There is a distinct tendancy to view people on the internet as being the sum of their online work.
This is a big mistake. People, ordinary people, have bills to pay. Real life costs money, and if someone offers you money to do something which, lets face it in this case, is a pretty trivial and short term thing, what's the big deal?
Oh wait, its microsoft, therefore it must be bad. Oh how very sheeplike.
How many celebrities have done adverts for crap and been paid well for it, lots. It's a common event, nothing to be ashamed of, people have to live, and life costs money. And don't tell me that if someone said 'here, have lots of money and all you have to do is write some blog entries', you'd say no. Not if the money were good. I wouldn't.
Leaving aside religious considerations, if you kill someone, their problems, including facing what they did, are well and truly over. If you beleive the ideas of the various societies of people with imaginary friends [insert name of religion here], then whatever god they follow will deal with it. That seems a bit of a stretch to me, if this god would, then why do we have to do anything at all? I find the whole idea suspect in the extreme.
I would say a life in maximum security prison or isolation, and the memory of what they did that put them there would be far worse.
Many years ago in my former career I had to treat a guy who had been in a ditch comotose for so long he had maggots well established in every available cavity. Took a while that did.
Not, it has to be said, my fondest memory of that time. It ranks right up there with the odd fact that all tramps poo contains giant lentils.
And extremely remote. It's not even slightly surprising that this was missed.
The original expidition didn't head to the impact site until years after the event, and still they found a devastated surface, and no-one went back again for a very long time.
Until fairly recently it just wasn't feasable to do any kind of large scale study of the region. I think people sometimes forget just how barking huge our planet is, you'd be amazed at the number of area's that are still effectivelly blanks on the map, or mapped by air/satellite only.
not neccesarily. They fished so the exact same colour scheme would have been effective for exactly the same reasons. Penguins are not black and white to protect themselves from land predators, but from sea based ones. Nor are they white underneath because of there being ice above them, since benguins that rarely go near iced up seas are also white on their bellies.
Aside from that, their primary defense in water is the ability to swim jolly fast, not hide. On land they wouldn't be able to get up to anything more then a frantic waddle. No matter what colour you are that's not going to be helpful. Escape to water is about the only thing that'd work.
Sourceforge has a help wanted page for project owners to advertise for additonal project members, or go to google code and browse there to see if anything catches your eye.
How does the eldest sibling being a girl effect this?
Sounds to me like this study is meaningless anyway. They focus on men from one country, an affluent country with little liklihood of malnutrician being a factor, and all at the same point in their lives, being during compulsary military service. That carries with it the further distorting factor that none of these men were disqualified for reasons of physical/psychological disability, and to be honest, if you're educationally sub normal, you ain't getting to play with guns...
I do, my god it was slow. being older, and therefore obviously old fashioned, these high speeds still amaze me. Not that I wasn't impressed by 33k, the very fact that I could connect to another machine over the phone at all rocked.
Paradoxically though, while I am still in awe of such high speeds, I also whine when my 10mbit interwebs connection is taking too long to transfer the multi gigabyte result sets I have to chuck about between machines.
I use the terms hacking and hack when I refer to my code. Usually when I am referring to something I worked up quickly, or something that makes me recoil in agony but solves a problem, such as my three body problem workaround (oh gods, the horror, but it does work). I don't tend to use it to describe really good code, or stuff that I've matured over time, I didn't think that was what it meant, doesn't to me anyway.
I don't care frankly whether or not the term is used to describe people who do illegal stuff. They 'hack' websites and banks, I hack code. There's no point getting all worked up about it, or so I think. It's about as likely for 'hacking' to no longer be used for describing illegal stuff as it is for Chedder to regain exclusive use of their Mark.
I'm writing up my phd, and for months (years if you actually include research time), I had to beg/borrow access to pay per bloody paper portals, or hunt around for non locked up copies of papers. Even then I have often had to rely on abstracts and what other people cite papers for as a guide to what I myself can cite, it's not easy. I guess it would be if I were more monied, but I'm not. Yes my uni has subs to some portals, but not them all, and usually not the ones I find in the middle of the night after searching for hours.
Anything that makes new research more readily available is great news in my book.
It's more about stopping companies from claiming to be open source when they are just gaming the system and pretenting to be open source whilst really just wanting to gain access to the karma enhancing aspects of the term.
If I were to produce my own open source licence that meant people could use my code openly without fear of reprisal in their own projects, or fork it so long as they kept to my licence terms, it would be valid and the OSI would have no claim to challenge me.
If I produced a licence that meant people were not in fact able to use my code as they wished, but were instead restricted in that I was the only person who could legitimatelly use my code, or they were not allowed to do anything without paying a fee or explicitelly requiring my direct permission, such as by contacting me, that would be invalid.
Not that I couldn't continue to distribute my code or use my license, I'd just be challenged over the openness of it.
I have a few doubts. There are billions of emails flying about constantly. Anyone who beleives they can be effectivelly monitored has to be kidding themselves, so how useful is a law that says you can't do this?
Besides, if you are convicted, or suspected of crime, they can always obtain legal access to your mails, regardless, just as they could anything else you owned.
Perhaps I haven't had time to grow a sufficiently impressive tin foil hat, but I am given to think the whole idea is just plain silly.
You might as well pass laws that say you aren't allowed to follow the movement of a grain of silt in the Amazon.
The simple answer is that they do work. Certainly the Halo one does.
You may be right that the only people who play would be the ones who would buy the game anyway. However, if they are already keen, then this campaign represents an additional means to gain that all important entertainment element that users want from their games.
That's the whole point of games anyway. Yes there is the money aspect, but that's always been there, and is no assurance of success. The only way to make that money is to consistantly provide what people want, and that's fun.
Slashdot Mirror
AHA, Now I see the true color of Slashdot. Dare to say microsoft isn't evil and get moderated troll.
Hmm, guess this 'open forum' isn't as open as I thought. Moving on...
There is a distinct tendancy to view people on the internet as being the sum of their online work.
This is a big mistake. People, ordinary people, have bills to pay. Real life costs money, and if someone offers you money to do something which, lets face it in this case, is a pretty trivial and short term thing, what's the big deal?
Oh wait, its microsoft, therefore it must be bad. Oh how very sheeplike.
How many celebrities have done adverts for crap and been paid well for it, lots. It's a common event, nothing to be ashamed of, people have to live, and life costs money. And don't tell me that if someone said 'here, have lots of money and all you have to do is write some blog entries', you'd say no. Not if the money were good. I wouldn't.
The death penalty has one big problem in my view.
Leaving aside religious considerations, if you kill someone, their problems, including facing what they did, are well and truly over. If you beleive the ideas of the various societies of people with imaginary friends [insert name of religion here], then whatever god they follow will deal with it. That seems a bit of a stretch to me, if this god would, then why do we have to do anything at all? I find the whole idea suspect in the extreme.
I would say a life in maximum security prison or isolation, and the memory of what they did that put them there would be far worse.
Many years ago in my former career I had to treat a guy who had been in a ditch comotose for so long he had maggots well established in every available cavity. Took a while that did.
Not, it has to be said, my fondest memory of that time. It ranks right up there with the odd fact that all tramps poo contains giant lentils.
Tunguska is big, really big..
And extremely remote. It's not even slightly surprising that this was missed.
The original expidition didn't head to the impact site until years after the event, and still they found a devastated surface, and no-one went back again for a very long time.
Until fairly recently it just wasn't feasable to do any kind of large scale study of the region. I think people sometimes forget just how barking huge our planet is, you'd be amazed at the number of area's that are still effectivelly blanks on the map, or mapped by air/satellite only.
not neccesarily. They fished so the exact same colour scheme would have been effective for exactly the same reasons. Penguins are not black and white to protect themselves from land predators, but from sea based ones. Nor are they white underneath because of there being ice above them, since benguins that rarely go near iced up seas are also white on their bellies.
Aside from that, their primary defense in water is the ability to swim jolly fast, not hide. On land they wouldn't be able to get up to anything more then a frantic waddle. No matter what colour you are that's not going to be helpful. Escape to water is about the only thing that'd work.
Until they manage to create suitable tabletop sharks upon which to mount these frickin lasers, I ain't impressed....
Gas giants are a possibility, since they can formn very rapidly
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See the following
www.gps.caltech.edu/~gab/ge128/lectures/boss_jupi
As to lifespan of these gas giants, I have no idea.
I m ean google code project hosting.
Or, um, you could look at my project, I'm in need of the helps..
http://code.google.com/p/nmod/
why oh why didn't I preview. Oh, and you missed 'affluent' and 'liklihood'.
If you need me I'll be in the corner...
Sourceforge has a help wanted page for project owners to advertise for additonal project members, or go to google code and browse there to see if anything catches your eye.
How does the eldest sibling being a girl effect this?
Sounds to me like this study is meaningless anyway. They focus on men from one country, an affluent country with little liklihood of malnutrician being a factor, and all at the same point in their lives, being during compulsary military service. That carries with it the further distorting factor that none of these men were disqualified for reasons of physical/psychological disability, and to be honest, if you're educationally sub normal, you ain't getting to play with guns...
I do, my god it was slow. being older, and therefore obviously old fashioned, these high speeds still amaze me. Not that I wasn't impressed by 33k, the very fact that I could connect to another machine over the phone at all rocked.
Paradoxically though, while I am still in awe of such high speeds, I also whine when my 10mbit interwebs connection is taking too long to transfer the multi gigabyte result sets I have to chuck about between machines.
Agreed.
I use the terms hacking and hack when I refer to my code. Usually when I am referring to something I worked up quickly, or something that makes me recoil in agony but solves a problem, such as my three body problem workaround (oh gods, the horror, but it does work). I don't tend to use it to describe really good code, or stuff that I've matured over time, I didn't think that was what it meant, doesn't to me anyway.
I don't care frankly whether or not the term is used to describe people who do illegal stuff. They 'hack' websites and banks, I hack code. There's no point getting all worked up about it, or so I think. It's about as likely for 'hacking' to no longer be used for describing illegal stuff as it is for Chedder to regain exclusive use of their Mark.
Cracker just sounds stupid to me anyway.
Anything like this is great, really great.
I'm writing up my phd, and for months (years if you actually include research time), I had to beg/borrow access to pay per bloody paper portals, or hunt around for non locked up copies of papers. Even then I have often had to rely on abstracts and what other people cite papers for as a guide to what I myself can cite, it's not easy.
I guess it would be if I were more monied, but I'm not. Yes my uni has subs to some portals, but not them all, and usually not the ones I find in the middle of the night after searching for hours.
Anything that makes new research more readily available is great news in my book.
It's more about stopping companies from claiming to be open source when they are just gaming the system and pretenting to be open source whilst really just wanting to gain access to the karma enhancing aspects of the term.
If I were to produce my own open source licence that meant people could use my code openly without fear of reprisal in their own projects, or fork it so long as they kept to my licence terms, it would be valid and the OSI would have no claim to challenge me.
If I produced a licence that meant people were not in fact able to use my code as they wished, but were instead restricted in that I was the only person who could legitimatelly use my code, or they were not allowed to do anything without paying a fee or explicitelly requiring my direct permission, such as by contacting me, that would be invalid.
Not that I couldn't continue to distribute my code or use my license, I'd just be challenged over the openness of it.
I have a few doubts. There are billions of emails flying about constantly. Anyone who beleives they can be effectivelly monitored has to be kidding themselves, so how useful is a law that says you can't do this?
Besides, if you are convicted, or suspected of crime, they can always obtain legal access to your mails, regardless, just as they could anything else you owned.
Perhaps I haven't had time to grow a sufficiently impressive tin foil hat, but I am given to think the whole idea is just plain silly.
You might as well pass laws that say you aren't allowed to follow the movement of a grain of silt in the Amazon.
The simple answer is that they do work. Certainly the Halo one does.
You may be right that the only people who play would be the ones who would buy the game anyway. However, if they are already keen, then this campaign represents an additional means to gain that all important entertainment element that users want from their games.
That's the whole point of games anyway. Yes there is the money aspect, but that's always been there, and is no assurance of success. The only way to make that money is to consistantly provide what people want, and that's fun.