Unless you have a system to keep the weapons balanced, like a point system to share between accuracy/recoil/reload time/clip size/damage/etc...
You could imagine that you could have an algorithm that would figure out on its own the right weights to that point system based on the users' preferences.
Perhaps Google is finally the David to slay Microsoft's Goliath
Google is no David, it's more like another giant finally stepping on the Goliath's turf and coming to kick his ass while he's ailing. It's a battle of titans, and while Google is a bit smaller than Microsoft, Google is doing better than ever, Microsoft isn't doing so great. You mentioned the recession, Google wants to offer what Microsoft failed to even realise they should have done, for free.
Microsoft has the marketshare, but Google has the rest of the advantages here. The 2010s should deliver a pretty epic battle in the consumer-level OS department, and I'd venture to say that the landscape will look quite different 10 years from now, both in the marketshare and in what OSes will actually do.
Because Google is a giant and they've got everything it takes to pull it off unlike everyone else who tried before? Emphasis on the word giant, you can ask the first person you see in the street what's Google and they'll know.
Because Microsoft is just begging to lose some of its desktop/netbook OS marketshare, and Google wants to be the one who'll catch it all. Don't underestimate a) how huge the name/brand "Google" is these days and b) how to most people the computer is now mostly a device to do web stuff, thus making the compatibility/legacy aspect of Windows much less relevant.
If all you ever use is web browsing/e-mail/YouTube/instant messaging then not only you don't need an expensive OS that always gets viruses and malware but you might as well have the OS done by the same guys who made your search engine, your e-mail service and run YouTube. Google just gets how web centric things are getting and how people would rather not spend hundreds on an OS and not waste anymore time keeping the thing running smoothly without having malware running amok through your data.
Both sides are developing SDI/anti-missile defenses. This makes many of these weapons obsolete
I lol'd. You need a clue, anti-missile defences are anything but efficient, mainly when your launch vehicle throws a dozen warheads and a bunch of decoys around.
the new arms race is drones and micro-cruise missiles.
No, it's not an arms race. We fight against barbarians (read terrorists/insurgents/guerillas) who drive trucks, not tanks or airplanes. They don't develop new weapons, they use old AK-47s and whatever equipement from a previous war they have left. We develop these new weapons to be more efficient in fighting them, but also because we fight a different type of war. We don't fight our equals like we did when we fought guys who flew cutting edge fighter planes, we fight people who travel on mules. That's why developing a cheap UAV is more important than developing an expensive air superiority fighter, but by no means is this a race, at all.
That's bullshit, even if we had no nukes they'd still get nukes if they could. It's not because we'd give up our nukes that it would prevent us doing the stuff we like to do like invading sovereign nations.
Now imagine 12 warheads that hit 12 major cities, killing perhaps 30 million people
30 million people with just 12 warheads?! 2.5 million people/warhead, are you fucking kidding? I just don't see how you could even get a tenth of that. Where did you pull that number from, playing DEFCON?
It's quite a shame that over here we keep ourselves ignorant about the effects of an urban atomic blast and how to survive it. We cultivate this myth of "an atomic bomb goes off in New York City, EVERYBODY DIES" whereas it has been shown that only a few thousands would immediately die, and that with good enough a preparation the rest could survive.
I never gave much credence to the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack, but if it should happen that during this century a terrorist organisation or a rogue state would get its hands on such a device, it's a shame that the population of the eventual target city wouldn't be in any way prepared to maximise their chances of survival. Even something like Duck & Cover would help. You'd think that they'd at least do that in the cities that seem like the best targets like London or New York.
People remember him, partly for sending hundreds of thousands of American troops to the slaughter that Vietnam turned into. People rarely laud your name for choosing to lead a war of attrition on an enemy we hardly even care about by sending more and more of your own people until all of the enemies have been killed with little regard for how many of your troops die in the process.
How many people did Michael Jackson send to their death? Do we even know for sure if he did anything perverted during his sleepovers with his child friends? Sure he was one weird motherfucker, but I don't think anyone can say with certainty that he was a pervert.
You forgot all of Slashdot's direct concurrents, Digg included. No need for more proof that Slashdot is utterly failing at being a news source. It's a cool place to discuss the news, but it's as for a place to get news from it could be much better than it is.
we still have less people killed in traffic here in Europe
How the hell do you reach that conclusion given the chart you linked to?!? Did you even look at it? According to it you can conclude that driving in the USA is safer than driving in Ireland or Belgium.
Wouldn't the light that is invisible (near infrared) be the real waste, since it's light but you can't see it? I'm pretty sure that incandescent bulbs emit a lot of near infrareds, mostly when they're being low powered.
So the 24-year-old coming out of Stanford will have a view of technology that the 29-year-old â" who was 24 just five years ago â" would never think of
No, shithead, that has nothing to do with age. Two months ago I was 22 and I didn't have a clue about Twitter cause I didn't see what the big deal was about. Now I'm 23 and I had to get into that stuff for marketing/PR and I know more about it.
The point is : it's not about age but about how updated you keep yourself. And thinking that a 24-year old will think "younger" than a 29-year old is like saying that an old man has to be more politically/morally conservative than a young man, when the old man could be a pro-everything social democrat and the young man could be a Mennonite.
By the way, I wonder where that kind of thinking would have taken him if he was a technology investor back in 2000. "Hey, these guys are like 23 and they've got a young-sounding idea, let's give em a few millions and wait for the bubble to burst!"
So, if you Photoshop the face of an underage person onto the body of an adult porn actor/actress that's child porn? Sounds like a plan! :
1. Write a script that detects faces in porn pictures and replace them with the faces of underage people/celebrities
2. Sell it to paedophiles as child porn
3. Profit!
4. ???
5. Get pounded in the ass in a federal prison
Also, does it make it bestiality if you Photoshop the head of an animal instead, or necrophilia if you use the face of someone dead on the picture? What if you Photoshop the face of underage people onto the heads of two animals fornicating? Paedobestiality?
In fact most of the developed countries did rather poorly due to the fact that consumer oriented economies eventually turn people into unhappy slaves.
Utter bullshit, you need to read into what you post. The Happy Planet Index isn't about people's actual happiness but, as Wikipedia puts it, "in fact a measure of the ecological efficiency of supporting well-being". Hence the term "Happy Planet", it's the planet that's happy, not the people, hence why the USA ranks poorly.
You need to look at a more direct measurement, such as the Satisfaction with Life Index and oh surprise the USA ranks 23rd and the majority of the top countries are "consumer oriented economies", too bad, your point just falls apart.
I don't know, in general I think that on the other hand the "it's just fine because diversity is good" attitude is somehow a way to say "who cares what's in the interest of these people over there, all that matters is that they stay exotic (and thus satisfy my needs for exoticism and for a change of scene)".
All the Japanese aren't just fine with the way things are, mostly the newer generation, and that's arguably because things the Japanese have been doing for centuries aren't that great to them. But by all means don't let that get in the way of your appreciation for things that you don't have to go through but that others have to put up with.
Welcome to the late 2000s. Be sure to feel guilty about the things you do in proportion to how much greenhouse effect gasses were emitted in the process. I had to start popping vitamin B12 just to make up for the guilt I feel for eating meat from such methane emitting animals as cows.
Slashdot Mirror
3 days ago just called, they want their outdated disbelief that Google apps will ever go out of beta back.
Unless you have a system to keep the weapons balanced, like a point system to share between accuracy/recoil/reload time/clip size/damage/etc...
You could imagine that you could have an algorithm that would figure out on its own the right weights to that point system based on the users' preferences.
Normal users won't dare install any thing called an operating system.
This thing will be pre-installed, no need to install it. You'll buy an ARM netbook (then undoubtedly desktops) with Chrome OS on it.
Perhaps Google is finally the David to slay Microsoft's Goliath
Google is no David, it's more like another giant finally stepping on the Goliath's turf and coming to kick his ass while he's ailing. It's a battle of titans, and while Google is a bit smaller than Microsoft, Google is doing better than ever, Microsoft isn't doing so great. You mentioned the recession, Google wants to offer what Microsoft failed to even realise they should have done, for free.
Microsoft has the marketshare, but Google has the rest of the advantages here. The 2010s should deliver a pretty epic battle in the consumer-level OS department, and I'd venture to say that the landscape will look quite different 10 years from now, both in the marketshare and in what OSes will actually do.
Because Google is a giant and they've got everything it takes to pull it off unlike everyone else who tried before? Emphasis on the word giant, you can ask the first person you see in the street what's Google and they'll know.
Because Microsoft is just begging to lose some of its desktop/netbook OS marketshare, and Google wants to be the one who'll catch it all. Don't underestimate a) how huge the name/brand "Google" is these days and b) how to most people the computer is now mostly a device to do web stuff, thus making the compatibility/legacy aspect of Windows much less relevant.
If all you ever use is web browsing/e-mail/YouTube/instant messaging then not only you don't need an expensive OS that always gets viruses and malware but you might as well have the OS done by the same guys who made your search engine, your e-mail service and run YouTube. Google just gets how web centric things are getting and how people would rather not spend hundreds on an OS and not waste anymore time keeping the thing running smoothly without having malware running amok through your data.
Both sides are developing SDI/anti-missile defenses. This makes many of these weapons obsolete
I lol'd. You need a clue, anti-missile defences are anything but efficient, mainly when your launch vehicle throws a dozen warheads and a bunch of decoys around.
the new arms race is drones and micro-cruise missiles.
No, it's not an arms race. We fight against barbarians (read terrorists/insurgents/guerillas) who drive trucks, not tanks or airplanes. They don't develop new weapons, they use old AK-47s and whatever equipement from a previous war they have left. We develop these new weapons to be more efficient in fighting them, but also because we fight a different type of war. We don't fight our equals like we did when we fought guys who flew cutting edge fighter planes, we fight people who travel on mules. That's why developing a cheap UAV is more important than developing an expensive air superiority fighter, but by no means is this a race, at all.
That's bullshit, even if we had no nukes they'd still get nukes if they could. It's not because we'd give up our nukes that it would prevent us doing the stuff we like to do like invading sovereign nations.
Now imagine 12 warheads that hit 12 major cities, killing perhaps 30 million people
30 million people with just 12 warheads?! 2.5 million people/warhead, are you fucking kidding? I just don't see how you could even get a tenth of that. Where did you pull that number from, playing DEFCON?
It's quite a shame that over here we keep ourselves ignorant about the effects of an urban atomic blast and how to survive it. We cultivate this myth of "an atomic bomb goes off in New York City, EVERYBODY DIES" whereas it has been shown that only a few thousands would immediately die, and that with good enough a preparation the rest could survive.
I never gave much credence to the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack, but if it should happen that during this century a terrorist organisation or a rogue state would get its hands on such a device, it's a shame that the population of the eventual target city wouldn't be in any way prepared to maximise their chances of survival. Even something like Duck & Cover would help. You'd think that they'd at least do that in the cities that seem like the best targets like London or New York.
People remember him, partly for sending hundreds of thousands of American troops to the slaughter that Vietnam turned into. People rarely laud your name for choosing to lead a war of attrition on an enemy we hardly even care about by sending more and more of your own people until all of the enemies have been killed with little regard for how many of your troops die in the process.
How many people did Michael Jackson send to their death? Do we even know for sure if he did anything perverted during his sleepovers with his child friends? Sure he was one weird motherfucker, but I don't think anyone can say with certainty that he was a pervert.
You forgot all of Slashdot's direct concurrents, Digg included. No need for more proof that Slashdot is utterly failing at being a news source. It's a cool place to discuss the news, but it's as for a place to get news from it could be much better than it is.
we still have less people killed in traffic here in Europe
How the hell do you reach that conclusion given the chart you linked to?!? Did you even look at it? According to it you can conclude that driving in the USA is safer than driving in Ireland or Belgium.
You are doing something wrong.
No u
Wouldn't the light that is invisible (near infrared) be the real waste, since it's light but you can't see it? I'm pretty sure that incandescent bulbs emit a lot of near infrareds, mostly when they're being low powered.
So the 24-year-old coming out of Stanford will have a view of technology that the 29-year-old â" who was 24 just five years ago â" would never think of
No, shithead, that has nothing to do with age. Two months ago I was 22 and I didn't have a clue about Twitter cause I didn't see what the big deal was about. Now I'm 23 and I had to get into that stuff for marketing/PR and I know more about it.
The point is : it's not about age but about how updated you keep yourself. And thinking that a 24-year old will think "younger" than a 29-year old is like saying that an old man has to be more politically/morally conservative than a young man, when the old man could be a pro-everything social democrat and the young man could be a Mennonite.
By the way, I wonder where that kind of thinking would have taken him if he was a technology investor back in 2000. "Hey, these guys are like 23 and they've got a young-sounding idea, let's give em a few millions and wait for the bubble to burst!"
So, if you Photoshop the face of an underage person onto the body of an adult porn actor/actress that's child porn? Sounds like a plan! :
1. Write a script that detects faces in porn pictures and replace them with the faces of underage people/celebrities
2. Sell it to paedophiles as child porn
3. Profit!
4. ???
5. Get pounded in the ass in a federal prison
Also, does it make it bestiality if you Photoshop the head of an animal instead, or necrophilia if you use the face of someone dead on the picture? What if you Photoshop the face of underage people onto the heads of two animals fornicating? Paedobestiality?
Interesting, I performed similar research for my sociology thesis titled "Bunny Hopping : The Forbidden Hop".
I for one welcome our miniature robotic clots!
Isn't it more like bad syntax?
Correction : the USA actually ranks 16th ex-aequo.
In fact most of the developed countries did rather poorly due to the fact that consumer oriented economies eventually turn people into unhappy slaves.
Utter bullshit, you need to read into what you post. The Happy Planet Index isn't about people's actual happiness but, as Wikipedia puts it, "in fact a measure of the ecological efficiency of supporting well-being". Hence the term "Happy Planet", it's the planet that's happy, not the people, hence why the USA ranks poorly.
You need to look at a more direct measurement, such as the Satisfaction with Life Index and oh surprise the USA ranks 23rd and the majority of the top countries are "consumer oriented economies", too bad, your point just falls apart.
I don't know, in general I think that on the other hand the "it's just fine because diversity is good" attitude is somehow a way to say "who cares what's in the interest of these people over there, all that matters is that they stay exotic (and thus satisfy my needs for exoticism and for a change of scene)".
All the Japanese aren't just fine with the way things are, mostly the newer generation, and that's arguably because things the Japanese have been doing for centuries aren't that great to them. But by all means don't let that get in the way of your appreciation for things that you don't have to go through but that others have to put up with.
Welcome to the late 2000s. Be sure to feel guilty about the things you do in proportion to how much greenhouse effect gasses were emitted in the process. I had to start popping vitamin B12 just to make up for the guilt I feel for eating meat from such methane emitting animals as cows.
A mid-life Crysis? Damn, all I had was a mid-life Grand Theft Auto.
$60 for a 1TB external drive?!? That's like, 40 euros!? Holy shit, these things go for about 100 euros around here in Ireland.