Someone felt that my post that is critical of the pope was designed to draw flames. Should I hold my tongue because I fear the censorship of small minded people with power?
I can accept using digital turntables or computerized mixing and effects in DJing. It's just a fact of life. Technology progresses, and the users of that technology progress too. But your friend "Kid Chameleon" has really lousy song selection and no stage presence, at least one of which is necessary for any good DJ. In this video, he putz around with the equipment, BSing with a few people, then finally plays his lame intro. It isn't even until a good 45 seconds in that he finally puts on the helmet, but then he just bops around in front of his Mac with a beat with no energy.
Technology changes, and we have to live with it. Those who don't are bound to be considered dinosaurs, while those who adapt lead us ever onward. I think the helmet is a beautifully constructed realization of this fact. While technology progresses, it is up to us individuals to bridge the gap between old and new, and sometimes bridging that gap results in really fucking stupid shit like this.
It's similar to how car manufacturers can add a body kit and a Type R sticker to a Civic, and sell it for $5000 more to idiots looking to go faster. (the extra weight from the body kit would actually make it slower....)
But the Type R sticker adds extra horsepower which overcomes the body kit weight. And don't discount the acceleration boost provided by the spoiler.
I've seen what happens when a rapid polarity reversal occurs. If you don't take care, the tachyon flux can cause an uncontrolled neutrino emission and cause a breach in the dilithium chamber.
The probable cause of this is a sudden shift in the tilt of our molten core. This would realign our magnetic poles.
But it may also be indicative of a bigger problem. There was a film a few years back which explored the possibility of a sudden loss of angular momentum within the Earth's core. Without the spinning core, the magnetic field would be lost and our planet would lose the protection afforded to us by the magnetosphere. Essentially, we would become windswept by the solar wind and would end up without an atmosphere, much like Mars.
The solution, the scientists in the film agreed, was to prepare several nuclear bombs which could be transported to the edge of the core (below the mantle) and detonated, thus restarting the spinning core. It seemed like a crazy theory, but with this sudden acceleration of the NMP, I think it might be wise to keep an eye on all of our options.
A lot of manufacturers will do this, actually. Their first device will contain very high quality, standard HW that is somewhat overspec for what they intend, but due to driver support and ease of implementation they can get it out the door in a reasonable amount of time. Then for their successor device they will take the lessons learned, use cheaper parts, use better optimized software, and sell it as the "cheaper" version.
You are getting lousier HW, but arguably better SW, so the performance gap isn't as big as their marketing lit will let on. On paper, the expensive first gen device looks better, but when the rubber hits the anus it's pretty much a wash.
I can't help but be struck by the seemingly limited amount of spatial and mathematical reasoning capabilities of many who have exceptional social intelligence. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the two traits. The evidence seems enough to even posit that there is a maximal beyond which it is impossible to expand new intelligence and thus the capacity must be split between various capabilities.
In some, the trait of sociability takes center stage whereas in others it is mathematical genius. Likewise, we see an exceptional ability of females to maximize their social circles. To whit, the mental capabilities of females and males being the same, it would seem that females would be more likely to develop large social circles and thrive within this mentally untaxing environment while males would thrive in problem solving and mental exercises requiring strenuous mental effort (such as in the hard sciences).
Taking this further, it also explains the apparent inability of many computer engineers to interact in normal social circles. With much of their brain showing traits of strong mathematical acuity, their amygdala itself is underdeveloped. Perhaps it is this unbalance that is the root cause of "geekiness".
Naturally, this is not the final word on all this, but it is an interesting step towards a more full biological understanding of character and intelligences.
But the virus required a vector, which was unprotected Windows systems. If the virus never reached the target devices, then how would the virus infect them?
If these top security facilities can't prevent viruses, how can protect ourselves with our measly little free AV software packages?
What antivirus software would have protected the victims of this virus? Kaspersky? AVG? Windows Security Essentials? ClamAV?
While on the one hand, it is important to prevent infections from becoming a massive swarm with the ability to hammer away at particular locations in a DDOS, in this particular case it seems like specific machines were infected with the goal of harming them directly. Since these machines are running on specialized hardware, it doesn't really make sense to consider StuxNet a "swarm" virus. The swarming aspect only seems to have helped it spread in an organic way towards the targeted systems.
On the very end lay the centrifuges, but between those and the Internet lay Windows PCs. Would having Norton (or any other AV) running on startup have blocked this virus?
If none, then what hope do we really have of protecting ourselves from deliberate attacks on our network infrastructure?
Quite frightening, actually. (Unless Windows Security Essentials would have caught it.)
Patents are, by design, open for review. They aren't secret by any stretch of the imagination.
Would a company develop phones if there were no patent protection? Almost certainly. The difference would likely be in how they protect their designs. Would they hold them close as trade secrets? Or would they use stronger contract verbiage to bind licensees?
It's an interesting question but only as a hypothetical. The patent system isn't going to be thrown out because people find it inconvenient. In fact, it's going to be kept because those inconveniences keep the system working.
When you say "finished product" are you precluding the possibility of inventing a useful component that could be used in many different applications? Let's say you invented a new kind of drain stopper that only makes sense used in tandem with existing drains. Surely, you would want to assign patent rights to the inventor of the new drain stopper even though his invention isn't a complete device but rather a part of a larger device.
While patents, on the one hand, provide a measured amount of protection against aggressive and litigious competitors, they are only useful in bulk. This leaves many little guys hamstrung and at the whim of big guys like Motorola and Microsoft. Here we see to goliaths go at each other, and it's interesting because both sides have deep patent portfolios that they can wield against each other. The ultimate solution will be some sort of cross licensing deal, no doubt.
But for the little guy, a company like Microsoft can extinguish in short order due to a limited amount of leverage. Where Moto can respond with a set of infringed patents, the little guy won't have that type of MAD defensive position. As a result, the big guys get bigger, and the little guys get snuffed, and the consumers get screwed.
Patents were meant to foster competition and promote a plethora of ideas. It has not done that at all in the software sphere. Perhaps it is time to rethink the whole software patent system.
I was going to post something similar and risk the troll mods, but I realized the question isn't about why specific immature men find themselves gaming differently. It's about the general trend of the game industry towards networked games rather than simultaneous temporal multiplayer. Someone upthread nailed it in that the reason many game shops are eschewing the co-op gameplay experience is because of the additional fees to be made from multiplayer networking.
Additionally, creating a game that is networked is much simpler and allows much better use of hardware resources than one that must track two or more players at once. More money to be made, and simpler implementation. These are going to win every time.
I am the submitter, I don't think I said anything too far one way or the other.
It's true that/. editors change up the submissions, sometimes beyond recognition, I think the following quote from the summary is essentially the same as my agreement with it.
While you may not be able to run around claiming that String Theory is dead and disproved, evidently there are some adjustments that need to be made.
I agree with the summary, this isn't the defeat of String Theory. It is a chance to refine and improve it.
How can we be sure that the black holes were not created? String theory posits that there exist physical dimensions outside of our 4 dimensional universe, in fact that these are part and parcel of our universe. However, given our tools are all limited to 4 dimensions, it makes sense that there could be phenomena that is unobservable in our universe yet occurring in those other unexperienceable dimensions.
I agree with the summary, this isn't the defeat of String Theory. It is a chance to refine and improve it.
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Someone felt that my post that is critical of the pope was designed to draw flames. Should I hold my tongue because I fear the censorship of small minded people with power?
Have you seen the current pope? He's a weird, creepy, pedophile.
At least Gates isn't a pedophile.
I can accept using digital turntables or computerized mixing and effects in DJing. It's just a fact of life. Technology progresses, and the users of that technology progress too. But your friend "Kid Chameleon" has really lousy song selection and no stage presence, at least one of which is necessary for any good DJ. In this video, he putz around with the equipment, BSing with a few people, then finally plays his lame intro. It isn't even until a good 45 seconds in that he finally puts on the helmet, but then he just bops around in front of his Mac with a beat with no energy.
Technology changes, and we have to live with it. Those who don't are bound to be considered dinosaurs, while those who adapt lead us ever onward. I think the helmet is a beautifully constructed realization of this fact. While technology progresses, it is up to us individuals to bridge the gap between old and new, and sometimes bridging that gap results in really fucking stupid shit like this.
Like a frozen metal pole, licking spam is only the prelude to a much longer, more terrifying ordeal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_film_registry
Thanks. I went and out and looked it up. Here ya'll go.
I'm surprised they didn't include Birth Of A Nation.
It's similar to how car manufacturers can add a body kit and a Type R sticker to a Civic, and sell it for $5000 more to idiots looking to go faster. (the extra weight from the body kit would actually make it slower....)
But the Type R sticker adds extra horsepower which overcomes the body kit weight. And don't discount the acceleration boost provided by the spoiler.
I've seen what happens when a rapid polarity reversal occurs. If you don't take care, the tachyon flux can cause an uncontrolled neutrino emission and cause a breach in the dilithium chamber.
The probable cause of this is a sudden shift in the tilt of our molten core. This would realign our magnetic poles.
But it may also be indicative of a bigger problem. There was a film a few years back which explored the possibility of a sudden loss of angular momentum within the Earth's core. Without the spinning core, the magnetic field would be lost and our planet would lose the protection afforded to us by the magnetosphere. Essentially, we would become windswept by the solar wind and would end up without an atmosphere, much like Mars.
The solution, the scientists in the film agreed, was to prepare several nuclear bombs which could be transported to the edge of the core (below the mantle) and detonated, thus restarting the spinning core. It seemed like a crazy theory, but with this sudden acceleration of the NMP, I think it might be wise to keep an eye on all of our options.
A yurt is essentially a surface biogas chamber. Owing mainly to the yak milk they drink all year long.
What do you mean by quality?
A lot of manufacturers will do this, actually. Their first device will contain very high quality, standard HW that is somewhat overspec for what they intend, but due to driver support and ease of implementation they can get it out the door in a reasonable amount of time. Then for their successor device they will take the lessons learned, use cheaper parts, use better optimized software, and sell it as the "cheaper" version.
You are getting lousier HW, but arguably better SW, so the performance gap isn't as big as their marketing lit will let on. On paper, the expensive first gen device looks better, but when the rubber hits the anus it's pretty much a wash.
I can't help but be struck by the seemingly limited amount of spatial and mathematical reasoning capabilities of many who have exceptional social intelligence. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the two traits. The evidence seems enough to even posit that there is a maximal beyond which it is impossible to expand new intelligence and thus the capacity must be split between various capabilities.
In some, the trait of sociability takes center stage whereas in others it is mathematical genius. Likewise, we see an exceptional ability of females to maximize their social circles. To whit, the mental capabilities of females and males being the same, it would seem that females would be more likely to develop large social circles and thrive within this mentally untaxing environment while males would thrive in problem solving and mental exercises requiring strenuous mental effort (such as in the hard sciences).
Taking this further, it also explains the apparent inability of many computer engineers to interact in normal social circles. With much of their brain showing traits of strong mathematical acuity, their amygdala itself is underdeveloped. Perhaps it is this unbalance that is the root cause of "geekiness".
Naturally, this is not the final word on all this, but it is an interesting step towards a more full biological understanding of character and intelligences.
But the virus required a vector, which was unprotected Windows systems. If the virus never reached the target devices, then how would the virus infect them?
If these top security facilities can't prevent viruses, how can protect ourselves with our measly little free AV software packages?
What antivirus software would have protected the victims of this virus? Kaspersky? AVG? Windows Security Essentials? ClamAV?
While on the one hand, it is important to prevent infections from becoming a massive swarm with the ability to hammer away at particular locations in a DDOS, in this particular case it seems like specific machines were infected with the goal of harming them directly. Since these machines are running on specialized hardware, it doesn't really make sense to consider StuxNet a "swarm" virus. The swarming aspect only seems to have helped it spread in an organic way towards the targeted systems.
On the very end lay the centrifuges, but between those and the Internet lay Windows PCs. Would having Norton (or any other AV) running on startup have blocked this virus?
If none, then what hope do we really have of protecting ourselves from deliberate attacks on our network infrastructure?
Quite frightening, actually. (Unless Windows Security Essentials would have caught it.)
This game is so great! But the gameplay on a PC is subpar... You should definitely buy the specialized hardware that we just so happen to be selling!
keep it secret
Patents are, by design, open for review. They aren't secret by any stretch of the imagination.
Would a company develop phones if there were no patent protection? Almost certainly. The difference would likely be in how they protect their designs. Would they hold them close as trade secrets? Or would they use stronger contract verbiage to bind licensees?
It's an interesting question but only as a hypothetical. The patent system isn't going to be thrown out because people find it inconvenient. In fact, it's going to be kept because those inconveniences keep the system working.
When you say "finished product" are you precluding the possibility of inventing a useful component that could be used in many different applications? Let's say you invented a new kind of drain stopper that only makes sense used in tandem with existing drains. Surely, you would want to assign patent rights to the inventor of the new drain stopper even though his invention isn't a complete device but rather a part of a larger device.
While patents, on the one hand, provide a measured amount of protection against aggressive and litigious competitors, they are only useful in bulk. This leaves many little guys hamstrung and at the whim of big guys like Motorola and Microsoft. Here we see to goliaths go at each other, and it's interesting because both sides have deep patent portfolios that they can wield against each other. The ultimate solution will be some sort of cross licensing deal, no doubt.
But for the little guy, a company like Microsoft can extinguish in short order due to a limited amount of leverage. Where Moto can respond with a set of infringed patents, the little guy won't have that type of MAD defensive position. As a result, the big guys get bigger, and the little guys get snuffed, and the consumers get screwed.
Patents were meant to foster competition and promote a plethora of ideas. It has not done that at all in the software sphere. Perhaps it is time to rethink the whole software patent system.
I was going to post something similar and risk the troll mods, but I realized the question isn't about why specific immature men find themselves gaming differently. It's about the general trend of the game industry towards networked games rather than simultaneous temporal multiplayer. Someone upthread nailed it in that the reason many game shops are eschewing the co-op gameplay experience is because of the additional fees to be made from multiplayer networking.
Additionally, creating a game that is networked is much simpler and allows much better use of hardware resources than one that must track two or more players at once. More money to be made, and simpler implementation. These are going to win every time.
You would detect it indirectly through observing its effects on objects we can observe.
I am the submitter, I don't think I said anything too far one way or the other.
It's true that /. editors change up the submissions, sometimes beyond recognition, I think the following quote from the summary is essentially the same as my agreement with it.
While you may not be able to run around claiming that String Theory is dead and disproved, evidently there are some adjustments that need to be made.
I agree with the summary, this isn't the defeat of String Theory. It is a chance to refine and improve it.
How can we be sure that the black holes were not created? String theory posits that there exist physical dimensions outside of our 4 dimensional universe, in fact that these are part and parcel of our universe. However, given our tools are all limited to 4 dimensions, it makes sense that there could be phenomena that is unobservable in our universe yet occurring in those other unexperienceable dimensions.
I agree with the summary, this isn't the defeat of String Theory. It is a chance to refine and improve it.