You can only answer the exact same rhetoric so many times before you just start saying, "Look, you're a fucking moron. If you can't figure out what I've been saying for the past 15 years then sit down and shut the fuck up. Retard." I don't blame them.
"I'm unaware of what current systems still use carts"
I forgot the obvious one: GBA. GBA roms are all over the place, and the hardware to play them on your actual GBA was readily available last time I looked. A large number of these roms were released by pirates long before they saw store shelves.
"Piracy is almost non-existent on cartridge-based systems (besides emulators),"
I'm unaware of what current systems still use carts, but the console pirate scene was huge in the 90s. It was trivial to download console warez all day long (at 14.4 baud), copy them to floppies, and play them in your cartridge copier on SNES and Genesis. There were also hardware mods for 8-bit NES and Neo-Geo, if I'm not mistaken. Cartridge-based systems offered no more protection from piracy than anything else.
"The Gamecube's mini-DVDs seem to have been sufficient to protect it from widespread piracy. I still see Dreamcast games for download, but have yet to find gamecube ones."
GC files are all over the place. I play Bust A Move 3000 on an emulator.
I believe if I had a business that lost a million dollars due to downtime and my network wiz tracked the guy's home address, I'd be on the next flight out with a good, strong baseball bat.
"But seriously, you cannot fault the technical achievements of these movies."
Sure I can. Shiny spaceship models are a dime a dozen among graphic artists who just picked up their first copy of Maya, but good CGI artists know how to make their models look dirty and real. The first trilogy looked better to me because they were using real, dirty models.
I'm violently opposed to laws making it a crime to, say, rent an "M"-rated game to minors, but for fuck's sake, good parents should know better than to sit their young kids down in front of something like Sin City. Those kids probably got somewhat queasy at the sight of Frodo having his guts eaten by his own dog.
"The first two originals were PG, and the 3rd was PG-13 - allowing for more age-appropriate sex (metal bikini!) and violence. [...] the PG-13 rating undoubtedly convinced many 12-18 year-olds to go to Jedi because it wasn't necessarily a 'children's film' anymore due to the rating."
Yeah, you're probably right...hey, didn't RotJ come out in 1983? And wasn't the PG-13 rating introduced near the end of 1984? Whoops.
And you can stop right there. Einstein showed us that different frames of reference are vitally important in measurement. Regardless of *why* the light takes longer to go through different materials, the fact remains that it takes longer and is thus slower than c by definition.
If you're the photon, you probably don't care that your path is changed by refraction and absorption, as far as your speed is concerned. But as observers, we can pinpoint *exactly* how much slower than c that photon is going because we know how much longer it takes to get from point A to point B. We can even stop it if we want to. Quantum mechanics is a bit more involved than your simplistic classical examples. In short, your terminology is wrong. Light can and does travel slower than c, by definition of c. And your analogy is off. It would be more accurate to say you started walking the 5-mile course but stopped to rest at benches along the way. To the observer at the end of the course, your average speed is lower than someone who walked straight through.
I like WikiPedia, because it makes people think they're experts. Here's a quote from the Nature journal concerning work on slowing light waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate:
"Techniques that use quantum interference effects are being actively investigated to manipulate the optical properties of quantum systems. One such example is electromagnetically induced transparency, a quantum effect that permits the propagation of light pulses through an otherwise opaque medium. Here we report an experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency in an ultracold gas of sodium atoms, in which the optical pulses propagate at twenty million times slower than the speed of light in a vacuum. The gas is cooled to nanokelvin temperatures by laser and evaporative cooling. The quantum interference controlling the optical properties of the medium is set up by a 'coupling' laser beam propagating at a right angle to the pulsed 'probe' beam. At nanokelvin temperatures, the variation of refractive index with probe frequency can be made very steep. In conjunction with the high atomic density, this results in the exceptionally low light speeds observed. By cooling the cloud below the transition temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation (causing a macroscopic population of alkali atoms in the quantum ground state of the confining potential), we observe even lower pulse propagation velocities (17 m s-1) owing to the increased atom density. [...]"
"'Fatal error in steering.sys'? What the fuck does that mea-" screeeeeeeeeeeeechBOOM!
But seriously, I enjoyed the 65,535 comments on how MS should make an OS that can't crash before they start working on cars. Someone cough up another one and maybe we can roll it over (GET IT?! HA HA!)
When they get a worm and refuse to correct the problem, make their continued switch access contingent on an essay that details what they can do to prevent the specific worm from hitting them in the future, and what general steps they can take to protect themselves and others on the network. If they can't show an understanding of the problem, they are refused access until they study up on it.
Since you don't know why you got it wrong, I'll let you in on the secret: C is defined as the speed of light in vacuum. You claimed that light can't go slower than this, but it's been known for at least 65 years that it does. Light propagates through materials at different rates depending on their composition.
You should work on your sarcasm, by the way. It sucked.
They already have. Blank cassettes were taxed first, pissing me off because all I used them for was storage for my own original 4-track music. Then they tried to pull the same shit with blank CDs, but clued elected officials (iirc) slapped them down and compromised by charging a tax only on special "audio" CDs and not data CDs. The downside is that consumer CD recorders refuse to accept data CDR disks, so that musicians are forced to use a CDR drive to avoid tax on their own fucking IP.
Frankly, I would not be sad to see every executive employee of the RIAA buried in a mass grave.
When the sun comes up in a couple of hours, the light will be coming through the window's glass at less than C. Shit, I don't even have to wait quite that long. As soon as it hits the atmosphere it will be going slower than C.
Well that's an easy one to answer. Given Anakin's completely flawless poker-face (some might even say wooden) through Episode 2, I'd guess that Jedi are trained to not show any emotional responses.
It's either that or shitty acting, or perhaps lack of foresight in the script. Take your pick.
Sure you can't find qualified workers in the US, Bill. Seeing as how the economy is still shot after about 6 years and I know companies who were laying off employees with up to 10 years' seniority, I guess there are no more qualified IT people. They must have packed up and moved to India, I suppose.
BTW, the article's title is misleading. Gates isn't calling for an increase, he's calling for an extension to the temporary limits set on foreign workers.
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You can only answer the exact same rhetoric so many times before you just start saying, "Look, you're a fucking moron. If you can't figure out what I've been saying for the past 15 years then sit down and shut the fuck up. Retard." I don't blame them.
Nope.
"I'm unaware of what current systems still use carts"
I forgot the obvious one: GBA. GBA roms are all over the place, and the hardware to play them on your actual GBA was readily available last time I looked. A large number of these roms were released by pirates long before they saw store shelves.
"Piracy is almost non-existent on cartridge-based systems (besides emulators),"
I'm unaware of what current systems still use carts, but the console pirate scene was huge in the 90s. It was trivial to download console warez all day long (at 14.4 baud), copy them to floppies, and play them in your cartridge copier on SNES and Genesis. There were also hardware mods for 8-bit NES and Neo-Geo, if I'm not mistaken. Cartridge-based systems offered no more protection from piracy than anything else.
"The Gamecube's mini-DVDs seem to have been sufficient to protect it from widespread piracy. I still see Dreamcast games for download, but have yet to find gamecube ones."
GC files are all over the place. I play Bust A Move 3000 on an emulator.
McDonald's?
I believe if I had a business that lost a million dollars due to downtime and my network wiz tracked the guy's home address, I'd be on the next flight out with a good, strong baseball bat.
"But seriously, you cannot fault the technical achievements of these movies."
Sure I can. Shiny spaceship models are a dime a dozen among graphic artists who just picked up their first copy of Maya, but good CGI artists know how to make their models look dirty and real. The first trilogy looked better to me because they were using real, dirty models.
And people wonder what's wrong with kids.
I'm violently opposed to laws making it a crime to, say, rent an "M"-rated game to minors, but for fuck's sake, good parents should know better than to sit their young kids down in front of something like Sin City. Those kids probably got somewhat queasy at the sight of Frodo having his guts eaten by his own dog.
NOBODY expects the Jedi bloodbath!
Wait, wrong parody.
"The first two originals were PG, and the 3rd was PG-13 - allowing for more age-appropriate sex (metal bikini!) and violence. [...] the PG-13 rating undoubtedly convinced many 12-18 year-olds to go to Jedi because it wasn't necessarily a 'children's film' anymore due to the rating."
Yeah, you're probably right...hey, didn't RotJ come out in 1983? And wasn't the PG-13 rating introduced near the end of 1984? Whoops.
"So the light is preceived to go slower"
And you can stop right there. Einstein showed us that different frames of reference are vitally important in measurement. Regardless of *why* the light takes longer to go through different materials, the fact remains that it takes longer and is thus slower than c by definition.
If you're the photon, you probably don't care that your path is changed by refraction and absorption, as far as your speed is concerned. But as observers, we can pinpoint *exactly* how much slower than c that photon is going because we know how much longer it takes to get from point A to point B. We can even stop it if we want to. Quantum mechanics is a bit more involved than your simplistic classical examples. In short, your terminology is wrong. Light can and does travel slower than c, by definition of c. And your analogy is off. It would be more accurate to say you started walking the 5-mile course but stopped to rest at benches along the way. To the observer at the end of the course, your average speed is lower than someone who walked straight through.
I like WikiPedia, because it makes people think they're experts. Here's a quote from the Nature journal concerning work on slowing light waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate:
"Techniques that use quantum interference effects are being actively investigated to manipulate the optical properties of quantum systems. One such example is electromagnetically induced transparency, a quantum effect that permits the propagation of light pulses through an otherwise opaque medium. Here we report an experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency in an ultracold gas of sodium atoms, in which the optical pulses propagate at twenty million times slower than the speed of light in a vacuum. The gas is cooled to nanokelvin temperatures by laser and evaporative cooling. The quantum interference controlling the optical properties of the medium is set up by a 'coupling' laser beam propagating at a right angle to the pulsed 'probe' beam. At nanokelvin temperatures, the variation of refractive index with probe frequency can be made very steep. In conjunction with the high atomic density, this results in the exceptionally low light speeds observed. By cooling the cloud below the transition temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation (causing a macroscopic population of alkali atoms in the quantum ground state of the confining potential), we observe even lower pulse propagation velocities (17 m s-1) owing to the increased atom density. [...]"
"'Fatal error in steering.sys'? What the fuck does that mea-" screeeeeeeeeeeeechBOOM!
But seriously, I enjoyed the 65,535 comments on how MS should make an OS that can't crash before they start working on cars. Someone cough up another one and maybe we can roll it over (GET IT?! HA HA!)
Your mom is insane.
When they get a worm and refuse to correct the problem, make their continued switch access contingent on an essay that details what they can do to prevent the specific worm from hitting them in the future, and what general steps they can take to protect themselves and others on the network. If they can't show an understanding of the problem, they are refused access until they study up on it.
Cool. Set up the recurring payments to me via PayPal and I'll email you instructions on how to filter out low-rated comments.
Sorry for the factual error. 65 should, of course, be 75.
Since you don't know why you got it wrong, I'll let you in on the secret: C is defined as the speed of light in vacuum. You claimed that light can't go slower than this, but it's been known for at least 65 years that it does. Light propagates through materials at different rates depending on their composition.
You should work on your sarcasm, by the way. It sucked.
"(and I don't know why)"
Search Slashdot's archives.
"Well, they can always lobby for a 'media tax'"
They already have. Blank cassettes were taxed first, pissing me off because all I used them for was storage for my own original 4-track music. Then they tried to pull the same shit with blank CDs, but clued elected officials (iirc) slapped them down and compromised by charging a tax only on special "audio" CDs and not data CDs. The downside is that consumer CD recorders refuse to accept data CDR disks, so that musicians are forced to use a CDR drive to avoid tax on their own fucking IP.
Frankly, I would not be sad to see every executive employee of the RIAA buried in a mass grave.
"Light has never been slowed down below C."
BAHAHAHA! Good one!
When the sun comes up in a couple of hours, the light will be coming through the window's glass at less than C. Shit, I don't even have to wait quite that long. As soon as it hits the atmosphere it will be going slower than C.
Why don't you retarded fucks stop spamming this? Thanks in advance.
"Yet no reaction. None at all."
Well that's an easy one to answer. Given Anakin's completely flawless poker-face (some might even say wooden) through Episode 2, I'd guess that Jedi are trained to not show any emotional responses.
It's either that or shitty acting, or perhaps lack of foresight in the script. Take your pick.
Sure you can't find qualified workers in the US, Bill. Seeing as how the economy is still shot after about 6 years and I know companies who were laying off employees with up to 10 years' seniority, I guess there are no more qualified IT people. They must have packed up and moved to India, I suppose.
BTW, the article's title is misleading. Gates isn't calling for an increase, he's calling for an extension to the temporary limits set on foreign workers.
Hilariously, Sega no longer makes hardware.
Wait, no, that sucks. Fuck.