Comment Re: Here it comes... (Score 1) 93
Please cite a source for any laptop which does not contain plastic.
Please cite a source for any laptop which does not contain plastic.
I believe the GP was referring to the plastic portions of laptops, which are largely synthesized from oil and natural gas, not silicon.
You must have missed the bit about "Three fowl plays and you're bunted out!"
That's a reference to the "three strikes and you're disconnected/banned at the ISP level" legislation that has popped up in various locales, lobbied for by the media industry folks. As far as I can tell, the source of your whooshing was a joke in a joke, and I must say I found it pretty amusing.
Quoting the grandparent:
The one thing they need to do is make Java run multi-threaded
Three things seem plain. First, the poster appears to believe that applications may be rendered multithreaded by mere virtue of the programming language they are written in, without special consideration; in other words, an application that would otherwise be singlethreaded may be made instantly multithreaded without special work. Second, the poster did not know Java has threads. Third, the poster believes Oracle cares about Minecraft. All of these things appear to reflect an uninformed poster.
That whooshing sound is your cue that you're too stupid to vote.
To be fair, the odds are good that he would feel threatened for long.
I read "defect" as "defecate" at first, and was solemnly nodding my head in agreement, as that would be difficult to cover up.
From Wikipedia: "The killer whale (Orcinus orca), also referred to as the orca whale or orca, and less commonly as the blackfish, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family."
You should probably go back to whatever MMORPG you're playing now.
Just what are you trying to imply here, something or other about programmers, sheep, and conjugal concerns? You've got a sick mind my friend, just plain sick.
The expression "observable universe" doesn't work either.
Better terminology for this theory would be "islands of causality". But scientists tend to be shit at naming things so instead they will overload a sadly overused term instead.
While it would certainly be a better technical description, many people might have difficulty understanding the expression "islands of causality." The term "universe" is more widely understood by the general populace, and hence the expression "multiple universes," or "multiverse" if you will, may be more easily understood by a broader audience.
If there's an alternate universe that doesn't interact with ours in any manner, by definition, it is out of the realm of science.
The belief that such interaction does not occur does not rule out the possibility that such interaction may be possible given certain circumstances.
By the same token, speculating about the goings-on inside the event horizon of a black hole is not science as such theories cannot possibly be tested.
Direct interaction with a system is not the exclusive means available for testing a system. Mathematics is especially useful in such scientific pursuits. You appear to confusing science with engineering.
You can store BTC offline quite easily. Copy a (hopefully encrypted) wallet to a couple of thumbdrives.
I always encourage people to look into other alternatives; some folks swear by C shell, although I don't have much practical use for anything for than bash, Perl, and the usual suite of BSD and GNU utilities when it comes to system automation and other tasks.
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