You think that they got to that position by forcing this kind of shit on people? Not a chance, US citizens are the most complacent, fickle and dim-witted voters on the planet. When you let the system happen you are a direct cause.
As someone who was looking for a tablet at the same time as the Galaxy Tab came out, I was not won over at all by it. Worse screen, plastic enclosure and higher price, no thanks. I went with and iPad and am quite happy with it. No way Samsung can win if they are going to play this game.
See, I grew up on flight sims and fps', yet I use normal for fps, inverted for fs. I have a friend who's a console gamer who always inverts. Frustrates the crap outta me when he comes over and uses my xbox.
I think The Chinese government has much better ways of spying on people than to hog processor time on such a public machine. He'll, they don't even need to break RSA keys anymore.
I love how people jump to the conclusion that any powerful computer that we learn about in China is suddenly s security threat. It's the ones they don't tell you about that you should be concerned about.
Funny how people marvel if it's the US but run in fear if it's China. Both have terrible track records when it comes to human rights.
Hey, I would be too if I made the mess that is Wave. Difference is I'd be pissed at myself for ignoring basic design principles and writing something no one wanted.
While I know google doesn't require apologists, I always have a little chuckle when I read articles like this. So what if it's 10 year old tech, it seems to be working well for them. Sour grapes and a healthy serving of plug-my-own-products.
See, for me, "the cloud" just means "the internet" as per networking diagrams. I swear we've lost sight of what it means, "a network that we don't want/need to draw".
It's really gotten out of hand to be honest, just whack cloud before something and it immediately sounds like you've got geek cred to idiots. From here on in I'm going to take cloud to mean the person means "a network/technology that's too complex for the journalist to understand".
Pretty much it. Crying about how it's a "hit to taxpayers" really doesn't look bad for the plaintiffs. If the school had not decided to infringe on someone's human rights, well, there would be no case to answer. I hate seeing this bullshit being trotted out by lawyers and politicians all the time. Take some responsibility and deal with the problem. Blaming others just makes the general population loathe you.
While I am for thorium reactors, I'm not deluded enough to blame the anti-nuclear crowd for the lack of upgrades that reactors are receiving. Fukushima was supposed to be shut down 10 years ago, but they keep extending the life of the reactor. Your bullshit argument only illustrates that there are nuclear nuts who make excuses for the old reactors still running, and that there are anti-nuclear nuts who ignore the newer reactors to say all nuclear is bad.
I don't think that saying university/college is a "waste of time these days" is anti-intellectual. In fact, it's the complete opposite.
As someone who has been to university and left due to a complete contempt from most lecturers/tutors for thinking outside the box, I can assure you that University isn't about being intellectual at all. These days it's about getting a piece of paper and getting a high paying job. I have met very few people who actually respect intellectualism that have gone through university. The ONLY people I have met that are actually pro-intellectualism and have been through university are people with their PHDs working in science. The mentality drastically changes between degree and masters/PHD study, going from rote learning to actual thought.
I think one of the big problems is that university lecturers (and consequently their tutors) have spent so long locked up in academia that anything that challenges their knowledge is disregarded. This has a flow on effect of forcing students to stop thinking and just start parroting. Spend 5 minutes in a university bar and you'll see all the arts students parroting their lecture notes, or engineers acting like their still high school jocks, and so forth. Getting an intellectual conversation that doesn't rely on course notes going is quite difficult.
This is not ALWAYS the case, I had a great philosophy lecturer that did encourage thinking, advised not to write notes and refused to give any reading material. Instead of telling the students what to think, he taught the students how to think. Then again, I had a linguistics lecturer who refused to accept or (even discuss) new research or any challenge to the theories presented in the course book.
I don't look down on people who've been to university, but I do approach anyone who has with caution. I have been disappointed many a time by people with degrees. Even my partner will admit her degree didn't teach her to think, nor did it teach her anything relevant to current technology (she did a Info Sci degree).
While she is "using" her degree at the moment, it took a lot of learning to get up to speed with current tech. How can anyone agree that university is an intellectual pursuit when you aren't even equipped with the tools required to do the jobs the degree is designed for when you graduate?
I'd say Zork, but then I'll get chastised for suggesting a text based adventure.
I find reading a big thing missing from adventure & RPG (MMO's especially). People don't want to read when gaming, but that's half the fun of an adventure game. Pick up the subtleties in the cryptic clues.
The original & new Monkey Island series (including the remakes) are great if you want something graphical.
Stupid questions that are answered in the summary aren't what is defined as a joke. There is no twist, no humour, nothing, just a stupid question that's already been answered.
Now researchers in South Korea have developed a way of harnessing the turbulence to generate electricity.
It states quite clearly they are going to harness natural power source, not build a bridge and watch it rock its way down. Not sure about you, but every project I've been on the assumption is that you don't allow for catastrophic failure (pretty sure that's covered in some project management course somewhere).
What it does is gives MS the power to step in should Nvidia decide to sell up to one of MS's competitors (Sony & Nintendo come to mind). MS has no interest in buying Nvidia (if anything it might land MS in hot water), but they do have an interest in buying Nvidia then reselling them to a nice MS partner should Nvidia be taking offers from competitors.
There's nothing really wrong with this, I know I'd want to protect my business when millions of dollars of R&D hinge on one chip maker. I doubt they'd have felt the same instability with Intel due to their huge investment in keeping things in line with MS.
Nvidia were already the premier graphics solution for professionals, they already had an established market and were making a fortune at the time selling gaming & professional chips. Microsoft did nothing other than guarantee sales of chips.
While I don't like Nvidia cards, they were already huge prior to the Xbox, so sitting there and saying they were a "niche industry" is just patently false. Unlike ATi they didn't get sold off to a processor maker. Maybe that's something to keep in mind. They didn't get a market position like that from the xbox (considering the sales numbers of xbox vs ps2), the 360 is the MS console that took off, and look who makes the chips for it.
This just seems like a typical corporate deal. It's not unusual, MS were relying on Nvidia not being sold to the competition and pricing MS out of making the Xbox. No company would be stupid enough to leave out any clauses preventing or delaying sale of a supplier to a competitor when inking such a major deal. It was major for MS, but really, Nvidia could have taken or left it.
As someone who has quite intimate knowledge of SE Asia (growing up there and my father still lives in Thailand), I can assure you that the king is a very important person. Not for power, but for the rubber stamp. It's how all the coups have happened. The king gives tacit support, the military takes over. Otherwise they are too scared of the people.
The king is an important part of people's lives, he is a symbol of tradition, history, and ancestors. To go against the king is to warrant punishment (death) in some eyes. Others it's more respectful. Unfortunately the ambitious gain control and make it their duty to become protector of the king. It's part of the Thai prestige.
Thailand is a country that constantly sits on the brink of civil war. The three main regions (Muslim south, rural north, and Bangkok) have very different ideas of what it means to be Thai. Then you have people like Thaksin stirring it up with military clamp downs, summary executions, and vote buying in the rural areas, well, the powder keg is alight, it's just a matter of time before it goes off.
Having been trapped in Thailand during the airport closures some time ago, I can assure you, the people will take it further in Thailand than other "democratic" states.
The problem with Thailand is that the king himself has spoken out about the use of les majeste against the population, but the political parties ignore him. The king claimed (before he became as ill as he is now) that anyone can comment on the family, just not be abusive about it.
There's a bigger problem brewing though. When the king dies, which won't be far off judging by his health, the crown prince will take over. This guy is an idiot, thinks he's some sort of playboy. He is the total opposite of what a Thai royal should be, so there will be a lot of anger against the crown. The only thing that keeps Thailand together at this stage is the current king, so it will be interesting where this goes.
As for this American guy, well, he shouldn't have gone to Thailand if he's going to be linking banned books and posting excerpts. There's enough information on how Thailand's authorities view both the book and it's claims. Feeling sorry for him is like feeling sorry for the drug smugglers in a Bali prison, they knew the laws of the country, and if not, ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law.
thinking something like this would just be unthinkable in reality since they'd of course analyze how I got in and seal that security hole.
Yeh, that's a nice fantasy. Unfortunately that's not how things go. Look at Sony, they still haven't fixed their security problems and it's been over a month.
I actually found it cheaper to run a colour laser printer. $350 3 years ago and it still has 80% toner. It's a network printer and installs quicker on OSX/Linux than Windows.
In contrast, my $80 Inkjet printer was costing me over $100 every time I went to use it because thinks had dried out from lack of use. A colour laser can be sitting there for months turned off and after a page or two to knock the dust and toner that's settled out, it's printing as good as the day you turned it off.
Inkjets are a scam, they were touted as being a cheap way of printing. Yes, they seemed to be at first, when your ink carts were only $10. Now they are $50 for blacks usually, $60 for a colour set (that's here in Australia). In contrast, when I do eventually need toner (I can't see it happening before the printer dies as it's a home printer), it's going to cost $110 per colour (CMYK). I probably won't buy new toner, I'll probably end up getting a newer, cheaper model and having mine recycled.
There's no reason to waste your time with an inkjet printer at all, unless you're just buying it for the scanner or faxing facilities, even then you can get a decent scanner cheap enough.
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You think that they got to that position by forcing this kind of shit on people? Not a chance, US citizens are the most complacent, fickle and dim-witted voters on the planet. When you let the system happen you are a direct cause.
Funny how it doesn't work like that here in Australia.
$0 upfront, $59 p/m - no difference to a normal $59 BYO plan.
I think I'll stick with my subsidised phone.
Exactly what I was thinking.
As someone who was looking for a tablet at the same time as the Galaxy Tab came out, I was not won over at all by it. Worse screen, plastic enclosure and higher price, no thanks. I went with and iPad and am quite happy with it. No way Samsung can win if they are going to play this game.
It's the other way around. Assholes not setting the actual domain to the www server.
Australian government departments are classic for this. http://www.govtdept.gov.au/ will work, drop the www and you get time outs.
Thanks, now I don't want to eat lunch...
See, I grew up on flight sims and fps', yet I use normal for fps, inverted for fs. I have a friend who's a console gamer who always inverts. Frustrates the crap outta me when he comes over and uses my xbox.
I think The Chinese government has much better ways of spying on people than to hog processor time on such a public machine. He'll, they don't even need to break RSA keys anymore.
I love how people jump to the conclusion that any powerful computer that we learn about in China is suddenly s security threat. It's the ones they don't tell you about that you should be concerned about.
Funny how people marvel if it's the US but run in fear if it's China. Both have terrible track records when it comes to human rights.
Hey, I would be too if I made the mess that is Wave. Difference is I'd be pissed at myself for ignoring basic design principles and writing something no one wanted.
While I know google doesn't require apologists, I always have a little chuckle when I read articles like this. So what if it's 10 year old tech, it seems to be working well for them. Sour grapes and a healthy serving of plug-my-own-products.
See, for me, "the cloud" just means "the internet" as per networking diagrams. I swear we've lost sight of what it means, "a network that we don't want/need to draw".
It's really gotten out of hand to be honest, just whack cloud before something and it immediately sounds like you've got geek cred to idiots. From here on in I'm going to take cloud to mean the person means "a network/technology that's too complex for the journalist to understand".
Pretty much it. Crying about how it's a "hit to taxpayers" really doesn't look bad for the plaintiffs. If the school had not decided to infringe on someone's human rights, well, there would be no case to answer. I hate seeing this bullshit being trotted out by lawyers and politicians all the time. Take some responsibility and deal with the problem. Blaming others just makes the general population loathe you.
While I am for thorium reactors, I'm not deluded enough to blame the anti-nuclear crowd for the lack of upgrades that reactors are receiving. Fukushima was supposed to be shut down 10 years ago, but they keep extending the life of the reactor. Your bullshit argument only illustrates that there are nuclear nuts who make excuses for the old reactors still running, and that there are anti-nuclear nuts who ignore the newer reactors to say all nuclear is bad.
I don't think that saying university/college is a "waste of time these days" is anti-intellectual. In fact, it's the complete opposite.
As someone who has been to university and left due to a complete contempt from most lecturers/tutors for thinking outside the box, I can assure you that University isn't about being intellectual at all. These days it's about getting a piece of paper and getting a high paying job. I have met very few people who actually respect intellectualism that have gone through university. The ONLY people I have met that are actually pro-intellectualism and have been through university are people with their PHDs working in science. The mentality drastically changes between degree and masters/PHD study, going from rote learning to actual thought.
I think one of the big problems is that university lecturers (and consequently their tutors) have spent so long locked up in academia that anything that challenges their knowledge is disregarded. This has a flow on effect of forcing students to stop thinking and just start parroting. Spend 5 minutes in a university bar and you'll see all the arts students parroting their lecture notes, or engineers acting like their still high school jocks, and so forth. Getting an intellectual conversation that doesn't rely on course notes going is quite difficult.
This is not ALWAYS the case, I had a great philosophy lecturer that did encourage thinking, advised not to write notes and refused to give any reading material. Instead of telling the students what to think, he taught the students how to think. Then again, I had a linguistics lecturer who refused to accept or (even discuss) new research or any challenge to the theories presented in the course book.
I don't look down on people who've been to university, but I do approach anyone who has with caution. I have been disappointed many a time by people with degrees. Even my partner will admit her degree didn't teach her to think, nor did it teach her anything relevant to current technology (she did a Info Sci degree).
While she is "using" her degree at the moment, it took a lot of learning to get up to speed with current tech. How can anyone agree that university is an intellectual pursuit when you aren't even equipped with the tools required to do the jobs the degree is designed for when you graduate?
I'd say Zork, but then I'll get chastised for suggesting a text based adventure.
I find reading a big thing missing from adventure & RPG (MMO's especially). People don't want to read when gaming, but that's half the fun of an adventure game. Pick up the subtleties in the cryptic clues.
The original & new Monkey Island series (including the remakes) are great if you want something graphical.
I just had a vision of a John Hughes movie.
The lameness of the joke makes it so much funnier, if I had mod points I would have handed them over.
Not sure if you understand the definition of joke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
Stupid questions that are answered in the summary aren't what is defined as a joke. There is no twist, no humour, nothing, just a stupid question that's already been answered.
Now researchers in South Korea have developed a way of harnessing the turbulence to generate electricity.
It states quite clearly they are going to harness natural power source, not build a bridge and watch it rock its way down. Not sure about you, but every project I've been on the assumption is that you don't allow for catastrophic failure (pretty sure that's covered in some project management course somewhere).
What it does is gives MS the power to step in should Nvidia decide to sell up to one of MS's competitors (Sony & Nintendo come to mind). MS has no interest in buying Nvidia (if anything it might land MS in hot water), but they do have an interest in buying Nvidia then reselling them to a nice MS partner should Nvidia be taking offers from competitors.
There's nothing really wrong with this, I know I'd want to protect my business when millions of dollars of R&D hinge on one chip maker. I doubt they'd have felt the same instability with Intel due to their huge investment in keeping things in line with MS.
Yeh, that's bullshit.
Nvidia were already the premier graphics solution for professionals, they already had an established market and were making a fortune at the time selling gaming & professional chips. Microsoft did nothing other than guarantee sales of chips.
While I don't like Nvidia cards, they were already huge prior to the Xbox, so sitting there and saying they were a "niche industry" is just patently false. Unlike ATi they didn't get sold off to a processor maker. Maybe that's something to keep in mind. They didn't get a market position like that from the xbox (considering the sales numbers of xbox vs ps2), the 360 is the MS console that took off, and look who makes the chips for it.
This just seems like a typical corporate deal. It's not unusual, MS were relying on Nvidia not being sold to the competition and pricing MS out of making the Xbox. No company would be stupid enough to leave out any clauses preventing or delaying sale of a supplier to a competitor when inking such a major deal. It was major for MS, but really, Nvidia could have taken or left it.
You'd be deluded if you thought otherwise.
As someone who has quite intimate knowledge of SE Asia (growing up there and my father still lives in Thailand), I can assure you that the king is a very important person. Not for power, but for the rubber stamp. It's how all the coups have happened. The king gives tacit support, the military takes over. Otherwise they are too scared of the people.
The king is an important part of people's lives, he is a symbol of tradition, history, and ancestors. To go against the king is to warrant punishment (death) in some eyes. Others it's more respectful. Unfortunately the ambitious gain control and make it their duty to become protector of the king. It's part of the Thai prestige.
Thailand is a country that constantly sits on the brink of civil war. The three main regions (Muslim south, rural north, and Bangkok) have very different ideas of what it means to be Thai. Then you have people like Thaksin stirring it up with military clamp downs, summary executions, and vote buying in the rural areas, well, the powder keg is alight, it's just a matter of time before it goes off.
Having been trapped in Thailand during the airport closures some time ago, I can assure you, the people will take it further in Thailand than other "democratic" states.
I thought it was:
America, where you have the right to say anything, but say nothing of value.
Either one is good.
The problem with Thailand is that the king himself has spoken out about the use of les majeste against the population, but the political parties ignore him. The king claimed (before he became as ill as he is now) that anyone can comment on the family, just not be abusive about it.
There's a bigger problem brewing though. When the king dies, which won't be far off judging by his health, the crown prince will take over. This guy is an idiot, thinks he's some sort of playboy. He is the total opposite of what a Thai royal should be, so there will be a lot of anger against the crown. The only thing that keeps Thailand together at this stage is the current king, so it will be interesting where this goes.
As for this American guy, well, he shouldn't have gone to Thailand if he's going to be linking banned books and posting excerpts. There's enough information on how Thailand's authorities view both the book and it's claims. Feeling sorry for him is like feeling sorry for the drug smugglers in a Bali prison, they knew the laws of the country, and if not, ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law.
thinking something like this would just be unthinkable in reality since they'd of course analyze how I got in and seal that security hole.
Yeh, that's a nice fantasy. Unfortunately that's not how things go. Look at Sony, they still haven't fixed their security problems and it's been over a month.
Yeh, I use goat a lot. Goat Curry, Goat Chilli Con Carne, Goat Kebabs - like tasty lamb.
I'd love too see that done in Universe Sandbox.
I actually found it cheaper to run a colour laser printer. $350 3 years ago and it still has 80% toner. It's a network printer and installs quicker on OSX/Linux than Windows.
In contrast, my $80 Inkjet printer was costing me over $100 every time I went to use it because thinks had dried out from lack of use. A colour laser can be sitting there for months turned off and after a page or two to knock the dust and toner that's settled out, it's printing as good as the day you turned it off.
Inkjets are a scam, they were touted as being a cheap way of printing. Yes, they seemed to be at first, when your ink carts were only $10. Now they are $50 for blacks usually, $60 for a colour set (that's here in Australia). In contrast, when I do eventually need toner (I can't see it happening before the printer dies as it's a home printer), it's going to cost $110 per colour (CMYK). I probably won't buy new toner, I'll probably end up getting a newer, cheaper model and having mine recycled.
There's no reason to waste your time with an inkjet printer at all, unless you're just buying it for the scanner or faxing facilities, even then you can get a decent scanner cheap enough.