And many kids actually later started making their own little games. For FUN. Yes!
Most didn't though. Most just learned the absolute minimum that they needed to start the game (LOAD "xxx",8,1) etc.
My younger two kids could type their own names into the computer when they were about 2 and a half. They didn't know what the letters meant, they just knew that they had to type the same 3-6 letters into this box and that box for them to be able to play their games. Same with playing a DVD on the TV. A toddler doesn't know what most of the buttons do, but if everyone else is busy and they want to watch a DVD then they'll pick it up once they've been shown a few times.
I loved to program when I was a kid, but it wasn't an interest shared by most of my friends. I did love the fact that a lot of computers of that era came with just about everything you'd need to know to start programing, should you be interested. And the fact that if you screwed something up a reboot would put it right again!
I wouldn't call it fucking stupid, the alternative is full HD, and that is still quite expensive.
Unless you mean that you'd prefer a lower resolution, but why would anyone like jagged edges?
Yes you're right it's not that the resolution itself is so stupid, it's just that Windows (which I use on the laptop) doesn't quite understand that a higher resolution in the same amount of space gives tiny tiny dots and, so I end up with text I can't read.
The cheap laptop that i'm using right now has a 15" screen with 1680x1050 resolution. To the left of it is a 19" screen with the same resolution. If all you can find is 1280x1024 screens then you can't be looking very hard at all.
(1680x1050 is a fscking stupid resolution to put on a 15" screen, but that's another story altogether:)
The vast majority of distance commuters freely choose to live in our vast exurbs.
Okay maybe it's a bit different in the US then, in which case we not even in the same argument here. In Australia, it's so expensive to live in the cities that for most people it's just not possible (i couldn't afford it). And even if I did live in the city, it would be exceedingly unlikely I could stay living close to my workplace unless I packed up and moved every time my assignment changed (and took my family along with me, change the kids schools, etc).
Such talented people would certainly have jobs anyway
I don't think this is much like the case of the broken window. Sure there are some very talented people involved who would probably get jobs somewhere else (but where do the people who's jobs they took then get jobs?), but there are also a heap of unskilled laborers and we all know what the market is like for that sort of work at the moment.
The whole idea of the stimulus packages they keep dishing out lately is to keep money moving around. If someone can make an expensive toy that can get rich people to part with some of their money then good on them.
Consider also that your 2.1 million dollars does actually go to keeping a bunch of people employed. It's not like the whole 2.1 million goes out of one wallet and into another. Someone's gotta get the raw materials out of the ground, convert it into something you can actually make stuff out of, actually make stuff out of it, design all the bits and pieces that go together, put all the bits and pieces together, etc.
More importantly, remember to keep the price of gasoline in perspective. Over 100,000km, you'll pay about 5500 dollars in gasoline or diesel at $1/l(about 3.80/galllon), or 11000 dollars at $2/l(about 7.60/gallon). Considering just how far 100,000km is, that's a pittiance.
For some more perspective, I usually travel around 700km/week, which was costing around $120 in fuel. In the newer car the cost is around $60/week. Or $520/month vs $260/month.
Of course, there are the people who travel a few hours to get to and from work each day, and those people's problem isn't the price of gasoline, but their decision to live hundreds of kilometers from where they work.
I live 10km from the office, but we have clients that are considerably further.
To say "their decision to live hundreds of kilometers from where they work" is a bit of an oversimplification too. Some people start out living close to work but then work moves, or they lose their job and just cannot afford to move closer to their new workplace, or your workplace just happens to be a long way away from your spouses and so a long commute for one or the other is the only alternative.
It would be nice if people could stop pointing fingers and judging without having at least some understanding of the issues involved.
I traded up to a more fuel efficient car nearly a year or so. This one is using half the fuel (5.5l/100km vs 11) and the fuel is about 10% cheaper (diesel vs petrol). It cost a bit more but it's saving over $50/week, so on the balance it works out around the same, and it's polluting a whole lot less.
I'm not sure what the going price of a sedan is in US$ but if you did a few hundred miles a day would it offset the price enough to make it less of a jump overall? Or maybe $50K is way over the average cost of a petrol sedan of similar size...
People knew how to put lots of information in a few sentences or at most a couple of paragraphs
Kids these days are good at doing that too aren't they? I'm not sure that it's considered a good thing by the rest of the population. Unless of course you meant real 'information' and not mindless drivel:)
Your ex-gf dumped you for a cyclist with enough energy to go all night didn't she...
He might have the energy, if only he could get it up.
To quote the article (ED = Erectile Dysfunction): "A study in 2002 found that ED can also be associated with bicycling. The number of hours on a bike and/or the pressure on the penis from the saddle of an upright bicycle is directly related to erectile dysfunction."
Well up until now, lack of a cite-able source would have been an objection - I don't think you can just add something to wikipedia that you figured out with a multimeter one night.
Now that we have allpinouts.com though, there is delicious source of sources to cite - put your multimeter derived findings on allpinouts.com, and then add it to wikipedia citing allpinouts.com as a source:)
There are lots of roundish animals that could have been a first step. But none of them will use rolling as a method of movement, presumably because of the difficulty of powering it from inside the sphere.
No doubt that they are bad guys, but to say that they are 'no different' is taking it a little far. How many convenience store robberies have you heard of that have ended badly for the staff? There is a good chance that a convenience store robber is willing to deprive someone of their life to get what they want. A hacker is merely willing to deprive someone of property. They are more like the guy who breaks into the convenience store after hours, with the intent to run away if confronted.
The curious thing is that the typical slashdotter would have some appreciation for the skills required to pull off such a hack (assuming they didn't just find a backup tape full of passwords in the trash:) - we can more readily identify with the nerd in his basement with the world at his fingertips 'sticking it to the man' than we could with the armed robber desperate to get cash for his next drug hit. And we all hate cell phone companies. I don't know what's on the agenda for these guys though... presumably blackmail or extortion.
But when you are king and are rounding up all the hackers, remember to include the guys who are unlawfully downloading copyright material too:)
Or more correctly, it's the difference in voltage that kills things. It doesn't matter if you touch a piece of wire at 3kv (relative to the ground), as long as the rest of you isn't touching the ground at the time. That's why birds can sit happily on a high voltage power line without problems (cancer causing radiation aside:). If there are two birds sitting on different wires, and the wires are at different voltages (eg different phases in a 3 phase circuit) and they touch wings (or even come close to touching for high enough voltages), then they both fry.
In fact, given unlimited funds, how much can we expedite this?
Clearly you haven't thought this through. If we had unlimited funds then we could just _buy_ all the oil we needed, and then send the excess CO2 into space.
(listen carefully... you might hear a whooshing sound if you think i'm serious)
I didn't RTA, but the summary makes no mention of them dropping the Linux version, just going out of their way to say that they think that the Windows version is better, and I'm pretty sure I would be accurate in my guess as to where the funding for that campaign is coming from.
Assuming that you can buy the same version with Windows as you can without(*) then I don't think you'll get your refund.
(*) I'm not necessarily sure that you can though. If you could, it would be immediately obvious to everyone what the cost (for certain values of 'cost') of windows actually is. I suspect that the Windows version will have a slightly different amount of memory, a slightly different CPU, or some other slight difference to mask the price difference between the windows and Linux versions...
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OJ
OJ Who?
Okay, you're on the jury.
Most didn't though. Most just learned the absolute minimum that they needed to start the game (LOAD "xxx",8,1) etc.
My younger two kids could type their own names into the computer when they were about 2 and a half. They didn't know what the letters meant, they just knew that they had to type the same 3-6 letters into this box and that box for them to be able to play their games. Same with playing a DVD on the TV. A toddler doesn't know what most of the buttons do, but if everyone else is busy and they want to watch a DVD then they'll pick it up once they've been shown a few times.
I loved to program when I was a kid, but it wasn't an interest shared by most of my friends. I did love the fact that a lot of computers of that era came with just about everything you'd need to know to start programing, should you be interested. And the fact that if you screwed something up a reboot would put it right again!
Yes you're right it's not that the resolution itself is so stupid, it's just that Windows (which I use on the laptop) doesn't quite understand that a higher resolution in the same amount of space gives tiny tiny dots and, so I end up with text I can't read.
The cheap laptop that i'm using right now has a 15" screen with 1680x1050 resolution. To the left of it is a 19" screen with the same resolution. If all you can find is 1280x1024 screens then you can't be looking very hard at all.
(1680x1050 is a fscking stupid resolution to put on a 15" screen, but that's another story altogether :)
You know what would be cooler? Tiny little sharks with tiny little fricken lasers.
Okay maybe it's a bit different in the US then, in which case we not even in the same argument here. In Australia, it's so expensive to live in the cities that for most people it's just not possible (i couldn't afford it). And even if I did live in the city, it would be exceedingly unlikely I could stay living close to my workplace unless I packed up and moved every time my assignment changed (and took my family along with me, change the kids schools, etc).
I don't think this is much like the case of the broken window. Sure there are some very talented people involved who would probably get jobs somewhere else (but where do the people who's jobs they took then get jobs?), but there are also a heap of unskilled laborers and we all know what the market is like for that sort of work at the moment.
The whole idea of the stimulus packages they keep dishing out lately is to keep money moving around. If someone can make an expensive toy that can get rich people to part with some of their money then good on them.
Consider also that your 2.1 million dollars does actually go to keeping a bunch of people employed. It's not like the whole 2.1 million goes out of one wallet and into another. Someone's gotta get the raw materials out of the ground, convert it into something you can actually make stuff out of, actually make stuff out of it, design all the bits and pieces that go together, put all the bits and pieces together, etc.
For some more perspective, I usually travel around 700km/week, which was costing around $120 in fuel. In the newer car the cost is around $60/week. Or $520/month vs $260/month.
I live 10km from the office, but we have clients that are considerably further.
To say "their decision to live hundreds of kilometers from where they work" is a bit of an oversimplification too. Some people start out living close to work but then work moves, or they lose their job and just cannot afford to move closer to their new workplace, or your workplace just happens to be a long way away from your spouses and so a long commute for one or the other is the only alternative.
It would be nice if people could stop pointing fingers and judging without having at least some understanding of the issues involved.
I traded up to a more fuel efficient car nearly a year or so. This one is using half the fuel (5.5l/100km vs 11) and the fuel is about 10% cheaper (diesel vs petrol). It cost a bit more but it's saving over $50/week, so on the balance it works out around the same, and it's polluting a whole lot less.
I'm not sure what the going price of a sedan is in US$ but if you did a few hundred miles a day would it offset the price enough to make it less of a jump overall? Or maybe $50K is way over the average cost of a petrol sedan of similar size...
Kids these days are good at doing that too aren't they? I'm not sure that it's considered a good thing by the rest of the population. Unless of course you meant real 'information' and not mindless drivel :)
KTHX BYE
He might have the energy, if only he could get it up.
To quote the article (ED = Erectile Dysfunction): "A study in 2002 found that ED can also be associated with bicycling. The number of hours on a bike and/or the pressure on the penis from the saddle of an upright bicycle is directly related to erectile dysfunction."
I think the P.H.D. study is another program altogether. But you are welcome to apply.
You should give The Chaser a call. They might have a spot for you on their show...
What's with everyone creating new units of measure? "We're going to need some 3 Seal Cable for this job!"
I see no reason to have a separate Wiki for this.
Well up until now, lack of a cite-able source would have been an objection - I don't think you can just add something to wikipedia that you figured out with a multimeter one night.
Now that we have allpinouts.com though, there is delicious source of sources to cite - put your multimeter derived findings on allpinouts.com, and then add it to wikipedia citing allpinouts.com as a source :)
If you don't work for Microsoft, no explanation is necessary. If you do work for Microsoft, no explanation is possible.
(with apologies to whoever I paraphrased)
You've never heard of the hoop snake then?
No doubt that they are bad guys, but to say that they are 'no different' is taking it a little far. How many convenience store robberies have you heard of that have ended badly for the staff? There is a good chance that a convenience store robber is willing to deprive someone of their life to get what they want. A hacker is merely willing to deprive someone of property. They are more like the guy who breaks into the convenience store after hours, with the intent to run away if confronted.
The curious thing is that the typical slashdotter would have some appreciation for the skills required to pull off such a hack (assuming they didn't just find a backup tape full of passwords in the trash :) - we can more readily identify with the nerd in his basement with the world at his fingertips 'sticking it to the man' than we could with the armed robber desperate to get cash for his next drug hit. And we all hate cell phone companies. I don't know what's on the agenda for these guys though... presumably blackmail or extortion.
But when you are king and are rounding up all the hackers, remember to include the guys who are unlawfully downloading copyright material too :)
Or sharks? They were over the ocean after all...
Or more correctly, it's the difference in voltage that kills things. It doesn't matter if you touch a piece of wire at 3kv (relative to the ground), as long as the rest of you isn't touching the ground at the time. That's why birds can sit happily on a high voltage power line without problems (cancer causing radiation aside :). If there are two birds sitting on different wires, and the wires are at different voltages (eg different phases in a 3 phase circuit) and they touch wings (or even come close to touching for high enough voltages), then they both fry.
Gah!!! My eyes!!!
If I wanted to read stuff like that I'd sit in a waiting room at a doctors surgery and browse the Readers Digests.
gaps in the original design
I read this as "nobody has any idea how the fusion power technology is supposed to work yet."
1. Invest Money
2. ????
3. Fusion / Profit
Sure there are gaps, but we're already 2/3 of the way there and I'm sure that someone around here knows what step 2 is.
Clearly you haven't thought this through. If we had unlimited funds then we could just _buy_ all the oil we needed, and then send the excess CO2 into space.
(listen carefully... you might hear a whooshing sound if you think i'm serious)
I didn't RTA, but the summary makes no mention of them dropping the Linux version, just going out of their way to say that they think that the Windows version is better, and I'm pretty sure I would be accurate in my guess as to where the funding for that campaign is coming from.
Assuming that you can buy the same version with Windows as you can without(*) then I don't think you'll get your refund.
(*) I'm not necessarily sure that you can though. If you could, it would be immediately obvious to everyone what the cost (for certain values of 'cost') of windows actually is. I suspect that the Windows version will have a slightly different amount of memory, a slightly different CPU, or some other slight difference to mask the price difference between the windows and Linux versions...