You go to China but you can't do business unless you pay the bribes but if you (or the person you paid the bribes to) ever piss off the wrong person in government, then they'll hit you with those bribes they demanded. Then the US government will go "gosh, we can't support that", and the hit you with their hammer too as a form of appeasement to various parties.
If the contract is large enough, the government will step in and do the bribery itself (but then it's probably legal).
Spoiler: you're not going to like any of it. At all.
That's assuming they release the real thing...
I wouldn't be too surprised if they released a decoy. Last time there were such talks, they were killed when they came under the public eye. So a bland document would be a good way to defuse the situation.
Of course that's assuming anybody cares about it nowadays which might be a bit optimistic of me.
Apparently their reasoning is that there is a cost attached to creating the demo.
And they believe that [profit of sales from demo players] - [cost of demo] < 0
Which is *very* debatable IMO, unless the demo production is completely distinct from the game itself, which, given the difference in quality between many demos and their corresponding games might be true. And might be something to fix. Unless game engines are way less modular than one would think.
It ignores the alternative of other institutions providing them.
Right, because the alternative of private enterprise investing in, for example, workplace safety, instead of making a quick buck right now is completely plausible and not at all a complete fantasy.
How about, 'we can essentially pick between Franco and Peron?' Both pretty bad, and fascist corporatists like many of today's politicians, but, you know, they didn't murder millions of people.
That's a bit like saying of Hitler, "at least he had table manners"... Murdering tens (to hundreds) of thousands of people isn't really that much better, except maybe in a purely statistical sense. If some day that's the choice that has to be made, some thing's very wrong and it's probably time to either get the hell out or to use all of the weapons the US people insist on stockpiling.
Sixteen sheep? This is a terrible study. We're talking about actually electrocuting human beings and their proof that it doesn't hurt humans permanently is a study with only a sample size of 16.
A better study would have been to tase all the stockholders and management of Taser after dosing a significant percentage of them with off the street drugs. That way they'd get a larger sample. And in their interest I'm sure they would all be happy to participate.
I have no idea what the Avengers are but you had me at Summer Glau;)
I don't have the faintest idea who Summer Glau is but The Avengers had Emma Peel (interpreted by Diana Riggs) and nothing more needs to be said.
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People moan and whine because there's Gnome and KDE (although there's increasingly a bit of a norm unifying the whole thing thanks to opendesktop) and now they pull, out of all things, OS/2 services ?
Granted, why not ? But the few who actually worked on OS/2 programming let it go a long time ago. And why OS/2 and not [insert whatever other dead system here] ? Everybody nowadays either uses Unix or Windows. Come up with something new or work with the crowd. Out with the IT necromancy I say. Bring out the torches and pitchforks !
They're originally telco's. They're not used to being dumb pipes because only a decade or so ago, they mostly weren't.
I don't get this "dumb pipe" thing. What other kind of pipe do they hope to sell ? In Europe ISPs typically sell three services when they hook you up via ADSL : Internet access, telephone (via VOIP) and TV (as streamed MPEG2 or 4). Some of them separate those offers but increasingly, you tend to just get the whole package, whether you want it all or not. My ISP only has one offer with all 3 services on top of ADSL2+ (and a WiFi and video-recording set top box thrown in) for 30 €/month (in France). No cap or limit on anything. You also get IPv6 if you like and a user settable reverse DNS.
But behind this is really just a dumb tube. They do have streaming video servers and VOD services (which I never tried) that could be seen as a kind of update to the useless portal page each ISP feels like it needs to have. Although strictly speaking that data isn't on the Internet. Just on their network.
Are there *any* ISPs that have anything of value to add to their "Internet tube" ? I doubt it. They can offer services to piggyback on the connection but that's pretty much it I think. Mostly, what they seem to have to offer is restrictions these days...
They skipped 13 for superstitious reasons. Just like floor numbers in a building.
It's a trick from builders to have "higher" buildings, just like skipping the ground floor and counting from 1 instead of 0. Before they even started breaking ground they already have two more floors !
In the US Pacific Northwest, it has been found that farm raising salmon significantly hurt the wild populations.
Farm raising fish significantly hurts wild populations of lots of other species since we only raise carnivorous fish. So now instead of fishing 2 kg of fish for 1 kg marketed, we fish 10 kg to feed the fish farms.
The nice bit being that we can now fish those "other" species that have little market value or that aren't on the brink of extinction yet. It took some time but we'll finally manage to empty the oceans. Just a few more decades and we'll be able to bathe in peace.
>Still, this is still a great advancement... will be interesting to see what performance impact this has.
Current machines (with the possible exception of so called "netbooks") are so insanely fast that the performance impact of a virtualised environment doesn't matter much save for a few very specific applications : games, graphic processing, etc. Not what typical users require. And there are ways to lower the impact when running a high requirement application. It will require a bit more RAM (if even that), but current machines are certainly adequate CPU-wise.
This is IMO one potential direction that OS architectures may have to follow in order to become more resilient in the face of a growing number of threats. I think it would be much more manageable for the average user than something like SELinux. The old permission system isn't in itself sufficient because users cannot be trusted and may "voluntarily" allow malicious applications. So sandboxing everything is reasonable.
Military is all about killing other people. Are you saying that isn't bad?
Not "other people". It's about killing "the enemy". And we know the enemy is stupid, since it believes we're the enemy (apologies to P.D.). So really they're doing everybody a favour.
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If you define videoconferencing and (apparently) built-in active noise reduction as "nothing much," I'd hate to see what it takes to impress you.
Ooooh, videoconferencing !
Wait, hasn't every phone had that for five years ?
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Done.
Wait. Damn.
I'm sure a carpet cloak like this would have military applications
Sure, if you have soldiers the size of a pinhead.
But then, remember that all the jihadists have to do is move sideways a bit and "ha ha, we can see your pinhead, you silly infidel !"
You think that's bad? Here's something to think about. It is illegal to import goods into the USA that have been manufactured by prison labour.
Everybody knows the US has always functioned on the basis of "Do as I say, not as I do".
Why do you hate America ? ;)
Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him.
Ah, that would require today's students to be able to write six lines... We may have a problem there.
Naked children != Child pornography.
Used to be. Not any more. It would be trivial to find a court to turn anything into child pornography.
That's Russia for you.
Damned if you do,
Damned if you don't.
You go to China but you can't do business unless you pay the bribes but if you (or the person you paid the bribes to) ever piss off the wrong person in government, then they'll hit you with those bribes they demanded. Then the US government will go "gosh, we can't support that", and the hit you with their hammer too as a form of appeasement to various parties.
If the contract is large enough, the government will step in and do the bribery itself (but then it's probably legal).
Which printer are you allowed to send to?
A cloud printer !
Then you can access a page that shows a photo of your printed document on a wooden table !
Truly we live in exciting times !
Spoiler: you're not going to like any of it. At all.
That's assuming they release the real thing...
I wouldn't be too surprised if they released a decoy. Last time there were such talks, they were killed when they came under the public eye. So a bland document would be a good way to defuse the situation.
Of course that's assuming anybody cares about it nowadays which might be a bit optimistic of me.
Apparently their reasoning is that there is a cost attached to creating the demo.
And they believe that [profit of sales from demo players] - [cost of demo] < 0
Which is *very* debatable IMO, unless the demo production is completely distinct from the game itself, which, given the difference in quality between many demos and their corresponding games might be true. And might be something to fix. Unless game engines are way less modular than one would think.
It ignores the alternative of other institutions providing them.
Right, because the alternative of private enterprise investing in, for example, workplace safety, instead of making a quick buck right now is completely plausible and not at all a complete fantasy.
How about, 'we can essentially pick between Franco and Peron?' Both pretty bad, and fascist corporatists like many of today's politicians, but, you know, they didn't murder millions of people.
That's a bit like saying of Hitler, "at least he had table manners"...
Murdering tens (to hundreds) of thousands of people isn't really that much better, except maybe in a purely statistical sense.
If some day that's the choice that has to be made, some thing's very wrong and it's probably time to either get the hell out or to use all of the weapons the US people insist on stockpiling.
Sixteen sheep? This is a terrible study. We're talking about actually electrocuting human beings and their proof that it doesn't hurt humans permanently is a study with only a sample size of 16.
A better study would have been to tase all the stockholders and management of Taser after dosing a significant percentage of them with off the street drugs. That way they'd get a larger sample. And in their interest I'm sure they would all be happy to participate.
I have no idea what the Avengers are but you had me at Summer Glau ;)
I don't have the faintest idea who Summer Glau is but The Avengers had Emma Peel (interpreted by Diana Riggs) and nothing more needs to be said.
People moan and whine because there's Gnome and KDE (although there's increasingly a bit of a norm unifying the whole thing thanks to opendesktop) and now they pull, out of all things, OS/2 services ?
Granted, why not ? But the few who actually worked on OS/2 programming let it go a long time ago. And why OS/2 and not [insert whatever other dead system here] ?
Everybody nowadays either uses Unix or Windows. Come up with something new or work with the crowd. Out with the IT necromancy I say. Bring out the torches and pitchforks !
They're originally telco's. They're not used to being dumb pipes because only a decade or so ago, they mostly weren't.
I don't get this "dumb pipe" thing. What other kind of pipe do they hope to sell ? In Europe ISPs typically sell three services when they hook you up via ADSL : Internet access, telephone (via VOIP) and TV (as streamed MPEG2 or 4). Some of them separate those offers but increasingly, you tend to just get the whole package, whether you want it all or not.
My ISP only has one offer with all 3 services on top of ADSL2+ (and a WiFi and video-recording set top box thrown in) for 30 €/month (in France). No cap or limit on anything. You also get IPv6 if you like and a user settable reverse DNS.
But behind this is really just a dumb tube. They do have streaming video servers and VOD services (which I never tried) that could be seen as a kind of update to the useless portal page each ISP feels like it needs to have. Although strictly speaking that data isn't on the Internet. Just on their network.
Are there *any* ISPs that have anything of value to add to their "Internet tube" ? I doubt it. They can offer services to piggyback on the connection but that's pretty much it I think. Mostly, what they seem to have to offer is restrictions these days...
How is this a book review? It is a chapter-by-chapter summary followed by a one-liner that the guy likes the book.
That's the review bit right there : "I liked this book because [...]"
Not much of a review, granted, but a review nonetheless.
They skipped 13 for superstitious reasons. Just like floor numbers in a building.
It's a trick from builders to have "higher" buildings, just like skipping the ground floor and counting from 1 instead of 0. Before they even started breaking ground they already have two more floors !
You do realise ~ is replaced by the shell (try $ echo rm -rf ~)? rm will probably not understand it.
It's because it's replaced by the shell that rm doesn't have to understand it. That's why the DOS design was stupid.
In the US Pacific Northwest, it has been found that farm raising salmon significantly hurt the wild populations.
Farm raising fish significantly hurts wild populations of lots of other species since we only raise carnivorous fish. So now instead of fishing 2 kg of fish for 1 kg marketed, we fish 10 kg to feed the fish farms.
The nice bit being that we can now fish those "other" species that have little market value or that aren't on the brink of extinction yet. It took some time but we'll finally manage to empty the oceans. Just a few more decades and we'll be able to bathe in peace.
Every time I use an iPhone, I can't help thinking, "if only this had more *ads*."
Well, I don't use an iPhone, but if my i-neken had more ads, I, uh, well, I'd certainly have another one !
>Still, this is still a great advancement... will be interesting to see what performance impact this has.
Current machines (with the possible exception of so called "netbooks") are so insanely fast that the performance impact of a virtualised environment doesn't matter much save for a few very specific applications : games, graphic processing, etc. Not what typical users require. And there are ways to lower the impact when running a high requirement application. It will require a bit more RAM (if even that), but current machines are certainly adequate CPU-wise.
This is IMO one potential direction that OS architectures may have to follow in order to become more resilient in the face of a growing number of threats. I think it would be much more manageable for the average user than something like SELinux. The old permission system isn't in itself sufficient because users cannot be trusted and may "voluntarily" allow malicious applications. So sandboxing everything is reasonable.
RTFA, his grandparents have custodial rights, not his mother.
She still ought to check what the limit is for an abortion, maybe it's no too late over there.
Military is all about killing other people. Are you saying that isn't bad?
Not "other people". It's about killing "the enemy". And we know the enemy is stupid, since it believes we're the enemy (apologies to P.D.). So really they're doing everybody a favour.