Since it's believed that the moon was created by a Mars-sized object slamming into the Earth, it makes sense that the collision could have moved the Earth's orbit at least a little.
The "Wandering Earth" could spark some good SF, though.
Citation? because the AC is correct. I understand how muggles confuse nerd terms, but they've taken OUR word for modifying hardware or writing quick-and-dirty single-use code and we let the muggles mangle the meaning of OUR word! As someone already pointed out, he's not a "hacker", he's a script kiddie. The hackers wrote the code he used for his cyberburglary and cybervandalism.
I never thought I'd see the day when we would be acceptable, let alone the day normal people pretend to be us.
That's what's puzzling me... how can you copyright a magic trick? Doesn't copyright law still say a work must be "affixed in a tangible medium" so that you can't copyright a dance, but you can copyright a movie of that dance?
If telemarketers couldn't get anyone to work for them they would be out of business. If you don't want to catch hell from the public, then get an HONEST job.
I suspect it has something to do with some of the hormones they feed beef, like bovine growth hormone. But when I was in Thailand in 1974, I was a gaint compare to the Thais, who ate hardly any meat; their dists consisted mostly of rice. A couple of years ago we had a Thai intern who was as tall as me, and she said that's normal for them now. Not evolution, of course, but diet.
However, if there's a severe scarcity of plants for an extended period (like after the ateroid strike), larger herbivores are going to starve and not reproduce, followed by larger carnivores starving and not reproducing because their herb-eating food stock has all died. It takes a lot more food to keep me alive than it does to keep a house cat alive.
Why would you want a display connected to the internet?
In short, there's stuff on the internet you can't get on TV; YouTube, for example.
I can very rarely pick up the local CBS affiliate's signal, so if I want to watch Big Bang Theory I watch it streamed from CBS's web site. On my TV. If I want to watch Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning I watch it on my TV -- streamed from the computer. I use the TV as that computer's monitor. Why watch YouTube on a nineteen inch screen when you can watch it on a 42 inch screen?
Murray Leinster wrote a short story about the internet way back in 1946: A Logic Named Joe (full text). In Leinster's story, the internet was censored from the beginning, and Joe, a "logic" (a PC) had a manufacturinig fault that removed the censorship, with all the bad things TMI bring.
I'd say to the GP "You're calling an entitty who is intelligent enough to design and build math, physics, time, and the entire universe an idiot? Only an idiot woud say something so stupid. To think that a mere human could understand the motives of a being that powerful is the very height of idiocy".
I wasn't referring to piracy, I was talking about Hulu and the networks' own web sites. I can rarely pick up CBS, so I simply stream Big Bang Theory from their site the next day.
She wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree, but she knew her stuff. There's another guy with a PhD who's dumb as a box of rocks, but everyone else I ever knew with one was very intelligent.
I found out how to tell the smart ones from the dumb ones -- the dumb ones always add the "PhD" to correspondence and want everyone to call them "doctor". I knew the smart ones for years before I knew they had the degree.
There are several. I'm on BOOST (which was bought out by Sprint). The ToS does say that if you hog bandwith they can cap you, but I use the hell out of my phone; internet, text, email, long phone calls, and never hit the cap. If I do, I'll be pissed.
The telcos should face the fact that landlines are obsolete. When everyone in the house has a cell phone, what possible use would a landline be? I haven't had a landline in over ten years.
"Not weigh a ton" is only a benefit for portable devices, or when you're moving. If my 215 pound forty two inch flat CRT were forty pounds, it would have been missing with the guitars and other stuff that got taken when my house was broken into last year.
Has anyone noticed that humans are getting larger? When I was 20, average height for men was 5 foot nine, now it's six feet.
When food is plentiful, animals get larger, since size keeps one from being easily eaten. When food is scarce, large animals starve while small animals survive, since a small animal dosn't need much food.
You kids are cute in your ignorance. My generation never got violent (hell, we were all stoned on reefer) but our protests got the Vietnam war stopped, we got the draft stopped, we got the EPA instituted, we got equal rights for black people, and the only violence done was done to us.
You kids need to put that cocaine down and smoke a joint. As the Salvor hardin said in Asimov's Foundation, "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
You can get most, if not all, of those on the internet. I cut cable years ago, now it's antenna, internet, DVDs and hard drives. I've had my computer connected to my TV for the last ten years. Seems folks are finally catching up to me.
Well, I'm certainly not ditching my TV. I like watching movies. And although there is comparatively little on TV worth watching (for every History Channel there's four sports channels) and it's getting worse (Discovery Channel used to be full of science and technology, now it's all "trick my truck" and the only show on it worth watching is MythBusters, and even the History channel is going downhill) there are still a few good shows. Big Bang Theory, anyone?
That said, I no more want a computer inside my TV than I want a VCR or DVD or Blu-Ray built in. The whole concept is stupid. When the CPU fan in your TV fails, your TV fails. Meanwhile I've had TVs that lasted for decades -- TVs have no moving parts to wear out, computers do.
I RTFA and it looks like hogwash to me. It said that the adults had to be big to keep from being eaten by their own young. It seems to me that cannibalism would be an evolutionary disadvantage, plus the biggest dinos were herbivores. And I notice that most large animals today are herbivores -- elephants, cows, rhinos.
Perhaps the article was poorly written, but it doesn't seem logical. The only logical part was that the larger animals became extinct when the asteroid hit.
I ask questions about Windows 8 in a story titled "the three flavors of windows 8" and it's offtopic? How in the hell is that in any way offtopic? Whoever modded that comment down should never have mod points again.
Please bring the old metamoderation system back!
Now this comment IS offtopic, feel free to mod it as such.
My ten year old analog TV does that -- I have a computer plugged into it. The only difference is the computer isn't inside the TV. I can bluetooth pictures from my phone, wifi files to it from my notebook, and I use a wireless mouse as a remote control and the internet for "cable".
But nobody's hacked it yet. In fact, in 30 years of computing I've only been hit three times (my house has been broken into more often), none with any permanent damage. The first was the Michelangelo virus I got by putting one of my own floppies (five inch variety) in a computer at work, and learned that being smart is no defense against viruses -- the woman who infected the work computer held a PhD, but she was pretty clueless about computers.
The second time was a targeted attack by a bunch of young people I'd made fun of on my web site (I made fun of everyone, I was the Don Rickles of the Quake world). All they did was replace a picture of a bunch of down's syndrome kids with a basketball team. I wonder of those guys are now lulzsec? It was over 15 years ago.
The third time was when Sony rooted my box with their goddamned XCP trojan. That one really fucked up my computer BAD, took quite a while to repair the damage Sony's vandalism had done.
So judging from my own (admittedly limited) experience with being cracked, I worry far more about some big international corporation that has no fear of law enforcement than I am some Russian cyberburglar or teenage cybervandal.
And hey, this is only tengentally on topic but can we take our verbage back that was stolen and twisted by the muggles? Don't call them "hackers" unless they wrote the malware. Call them cybervandals or cyberburglars instead. Lets (at least among ourselves) reserve the word "hacker" for someone who writes quick and dirty one time use code and folks who modify hardware. I mean, come on, I've been both a hardware hacker and a code hacker, but I've never broken into someone's computer without their begging me to (working of a bios password on an old laptop now, have to take the whole damned thing apart to do it).
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Since it's believed that the moon was created by a Mars-sized object slamming into the Earth, it makes sense that the collision could have moved the Earth's orbit at least a little.
The "Wandering Earth" could spark some good SF, though.
Yes, it's a made-up word, but is in common useage. It's simply someone who is normal, not a wizard.
Nicotine is actually beneficial to your overall health, only not if you ingest it by inhaling burning tobacco smoke
Then why do people who chew tobacco get mouth, throat, and esophagus cancers?
Anyway, nicotine does have a physical dependency, but the withdrawal is a steady, mild craving that lasts about a week.
I quite smoking ten years ago, and I can tell you from experience that whoever told you that is wrong.
Citation? because the AC is correct. I understand how muggles confuse nerd terms, but they've taken OUR word for modifying hardware or writing quick-and-dirty single-use code and we let the muggles mangle the meaning of OUR word! As someone already pointed out, he's not a "hacker", he's a script kiddie. The hackers wrote the code he used for his cyberburglary and cybervandalism.
I never thought I'd see the day when we would be acceptable, let alone the day normal people pretend to be us.
Uncle Owen is common?
That's what's puzzling me... how can you copyright a magic trick? Doesn't copyright law still say a work must be "affixed in a tangible medium" so that you can't copyright a dance, but you can copyright a movie of that dance?
Can someone explain this please?
If telemarketers couldn't get anyone to work for them they would be out of business. If you don't want to catch hell from the public, then get an HONEST job.
I suspect it has something to do with some of the hormones they feed beef, like bovine growth hormone. But when I was in Thailand in 1974, I was a gaint compare to the Thais, who ate hardly any meat; their dists consisted mostly of rice. A couple of years ago we had a Thai intern who was as tall as me, and she said that's normal for them now. Not evolution, of course, but diet.
However, if there's a severe scarcity of plants for an extended period (like after the ateroid strike), larger herbivores are going to starve and not reproduce, followed by larger carnivores starving and not reproducing because their herb-eating food stock has all died. It takes a lot more food to keep me alive than it does to keep a house cat alive.
They may be stylish, but they also PERFORM.
As long as you don't hold it wrong...
Why would you want a display connected to the internet?
In short, there's stuff on the internet you can't get on TV; YouTube, for example.
I can very rarely pick up the local CBS affiliate's signal, so if I want to watch Big Bang Theory I watch it streamed from CBS's web site. On my TV. If I want to watch Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning I watch it on my TV -- streamed from the computer. I use the TV as that computer's monitor. Why watch YouTube on a nineteen inch screen when you can watch it on a 42 inch screen?
Murray Leinster wrote a short story about the internet way back in 1946: A Logic Named Joe (full text). In Leinster's story, the internet was censored from the beginning, and Joe, a "logic" (a PC) had a manufacturinig fault that removed the censorship, with all the bad things TMI bring.
I'd say to the GP "You're calling an entitty who is intelligent enough to design and build math, physics, time, and the entire universe an idiot? Only an idiot woud say something so stupid. To think that a mere human could understand the motives of a being that powerful is the very height of idiocy".
I wasn't referring to piracy, I was talking about Hulu and the networks' own web sites. I can rarely pick up CBS, so I simply stream Big Bang Theory from their site the next day.
Because I like to breathe without the air burning my lungs like it did before the EPA.
She wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree, but she knew her stuff. There's another guy with a PhD who's dumb as a box of rocks, but everyone else I ever knew with one was very intelligent.
I found out how to tell the smart ones from the dumb ones -- the dumb ones always add the "PhD" to correspondence and want everyone to call them "doctor". I knew the smart ones for years before I knew they had the degree.
There are several. I'm on BOOST (which was bought out by Sprint). The ToS does say that if you hog bandwith they can cap you, but I use the hell out of my phone; internet, text, email, long phone calls, and never hit the cap. If I do, I'll be pissed.
The telcos should face the fact that landlines are obsolete. When everyone in the house has a cell phone, what possible use would a landline be? I haven't had a landline in over ten years.
"Not weigh a ton" is only a benefit for portable devices, or when you're moving. If my 215 pound forty two inch flat CRT were forty pounds, it would have been missing with the guitars and other stuff that got taken when my house was broken into last year.
Trust me, whenever you think things can't possibly get any worse, they always do.
Has anyone noticed that humans are getting larger? When I was 20, average height for men was 5 foot nine, now it's six feet.
When food is plentiful, animals get larger, since size keeps one from being easily eaten. When food is scarce, large animals starve while small animals survive, since a small animal dosn't need much food.
You kids are cute in your ignorance. My generation never got violent (hell, we were all stoned on reefer) but our protests got the Vietnam war stopped, we got the draft stopped, we got the EPA instituted, we got equal rights for black people, and the only violence done was done to us.
You kids need to put that cocaine down and smoke a joint. As the Salvor hardin said in Asimov's Foundation, "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
You can get most, if not all, of those on the internet. I cut cable years ago, now it's antenna, internet, DVDs and hard drives. I've had my computer connected to my TV for the last ten years. Seems folks are finally catching up to me.
Well, I'm certainly not ditching my TV. I like watching movies. And although there is comparatively little on TV worth watching (for every History Channel there's four sports channels) and it's getting worse (Discovery Channel used to be full of science and technology, now it's all "trick my truck" and the only show on it worth watching is MythBusters, and even the History channel is going downhill) there are still a few good shows. Big Bang Theory, anyone?
That said, I no more want a computer inside my TV than I want a VCR or DVD or Blu-Ray built in. The whole concept is stupid. When the CPU fan in your TV fails, your TV fails. Meanwhile I've had TVs that lasted for decades -- TVs have no moving parts to wear out, computers do.
I RTFA and it looks like hogwash to me. It said that the adults had to be big to keep from being eaten by their own young. It seems to me that cannibalism would be an evolutionary disadvantage, plus the biggest dinos were herbivores. And I notice that most large animals today are herbivores -- elephants, cows, rhinos.
Perhaps the article was poorly written, but it doesn't seem logical. The only logical part was that the larger animals became extinct when the asteroid hit.
I ask questions about Windows 8 in a story titled "the three flavors of windows 8" and it's offtopic? How in the hell is that in any way offtopic? Whoever modded that comment down should never have mod points again.
Please bring the old metamoderation system back!
Now this comment IS offtopic, feel free to mod it as such.
My ten year old analog TV does that -- I have a computer plugged into it. The only difference is the computer isn't inside the TV. I can bluetooth pictures from my phone, wifi files to it from my notebook, and I use a wireless mouse as a remote control and the internet for "cable".
But nobody's hacked it yet. In fact, in 30 years of computing I've only been hit three times (my house has been broken into more often), none with any permanent damage. The first was the Michelangelo virus I got by putting one of my own floppies (five inch variety) in a computer at work, and learned that being smart is no defense against viruses -- the woman who infected the work computer held a PhD, but she was pretty clueless about computers.
The second time was a targeted attack by a bunch of young people I'd made fun of on my web site (I made fun of everyone, I was the Don Rickles of the Quake world). All they did was replace a picture of a bunch of down's syndrome kids with a basketball team. I wonder of those guys are now lulzsec? It was over 15 years ago.
The third time was when Sony rooted my box with their goddamned XCP trojan. That one really fucked up my computer BAD, took quite a while to repair the damage Sony's vandalism had done.
So judging from my own (admittedly limited) experience with being cracked, I worry far more about some big international corporation that has no fear of law enforcement than I am some Russian cyberburglar or teenage cybervandal.
And hey, this is only tengentally on topic but can we take our verbage back that was stolen and twisted by the muggles? Don't call them "hackers" unless they wrote the malware. Call them cybervandals or cyberburglars instead. Lets (at least among ourselves) reserve the word "hacker" for someone who writes quick and dirty one time use code and folks who modify hardware. I mean, come on, I've been both a hardware hacker and a code hacker, but I've never broken into someone's computer without their begging me to (working of a bios password on an old laptop now, have to take the whole damned thing apart to do it).