key is expressing oneself. So, musicians aren't out for the money and the chicks... but still get enough attention in the scene itself allowing them to tour and sometimes even make a living out of it. Think for instance Fenriz and Nocturno Culto from Deathrone and the whole bunch of bands they have given birth too: When they got pissed off by the whole Mayhem and Burzum affair they just started making death metal, they fancy doing Doom Metal... they create "Fenriz' Red Planet". Just so, they have absolute creative freedom but at the same time are still true to extreme metal and. Compare this to Metallic...bueergh!!! (sorry, had to throw out)
And niche markets aren't small: There are millions of metalheads and I bet millions of any other type of niche-scenesters too, buying CD's, vinils, merchandise and going to concerts, fueling a whole economy of alternative entertainment from bars to distros, graphical artists and even clothing... And all that at a minimal operational cost
On the other side, the mainstream. Operational costs are maximized to a level that's difficult to grasp as not only the bands get their bucks, but everybody from the last executive to the CEO have to drive luxury cars. Promotions have to be done, payolas paid and at the end of the day your product may not be selling enough despite all that.
Just a margin note: Do you know how a yesterday unknown guy suddenly sells 1.000.000 records and becomes a succesful pop-star? Well, he hasn't sold anything: Record companies print the million copies and send them to the distributors and these to the retailers, there you got your million of "sold" copies. Ever wondered where all these ultra-cheap take-3-pay-1 sweepstakes come from? well, now you know.
So, our Big-Record has to pay big bucks for Metallica and their last album happens to not sell shit... or, yes, it sells, but you have paid more in promo, recording, hoes and coke than what the final revenue was... while Darkthrone churns out a few thousands of copies, Fenriz and Nocturno get a few bucks from concerts, beer is free and they may have enough to cover costs for the next full feature.
But we are not talking about history here but about computer engineering and in our world a trojan is not something meant to destroy anything but a means of easing access to a system so that a malevolent user can take control of it without the knowledge of the legitimate user. The etymology is irrelevant and only anecdotal in this case.
The mentioned artefact is called "hardware trojan" by analogy to a software trojan an not because it has anything to do with wooden horses or warriors of the bronze age.
Well, "My Opinion is" is a guarding term on a statement is that the British Telecom market is not competitive. I have no idea what the actual situation is in this case, but the data to proof or disprove is available. And he can actually be right.
Your premise that Opinions and facts are separate concepts is wrong (as you can hold opinions based on proven facts) And your conclusion that opinions can never become facts is also wrong as you may hold an opinion that may be proven and established a fact.
Thus, congratulations, you have made an argument that is formally valid but unsound;)
Inheritance of our traditional European model with huge centralized public phone companies.
In this case we EUrians did it wrong from the beginning. OK, I assume spillting up the physical network may have been difficult technically, no idea. But what we got were private companies (in some countries with the state as mayor shareholder) that worked exactly as public companies... and they are still in possession of the lion's share of the physical infrastructure.
In a small country like mine there have been some improvements as there are a few companies offering broadband and deploying their own infrastructure, but in countries like Spain Telefonica still owns the infrastructure and this is also in a state of utter obsolescence making that "broadband" down there is a joke outside of the big cities, and expensive as hell.
Lol. Have you noticed that the above threat you are answering was just a pun? OK mates, that's an extra point in the Nerd Purity Test.
And taking it from a different angle. it's sad to see that even here in/. Science is on retreat defending itself from idiocy and needing to justify itself
I have 100 EUR. A guy comes and takes 10 EUR without asking.... but I still need to be happy because I can buy nice bedsheets. And kicking the guy in the balls is caused by my sexual frustration, innit?
Quite cool, you are totally right... but I myself would prefer to invest these extra 10 bucks in a few bottles of good Belgian beer.
I may also like to know why it is important to you what happened _after_ the bailout when the important fact is that the bailout actually happened (do you understand it? Bailout = guy taking my money?).
Putting it a bit rougher you have just said that if a guy comes and rapes you in the but you should still be happy because the sun shines and the birds sing happy songs. Mind you, no probs with BDSM mate, but it's not my cup of tea.
Vive la Revolution!!! OK, ok, then came the Napoleons, blah,blah... but mate... and the bunch of fun there was playing bowling with aristocrat heads? I personally prefer 1936-37 in Spain, when the Anarchists took over whole huge factories and maintained the weapons and goods production of the whole Republican army... until they came to a staggering halt thanks to the German Panzers and Luftwaffe. But it was a nice dream. People organizing themselves and proving that Libertarianism (the Real Thing) works even at large scales.
But well, history is history and the past is just dust in cemeteries
There's also the M7 'motion co-processor' which boosts the actions of the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope—in theory, opening the door to more refined motion-related apps, such as ones devoted to exercise."
Any cheap run-off-the-mill's smart phone's GPS is pretty awesome in terms of determining your speed and displacement and so are the cheap accelerometers.
Unfortunately for Apple's hype in sports such as running and cycling, etc, we measure in meters, kilometers, yards and miles meaning that we don't need much refinement for that, we aren't going to die for running a meter more or less after running a 10 miler. And again, it's not that the current and even older devices aren't good enough to be accurate. We are doing sport, for Dog's sake, not origami.
Not to speak that most serious runner's wouldn't want to be seen with a huuuuuge mobile phone attached to his/her arms at no price. Hell, there's even a tradition: "How do you know when you are reaching the front 1/3 of a race?" "When you pass the last guy with an iphone and earbuds"
And weight lifting or other types of fitness simply doesn't need to know the distance and an accelerometer no matter how cool isn't going to improve your bench pressing or squatting in any way.
So much for "improved accelerometers and exercise":P
And I wouldn't have moderated it as "funny" but as "Insightful", because it's not funny, it's just true, and absolutely annoying. It doesn't mean anything for the layman and it just annoys the fuck out of the tech people. And it can even be called misleading if used in a commercial statement.
For fucks sake, it's 2013, even an idiot knows what 500GB look like...
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Mates, the pictures are as real as Micheal Jackson's nose.
For fuck's sake, the chick lifting her arm looks as if she were bored to dead... And the pieces of yellow stuff look totally PAINTED, with a brush. The bone looks like something cooked, I dare say it's a beef bone from a stew with a steak pasted one layer below... and the Green Hand... The household products in this case haven't been used for making a drug but for making a cheap halloween make up.
The question is: does this drug work only in RGB or also in CMYK?
Heroin is a very bad example as the population of users are now resticted to an elite able to pay the price of good stuff... Here in Europe it's almost unheard off, and from what I konw about the states there haven 't been too many deads in the latter decade or even longer.
And if any he/she would surely have died even of the drug was legal as there is no point in altering the stuff being it such a niche market.
It wasn't me I swear!!
OK, Ok, I promise to reduce my beans consumption....
Sorry "Ubuntu-derivatives" ???
Wouldn't you rather mean Debian derivatives ??
Or to be true to the Faith "Debian GNU/Linux derivatives" ?
Crap, you were quicker than me :P
It's every year the same with these Solar Alarmists liberals from the IPCC (Iluminaty Panel Chinese Catering)
While their stupid theories have been debunked again and again:
here : http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/ManBearPig and here: http://thehollowearthinsider.com/archives/18002 How can anybody still believe all these crap from these stupid astrologists, astrophysics and astronauts?
The sun does not exist!! It is just an invention of the international conspiracy of solar alarmists aimed at securing their jobs and selling more sun screen!!!
Sadly. iOS7 runs smoothly, and is quite good... but my wife just bought an Asus Memopad... quad core.. do I have to say more? Well, there are SD card slots, mini USB, animated backgdounds, a 5MP rear camera :_(
I went to the Android marketplace and saw dozens of free developement apps while I'm stuck with a few half cooked ones and have to pay for them
I have seen my colleague from work with his Samsung open an app on top of another :_( and this was an older model
But yes, you are right... they are so amazing... we have to have faith, faith and hope are the last things one can afford to loose
Bwaaaaahaaaaaa :_(
I dropped my iPad a few days ago and it fell at exactly 9,8m/s^2
I did it again after upgrading to iOS7 and same result.
Serioulsy: I don't see it being slow (iPad 3, 32GB) And yes, the above is true, the damn thing drops to the ground every few days, all the corners are completely dented. ;)
But... as it was gift from my ex-employer I don't give a fuck
Bwahaaaa, Apple fanboys shiver, I'm torturing and abusing one of your holy devices...
I am sad, so sad.
This used to be a site filled with nerd wisdom and brainy people.
By the sake of Isaac Newton!
One more of such questions and I'm going to commit suicide.
Latest news: Norway stops it's sequestration program because it's costing too much and benefits aren't clear.
Seems that you where spot on on that mate.
My writings would all be something like:
"Fckng SHIT APP!! #%@#$%, STP WAKING ME UP!!!!!"
Of course, it wouldn't be read by anybody because my iPad would be utterly and totally obliterated after it woke me up for the second time.
Don't worry, when the Horde comes we will have more than enough opportunities to call him Master, ROFL
Kids in Mongolia don't do that, they prefer to gather in huge hordes and prepare to invade the fuck out of the rest of the planet.
That's not exactly the point the author of the post is making.
The point is that with today's equipment a good musician can do the musical equivalent of a whole banquet of premium burgers for the price of a McDouble.
Just recall that most classics and masterpieces of pop music history have been recorded on 4, 16 and 32 tracks. Nowadays with a good computer and open source software (I mention this because it's cheapest) you just need the hardware and you can record a full featured studio album. And not necessarily bad, not even average. As an example consider extreme metal, a genre where musicians have forcibly to be good, specially in sub-genres like death metal. I assume that this true for other genres too but metal is what I know about.
Sometimes "quality" is not what's sought but the musicians opt intentionally for a "low-fi" sound (think on Bathory) but more often than not excellent quality is delivered even in demos.
Even the very nature of concepts like "band" has changed and instead of the archetypical band with it's fixed members we have to talk about projects in which one or two musicians create whole albums completely alone, get help from fellows in order to record the studio album and later go on tour maybe with different people.
Studios are mostly small and many times belong to members of such projects.
What I mentioned before about the changes is indeed a full-blown paradigm shift as the important concept now is not the band but the artistic product itself. While in the past people made bands to become famous in these niche scenes the key is expressing oneself. So, musicians aren't out for the money and the chicks... but still get enough attention in the scene itself allowing them to tour and sometimes even make a living out of it. Think for instance Fenriz and Nocturno Culto from Deathrone and the whole bunch of bands they have given birth too: When they got pissed off by the whole Mayhem and Burzum affair they just started making death metal, they fancy doing Doom Metal... they create "Fenriz' Red Planet". Just so, they have absolute creative freedom but at the same time are still true to extreme metal and. Compare this to Metallic...bueergh!!! (sorry, had to throw out)
And niche markets aren't small: There are millions of metalheads and I bet millions of any other type of niche-scenesters too, buying CD's, vinils, merchandise and going to concerts, fueling a whole economy of alternative entertainment from bars to distros, graphical artists and even clothing... And all that at a minimal operational cost
On the other side, the mainstream. Operational costs are maximized to a level that's difficult to grasp as not only the bands get their bucks, but everybody from the last executive to the CEO have to drive luxury cars. Promotions have to be done, payolas paid and at the end of the day your product may not be selling enough despite all that.
Just a margin note: Do you know how a yesterday unknown guy suddenly sells 1.000.000 records and becomes a succesful pop-star? Well, he hasn't sold anything: Record companies print the million copies and send them to the distributors and these to the retailers, there you got your million of "sold" copies. Ever wondered where all these ultra-cheap take-3-pay-1 sweepstakes come from? well, now you know.
So, our Big-Record has to pay big bucks for Metallica and their last album happens to not sell shit... or, yes, it sells, but you have paid more in promo, recording, hoes and coke than what the final revenue was... while Darkthrone churns out a few thousands of copies, Fenriz and Nocturno get a few bucks from concerts, beer is free and they may have enough to cover costs for the next full feature.
\m/ hail
But we are not talking about history here but about computer engineering and in our world a trojan is not something meant to destroy anything but a means of easing access to a system so that a malevolent user can take control of it without the knowledge of the legitimate user. The etymology is irrelevant and only anecdotal in this case.
The mentioned artefact is called "hardware trojan" by analogy to a software trojan an not because it has anything to do with wooden horses or warriors of the bronze age.
Well, "My Opinion is" is a guarding term on a statement is that the British Telecom market is not competitive.
I have no idea what the actual situation is in this case, but the data to proof or disprove is available.
And he can actually be right.
Your premise that Opinions and facts are separate concepts is wrong (as you can hold opinions based on proven facts)
And your conclusion that opinions can never become facts is also wrong as you may hold an opinion that may be proven and established a fact.
Thus, congratulations, you have made an argument that is formally valid but unsound ;)
Inheritance of our traditional European model with huge centralized public phone companies.
In this case we EUrians did it wrong from the beginning. OK, I assume spillting up the physical network may have been difficult technically, no idea. But what we got were private companies (in some countries with the state as mayor shareholder) that worked exactly as public companies... and they are still in possession of the lion's share of the physical infrastructure.
In a small country like mine there have been some improvements as there are a few companies offering broadband and deploying their own infrastructure, but in countries like Spain Telefonica still owns the infrastructure and this is also in a state of utter obsolescence making that "broadband" down there is a joke outside of the big cities, and expensive as hell.
Neeeeeerds!
Lol. Have you noticed that the above threat you are answering was just a pun?
OK mates, that's an extra point in the Nerd Purity Test.
And taking it from a different angle. it's sad to see that even here in /. Science is on retreat defending itself from idiocy and needing to justify itself
Well, that's like not considering the hands when talking about humans
Nice try.
let's use a little example:
I have 100 EUR. A guy comes and takes 10 EUR without asking.... but I still need to be happy because I can buy nice bedsheets. And kicking the guy in the balls is caused by my sexual frustration, innit?
Quite cool, you are totally right... but I myself would prefer to invest these extra 10 bucks in a few bottles of good Belgian beer.
I may also like to know why it is important to you what happened _after_ the bailout when the important fact is that the bailout actually happened (do you understand it? Bailout = guy taking my money?).
Putting it a bit rougher you have just said that if a guy comes and rapes you in the but you should still be happy because the sun shines and the birds sing happy songs. Mind you, no probs with BDSM mate, but it's not my cup of tea.
Nooo!!
Heaven on Earth!!!!
We want: The beer volcano, the midgets and the strippers !!! Specially the latter.
Vive la Revolution!!!
OK, ok, then came the Napoleons, blah,blah... but mate... and the bunch of fun there was playing bowling with aristocrat heads?
I personally prefer 1936-37 in Spain, when the Anarchists took over whole huge factories and maintained the weapons and goods production of the whole Republican army... until they came to a staggering halt thanks to the German Panzers and Luftwaffe. But it was a nice dream. People organizing themselves and proving that Libertarianism (the Real Thing) works even at large scales.
But well, history is history and the past is just dust in cemeteries
There's also the M7 'motion co-processor' which boosts the actions of the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope—in theory, opening the door to more refined motion-related apps, such as ones devoted to exercise."
Any cheap run-off-the-mill's smart phone's GPS is pretty awesome in terms of determining your speed and displacement and so are the cheap accelerometers.
Unfortunately for Apple's hype in sports such as running and cycling, etc, we measure in meters, kilometers, yards and miles meaning that we don't need much refinement for that, we aren't going to die for running a meter more or less after running a 10 miler. And again, it's not that the current and even older devices aren't good enough to be accurate. We are doing sport, for Dog's sake, not origami.
Not to speak that most serious runner's wouldn't want to be seen with a huuuuuge mobile phone attached to his/her arms at no price.
Hell, there's even a tradition:
"How do you know when you are reaching the front 1/3 of a race?"
"When you pass the last guy with an iphone and earbuds"
And weight lifting or other types of fitness simply doesn't need to know the distance and an accelerometer no matter how cool isn't going to improve your bench pressing or squatting in any way.
So much for "improved accelerometers and exercise" :P
Totally agree!
And I wouldn't have moderated it as "funny" but as "Insightful", because it's not funny, it's just true, and absolutely annoying. It doesn't mean anything for the layman and it just annoys the fuck out of the tech people. And it can even be called misleading if used in a commercial statement.
For fucks sake, it's 2013, even an idiot knows what 500GB look like...
"Libertarian" like here in Europe, like in, "Anarchy", "self decision","self organization"
Or "Libertarian" like "Lemme keep ma gun, no taxes, shoot the abortionist" ???
Well, Australia is fortunately quite far.