not true. nobody understands vegans. it's as much a religious lifestyle as any other.
also, vegans substitute meat for things like soy. both beef production AND soybean production are the two major reasons the Amazon is being cut down. so vegans are wrong too. we'd just have to stop eating.
but it's not about all or nothing. reducing footprint en masse is much MUCH better than a few wackos completely removing their footprints. we just need to be clever and try to consume a little bit less (hint: if you're so fat you need a motorized buggy to get around, you're probably consuming more food than you actually need to. if you're getting in fights in apple store queues so you can upgrade your iPad 1 to an iPad 2, you probably don't really need that iPad 2).
well, the more commonly practiced form of that is:
"i'll just turn up the morphine until you can't feel pain anymore" (and them some).
it's difficult in cases like TP's where he's not in palliative care - he's not in pain as such, not in the sense that they can justify a morphine drip that increases until he drifts away.
neuroplasticity would allow some semblance of vision.
experiments have been done where a person was able to see images through a rig strapped to their back that applied pressure to a large patch of skin divided into "pixels".
if there's data coming in, the brain will try to use it for something.
care to 'splain how frame support makes browsers slow when we almost never see sites with frames? it'd be a few extra kb on your hard disk, but that aside i don't see a problem.
bloat isn't caused by supporting standard features, however obscure. it comes from trying too hard to do stuff that no other competitor does, and failing at it.
i think the reason firefox is so very slow these days has little to do with frame support, and i doubt that not supporting webp is going to make it render pages faster. it might reduce the chances of a crash, but only if they don't implement webp properly in the first place.
there's a big chunk of face saving involved. i'm thinking in their situation, if people were to panic then they'd be in more danger than if they simply lost face.
you don't want an angry mob at your door if you can do anything to help it.
of course, that mob might just still turn up if only they could find their pitchforks.
any encoder can be SSIM or psychovisually optimized. that's not really a valid argument.
also, JPEG encoders, save for a moment of genius in somebody out there, are about as optimized as they're likely to get. VP8 offers some wiggle-room to make pictures a little better.
the metadata argument is a bit misleading too - any file can be tagged, and most JPEG tagging as we know it is a hack on the original format. no reason that can't happen to another format.
i see no problem with supporting a new format, even if nobody uses it. browsers still support frames, don't they?
i think there's a distinction you're missing between the people fronting the press, and the people on the ground who REALLY don't want things to get worse.
it'd go something like this:
engineer: "we think the core's melted, but the instruments are buggered and we can't actually see for sure. all our modelling points to a core meltdown. we can't confirm it"
PR man: "there is a possibility of fuel damage"
there's not really any lying here, it's more a sort of fear of what the public will do with the information they get.
also, you can't blame a PR person for not wanting to say anything at all - people hear the word nuclear and flip out. they have to be very careful to phrase things in such a way as to look like they're on top of things, not cause panic (nobody really wants that... panic is a big waste of energy), and fulfill their legal obligation to keep people in the loop. it's a tightrope.
sure, they could have done it better, but it's an evolving situation and hindsight is 20-20.
most of those cases are of people being fast and loose with their (incriminating) information. no government intervention required.
there's the rumours of backdoors for the NSA that supposedly everyone needs to include so they can snoop... but so far if that goes on it hasn't hit the news. censored i guess, or lost in the flood of other twitter/facebook stories in the media that involve people being completely stupid and "friending" people who really have no business reading about what they get up to.
We have already developed good technologies for moving piles of dirt around; modifying those to work in lunar conditions would be a simple thing to do.
well, except for the fact that most of these involve internal combustion engines.
i doubt there's enough available oxygen on the moon, but that could be overcome by sacrificing lots of breathable air... or going electric and using the abundant sun:)
doom still rocks. i was slayin cacodemons the other day.
with the rise of the netbook, i'm able to slay cacodemons in bed for a few minutes. better than booting up a desk-bound, noisy monster with a CRT and having to play much longer to justify the effort.
i'll be playing Doom and Carmageddon until i'm too old to shoo away the kids on my lawn.
when wifey hints that my LPs are taking up too much space, or that there's cables everywhere, i simply say "i'll clean up the cables when i'm done with them, but the LPs are fucking staying".
if you can't assert yourself to someone who is supposedly your equal (ie other half), then it's just not going to work.
though with a kid coming in 2-3 weeks, i doubt i'll have an awful lot of time to bugger around with my hobby stuff, at least for a few months.
dude. the reported shouldn't have been dragged into anything until it had been ascertained that the guy speaking at the conference had done anything wrong.
publicly nabbing reporters, for whatever reason, with no evidence, is not a sign of a free press.
i'd understand if somebody had filed a claim of libel because of the published photo, but it seems the police pre-empted even a complaint in this case, and instead of going for the person who actually did the hack, they grabbed the guy who wrote about it online! that's not fucking right, even if "due process" was followed.
just FYI, the police can be a bit rock-headed in Australia. i know of some shocking things they've done, within my own circle of friends.
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It's not about stopping all polluting activity, that's only possible through extinction.
all those rotting corpses would actually emit a serious amount of greenhouse gas.
not true. nobody understands vegans. it's as much a religious lifestyle as any other.
also, vegans substitute meat for things like soy. both beef production AND soybean production are the two major reasons the Amazon is being cut down. so vegans are wrong too. we'd just have to stop eating.
but it's not about all or nothing. reducing footprint en masse is much MUCH better than a few wackos completely removing their footprints. we just need to be clever and try to consume a little bit less (hint: if you're so fat you need a motorized buggy to get around, you're probably consuming more food than you actually need to. if you're getting in fights in apple store queues so you can upgrade your iPad 1 to an iPad 2, you probably don't really need that iPad 2).
well, the more commonly practiced form of that is:
"i'll just turn up the morphine until you can't feel pain anymore" (and them some).
it's difficult in cases like TP's where he's not in palliative care - he's not in pain as such, not in the sense that they can justify a morphine drip that increases until he drifts away.
i'm not sure i want what you're smoking.
but you'll look like you've got jaundice, and that shit's hard to get out of clothes.
does reading comprehension include the ability to comprehend sarcasm?
neuroplasticity would allow some semblance of vision.
experiments have been done where a person was able to see images through a rig strapped to their back that applied pressure to a large patch of skin divided into "pixels".
if there's data coming in, the brain will try to use it for something.
what's that make me? i'm australian and a /.er
I, for one, welcome our new telescopic overlords.
care to 'splain how frame support makes browsers slow when we almost never see sites with frames? it'd be a few extra kb on your hard disk, but that aside i don't see a problem.
bloat isn't caused by supporting standard features, however obscure. it comes from trying too hard to do stuff that no other competitor does, and failing at it.
i think the reason firefox is so very slow these days has little to do with frame support, and i doubt that not supporting webp is going to make it render pages faster. it might reduce the chances of a crash, but only if they don't implement webp properly in the first place.
there's a big chunk of face saving involved. i'm thinking in their situation, if people were to panic then they'd be in more danger than if they simply lost face.
you don't want an angry mob at your door if you can do anything to help it.
of course, that mob might just still turn up if only they could find their pitchforks.
any encoder can be SSIM or psychovisually optimized. that's not really a valid argument.
also, JPEG encoders, save for a moment of genius in somebody out there, are about as optimized as they're likely to get. VP8 offers some wiggle-room to make pictures a little better.
the metadata argument is a bit misleading too - any file can be tagged, and most JPEG tagging as we know it is a hack on the original format. no reason that can't happen to another format.
i see no problem with supporting a new format, even if nobody uses it. browsers still support frames, don't they?
post photos much? png kinda sucks for textures.
i think there's a distinction you're missing between the people fronting the press, and the people on the ground who REALLY don't want things to get worse.
it'd go something like this:
engineer: "we think the core's melted, but the instruments are buggered and we can't actually see for sure. all our modelling points to a core meltdown. we can't confirm it"
PR man: "there is a possibility of fuel damage"
there's not really any lying here, it's more a sort of fear of what the public will do with the information they get.
also, you can't blame a PR person for not wanting to say anything at all - people hear the word nuclear and flip out. they have to be very careful to phrase things in such a way as to look like they're on top of things, not cause panic (nobody really wants that... panic is a big waste of energy), and fulfill their legal obligation to keep people in the loop. it's a tightrope.
sure, they could have done it better, but it's an evolving situation and hindsight is 20-20.
most of those cases are of people being fast and loose with their (incriminating) information. no government intervention required.
there's the rumours of backdoors for the NSA that supposedly everyone needs to include so they can snoop... but so far if that goes on it hasn't hit the news. censored i guess, or lost in the flood of other twitter/facebook stories in the media that involve people being completely stupid and "friending" people who really have no business reading about what they get up to.
lol, i thought RIM's PR dept was quiet lately, but really, posting on /.?
We have already developed good technologies for moving piles of dirt around; modifying those to work in lunar conditions would be a simple thing to do.
well, except for the fact that most of these involve internal combustion engines.
i doubt there's enough available oxygen on the moon, but that could be overcome by sacrificing lots of breathable air... or going electric and using the abundant sun :)
doom still rocks. i was slayin cacodemons the other day.
with the rise of the netbook, i'm able to slay cacodemons in bed for a few minutes. better than booting up a desk-bound, noisy monster with a CRT and having to play much longer to justify the effort.
i'll be playing Doom and Carmageddon until i'm too old to shoo away the kids on my lawn.
interesting point.
when wifey hints that my LPs are taking up too much space, or that there's cables everywhere, i simply say "i'll clean up the cables when i'm done with them, but the LPs are fucking staying".
if you can't assert yourself to someone who is supposedly your equal (ie other half), then it's just not going to work.
though with a kid coming in 2-3 weeks, i doubt i'll have an awful lot of time to bugger around with my hobby stuff, at least for a few months.
i think the locals would be more worried about the comet.
it would suck though. it would be like a dirty bomb over the entire earth.
sarcasm detection algo seems to be a bit off. you might want to adjust some thresholds.
dude. the reported shouldn't have been dragged into anything until it had been ascertained that the guy speaking at the conference had done anything wrong.
publicly nabbing reporters, for whatever reason, with no evidence, is not a sign of a free press.
i'd understand if somebody had filed a claim of libel because of the published photo, but it seems the police pre-empted even a complaint in this case, and instead of going for the person who actually did the hack, they grabbed the guy who wrote about it online! that's not fucking right, even if "due process" was followed.
just FYI, the police can be a bit rock-headed in Australia. i know of some shocking things they've done, within my own circle of friends.
speech is still far from free, and press freedom is somewhat less than what befits the standard of democracy that Australia claims to be.
now, the USA has similar problems (worse problems?), but "other people are doing it" does not really cut it as an argument.
lol, u mad?
i'm Australian and i'm horrified.
AND i read TFA.
i thought that's how cops are supposed to work... arrest first, ask questions later.
they tried it the other way round, but found that people ran away before they got a chance to ask the really important questions.