Mr. Beck has bawled many times on his show for very unusual "reasons". The bunch of them would be comical if not for the number of followers who take them seriously. The Bozo Cult.
Now, if only we can get conservative pundits.....to bet their lives.
Excellent! Unfortunately, most are up there in age and probably won't be around long enough to reap the anti-benefits.
Betting your life doesn't matter much if you are due to "check out" soon anyhow. They probably value their money more, and losing THAT would make them cry like a toddler.
The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune.
We already got 2 blue gassy planets. Don't need 3.
We want something really different this time, like a lava planet, ocean world, or full of pizza's. Can we barter with nearby stars who may be short blue gassies?
I'm not quite following your criticism. There seems to be an unstated assumption. They could target Forza at other or multiple platforms and still have "full" physics. The physics calculations shouldn't be "lost" on other platforms, even if some graphics are, unless perhaps they are using the GPU for physics also?
#1 and #2 were already addressed. I don't think the problem would be as big as you claim, for the reasons already given.
The details of how #3 would "be" a phone contact also are not clear to me, including backward compatibility.
With my plan, those who don't want to or cannot "register" will still be able to use their phone, and still "have" a contact ID automatically because it would be based on their existing phone number. I'm thinking of what general consumers would want, NOT just slashdotters.
This reminds me of what happened when Ashton Tate, maker of dBASE, tried to sue dBASE clones in the late 1980's for copying their intellectual property.
It turned out that Ashton Tate's original coder got the source code and related ideas from a JPL (NASA) project, and that JPL had earlier cloned a commercial mini-computer database product, with minor modifications, to avoid licensing fees. It was tainted turtles all the way down. The judge threw the case out.
If you start claiming ownership of something that you don't really know the history of; it could backfire.
It's probably more about market-share than quality. Vendors of software and drivers target the biggest markets first because that's where the most revenue comes from, and Linux is not a big consumer market.
Same with Mac. Mac's are not cheap, but not a good game platform due to the same market-share forces.
If vendors want to go after smaller game markets such as Linux, Android, and Mac, then perhaps they should focus on strategy instead of flashy graphics. That way they don't have to optimize their software for a particular platform, and can live with the performance overhead of a platform translation layer when they write to a generic middle-ware graphics "standard".
But strategy games don't seem to be big sellers. Human "apes" are drawn to the big shiny red ball, as usual. And fancy graphics are a status symbol: keeping up with the Jones'.
Windows strategy for survival is the same as it's always been: you use Windows because everyone else is using and building for Windows, NOT because it's good.
If he pulled off half of what he claims, he would be 10x better than any previous candidate.
Isn't that true of ANY candidate? They all promise pie-in-the-sky results.
It's often in the form of "superior leadership" that will persuade Congress and world leaders to go along with their grand plan. It's very rare somebody actually has that level of charisma and influence, especially since our media is more fractured these days.
And also they exaggerate the impact of their various initiatives. Most of their initiatives, even if they can get them implemented, are usually incremental improvements at best. ACA was a rare exception, at least in terms of the scope of change even if you discount its success.
It's often in the form of "easy" answers to complex problems. In Trump's case, it's mostly about locking out "foreigners," and "stronger" negotiation with our economic partners. Of course, he's exaggerating both the down-sides of each and his ability to manage or leverage them.
Yes, but "grand invasions" like Mr. Khan's seemed limited to about 10% of the population. Alexander the Great did something similar, I would note.
The geographical limits of communication and coordination technology seemed to put an upper limit on the reach of such invaders. If you are out and about conquering, you had a hard time focusing on political issues to keep your growing empire in check. Family political squabbles ended Khan's control, for example. You didn't have telegraphs and teleconferencing to run things from afar.
It's amazing how the Hubble scope went from being one of the biggest embarrassments (lens boo boo) to one of the greatest scientific instruments ever, including images that captured public imagination. It's a grand Second Chance story.
True, but it does seem fewer people can cause bigger problems than in the past. Small rogue nations or organized sub-groups now have more ability to create WMD's. If the trend continues, we are indeed in for tough times.
What if two large planets recently collided, creating a lumpy ring? The plane of the ring could have recently aligned in our direction more, due to relative star motion, accounting for the apparent change in magnitude. Or if the ring is recent enough, it could be "wavy" such that it doesn't always fully align with us.
The Soviets used to launch probes in secret, and if they failed, never acknowledged their existence. They'd number the probes only after they were successful. It would be like Microsoft saying, "What Vista"?
There are a lot of islands in that area, many still sparsely populated by "regular" humans. It's possible some of these "hobbits" are still around.
It would be one of the greatest scientific discoveries if say living homo erectus were found. It's kind of like finding live bigfoot, but on the small.
regulations, red tape and taxes, it is damned hard to start up [small biz]
Examples?
The few "legitimate" examples I've seen were big companies trying to keep small ones out of their turf via bogus safety regulations. I's not "socialists" doing it, but crony capitalists. (Which also exist in China, by the way.)
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It's those flying black blenders that make me nervous.
Remember, the 1% were bailed out then also.
Mr. Beck has bawled many times on his show for very unusual "reasons". The bunch of them would be comical if not for the number of followers who take them seriously. The Bozo Cult.
Excellent! Unfortunately, most are up there in age and probably won't be around long enough to reap the anti-benefits.
Betting your life doesn't matter much if you are due to "check out" soon anyhow. They probably value their money more, and losing THAT would make them cry like a toddler.
Kind of reminds me of this MIT prank:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then take LSD and they will fly again (along with everything else)
As a Jar Jar fan, they better bring Commander Binks back, or I'll be very upset and leave gum in the seats.
Not any more, we're sending the governor to #9
We already got 2 blue gassy planets. Don't need 3.
We want something really different this time, like a lava planet, ocean world, or full of pizza's. Can we barter with nearby stars who may be short blue gassies?
I'm not quite following your criticism. There seems to be an unstated assumption. They could target Forza at other or multiple platforms and still have "full" physics. The physics calculations shouldn't be "lost" on other platforms, even if some graphics are, unless perhaps they are using the GPU for physics also?
#1 and #2 were already addressed. I don't think the problem would be as big as you claim, for the reasons already given.
The details of how #3 would "be" a phone contact also are not clear to me, including backward compatibility.
With my plan, those who don't want to or cannot "register" will still be able to use their phone, and still "have" a contact ID automatically because it would be based on their existing phone number. I'm thinking of what general consumers would want, NOT just slashdotters.
This reminds me of what happened when Ashton Tate, maker of dBASE, tried to sue dBASE clones in the late 1980's for copying their intellectual property.
It turned out that Ashton Tate's original coder got the source code and related ideas from a JPL (NASA) project, and that JPL had earlier cloned a commercial mini-computer database product, with minor modifications, to avoid licensing fees. It was tainted turtles all the way down. The judge threw the case out.
If you start claiming ownership of something that you don't really know the history of; it could backfire.
It's probably more about market-share than quality. Vendors of software and drivers target the biggest markets first because that's where the most revenue comes from, and Linux is not a big consumer market.
Same with Mac. Mac's are not cheap, but not a good game platform due to the same market-share forces.
If vendors want to go after smaller game markets such as Linux, Android, and Mac, then perhaps they should focus on strategy instead of flashy graphics. That way they don't have to optimize their software for a particular platform, and can live with the performance overhead of a platform translation layer when they write to a generic middle-ware graphics "standard".
But strategy games don't seem to be big sellers. Human "apes" are drawn to the big shiny red ball, as usual. And fancy graphics are a status symbol: keeping up with the Jones'.
Windows strategy for survival is the same as it's always been: you use Windows because everyone else is using and building for Windows, NOT because it's good.
Isn't that true of ANY candidate? They all promise pie-in-the-sky results.
It's often in the form of "superior leadership" that will persuade Congress and world leaders to go along with their grand plan. It's very rare somebody actually has that level of charisma and influence, especially since our media is more fractured these days.
And also they exaggerate the impact of their various initiatives. Most of their initiatives, even if they can get them implemented, are usually incremental improvements at best. ACA was a rare exception, at least in terms of the scope of change even if you discount its success.
At least Mr. C did plenty of pre-testing.
It's a matter of leveraging existing stupidity.
It's often in the form of "easy" answers to complex problems. In Trump's case, it's mostly about locking out "foreigners," and "stronger" negotiation with our economic partners. Of course, he's exaggerating both the down-sides of each and his ability to manage or leverage them.
Yes, but "grand invasions" like Mr. Khan's seemed limited to about 10% of the population. Alexander the Great did something similar, I would note.
The geographical limits of communication and coordination technology seemed to put an upper limit on the reach of such invaders. If you are out and about conquering, you had a hard time focusing on political issues to keep your growing empire in check. Family political squabbles ended Khan's control, for example. You didn't have telegraphs and teleconferencing to run things from afar.
It's amazing how the Hubble scope went from being one of the biggest embarrassments (lens boo boo) to one of the greatest scientific instruments ever, including images that captured public imagination. It's a grand Second Chance story.
So Trump is a WMD, along with certain pundits who I shall not name.
True, but it does seem fewer people can cause bigger problems than in the past. Small rogue nations or organized sub-groups now have more ability to create WMD's. If the trend continues, we are indeed in for tough times.
What if two large planets recently collided, creating a lumpy ring? The plane of the ring could have recently aligned in our direction more, due to relative star motion, accounting for the apparent change in magnitude. Or if the ring is recent enough, it could be "wavy" such that it doesn't always fully align with us.
No, now they use multi-threaded Lisp.
The Soviets used to launch probes in secret, and if they failed, never acknowledged their existence. They'd number the probes only after they were successful. It would be like Microsoft saying, "What Vista"?
There are a lot of islands in that area, many still sparsely populated by "regular" humans. It's possible some of these "hobbits" are still around.
It would be one of the greatest scientific discoveries if say living homo erectus were found. It's kind of like finding live bigfoot, but on the small.
Examples?
The few "legitimate" examples I've seen were big companies trying to keep small ones out of their turf via bogus safety regulations. I's not "socialists" doing it, but crony capitalists. (Which also exist in China, by the way.)