Botnets are a coordinated networks of computers under a single malicious control. However, these trading 'robots' are individual computers under malicious control. They may seem like they coordinate with one another but they operate completely independently, reacting to the market not to some master controller.
I just knew I'd get a +5 if I invoked Big Oil, whether they had anything to do with it or not. Just goes to show how useless the Slashdot scoring system is.
IQ is forced to adhere to a normal distribution. In reality, 'intelligence' isn't normally distributed. Hardly any measure of a non-random phenomenon for a population will be normally distributed. Forcing IQ to a normal distribution is one of its critical flaws.
Intelligence measurements such as IQ can be arbitrarily calibrated to a normal distribution, at least near the center of the curve, because researchers don't really know any better and it seems to make life easier for them. However, there's no reason for the tails representing dumb people and very smart people to be equal in size other than trying to make the data fit an easy to analyze mathematical curve. But that's largely irrelevant, as the point I was making was that many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of the word 'average'.
If they targeted parcel delivery properly they could stay afloat. How about offering services we want such as simply holding my packages at the post office and emailing me when they arrive so I can pick them up on my way home from work? Instead, they try to deliver to an empty house and then you can't pick up the package until late the following workday. It's ridiculous. They complain about a changing market affecting their business but they've done very little to try to keep up with the changes.
You can't even RTFS. They were treating Netflix discs with gentle loving care for nothing extra but were charging GameFly extra for packaging their stuff so it didn't break when the post office treated it like trash. They should not only have won their case within minutes but had every penny of over-payment returned.
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I did my masters in non-Newtonian budget surpluses.
You must have read that quite a long time ago as there is no species called a brontosaurus.
Sitting in the left lane going ten under the speed limit while the world screams by.
I think you nailed it. The 8 hour workday needs to be shortened.
And it should run my Windows programs.
More like "The first lines drawn with sticks in the dirt by neanderthals lead directly to the Comic Sans font"
Tell 'em about the Twinkie.
Best Animaniacs adult humour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908
They have battered women now? I've just been eating them raw.
It's so annoying to always have the protagonist be a writer. It's self-aggrandizing that an author always puts himself as one of the main characters.
Botnets are a coordinated networks of computers under a single malicious control. However, these trading 'robots' are individual computers under malicious control. They may seem like they coordinate with one another but they operate completely independently, reacting to the market not to some master controller.
Why do people equate mass with size? Because they've met your mom.
"Who wants 1/3 of a watt focused on their gonads accidentally?" What about intentionally?
The tinfoil hat crowd is going to go ballistic when this technology becomes ubiquitous. I can't wait. I'm already thinking of witty one-liners.
People will just blame Windows for the sluggishness.
I just knew I'd get a +5 if I invoked Big Oil, whether they had anything to do with it or not. Just goes to show how useless the Slashdot scoring system is.
Protesting by not doing business in the state sure sounds a lot like lobbying.
Texas doesn't want electric cars because it goes against their oil industry, which pretty much runs the state.
IQ is forced to adhere to a normal distribution. In reality, 'intelligence' isn't normally distributed. Hardly any measure of a non-random phenomenon for a population will be normally distributed. Forcing IQ to a normal distribution is one of its critical flaws.
If you were lucky enough to by a big flat panel TV before they were HDCP compatible then you got totally screwed.
Intelligence measurements such as IQ can be arbitrarily calibrated to a normal distribution, at least near the center of the curve, because researchers don't really know any better and it seems to make life easier for them. However, there's no reason for the tails representing dumb people and very smart people to be equal in size other than trying to make the data fit an easy to analyze mathematical curve. But that's largely irrelevant, as the point I was making was that many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of the word 'average'.
Half the population isn't dumber than the average. That's not what average means. (pun intended)
If the grid goes down, so do the cell towers. I didn't see the show but I'm guessing that mobile phones worked despite the blackout.
If they targeted parcel delivery properly they could stay afloat. How about offering services we want such as simply holding my packages at the post office and emailing me when they arrive so I can pick them up on my way home from work? Instead, they try to deliver to an empty house and then you can't pick up the package until late the following workday. It's ridiculous. They complain about a changing market affecting their business but they've done very little to try to keep up with the changes.
You can't even RTFS. They were treating Netflix discs with gentle loving care for nothing extra but were charging GameFly extra for packaging their stuff so it didn't break when the post office treated it like trash. They should not only have won their case within minutes but had every penny of over-payment returned.