That's right, because before Youtube came along, everyone who typed in "youtube.com" instead of "utube.com" would get a blank white error page.. oh wait.. that's no f*cking different.
Then again, now people that go to Youtube.com find a site full of wonders in the form of two minute video clips - by the time they remember they really needed to buy tubes their computer time is up (or something..)
Maybe Ted Stevens can sort all of this out, as National Tube Expert.
Microsoft has always been in the HD-DVD camp for obvious reasons (Xbox360), so the only real news here is that Intel has jumped on with Intel. Who cares? Intel is a large company, sure, but does anybody really care which optical storage format a SEMICONDUCTOR company supports? This sounds to me like Microsoft begging anyone it can to support their format of choice.
Yeah, I checked the site myself - I've seen dynamic images created from text before, but not contextually. When I quickly realized via the mildly funny recurring donkey drawing it was fake, I reread the article to find a point. This might have been funny if.. actually no, it's just not funny. boooooooooo
Excerpt taken from a chat session between ESA and NASA lead engineers:
NASA: "Our Mars Rovers are both still going strong, moving at over an inch per day, and finding all sorts of great new types of reddish sand. I could possible arrange to send you some sam-"
ESA: "WATER!! YEAH BABY!! WE pWnEd j0000!!! MWA AHHAHAHAHAH!!"
I'm not going to say for what, but I've received a letter from this fuckwad myself as a small business owner attempting to sell a product using the word "stealth" as only part of the product name. People who get by in life litigating (or just threatening litigation) with no basis are IMHO absolute scum. The state of IP in this country is such that almost any product offering is going to be subject to some sort of IP infraction - it's almost a necessity to either stay under the radar or make enough money to afford defending against meritless cases such as this.
So exactly what kind of similar spin can you put on such GTA missions as backalley chainsaw assasinations (which, mind you, is a mandatory mission to continue in the game)? I'm sorry but to honestly say one can play the GTA franchise as intended with non-violent intentions is delusional.
In America today, how hard you work has very little to do with how successful you are.
You said it yourself. How "hard" you work is only half of getting ahead of the crowd. More importantly, one must apply themselves intelligently. Hard work in the appropriate areas of life DOES have a very high correlation with success. The recognition of opportunity not only takes a certain degree of intelligence, but also the mentality to be on the lookout for such opportunities. A person who has been scraping through every day of their life is most likely not going to be in this mindset (and understandably so under that sort of stress). This being just a segment of the "poor getting poorer, rich getting richer" phenomenon.
Of course much of your post still applies and is accurate. Those who are born into low-income households have a definite disadvantage in almost every way in acheiving the degree of worldly knowledge necessary to make the right decisions leading to success.
Only on slashdot would the "Dimes project" relate to mapping various nodes of the Internet... and to think 99.99% of this site's viewership is male. What have we become?:)
Okay buddy, you should have known that making any mention of a girlfriend on slashdot requires the accompaniment of pics - if only to help us as a group believe that we too may one day have a female of our own!
In statistics, a spurious relationship (or, sometimes, spurious correlation) is a mathematical relationship in which two occurrences have no logical connection, yet it may be implied that they do, due to a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a "confounding factor" or "lurking variable"). The spurious relationship gives an impression of a worthy link between two groups that is invalid when objectively examined.
I for one wouldn't want to work at these labs - according to the following link on their site one of their researchers believe the equivalent of a black hole is being created in the Heavy Ion Collider as well:
Horatiu Nastase, a member of the high-energy physics theory group at Brown University, has written a paper, posted on the preprint website arxiv.org, in which he claims that collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) produce the analog of a black hole.
Horatiu is referring to a mathematical similarity between the physics of the real world, which govern RHIC collisions, and the physics that scientists use to describe a theoretical, "imaginary" black hole in a hypothetical world with a different number of space-time dimensions (more than the four dimensions -- three space directions and time -- that exist in our world). That is, the two situations require similar mathematical wrangling to analyze. This imaginary, mathematical black hole that Horatiu compares to the RHIC fireball is completely different from a black hole in the real universe; in particular, it cannot grow by gobbling up matter. In other words, and because the amount of matter created at RHIC is so tiny, RHIC does not, and cannot possibly, produce a true, star-swallowing black hole.
This does not mean, however, that RHIC cannot study some of the phenomena that happen in the vicinity of black holes, as explained in a paper we wrote with Kirill Tuchin, also of Brookhaven's theoretical nuclear physics group. The explanation for this begins with Einstein's "Equivalence Principle," which states that gravity and acceleration (or deceleration) are actually equivalent forces. The principle explains why a person going up in an elevator feels slightly heavier, just as they would if gravity on Earth were stronger.
In the same way, the rapid deceleration of RHIC ions as they smash into each other for a very short period of time (about 10^(-23) second) is similar to the extreme gravitational environment in the vicinity of a black hole. This means that RHIC collisions should emit a bunch of thermal particles similar to the "Hawking radiation" emitted by a black hole. Since Hawking radiation is the cause of black hole decay, not formation, its existence would be yet another reason that RHIC cannot produce a real gravitational black hole.
Where does anyone claim that Dell has a monopoly, let alone with the type of fervor your random spacing and misspellings seem to indicate? The word is used but never to actually make such a claim. Only on Slashdot will you see people rant about rants that were never made...
Forget RTFA - RTFCs!
I'm assuming of course that the widespread availability of wireless porn will be necessarily accompanied by the introduction of self-driving vehicles. Or, perhaps more realistically, one handed steering mechanisms.
Realistically now - how long before there is ubiquitous single-provider wireless Internet access throughout the US/World? Will I be able to take a laptop on a car trip from LA to NYC and download porn the entire way in say... 2008?
These actors make Jar Jar Binks look like the next Robert Dinero. Hell I had to choose between watching all 40 minutes of this and 40 minutes of old JJ taking a shit I'd have a real decision on my hands.
Acting aside, kudos to the production work. No surprise there either; we nerds are the one doing the CG for the real movies in the first place.
Following your advice, I just watched I & II back to back and to tell you the truth I feel...
*runs to the bathroom, spewing half-digested White Castle sliders through two cupped hands along the way*
Parents are probably a factor, if not the cause in this case as you claim. But AOL should have at least one employee for every online customer to read their conversations in case something like this comes up. They would then need a second teir of employees set up to watch those employees so that cases such as this are shut down before trouble ensues. I would further suggest 5 additional tiers of protection, a sort of check and balance system against untoward acts.
To cap it all off there must be a final line of defense - a "high council" if you will - of people who have proven to be impecably moral, perhaps some of the Catholic Church's best, to oversee the entire operation. Surely then AOL's customer's parents can be confident their children are safeguarded against having to make any decisions for their own well being or god forbid have to take any responsibility for anything that happens in their lives.
In this case I hope the parents make out with billions! That'd show 'em!
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That's right, because before Youtube came along, everyone who typed in "youtube.com" instead of "utube.com" would get a blank white error page.. oh wait.. that's no f*cking different. Then again, now people that go to Youtube.com find a site full of wonders in the form of two minute video clips - by the time they remember they really needed to buy tubes their computer time is up (or something..) Maybe Ted Stevens can sort all of this out, as National Tube Expert.
Microsoft has always been in the HD-DVD camp for obvious reasons (Xbox360), so the only real news here is that Intel has jumped on with Intel. Who cares? Intel is a large company, sure, but does anybody really care which optical storage format a SEMICONDUCTOR company supports? This sounds to me like Microsoft begging anyone it can to support their format of choice.
Yeah, I checked the site myself - I've seen dynamic images created from text before, but not contextually. When I quickly realized via the mildly funny recurring donkey drawing it was fake, I reread the article to find a point. This might have been funny if.. actually no, it's just not funny. boooooooooo
Excerpt taken from a chat session between ESA and NASA lead engineers: NASA: "Our Mars Rovers are both still going strong, moving at over an inch per day, and finding all sorts of great new types of reddish sand. I could possible arrange to send you some sam-" ESA: "WATER!! YEAH BABY!! WE pWnEd j0000!!! MWA AHHAHAHAHAH!!"
I'm not going to say for what, but I've received a letter from this fuckwad myself as a small business owner attempting to sell a product using the word "stealth" as only part of the product name. People who get by in life litigating (or just threatening litigation) with no basis are IMHO absolute scum. The state of IP in this country is such that almost any product offering is going to be subject to some sort of IP infraction - it's almost a necessity to either stay under the radar or make enough money to afford defending against meritless cases such as this.
So exactly what kind of similar spin can you put on such GTA missions as backalley chainsaw assasinations (which, mind you, is a mandatory mission to continue in the game)? I'm sorry but to honestly say one can play the GTA franchise as intended with non-violent intentions is delusional.
There's nothing wrong with his punctuation, numb nuts. But he misspelled aggrandizement.
Paragraphs. Try them sometime. "They're neat! (tm)"
Wow we geeks are really excited about the prospect of a magazine article telling us we can get some!
WTF does Back to the future III have to do with the fall of the Japanese economy? I've racked my brain and can't come up with a single link..??
In America today, how hard you work has very little to do with how successful you are.
You said it yourself. How "hard" you work is only half of getting ahead of the crowd. More importantly, one must apply themselves intelligently. Hard work in the appropriate areas of life DOES have a very high correlation with success. The recognition of opportunity not only takes a certain degree of intelligence, but also the mentality to be on the lookout for such opportunities. A person who has been scraping through every day of their life is most likely not going to be in this mindset (and understandably so under that sort of stress). This being just a segment of the "poor getting poorer, rich getting richer" phenomenon.
Of course much of your post still applies and is accurate. Those who are born into low-income households have a definite disadvantage in almost every way in acheiving the degree of worldly knowledge necessary to make the right decisions leading to success.
Only on slashdot would the "Dimes project" relate to mapping various nodes of the Internet... and to think 99.99% of this site's viewership is male. What have we become? :)
Hooray for them!
More like Orangeariffically!
Ah, the irony. I love my job. -God
Okay buddy, you should have known that making any mention of a girlfriend on slashdot requires the accompaniment of pics - if only to help us as a group believe that we too may one day have a female of our own!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship :
In statistics, a spurious relationship (or, sometimes, spurious correlation) is a mathematical relationship in which two occurrences have no logical connection, yet it may be implied that they do, due to a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a "confounding factor" or "lurking variable"). The spurious relationship gives an impression of a worthy link between two groups that is invalid when objectively examined.
Or for a logical analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_implies_c ausation_(logical_fallacy)
http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/black_holes.htm
From the above URL:
Horatiu Nastase, a member of the high-energy physics theory group at Brown University, has written a paper, posted on the preprint website arxiv.org, in which he claims that collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) produce the analog of a black hole.
Horatiu is referring to a mathematical similarity between the physics of the real world, which govern RHIC collisions, and the physics that scientists use to describe a theoretical, "imaginary" black hole in a hypothetical world with a different number of space-time dimensions (more than the four dimensions -- three space directions and time -- that exist in our world). That is, the two situations require similar mathematical wrangling to analyze. This imaginary, mathematical black hole that Horatiu compares to the RHIC fireball is completely different from a black hole in the real universe; in particular, it cannot grow by gobbling up matter. In other words, and because the amount of matter created at RHIC is so tiny, RHIC does not, and cannot possibly, produce a true, star-swallowing black hole.
This does not mean, however, that RHIC cannot study some of the phenomena that happen in the vicinity of black holes, as explained in a paper we wrote with Kirill Tuchin, also of Brookhaven's theoretical nuclear physics group. The explanation for this begins with Einstein's "Equivalence Principle," which states that gravity and acceleration (or deceleration) are actually equivalent forces. The principle explains why a person going up in an elevator feels slightly heavier, just as they would if gravity on Earth were stronger.
In the same way, the rapid deceleration of RHIC ions as they smash into each other for a very short period of time (about 10^(-23) second) is similar to the extreme gravitational environment in the vicinity of a black hole. This means that RHIC collisions should emit a bunch of thermal particles similar to the "Hawking radiation" emitted by a black hole. Since Hawking radiation is the cause of black hole decay, not formation, its existence would be yet another reason that RHIC cannot produce a real gravitational black hole.
Where does anyone claim that Dell has a monopoly, let alone with the type of fervor your random spacing and misspellings seem to indicate? The word is used but never to actually make such a claim. Only on Slashdot will you see people rant about rants that were never made... Forget RTFA - RTFCs!
I'm assuming of course that the widespread availability of wireless porn will be necessarily accompanied by the introduction of self-driving vehicles. Or, perhaps more realistically, one handed steering mechanisms.
Realistically now - how long before there is ubiquitous single-provider wireless Internet access throughout the US/World? Will I be able to take a laptop on a car trip from LA to NYC and download porn the entire way in say... 2008?
Acting aside, kudos to the production work. No surprise there either; we nerds are the one doing the CG for the real movies in the first place.
I know my grand challenge for the next 15 years is to get laid! Who's with me?
Following your advice, I just watched I & II back to back and to tell you the truth I feel... *runs to the bathroom, spewing half-digested White Castle sliders through two cupped hands along the way*
Parents are probably a factor, if not the cause in this case as you claim. But AOL should have at least one employee for every online customer to read their conversations in case something like this comes up. They would then need a second teir of employees set up to watch those employees so that cases such as this are shut down before trouble ensues. I would further suggest 5 additional tiers of protection, a sort of check and balance system against untoward acts. To cap it all off there must be a final line of defense - a "high council" if you will - of people who have proven to be impecably moral, perhaps some of the Catholic Church's best, to oversee the entire operation. Surely then AOL's customer's parents can be confident their children are safeguarded against having to make any decisions for their own well being or god forbid have to take any responsibility for anything that happens in their lives. In this case I hope the parents make out with billions! That'd show 'em!