the number they came up with is that once night vision came in, it deceased the average life span of the enemy to about 0.3 seconds (yes, 3/10ths of a second, and no, I'm not exaggerating).
This number doesn't sound believable. For it to be true, it would require robots in the tanks doing the firing, not humans, and firing at any light source.
It did not happen "hours ago" from any reference frame.
Is that really true? Somebody mentioned elsewhere in this thread that:
"Yet, no time has passed for the traveling light. Or more precisely: if an observer had followed the light emitted from the supernova at almost the speed of light, very little time would have passed in his frame of reference. So what we take as 21 million years would have been nearly instantaneous for our traveling observer."
It seems that you can define a reference frame arbitrarily close to the speed of light at an arbitrary starting position and get the desired duration.
We have stories of people building CPUs inside of game logic that is in itself running on a virtual machine that runs on top of a hardware abstraction layer that runs inside a kernel that might very well be running under the purview of a hypervisor. What is the point?
Well, what is the point? If you know anything about just how ubiquitous Turing completeness is, going through the tedious exercise of building a worthless CPU in Minecraft is about as interesting a "hack" as building a house of cards.
The best hacks are actually novel and accomplish something useful from limited resources.
But then I think the rule should apply to everyone, not just celebrities.
The law covers consumers, experts, and celebrities -- bloggers included. So whether people think Sergey is a celebrity or not (I do -- even if he's not a household name), his endorsement and financial ties to the company require disclosure under FTC guidelines.
Be honest: Do you care about the company you work for? I don't.
Whether you care or not about the company, I believe in doing the job you were hired for, taking pride in your work, and treating customers with respect.
Besides, I'd rather be a product of a company that does no evil
You still buy their slogan? I believe at one point they tried to live by this standard, but they sold out to advertisers and privacy invasion a long time ago.
They've also acted like the typical, unethical corporations in other areas, such as negotiating government deals under non-disclosure agreements, banning people from using "Google" in their AdWords but allowing third-party trademarks for everybody else, trying to appropriate the copyright of authors who don't opt-out with their book scanning, and censoring search results for China (which they then decided years later was a bad idea after China hacked them).
You'll find apologists who defend them for all these issues, but many of those same people wouldn't be so apologetic if it was Microsoft, especially if they claimed they were a "do no evil" company.
I'd say being an ID advocate is a damned good litmus test for rationality.
I've known some really smart and rational people that were strong believers in Christianity. I used to find this dumbfounding, but it just seems that a certain percentage of people are able to compartmentalize their scientific skepticism from religion.
Check out Neil deGrasse Tyson's video on God of the Gaps and scientists.
So, when i unplug my peripherals from my computer case, it ceases to be a PC? Whoa. Radical, dude.
That's called a "barebones" PC by online retailers.
If I were seeing an ad for this "PC" for $25, I'd expect a bolded asterisk with a footnote that said, "keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and ethernet/Wi-Fi port not included".
Am I the only one who reads and understands the original e-mails from the admin?
Are you? "Intruders gained root access on the server Hera. We believe they may have gained this access via a compromised user credential; how they managed to exploit that to root access is currently unknown and is being investigated. "
Those are better examples, and to me, raises an interesting ethical question. It's really an age old debate between individuals versus society, mixed in with some game theory.
I agree that there are good reasons for taking the vaccine. I just dispute that somebody who can't take the vaccine (and it sounds like it was found by a bit of luck) should be held up as an example of why people should take the vaccine.
The risks of taking the vaccine are so small as to be almost negligible.
I'm confused. You say there's this person who can't take the vaccine because of side-effects, yet as far as I know people aren't tested for side-effects before given the vaccine. Then you claim that people should be given the vaccine to protect this person, which presumably will cause harm to the people who have the same problem with the vaccine.
Maybe, but I noticed a marked uptick in the non-news items when Digg and Reddit were getting popular. I believe that's around the time that Idle was created.
Yeah, that's the point. Slashdot has been trying to compete with Huffington Post (typical activist slants), Digg (idle), and Reddit (user submissions of blog posts) for a while now.
Didn't you ever watch the '80's teenage movies? Where the big bully gets his ass kicked by the new kid (bigger bully) that moved into town. And after getting his ass kicked, learns his lesson, befriends the geeks he picked on and they team up and beat the bigger bully?
It sure sounds like a trite, Hollywood plot, but I honestly can't remember a single movie from the '80s like that. Revenge of the Nerds? Nope. Karate Kid? Nope. Three O'Clock High? Nope.
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the number they came up with is that once night vision came in, it deceased the average life span of the enemy to about 0.3 seconds (yes, 3/10ths of a second, and no, I'm not exaggerating).
This number doesn't sound believable. For it to be true, it would require robots in the tanks doing the firing, not humans, and firing at any light source.
It did not happen "hours ago" from any reference frame.
Is that really true? Somebody mentioned elsewhere in this thread that:
"Yet, no time has passed for the traveling light. Or more precisely: if an observer had followed the light emitted from the supernova at almost the speed of light, very little time would have passed in his frame of reference. So what we take as 21 million years would have been nearly instantaneous for our traveling observer."
It seems that you can define a reference frame arbitrarily close to the speed of light at an arbitrary starting position and get the desired duration.
We have stories of people building CPUs inside of game logic that is in itself running on a virtual machine that runs on top of a hardware abstraction layer that runs inside a kernel that might very well be running under the purview of a hypervisor. What is the point?
Well, what is the point? If you know anything about just how ubiquitous Turing completeness is, going through the tedious exercise of building a worthless CPU in Minecraft is about as interesting a "hack" as building a house of cards.
The best hacks are actually novel and accomplish something useful from limited resources.
But then I think the rule should apply to everyone, not just celebrities.
The law covers consumers, experts, and celebrities -- bloggers included. So whether people think Sergey is a celebrity or not (I do -- even if he's not a household name), his endorsement and financial ties to the company require disclosure under FTC guidelines.
In my opinion, I am not a lawyer, blah blah.
Be honest: Do you care about the company you work for? I don't.
Whether you care or not about the company, I believe in doing the job you were hired for, taking pride in your work, and treating customers with respect.
Besides, I'd rather be a product of a company that does no evil
You still buy their slogan? I believe at one point they tried to live by this standard, but they sold out to advertisers and privacy invasion a long time ago.
They've also acted like the typical, unethical corporations in other areas, such as negotiating government deals under non-disclosure agreements, banning people from using "Google" in their AdWords but allowing third-party trademarks for everybody else, trying to appropriate the copyright of authors who don't opt-out with their book scanning, and censoring search results for China (which they then decided years later was a bad idea after China hacked them).
You'll find apologists who defend them for all these issues, but many of those same people wouldn't be so apologetic if it was Microsoft, especially if they claimed they were a "do no evil" company.
I'd say being an ID advocate is a damned good litmus test for rationality.
I've known some really smart and rational people that were strong believers in Christianity. I used to find this dumbfounding, but it just seems that a certain percentage of people are able to compartmentalize their scientific skepticism from religion.
Check out Neil deGrasse Tyson's video on God of the Gaps and scientists.
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So, when i unplug my peripherals from my computer case, it ceases to be a PC? Whoa. Radical, dude.
That's called a "barebones" PC by online retailers.
If I were seeing an ad for this "PC" for $25, I'd expect a bolded asterisk with a footnote that said, "keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and ethernet/Wi-Fi port not included".
Am I the only one who reads and understands the original e-mails from the admin?
Are you? "Intruders gained root access on the server Hera. We believe they may have gained this access via a compromised user credential; how they managed to exploit that to root access is currently unknown and is being investigated. "
It's people!
Those are better examples, and to me, raises an interesting ethical question. It's really an age old debate between individuals versus society, mixed in with some game theory.
I agree that there are good reasons for taking the vaccine. I just dispute that somebody who can't take the vaccine (and it sounds like it was found by a bit of luck) should be held up as an example of why people should take the vaccine.
The risks of taking the vaccine are so small as to be almost negligible.
I'm confused. You say there's this person who can't take the vaccine because of side-effects, yet as far as I know people aren't tested for side-effects before given the vaccine. Then you claim that people should be given the vaccine to protect this person, which presumably will cause harm to the people who have the same problem with the vaccine.
You might as well say protein is an amino acid since it's a polymer of amino acids. It's the same thinking and just as wrong.
At least he's living up to his handle (Obfuscant).
You can barely see anything in the picture!
That's the point. It's a different perspective from our everyday self-centered view of the world.
Maybe, but I noticed a marked uptick in the non-news items when Digg and Reddit were getting popular. I believe that's around the time that Idle was created.
I think they're just trying to encourage more submissions.
I'd believe it if they were selling them for BitCoins.
I agree, it's only a matter of time before something horrific pops up and gives the modern world something comparable to the Black Death.
Yeah, that's the point. Slashdot has been trying to compete with Huffington Post (typical activist slants), Digg (idle), and Reddit (user submissions of blog posts) for a while now.
Didn't you ever watch the '80's teenage movies? Where the big bully gets his ass kicked by the new kid (bigger bully) that moved into town. And after getting his ass kicked, learns his lesson, befriends the geeks he picked on and they team up and beat the bigger bully?
It sure sounds like a trite, Hollywood plot, but I honestly can't remember a single movie from the '80s like that. Revenge of the Nerds? Nope. Karate Kid? Nope. Three O'Clock High? Nope.
Sometimes you have to make the sarcasm explicit. Too many people are actually claiming that things are going to hell now that Taco has left.
Yeah, they still pump your gas for you in New Jersey.
It's actually required by state law. Personally, I prefer self-service.