It was 1.5 minutes of self promoting douche bags showing nothing..
Congratulations I believe you have just described every political ad back to the 70s. For the record, they worked especially well during the last four political elections. What does this have to do with the pen. Everything. Its marketing.
http://www.usb.org/developers/... I see your 3d dooddler and raise you the actual specs for USB 3. Yes it can receive the power it needs to do what it claims it can do.
There are UBS wall outlets now so your comment is moot. Also, there was an assumption that it was powered by a macbook although the editing didn't show that. Sadly, Hackaday is about re-purposing electronics in new different ways. A skilled person could make a windows laptop inside a macbook shell, sand off the apple, put a pear on it (its a Nickelodeon thing) and then do the same video. That shows how pointless his argument was. The pen does have the ability to get hot enough to melt abs. USB specs for 3 and 3.1 allow for more than enough power to power it properly. It was all specious handwaving over whether HE believed it was a macbook even though the video never showed the pen being powered by it.
Sad hackaday devolved to strawmen.
Have a look at SeaMonkey. It is the way Firefox used to be before it all started to go to shit when Chrome came out. It is as far as I know, the last real browser being maintained, since Opera died.
You get extension compatibility with FF, too.
Care to explain the 'since Opera Died' comment?
Opera 20
Release notes
Release date: 2014-03-04
Doesn't look dead to me. Yes, they are keeping up with chromium but chromium is not chrome. Opera is still Opera. Sadly I would be on Opera all the time but the extensions on FF (download helper and image resizer) force me to put up with the insanity.
We're not ready for a massive EMP... or a 500 mile high Tsunami... or Giant radioactive lizards that breath fire. I love the quote though, "In the first few minutes of an EMP, nearly half a million people would die." Well, if we're talking about an EMP that could take out the entire US including airspace, that might be true of planes falling from the sky and trains running off the rails. But that scenario isn't even remotely plausible outside total nuclear annihilation. Further, Hurrican Katrina showed that even an EMP hitting a major city is really nothing more than a power outage. Flooding happens to be the most dangerous natural disaster in reach of major cities (short of Hawaii blowing up or California splitting in half). Unless the results of an EMP are dams breaking in some Superman: The Movie kind of way, we wouldn't even see a Katrina level disaster.
Frankly, I could care less about an EMP. Any number of computer viruses could disable more machines than an EMP. And a radioactive dirty bomb is a real threat to life for decades. Any terrorist that could cause an explosion capable of triggering a sufficiently large EMP would find that the bomb itself would be more useful against a soft civilian target. An EMP is just flat out impractical for a terrorist, who prefers simple and direct and terrifying.
On the other hand, if we're worried about a bad actor like North Korea, I believe such an EMP that could hit multiple US cities at once would trigger a nuclear response from the US..
Which is why North Korea won't do it. King Jong Un might be dear leader now but he's not insane like his father. He knows we have more than enough nukes to incinerate all of North Korea and the will to do it. Any dirty bomb would come from terrorists on the ground
Both variation and selection are still at work, even on "inanimate" objects.
I moved to a place where my favorite convenience store isn't available. I still use there selection of cups. However, I don't expect them to one day 'upgrade' to the cup of the gas station across the street. Outside of biology, variation and selection are static. They can and are eliminated in communist societies as ills.
We know that the iPhone "evolved" from early cell phones via natural selection aka market selection
Damn that kool-aid is sweet?
IPhones DIDN'T EVOLVE. There are individual phones that were built (created) for specific functions. All still exist even though their functions aren't prevalent anymore. None are extinct. The last was the brick cellular phone. Then computers were miniaturized enough to allow for a phone to become an simple program on that computer. It was named IPhone because people wouldn't buy pocket computer to call each other.
Evolution is at beast a biologically process. When applying it to market driven created products you don't silly, you look like an f***ing idiot.
Why in the name of all that is good and pure would we ' create a new Big Bang in one of the empty spaces of OUR universe?' Why not in 12 dimensional space?
Supergod created god and god's god-verse. And megagod created supergod and supergod's super-verse. And hypergod created megagod and megagod's mega-verse.
AND NOTHING CREATED HYPERGOD. HYPERGOD IS ETERNAL. ALL HAIL HYPERGOD.
[BTW, turtles-all-the-way-down means that our god is the worst god of all. Since he was unable to create a being capable of creating a universe.]
How do you know we aren't capabl? maybe our way is through our books and literature. What if every piece of created story IS another universe. That would make our God best ebcause he created not just one but millions who created millions more.
Or Occam's Razor doesn't apply because he's the creator and therefore outside of it. In my novel universe, Occam's razor doesn't apply to me because I am the creator.
Isn't it interesting that each of the creators has a list of what is required to appease him or join his family. There aren't thousands of other completely arbitrary assumptions that amount to an almost infinite array of possible mutually contradictory creators. There are actually less than 100. Of those there realistically only 10 who have expressed requirements Today 8 still remain (Norse and Greek/Roman while known to have requirements, those don't remain in print)
Yahweh and Yeshua, his son.
Allah
Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Xenu
Yourself
Ahura Mazda
So there is a1 in 8 chance of being right.
Ok, I'll bite. Why do you AC deserve the freaking "live forever" pill especially considering several people on/. have expressed abhorrance to that very concept as well as that of immortality.
The Alcubierre drive or Alcubierre metric (referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (i.e. negative mass) could be created. Rather than exceeding the speed of light within its local frame of reference, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel.
Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space. The metric proposed by Alcubierre is mathematically valid in that it is consistent with the Einstein field equations; however the proposed mechanism of the Alcubierre drive implies a negative energy density and therefore requires exotic matter, so if exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist then it could not be constructed.(Exotic matter with the correct properties does exist) However, at the close of his original paper Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.
The Alcubierre metric defines the warp-drive spacetime. It is a Lorentzian manifold, which, if interpreted in the context of general relativity, allows a warp bubble to appear in previously-flat spacetime and move away at effectively-superluminal speed. Inhabitants of the bubble feel no inertial effects. This method of transport does not involve objects in motion at speeds faster than light with respect to the contents of the warp bubble; that is, a light beam within the warp bubble would still always move faster than the ship. As objects within the bubble are not moving (locally) faster than light, the mathematical formulation of the Alcubierre metric is consistent with the conventional claims of the laws of relativity (namely, that an object with mass cannot attain or exceed the speed of light) and conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply as they would with conventional motion at near-light speeds.
Like the Europas and the Africas? Or like the Asias?
- No those are singular
America is a continent,
- No as was already pointed out, North America is a continent, South America is a differnet continent and Central America is a region where
the two connect.
and your country is called United States of America, like Estados Unidos de Mexico and Estados Unidos do Brazil.
And thank you for the best example - those are the country names - and when talked about in genral non-formal terms drop the "United States of"
or the "Estados Unidos de" and you get America, Mexico and Brazil the names of *Coutries* that everyone except dicks in comment threads fully understand.
First didn't realize Brazil had states.
Second to wind this down. America derives its name from the feminized Latin version of Amerigo Vespucci's name. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.
What's a dead zombie? Is this some kind of recursion?
No. A dead zombie is a non functional one. Depending of the type its one that is shreeded or simply brainless.
(Getting old has a lot of advantages, but one of the disadvantages is that it's harder to keep track of popular memes. I mean, I never understood the whole "vampire" thing, and now we're on to zombies. What's next?)
What's next? Mermaids. Specifically mermaids that are the 'Illumanti' and also competitive cheerleaders. see http://songoftheassembly.wordp...
The climate in the UK has been slowly changing over the passed 15 or so years, the extremes are getting wider. I think once all the ice has melted in the polar regions and its no longer feeding cold water in to the seas to keep it relatively cool, the temperatures will rise quicker and more noticeably.
Hmm.
If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing.
At the other end of the world, the North Pole, the ice is not nearly as thick as at the South Pole. The ice floats on the Arctic Ocean. If it melted sea levels would not be affected.
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I doubt that will happen as it would take a lot more than global warming to melt the ice in Antarctica.
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It was 1.5 minutes of self promoting douche bags showing nothing..
Congratulations I believe you have just described every political ad back to the 70s. For the record, they worked especially well during the last four political elections. What does this have to do with the pen. Everything. Its marketing.
This isn't so much a hand-held 3D printer as it is a hand-cramp generator.
So is porn but you don't see people complaining about it.
http://www.usb.org/developers/... I see your 3d dooddler and raise you the actual specs for USB 3. Yes it can receive the power it needs to do what it claims it can do.
There are UBS wall outlets now so your comment is moot. Also, there was an assumption that it was powered by a macbook although the editing didn't show that. Sadly, Hackaday is about re-purposing electronics in new different ways. A skilled person could make a windows laptop inside a macbook shell, sand off the apple, put a pear on it (its a Nickelodeon thing) and then do the same video. That shows how pointless his argument was. The pen does have the ability to get hot enough to melt abs. USB specs for 3 and 3.1 allow for more than enough power to power it properly. It was all specious handwaving over whether HE believed it was a macbook even though the video never showed the pen being powered by it. Sad hackaday devolved to strawmen.
Have a look at SeaMonkey. It is the way Firefox used to be before it all started to go to shit when Chrome came out. It is as far as I know, the last real browser being maintained, since Opera died.
You get extension compatibility with FF, too.
Care to explain the 'since Opera Died' comment? Opera 20 Release notes Release date: 2014-03-04 Doesn't look dead to me. Yes, they are keeping up with chromium but chromium is not chrome. Opera is still Opera. Sadly I would be on Opera all the time but the extensions on FF (download helper and image resizer) force me to put up with the insanity.
Opera. It still works well.
We're not ready for a massive EMP... or a 500 mile high Tsunami... or Giant radioactive lizards that breath fire. I love the quote though, "In the first few minutes of an EMP, nearly half a million people would die." Well, if we're talking about an EMP that could take out the entire US including airspace, that might be true of planes falling from the sky and trains running off the rails. But that scenario isn't even remotely plausible outside total nuclear annihilation. Further, Hurrican Katrina showed that even an EMP hitting a major city is really nothing more than a power outage. Flooding happens to be the most dangerous natural disaster in reach of major cities (short of Hawaii blowing up or California splitting in half). Unless the results of an EMP are dams breaking in some Superman: The Movie kind of way, we wouldn't even see a Katrina level disaster.
Frankly, I could care less about an EMP. Any number of computer viruses could disable more machines than an EMP. And a radioactive dirty bomb is a real threat to life for decades. Any terrorist that could cause an explosion capable of triggering a sufficiently large EMP would find that the bomb itself would be more useful against a soft civilian target. An EMP is just flat out impractical for a terrorist, who prefers simple and direct and terrifying.
On the other hand, if we're worried about a bad actor like North Korea, I believe such an EMP that could hit multiple US cities at once would trigger a nuclear response from the US. .
Which is why North Korea won't do it. King Jong Un might be dear leader now but he's not insane like his father. He knows we have more than enough nukes to incinerate all of North Korea and the will to do it. Any dirty bomb would come from terrorists on the ground
I do. I remember alta vista and hotbot and lycos. Then came google and crushed everyone save bing. That sad pathetic attempt Microsoft offers.
And guess where Enron is now. Dead, its CEO in jail. Falling on your sword while painful is necessary.
If this is true why hasn't my computer done this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I reject your notion that evolution is unrelated.
Both variation and selection are still at work, even on "inanimate" objects.
I moved to a place where my favorite convenience store isn't available. I still use there selection of cups. However, I don't expect them to one day 'upgrade' to the cup of the gas station across the street. Outside of biology, variation and selection are static. They can and are eliminated in communist societies as ills.
We know that the iPhone "evolved" from early cell phones via natural selection aka market selection
Damn that kool-aid is sweet? IPhones DIDN'T EVOLVE. There are individual phones that were built (created) for specific functions. All still exist even though their functions aren't prevalent anymore. None are extinct. The last was the brick cellular phone. Then computers were miniaturized enough to allow for a phone to become an simple program on that computer. It was named IPhone because people wouldn't buy pocket computer to call each other. Evolution is at beast a biologically process. When applying it to market driven created products you don't silly, you look like an f***ing idiot.
So you going with the Battlestar Galactica theory?
Why in the name of all that is good and pure would we ' create a new Big Bang in one of the empty spaces of OUR universe?' Why not in 12 dimensional space?
Supergod created god and god's god-verse. And megagod created supergod and supergod's super-verse. And hypergod created megagod and megagod's mega-verse.
AND NOTHING CREATED HYPERGOD. HYPERGOD IS ETERNAL. ALL HAIL HYPERGOD.
[BTW, turtles-all-the-way-down means that our god is the worst god of all. Since he was unable to create a being capable of creating a universe.]
How do you know we aren't capabl? maybe our way is through our books and literature. What if every piece of created story IS another universe. That would make our God best ebcause he created not just one but millions who created millions more.
Yep and we are back to Turtles all the way down. I still see nothing wrong with that.
Or Occam's Razor doesn't apply because he's the creator and therefore outside of it. In my novel universe, Occam's razor doesn't apply to me because I am the creator.
Isn't it interesting that each of the creators has a list of what is required to appease him or join his family. There aren't thousands of other completely arbitrary assumptions that amount to an almost infinite array of possible mutually contradictory creators. There are actually less than 100. Of those there realistically only 10 who have expressed requirements Today 8 still remain (Norse and Greek/Roman while known to have requirements, those don't remain in print) Yahweh and Yeshua, his son. Allah Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) Xenu Yourself Ahura Mazda So there is a1 in 8 chance of being right.
Ok, I'll bite. Why do you AC deserve the freaking "live forever" pill especially considering several people on /. have expressed abhorrance to that very concept as well as that of immortality.
And then what mind-boggling intelligence begat the mind-boggling intelligence that begat us? Turtles all the way down, mate.
The answer? An even more staggering, self existing, mind-boggling intelligence. Seriously, What exactly is wrong with 'Turtles all the way down'?
The Alcubierre drive or Alcubierre metric (referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (i.e. negative mass) could be created. Rather than exceeding the speed of light within its local frame of reference, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel. Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space. The metric proposed by Alcubierre is mathematically valid in that it is consistent with the Einstein field equations; however the proposed mechanism of the Alcubierre drive implies a negative energy density and therefore requires exotic matter, so if exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist then it could not be constructed.(Exotic matter with the correct properties does exist) However, at the close of his original paper Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.
The Alcubierre metric defines the warp-drive spacetime. It is a Lorentzian manifold, which, if interpreted in the context of general relativity, allows a warp bubble to appear in previously-flat spacetime and move away at effectively-superluminal speed. Inhabitants of the bubble feel no inertial effects. This method of transport does not involve objects in motion at speeds faster than light with respect to the contents of the warp bubble; that is, a light beam within the warp bubble would still always move faster than the ship. As objects within the bubble are not moving (locally) faster than light, the mathematical formulation of the Alcubierre metric is consistent with the conventional claims of the laws of relativity (namely, that an object with mass cannot attain or exceed the speed of light) and conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply as they would with conventional motion at near-light speeds.
Like the Europas and the Africas? Or like the Asias?
- No those are singular
America is a continent,
- No as was already pointed out, North America is a continent, South America is a differnet continent and Central America is a region where the two connect.
and your country is called United States of America, like Estados Unidos de Mexico and Estados Unidos do Brazil.
And thank you for the best example - those are the country names - and when talked about in genral non-formal terms drop the "United States of" or the "Estados Unidos de" and you get America, Mexico and Brazil the names of *Coutries* that everyone except dicks in comment threads fully understand.
First didn't realize Brazil had states. Second to wind this down. America derives its name from the feminized Latin version of Amerigo Vespucci's name. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.
a gun to calculate Pi value...
According to a couple of Canadian mathematicians,
I didn't realize we had annexed Canada recently. I hope we didn't also get Quebec.
We didn't. We gave it back to the French.
AND a bunch of dead zombies.
What's a dead zombie? Is this some kind of recursion?
No. A dead zombie is a non functional one. Depending of the type its one that is shreeded or simply brainless.
(Getting old has a lot of advantages, but one of the disadvantages is that it's harder to keep track of popular memes. I mean, I never understood the whole "vampire" thing, and now we're on to zombies. What's next?)
What's next? Mermaids. Specifically mermaids that are the 'Illumanti' and also competitive cheerleaders. see http://songoftheassembly.wordp...
The climate in the UK has been slowly changing over the passed 15 or so years, the extremes are getting wider. I think once all the ice has melted in the polar regions and its no longer feeding cold water in to the seas to keep it relatively cool, the temperatures will rise quicker and more noticeably.
Hmm.
If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing. At the other end of the world, the North Pole, the ice is not nearly as thick as at the South Pole. The ice floats on the Arctic Ocean. If it melted sea levels would not be affected.
. I doubt that will happen as it would take a lot more than global warming to melt the ice in Antarctica.