It's a basic principle of any type of engineering: KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Apparently the Soviet engineers never watched Junkyard Waars.
You see it time and time again on that show. One team builds a simple wrecking ball to tear down a wall, while the other team gets some hydraulics mounted to the back of a semi truck in hopes of ripping the wall down. Well, of course, the hydraulics fail because of either poor engineering or faulty parts, and voila! The simple solution works!
It goes the same in software, but I know you've all heard those examples a dozen times...
Why is this article not in the "It's Funny, Laugh" section? The sheer idiocy and incompetence displayed by this |-|4>And don't make me criticize the "hackersdigest" website for its terrible spelling, grammar, unbelievably bad prose...
Thanks, Slashdot, for reminding me that there are millions of stupid people in this world.
This sorta reminds me of the time when Michael Sims highjacked censorware.org. I advise you all to go and read that article. It's an intriguing insight into the person (I will not use the word "man") that is Michael Sims.
Yeah, that's a good argument. "Because this reviewer viewed an illegally copied and illegally screened pre-release version of a film that's going to make millions, then he's a good guy!" Just because you like the movie doesn't mean that it's not illegal.
You probably support the Napster-supported pirating of copyrighted music too, don't you?
Is it really only 60 days until Episode II hits the big screen? Man, time flies when you're playing video games. I guess I'm just naturally skeptical of anything that seems too good to be true. I also didn't know about this guy's history, and have since been corrected.
So, maybe he's right, and if so, I'm looking forward to the movie. I don't think that I'll camp out, or see it on opening night for that matter, but I'm sure I'll get around to seeing it soon enough.
Me too. It's just en vogue to accuse people of Karma Whoring
Look! Your original post is at +5! Karma Whore!!!! (I always try to keep up with the latest trends);-)
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly Slashdot visitors forget their animosity towards the MPAA.
We have countless stories proclaiming that the MPAA is destroying Fair Use, that they're devil spawn, that thousands of loyal Slashdot readers are boycotting the MPAA....
But then, Star Wars comes out. Lord of the Rings comes out. Resident Evil comes out. And all of the sudden, you're forking over your hard-earned money to these devils.
I have not seen a movie (aside from free TV movies) in the past year and a half. And I won't. I have scruples.
I did read the entire review, and before I posted.
Anakin being a mass murderer? He never says it happens in the film. Hell, I could have told you before Episode I that Anakin is a mass murderer.
Yes, he gives (possible) details about the fight between Yoda and the Count. But who am I (or you, for that matter) to say that he's right? I've seen the picture of Yoda that he mentioned. Just off the top of my head, I though of this: "And you've seen the CD cover with Yoda holding the lightning? Well, in the movie he gets shocked by Count Dooku, but the lightning never penetrates him, it just leaps around his body. Yes, he's that powerful with the Force. The Yoda holds out his hands and the lightning gets coallesced into a ball, which he then sends out into space, since Jedi Masters never use the Force for harm."
See how easy it is to fake a review? I might write one up tonight, pulling my information from fansites (I knew about Yoda's battle months ago) and from ignorant Slashbots (I'll let you figure out who) and post it!
What? You say this guy saw the new Star Wars movie well before it was supposed to be displayed publically? And he has proof of this?
Wait, you mean he has no proof? You mean he gives no sources for his information? You mean everything he says is peripheral information about the film that could have been gleaned from the trailers? You mean that there's no reason to believe that this is real?
I'll also wager that tomorrow, we'll see a Slashdot story detailing how the review was "forcably removed" from the site by Lucasarts (who will deny any involvement, because they're not involved) and "pirated" copies of the text will circulate around the 'net, hyping up an already overhyped movie.
This is not the review you are looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.
You should see this Slashdot article from nearly a year ago. It describes Korean scientists doing this exact same thing, but as a "proof-of-concept" type of thing.
Apparently, some things that Slashbots debunk as vaporware are made practical:-)
Actually, we're both right. The velocity vector can be represented by two components: the magnitude of the vector and the (three dimensional) unit vector indicating the direction. The velocity vector can also be represented by an ordered set of 3 components, indicating the x, y, and z magnitudes, from which you can then derive the form I wrote.
For example, let's say that I'm moving at 30 MPH, and going in a direction due North and vertically (z-axis) at a grade of 10 degrees. That describes the velocity vector perfectly.
Alternately, I can say that I'm moving in the North/South direction with (30 MPH * cos(10)), assuming North to be positive, moving East/West at 0 MPH, and vertically at (30 MPH * sin(10)). That's your three-ordered pair (x,y,z) magnitudes.
Both representations perfectly reflect the vector in question; you say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to. Don't mess with the physicists:-)
I stopped reading the article when he said the following:
The best a chemical rocket can do is get up to speed (burning up all its propellant in the process) and then drift to its destination, like a car coasting down the highway with its engine off. What's needed are space drives that will provide a constant velocity.
As any high school physics student will tell you, burning up your fuel and then "coasting" the rest of the way means that you're at a constant velocity. Velocity is a vector, with two components: Speed and direction. In space, there's no (significant) drag or friction, and so your velocity is constant. If you were to keep burning fuel, you would keep accelerating (assuming an infinite amount of fuel) which anybody will tell you is not a good thing when you eventually want to stop.
I see no reason to listen to somebody talk about physics when he clearly has no respect for the language.
It was reported earlier that companies pay television companies for placement on popular television shows. Some companies pay outrageous amounts of money for placement on the annual "Super Bowl" special, shocking people who view PBS.
It also turns out that some webmasters run banner ads on their websites, being paid money by corporations for key product placement. At a site like Slashdot, for instance, more than a million pages are viewed each day, and the ads are seen there, too.
Finally, it turns out that sarcastic responses on the above-mentioned Slashdot site are often met with poor ratings and insulting replies. Details to follow...
Give me an e-book that I can display on a screen, and I'll make screenshots, paste them together using Adobe, and create a non-protected copy of that work for free.
Oh, you disable screenshots? I'll take a digital camera and photograph it, toss them on my PC, and make a PDF out of them.
Oh, you don't let me take a digital image of it? I'll copy it down onto a piece of FSCKING paper and scan that in.
If people can sue tobacco companies for people voluntarily using their products...
If people can sue gun makers for people being killed with their products...
Shouldn't I be able to sue Microsoft for making an Operating System that allows me to pirate software?
Shouldn't I be able to sue AOL for allowing me to access the Internet?
Yet another example of people unable to make the leap from meat-space to cyberspace.
Hey, for most of the geek crowd, they would be listening to that heavy breathing and try to get a word in edgewise. They might even trace the call and find the person breathing heavily; it was the first time their phone rang in months:-)
Cassidy offers no insight, and even fails to identify the "con" promised by the book's title
The "con" was getting you to buy this terrible book and make him millions of dollars, all without doing any sort of research outside of scouring a few news sites!
To quote Dark Helmet from Spaceballs: "Fooled you!"
...Logitech is sued by God over the use of "mouse"
...Barundi tribes sue every computer user because of their "click" language simulated by keyboard presses
..."Patch" Adams, the famous doctor, is suing Microsoft over their use of "Patch"
I'll tell you what the FTC is talking about: How can we get the corporations more money so they can keep backing our policical campaigns?
I'm constantly amazed at the idealism shown on Slashdot. Politicians are about one thing, and one thing only: How can I get re-elected? The easiest way to get re-elected is to have lots of money to campaign with. The easiest way to get lots of money to campaign with is to get it from corporations. The easiest way to get lots of money from corporations is to use the "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" mentality.
Oh, I agree; education is the key. But I ask you this: Who is going to be receiving these PDAs? It's going to be developed nations. I seriously doubt that they're going to give PDAs to people who are living in poverty and have never heard of the Internet.
We're educating those who are already educated (or will be eventually). I only used hunger as an example... I should probably have used education for a better example of the use of that money.
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You see it time and time again on that show. One team builds a simple wrecking ball to tear down a wall, while the other team gets some hydraulics mounted to the back of a semi truck in hopes of ripping the wall down. Well, of course, the hydraulics fail because of either poor engineering or faulty parts, and voila! The simple solution works!
It goes the same in software, but I know you've all heard those examples a dozen times...
Thanks, Slashdot, for reminding me that there are millions of stupid people in this world.
Your Rights Online, indeed.
You probably support the Napster-supported pirating of copyrighted music too, don't you?
So, maybe he's right, and if so, I'm looking forward to the movie. I don't think that I'll camp out, or see it on opening night for that matter, but I'm sure I'll get around to seeing it soon enough.
Me too. It's just en vogue to accuse people of Karma Whoring
Look! Your original post is at +5! Karma Whore!!!! (I always try to keep up with the latest trends) ;-)
We have countless stories proclaiming that the MPAA is destroying Fair Use, that they're devil spawn, that thousands of loyal Slashdot readers are boycotting the MPAA....
But then, Star Wars comes out. Lord of the Rings comes out. Resident Evil comes out. And all of the sudden, you're forking over your hard-earned money to these devils.
I have not seen a movie (aside from free TV movies) in the past year and a half. And I won't. I have scruples.
Anakin being a mass murderer? He never says it happens in the film. Hell, I could have told you before Episode I that Anakin is a mass murderer.
Yes, he gives (possible) details about the fight between Yoda and the Count. But who am I (or you, for that matter) to say that he's right? I've seen the picture of Yoda that he mentioned. Just off the top of my head, I though of this: "And you've seen the CD cover with Yoda holding the lightning? Well, in the movie he gets shocked by Count Dooku, but the lightning never penetrates him, it just leaps around his body. Yes, he's that powerful with the Force. The Yoda holds out his hands and the lightning gets coallesced into a ball, which he then sends out into space, since Jedi Masters never use the Force for harm."
See how easy it is to fake a review? I might write one up tonight, pulling my information from fansites (I knew about Yoda's battle months ago) and from ignorant Slashbots (I'll let you figure out who) and post it!
Oh, and I don't need Karma, I'm at the cap.
What? You say this guy saw the new Star Wars movie well before it was supposed to be displayed publically? And he has proof of this?
Wait, you mean he has no proof? You mean he gives no sources for his information? You mean everything he says is peripheral information about the film that could have been gleaned from the trailers? You mean that there's no reason to believe that this is real?
I'll also wager that tomorrow, we'll see a Slashdot story detailing how the review was "forcably removed" from the site by Lucasarts (who will deny any involvement, because they're not involved) and "pirated" copies of the text will circulate around the 'net, hyping up an already overhyped movie.
This is not the review you are looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.
Apparently, some things that Slashbots debunk as vaporware are made practical :-)
Surely this is a sign of the Apocalypse...
For example, let's say that I'm moving at 30 MPH, and going in a direction due North and vertically (z-axis) at a grade of 10 degrees. That describes the velocity vector perfectly.
Alternately, I can say that I'm moving in the North/South direction with (30 MPH * cos(10)), assuming North to be positive, moving East/West at 0 MPH, and vertically at (30 MPH * sin(10)). That's your three-ordered pair (x,y,z) magnitudes.
Both representations perfectly reflect the vector in question; you say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to. Don't mess with the physicists :-)
One word: Pokemon.
The best a chemical rocket can do is get up to speed (burning up all its propellant in the process) and then drift to its destination, like a car coasting down the highway with its engine off. What's needed are space drives that will provide a constant velocity.
As any high school physics student will tell you, burning up your fuel and then "coasting" the rest of the way means that you're at a constant velocity. Velocity is a vector, with two components: Speed and direction. In space, there's no (significant) drag or friction, and so your velocity is constant. If you were to keep burning fuel, you would keep accelerating (assuming an infinite amount of fuel) which anybody will tell you is not a good thing when you eventually want to stop.
I see no reason to listen to somebody talk about physics when he clearly has no respect for the language.
It also turns out that some webmasters run banner ads on their websites, being paid money by corporations for key product placement. At a site like Slashdot, for instance, more than a million pages are viewed each day, and the ads are seen there, too.
Finally, it turns out that sarcastic responses on the above-mentioned Slashdot site are often met with poor ratings and insulting replies. Details to follow...
This would destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform (emphasis mine)
This must be the internal, Microsoft-only version of Windows, then. The only Windows that I use is unstable and cranky as hell.
If you can read it, you can copy it
Give me an e-book that I can display on a screen, and I'll make screenshots, paste them together using Adobe, and create a non-protected copy of that work for free.
Oh, you disable screenshots? I'll take a digital camera and photograph it, toss them on my PC, and make a PDF out of them.
Oh, you don't let me take a digital image of it? I'll copy it down onto a piece of FSCKING paper and scan that in.
If it can be read, it can be copied
If people can sue gun makers for people being killed with their products...
Shouldn't I be able to sue Microsoft for making an Operating System that allows me to pirate software?
Shouldn't I be able to sue AOL for allowing me to access the Internet?
Yet another example of people unable to make the leap from meat-space to cyberspace.
Eh, I whored myself all the way up to 50 Karma, and now I'm back down to 40. I've got a little ways to go until I whore myself up again. Whatever.
Fuck Slashdot.
2002-02-14 17:24:02 Texas A&M Clones a Cat (articles,news) (rejected)
Oh, I guess I did! Wow, and to think that I was actually hoping for consistency with the Slashdot editors. I guess that's too much to ask.
In response, please enjoy this goatse.cx link.
Fuck Slashdot.
Mod me down, you $3 crack-smoking moderators, if you dare!
Hey, for most of the geek crowd, they would be listening to that heavy breathing and try to get a word in edgewise. They might even trace the call and find the person breathing heavily; it was the first time their phone rang in months :-)
The "con" was getting you to buy this terrible book and make him millions of dollars, all without doing any sort of research outside of scouring a few news sites!
To quote Dark Helmet from Spaceballs: "Fooled you!"
...Logitech is sued by God over the use of "mouse"
...Barundi tribes sue every computer user because of their "click" language simulated by keyboard presses
..."Patch" Adams, the famous doctor, is suing Microsoft over their use of "Patch"
And, of course, Microsoft patents 1's and 0's :-)
I'm constantly amazed at the idealism shown on Slashdot. Politicians are about one thing, and one thing only: How can I get re-elected? The easiest way to get re-elected is to have lots of money to campaign with. The easiest way to get lots of money to campaign with is to get it from corporations. The easiest way to get lots of money from corporations is to use the "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" mentality.
They're going to uphold the current IP laws because it lets people make patents out of a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.
We're educating those who are already educated (or will be eventually). I only used hunger as an example... I should probably have used education for a better example of the use of that money.