Actually I think all this talk of aiding terrorisim is arse backwards since flight sims are everywhere anyway. I expected the plane to bounce off the ground and just be arcade style at first, but it actually crashes and then places you far enough away from where you crashed to do a rerun of navigation... to your 'target'. So since you have to be connected the whole time to use it properly won't this just tip off the people at google HQ that somethings up if say people in certain locales start crashing into the Pentagon a bit too much all of a sudden?
But I assume they may reason Java's bean economy will never take a hit as long as they're in business anyway. What soothes the soul better when a new popup window finds its way around?
Considering they paid up nearly as much for Youtube, Google might consider buying a record label to have a seat at the RIAA table. Think of the do no evil they could do... "I propose our business model should follow a stick-it-on-youtube drm free approach, all in favour say I"
Google EMI "I"
Google BMG "I"
Google Virgin "I"
Google...
You haven't got a point to counter what I'm saying, I bet you were just itching to say 'liberal busybody', wherever the hell that poncy comment came from. Let me rephrase in a way you can understand:
[ME] People in China get suckered into jobs by multinationals that workers in other countries would know better than to put up with and have the rights to get better working conditions
[YOU] But they earn a lot so don't take it from them. You're a liberal cos I said so.
[ME] Does that have anything to do with the fact that if China's workers had proper protections, earning twice the average would actually be a meaningful amount of dosh (because the average would be raised far above what it is now) and they wouldn't have to risk their health?
Think... in a developed country there would be state of the art protections to stop the workers getting contaminated and dying from poisoning (because the companies would get their pants sued off
They're not bypassing the moral and ethical fabric of any country, they're bypassing the right of workers to complain and have power to enforce their rights
I believe this will never take hold in comparison to what would be its principle competitor already in existence; eve online. Second only to warcraft in numbers its already got a firm hold on the scifi space mmorpg and should always remain much more developed than some generic mmorpg engine those netscape guys are touting as a way to reduce costs...
I'm not sure what that sun comment is about but in any case it's not relevant to the argument about dark energy. Really, it sounds like a lot less fudge than dark energy which, lets face it, is hypothesized to exist because the big bang theory doesn't work without it... not because we see it. Besides, there are 'magical sources of electricity' in the sun, even the earth. That's where teh powerful magnetic feilds we're surrounded by come from. Nobody can explain that too well yet.
A while ago I was reading a similar post on slashdot about dark matter, energy etc. One gentleman calld it all bs and pointed out a link to a website http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=knb8hx 39&keywords=darkenergy#dest which I decided to follow for the heck of it that basically had conventional eletromagnetic explanations for absolutely every mystery in astrophyics. Apparently the whole dark energy fiasco in astrophysics arises only because astronomers don't study the physics surrounding plasma and electricity enough to recognise the kind of events that are really happening in space. I think the idea is enticing. So in short this could be more evidence that really dark energy is a misinterpretation of real physics or data from redshifts and so on that is a systemic error, always leading to the same result
What do you guys say on cutting the companies up a little more and letting them grow big by themselves? Certainly, small companies wouldn't be able to pocket that much cash individually or collaborate with so many other small companies to pocket it collectively. And one that happened to take the market by storm would proabably be like an underdog that made it big (say like AMD, ATI) and have a policy of innovation and staying ahead of the pack to win. What would be the disadvantage in having say 20 smaller companies instead of giants like Verizone?
In NZ Toshiba laptops are big, I own and M70 and think it's awesome. I didn't realize they weren't prevalent in the states. Exactly what kind of laptops do you guys get?
I may submit a suggestion to Microsoft they check their code again in light of minor incidents I've been having with the product. For instance, after a failed beta install which crashed explorer (shell) on boot up, RC1 caused a BSOD at boot up, even preventing safemode from working after overloading the page file (+2GB) and causing a page fault in a non paged area solved only by a reformat. However, I remain only mildly homocidal.
Slashdot Mirror
As a New Zealander, I don't know whether to be joyfull or afraiad, all I know is that we'll have some sick copyright laws ^^
"Oh dear," says Slashdot, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic
It's not a break-through it's a break-apart, duh
Actually I think all this talk of aiding terrorisim is arse backwards since flight sims are everywhere anyway. I expected the plane to bounce off the ground and just be arcade style at first, but it actually crashes and then places you far enough away from where you crashed to do a rerun of navigation... to your 'target'. So since you have to be connected the whole time to use it properly won't this just tip off the people at google HQ that somethings up if say people in certain locales start crashing into the Pentagon a bit too much all of a sudden?
And so we infer, product quality is inversly proportional to development time... explains Vista, forbodes what to expect from DNF
But I assume they may reason Java's bean economy will never take a hit as long as they're in business anyway. What soothes the soul better when a new popup window finds its way around?
your water meter needs to be 'upgraded'?
Considering they paid up nearly as much for Youtube, Google might consider buying a record label to have a seat at the RIAA table. Think of the do no evil they could do... "I propose our business model should follow a stick-it-on-youtube drm free approach, all in favour say I" Google EMI "I" Google BMG "I" Google Virgin "I" Google...
You haven't got a point to counter what I'm saying, I bet you were just itching to say 'liberal busybody', wherever the hell that poncy comment came from. Let me rephrase in a way you can understand: [ME] People in China get suckered into jobs by multinationals that workers in other countries would know better than to put up with and have the rights to get better working conditions [YOU] But they earn a lot so don't take it from them. You're a liberal cos I said so. [ME] Does that have anything to do with the fact that if China's workers had proper protections, earning twice the average would actually be a meaningful amount of dosh (because the average would be raised far above what it is now) and they wouldn't have to risk their health? Think... in a developed country there would be state of the art protections to stop the workers getting contaminated and dying from poisoning (because the companies would get their pants sued off
They're not bypassing the moral and ethical fabric of any country, they're bypassing the right of workers to complain and have power to enforce their rights
Vaporware
Maybe they were looking for one of their own? Why else would it hover over an aircraft hanger? It was probably scanning it.
I believe this will never take hold in comparison to what would be its principle competitor already in existence; eve online. Second only to warcraft in numbers its already got a firm hold on the scifi space mmorpg and should always remain much more developed than some generic mmorpg engine those netscape guys are touting as a way to reduce costs...
I'm not sure what that sun comment is about but in any case it's not relevant to the argument about dark energy. Really, it sounds like a lot less fudge than dark energy which, lets face it, is hypothesized to exist because the big bang theory doesn't work without it... not because we see it. Besides, there are 'magical sources of electricity' in the sun, even the earth. That's where teh powerful magnetic feilds we're surrounded by come from. Nobody can explain that too well yet.
A while ago I was reading a similar post on slashdot about dark matter, energy etc. One gentleman calld it all bs and pointed out a link to a website http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=knb8hx 39&keywords=darkenergy#dest which I decided to follow for the heck of it that basically had conventional eletromagnetic explanations for absolutely every mystery in astrophyics. Apparently the whole dark energy fiasco in astrophysics arises only because astronomers don't study the physics surrounding plasma and electricity enough to recognise the kind of events that are really happening in space. I think the idea is enticing. So in short this could be more evidence that really dark energy is a misinterpretation of real physics or data from redshifts and so on that is a systemic error, always leading to the same result
What do you guys say on cutting the companies up a little more and letting them grow big by themselves? Certainly, small companies wouldn't be able to pocket that much cash individually or collaborate with so many other small companies to pocket it collectively. And one that happened to take the market by storm would proabably be like an underdog that made it big (say like AMD, ATI) and have a policy of innovation and staying ahead of the pack to win. What would be the disadvantage in having say 20 smaller companies instead of giants like Verizone?
In NZ Toshiba laptops are big, I own and M70 and think it's awesome. I didn't realize they weren't prevalent in the states. Exactly what kind of laptops do you guys get?
I may submit a suggestion to Microsoft they check their code again in light of minor incidents I've been having with the product. For instance, after a failed beta install which crashed explorer (shell) on boot up, RC1 caused a BSOD at boot up, even preventing safemode from working after overloading the page file (+2GB) and causing a page fault in a non paged area solved only by a reformat. However, I remain only mildly homocidal.