Really? Did you explain to them that a 1TB drive likely costs 30$ more than a 100GB drive? Even if they don't need it most consumers jump at the opportunity because they can see the savings.
I assume this would be managed by a rail gun setup. While we can't fire anythign as big as a spaceship into space shooting a shiny ball into space is no problem at all.
However this does show just how desperate we are getting. Shooting 10,000 metal balls into space pretty much guarantees we wont be leaving this planet... Unless they are all going for lagrange points I suppose but then I question the value or our ability to aim so accurately.
For me I may have lost a few % of P2P. Main reason being? Streaming video is so damn convenient. I really doubt that this could be attributed to any drop in 'pirating' or w/e the mafiaa is calling it these days. The pirates have just moved on from torrenting. At least for the casual users it is. For me if there is a show I know I want to watch all of then I'll torrent it (scrubs for example). But if I'm just bored and feel like something random I'll try a streaming site. Generally speaking, anime works better streaming since you can often find next to perfect quality. Movies streaming I will only rarely bother with. I guess I will use streaming for movies rare enough that it'll look like it takes a month to torrent.
Also I think average 'light' users of 5years ago are now watching fart videos online and maybe using webcams. Maybe watching porn videos instead of just dling pictures. Pretty sure that demographic is just increasing really fucking fast.
And to top it off it is an unverified study done by a company selling these tools that they 'proved' work. Sooo, no big surprise there. Not that I want to build a strawman but either they have to get it verified by a 3rd party or release every tiny detail on their method.
Having the balls to off yourself painfully with a weapon when you are at a horrible point in life (the end) is pretty rare. I doubt you could kill yourself with drugs in a hospital they'll just flush you clean. Being able to freely chose your death should be a good thing and available. I'm not arguing that legal implications are the big hurdle. But more the social cultural ones. So many people will look at you after you died as that guy that offed himself after a lifetime of accomplishments. Why? It seems pretty disrespectful and dreadful for those forced to go through near torture in hospital but that's the way it is. I think this is due in part to religion.
I believe that this stigma and the rules will be changed fairly rapidly once we start running out of room on this rock. A time I'm not really looking forward to:/. Thought land was a problem in 1300? Wait till there's 9.5billion people on the planet (2050, our lifetimes probably).
I wrote my own compiler/language just now. What it does is it disregards your entire source code and then outputs that mac crashing bug. I fail to see your point...
I'm a c/c++ fan but just because you can do something in less lines doesn't mean it is better. Maybe if you said that in your language the mac crash ap compiles to 80bytes and requires only 10 operations then i'd be impressed. Buuuut in that case then asm is the greatest language ever.
But whenever these debates come up I feel like a freak. Am I the only one that thinks we should switch to base16 for everything?
Base 10 is arbitrary and pretty useless. Math just works better in hex. It makes things shorter by having 16 numbers taking only 1 character and having 6 more numbers to memorize is clearly NOT onerous. Saved space, better efficiency, very little learning investment.
As to this debate itself how exactly will this work... If 1GB is 1,000,000,000bytes than is a kb 1000bytes? And are bytes still 8 bits or 10? Wouldn't this introduce a horrible decimal system into computers?? There are waaaaaay more things involving space that are based on bits and bytes than multiples of 10. I kinda thought the only reason that drives were smaller than labeled was a sort of low level scam. UDP headers being 6.4bytes instead of 8bytes sounds like a giant fucking pain in the ass. Is a 'word' going to be 1.6/3.2bytes now?...
Scenario 1: Rich country attacked by poor country
Will not be a conventional military strike because that would be stupid suicide. Suicide bombing or other terrorist attacks is the only option they have. So human victims will ensue.
Scenario 2: Rich country attacks poor country
Reasoning could be to 'help' one part of the populace. This will need to be done on the ground dealing with people... more like policing another country. This will require PEOPLE on the ground since robots can't do this for a looong time still. It'll likely be mismanaged since rich country is helping out they will be hard pressed to risk their own asses and tactical weapons will be used.... which will have big collateral damage.
Scenario 3: Poor country v poor country
Lots of people will die, lives are valued wayyyyy less than any sort of tech. Will be the most common type of war at all points in time. I mean why kill people when you have a car a house and cable tv.
Scenario 4: Rich v Rich
Will have some standoffish tech battles (missiles vs missile defense). But this quickly turns it into a number game. And that makes it easy to predict the winner. Sooo whatever side is losing will have to do something drastic or stupid. Which will either mean a rich v poor situation. Or they will use nastier weapons.... Which will result in a massive loss of lives. This is hard to do since it is hard to get a well informed populace to go along with said nasty weapons. The other option is the winning country uses their power to obliterate or seriously hurt the other country. This is much harder to convince and informed populace it'd be ok to do. Sadly if it happens on either side then it turns into a BIG war maybe a new WW... In which case lots of nasty things will occur.
Problem is people don't care about robots. All they cost is money. And it'll take a while to care about money if you went to war for any reason you gave a shit about. Think about the news... New us jets cost 260Million dollars EACH. How often do you hear news about them blowing up. A single person getting killed even if he was a chef in a neighboring country not even part of the military... will get 1000x more coverage. Because of people's fascination with this and an inability to do math, wars will rarely be solved without someone dying. (By math i mean with 260M dollars you could prolly save a million lives)
It also eliminates bidding wars which could SUBSTANTIALLY increase the price. I knew there was something stupid with that plan it was governmental afterall...
Awesome ap! Keep working on it this definately could be amazing with better visuals... I'm thinking the death and taxes graph to the extreme. Maybe Add some search able features and such..
Hmmm I went to get statistics to prove you wrong about genocide since I figured countries with low gun figures would all be modernized European countries and Japan. Which clearly wouldn't have any genocide. Buuuuut it appears fairly haphazard with no pattern related to genocide I can see... US, Iraq and Yemen are high which fits my profile... But then so is Switzerland, France and Finland which clearly doesn't.
In conclusion I would like to say the world isn't obvious and simple:(.
Pretty cool. The guy has a good point against msnbc but honestly he is kinda insane. He turns from informative to cultist over ten minutes. He kinda fucks up his argument towards the end. He was arguing that the best gets picked on, fine thats human nature. When you improve something it is natural to look for further improvements. But then he links that (us having a black president) to healthcare. But that is completely COMPLETELY untrue. He implies that like having a black president the US is in the forefront of the world the US is in the forefront of healthcare. The US healthcare system is insanely innefficient, it is the most expensive system on the planet and ranks somewhere in the late 30s for effectiveness. That isn't people picking on the best, the US is just woefully behind. (Oh and on the issue of women in power, the US is in 67th place for % of parliament that are women.) Minorities in power is harder to determine statistics on but... The pm of Peru is japanese, Bolivia had a recent pm from an ethnic minority, Disraeli in England (a while ago but still...). I dunno why i put research into debunking some video an AC posted:/
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Really? Did you explain to them that a 1TB drive likely costs 30$ more than a 100GB drive? Even if they don't need it most consumers jump at the opportunity because they can see the savings.
I assume this would be managed by a rail gun setup. While we can't fire anythign as big as a spaceship into space shooting a shiny ball into space is no problem at all.
However this does show just how desperate we are getting. Shooting 10,000 metal balls into space pretty much guarantees we wont be leaving this planet... Unless they are all going for lagrange points I suppose but then I question the value or our ability to aim so accurately.
A more accurate analogy that /. can understand:
The car has flipped upside down in a crash but the wheels keep spinning in anycase not moving the car further forwards.
have dots in them,
Clearly you sur were not careful enough|
I guess if spamming fistr pots and goatze links counts as damaging the network.
For me I may have lost a few % of P2P. Main reason being? Streaming video is so damn convenient. I really doubt that this could be attributed to any drop in 'pirating' or w/e the mafiaa is calling it these days. The pirates have just moved on from torrenting. At least for the casual users it is. For me if there is a show I know I want to watch all of then I'll torrent it (scrubs for example). But if I'm just bored and feel like something random I'll try a streaming site.
Generally speaking, anime works better streaming since you can often find next to perfect quality. Movies streaming I will only rarely bother with. I guess I will use streaming for movies rare enough that it'll look like it takes a month to torrent.
Also I think average 'light' users of 5years ago are now watching fart videos online and maybe using webcams. Maybe watching porn videos instead of just dling pictures. Pretty sure that demographic is just increasing really fucking fast.
And to top it off it is an unverified study done by a company selling these tools that they 'proved' work. Sooo, no big surprise there. Not that I want to build a strawman but either they have to get it verified by a 3rd party or release every tiny detail on their method.
Having the balls to off yourself painfully with a weapon when you are at a horrible point in life (the end) is pretty rare. I doubt you could kill yourself with drugs in a hospital they'll just flush you clean. Being able to freely chose your death should be a good thing and available. I'm not arguing that legal implications are the big hurdle. But more the social cultural ones. So many people will look at you after you died as that guy that offed himself after a lifetime of accomplishments. Why? It seems pretty disrespectful and dreadful for those forced to go through near torture in hospital but that's the way it is. I think this is due in part to religion.
:/. Thought land was a problem in 1300? Wait till there's 9.5billion people on the planet (2050, our lifetimes probably).
I believe that this stigma and the rules will be changed fairly rapidly once we start running out of room on this rock. A time I'm not really looking forward to
Death isn't an unknown it just isn't that exciting.
Capitalist are Destroying the internet. It is a work in progress friend.
I wrote my own compiler/language just now. What it does is it disregards your entire source code and then outputs that mac crashing bug. I fail to see your point...
I'm a c/c++ fan but just because you can do something in less lines doesn't mean it is better. Maybe if you said that in your language the mac crash ap compiles to 80bytes and requires only 10 operations then i'd be impressed. Buuuut in that case then asm is the greatest language ever.
TBPH I don't think the RIAA have heard of fair use. I guess it never came up since their line of work is unrelated.
But whenever these debates come up I feel like a freak. Am I the only one that thinks we should switch to base16 for everything?
Base 10 is arbitrary and pretty useless. Math just works better in hex. It makes things shorter by having 16 numbers taking only 1 character and having 6 more numbers to memorize is clearly NOT onerous. Saved space, better efficiency, very little learning investment.
As to this debate itself how exactly will this work... If 1GB is 1,000,000,000bytes than is a kb 1000bytes? And are bytes still 8 bits or 10? Wouldn't this introduce a horrible decimal system into computers?? There are waaaaaay more things involving space that are based on bits and bytes than multiples of 10. I kinda thought the only reason that drives were smaller than labeled was a sort of low level scam. UDP headers being 6.4bytes instead of 8bytes sounds like a giant fucking pain in the ass. Is a 'word' going to be 1.6/3.2bytes now?...
By lying more evenly??? I don't see how that works at all.
Not really.
Scenario 1: Rich country attacked by poor country
Will not be a conventional military strike because that would be stupid suicide. Suicide bombing or other terrorist attacks is the only option they have. So human victims will ensue.
Scenario 2: Rich country attacks poor country
Reasoning could be to 'help' one part of the populace. This will need to be done on the ground dealing with people... more like policing another country. This will require PEOPLE on the ground since robots can't do this for a looong time still. It'll likely be mismanaged since rich country is helping out they will be hard pressed to risk their own asses and tactical weapons will be used.... which will have big collateral damage.
Scenario 3: Poor country v poor country
Lots of people will die, lives are valued wayyyyy less than any sort of tech. Will be the most common type of war at all points in time. I mean why kill people when you have a car a house and cable tv.
Scenario 4: Rich v Rich
Will have some standoffish tech battles (missiles vs missile defense). But this quickly turns it into a number game. And that makes it easy to predict the winner. Sooo whatever side is losing will have to do something drastic or stupid. Which will either mean a rich v poor situation. Or they will use nastier weapons.... Which will result in a massive loss of lives. This is hard to do since it is hard to get a well informed populace to go along with said nasty weapons. The other option is the winning country uses their power to obliterate or seriously hurt the other country. This is much harder to convince and informed populace it'd be ok to do. Sadly if it happens on either side then it turns into a BIG war maybe a new WW... In which case lots of nasty things will occur.
Problem is people don't care about robots. All they cost is money. And it'll take a while to care about money if you went to war for any reason you gave a shit about. Think about the news... New us jets cost 260Million dollars EACH. How often do you hear news about them blowing up. A single person getting killed even if he was a chef in a neighboring country not even part of the military... will get 1000x more coverage. Because of people's fascination with this and an inability to do math, wars will rarely be solved without someone dying. (By math i mean with 260M dollars you could prolly save a million lives)
It also eliminates bidding wars which could SUBSTANTIALLY increase the price. I knew there was something stupid with that plan it was governmental afterall...
Here stars of online tv shows answer this exact question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBaOCKtDY9g&feature=related
If the man can build a hat made of doors using only the words free and retard he most have some special skills...
Awesome ap! Keep working on it this definately could be amazing with better visuals... I'm thinking the death and taxes graph to the extreme. Maybe Add some search able features and such..
Hmmm I went to get statistics to prove you wrong about genocide since I figured countries with low gun figures would all be modernized European countries and Japan. Which clearly wouldn't have any genocide. Buuuuut it appears fairly haphazard with no pattern related to genocide I can see... US, Iraq and Yemen are high which fits my profile... But then so is Switzerland, France and Finland which clearly doesn't.
:(.
In conclusion I would like to say the world isn't obvious and simple
Pretty cool. The guy has a good point against msnbc but honestly he is kinda insane. He turns from informative to cultist over ten minutes. He kinda fucks up his argument towards the end. He was arguing that the best gets picked on, fine thats human nature. When you improve something it is natural to look for further improvements. But then he links that (us having a black president) to healthcare. But that is completely COMPLETELY untrue. He implies that like having a black president the US is in the forefront of the world the US is in the forefront of healthcare. The US healthcare system is insanely innefficient, it is the most expensive system on the planet and ranks somewhere in the late 30s for effectiveness. That isn't people picking on the best, the US is just woefully behind. (Oh and on the issue of women in power, the US is in 67th place for % of parliament that are women.) Minorities in power is harder to determine statistics on but... The pm of Peru is japanese, Bolivia had a recent pm from an ethnic minority, Disraeli in England (a while ago but still...). I dunno why i put research into debunking some video an AC posted :/
The GGF deal at the moment is dead in the water. And thank god for that. Apparently the GGF offered to buy TPB with money they don't have lol.
There is no bartering in WoW. In my 3years of play i think i've traded items for items once.
you forgot the jury...
From the summary god damn:
"within the HTTP realm some Web sites and services that use lots of upstream bandwidth are capped as well."
Sounds like it fits the bill perfectly....
If they overbook your flight they give your money back. If ISPs paid back w/e % you had taken away we'd see less complaints.