Valid point, but there is a niche within the niche. Ever since the Wii Nintendo has been marketing towards the "family night" crowd. You'll see in almost every ad a group of family or friends taking rounds at having a blast at whatever happens to be on the screen. This still appeals to a great number of people and it is hard to get excited about the idea of sitting around in the same room with your iPhones/Droids playing Words With Friends (unless, I dunno, you were having some sort of tournament?).
If I understand what I've heard the way it works is you can make an action lawful ex post facto but you can't make it illegal ex post facto (I have no idea if this is right or not, just off the top of my head what I recall).
Then we we fight over how to 'save' our new home from ourselves, with half being against technology, and half being for it. Thus we are stuck in a disagreement, we try to do accomplish both angles at once.
I once came to a traffic light with a vehicle opposite of me atrociously billowing forth smoke. Within seconds of it coming to a full stop the car was completely out of site and nearby cars were quickly becoming engulfed as well. The light turns and I make my protected left turn, followed by their right turn soon thereafter. About a half a minute of driving later and I see a police car, lights on, pulling up behind traffic. "Yes!" I thought, "This guy driving this safety and ecological nightmare is getting busted!". Oh no, they proceed to pullover the chap to my right. I have no clue what for. Everything he did in traffic was...fine. Model driver. All I could figure was that his tags were out of date.
The other guy got along his merry way, providing smoke screens for three lanes behind him. Good job, Blue.
Ah, I saw this the next evening so I'm not surprised if you never see this. Sorry for sounding so defensive. It's just that there are so many needless pedants on Slashdot. But given that I was talking about a substance in the context of chemistry, yes a different word was probably in order.
This somewhat tangentially reminds me of the Onion's jab on HP and the cloud. That is, it sounds like Gibeau wants to move the company blindly in a direction and he barely even understands why. Being able to slap "online multiplayer" on the box was a cool thing...ten years ago. After many successes and many failures of applying online multiplayer to different types of games I think we these days have the information to apply it judicially. Some games benefit, others don't. Requiring online multiplayer takes out a HUGE chunk of your potential content, and thus customers. Either that or it bogs down what would otherwise be an excellent game with onerous multiplayer development and support.
On the forgiveness of the language I do agree, on everything else I would need some convincing (and believe me, I would LOVE something as cool as a liquid metal cooler).
Oh no, I'm very aware that volatile concerns how willing a substance is to vaporize. You took the #1 definition from our lord and savior, the dictionary (especially the online version). But you forget the secondary definition:
2. Tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.
Aside from the political example it describes NaK perfectly - able of breaking out into open violence.
Holy Christ. That thing is pumping sodium-potassium alloy through your computer. This stuff is used for coolant in some nuclear reactors. I had a passing thought some years ago at how humorous it would be if someone was actually crazy enough to use it to cool a desktop computer. It's a good coolant but it is VERY volatile. I don't think I, or my insurance, would be very comfortable having that in my home.
Danamics had this to say in the guru3d article:
But what if the product leaks, one might ask? Well simply we don't believe it can. Only by mechanically damaging the product, this would be possible and even that scenario has been taken into account. If the metallic closed loop structure is cut open, only a small amount of NaK will surface. This will coagulate during oxidation which tends to plug the leek preventing additional NaK from leaking out. The coagulation process is actually started by contact with water - more precisely from the moist in our air. NaK exposed to the ambient air can be seen as a grey substance.
I'm typically not squeamish on things such as this but...if they were to reopen up shop I'd be more than hesitant to give it a shot. Even if it were completely safe I can only imagine disposal would be tricky on a large consumer scale.
I had been under the impression that for some time a large portion of the political bickering regarding NASA was over whose state got what pork as opposed to toeing the party line.
The way most science fiction and cape-comics writers get around this is by trying to claim the suits are one-offs from individual super geniuses a la Iron Man, Steel and even Batman at times.
Of course, this has absolutely no bearing in reality. It's really not going to happen that "just this one person in the world can makes this". I don't know if it would be awesome or terrifying if such and individual arose, but the idea is so silly that, as you said, it's not likely to ever leave the realm of fiction.
No one is FORCING you to enter into a contract with any network provider.
It's called "freedom".
This line of thinking never quite works.
A doctor doesn't NEED wireless internet, but they certainly would like it since it makes a great number of things easier and more convenient. If the providers can update their infrastructure to accommodate traffic but choose not to the doctor is NOT going to go out and build their own network. It would require a complete change in their life and learnings to do so. It's not a reasonable thing to ask.
Much like if a software engineer gets a headache. They don't NEED it but some medicine would definitely be nice to alleviate the pain. However, pharmaceuticals are artificially pumping up the price. The software engineer is not a doctor nor a chemical engineer. Vindicate the pharmaceuticals by saying that the doctor is free to drop their life and go a completely direction to fulfill this one need is just silly.
This sort of botting is getting worse around here. We have the moderation system which is meant to keep actual people in-check and civil but it may be nice to have a "Report Spam" option available to all non-AC at all times to help against this sort of thing. It could be meta-moderated as well, if deemed necessary, to avoid people using it as a, "I don't have mod points but don't like you button". The person receives a ban, is given the reason, and hopefully clues up that they're infected and do something about it. If they can then answer a captcha and change their password they can have their account back.
...or trying to frame people by posting things through their connections.
What's interesting is that in the context of this law, that wouldn't strictly be framing. That would ACTUALLY make the target victim 100% guilty of the "crime".
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Valid point, but there is a niche within the niche. Ever since the Wii Nintendo has been marketing towards the "family night" crowd. You'll see in almost every ad a group of family or friends taking rounds at having a blast at whatever happens to be on the screen. This still appeals to a great number of people and it is hard to get excited about the idea of sitting around in the same room with your iPhones/Droids playing Words With Friends (unless, I dunno, you were having some sort of tournament?).
I wouldn't say that Intel is sidestepping those problems because they're not THEIR problems to address.
That's some doubleplusgood think.
If I understand what I've heard the way it works is you can make an action lawful ex post facto but you can't make it illegal ex post facto (I have no idea if this is right or not, just off the top of my head what I recall).
There have been reports of doping among combatant submarine crews. This could be revolutionary!
Containment Procedures: Ummm...a small box?
Heh, definitely reminds me of the iPhone4 vs HTC Evo video.
I hope it gets resolved soon!
*bah dum tish*?
Kind of reminds me of Anno 2070.
Here's the original link to Moot's news update regarding this.
JOINING THE FUTURE, ONE COMMIT AT A TIME
(It's SFW, but I wouldn't blame you if don't take the chance.)
I once came to a traffic light with a vehicle opposite of me atrociously billowing forth smoke. Within seconds of it coming to a full stop the car was completely out of site and nearby cars were quickly becoming engulfed as well. The light turns and I make my protected left turn, followed by their right turn soon thereafter. About a half a minute of driving later and I see a police car, lights on, pulling up behind traffic. "Yes!" I thought, "This guy driving this safety and ecological nightmare is getting busted!". Oh no, they proceed to pullover the chap to my right. I have no clue what for. Everything he did in traffic was...fine. Model driver. All I could figure was that his tags were out of date.
The other guy got along his merry way, providing smoke screens for three lanes behind him. Good job, Blue.
Ah, I saw this the next evening so I'm not surprised if you never see this. Sorry for sounding so defensive. It's just that there are so many needless pedants on Slashdot. But given that I was talking about a substance in the context of chemistry, yes a different word was probably in order.
This somewhat tangentially reminds me of the Onion's jab on HP and the cloud. That is, it sounds like Gibeau wants to move the company blindly in a direction and he barely even understands why. Being able to slap "online multiplayer" on the box was a cool thing...ten years ago. After many successes and many failures of applying online multiplayer to different types of games I think we these days have the information to apply it judicially. Some games benefit, others don't. Requiring online multiplayer takes out a HUGE chunk of your potential content, and thus customers. Either that or it bogs down what would otherwise be an excellent game with onerous multiplayer development and support.
On the forgiveness of the language I do agree, on everything else I would need some convincing (and believe me, I would LOVE something as cool as a liquid metal cooler).
Oh no, I'm very aware that volatile concerns how willing a substance is to vaporize. You took the #1 definition from our lord and savior, the dictionary (especially the online version). But you forget the secondary definition:
2.
Tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.
Aside from the political example it describes NaK perfectly - able of breaking out into open violence.
Holy Christ. That thing is pumping sodium-potassium alloy through your computer. This stuff is used for coolant in some nuclear reactors. I had a passing thought some years ago at how humorous it would be if someone was actually crazy enough to use it to cool a desktop computer. It's a good coolant but it is VERY volatile. I don't think I, or my insurance, would be very comfortable having that in my home.
Danamics had this to say in the guru3d article:
I'm typically not squeamish on things such as this but...if they were to reopen up shop I'd be more than hesitant to give it a shot. Even if it were completely safe I can only imagine disposal would be tricky on a large consumer scale.
Wikipedia article on NaK.
I had been under the impression that for some time a large portion of the political bickering regarding NASA was over whose state got what pork as opposed to toeing the party line.
The way most science fiction and cape-comics writers get around this is by trying to claim the suits are one-offs from individual super geniuses a la Iron Man, Steel and even Batman at times.
Of course, this has absolutely no bearing in reality. It's really not going to happen that "just this one person in the world can makes this". I don't know if it would be awesome or terrifying if such and individual arose, but the idea is so silly that, as you said, it's not likely to ever leave the realm of fiction.
This line of thinking never quite works.
A doctor doesn't NEED wireless internet, but they certainly would like it since it makes a great number of things easier and more convenient. If the providers can update their infrastructure to accommodate traffic but choose not to the doctor is NOT going to go out and build their own network. It would require a complete change in their life and learnings to do so. It's not a reasonable thing to ask.
Much like if a software engineer gets a headache. They don't NEED it but some medicine would definitely be nice to alleviate the pain. However, pharmaceuticals are artificially pumping up the price. The software engineer is not a doctor nor a chemical engineer. Vindicate the pharmaceuticals by saying that the doctor is free to drop their life and go a completely direction to fulfill this one need is just silly.
Is this as per Obama's response to his Reddit appearance the other night?
This bit got me to chuckle.
"You said you were going to beeeeee there!"
Spok?
This sort of botting is getting worse around here. We have the moderation system which is meant to keep actual people in-check and civil but it may be nice to have a "Report Spam" option available to all non-AC at all times to help against this sort of thing. It could be meta-moderated as well, if deemed necessary, to avoid people using it as a, "I don't have mod points but don't like you button". The person receives a ban, is given the reason, and hopefully clues up that they're infected and do something about it. If they can then answer a captcha and change their password they can have their account back.
What's interesting is that in the context of this law, that wouldn't strictly be framing. That would ACTUALLY make the target victim 100% guilty of the "crime".
Ah, thank you (I know, delayed response)! I believe I've seen this passage before, don't know why I didn't remember it at the time.
It is, however, what I feared. Basically, "The Bible doesn't lie because the Bible says it doesn't lie".