Again, there is no such thing as a 'culinary definition'. There is a 'culinary description' by which you can call an apple an eggplant if you so choose, but it doesn't make it correct or accurate.
A definition is definite, and beyond argument or speculation. This shouldn't be so hard to grasp.
You seem to think that marketing tactics are all misleading. Saying that water prevents dehydration isn't a marketing tactic alone, it's also the truth and common sense. There is nothing misleading about it.
Now if they said that water cures cancer, that would be misleading.
Some of us prefer to go by the factual, scientific definitions of things instead of the make-believe magical fairy unicorn definitions that other people who don't understand the science and facts decide to call truth. A Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable. Period. Water prevents dehydration, because hydration equates to intake of water. By definition. By fact. By common sense.
The government desiring to tax a fruit should not be able to say "Oh, it's a vegetable!" at will and overrule all sorts of classification and taxonomy from the scientific community that dates hundreds of years prior. Nor should the culinary community, composed of non-scientific people from an entirely different and unrelated field, be able to reclassify something as a vegetable because of how they use it. If I use a rolled-up newspaper as a flyswatter, it's still a newspaper - not a flyswatter. There is no 'culinary definition'...there is a single, factual definition of a meaning of a word. It isn't something I learned in science class, and it's not negotiable.
It really has very little to do with the incorrect word being used so much as it has to do with people honestly not believing that it's the wrong word.
Even the summary says they weren't able to kill everyone in the bunkers by skipping smaller bombs into the entrances. Like dropping them IN the bunker. This new bomb says "If it hits the bunker, everything inside dies".
You seem to be forgetting about SIMD and vectorization. If you pack more instructions into the bits available for one, it can do much more than your typical 32- or 64-bit core. That is often how early benchmarks are tested to give the highest results possible for the data throughput.
I was checking out the Zeus source the other day, and these worms and botnets really aren't that complicated. I'd be surprised if we didn't see a boom of new worms/botnets because this looks like something any computer science major could come up with in a few days. The real way to avoid these would be to fix the grievous security holes in the main operating systems affected.
I thought Intel's new FinFET transistor structure was going to be the new standard? They had excellent results without significant retooling or adjustment to the manufacturing process. They just built the transistors upward instead of across at ever increasingly smaller scale.
Thank god I had to sign up to STEAM and give out my personal information to play a game I had already purchased otherwise I might never have become a victim of identity theft...
The easier solution would have been not to provide any real information. If you already bought the game, you don't need credit card info for anything. Unless it was a subscription MMO, in which case you know exactly why you needed to provide your info. Even when you need to pay for things, use PayPal instead of giving them your information directly.
Considering what they got from their servers, they can't use your information, and most likely can't even read it. Identity theft implies they can read your identity. Chill out.
It sounds like someone 'over your head' or someone who is taking those 'administrative costs' is scamming the government - much what this article is about.
There is no way an administrative or employee setup expense should be as much as or more than the employee's actual salary. Not unless you have to get a military serviceman to follow that employee around for security...or you're scamming the government.
What planet do you live on? Where do you think the contractors get the money to pay for their startup and overhead? That's right - from the government.
But that's not the point of this article. The point is that people are getting $600,000 for startup/overhead/payroll and only $100,000 is actually being used for that, with the rest going into some suit's pocket.
And you're basing this on what evidence? I see no figures on this.
The fact is, people are pocketing a significant portion of government contract payments, and it's not the people doing the actual work. It's the guy in the suit who "manages" the teams, and says "You let ME worry about that" to everything while driving a fucking $200,000 Mercedes.
The unions and payroll have absolutely nothing to do with the inflated cost of government contracting, they're just an easy target recently vilified by the far right and other class-warfare commencing scumbag motherfuckers. So go join your party on the right, tea bagger.
For what it's worth, most union dues/benefits are paid for by the employee themselves through dues and fees. It is a rare occurrence that an employer takes care of all the costs.
Pensions are a stupid employment incentive all around, but it's not the unions' faults. Keep paying people's salary even after they retire? Yeah, that's a marvelous idea for the bottom line.
When I first started my Android phone, Google asked me pretty plainly if I wanted to send location data or usage data. When I said no, it didn't send the data.
Not sure what's hard about that. At least Google gave the option to disable it, unlike Apple.
While I am technically a software engineer, I tell people I am a programmer. I don't feel that saying you are a programmer denotes you as low-skill. I'd like to see some of these people bashing the term sit down and write a physics simulation engine from scratch.
Developer, to me, says "I work for someone else trying to come up with a solution to their problems." Programmer, to me, says "I make computers go" - without too much additional information. Engineer seems to me like "I get hung up on this rounding error for two days trying to make everything completely perfect".
Frankly, I'd rather be the "make computers go" guy.
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Because all terrorism stems only from Islam...
Again, there is no such thing as a 'culinary definition'. There is a 'culinary description' by which you can call an apple an eggplant if you so choose, but it doesn't make it correct or accurate.
A definition is definite, and beyond argument or speculation. This shouldn't be so hard to grasp.
You seem to think that marketing tactics are all misleading. Saying that water prevents dehydration isn't a marketing tactic alone, it's also the truth and common sense. There is nothing misleading about it.
Now if they said that water cures cancer, that would be misleading.
Brawndo's got what plants crave!
Some of us prefer to go by the factual, scientific definitions of things instead of the make-believe magical fairy unicorn definitions that other people who don't understand the science and facts decide to call truth. A Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable. Period. Water prevents dehydration, because hydration equates to intake of water. By definition. By fact. By common sense.
The government desiring to tax a fruit should not be able to say "Oh, it's a vegetable!" at will and overrule all sorts of classification and taxonomy from the scientific community that dates hundreds of years prior. Nor should the culinary community, composed of non-scientific people from an entirely different and unrelated field, be able to reclassify something as a vegetable because of how they use it. If I use a rolled-up newspaper as a flyswatter, it's still a newspaper - not a flyswatter. There is no 'culinary definition'...there is a single, factual definition of a meaning of a word. It isn't something I learned in science class, and it's not negotiable.
It really has very little to do with the incorrect word being used so much as it has to do with people honestly not believing that it's the wrong word.
They had to make sure Rockapella was going to get back in on this one... ...money well spent.
I bet you could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves...
Even the summary says they weren't able to kill everyone in the bunkers by skipping smaller bombs into the entrances. Like dropping them IN the bunker. This new bomb says "If it hits the bunker, everything inside dies".
You seem to be forgetting about SIMD and vectorization. If you pack more instructions into the bits available for one, it can do much more than your typical 32- or 64-bit core. That is often how early benchmarks are tested to give the highest results possible for the data throughput.
I was checking out the Zeus source the other day, and these worms and botnets really aren't that complicated. I'd be surprised if we didn't see a boom of new worms/botnets because this looks like something any computer science major could come up with in a few days. The real way to avoid these would be to fix the grievous security holes in the main operating systems affected.
I thought Intel's new FinFET transistor structure was going to be the new standard? They had excellent results without significant retooling or adjustment to the manufacturing process. They just built the transistors upward instead of across at ever increasingly smaller scale.
I'm waiting for the version of GTA where I get to drive with the wheel and shoot with the gun at the same time. That would be raw.
Thank god I had to sign up to STEAM and give out my personal information to play a game I had already purchased otherwise I might never have become a victim of identity theft...
The easier solution would have been not to provide any real information. If you already bought the game, you don't need credit card info for anything. Unless it was a subscription MMO, in which case you know exactly why you needed to provide your info. Even when you need to pay for things, use PayPal instead of giving them your information directly.
Considering what they got from their servers, they can't use your information, and most likely can't even read it. Identity theft implies they can read your identity. Chill out.
It sounds like someone 'over your head' or someone who is taking those 'administrative costs' is scamming the government - much what this article is about.
There is no way an administrative or employee setup expense should be as much as or more than the employee's actual salary. Not unless you have to get a military serviceman to follow that employee around for security...or you're scamming the government.
What planet do you live on? Where do you think the contractors get the money to pay for their startup and overhead? That's right - from the government.
But that's not the point of this article. The point is that people are getting $600,000 for startup/overhead/payroll and only $100,000 is actually being used for that, with the rest going into some suit's pocket.
And you're basing this on what evidence? I see no figures on this.
The fact is, people are pocketing a significant portion of government contract payments, and it's not the people doing the actual work. It's the guy in the suit who "manages" the teams, and says "You let ME worry about that" to everything while driving a fucking $200,000 Mercedes.
The unions and payroll have absolutely nothing to do with the inflated cost of government contracting, they're just an easy target recently vilified by the far right and other class-warfare commencing scumbag motherfuckers. So go join your party on the right, tea bagger.
For what it's worth, most union dues/benefits are paid for by the employee themselves through dues and fees. It is a rare occurrence that an employer takes care of all the costs.
Pensions are a stupid employment incentive all around, but it's not the unions' faults. Keep paying people's salary even after they retire? Yeah, that's a marvelous idea for the bottom line.
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?" - Independence Day, 1996
Totally dude. The server was sharing ten year old pirated software, so they seized it...
This is awesome. This is what people in the US should do to protest union-busting and class-warfare by the rich and the right.
I hope this fleet stays grounded until the airline goes bankrupt, so they can see just how much good their decisions have done their stock value.
That ARP poisoning app is awesome. I use it at work when someone clearly not in the store is using our WiFi.
Also to prank co-workers. That's fun too.
It's more about who uses it than the app. Maybe because throwing rocks can hurt people, we should ban rocks altogether, right?
When I first started my Android phone, Google asked me pretty plainly if I wanted to send location data or usage data. When I said no, it didn't send the data.
Not sure what's hard about that. At least Google gave the option to disable it, unlike Apple.
Webzine. Fast loading, without ads;
Sure, who needs ads when you can sell people's browsing history to recoup the lack of revenue?
While I am technically a software engineer, I tell people I am a programmer. I don't feel that saying you are a programmer denotes you as low-skill. I'd like to see some of these people bashing the term sit down and write a physics simulation engine from scratch.
Developer, to me, says "I work for someone else trying to come up with a solution to their problems." Programmer, to me, says "I make computers go" - without too much additional information. Engineer seems to me like "I get hung up on this rounding error for two days trying to make everything completely perfect".
Frankly, I'd rather be the "make computers go" guy.
What?!? You don't put two spaces after your periods?!? Better start looking for a new job!!!1
Yes, this.