Wow, you certainly have a logical line of reasoning down there. Having dark skin automatically makes someone a 'third world person'. Yeah. So is it always preferable to shun less developed countries and people from those countries, rather than trying to help them? The safest thing to do in that case would probably be just to blow them all up, which I guess is what you guys are doing anyway.. eventually you'll probably be killing anyone that doesn't have a pick-up truck.
Any 'calculation' would only have a different result if it first involved a measurement taken locally.. that's probably what you meant anyway
Reading that page and the train/platform experiment, I was thinking that the insider seeing the light beams reach both sides at the same time was a load of BS, but I guess not because when the light bounces back it will even out the journey times (so that if the light was moving relatively slower in one direction then the other beam would also be moving relatively slower when it bounced back in that direction). The observer on the platform has a closer chance of seeing what is really happening in that direction, because he is observing everything from the side.
I suppose if you were to be moving on a train near the speed of light then things could appear to be normal to you, but in reality everything would be moving very slowly as the light would take a long time to travel in the direction that you are moving in, and the electrons orbiting all your atoms and such would be moving slower in one direction? Would electrons even be able to hold their orbit when an atom is moving that fast? Would they be able to effectively hold their bonds or repulsion from other atoms? I would expect that travelling very near to light speed could really mess up anything but pure energy.
Yes, I've obviously never studied physics past high school level:p I find this kind of thing interesting to think about though.
You may be right there, landing a probe isn't that much of an achievement to most people. I know it probably involved some pretty complex maths and physics to get it there, but most people won't care. If it were a manned mission then it really would be 'all of society' watching though:)
His credentials are ofcourse amazing Yes, Metallic even wrote a song about him - originally called "Master of Puppets (and other r/c craft)". It included a prophetic diatribe from him to the spacecraft as it wound its way towards Mars:
Needlework the way, never you betray Line of death becoming clearer Pain monopoly, ritual misery...
Speak to me! Hell is worth all that, natural habitat Just a rhyme without a reason Neverending phase, Drift on numbered days Now your life is out of season I will occupy I will help you die I will run through you Now I rule you too Hell is obviously a reference to Mars, the Red Planet, which we are going to one day turn into an earth-like habitat. Looks like his constant jibing and nay-saying of the Phoenix has paid off anyway, as it has given it a steely resolve to prove him wrong and survive in such a lonely situation.
Excuse me while I sip some more of my special coffee.
It doesn't have to be paid for, it's just a report on what nVidia is saying, it doesn't say that's definitely what will happen. After reading the summary I thought exactly what you are thinking though. The main CPU may lose a little 'importance' when it comes to games and physics simulations, but it's not going away anytime soon..
Giving a description of what hungry people look like doesn't tell me where these people are, and why they are starving? Unemployed? Drug habit? Homeless?
According to you fanbois though Apple is the only correct option, and every reason why we dont like the iPhone is simply a minor complaint that you guys go over and tell us how stoopid we are get this we dont want your fucking iPhone fuck off People who need to press return when they get to the end of a line, instead of letting the text wrap around, and who have to press return at the end of a sentence instead of using punctuation.. are pretty stoopid. I'm glad you've mastered the use of capitals. I don't like iPhones either tbh, but why the attitude about it? Just don't buy one.
Well, I didn't actually mention public transport, I have never really liked that myself either. To get into town from my parents house used to take 25 minutes by car, but since I didn't have a license back then I spent one summer on the bus 1.5 hours each way when getting to work! These days I live in town anyway, but I prefer to walk for 40 minutes uphill to work rather than take a bus when I don't have access to a car!
Lighter cars are definitely the way to go as fuel prices increase. In places with good weather and good drivers (nowhere?) then 100% motorcycles could be good - with sidecars or trailers for families:p
Nope, wasn't a joke. I don't know what families you are referring to then? Malnutritioned seems to imply a lack of proper vitamins. If you'd said starving I might have understood better. I would expect that anyone in the US under 200 pounds would probably count as 'suffering from hunger'.
I had thought it would be more along the lines of categorising pictures into 'PORN' and 'NOT PORN'. Or possibly even 'PORN', 'GAY PORN', 'SHEEP PORN' and 'NOT PORN' if it's really advanced.
Well I'm from the UK, but we have one of the worst records for healthy eating in the world I think (especially in Scotland, where the national food these days is basically deep fat fried fish and chips!). I think it was Sweden that used to be worse than us, but then the government had a big reform, made school meals much healthier etc, and now they are up near the top of the charts for healthy eating:P
Meh.. after having a little look and seeing Jessica Alba's extremely mild reaction, I decided it couldn't be that bad. I watched it, did feel very slightly sick at the idea, but without the smell it was easy to cope with:p The kermit the frog thing was okay, definitely not the funniest thing I've ever seen though.. probably funnier if you watch a whole string of them together.
Thankyou for putting that more eloquently than the poor attempt that I made when answering another reply to my comment.
It may seem harsh, but if you don't crush the root problem then you just end up prolonging the initial problem. People wouldn't beg if begging didn't work.. giving a homeless person a meal (better than money anyway because they can't buy drugs/alcohol with it) is probably a good thing to do, and makes you feel good in the short term, but it still doesn't encourage them to try to find a way out of their predicament. It just does the opposite.
Whenever homeless people are mentioned in this office one of the guys always talks of a time when he caught site of a 'homeless' guy's shoes beneath his sleeping bag, and they were actually some pretty expensive trainers. You can make a lot of money from sitting around doing nothing!
People in third world countries are usually in the "hard working people needing aid through no fault of their own" variety, but as you say, that means that you need to sort out the government and infrastructure rather than try to feed everyone by donations from another country. I respect when people go out and setup wells and such for clean water to improve living conditions, but that is something that a country's own government would do if it actually cared about its populous..
Uh.. so I take it you've never seen that "This program has encountered an error, would you like to send a report to microsoft?" dialog in MS software, which you have to *pay* for (rather then *choosing* to donate to if you wish)? Completely destroys your troll..
Yeah I'm making assumptions which may not be valid, but in the end it's up to this guy how he wants to spend his own money anyway.
I think the world could do with quite a bit of wealth redistribution, but I usually think of it as a rather fruitless exercise when any money that goes into certain countries just gets frittered away by a corrupt government rather than actually helping the people in poor conditions. I give 10% of my money to the church because I know that they will spread it amongst many different good causes, though I'm thinking about stopping that and maybe just giving directly to some charities. Donating to FOSS OSes doesn't seem like that bad an idea, because then any country that is on the proper path to education and such will have good free software to work with, and not have to pay the Microsoft tax. Is that not worth $10 out of every million?
I feel like a dick when I consider that I don't want to put more money towards a country controlled by a corrupt government, when if I was one of the inhabitants of that country I'd probably appreciate any aid provided by outsiders, but really it just seems that it's not going to do any good in the long run. I would have much rather seen GWB invade Uganda rather than Iraq for example, though I'm not convinced invasion is the best way to sort out a government either (not that I know any better ways myself, but I am not an economist or very well versed on international politics as you can maybe tell).
The price of anything hits harder for those that make less money (apart from income tax or equivalent). Unless you want to become communist or socialist then you can't do much about it. How far do you have to travel to work? I think for just commuting I'd spend less than 1% of my gross salary per year, but that's only a commute of about 3 miles a day.. I'm now making almost twice what I made as a student though:) I think including all the fuel I buy each year it would come to about 3% total of my wages.
I've just been banned from driving anyway so I don't have to worry about all this just now:p
Maybe someone who has to spend 10% of their income just to commute needs to look at a more efficient method of commuting? Motorcycles, or even bicycles? And if they have to commute 50 miles or something to work then they should look into either relocating their house, their job, or looking into telecommuting. I know that is very difficult for a lot of scenarios, of course - but Americans tend to drive unnecessarily large cars with unecessarily large engines, and think that 30mpg is 'fuel efficient'. My diesel hatchback was getting 36mpg even though I thrash it all the time. If I drove like an old lady I could probably get more 40mpg out of it even around town, and about 50-60mpg out on intercity roads.. likewise when I had my little motorbike I probably got 70 mpg or more. The only reason I don't still have a motorbike is that it got stolen so I realised I'd need a place with a garage if I wanted to have a motorbike:(
I understand that the distance between cities, or even travel distances inside cities, are much higher in America - but the price of fuel is still insanely cheap compared to over here in the UK (though at lot of the difference is tax). I saw diesel for £1.30 a litre.. that's like $10 a gallon isn't it? It's sad to hear people whine so much when they don't realise just how good they have it. "Oh no, I can't drive my SUV to work any more! I need all that space in the back and front to.. uh.. hmm". People who need an SUV for work should have their fuel paid by their employers anyway. Other people who just use SUVs to occasionally haul wood or whatever excuse they use, would be better off driving a smaller car and renting a truck whenever they really need it. And by 'small' car I don't mean a BMW 3 series or equivalent. I mean like Honda Civic size or even smaller. I couldn't believe how big the roads and cars were when I visited Canada.. and I imagine the US is very similar.
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Wow, you certainly have a logical line of reasoning down there. Having dark skin automatically makes someone a 'third world person'. Yeah. So is it always preferable to shun less developed countries and people from those countries, rather than trying to help them? The safest thing to do in that case would probably be just to blow them all up, which I guess is what you guys are doing anyway.. eventually you'll probably be killing anyone that doesn't have a pick-up truck.
Any 'calculation' would only have a different result if it first involved a measurement taken locally.. that's probably what you meant anyway
:p I find this kind of thing interesting to think about though.
Reading that page and the train/platform experiment, I was thinking that the insider seeing the light beams reach both sides at the same time was a load of BS, but I guess not because when the light bounces back it will even out the journey times (so that if the light was moving relatively slower in one direction then the other beam would also be moving relatively slower when it bounced back in that direction). The observer on the platform has a closer chance of seeing what is really happening in that direction, because he is observing everything from the side.
I suppose if you were to be moving on a train near the speed of light then things could appear to be normal to you, but in reality everything would be moving very slowly as the light would take a long time to travel in the direction that you are moving in, and the electrons orbiting all your atoms and such would be moving slower in one direction? Would electrons even be able to hold their orbit when an atom is moving that fast? Would they be able to effectively hold their bonds or repulsion from other atoms? I would expect that travelling very near to light speed could really mess up anything but pure energy.
Yes, I've obviously never studied physics past high school level
You may be right there, landing a probe isn't that much of an achievement to most people. I know it probably involved some pretty complex maths and physics to get it there, but most people won't care. If it were a manned mission then it really would be 'all of society' watching though :)
You can't really be sure can you? They may have Deceptively disguised themselves as small pebbles.
WTF, how did Rick Astley get to Mars?
Line of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Speak to me!
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending phase, Drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too Hell is obviously a reference to Mars, the Red Planet, which we are going to one day turn into an earth-like habitat. Looks like his constant jibing and nay-saying of the Phoenix has paid off anyway, as it has given it a steely resolve to prove him wrong and survive in such a lonely situation.
Excuse me while I sip some more of my special coffee.
It doesn't have to be paid for, it's just a report on what nVidia is saying, it doesn't say that's definitely what will happen. After reading the summary I thought exactly what you are thinking though. The main CPU may lose a little 'importance' when it comes to games and physics simulations, but it's not going away anytime soon..
Giving a description of what hungry people look like doesn't tell me where these people are, and why they are starving? Unemployed? Drug habit? Homeless?
Apple is the only correct option, and every reason why we dont like the iPhone
is simply a minor complaint that you guys go over and tell us how stoopid we are
get this
we dont want your fucking iPhone
fuck off People who need to press return when they get to the end of a line, instead of letting the text wrap around, and who have to press return at the end of a sentence instead of using punctuation.. are pretty stoopid. I'm glad you've mastered the use of capitals. I don't like iPhones either tbh, but why the attitude about it? Just don't buy one.
Well, I didn't actually mention public transport, I have never really liked that myself either. To get into town from my parents house used to take 25 minutes by car, but since I didn't have a license back then I spent one summer on the bus 1.5 hours each way when getting to work! These days I live in town anyway, but I prefer to walk for 40 minutes uphill to work rather than take a bus when I don't have access to a car!
:p
Lighter cars are definitely the way to go as fuel prices increase. In places with good weather and good drivers (nowhere?) then 100% motorcycles could be good - with sidecars or trailers for families
Nope, wasn't a joke. I don't know what families you are referring to then? Malnutritioned seems to imply a lack of proper vitamins. If you'd said starving I might have understood better. I would expect that anyone in the US under 200 pounds would probably count as 'suffering from hunger'.
Yes, that last bit was a joke.
It's one of his more useful everyday skills
I had thought it would be more along the lines of categorising pictures into 'PORN' and 'NOT PORN'. Or possibly even 'PORN', 'GAY PORN', 'SHEEP PORN' and 'NOT PORN' if it's really advanced.
He can't have been - that's just a random open source project, not important enough for the likes of him to think about!
Well I'm from the UK, but we have one of the worst records for healthy eating in the world I think (especially in Scotland, where the national food these days is basically deep fat fried fish and chips!). I think it was Sweden that used to be worse than us, but then the government had a big reform, made school meals much healthier etc, and now they are up near the top of the charts for healthy eating :P
Meh.. after having a little look and seeing Jessica Alba's extremely mild reaction, I decided it couldn't be that bad. I watched it, did feel very slightly sick at the idea, but without the smell it was easy to cope with :p The kermit the frog thing was okay, definitely not the funniest thing I've ever seen though.. probably funnier if you watch a whole string of them together.
Thankyou for putting that more eloquently than the poor attempt that I made when answering another reply to my comment.
It may seem harsh, but if you don't crush the root problem then you just end up prolonging the initial problem. People wouldn't beg if begging didn't work.. giving a homeless person a meal (better than money anyway because they can't buy drugs/alcohol with it) is probably a good thing to do, and makes you feel good in the short term, but it still doesn't encourage them to try to find a way out of their predicament. It just does the opposite.
Whenever homeless people are mentioned in this office one of the guys always talks of a time when he caught site of a 'homeless' guy's shoes beneath his sleeping bag, and they were actually some pretty expensive trainers. You can make a lot of money from sitting around doing nothing!
People in third world countries are usually in the "hard working people needing aid through no fault of their own" variety, but as you say, that means that you need to sort out the government and infrastructure rather than try to feed everyone by donations from another country. I respect when people go out and setup wells and such for clean water to improve living conditions, but that is something that a country's own government would do if it actually cared about its populous..
Uh.. so I take it you've never seen that "This program has encountered an error, would you like to send a report to microsoft?" dialog in MS software, which you have to *pay* for (rather then *choosing* to donate to if you wish)? Completely destroys your troll..
Yeah I'm making assumptions which may not be valid, but in the end it's up to this guy how he wants to spend his own money anyway.
I think the world could do with quite a bit of wealth redistribution, but I usually think of it as a rather fruitless exercise when any money that goes into certain countries just gets frittered away by a corrupt government rather than actually helping the people in poor conditions. I give 10% of my money to the church because I know that they will spread it amongst many different good causes, though I'm thinking about stopping that and maybe just giving directly to some charities. Donating to FOSS OSes doesn't seem like that bad an idea, because then any country that is on the proper path to education and such will have good free software to work with, and not have to pay the Microsoft tax. Is that not worth $10 out of every million?
I feel like a dick when I consider that I don't want to put more money towards a country controlled by a corrupt government, when if I was one of the inhabitants of that country I'd probably appreciate any aid provided by outsiders, but really it just seems that it's not going to do any good in the long run. I would have much rather seen GWB invade Uganda rather than Iraq for example, though I'm not convinced invasion is the best way to sort out a government either (not that I know any better ways myself, but I am not an economist or very well versed on international politics as you can maybe tell).
The price of anything hits harder for those that make less money (apart from income tax or equivalent). Unless you want to become communist or socialist then you can't do much about it. How far do you have to travel to work? I think for just commuting I'd spend less than 1% of my gross salary per year, but that's only a commute of about 3 miles a day.. I'm now making almost twice what I made as a student though :) I think including all the fuel I buy each year it would come to about 3% total of my wages.
:p
I've just been banned from driving anyway so I don't have to worry about all this just now
Maybe someone who has to spend 10% of their income just to commute needs to look at a more efficient method of commuting? Motorcycles, or even bicycles? And if they have to commute 50 miles or something to work then they should look into either relocating their house, their job, or looking into telecommuting. I know that is very difficult for a lot of scenarios, of course - but Americans tend to drive unnecessarily large cars with unecessarily large engines, and think that 30mpg is 'fuel efficient'. My diesel hatchback was getting 36mpg even though I thrash it all the time. If I drove like an old lady I could probably get more 40mpg out of it even around town, and about 50-60mpg out on intercity roads.. likewise when I had my little motorbike I probably got 70 mpg or more. The only reason I don't still have a motorbike is that it got stolen so I realised I'd need a place with a garage if I wanted to have a motorbike :(
.. uh.. hmm". People who need an SUV for work should have their fuel paid by their employers anyway. Other people who just use SUVs to occasionally haul wood or whatever excuse they use, would be better off driving a smaller car and renting a truck whenever they really need it. And by 'small' car I don't mean a BMW 3 series or equivalent. I mean like Honda Civic size or even smaller. I couldn't believe how big the roads and cars were when I visited Canada.. and I imagine the US is very similar.
I understand that the distance between cities, or even travel distances inside cities, are much higher in America - but the price of fuel is still insanely cheap compared to over here in the UK (though at lot of the difference is tax). I saw diesel for £1.30 a litre.. that's like $10 a gallon isn't it? It's sad to hear people whine so much when they don't realise just how good they have it. "Oh no, I can't drive my SUV to work any more! I need all that space in the back and front to
Isn't that more "steel/aluminium for gas"? The water doesn't get used up in fuel cell processes if it's done right.
The guy says he hates cars too, so he probably doesn't even know how to be fuel efficient with his driving..
Haven't heard of that one before.. they should have just open sourced it and it may have turned into a semi-playable game.
True, though I thought he had widened out the scope to just all FOSS by the end of the question.