Comment Re:Daily Astroturf (Score 1) 151
Dome kind of Goatse mirror?
Accept no substitutes!!!
Dome kind of Goatse mirror?
Accept no substitutes!!!
Don't forget "Lessons", the last chapter of "The Inner Light".
It would be more interesting to hear who they're *not* spying on these days.
A much shorter list like that would certainly save a lot of time.
Esperanto? le mi varkiclaflo'i cu culno lo angila! You mean Lojban, I presume.
I don't think they're very concerned with easily-divisible numbers—4*7-day months and 13-month years!
13 months is a little annoying, yes; you have to split the months on week boundaries to make quarters. But we actually do have 13 lunar cycles in a year, so this naturally aligns the months with the real moon. And we keep 7 day weeks, which is a win both because we're used to our week, and because 7 days is a natural quarter-moon. And no more "30 days hath December..."
Thing is, a workable Earth calendar never is going to be evenly divisible by powers of 10, because it has to stay aligned with astronomical cycles which are subtly varying; even the Sun and Moon don't strictly align. So everything's going to be a bit of a juggle. Frankly, I think this is the best alternate calendar design I've seen in a long while.
The question you should be asking is why is streaming video so expensive that DVD (shipping little plastic discs around) is cheaper than sending bits over a wire?
Because it's the second stupidest deliberate misuse of computational capacity to artificially create digital scarcity since Bitcoins.
The correct way to distribute large files like movies online is to copy the bits as locally to the endpoints as possible, and cache them pervasively at all levels of the network. Nothing would need to be sent more than once down any given cable. It would be fast, cheap, make use of the Internet as it was designed to function, and give us near-unlimited bandwidth.
But that would mean that those bits don't become artificially scarce and can't be tracked and audited by the media companies for copy-protection purposes. So instead of copying, we stream them over and over and over again, generating terabytes of needless, duplicated data traffic, and creating huge bandwidth storms that suck all the capacity out of the Internet.
tldr: Video streaming is expensive because it was designed to be. It wasn't designed by or for you, and it doesn't benefit you.
They took out the the duel pain feature?!?!?! WTF.
Yeah, I hate it too when I score a counter-riposte to my opponent's flying parry and there's just a beep on the referee's scoreboard and no blood.
A company deliberately installing back doors to the world wide Internet.
So, we're now talking about the NSA backdoors in routers made by US companies?
It's interesting that the Boston Globe's article talks about astrophysics and chemistry PhDs as if that is still where all the smart people end up.
I would say that one of this country's biggest problems is that we 'track' so many of our best and brightest into the financial 'industry' where their mathematical and creative talents are frittered away coming up with better arbitraging formulas and the like. In other words, not doing anything useful at all, just figuring out ways to make the overall economy more unstable and susceptible to crashes. If all of the great minds who ended up on Wall Street over the past two generations had ended up in science careers, there would have been less market instability, and more scientific and industrial advancement.
On a side note, it's too bad (and somewhat depressingly predictable) that the 'debate' here largely turned into a boring malthusian/eugenics discussion.
We already should had sent a tripulated mission to Jupiter
o_O
There's an iTunes store in most European markets, but it's more of an afterthought where the original videos are usually inacessible and you only get localized/dubbed crap even though the original version is right there next to it on the server.
It's now subsidized by the NSA?
By keeping his identity anonymous, he was protected against time travelers visiting him on the day he created the algorithm and having it stolen from him.
Well, now we know what John Titor was really looking for with his leet IBM 5100 mining rig.
Because if he dies and didn't leave an error
.... not even a kernel panic?
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second