I'm just saying it's not our business to worry about keeping future World's morals in line with ours. They can make decisions on their own.
An 1890s caitsith01 might try to steer Germany away from antisemitism, but also try to save the world from the evils of women's rights and desegregation.
Geez, I can't imagine the pressure of trying to get tenure. Your whole career building up to a single massive review of all of your work..
The whole system seems kind of messed up. You ruin yourself pushing yourself to work as much as possible through the best years of your life and then, if you pass the review, you get to -yay- not lose your job and gain the privilege of working for the rest of your life!
I guess it's the price of progress, but the drive for constant excellence seems obsessive rather than healthy..
This sounds extremely stupid. It's not a demo of code that can tell if ads aren't being loaded, it's a demo that activates a built in killswitch in the adblock code. In other words, if sites start using it then some developer will just strip the feature from the code (which is licensed under the MPL) and distribute this new version. If the original author makes updates, the new dev just copies them. If the original author uses a restrictive license then he'll be rendered irrelevant.
What are you even talking about. I have no problem with this sequence in the game. I was just pointing out how insanely stupid GGP sounds saying how sometimes you have to make hard decisions to kill some civilians to stop terrorists
Who cares whether people buy the game? If they start killing people for fun then they'll be arrested and convicted of murder like everyone else who kills for fun.
If society gets used to ultra-violence and makes murder legal then, well, that's what the voters want so that's how it should be.
Did you watch the video? It's a squad walking around a shopping mall slaughtering everything that moves. A crowd of people just standing around, someone trying to pull a friend to safety, screaming bystanders trying to run away..
Anyway TFA says that the scene depicts some evil russian squad, not the "good guys". You're supposed to be horrified at the carnage and then want to stop them, which is apparently the objective of the single player campaign.
What happened to Video Professor? Should have made the list IMO:
In mid-August, in federal court in Denver, the Video Professor, a self-proclaimed consumer advocate, sued his own customers for posting comments on two consumer comment Web sites. The sites, infomercialratings.com and infomercialscams.com, are run by a Nevada company, Leonard Fitness, Inc.
The Professor alleged that his detractors had violated federal trademark laws by saying negative things about the name of his product, as well as committing defamation and several violations of state law
Exactly. The google maps app that comes installed on the system already has that feature where you can hold up the phone and turn around to investigate the scene. The accelerometer/compass stuff is built in! All this guy did was tape his phone to a cardboard box.
No it's not. Slashdot was up in arms against electronic voting when it was closed-source. Open-source doesn't make much of a difference.
And Ruby? Linux? What. Assuming they compile Ruby into java bytecode or something to sidestep the FEC regulation against interpreted code in voting machines, Ruby still isn't a great choice. It should run absolutely as close as possible to bare metal to make sure a JVM bug or a Ruby bug doesn't affect the results. Anyway, why Ruby? Not that I have anything against it but really why did they pick Ruby?
Linux wouldn't be my choice for a kernel either. It's too experimental and rapidly changing for me to feel great about asking 300 million people to trust it, at least while we have OpenBSD lying around.
Oh, good point. You're probably right about the precision of the scope.
From the eso.org project site it looks like they're actually using radial velocity (doppler shift) to measure the wobble so the arc calculation doesn't mean anything. It seems like that would be almost more difficult though. Picking out planetary-year-long wobbles from other low-frequency phenomena like sunspot activity and solar cycles sounds impossible.
The device can detect slight wobbles of stars as they respond to tugs from exoplanets' gravity.... The instrument detects movements as small as 3.5 km/hr (2.1 mph)
I guess it could be possible to isolate certain frequencies in the oscillation to filter out solar storms and such which would easily affect its diameter at a rate faster than walking speed. But you'd have to watch it for centuries to gather enough data. At least. Geez, doing the trig (like 10^-22 radians per second) my intuition tells me you'd have to be watching that star for billions of years..
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Does BSD support "Q" yet? Linux stole the "P" code ages ago and implemented "Q" but released it under a restrictive license that prevents the original authors from using the new features. Come on, get with it BSD!
What else changed when you started getting the flu shot? If you now have a mind to protect your health by getting the shot, then you're probably also doing more things like washing your hands, eating better, etc
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How is more landmass an excuse for why a rural area has better connectivity than the middle of a city of a million people?
That's what we've been doing, and it sucks.
I think this part captures what makes me uneasy about the whole thing.
I'm just saying it's not our business to worry about keeping future World's morals in line with ours. They can make decisions on their own.
An 1890s caitsith01 might try to steer Germany away from antisemitism, but also try to save the world from the evils of women's rights and desegregation.
You mean like America's Army?
The executive officers are appointed by the board. Which is elected by the shareholders.
Geez, I can't imagine the pressure of trying to get tenure. Your whole career building up to a single massive review of all of your work..
The whole system seems kind of messed up. You ruin yourself pushing yourself to work as much as possible through the best years of your life and then, if you pass the review, you get to -yay- not lose your job and gain the privilege of working for the rest of your life!
I guess it's the price of progress, but the drive for constant excellence seems obsessive rather than healthy..
Incentives? You mean like paying graduates more when you're saying that the market is saturated with them already? How does that make sense?
This sounds extremely stupid. It's not a demo of code that can tell if ads aren't being loaded, it's a demo that activates a built in killswitch in the adblock code. In other words, if sites start using it then some developer will just strip the feature from the code (which is licensed under the MPL) and distribute this new version. If the original author makes updates, the new dev just copies them. If the original author uses a restrictive license then he'll be rendered irrelevant.
What are you even talking about. I have no problem with this sequence in the game. I was just pointing out how insanely stupid GGP sounds saying how sometimes you have to make hard decisions to kill some civilians to stop terrorists
Who cares whether people buy the game? If they start killing people for fun then they'll be arrested and convicted of murder like everyone else who kills for fun.
If society gets used to ultra-violence and makes murder legal then, well, that's what the voters want so that's how it should be.
Did you watch the video? It's a squad walking around a shopping mall slaughtering everything that moves. A crowd of people just standing around, someone trying to pull a friend to safety, screaming bystanders trying to run away..
Anyway TFA says that the scene depicts some evil russian squad, not the "good guys". You're supposed to be horrified at the carnage and then want to stop them, which is apparently the objective of the single player campaign.
The problem is that nobody uses their material except for parody, so they don't have anyone to sue.
What happened to Video Professor? Should have made the list IMO:
Exactly. The google maps app that comes installed on the system already has that feature where you can hold up the phone and turn around to investigate the scene. The accelerometer/compass stuff is built in! All this guy did was tape his phone to a cardboard box.
Uhhh yeah me too
No it's not. Slashdot was up in arms against electronic voting when it was closed-source. Open-source doesn't make much of a difference.
And Ruby? Linux? What. Assuming they compile Ruby into java bytecode or something to sidestep the FEC regulation against interpreted code in voting machines, Ruby still isn't a great choice. It should run absolutely as close as possible to bare metal to make sure a JVM bug or a Ruby bug doesn't affect the results. Anyway, why Ruby? Not that I have anything against it but really why did they pick Ruby?
Linux wouldn't be my choice for a kernel either. It's too experimental and rapidly changing for me to feel great about asking 300 million people to trust it, at least while we have OpenBSD lying around.
Personally I was confused by the "pages of text" unit of storage capacity. How many libraries of congress is that?
Old disks hold 700MB right? Wait floppy disks? What's a floppy disk?
Oh, good point. You're probably right about the precision of the scope.
From the eso.org project site it looks like they're actually using radial velocity (doppler shift) to measure the wobble so the arc calculation doesn't mean anything. It seems like that would be almost more difficult though. Picking out planetary-year-long wobbles from other low-frequency phenomena like sunspot activity and solar cycles sounds impossible.
I guess it could be possible to isolate certain frequencies in the oscillation to filter out solar storms and such which would easily affect its diameter at a rate faster than walking speed. But you'd have to watch it for centuries to gather enough data. At least. Geez, doing the trig (like 10^-22 radians per second) my intuition tells me you'd have to be watching that star for billions of years..
Does BSD support "Q" yet? Linux stole the "P" code ages ago and implemented "Q" but released it under a restrictive license that prevents the original authors from using the new features. Come on, get with it BSD!
Don't worry, this technology has been out for years and nothing's happened yet.
What else changed when you started getting the flu shot? If you now have a mind to protect your health by getting the shot, then you're probably also doing more things like washing your hands, eating better, etc
I'm crossing my fingers for some newspaper to unthinkingly use the "black hole" analogy to describe the glut of spending..