Seriously, mounting a tablet in front of an elliptical? I find ellipticals generally useless anyways but if you have the spare energy and focus to browse the news on your iPad then you're just fucking around. Congratulations. You built no new muscle, burned 50 calories and wasted 30-60 minutes of your life. Go reward yourself with a Starbucks or something.
Seriously, go pick up heavy things or do some interval training. It takes the same amount of time, takes much cheaper equipment and setting up your tablet just right to watch stupid Youtube videos will be the last thing on your mind. Oh, and DON'T actually go for that sugary "coffee" swill afterwards.
You know, I often find myself forgetting that Steam is essentially DRM. This struck me most lately last night as I started thinking about the new SimCity that's coming out this year and how it's suppose to be "always online" for DRM purposes. I started to think, "Well, hell, I have SC4 on Steam I could just fire that u....waaaaaait".
I don't know if I can really pinpoint why I don't consider Steam to be the kick to the dick that almost all other DRM is. Is it the constant sales and love that get chucked my way? The ability to move game folders/files anywhere and everywhere and have it work as long the signed in account owns the game (my old apartment would frequently dump our Steam games on our NAS to save everyone else who bought it the trouble of downloading it, all legit)? The relatively good server uptime (compared to other game companies)? The ability to add non-Steam games to my library? I don't know, but I just feel like I'm using a service instead of being locked up.
Is it pure? Hell, no. Is it good? I'd certainly say so. If the balance of the two don't balance to your favor I'd certainly see why you'd avoid it. I don't, personally, and my big wish is that the Linux/Mac Steam clients get some sort of built in VM in order to easily play the huge back catalog of Windows only games. This could either increase Linux/Mac growth by easing the pain of transition or it could stymie development by giving developers a lazy out. Either way...VIDYO GAMES!
Watching the "Passenger Experience" video it was almost obnoxious how much attention they kept giving the ceiling lighting, but looking at the different settings for the dynamic LED lighting it is actually pretty cool. I like that it not only changes the brightness but also the color of the cabin for things like meals and pre-landing.
They seem to have their work cut out for them. Looking at the gallery it really just looks like a bunch of junk in someone's garage. But I guess if you put everything in back in the right place and give it a nice coat...
Carbon dating to me seems to be used to further scientific data, in order to achieve the results they want.
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here. What "they want" is the most accurate answer our CURRENT tools can provide. And as the margin of error of the tools gets reduced over time, they measure again. Trying to narrow down our accuracy doesn't exactly scream "hidden agenda" to me.
...because it is impossible to get within a few hundred years, let alone decades.
Christ! I can appreciate the desire to really dial in our techniques, but expecting that after only about a half a century of refining these techniques that we know the difference between 10,643 and 10,633? We're impressive creatures but it sounds like you're holding out for Doctor Who to swing by and show you history.
Really, it's the best tool we've currently got, and you don't throw out the best tool you've currently got in favor of eyeballing it. Looking at the current margin of error and throwing carbon dating out is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
There are not enough sub atomic particles in the universe for there to be a life-possible planet statistically - the numbers will blow your mind if you look at them.
I tried searching for these numbers but couldn't find what you're referring to here. Perhaps I wasn't looking in the right corner of the internet.
At any rate, the only way I can see interpreting this claim is if you meant that with a higher density universe there would be more chances for a life-supporting planet to form. With our universe as it is, however, these odds are astronomically (pun?) low.
If this is what you're referring to then I HAVE seen this claim presented before. What's interesting is every time I've seen it presented it's actually been a, relatively, small number. Again, I wasn't able to find the numbers YOU are referring to, but in the past I've faced lines such as, "The chance of a planet being able to support life is literally TENS OF BILLIONS to one!". Well, considering that the Milky Way alone is estimated at 300-400 billion stars and that something such as the Hubble Deep Field can take a picture of a TINY arch of the night sky and find 3000 OTHER galaxies...eventually life is going to happen SOMEWHERE. Why not here?
And by the way, filling in a knowledge void with a wild, off the top of your head, "stop looking now I have the answer" answer is NOT what anyone with an open mind would do. And to clarify it is really that third "stop looking now!" aspect that I really hold issue with. It is OK to say "I don't know"! Many people do it everyday. There are many more everyday who prefer to find a place holder for it. They recognize that there are things they don't, and probably never will, understand and thus find something to plug the wholes with so they can get on with their life. Done responsibly, this is fine. People have their lives to live and it can be complicated enough without staying up wondering what was before there was anything.
However, there ARE others who are looking. They're looking, and solving puzzles, and unraveling mysteries. THESE are the open minded people. The people with no sacred cows. To walk up to these people and say, "Don't worry, you can stop looking. I have a gut feeling on this" is just irresponsible.
If we come to the end of it, the real end of it, and we come up with very real and hard proven data that there is what we call a God* then I will genuflect, pray and then take a leaf from Tim Minchin's book and carve "FANCY THAT!" on the side of my cock.
*I qualify God as such because if we turn out to just be in some sort of cosmic petri dish I don't think I'd call that being a God so much as "the asshole who dropped us in the bucket".
As mentioned this isn't first time Pinkie Pie has made bank off of Google. This appears to bring his yearly earnings from this to $120,000. Seems like rather profitable work, but assuming (hoping?) the limited number of zero day exploits I reckon this quickly becomes a tight zero-sum game for the participants.
Well, cigarettes and tobacco ARE taxed. In California the rate is 87cents per pack of cigarettes and 31.73% on other tobacco products (pouches of tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc.). Earlier this year a proposition got shot down that would have added an extra dollar to that 87cents.
Since they are already taxed at the counter your example sounds more like a "Getting Caught" tax (I know that sounds dickish over the internet, but I'm not trying to be).
What's worrying is that this seems to be a mixture of busybodies AND robber barons. That is, it seems to have been done both for the "benevolence towards our employees' health" and to squeeze costs on employee health insurance at the cost of personal freedom.
"Senator Jenkins, how would you respond to accusations that you have a history of recklessly enacting your policies without considering the possible consequences?" "At least I got chicken."
Pretty much this. I was no fan of George W. Bush by the time his second term came around but I don't think I would ever sincerely use his poor impropmtu public speaking as a serious point against him (jokes, sure). There are plenty more substantial, and significantly less petty, things you can not like about a president.
It's because of things like this that I don't watch the news/speeches/debates - I read them instead if I can. I may not get the live feed, but if I can find a transcript I prefer it since it helps to trim away a slice of the appeal to emotion bullshit. I don't care how puppy-dog-eyed he got and sincerely addressed the audience while making bold body gestures to accent the point. I don't care how raucously the audience cheered and applauded. WHAT - THE - FUCK - DID - HE - SAY?
Non-sequitor: I also despite news articles ABOUT debates. They're almost never news articles, but ambiguous profile pieces.
X made a good showing and pushed Y to the ropes on key issues with strong attacks. Y, however, maintained a strong presence and reinforced their backing.
The FUCK does something like that even mean? I don't think you'd get away writing a sports article that only vaguely mentions that "some good things happened to one team and some bad things happened to the other" so why does it pass for a presidential debate?
It doesn't work that way. To do long-term health research, you need to stay in space long term -- i.e., rotate the crew *less* often.
According to TFA NASA wanted to use that seat to send another astronaut up to the ISS for a year long stay. A year long stay seems to qualify for *less* often. It, however, doesn't mention how long this singer was planning on staying up there but I can't imagine she'll want the extended visit.
Do you really believe someone is "illegitimate" just because she isn't a government employee? Are you going to drive on your next vacation instead of taking a plane? Because a surgeon might want to occupy that seat, so decency and humility require you to give it up? Or could the airline just sell the seat to whoever's willing to pay the most for it?
That analogy is even worse than mine, and mine was about as off the wall as I thought it could get. You're likening a very thin source of transportation to some of the most abundant we have. If only one airplane leaves every many months, there are a very limited number of seats, and there is no other way to get there (the line about driving doesn't work here), then yes the surgeon gets the seat and not me who wants to go to New York for chuckles. Oh boy, it must suck to be me.
You also seem to be projecting pretty hard, thinking that I'm "pro-gov". If a private sector space research and development group came up with the funds and research intent, then tough cookies NASA. Sending a random singer up to the ISS for the sake of vanity at the cost of research, however, seems to be betraying the spirit and intent of the ISS.
Still, there should be a little decency and humility applied. Just because you have the money to think, "Well...NASA could use that seat to further its long term space health effects research...OR I get to say 'Ooooooooh pretty blue ball!'" doesn't mean you should actually do it, let alone that you should be admired for doing it.
So yeah, it's a bit more than egotistical and a lot fucked up. Besides, there other space tourism options out there that don't require bumping legitimate astronauts from doing research on the ISS.
(Horrible analogy time! It's like if someone outbids someone else for a surgery slot just for the sake of it. The other person had genuine needs to go under, get cut open, and get worked on. You, however, are rich enough to outbid their slot and instead of actually getting surgery you end up just getting the morphine shot and riding out the high. The other person has to worry and begin frantically reworking their timetables/life while your useless rich ass sits in a hospital bed grinning like an idiot.)
It may seem harder at first, but after a bit of learning, you'll know Linux better than just about any other distro. (Excluding Linux from Scratch.)
You know, it's interesting you bring this up. I had started my experience with Linux on Slackware in 2004 but haven't used it for about a year now (Windows 7 for the day to day desktop I'm typing this on and CentOS for my server). I had recently (last month) considered giving LFS a crack and started flipping through my VMs to see which distro I wanted to use as a host for putting it together. I was largely disappointed and ended up thinking that Debian would be my preferred choice. I got a little disenfranchised (coupled with having to move) and ended up putting off LFS. With Slack 14.0 out I think I may have just what I wanted and jump back into reading the LFS Book.
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Seriously, mounting a tablet in front of an elliptical? I find ellipticals generally useless anyways but if you have the spare energy and focus to browse the news on your iPad then you're just fucking around. Congratulations. You built no new muscle, burned 50 calories and wasted 30-60 minutes of your life. Go reward yourself with a Starbucks or something.
Seriously, go pick up heavy things or do some interval training. It takes the same amount of time, takes much cheaper equipment and setting up your tablet just right to watch stupid Youtube videos will be the last thing on your mind. Oh, and DON'T actually go for that sugary "coffee" swill afterwards.
Obligatory Penny-Arcade.
But then they'll run super hot and frequently fall into your lap.
You know, I often find myself forgetting that Steam is essentially DRM. This struck me most lately last night as I started thinking about the new SimCity that's coming out this year and how it's suppose to be "always online" for DRM purposes. I started to think, "Well, hell, I have SC4 on Steam I could just fire that u....waaaaaait".
I don't know if I can really pinpoint why I don't consider Steam to be the kick to the dick that almost all other DRM is. Is it the constant sales and love that get chucked my way? The ability to move game folders/files anywhere and everywhere and have it work as long the signed in account owns the game (my old apartment would frequently dump our Steam games on our NAS to save everyone else who bought it the trouble of downloading it, all legit)? The relatively good server uptime (compared to other game companies)? The ability to add non-Steam games to my library? I don't know, but I just feel like I'm using a service instead of being locked up.
Is it pure? Hell, no. Is it good? I'd certainly say so. If the balance of the two don't balance to your favor I'd certainly see why you'd avoid it. I don't, personally, and my big wish is that the Linux/Mac Steam clients get some sort of built in VM in order to easily play the huge back catalog of Windows only games. This could either increase Linux/Mac growth by easing the pain of transition or it could stymie development by giving developers a lazy out. Either way...VIDYO GAMES!
***CARRIER LOST***
Only when you already have it. Which, to be fair, he likely does.
I was genuinely shocked when that failed. Of all of the props on the ballot this past month I thought that was for certain one of the shoe-ins.
Ah, well this I couldn't deny. Still, I suppose I like the idea so long as kinks such as you describe are sorted out.
Watching the "Passenger Experience" video it was almost obnoxious how much attention they kept giving the ceiling lighting, but looking at the different settings for the dynamic LED lighting it is actually pretty cool. I like that it not only changes the brightness but also the color of the cabin for things like meals and pre-landing.
Eh, I'll give Trisquel a download and check it out in Workstation. Pretty much expecting a by the numbers Ubuntu based distro. But hey, why not?
They seem to have their work cut out for them. Looking at the gallery it really just looks like a bunch of junk in someone's garage. But I guess if you put everything in back in the right place and give it a nice coat...
Much like the submitter whoever would mug me for my phone would be VERY disappointed.
"Well...at least it has Texas Hold 'Em..."
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here. What "they want" is the most accurate answer our CURRENT tools can provide. And as the margin of error of the tools gets reduced over time, they measure again. Trying to narrow down our accuracy doesn't exactly scream "hidden agenda" to me.
Christ! I can appreciate the desire to really dial in our techniques, but expecting that after only about a half a century of refining these techniques that we know the difference between 10,643 and 10,633? We're impressive creatures but it sounds like you're holding out for Doctor Who to swing by and show you history.
Really, it's the best tool we've currently got, and you don't throw out the best tool you've currently got in favor of eyeballing it. Looking at the current margin of error and throwing carbon dating out is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I tried searching for these numbers but couldn't find what you're referring to here. Perhaps I wasn't looking in the right corner of the internet.
At any rate, the only way I can see interpreting this claim is if you meant that with a higher density universe there would be more chances for a life-supporting planet to form. With our universe as it is, however, these odds are astronomically (pun?) low.
If this is what you're referring to then I HAVE seen this claim presented before. What's interesting is every time I've seen it presented it's actually been a, relatively, small number. Again, I wasn't able to find the numbers YOU are referring to, but in the past I've faced lines such as, "The chance of a planet being able to support life is literally TENS OF BILLIONS to one!". Well, considering that the Milky Way alone is estimated at 300-400 billion stars and that something such as the Hubble Deep Field can take a picture of a TINY arch of the night sky and find 3000 OTHER galaxies...eventually life is going to happen SOMEWHERE. Why not here?
And by the way, filling in a knowledge void with a wild, off the top of your head, "stop looking now I have the answer" answer is NOT what anyone with an open mind would do. And to clarify it is really that third "stop looking now!" aspect that I really hold issue with. It is OK to say "I don't know"! Many people do it everyday. There are many more everyday who prefer to find a place holder for it. They recognize that there are things they don't, and probably never will, understand and thus find something to plug the wholes with so they can get on with their life. Done responsibly, this is fine. People have their lives to live and it can be complicated enough without staying up wondering what was before there was anything.
However, there ARE others who are looking. They're looking, and solving puzzles, and unraveling mysteries. THESE are the open minded people. The people with no sacred cows. To walk up to these people and say, "Don't worry, you can stop looking. I have a gut feeling on this" is just irresponsible.
If we come to the end of it, the real end of it, and we come up with very real and hard proven data that there is what we call a God* then I will genuflect, pray and then take a leaf from Tim Minchin's book and carve "FANCY THAT!" on the side of my cock.
*I qualify God as such because if we turn out to just be in some sort of cosmic petri dish I don't think I'd call that being a God so much as "the asshole who dropped us in the bucket".
As mentioned this isn't first time Pinkie Pie has made bank off of Google. This appears to bring his yearly earnings from this to $120,000. Seems like rather profitable work, but assuming (hoping?) the limited number of zero day exploits I reckon this quickly becomes a tight zero-sum game for the participants.
Well, cigarettes and tobacco ARE taxed. In California the rate is 87cents per pack of cigarettes and 31.73% on other tobacco products (pouches of tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc.). Earlier this year a proposition got shot down that would have added an extra dollar to that 87cents.
Since they are already taxed at the counter your example sounds more like a "Getting Caught" tax (I know that sounds dickish over the internet, but I'm not trying to be).
I thought Godwin's Law was specific to mentioning Nazis and Hit....ah hell.
What's worrying is that this seems to be a mixture of busybodies AND robber barons. That is, it seems to have been done both for the "benevolence towards our employees' health" and to squeeze costs on employee health insurance at the cost of personal freedom.
"Senator Jenkins, how would you respond to accusations that you have a history of recklessly enacting your policies without considering the possible consequences?"
"At least I got chicken."
"Now I'm going to veeeeeeery sneeeeaky..."
*clop* ... ...
*clop*
*clop*
Pretty much this. I was no fan of George W. Bush by the time his second term came around but I don't think I would ever sincerely use his poor impropmtu public speaking as a serious point against him (jokes, sure). There are plenty more substantial, and significantly less petty, things you can not like about a president.
It's because of things like this that I don't watch the news/speeches/debates - I read them instead if I can. I may not get the live feed, but if I can find a transcript I prefer it since it helps to trim away a slice of the appeal to emotion bullshit. I don't care how puppy-dog-eyed he got and sincerely addressed the audience while making bold body gestures to accent the point. I don't care how raucously the audience cheered and applauded. WHAT - THE - FUCK - DID - HE - SAY?
Non-sequitor:
I also despite news articles ABOUT debates. They're almost never news articles, but ambiguous profile pieces.
The FUCK does something like that even mean? I don't think you'd get away writing a sports article that only vaguely mentions that "some good things happened to one team and some bad things happened to the other" so why does it pass for a presidential debate?
Really, high school type horseshit like this.
According to TFA NASA wanted to use that seat to send another astronaut up to the ISS for a year long stay. A year long stay seems to qualify for *less* often. It, however, doesn't mention how long this singer was planning on staying up there but I can't imagine she'll want the extended visit.
That analogy is even worse than mine, and mine was about as off the wall as I thought it could get. You're likening a very thin source of transportation to some of the most abundant we have. If only one airplane leaves every many months, there are a very limited number of seats, and there is no other way to get there (the line about driving doesn't work here), then yes the surgeon gets the seat and not me who wants to go to New York for chuckles. Oh boy, it must suck to be me.
You also seem to be projecting pretty hard, thinking that I'm "pro-gov". If a private sector space research and development group came up with the funds and research intent, then tough cookies NASA. Sending a random singer up to the ISS for the sake of vanity at the cost of research, however, seems to be betraying the spirit and intent of the ISS.
Still, there should be a little decency and humility applied. Just because you have the money to think, "Well...NASA could use that seat to further its long term space health effects research...OR I get to say 'Ooooooooh pretty blue ball!'" doesn't mean you should actually do it, let alone that you should be admired for doing it.
So yeah, it's a bit more than egotistical and a lot fucked up. Besides, there other space tourism options out there that don't require bumping legitimate astronauts from doing research on the ISS.
(Horrible analogy time! It's like if someone outbids someone else for a surgery slot just for the sake of it. The other person had genuine needs to go under, get cut open, and get worked on. You, however, are rich enough to outbid their slot and instead of actually getting surgery you end up just getting the morphine shot and riding out the high. The other person has to worry and begin frantically reworking their timetables/life while your useless rich ass sits in a hospital bed grinning like an idiot.)
Reminds me of what seems to routinely happen to me in Minecraft...
You know, it's interesting you bring this up. I had started my experience with Linux on Slackware in 2004 but haven't used it for about a year now (Windows 7 for the day to day desktop I'm typing this on and CentOS for my server). I had recently (last month) considered giving LFS a crack and started flipping through my VMs to see which distro I wanted to use as a host for putting it together. I was largely disappointed and ended up thinking that Debian would be my preferred choice. I got a little disenfranchised (coupled with having to move) and ended up putting off LFS. With Slack 14.0 out I think I may have just what I wanted and jump back into reading the LFS Book.