OMFG, you are so dumb, itallics and a question mark?
I may be dumb, but I'm not dumb enough to misspell italics. You should also capitalize the first letter in your sentences. However, that requires actual thought, as opposed to being an "internet toughguy" which only requires the will to start trouble. I guess it's alright to act like a brave idiot when hiding behind the "Anonymous Coward" name.
Whenever something goes missing, they assure you that you're in no danger. They don't know where it went, don't know who took it, but somehow they know how it will be used.
"A train car full of finely ground anthrax went missing today, officials have no idea who took it or where it went. But they do know one thing- you're in no danger"
Yet when the police arrest a guy possessing a crudely-made ounce of the stuff, they proclaim that they averted a major catastrophy where millions could have died.
From the article (which is rather lacking in technical details), the display sounds like a holographically-recorded diffractive optical element on a glass substrate. If so, I'm curious how they compensate for the dispersion intrinsic to the diffraction phenomenon (since selling a 15,000 quid monochrome display is probably not a commercially-viable option:-p). Also, since the display claims to be angularly selective (it has to be if it only accepts a specific projection direction), I wonder if it has a similarly selective viewing angle (like early LCD displays, which were only bright and clear at normal incidence).
The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.
Everyone wants to blame someone else. They want to blame the media, blame their video games, blame their friends, etc. But none of these influences is very strong. You should be able to easily override them.
There is one influence, however, that is too strong to resist- God.
The church tells me that God controls everything. When something good happens, it's because of God. When something bad happens, it's because of God also, and he had a good reason for it. Nobody affiliated with the church has ever told me that something is out of God's control. They say he's always in control- he controls all there is.
Therefore I think it's sensible to blame God. God made him do it. God could have overridden this kid's thoughts but he didn't. God allowed it to happen.
So I think instead of blaming the media, the gun makers, the video game makers, or the parents, we should blame Jesus instead. Sue the church. Because as any good Christian will tell you, God is always in control of things and therefore is liable for everything that happens.
(Hey, if you're going to claim that you're in control of everything that happens, be prepared to accept responsibility for everything that happens)
Making a bullet that is precise enough to fit a cartridge and have the proper gunpowder amount is significanly more difficult. Having packed my own bullets before (with my redneck NRA grandparents) it is not easy and that was with all the necessary items furnished for use.
You don't sound very familiar with the concept at all. First off, anyone familiar with reloading your own bullets calls it "reloading", not "packing".
I used to help my dad reload all the time. Making your own bullets was extremely easy. All you need is to melt lead (very easy) and have a bullet mold (cheap). As for the powder, if you do it the "hard" way (which is still easy), you measure the powder with a scale. Or you can do it the easy way and buy a reloading press.
This is not a difficult operation by any means. In fact, most people that are into the shooting sports reload their own bullets all the time.
Most people don't mine for lead in their spare time.
Why would anyone mine for lead when he can take a wheel weight off a car? Or buy a sinker for a fishing line? Or use a big roll of solder from Home Depot?
Bush would do a better job of protecting americans by removing firearms than countering terroism. You're more likely to be killed by a pig than a terrorist - and your around a million times more likely to be killed by a gun than by Osma.
America needs to stop living in fear and start addressing the real threats to society - one of them being the gun culture.
Yeah, that's it- ban the guns and they'll all just go away. Because we all know that nobody will ever produce a supply when the demand is there.
In addition, let's ban those drugs, too. So many problems are caused by people taking drugs. Just ban crack so people stop taking it. Then the problems will disappear.
While we're at it, let's ban murder. If we banned murder you wouldn't have people taking drugs and using their guns on people.
Fighting is a human instinct. I know in today's politically correct world we'd like to believe that humans don't have these "icky" instincts and that we're above all that, but it's a part of us and you can't deny the truth.
Humans, like most higher order animals have fighting in their blood. When we're little boys, we playfight. Puppies playfight. Kittens playfight. My ferret playfought. Nobody has to teach you to do that, we do it on their own. How many little boys do you know that never playfought?
People love to fight. Even if we don't participate in it, most people like to watch it. How can you tell when there's a fight? Look for the crowd of people watching. They might say how horrible it is, but they can't stop watching, because deep down inside it's something that they want to see.
Violence is a part of human nature, get used to it.
Read about the D.C. sniper case and get back to me. That kid had no wish to kill even though he was a good shot at the range. Only after playing a video game at the insistence of the older guy, did he gain the wish to kill.
That is an extremely weak argument. Hanging around a felon isn't a bad influence, but playing video games is. Ugh. What about the millions of other kids who play the same games, how come they don't all go berserk?
lol, that article was pure genius. First time I've seen it.
It also confims my suspicions about "experts" in some fields. Make something so abstract and convoluted that logical conventions no longer apply to them. Also as a benefit, that gives the opportunity for various "experts" to have wildly different and even completely conflicting views on a yes/no question and still be considered correct.
Look at it this way - no executive or manager is going to tell their staff to care *less* about customers, are they?
Someone at the movie/record companies came up with the bright idea to sue their customer base. How's that for bad PR? It ruins their company's image in the eyes of the consumers.
I know that downloading the songs/movies isn't legal, but running such a highly visible crackdown campaign doesn't exactly make your company look like a caring company. In fact, crap such as this reinforces the "Big Brother" feel that many people are getting about these companies:
They might as well just have wrote "Big Brother is Watching You". What they're doing is legal, but it's a PR nightmare in front of the consumers. Makes them look more like an oppressive government than a cool media company.
Please explain to me how this "punishes" you for owning a fuel-efficient vehicle? Unless of course, you define "punish" as "making people pay the same amount for traveling the same stretch of road".
Shouldn't people who drive vehicles that wear the road more pay more to use those roads? A light compact car isn't going to wear the road as much as a 7,000 lb Humvee, or a 6,000 lb suburban.
Obviously, this isn't the best way to go about it, but they have a point. If roads are funded by gas taxes, and you're not using gas, you're essentially using the roads for free. They want to stop that.
The money used to pay for the roads was already taken from your paycheck. The department of transportation is part of each state's budget, which gets money from your income tax.
Sony has released so much hype about the PS3 that the kids are whipped up into a frenzy. Nobody is going to buy any new console until they see what the PS3 can do.
I think the PS3 will turn out to be mostly hype. I don't think it will be much faster than the Xbox2, or even as fast. The Cell processor is overrated.
But the kids don't know that. They are easily fooled and have high expectations for the PS3. They are going to wait and see how the PS3 does before they make any new console purchase. Microsoft will be better off releasing their new console shortly after the PS3 comes out and is tested by various websites.
The only reason I can see MS doing this is if Sony isn't planning on releasing before the holiday season, and MS wants to have a system ready by then.
It's also by far the most powerful console on the market. The Xbox itself isn't supposed to be a decoration or a piece of art. It is a machine. Its only purpose is to do work. And it does that work well. It easily outperforms the PS2 and the Gamecube, regardles of how cute they look.
"this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside"
I have no idea what the hell that is supposed to mean. After the comma the sentence just fell apart.
I read some of the other responses regarding Blachford's other inane and idiotic theories. Just because he has has said stupid things in the past doesn't mean everything he says should be immediately dismissed.
While technically that's true, it does mean that you should take the things he has to say with a grain (of a 50 lb bag) of salt.
Someone's past performance is a pretty good indicator of their future performance. This guy has a history of being a loon, so it's helpful to keep that in mind when listening to what he has to say.
Sometimes I wonder how many times you can fool a dog with the same trick. Most dogs learn after a couple times, but some never seem to figure it out.
In this case, we have Sony releasing all sorts of big claims and hype just like they did with the Emotion Engine. Anybody remember that? It's a tried and true tactic meant to generate interest in a product. It leads people to believe that something very exciting is about to occur, a revolution is just around the corner... this time maybe their wildest dreams will come true.
But as usually is the case, and the case with the Emotion Engine, it turns out to be "just another chip". Regardless of all the claims and details on paper, the actual silicon has limitations. Rarely does something revolutionary occur; usually it's more of a modest evolutionary improvement.
But modest improvements don't generate the hype that "amazing, revolutionary" product announcements do, so the PR departments do what works and they try to fool the unsuspecting public.
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OMFG, you are so dumb, itallics and a question mark?
I may be dumb, but I'm not dumb enough to misspell italics. You should also capitalize the first letter in your sentences. However, that requires actual thought, as opposed to being an "internet toughguy" which only requires the will to start trouble. I guess it's alright to act like a brave idiot when hiding behind the "Anonymous Coward" name.
Whenever something goes missing, they assure you that you're in no danger. They don't know where it went, don't know who took it, but somehow they know how it will be used.
"A train car full of finely ground anthrax went missing today, officials have no idea who took it or where it went. But they do know one thing- you're in no danger"
Yet when the police arrest a guy possessing a crudely-made ounce of the stuff, they proclaim that they averted a major catastrophy where millions could have died.
Point out how stereotypes are bad, then proceed to cast your own stereotype about Americans. Brilliant.
One guy wrote that article, there's no need to offend the other 280 million people living here.
I went to England last year and I liked it. Didn't meet too many people like you.
From the article (which is rather lacking in technical details), the display sounds like a holographically-recorded diffractive optical element on a glass substrate. If so, I'm curious how they compensate for the dispersion intrinsic to the diffraction phenomenon (since selling a 15,000 quid monochrome display is probably not a commercially-viable option :-p). Also, since the display claims to be angularly selective (it has to be if it only accepts a specific projection direction), I wonder if it has a similarly selective viewing angle (like early LCD displays, which were only bright and clear at normal incidence).
The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.
The picture that it is displaying contains no information for the 3rd dimension because it was never recorded that way. It's still a 2d picture.
Everyone wants to blame someone else. They want to blame the media, blame their video games, blame their friends, etc. But none of these influences is very strong. You should be able to easily override them.
There is one influence, however, that is too strong to resist- God.
The church tells me that God controls everything. When something good happens, it's because of God. When something bad happens, it's because of God also, and he had a good reason for it. Nobody affiliated with the church has ever told me that something is out of God's control. They say he's always in control- he controls all there is.
Therefore I think it's sensible to blame God. God made him do it. God could have overridden this kid's thoughts but he didn't. God allowed it to happen.
So I think instead of blaming the media, the gun makers, the video game makers, or the parents, we should blame Jesus instead. Sue the church. Because as any good Christian will tell you, God is always in control of things and therefore is liable for everything that happens.
(Hey, if you're going to claim that you're in control of everything that happens, be prepared to accept responsibility for everything that happens)
Making a bullet that is precise enough to fit a cartridge and have the proper gunpowder amount is significanly more difficult. Having packed my own bullets before (with my redneck NRA grandparents) it is not easy and that was with all the necessary items furnished for use.
You don't sound very familiar with the concept at all. First off, anyone familiar with reloading your own bullets calls it "reloading", not "packing".
I used to help my dad reload all the time. Making your own bullets was extremely easy. All you need is to melt lead (very easy) and have a bullet mold (cheap). As for the powder, if you do it the "hard" way (which is still easy), you measure the powder with a scale. Or you can do it the easy way and buy a reloading press.
This is not a difficult operation by any means. In fact, most people that are into the shooting sports reload their own bullets all the time.
Most people don't mine for lead in their spare time.
Why would anyone mine for lead when he can take a wheel weight off a car? Or buy a sinker for a fishing line? Or use a big roll of solder from Home Depot?
Bush would do a better job of protecting americans by removing firearms than countering terroism. You're more likely to be killed by a pig than a terrorist - and your around a million times more likely to be killed by a gun than by Osma.
America needs to stop living in fear and start addressing the real threats to society - one of them being the gun culture.
Yeah, that's it- ban the guns and they'll all just go away. Because we all know that nobody will ever produce a supply when the demand is there.
In addition, let's ban those drugs, too. So many problems are caused by people taking drugs. Just ban crack so people stop taking it. Then the problems will disappear.
While we're at it, let's ban murder. If we banned murder you wouldn't have people taking drugs and using their guns on people.
Fighting is a human instinct. I know in today's politically correct world we'd like to believe that humans don't have these "icky" instincts and that we're above all that, but it's a part of us and you can't deny the truth.
Humans, like most higher order animals have fighting in their blood. When we're little boys, we playfight. Puppies playfight. Kittens playfight. My ferret playfought. Nobody has to teach you to do that, we do it on their own. How many little boys do you know that never playfought?
People love to fight. Even if we don't participate in it, most people like to watch it. How can you tell when there's a fight? Look for the crowd of people watching. They might say how horrible it is, but they can't stop watching, because deep down inside it's something that they want to see.
Violence is a part of human nature, get used to it.
Read about the D.C. sniper case and get back to me. That kid had no wish to kill even though he was a good shot at the range. Only after playing a video game at the insistence of the older guy, did he gain the wish to kill.
That is an extremely weak argument. Hanging around a felon isn't a bad influence, but playing video games is. Ugh. What about the millions of other kids who play the same games, how come they don't all go berserk?
lol, that article was pure genius. First time I've seen it.
It also confims my suspicions about "experts" in some fields. Make something so abstract and convoluted that logical conventions no longer apply to them. Also as a benefit, that gives the opportunity for various "experts" to have wildly different and even completely conflicting views on a yes/no question and still be considered correct.
Look at it this way - no executive or manager is going to tell their staff to care *less* about customers, are they?
Someone at the movie/record companies came up with the bright idea to sue their customer base. How's that for bad PR? It ruins their company's image in the eyes of the consumers.
I know that downloading the songs/movies isn't legal, but running such a highly visible crackdown campaign doesn't exactly make your company look like a caring company. In fact, crap such as this reinforces the "Big Brother" feel that many people are getting about these companies:
http://www.lokitorrent.com/
They might as well just have wrote "Big Brother is Watching You". What they're doing is legal, but it's a PR nightmare in front of the consumers. Makes them look more like an oppressive government than a cool media company.
Please explain to me how this "punishes" you for owning a fuel-efficient vehicle? Unless of course, you define "punish" as "making people pay the same amount for traveling the same stretch of road".
Shouldn't people who drive vehicles that wear the road more pay more to use those roads? A light compact car isn't going to wear the road as much as a 7,000 lb Humvee, or a 6,000 lb suburban.
Obviously, this isn't the best way to go about it, but they have a point. If roads are funded by gas taxes, and you're not using gas, you're essentially using the roads for free. They want to stop that.
The money used to pay for the roads was already taken from your paycheck. The department of transportation is part of each state's budget, which gets money from your income tax.
Sony has released so much hype about the PS3 that the kids are whipped up into a frenzy. Nobody is going to buy any new console until they see what the PS3 can do.
I think the PS3 will turn out to be mostly hype. I don't think it will be much faster than the Xbox2, or even as fast. The Cell processor is overrated.
But the kids don't know that. They are easily fooled and have high expectations for the PS3. They are going to wait and see how the PS3 does before they make any new console purchase. Microsoft will be better off releasing their new console shortly after the PS3 comes out and is tested by various websites.
The only reason I can see MS doing this is if Sony isn't planning on releasing before the holiday season, and MS wants to have a system ready by then.
The Xbox is a fridge.
It's also by far the most powerful console on the market. The Xbox itself isn't supposed to be a decoration or a piece of art. It is a machine. Its only purpose is to do work. And it does that work well. It easily outperforms the PS2 and the Gamecube, regardles of how cute they look.
If you can spread treatments through a virus, you can "seed" virus-spreaders with those treatments, or even vaccines.
Imagine the day when you can go out and pick up a hooker, and gain immunity to various diseases.
I love the "Big Brother Is Watching You" feel to the page now. In fact, they should make that their new marketing campaign:
"Buy Our Products- Or Else"
Go to a casino, bring some foil. Put the chips in your pocket and put one in the foil.
Smuggle it out of the casino and then see what makes it tick when you get it home.
No, most of the original inventors are just victims of revisionist history.
"this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside"
I have no idea what the hell that is supposed to mean. After the comma the sentence just fell apart.
How come when Europe does something, people claim that's it's a great European accomplishment and everyone salutes them.
However when the USA does something and people claim it's a great American accomplishment, people get offended and feel the need to knock NASA?
It's almost as if the political climate on this forum supports the recognition of someone's feats only if they're considered an underdog?
From the very beginning it was reported on here that ground based telescopes would be able to record and reconstruct the data.
This is the first time that I heard them saying that the data was "completely lost".
I read some of the other responses regarding Blachford's other inane and idiotic theories. Just because he has has said stupid things in the past doesn't mean everything he says should be immediately dismissed.
While technically that's true, it does mean that you should take the things he has to say with a grain (of a 50 lb bag) of salt.
Someone's past performance is a pretty good indicator of their future performance. This guy has a history of being a loon, so it's helpful to keep that in mind when listening to what he has to say.
Sometimes I wonder how many times you can fool a dog with the same trick. Most dogs learn after a couple times, but some never seem to figure it out.
In this case, we have Sony releasing all sorts of big claims and hype just like they did with the Emotion Engine. Anybody remember that? It's a tried and true tactic meant to generate interest in a product. It leads people to believe that something very exciting is about to occur, a revolution is just around the corner... this time maybe their wildest dreams will come true.
But as usually is the case, and the case with the Emotion Engine, it turns out to be "just another chip". Regardless of all the claims and details on paper, the actual silicon has limitations. Rarely does something revolutionary occur; usually it's more of a modest evolutionary improvement.
But modest improvements don't generate the hype that "amazing, revolutionary" product announcements do, so the PR departments do what works and they try to fool the unsuspecting public.
And here we are, falling for the same tricks.