You know, the great thing about computer simulations, such as climate change simulations, or today's weather forecast, is that, although your predictions are inaccurate, you know quite well how inaccurate they are. That's why climate change predictions, as (in)accurate as they are, come with a good estimation of how wrong it might be.
In other words, while our prediction models might seem quite obsolete in the future, it doesn't invalidate our current predictions the least of the world.
It's not when it's measured simultaneously all around the globe. Then it becomes global. Mainly when satellites become involved.
There is only one earth! There is no sample set to compare to.
Yes there is, there is the hundreds of thousands of years of data we've collected from ice carrots, for example. That's something reliable to compare what's happening now to.
In an unrelated manner, I often get the feeling that for someone to say "I know I might get modded down for this but.." appeals modders towards modding up. Maybe our instinctive attraction for claimedly unpopular claims..
The issue is GLOBAL WARMING, not is it warmer at my house.
Indeed, I've always been amazed by how many people seem, when they hear "Global Warming", to understand "Uniform Warming". Or to quote a Michael Crichton's book character, pointing at the cold-as-usual results from a single wheather station, "There's your global warming";-).
Oh, even better! Let's make a 3D FPS that takes place only in faithfully reproduced official buildings and schools and encourage users to create maps of their own school and such. And host the project in Russia or something.
Why do people assume that the 409 persons who clicked that ad are stupid? If I had seen such an ad, I would have clicked it, because I know how not to get infected, and that it would have aroused my curiousity.
Maybe some of the 409 persons are clueless and dumb, maybe some clicked by error, and maybe some were curious and amused.
and hope my 5 year old will expect OSes to be open and as free from DRM as possible.
I for one hope she won't give a fuck, as in, enjoying freedom and openess but without giving a fuck. Seriously, normal people don't need such a thing to give a fuck about, they already have enough stuff to give a fuck about if you ask me.
Kids these days get bored with several games in less time than it took us to code one screen.
But it doesn't mean kids are necessarily harder to amuse, I think it only means it's much more fun to play a game you wrote (even if you didn't understand a thing) than downloading some (not necessarily very entertaining) game and trying it instantly. Compare that to making a cake and buying a cake at the baker's and eating it as soon as you paid.
So I think that what has changed the most, is that firstly we don't have anymore any easy way for kids to type a program and run it (which makes a modern machine with a clean install of the OS boring as hell as an old computer with a BASIC interpreter was actually fun), and then we just wouldn't allow ourselves to do that, because that's an old, outdated activity, that kids have always stayed away from such things and that knowing that we won't even try.
One solution might be to bring easy game making back, in some up-to-date way.. Knowing the OSS community and all that, I don't think anyone out there has the genius and the vision to make that happen.
No, all software patents should be shot down. Patents should only be given to inventions which operate in the physical world.
Software can operate in the physical world. That's why the USPTO started allowing software patents in 1981. Anyways, I like the europeean take on software patents, which says that "any invention which makes a non-obvious "technical contribution" or solves a "technical problem" in a non-obvious way is patentable even if a computer program is used in the invention." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent#In_Eu rope
I was striked, the few times I've chatted with frenchmen (although I'm french), by how much they use emoticons, and mainly the sad and crying emoticons. That's pretty annoying actually.
Star Trek nerds, lol. Your hobby is the cause of your virginity.
Or maybe their virginity is the cause of their hobby. Or maybe their virginity and their hobby share the same cause. Or maybe the two are unrelated. Or maybe Star Trek nerds aren't as virgin as their cracked up to be.
Anyways, I don't care, I don't feel concerned, I'm neither a Star Trek nerd nor a... I'm not a Star Trek nerd..
A lengthy article in Spiegel explores the possibility that global warming might make life on Earth better, not just for humans, but all species which haven't disappeared.
What doesn't kill your species makes your life better!
Well thanks, that helps sorting out the matters a little bit, however, we all know that 1 Mhz on a machine isn't worth 1 Mhz on some different machine. Don't we know how each do performance-wise, like, using a unified benchmark?
They (the Wii) don't have the graphics horsepower that even Xbox 1 had.
i don't know enough about the topic to back up the following claim, but that smells a hell of a lot like bullshit. Isn't the Wii graphically more powerful than either the Xbox or the PS2?
First: work on an existing OSS project. (Next, do it again.)
I disagree. I think it's much easier and interesting to start your own project, all alone, and eventually, once you need it, let/make/beg people to join your project. I think an OSS is a hell of a lot more about developership than leadership, when you start you won't have anyone to lead anyways.
World of Warcraft at greater than 90fps, where the human eye can't even see the difference.
Actually, provided that your screen has a refresh rate at least equal to the game's fps, you can, because of the motion blur it creates. That's why a game at 25 FPS doesn't look quite as smooth as a game at 60 FPS, while nothing looks smoother than a movie at 25 FPS.
One day, maybe, true motion blur will be in every then-gen game, and we'll all have our games running at 25 FPS and think it's perfectly fine.
Well actually I can think of a game that has quite some similarities with Nethack (although more maze-ish) and that's in first person 3D and that is almost a shooter (in that sometimes you can shoot and throw stuff). It's called Scarab of Ra, and works great on Mini vMac (a Macintosh Plus emulator)
In all seriousness, Royal deserved to lose after she tried her "if you vote for Sarkozy there will be violence in the streets" rhetoric. That kind of crap just won't ever work... will it?
Well she was right. As soon as clocks stroke 8pm, yesterday, cars started to burn, and cops came down in the streets in the ghettos and blocked streets. And Sarkozy hasn't done anything yet...
First off, the French right is not at all the equivalent of the American left. The American left differs from the French left in that since it's in a more libertarian country, it's more libertarian. Besides that detail they're just as much on the left.
And secondly, he's not called "the American" (and that's not an insult, actually people call me "L'Américain" and that's very far from an insult), but an "Atlantist".
I completly agree. I'm at a sysadmin school, and I can tell you can learn a hell of a lot more about networks by messing around with ICMP tunneling to circumvent the blocking of TCP/UDP packets by the firewall and ignoring the boring classes than by paying attention to the boring classes (and please don't ask me how I know that)
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Bullshit. The earth has been much warmer in the past without the "zomg serious consequences".
And when was the last time it caused a mass extinction?
You know, the great thing about computer simulations, such as climate change simulations, or today's weather forecast, is that, although your predictions are inaccurate, you know quite well how inaccurate they are. That's why climate change predictions, as (in)accurate as they are, come with a good estimation of how wrong it might be.
In other words, while our prediction models might seem quite obsolete in the future, it doesn't invalidate our current predictions the least of the world.
ALL data on climate change is anecdotal.
It's not when it's measured simultaneously all around the globe. Then it becomes global. Mainly when satellites become involved.
There is only one earth! There is no sample set to compare to.
Yes there is, there is the hundreds of thousands of years of data we've collected from ice carrots, for example. That's something reliable to compare what's happening now to.
In an unrelated manner, I often get the feeling that for someone to say "I know I might get modded down for this but.." appeals modders towards modding up. Maybe our instinctive attraction for claimedly unpopular claims..
The issue is GLOBAL WARMING, not is it warmer at my house.
Indeed, I've always been amazed by how many people seem, when they hear "Global Warming", to understand "Uniform Warming". Or to quote a Michael Crichton's book character, pointing at the cold-as-usual results from a single wheather station, "There's your global warming" ;-).
Oh, even better! Let's make a 3D FPS that takes place only in faithfully reproduced official buildings and schools and encourage users to create maps of their own school and such. And host the project in Russia or something.
Don't make a map of your school. Apparently that makes you a threat.
Or let's all make maps of schools, until officials realize they have better shit to do with taxpayers money than arrest map makers.
Why do people assume that the 409 persons who clicked that ad are stupid? If I had seen such an ad, I would have clicked it, because I know how not to get infected, and that it would have aroused my curiousity.
Maybe some of the 409 persons are clueless and dumb, maybe some clicked by error, and maybe some were curious and amused.
and hope my 5 year old will expect OSes to be open and as free from DRM as possible.
I for one hope she won't give a fuck, as in, enjoying freedom and openess but without giving a fuck. Seriously, normal people don't need such a thing to give a fuck about, they already have enough stuff to give a fuck about if you ask me.
Kids these days get bored with several games in less time than it took us to code one screen.
But it doesn't mean kids are necessarily harder to amuse, I think it only means it's much more fun to play a game you wrote (even if you didn't understand a thing) than downloading some (not necessarily very entertaining) game and trying it instantly. Compare that to making a cake and buying a cake at the baker's and eating it as soon as you paid.
So I think that what has changed the most, is that firstly we don't have anymore any easy way for kids to type a program and run it (which makes a modern machine with a clean install of the OS boring as hell as an old computer with a BASIC interpreter was actually fun), and then we just wouldn't allow ourselves to do that, because that's an old, outdated activity, that kids have always stayed away from such things and that knowing that we won't even try.
One solution might be to bring easy game making back, in some up-to-date way.. Knowing the OSS community and all that, I don't think anyone out there has the genius and the vision to make that happen.
I don't even want to think about a hardon supercollider.
*phew* Thank you! Only came here for the hardon jokes, and for a minute I feared I wouldn't see any.
The gym is a good idea, but my advice is, watch a couple episodes of Sex & The City, you'll wish you were a virgin and a mountain hermit.
No, all software patents should be shot down. Patents should only be given to inventions which operate in the physical world.
Software can operate in the physical world. That's why the USPTO started allowing software patents in 1981. Anyways, I like the europeean take on software patents, which says that "any invention which makes a non-obvious "technical contribution" or solves a "technical problem" in a non-obvious way is patentable even if a computer program is used in the invention." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent#In_Eu rope
I just don't see anyone can be against that.
I was striked, the few times I've chatted with frenchmen (although I'm french), by how much they use emoticons, and mainly the sad and crying emoticons. That's pretty annoying actually.
Why do consoles continue to try and integrate "PC-like" features?
Cause they can, and cause some people find it cool/useful or just like to use the hardware they've paid for to the fullest.
Star Trek nerds, lol. Your hobby is the cause of your virginity.
Or maybe their virginity is the cause of their hobby. Or maybe their virginity and their hobby share the same cause. Or maybe the two are unrelated. Or maybe Star Trek nerds aren't as virgin as their cracked up to be.
Anyways, I don't care, I don't feel concerned, I'm neither a Star Trek nerd nor a... I'm not a Star Trek nerd..
A lengthy article in Spiegel explores the possibility that global warming might make life on Earth better, not just for humans, but all species which haven't disappeared.
What doesn't kill your species makes your life better!
The formatting implies certain cues such as tone, volume, and emphasis.
Indeed, it makes a normal text sound like a poem or a haiku.
Well thanks, that helps sorting out the matters a little bit, however, we all know that 1 Mhz on a machine isn't worth 1 Mhz on some different machine. Don't we know how each do performance-wise, like, using a unified benchmark?
They (the Wii) don't have the graphics horsepower that even Xbox 1 had.
i don't know enough about the topic to back up the following claim, but that smells a hell of a lot like bullshit. Isn't the Wii graphically more powerful than either the Xbox or the PS2?
First: work on an existing OSS project. (Next, do it again.)
I disagree. I think it's much easier and interesting to start your own project, all alone, and eventually, once you need it, let/make/beg people to join your project. I think an OSS is a hell of a lot more about developership than leadership, when you start you won't have anyone to lead anyways.
World of Warcraft at greater than 90fps, where the human eye can't even see the difference.
Actually, provided that your screen has a refresh rate at least equal to the game's fps, you can, because of the motion blur it creates. That's why a game at 25 FPS doesn't look quite as smooth as a game at 60 FPS, while nothing looks smoother than a movie at 25 FPS.
One day, maybe, true motion blur will be in every then-gen game, and we'll all have our games running at 25 FPS and think it's perfectly fine.
Still dreaming of a 3D FPS version of Nethack.
Well actually I can think of a game that has quite some similarities with Nethack (although more maze-ish) and that's in first person 3D and that is almost a shooter (in that sometimes you can shoot and throw stuff). It's called Scarab of Ra, and works great on Mini vMac (a Macintosh Plus emulator)
In all seriousness, Royal deserved to lose after she tried her "if you vote for Sarkozy there will be violence in the streets" rhetoric. That kind of crap just won't ever work ... will it?
Well she was right. As soon as clocks stroke 8pm, yesterday, cars started to burn, and cops came down in the streets in the ghettos and blocked streets. And Sarkozy hasn't done anything yet...
First off, the French right is not at all the equivalent of the American left. The American left differs from the French left in that since it's in a more libertarian country, it's more libertarian. Besides that detail they're just as much on the left.
And secondly, he's not called "the American" (and that's not an insult, actually people call me "L'Américain" and that's very far from an insult), but an "Atlantist".
I completly agree. I'm at a sysadmin school, and I can tell you can learn a hell of a lot more about networks by messing around with ICMP tunneling to circumvent the blocking of TCP/UDP packets by the firewall and ignoring the boring classes than by paying attention to the boring classes (and please don't ask me how I know that)