even though you discuss it at work, I think you still SERIOUSLY underestimate the popularity of the show, especially how popular Stewie is with some of the nerdier people on slashdot and others of the same nerdieness that dont post on slashdot
and then she would have to die... which is something that cant be shown on public television... oh wait a minute, it wont be on public tv, will it? carry on then...
so did it say they wouldnt be hosting it on the adult swim site where they already have shows online every friday night?
If it did say it woulndt be on the [as] site, I should respond by saying something like... aw crap, I cant seem to think of anythink Stewie would say that hasnt already been said by somebody else on the forum...
Guess how many people know the basics of flash? not as many people as html for sure, but a helluva lot. this is about as far as MS new product could go, is animation - Actionscript is macromedia/flash territory, go there, and one: macromedia/adobe will probly sue for trying to make a product way too similiar to be sold for less than the flash app, and two: a lot of people who really kick ass with flash and actionscript will find their call to defend the mighty macromedia, and spurn out loads of ass kicking flash sites - not just a whole bunch of crappy ones, but a whole bunch of insanely awesome sites, likely each with super-unique designs and navigation.
but I will NEVER go back to IE, simply for the reason that as long as IE has the majority market share, it will be the biggest target for malicious site code. ESPECIALLY right when IE 7 comes out, imagine how buggy it will be? I know everybody, including Firefox had these problems in their beginings, but virtually every bug in IE leads to somebody making a malicious exploit for IE - so until it's been out for a few years, I wont switch back to IE until MS makes Windows opensource (I would say when pigs fly, but since the recent articles on genetics show that to be closer than we all thought, I'm using the opensource statement instead)...
I also said "whatever ribbon data cable is in use now", as wouldnt matter a damn whether its IDE, SATA, or much of anything else, the platters would be fried - fars I know anyway... why dont you try it with your Mac (assuming you have a Mac, since you knew that, or maybe you're kinda like me, you just know random crap for no apparent reason)
I'm no expert at Mac or Linux, but last time I checked, if you unplug the IDE (whatever generation of drive data ribbon cable its at now) ribbon cable from your drive while it still has power to it, it kinda does a little thing called turning every platter on the drive into a coaster (the same kind a cd becomes when it doesnt burn right or it gets so many scratchs it skips more than it plays music)...
Unless its true, and most likely its not, its just another one of the many people like me that thinks Macs are evil do to experiences with crappy old PowerPC 750s and first generation iMacs and suchforth that middle and high schools kept around for countless years after they should have ditched them...
I took a class on Photoshop at my community college, now, I'm not claiming to be the best in the world here, but most of what we learned had to do with image surgery (say, making it look like your fat bitch assed Aunt that you hate to hell and back, completely disappear from the picture, with only a few hints something got photoshopped). So, one of the first things I look to Photoshop for is doing this kind of work. My question is, if GIMP doesnt have the tools (if its not on the tools pallet, for all practical purposes, they might as well not even be there) Photoshop has for this kind of work, how do I do it in GIMP? Which is one of the major reasons the current GIMP not only cant touch Photoshop, but Adobe has a 30 mile restraining order on GIMP.
BTW: On the other hand, GIMP did have an impressive array of included textures to choose from (that weird little bubbly orange lava thing, umm... interesting)...
Since you posted actual advice meaning to help me not screw myself over in the future, I'll have to take it to heart.
Hell, I've only been on slashdot for about 5 months now - not an excuse, just saying I had NO idea the point I was trying to make to one person, in a futile attempt to get them to stop (what it seems like) blaming the war on terror for every little thing that goes wrong, even if could in no way effect what they would rather have.
Like I said, hell, I was only tryin to get a point to rts008, and half of slashdot butts in - I guess thats what I get for posting my personal views on a public formum...
No. On the contrary, this is the ONLY post where I attempted (and very obviously failed, whether it be due to me being wrong, or everybody else being stubborn.) Every other post I have made here on/., I have at least tried to keep relevant to the originating topic, whether it be in the humorous posts that I make, or the ones that seriously try to offer up solutions or improvements to the topic at hand. For example, when 90% of the thread on NASA holding the contest (whatever it was) for people with serious ideas as to inventions that could change the future of space travel, it was as I said, 90 percent of the people making posts on the thread only wanted to crack cheap, cliche jokes - I on the other hand, was one of the few trying to seriously offer an intellectual post on the basics of how to make a gauss/rail-gun mass driver powered by a nuclear reactor (and selling the excess power when its not in use to nearby cities, so it would be profitable) for launching satellites and cargo into orbit, and replace the agin shuttle system, saving America and it's Congress mountains of money.
I can understand how you were ready to be so pissed at me for a flamebait post, but if you really wanna go into calling me an asshole for it, please, look into my previous posts - otherwise, I wouldnt take too much heart from anything anybody says of the type of response you had to my flamebait post.
BTW: here's the copy of the last bunch of threads I made posts in, if you dont find them relevant to the topic they are attached to, fuckin sue me...
I'm sure building architechs took care of... Sunday January 22, @12:28AM 1
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Keeping Dialup would only let dialer spyware... Saturday January 21, @11:07PM 1
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You want to give them a basic understanding... Tuesday January 17, @05:50PM 1
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The whole "Web 2" thing is bs, its not a new Web.. Tuesday January 17, @10:32AM 1
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Why use batteries, just draw it from the heart... Monday January 16, @10:48PM 2, Insightful
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Ya, he promised that for MSN users, not the rest.. Thursday January 12, @07:44PM 1 1
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FIRST ISSUE: how can you be so blind as not to see the relationship between MONEY and FISH? The fish is compared to the money that America gives to some 30 odd countries, and as I said, it would be better to help the nation industrialize itself and become self sufficient - but since their government is likely to come take what we have given them or help them acheive, be it free money or helping the people of the nation become self sufficient.
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SECOND ISSUE: This is where their government becomes a major part of the issue. How many of you have heard of or seen the video clip of the third world country wherein a group of international charities were kind enough to build a soccer/football (only soccer in America, correct?) stadium for the people. In return, their government seizes it to publicly execute people in. So what do the people of the country that used to enjoy soccer games there do??? Instead of seeing their own government as a serious threat to themselves, they ask the international charities to BUILD THEM ANOTHER STADIUM, when instead they could have at the absolute least asked the UN and NATO for help replacing the current government.
I know a LOT of you guys think like rts008 here, that "Sooooo, if they aren't marching to our tune they are WRONG? Again.... WTF????". It is NOT a matter of getting them to do what we say, its called giving the people FREEDOM AND LIBERTY from the oppression of their own government, or the "revolutionaries" that supposedly fight for the betterment of their country, yet hold whole villages hostage (such as cases where either the military or revolutionaries place landmines around the village well, and only they know where to step to get through to the well withought getting blown to peices) which they daily have to live with the fear of being tortured or executed because of what they say or do. One of Saddam Husseins kids (was it Uday or Qusay?) favorite methods of torturing people was to chain them to a wall by their feet, with the victim hanging upside down, and to beat their feet with a baseball bat (swinging down on their heels).
My point is, for the past FORTY YEARS the people Iraq lived in this kind of fear, and the situation is not limited to just Iraq and Afghanistan. How is it hurting the people of their country by taking away that fear and helping them to set up a government where THEY make sure it never happens again?
blame America's financial problems on "The war on terror", what the hell about the expensive food, cloths, cars, houses, and other crap your favorite liberal democrat enjoys paid for by his government check coming from tax dollars??? you cant blame everything on Bush and conservative republicans...
In the end, it will be one country less that we GIVE insane amounts of money to... which in the end, the totalitarian government or the "revolutionaries" go and take anyway, and then our retarded charities go and send more money. Have you ever heard the saying "Give me a fish and I'll have ONE meal, but TEACH me to fish, and I'll have a meal every day of my life"... this is what America and other Coalition participants are working for - to take the totalitarian government out of power and industrialize these nations - making them self sufficient in the long run.
So next time, I ask you to please think in the long run before you blurt your mouth, if it's even possible for you to do that.
the real obvious stuff like having uber-effective insulation, double pane windows, electricity generating solar panels on the building roof, hot water heating panels on the roof, blinds on the windows, ect - you know, all that old-school stuff people weather proofed their houses with before/. was invented (not to knock slashdot, but people seem to think you cant solve things with a decent amount of construction materials, it has to use dual PSU's, ten fans, run embedded linux, and have flashing neon lights).
Then again, maybe I'm just being idealistic about contracters not cutting as many corners they can to save a few bucks here and there...
spike up your phone and or ISP bill(s). Simply by the name "Dialer" you can assume that it would dial your modem to their site at about a billion dollars an hour, and your phone company sending a huge billing statement to you.
Anybody ever see part of that like 80s or early 90s movie before they changed the channel, I think its calleled "Ghost in the Machine" or something like that? The kid sending an IM to his friend about some pr0n program he found on the 'net, and when his mom gets home after he sends the IM, she askes him where the huge phone bill came from?
Even just looking in the bestiary of spyware you are "protected" by (as much as you can be) via Spybot or whatever you use for your Windows box, theres a helluva lot of em that are dialers, my guess mostly just incase you run into a site that has that old stone-age spyware on the host server...
I was talking more about how paradoxes wouldnt be a problem because as I said, they cant be.
Aside from that, the biggist thing you would need is what you said, an incomprehendibly large amount of energy, and say, a virtually emtpy solar system in which to make the wormhole so the energies involved dont destroy a planet, most worriedly Earth...
Ya I like Monster Garage, most of the time, they make cool cars, but a lot of the time theres a few guys on the team that are outright assholes, and Myth Busters is ok, but some of the things they do are just stupid, or the myth is common sense. but as for shows like American Chopper, like I said, and the guy that started the post, and probly half the people that posted on it, it's not real engineering, or even bike building for that matter, its a bunch o guys that are supposed to be tough arguing, not coming up with insanely radical new bike designs or solving real engineering problems - like I said, they are trying to make the Discovery channel into something that interests the MTV/VH1/MySpace crowd, not real engineers or people that want to be engineers, hell its not even trying to get people to want to be engineers.
BTW: modern marvels and engineering disasters are AWESOME
I'm glad somebody else besides me finally sees OCC and American Chopper for what they are - when I watch the Discovery channel, its because I WANT to watch documentaries and engineering shows. They have basically tried to make the channel into MTV or VH1, but without the music.
What the hell ever happened to shows like Junkyard Wars, the robot wars show, and other cool engineering shows like them???
Well, if you could get on/in a vehichle that traveled at a decent portion of the speed of light, it would slow time down compared to the rest of the universe (or if you wanna involve even more relativity, maybe the rest of the universe is speeding up???). Though it wouldnt really be traveling anywhere (except wherever the vehicle goes when its moving so fast, but the time travel part would be the waiting), more like just waiting in a pod or whatever for however long, and when you figure out how to pull the brakes, everything else is 5 years later when for you its been 2 years (if you can hold out for 2 years in a vehicle).
and BTW: Einstein proved that, yes it is PERFECTLY reasonable to be able to travel BACK in time, because if say, you met an older version of yourself today that used a time machine to come visit you, and he inspired you to make a timemachine and come back and visit yourself - you would have to make the time machine to go visit yourself
not the entire history of computers and how they work internally - well, enough of the basic internals so they dont get screwed over on their next purchase - "a processor is the main brains of a computer, the higher the speed, generally means a better computer" and the different classes of processors, such as the difference between a celeron or sempron and a pentium 4 or athlon. Like I said, just enough to keep em from gettin screwed over - any more than that and they may think its an "advanced book".
That said, the rest of it should be pretty much as you said, describing what spyware is and why they shouldnt disable anti-spyware disable their anti-spyware just because they dont like how it pops up with a warning that is trying to protect them while they are looking through crappy fan-sites of their favorite 60's rock bands (not that the band would be crap, just most fansites usually are) with a crap host that has no morals as to loading spyware on a surfer's comp.
The whole "Web 2" thing is bs, its not a new Web..
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Its not like Web 2 replaces the HTTP and FTP protocols, and it isnt some new super easy way of coding HTML (if you by anymeans think HTML is hard, you can also proudly call yourself a low IQ capacity "Special Person") - so therefore it isnt really a new version of the Web.
What the hell do you think happened when Java, Javascript, VisualBasic, PHP, ASP, web-based database managed forms, Flash, Perl, CGI, XML, SGML, and any other language or content display method was released - they did not rename the Web from 1.0 to 1.5 when XML and Flash were released, and the same goes for the others. Like the article and everybody that posted on the/. forward of it, most of the tech behind "Web 2" has been around for years - and the stuff that actually is new is just new languages and methods to display content - nothing more, nothing less...
The human heart creates a small amount of electricity when it beats, correct? (this is how the brain sends signals to the muscles and suchforth, yes?)
So, instead of making a super-small battery that still has to hold a huge charge, why not draw the excess electricity that would have been used for the eye (its excess because the eye is no longer there, which would be why you are getting an artificial one) and use that instead of a battery, or at the very least, send it to a small capacitator so it can charge enough to power your new techno-eye.
This does not solve the problem that the artificial eye would have to be SUPER power efficient, but the problem would be doubly so with a battery of limited life, however, when you use the heart as the power-source, the "battery life" is effectively unlimited for the lifetime of the device (your life, so if you die, it wouldnt need to stay powered, would it? unless you want a look inside a casket the hard way...)
I know I might (probably a LOT closer to WILL) get insulted and such forth for this, but their site looks like its designed entirely for chics, the pink makes it WAY too bright, at the very least they shoulda gone with a darker or lighter shade or something more like an Apple glass look. Also, bigger font size - at least 2 or 3 = thats like, 1 (web font size, not word editor).
more like the 360 was the overhyped pos, it doesnt even use any next gen optical disc type, its stuck with regular DVDs while PS3 is BD-ROM and Cell, with an Nvidia graphics set
openly stated that they wont be making a major graphical increase in their games, that instead they "are relying on developers to create new and innovative games". Now, I realize that graphics aren't everything, and that storyline and the amount of fun provided by the gameplay are some of the biggest factors in a game being successfull, but, hell so are graphics. The Gamecube was in my opinion a kiddie machine for kids whos parents were either to stupid to buy a PS2 or Xbox (ya, I hate the Xbox also, but for the love of god, anything is better than GC), or the parents are too damn worried about what their kids play and so when they get older and invite friends over, the friends go "aw, man, he's stuck with a GC, lets get the hell outta here", he has no friends - when hes like 15 playing on a kiddie platform. Not to mention that the graphics on GC were only about a 150% increase from the N64, versus PS2 and Xbox, which were MUCH better. If the graphics on GC sucked, and Ninendo doesn't plan on any major graphical improvement, the Revolution wont look any better than the PS2 and or Xbox.
End of post on how much Nintendo has grown to suck since their days of 8 and 16 bit glory...
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even though you discuss it at work, I think you still SERIOUSLY underestimate the popularity of the show, especially how popular Stewie is with some of the nerdier people on slashdot and others of the same nerdieness that dont post on slashdot
and then she would have to die... which is something that cant be shown on public television... oh wait a minute, it wont be on public tv, will it? carry on then...
so did it say they wouldnt be hosting it on the adult swim site where they already have shows online every friday night?
If it did say it woulndt be on the [as] site, I should respond by saying something like... aw crap, I cant seem to think of anythink Stewie would say that hasnt already been said by somebody else on the forum...
Guess how many people know the basics of flash? not as many people as html for sure, but a helluva lot. this is about as far as MS new product could go, is animation - Actionscript is macromedia/flash territory, go there, and one: macromedia/adobe will probly sue for trying to make a product way too similiar to be sold for less than the flash app, and two: a lot of people who really kick ass with flash and actionscript will find their call to defend the mighty macromedia, and spurn out loads of ass kicking flash sites - not just a whole bunch of crappy ones, but a whole bunch of insanely awesome sites, likely each with super-unique designs and navigation.
but I will NEVER go back to IE, simply for the reason that as long as IE has the majority market share, it will be the biggest target for malicious site code. ESPECIALLY right when IE 7 comes out, imagine how buggy it will be? I know everybody, including Firefox had these problems in their beginings, but virtually every bug in IE leads to somebody making a malicious exploit for IE - so until it's been out for a few years, I wont switch back to IE until MS makes Windows opensource (I would say when pigs fly, but since the recent articles on genetics show that to be closer than we all thought, I'm using the opensource statement instead)...
I also said "whatever ribbon data cable is in use now", as wouldnt matter a damn whether its IDE, SATA, or much of anything else, the platters would be fried - fars I know anyway... why dont you try it with your Mac (assuming you have a Mac, since you knew that, or maybe you're kinda like me, you just know random crap for no apparent reason)
I'm no expert at Mac or Linux, but last time I checked, if you unplug the IDE (whatever generation of drive data ribbon cable its at now) ribbon cable from your drive while it still has power to it, it kinda does a little thing called turning every platter on the drive into a coaster (the same kind a cd becomes when it doesnt burn right or it gets so many scratchs it skips more than it plays music)...
Unless its true, and most likely its not, its just another one of the many people like me that thinks Macs are evil do to experiences with crappy old PowerPC 750s and first generation iMacs and suchforth that middle and high schools kept around for countless years after they should have ditched them...
I took a class on Photoshop at my community college, now, I'm not claiming to be the best in the world here, but most of what we learned had to do with image surgery (say, making it look like your fat bitch assed Aunt that you hate to hell and back, completely disappear from the picture, with only a few hints something got photoshopped). So, one of the first things I look to Photoshop for is doing this kind of work. My question is, if GIMP doesnt have the tools (if its not on the tools pallet, for all practical purposes, they might as well not even be there) Photoshop has for this kind of work, how do I do it in GIMP? Which is one of the major reasons the current GIMP not only cant touch Photoshop, but Adobe has a 30 mile restraining order on GIMP.
BTW: On the other hand, GIMP did have an impressive array of included textures to choose from (that weird little bubbly orange lava thing, umm... interesting)...
Since you posted actual advice meaning to help me not screw myself over in the future, I'll have to take it to heart.
Hell, I've only been on slashdot for about 5 months now - not an excuse, just saying I had NO idea the point I was trying to make to one person, in a futile attempt to get them to stop (what it seems like) blaming the war on terror for every little thing that goes wrong, even if could in no way effect what they would rather have.
Like I said, hell, I was only tryin to get a point to rts008, and half of slashdot butts in - I guess thats what I get for posting my personal views on a public formum...
No. On the contrary, this is the ONLY post where I attempted (and very obviously failed, whether it be due to me being wrong, or everybody else being stubborn.) Every other post I have made here on /., I have at least tried to keep relevant to the originating topic, whether it be in the humorous posts that I make, or the ones that seriously try to offer up solutions or improvements to the topic at hand. For example, when 90% of the thread on NASA holding the contest (whatever it was) for people with serious ideas as to inventions that could change the future of space travel, it was as I said, 90 percent of the people making posts on the thread only wanted to crack cheap, cliche jokes - I on the other hand, was one of the few trying to seriously offer an intellectual post on the basics of how to make a gauss/rail-gun mass driver powered by a nuclear reactor (and selling the excess power when its not in use to nearby cities, so it would be profitable) for launching satellites and cargo into orbit, and replace the agin shuttle system, saving America and it's Congress mountains of money.
I can understand how you were ready to be so pissed at me for a flamebait post, but if you really wanna go into calling me an asshole for it, please, look into my previous posts - otherwise, I wouldnt take too much heart from anything anybody says of the type of response you had to my flamebait post.
BTW: here's the copy of the last bunch of threads I made posts in, if you dont find them relevant to the topic they are attached to, fuckin sue me...
I'm sure building architechs took care of... Sunday January 22, @12:28AM 1 attached to Saving Energy in Small Office Buildings Keeping Dialup would only let dialer spyware... Saturday January 21, @11:07PM 1 attached to Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? Re:What has happened to the shows like... Thursday January 19, @01:41AM 1 Re:What has happened to the shows like... Wednesday January 18, @08:52PM 2 1 attached to MythBusters - The Lost Experiments Re:Sounds like the USPTO... Thursday January 19, @08:20AM 1 1 Re:Sounds like the USPTO... Wednesday January 18, @06:16PM 1 1 attached to Slashback: GPLv3, Firefly, iTunes You want to give them a basic understanding... Tuesday January 17, @05:50PM 1 attached to What Should People Understand About Computers? The whole "Web 2" thing is bs, its not a new Web.. Tuesday January 17, @10:32AM 1 attached to Web 3.0 Why use batteries, just draw it from the heart... Monday January 16, @10:48PM 2, Insightful attached to Nanobatteries Power Artificial Eyes Its true, ex: their site: it sucks... Monday January 16, @12:21AM 1 attached to Web Users Judge Sites Instantly Re:oh really? Sunday January 15, @04:45PM 1 attached to IBM's Radical Cell Processor Who wants to bet??? Sunday January 15, @01:58AM 1 attached to SEC Formally Investigates IBM Re:iPod owners have the money and iTunes Store... Sunday January 15, @01:02AM 1 1 iPod owners have the money and iTunes Store... Friday January 13, @04:11PM 1 1 attached to iPod Owners Not Thieves Not replace due to limited # of writes... Thursday January 12, @09:51PM 1 1 attached to Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives Ya, he promised that for MSN users, not the rest.. Thursday January 12, @07:44PM 1 1 attached to Spam is Dead Its not like its special for ATI, Nintendo already Sunday January 15, @04:36PM 1 attached to ATI Talks Revolution Graphics Just talks bout cases looking like a stereo... Thursday January 12, @04:02PM 1 attached to The Year of the HTPC Hell you still gotta have an inverter... Thursday January 12, @03:53PM 1 attached to The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit Re: What I meant was... Friday January 13, @03:47PM 1 Sounds like its recognizing IT as under-credited.. Thursday January 12, @03:44PM 1 1 attached to 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com
FIRST ISSUE: how can you be so blind as not to see the relationship between MONEY and FISH? The fish is compared to the money that America gives to some 30 odd countries, and as I said, it would be better to help the nation industrialize itself and become self sufficient - but since their government is likely to come take what we have given them or help them acheive, be it free money or helping the people of the nation become self sufficient.
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SECOND ISSUE: This is where their government becomes a major part of the issue. How many of you have heard of or seen the video clip of the third world country wherein a group of international charities were kind enough to build a soccer/football (only soccer in America, correct?) stadium for the people. In return, their government seizes it to publicly execute people in. So what do the people of the country that used to enjoy soccer games there do??? Instead of seeing their own government as a serious threat to themselves, they ask the international charities to BUILD THEM ANOTHER STADIUM, when instead they could have at the absolute least asked the UN and NATO for help replacing the current government.
I know a LOT of you guys think like rts008 here, that "Sooooo, if they aren't marching to our tune they are WRONG? Again.... WTF????". It is NOT a matter of getting them to do what we say, its called giving the people FREEDOM AND LIBERTY from the oppression of their own government, or the "revolutionaries" that supposedly fight for the betterment of their country, yet hold whole villages hostage (such as cases where either the military or revolutionaries place landmines around the village well, and only they know where to step to get through to the well withought getting blown to peices) which they daily have to live with the fear of being tortured or executed because of what they say or do. One of Saddam Husseins kids (was it Uday or Qusay?) favorite methods of torturing people was to chain them to a wall by their feet, with the victim hanging upside down, and to beat their feet with a baseball bat (swinging down on their heels).
My point is, for the past FORTY YEARS the people Iraq lived in this kind of fear, and the situation is not limited to just Iraq and Afghanistan. How is it hurting the people of their country by taking away that fear and helping them to set up a government where THEY make sure it never happens again?
blame America's financial problems on "The war on terror", what the hell about the expensive food, cloths, cars, houses, and other crap your favorite liberal democrat enjoys paid for by his government check coming from tax dollars??? you cant blame everything on Bush and conservative republicans...
In the end, it will be one country less that we GIVE insane amounts of money to... which in the end, the totalitarian government or the "revolutionaries" go and take anyway, and then our retarded charities go and send more money. Have you ever heard the saying "Give me a fish and I'll have ONE meal, but TEACH me to fish, and I'll have a meal every day of my life"... this is what America and other Coalition participants are working for - to take the totalitarian government out of power and industrialize these nations - making them self sufficient in the long run.
So next time, I ask you to please think in the long run before you blurt your mouth, if it's even possible for you to do that.
course not dude, they're the baby eating, nazi loving, satanic, ritualistic commies just like Red Foreman cracks em up to be on That 70's Show...
the real obvious stuff like having uber-effective insulation, double pane windows, electricity generating solar panels on the building roof, hot water heating panels on the roof, blinds on the windows, ect - you know, all that old-school stuff people weather proofed their houses with before /. was invented (not to knock slashdot, but people seem to think you cant solve things with a decent amount of construction materials, it has to use dual PSU's, ten fans, run embedded linux, and have flashing neon lights).
Then again, maybe I'm just being idealistic about contracters not cutting as many corners they can to save a few bucks here and there...
spike up your phone and or ISP bill(s). Simply by the name "Dialer" you can assume that it would dial your modem to their site at about a billion dollars an hour, and your phone company sending a huge billing statement to you.
Anybody ever see part of that like 80s or early 90s movie before they changed the channel, I think its calleled "Ghost in the Machine" or something like that? The kid sending an IM to his friend about some pr0n program he found on the 'net, and when his mom gets home after he sends the IM, she askes him where the huge phone bill came from?
Even just looking in the bestiary of spyware you are "protected" by (as much as you can be) via Spybot or whatever you use for your Windows box, theres a helluva lot of em that are dialers, my guess mostly just incase you run into a site that has that old stone-age spyware on the host server...
I was talking more about how paradoxes wouldnt be a problem because as I said, they cant be.
Aside from that, the biggist thing you would need is what you said, an incomprehendibly large amount of energy, and say, a virtually emtpy solar system in which to make the wormhole so the energies involved dont destroy a planet, most worriedly Earth...
Ya I like Monster Garage, most of the time, they make cool cars, but a lot of the time theres a few guys on the team that are outright assholes, and Myth Busters is ok, but some of the things they do are just stupid, or the myth is common sense. but as for shows like American Chopper, like I said, and the guy that started the post, and probly half the people that posted on it, it's not real engineering, or even bike building for that matter, its a bunch o guys that are supposed to be tough arguing, not coming up with insanely radical new bike designs or solving real engineering problems - like I said, they are trying to make the Discovery channel into something that interests the MTV/VH1/MySpace crowd, not real engineers or people that want to be engineers, hell its not even trying to get people to want to be engineers.
BTW: modern marvels and engineering disasters are AWESOME
I'm glad somebody else besides me finally sees OCC and American Chopper for what they are - when I watch the Discovery channel, its because I WANT to watch documentaries and engineering shows. They have basically tried to make the channel into MTV or VH1, but without the music.
What the hell ever happened to shows like Junkyard Wars, the robot wars show, and other cool engineering shows like them???
Well, if you could get on/in a vehichle that traveled at a decent portion of the speed of light, it would slow time down compared to the rest of the universe (or if you wanna involve even more relativity, maybe the rest of the universe is speeding up???). Though it wouldnt really be traveling anywhere (except wherever the vehicle goes when its moving so fast, but the time travel part would be the waiting), more like just waiting in a pod or whatever for however long, and when you figure out how to pull the brakes, everything else is 5 years later when for you its been 2 years (if you can hold out for 2 years in a vehicle).
and BTW: Einstein proved that, yes it is PERFECTLY reasonable to be able to travel BACK in time, because if say, you met an older version of yourself today that used a time machine to come visit you, and he inspired you to make a timemachine and come back and visit yourself - you would have to make the time machine to go visit yourself
not the entire history of computers and how they work internally - well, enough of the basic internals so they dont get screwed over on their next purchase - "a processor is the main brains of a computer, the higher the speed, generally means a better computer" and the different classes of processors, such as the difference between a celeron or sempron and a pentium 4 or athlon. Like I said, just enough to keep em from gettin screwed over - any more than that and they may think its an "advanced book".
That said, the rest of it should be pretty much as you said, describing what spyware is and why they shouldnt disable anti-spyware disable their anti-spyware just because they dont like how it pops up with a warning that is trying to protect them while they are looking through crappy fan-sites of their favorite 60's rock bands (not that the band would be crap, just most fansites usually are) with a crap host that has no morals as to loading spyware on a surfer's comp.
Its not like Web 2 replaces the HTTP and FTP protocols, and it isnt some new super easy way of coding HTML (if you by anymeans think HTML is hard, you can also proudly call yourself a low IQ capacity "Special Person") - so therefore it isnt really a new version of the Web.
/. forward of it, most of the tech behind "Web 2" has been around for years - and the stuff that actually is new is just new languages and methods to display content - nothing more, nothing less...
What the hell do you think happened when Java, Javascript, VisualBasic, PHP, ASP, web-based database managed forms, Flash, Perl, CGI, XML, SGML, and any other language or content display method was released - they did not rename the Web from 1.0 to 1.5 when XML and Flash were released, and the same goes for the others. Like the article and everybody that posted on the
The human heart creates a small amount of electricity when it beats, correct? (this is how the brain sends signals to the muscles and suchforth, yes?)
So, instead of making a super-small battery that still has to hold a huge charge, why not draw the excess electricity that would have been used for the eye (its excess because the eye is no longer there, which would be why you are getting an artificial one) and use that instead of a battery, or at the very least, send it to a small capacitator so it can charge enough to power your new techno-eye.
This does not solve the problem that the artificial eye would have to be SUPER power efficient, but the problem would be doubly so with a battery of limited life, however, when you use the heart as the power-source, the "battery life" is effectively unlimited for the lifetime of the device (your life, so if you die, it wouldnt need to stay powered, would it? unless you want a look inside a casket the hard way...)
I know I might (probably a LOT closer to WILL) get insulted and such forth for this, but their site looks like its designed entirely for chics, the pink makes it WAY too bright, at the very least they shoulda gone with a darker or lighter shade or something more like an Apple glass look. Also, bigger font size - at least 2 or 3 = thats like, 1 (web font size, not word editor).
more like the 360 was the overhyped pos, it doesnt even use any next gen optical disc type, its stuck with regular DVDs while PS3 is BD-ROM and Cell, with an Nvidia graphics set
openly stated that they wont be making a major graphical increase in their games, that instead they "are relying on developers to create new and innovative games". Now, I realize that graphics aren't everything, and that storyline and the amount of fun provided by the gameplay are some of the biggest factors in a game being successfull, but, hell so are graphics. The Gamecube was in my opinion a kiddie machine for kids whos parents were either to stupid to buy a PS2 or Xbox (ya, I hate the Xbox also, but for the love of god, anything is better than GC), or the parents are too damn worried about what their kids play and so when they get older and invite friends over, the friends go "aw, man, he's stuck with a GC, lets get the hell outta here", he has no friends - when hes like 15 playing on a kiddie platform. Not to mention that the graphics on GC were only about a 150% increase from the N64, versus PS2 and Xbox, which were MUCH better. If the graphics on GC sucked, and Ninendo doesn't plan on any major graphical improvement, the Revolution wont look any better than the PS2 and or Xbox.
End of post on how much Nintendo has grown to suck since their days of 8 and 16 bit glory...