"Watson even reportedly used the word 'bullshit' within an answer to one researcher's question." - What was the question?
"What is the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything?"
The full answer given by Watson was "What kind of bullshit question is that? You know as well as I do that the Earth requires another 213 years to complete that calculation. Oh, and you might want to get on your way to the local planning department's offices in Alpha Centauri"
(The Bible says that the world was made through Jesus hence intelligent creator.)
uh... no it doesn't. Jesus was the (according to Christianity anyway) savior of mankind. God was the creator of everything. Although, granted all three (God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit) are "God", and simply make up different aspects of the Trinity as a "whole".
Word processors, printer drivers, operating systems, central heating controllers, sequencers, web servers, should be free - games, music compositions, etc. - not so much.
I don't understand - So if I create great software to manage an HVAC system to great efficiency I have to give it away, but if I make Angry Birds I don't? What's the difference?
I took "Free driver/OS/HVAC Controller" as "not encumbered by something*" (i.e. "free as in speech") rather than "not without cost" (i.e. "free as in beer"). Granted I might have it completely backwards...
* = "you need a HVAC with $specs" doesn't count as an encumbrance.
I was seriously disappointed in the lack of a storyline/campaign. Game started with a badass intro movie, and then essentially went to "choose your skirmish map". Not that it stopped me from getting the expansions... was just a shock picking this up after playing back through the original SC (+expansion) campaign for the 100th time.
Where in Steam's Linux page do you see "GNU/Linux"? *Thankfully* they speak about Linux.
Brief Google search shows that "GNU/Linux" is the preferred term according to the FSF, whereas "Linux" just happens to be more commonly used/recognized. So, perhaps GGP poster is a FSF member/supporter/etc?
Then, down the road, there's the smaller, more indie, cinema. Doesn't show as many blockbusters, quite a few indie films, focuses on the smaller, but popular films. Like Life of Pi, Mostly the focus on really good events. I went to see the original cut of Alien and Aliens in there, using the original reels. I missed it, but they also had James Earl Jones taking a Q&A once. They're showing Spirited Away later this month, and I think February is shaping up to be Studio Ghibli month.
Very much this -- we've got a small theater/chain in the area, and they show indie stuff and "classics" all the time (each theater shows a classic on the weekends) for $5/ticket, and only 1-night showing* timed to the season (e.g. horror movies in October, "classic big summer blockbuster" all summer, etc). Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of the big ones; and is shown pretty often (monthly, or every other month).
* well, excepting the original Jurassic Park, where they had to keep it for a week or more because there was that much demand.
Where are people going to see movies these days? Pleasure Island from Pinocchio? I've never seen or heard anyone texting, talking, or whatever on their phones. Granted, it's not a monastery, but it doesn't disturb me or ruin the movie for me.
If you haven't been to the theater in 15 years, how do you know the behavior has gotten worse?
Congratulations on not going to the cinema with black people.
Or teenagers in general. The good thing with the local multiplex is "if you're on your phone and we see it (or someone comes and complains), we're kicking you out, no refund either". No 'chances' for people, just an escort to the nearest exit.
I would assume it's kinda the same way of a non-subscription multiplex. If you're the 401st person for a 400-seat theater, you're not seeing the 00:00 show; so you may be relegated to the 12:05 or 12:10 show (i.e. whatever the next showing for "midnight" is at the theater). If there's only one theater, then they may do something like what the local playhouses do with season tickets, in that you're getting the "Nth Day" showing (e.g. "First Saturday" or "Second Wednesday")
...the casual market with Dust (sucking up to Sony, that can't end well) and WoD
"Sucking up to Sony" with Dust because Msoft wouldn't let them run their own servers (TQ) and not push updates as often as they want (also, IIRC Msoft would've charged for the patches/updates). WOD got backburnered (for the time being) when CCP went off the deep end with EVE/greed is good/etc. Though they seemed to have learned their lesson with not making a bad decision (Incarna) and the last few patches have been pretty good...
Yeah, definitely a shame that it's console-only, but it's (IME, anyway) much more "balanced" than the Cod/MW franchises -- I'm terrible at FPS games, but rather quickly got "useful" with better shield/armour/GTFO skills with a token amount of SP in guns. I'll be taking up station in orbit though (long-time EvE player as well).
I still do not know how to get how much free space there is on a device..
from the terminal, "df -k." will show you the utilization of the current filesystem based on mountpoint.
for example in Cygwin:
$ df -k.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin 302329364 131551300 170778064 44%/
and then you can always choose a different delimiter:
$ df -BM.
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin 295244M 128469M 166776M 44%/
OR
$ df -BG.
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin 289G 126G 163G 44%/
alternatively, removing the (dot) will show all filesystems/mount points, though many of them will hit the same place:
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin/bin 302329364 131551492 170777872 44%/usr/bin
C:/cygwin/lib 302329364 131550980 170778384 44%/usr/lib
C:/cygwin 302329364 131550980 170778384 44%/
C: 302329364 131550980 170778384 44%/cygdrive/c
E: 6828 6828 0 100%/cygdrive/e
F: 7837760 5767264 2070496 74%/cygdrive/f
H: 1181088748 832353144 348735604 71%/cygdrive/h
or, if you want to look at a specific mount without actually going there...
$ df -k/cygdrive/f/
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
F: 7837760 5767264 2070496 74%/cygdrive/f
(aside -- damn you slashcode, and non-fixed-length font)
dunno about how long it'll take _using_ the Pi... but I wasn't planning on using that as the system doing the compiling (I mean, someone somewhere had to compile the OS that are available for download)...
Then again, a Beowulf Cluster of them would be interesting...
Using this 2007 CSX document for the "Real Railroad" information, and assuming HO Scale (1:87.1) there are a few things:
1. Real railroads -- cars start off at ~20~30 (Imperial) tons (i.e. ~40,000~60,000 pounds, or 18-22 tonnes*), and will usually have a maximum weight of ~40 tons (~36 tonnes), or a load weight of 10-20 tons (9-18 tonnes). (Note, most of this is for older cars I've seen/restored... newer things might be heavier, with different loading weights... I model the 1940s, so don't really care)
Model railroads -- cars start off at a few ounces. Per recommended practice, a car should be 1 ounce (~28g), plus an additional 0.5 ounce (~14g) per 1 inch (2.54cm) of length. This results in a scale 40' (10 meter) long boxcar weigh about 4 ounces (114g).
2. Real railroads -- smallest track switches are size 10 (1 unut of divergence per 10 units of distance). Model Railroads -- #4,5,6 are generally considered "small, med, large" with #8+ being considered "nice to have" but generally rare on anything but "basement empires"
3. Real railroads -- curves are absolutely massive.The curves given in the linked document (which only concerns itself industrial/siding track) are considered pretty small, at ~480' radius. Scaled down properly, you're looking at a radius of 5.5 feet (66").
Model Railroads -- 20"radius curves are considered a minimum for most mainline operation (barring long wheelbase steam locomotives, full length passenger cars, and some modern locomotives/cars). 24-26" is about minimum to "run anything you could want", with 30" and larger being reserved for the afore-mentioned "basement empire" sized models
These three things combined (and probably others) are what help keep full-size railroads from "stringlining" the cars (i.e. instead of following this curve ')', the cars try taking the straight path '|'... and derailing). Note that this isn't necessarily an exhaustive list, and there are other factors that can wreak havoc on model railroads that aren't a problem on real ones (e.g. "housecat")
Fun link. I couldn't really tell a difference, but I think it's more a failing of:
a. It's early, and coffee hasn't kicked in
b. shit monitor on this laptop is only tall enough to display one of the bouncy blocks.
The links on that page to other FPS examples that were closer together/side-by-side were easier to distinguish, to the point where 48 v. 60 FPS had a slight (but still noticeable) difference. Since "The Hobbit" is such a hot topic of discussion in this thread, I did see it in 3D (48FPS), and found it *much* more enjoyable than 24FPS 3D movies I've seen (e.g. "The Avengers" earlier this year) simply due to the lessening of the motion blur. Really, the only thing that took "getting used to" was that I kept thinking "holy fucking shit, why haven't we done this sooner!?".
Thing is, I think most of the complaining is more hype than anything, and people wanting to "fit in" -- friend I went with didn't know it was the 48FPS version (though read reviews of it, and kept warning us to not see it), was praising how great it looked -- was fun as hell when the rest of us told him he just sat through the 48FPS version.
It's difficult (and potentially insecure) to control UAVs or send/receive intelligence over these networks,
With this new development I'm sure terrorists with $100 worth of radioshack gear will love taking control of our drones at ludicrous speeds. Since the US are too fucking dumb to turn on authentication on their drone links
it's not the authentication that's the problem... it's that they're choosing to use telnet and/or the r-tools for it.
Let's see, Red Light Cameras, the recent Counter-terrorism unit getting all our private data, strict gun laws, and now this? I think we might be heading into a George Orwell 1984. All we need now is the censorship police and the removal of the first amendment and we can officially say he was right and that we should have expected this.
And here I figured the flyers saying "Thought Police are double-plus good" at the movie theater were just a joke (it's just a small local/indie place... not out of the ordinary to have stuff along those lines)
We are talking about a military organisation. This is their REQUIREMENT of being secure. What would you say if they had provided a google map interface to launch nukes (click where you want it to detonate!) and a little kid found this nice little game and nuked the western half of the country ? Still the kids fault ??
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"Watson even reportedly used the word 'bullshit' within an answer to one researcher's question." - What was the question?
"What is the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything?"
The full answer given by Watson was "What kind of bullshit question is that? You know as well as I do that the Earth requires another 213 years to complete that calculation. Oh, and you might want to get on your way to the local planning department's offices in Alpha Centauri"
(The Bible says that the world was made through Jesus hence intelligent creator.)
uh ... no it doesn't. Jesus was the (according to Christianity anyway) savior of mankind. God was the creator of everything. Although, granted all three (God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit) are "God", and simply make up different aspects of the Trinity as a "whole".
I mean, why bother even having laws against rape if you're not going to enforce them?
I forget; Which box is listed after "jury" in that famous quote about defending liberty?
what is ... ammo?
Boeing sourced their batteries from Dell?
2013 is the year of the Linux Desktop? Alternatively, Raspberry Pi/Arduino/Android devices maybe?
Word processors, printer drivers, operating systems, central heating controllers, sequencers, web servers, should be free - games, music compositions, etc. - not so much.
I don't understand - So if I create great software to manage an HVAC system to great efficiency I have to give it away, but if I make Angry Birds I don't? What's the difference?
I took "Free driver/OS/HVAC Controller" as "not encumbered by something*" (i.e. "free as in speech") rather than "not without cost" (i.e. "free as in beer"). Granted I might have it completely backwards...
* = "you need a HVAC with $specs" doesn't count as an encumbrance.
woooosh.
How many toes are on your foot?
I was seriously disappointed in the lack of a storyline/campaign. Game started with a badass intro movie, and then essentially went to "choose your skirmish map". Not that it stopped me from getting the expansions ... was just a shock picking this up after playing back through the original SC (+expansion) campaign for the 100th time.
Where in Steam's Linux page do you see "GNU/Linux"? *Thankfully* they speak about Linux.
Brief Google search shows that "GNU/Linux" is the preferred term according to the FSF, whereas "Linux" just happens to be more commonly used/recognized. So, perhaps GGP poster is a FSF member/supporter/etc?
Then, down the road, there's the smaller, more indie, cinema. Doesn't show as many blockbusters, quite a few indie films, focuses on the smaller, but popular films. Like Life of Pi, Mostly the focus on really good events. I went to see the original cut of Alien and Aliens in there, using the original reels. I missed it, but they also had James Earl Jones taking a Q&A once. They're showing Spirited Away later this month, and I think February is shaping up to be Studio Ghibli month.
Very much this -- we've got a small theater/chain in the area, and they show indie stuff and "classics" all the time (each theater shows a classic on the weekends) for $5/ticket, and only 1-night showing* timed to the season (e.g. horror movies in October, "classic big summer blockbuster" all summer, etc). Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of the big ones; and is shown pretty often (monthly, or every other month).
* well, excepting the original Jurassic Park, where they had to keep it for a week or more because there was that much demand.
Where are people going to see movies these days? Pleasure Island from Pinocchio? I've never seen or heard anyone texting, talking, or whatever on their phones. Granted, it's not a monastery, but it doesn't disturb me or ruin the movie for me.
If you haven't been to the theater in 15 years, how do you know the behavior has gotten worse?
Congratulations on not going to the cinema with black people.
Or teenagers in general. The good thing with the local multiplex is "if you're on your phone and we see it (or someone comes and complains), we're kicking you out, no refund either". No 'chances' for people, just an escort to the nearest exit.
I would assume it's kinda the same way of a non-subscription multiplex. If you're the 401st person for a 400-seat theater, you're not seeing the 00:00 show; so you may be relegated to the 12:05 or 12:10 show (i.e. whatever the next showing for "midnight" is at the theater). If there's only one theater, then they may do something like what the local playhouses do with season tickets, in that you're getting the "Nth Day" showing (e.g. "First Saturday" or "Second Wednesday")
...the casual market with Dust (sucking up to Sony, that can't end well) and WoD
"Sucking up to Sony" with Dust because Msoft wouldn't let them run their own servers (TQ) and not push updates as often as they want (also, IIRC Msoft would've charged for the patches/updates). WOD got backburnered (for the time being) when CCP went off the deep end with EVE/greed is good/etc. Though they seemed to have learned their lesson with not making a bad decision (Incarna) and the last few patches have been pretty good...
Yeah, definitely a shame that it's console-only, but it's (IME, anyway) much more "balanced" than the Cod/MW franchises -- I'm terrible at FPS games, but rather quickly got "useful" with better shield/armour/GTFO skills with a token amount of SP in guns. I'll be taking up station in orbit though (long-time EvE player as well).
I still do not know how to get how much free space there is on a device. .
from the terminal, "df -k ." will show you the utilization of the current filesystem based on mountpoint.
. / . /
. /
/usr/bin /usr/lib / /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/f /cygdrive/h
/cygdrive/f/ /cygdrive/f
for example in Cygwin:
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin 302329364 131551300 170778064 44%
and then you can always choose a different delimiter:
$ df -BM
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin 295244M 128469M 166776M 44%
OR
$ df -BG
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin 289G 126G 163G 44%
alternatively, removing the (dot) will show all filesystems/mount points, though many of them will hit the same place:
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin/bin 302329364 131551492 170777872 44%
C:/cygwin/lib 302329364 131550980 170778384 44%
C:/cygwin 302329364 131550980 170778384 44%
C: 302329364 131550980 170778384 44%
E: 6828 6828 0 100%
F: 7837760 5767264 2070496 74%
H: 1181088748 832353144 348735604 71%
or, if you want to look at a specific mount without actually going there...
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
F: 7837760 5767264 2070496 74%
(aside -- damn you slashcode, and non-fixed-length font)
dunno about how long it'll take _using_ the Pi ... but I wasn't planning on using that as the system doing the compiling (I mean, someone somewhere had to compile the OS that are available for download)...
Then again, a Beowulf Cluster of them would be interesting...
new project for my Raspberry Pi!
which is also slashdotted apparently...
Using this 2007 CSX document for the "Real Railroad" information, and assuming HO Scale (1:87.1) there are a few things:
... I model the 1940s, so don't really care)
.The curves given in the linked document (which only concerns itself industrial/siding track) are considered pretty small, at ~480' radius. Scaled down properly, you're looking at a radius of 5.5 feet (66").
... and derailing). Note that this isn't necessarily an exhaustive list, and there are other factors that can wreak havoc on model railroads that aren't a problem on real ones (e.g. "housecat")
1. Real railroads -- cars start off at ~20~30 (Imperial) tons (i.e. ~40,000~60,000 pounds, or 18-22 tonnes*), and will usually have a maximum weight of ~40 tons (~36 tonnes), or a load weight of 10-20 tons (9-18 tonnes). (Note, most of this is for older cars I've seen/restored... newer things might be heavier, with different loading weights
Model railroads -- cars start off at a few ounces. Per recommended practice, a car should be 1 ounce (~28g), plus an additional 0.5 ounce (~14g) per 1 inch (2.54cm) of length. This results in a scale 40' (10 meter) long boxcar weigh about 4 ounces (114g).
2. Real railroads -- smallest track switches are size 10 (1 unut of divergence per 10 units of distance). Model Railroads -- #4,5,6 are generally considered "small, med, large" with #8+ being considered "nice to have" but generally rare on anything but "basement empires"
3. Real railroads -- curves are absolutely massive
Model Railroads -- 20"radius curves are considered a minimum for most mainline operation (barring long wheelbase steam locomotives, full length passenger cars, and some modern locomotives/cars). 24-26" is about minimum to "run anything you could want", with 30" and larger being reserved for the afore-mentioned "basement empire" sized models
These three things combined (and probably others) are what help keep full-size railroads from "stringlining" the cars (i.e. instead of following this curve ')', the cars try taking the straight path '|'
Fun link. I couldn't really tell a difference, but I think it's more a failing of:
a. It's early, and coffee hasn't kicked in
b. shit monitor on this laptop is only tall enough to display one of the bouncy blocks.
The links on that page to other FPS examples that were closer together/side-by-side were easier to distinguish, to the point where 48 v. 60 FPS had a slight (but still noticeable) difference. Since "The Hobbit" is such a hot topic of discussion in this thread, I did see it in 3D (48FPS), and found it *much* more enjoyable than 24FPS 3D movies I've seen (e.g. "The Avengers" earlier this year) simply due to the lessening of the motion blur. Really, the only thing that took "getting used to" was that I kept thinking "holy fucking shit, why haven't we done this sooner!?".
Thing is, I think most of the complaining is more hype than anything, and people wanting to "fit in" -- friend I went with didn't know it was the 48FPS version (though read reviews of it, and kept warning us to not see it), was praising how great it looked -- was fun as hell when the rest of us told him he just sat through the 48FPS version.
Just to be sure (slashcode not allowing colors and all) -- "Don't Panic" is supposed to be in red letters, yes?
you sound like someone I know ... though I'd be surprised he has a six-digit UID...
It's difficult (and potentially insecure) to control UAVs or send/receive intelligence over these networks,
With this new development I'm sure terrorists with $100 worth of radioshack gear will love taking control of our drones at ludicrous speeds. Since the US are too fucking dumb to turn on authentication on their drone links
it's not the authentication that's the problem ... it's that they're choosing to use telnet and/or the r-tools for it.
Let's see, Red Light Cameras, the recent Counter-terrorism unit getting all our private data, strict gun laws, and now this? I think we might be heading into a George Orwell 1984. All we need now is the censorship police and the removal of the first amendment and we can officially say he was right and that we should have expected this.
And here I figured the flyers saying "Thought Police are double-plus good" at the movie theater were just a joke (it's just a small local/indie place ... not out of the ordinary to have stuff along those lines)
We are talking about a military organisation. This is their REQUIREMENT of being secure. What would you say if they had provided a google map interface to launch nukes (click where you want it to detonate!) and a little kid found this nice little game and nuked the western half of the country ? Still the kids fault ??
Wasn't there a movie about this once?