IWIHMP +1 Relevant, Insightful. (I Wish I Had Mod Points)
I agree.. firstly 100mbit to the user isn't hard.. expensive, maybe.. depending on what existing plant and density you have going on.
The US broadband 'lag' isn't about "We can't do it", it's more about the cost to upgrade aging infrastructure that most companies want to continue to leverage since it's a massive sunk cost. Given, persons in more rural and semi-rural areas would be prohibitively expensive to get to (there's alot of fiber you'd have to run to get some some people.. just how it goes), but persons in urban and semi-urban areas shouldn't be all that hard to get to... and it might be expensive.
I'm sorry kids, Ethernet is the wave of the Now.. lets actually start using it.. bring some fiber into a MDU, ring it, and put out some aggregation switches... and for the love of the FSM, learn to administrate the damn things.. or pay me and i'll do it for you.
There was an article a while back in Linux Journal (iirc) about a model done in.nl or somewhere that the building was the ISPs customer, and the building took care of fanning out from there.. True, you'll get alot of poorly designed/built/administered networks, but it'd prob up the count.
If you can justify that they are military combatants of a foreign nation, or political faction of a nation, they would have have their citizenship revoked as per US TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER III > Part III > 1481. Those persons may still have renounced their citizenship based on how you interpret section b... there's to many commas for my simple mind to comprehend.
Either way, even if they ARE a citizen, and they are pointing a weapon at you and you have reasonable cause to fear for your life, you're covered by Self Defense.
I'd be interested in how this is measured tbh. It is the old, false, addage of 'hits'? The graph cites as 'visits', but I'm curious how that's actually measured.
Besides, even if FB had more visits, big deal.. a visit to search means you're likely trying to find out something.. not post that you're getting ready to make eggs for breakfest.. then post again that you realized you're out of eggs.. and another one asking if anyone needs anything from the store.. FB is popular for the same reasons MMOs remain popular, because people can't actually be assed to talk to thier neighbors, so we'll create a semi-artifical online society where we never have to deal with one another in person.. although to be fair, it's also the basis for creating a more pure non-prejudacted society (based on things you have little/no control over.. ie: race, height, etc..).
I'd agree, except this is a trade-show booth contest.. so it's designed to be techie enough to be techie, and simple enough anyone can do it..
Aside from that.. who the hell still uses mid-tower format (3u? 4u?) servers in that density? get some 1u pizza-boxes or at least some 2u's.. (I'm sure it's just decommissioned h/w they have for this show though.. or so I hope..)
If they wanna play WoW during class they should be allowed, as long as they don't disturb the ones who want to learn.
I dunno, in general I agree, but then I also realize that it's my tax dollars putting a good part of them through school via government backed grants and scholarships.. and before you ask, I did work when I went to college and paid my own way.
'Brute force' app for RFIDs.. now controlled by your phone!
Of course an RFID reader app for it too.. swipe your phone near your bosses wallet and wallah, now the card readers can say it was clearly your boss that entered the server room at 2am drunk, and urinated on the VMWare server cluster.. (you just gotta deal with the security cameras..)
Of course, this is all possible now anyway w ith other methodologies... but *shrug*.. now it's provided by Mister Jobs!
No, this isn't the state doing it.. it's people.. and it doesn't require a totalitarian state.. it could happen anywhere where there is a large crowd of bored people (aka; internet users.. it's ok.. i'm one of them).
Between the recent wave of location-aware apps and privacy concerns of places like Facebook, this will only get more common. Next thing you know we'll have people just jumping others they don't like (race,creed, sexuality preferences, so on) and other commiting location-aware crimes.
I've machine washed and dried (accidentally of course) several Sandisk Cruzers, and all functioned perfectly well afterwards. (Yes, I'm comparing agitation in water and tumble dry to throwing it into the street)
I'd say bring a hammer and just smash it to bits.. even if by throwing it on the street you'd managed to crack the PCB or destroy the USB interface itself, you'd still likely have the actual storage chip intact and readable via other mechanisms. You'd want to smash item #4 in this reference image to dust.
We have some, and they work, but if you're a network jock and you have to carry Yet-another-cable-and-dongle in your bag, and something you have to setup each time you touch a kit in person, it gets to be a bit of a pain.
The last laptops I ordered my group for work I got primarly because they were lightweight, long batt, and had a serial port.
Unfortunately I don't see the serial port disappearing anytime soon, as there is way to much kit installed out there that requires it for in-person management. What's neat is on the Cisco network modules has a USB-format looking console cable (top most interface port on the pic) (yes, it plugs into a serial port).. the Serial Port may never die, but I'd be OK with making the format a bit more compact.
Wait... if you're serving time for voluntary manslaughter, that means your strategy is NOT effective, since obviously the landlord did not do what you wanted him to do (otherwise, why shoot him?).
I dunno.. he wast looking for an inexpensive place to stay.. and he got one.. gets a few square meals a day, and all the sex he can handle (and maybe more!).. sounds win/win to me.
Although, I believe this is the Manhatten that's in New Your City, so I don't think he can legally bring a gun into the city anyway. IANANYCGN (I am not a NYC gun nut.. nor a lawyer.. so I am likely wrong))
Fora has less of the 'look at my gadget|idea' but more 'panel discussion on topic X'.. and they aren't put on by Fova.tv themselves.. they just web-air panels from other organizations. Some videos are interesting, some not, but all are usually longer, and in more depth, then the ones on TED.
Yes, I got the impression for a while Fraxis was trying to target the mythical 'casual' gamer market (with the newer versions of railroad, rome, and Civ:revolutions).. it's obviously they still sort of are because they are joining the facebook app crowd.
My concern with Ci-V is it better be more then just ranged attack and hexes. Unfortunately each additional version of civ seems to be just an add of one or two new features, a slight gfx update, and that's it. I'm finding it harder and harder to justify purchasing entirely new Civ titles after Civ4 (although Civ4 brought about some very cool mods, Final Frontier being one of my 'look at what we can change' favorites. I hope they do retain the Civ4-like moddability (and even a semi-compatibility would be nice to provide for a lower learning curve from the existing modding base)
Sure. But you said it yourself, Legitimate self defense.
You cannot legally pay someone to break into your house (so you can lie in wait and shoot them).
If you say you're going on vacation, and someone breaks into your house, and you have legitimate cause to execute deadly force in your own defense ("legitimate" varies by state/local law), then yes. If you webcam your entry way 24/7 in the offchance you get to shoot someone, so be it.. you probably open yourself up to get reamed by a Wrongful Death suit though; but there's reasonable cause for you to be in fear of your life and defend yourself with lethal force, you can probably get out of going to jail.
" I know I'm not that interesting to anyone, but the idea of someone being able to pull up everything about me with a simple SQL SELECT statement and a couple of JOINS makes me cringe. "
Lame.
Obviously they need to ask thier DBAs to setup a VIEW for that...
In the case of consensual cannibalism, sure; However if the other partner is deceased, it'd be hard to prove consent after the fact (unless lengthy legalese is performed)
IMO, I think by definition you can't prove consent to be the submissive partner in Necrophilia (since you're allowed to change your vote of consent on sexual acts, even after they are concluded, you might have changed your mind on being necro'ed after you signed that part of your will, for example); Although I guess this comes down more to 'rights of the dead'. I guess right now you're pretty much considered property of the State (they generally have the ability to cut you up and sew you back together again)...
The only thing you listed that I'd care about would be gmail..and even then I use Firefox for most of the time, so in practice isn't a non-issue.
What functionality does Twitter really provide that can't be done in even HTML3.2 syntax? Sure there's the wizz-bang of a live feed in Facebook using AJAX and other things to emulate your browser into a thick-client, but what's there that NEEDS to be there if I wasn't using IE9 or Firefox 4 or Opera 151 ? Sure the drag-and-drop in GMail for sorting is cool.. but I'm sorry, it's a nice UI feature; it's not required for the site (note, I feel differently about Google Docs, I think you sorta needa those UI features to make the app usable)
I mean seriously. It's not like they are using the BLINK tag even!
For people that -need- to reach their audience, build a lowest-common-denominator page, and just redirect people there. Put a nice !discreet! note somewhere suggesting they can get increased usability from one of several 'maximum compatibility' browsers, but they are not required.
I guess I'm being cranky with my old age, but I think there's to much damn javascript anyway.. and my 20 year-old-gripes about it not even being remotely like Java still hold credence dammit!
if you can, without doing it illegally, as per the rules of the game, get into a foreign nation, go for it.
I'm gonna guess that remaining in the continental US is probably a game requirement.
IMO, the best way to win would be to enter as a fake person.. can't find someone that doesn't actually exist. Perhaps as your pet dog, with some photo shopped photo/video entries?
Just because his valuation system for game value is different then yours, doesn't mean you get to pitch a fit either:]
IMO, DRM doesn't affect the value of the game, but does affect how I feel about the game publisher. There are currently some game titles I refuse to buy or play simply because I strongly disagree with how the developer/publisher house does things. It's the people that continue to take abuse from game companies and keep buying their products that you need to be yelling at.
As for El Muerte, he has props in my book because he indirectly helped create more games & mods (through his development of UE tools) then most people realize. (I personally found UnCodeX invaluable)
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Ya, and the XP penalty for dying is pretty harsh, and you don't get to play Alts...
Didn't you know.. Valve is going into the Netflix business!
IWIHMP +1 Relevant, Insightful.
(I Wish I Had Mod Points)
I agree.. firstly 100mbit to the user isn't hard.. expensive, maybe.. depending on what existing plant and density you have going on.
The US broadband 'lag' isn't about "We can't do it", it's more about the cost to upgrade aging infrastructure that most companies want to continue to leverage since it's a massive sunk cost.
Given, persons in more rural and semi-rural areas would be prohibitively expensive to get to (there's alot of fiber you'd have to run to get some some people.. just how it goes), but persons in urban and semi-urban areas shouldn't be all that hard to get to... and it might be expensive.
I'm sorry kids, Ethernet is the wave of the Now.. lets actually start using it.. bring some fiber into a MDU, ring it, and put out some aggregation switches... and for the love of the FSM, learn to administrate the damn things.. or pay me and i'll do it for you.
There was an article a while back in Linux Journal (iirc) about a model done in .nl or somewhere that the building was the ISPs customer, and the building took care of fanning out from there.. True, you'll get alot of poorly designed/built/administered networks, but it'd prob up the count.
If you can justify that they are military combatants of a foreign nation, or political faction of a nation, they would have have their citizenship revoked as per US TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER III > Part III > 1481. Those persons may still have renounced their citizenship based on how you interpret section b... there's to many commas for my simple mind to comprehend.
Either way, even if they ARE a citizen, and they are pointing a weapon at you and you have reasonable cause to fear for your life, you're covered by Self Defense.
I'd be interested in how this is measured tbh. It is the old, false, addage of 'hits'? The graph cites as 'visits', but I'm curious how that's actually measured.
Besides, even if FB had more visits, big deal.. a visit to search means you're likely trying to find out something.. not post that you're getting ready to make eggs for breakfest.. then post again that you realized you're out of eggs.. and another one asking if anyone needs anything from the store..
FB is popular for the same reasons MMOs remain popular, because people can't actually be assed to talk to thier neighbors, so we'll create a semi-artifical online society where we never have to deal with one another in person.. although to be fair, it's also the basis for creating a more pure non-prejudacted society (based on things you have little/no control over.. ie: race, height, etc..).
I'd agree, except this is a trade-show booth contest.. so it's designed to be techie enough to be techie, and simple enough anyone can do it..
Aside from that.. who the hell still uses mid-tower format (3u? 4u?) servers in that density? get some 1u pizza-boxes or at least some 2u's..
(I'm sure it's just decommissioned h/w they have for this show though.. or so I hope..)
If they wanna play WoW during class they should be allowed, as long as they don't disturb the ones who want to learn.
I dunno, in general I agree, but then I also realize that it's my tax dollars putting a good part of them through school via government backed grants and scholarships.. and before you ask, I did work when I went to college and paid my own way.
I want an iBumpKey.
'Brute force' app for RFIDs.. now controlled by your phone!
Of course an RFID reader app for it too.. swipe your phone near your bosses wallet and wallah, now the card readers can say it was clearly your boss that entered the server room at 2am drunk, and urinated on the VMWare server cluster.. (you just gotta deal with the security cameras..)
Of course, this is all possible now anyway w ith other methodologies... but *shrug*.. now it's provided by Mister Jobs!
No, this isn't the state doing it.. it's people.. and it doesn't require a totalitarian state.. it could happen anywhere where there is a large crowd of bored people (aka; internet users.. it's ok.. i'm one of them).
Between the recent wave of location-aware apps and privacy concerns of places like Facebook, this will only get more common. Next thing you know we'll have people just jumping others they don't like (race,creed, sexuality preferences, so on) and other commiting location-aware crimes.
I've machine washed and dried (accidentally of course) several Sandisk Cruzers, and all functioned perfectly well afterwards. (Yes, I'm comparing agitation in water and tumble dry to throwing it into the street)
I'd say bring a hammer and just smash it to bits.. even if by throwing it on the street you'd managed to crack the PCB or destroy the USB interface itself, you'd still likely have the actual storage chip intact and readable via other mechanisms. You'd want to smash item #4 in this reference image to dust.
We have some, and they work, but if you're a network jock and you have to carry Yet-another-cable-and-dongle in your bag, and something you have to setup each time you touch a kit in person, it gets to be a bit of a pain.
The last laptops I ordered my group for work I got primarly because they were lightweight, long batt, and had a serial port.
Unfortunately I don't see the serial port disappearing anytime soon, as there is way to much kit installed out there that requires it for in-person management. What's neat is on the Cisco network modules has a USB-format looking console cable (top most interface port on the pic) (yes, it plugs into a serial port).. the Serial Port may never die, but I'd be OK with making the format a bit more compact.
Incidentally, the question itself, as stated, should not have been modded troll.. I actually asked myself the same question.
By definition, an axial shift or rotational displacement would affect seasons.
Wait... if you're serving time for voluntary manslaughter, that means your strategy is NOT effective, since obviously the landlord did not do what you wanted him to do (otherwise, why shoot him?).
I dunno.. he wast looking for an inexpensive place to stay.. and he got one.. gets a few square meals a day, and all the sex he can handle (and maybe more!).. sounds win/win to me.
Although, I believe this is the Manhatten that's in New Your City, so I don't think he can legally bring a gun into the city anyway. IANANYCGN (I am not a NYC gun nut.. nor a lawyer.. so I am likely wrong))
Might I suggest Fova.tv as an alternative?
Fora has less of the 'look at my gadget|idea' but more 'panel discussion on topic X'.. and they aren't put on by Fova.tv themselves.. they just web-air panels from other organizations. Some videos are interesting, some not, but all are usually longer, and in more depth, then the ones on TED.
Full Speed Ahead Mister Cohen!
Incidently, I love the statement just before the credits.. maybe we have finally found a good and fun reason for an economic meltdown :]
Yes, I got the impression for a while Fraxis was trying to target the mythical 'casual' gamer market (with the newer versions of railroad, rome, and Civ:revolutions).. it's obviously they still sort of are because they are joining the facebook app crowd.
My concern with Ci-V is it better be more then just ranged attack and hexes. Unfortunately each additional version of civ seems to be just an add of one or two new features, a slight gfx update, and that's it. I'm finding it harder and harder to justify purchasing entirely new Civ titles after Civ4 (although Civ4 brought about some very cool mods, Final Frontier being one of my 'look at what we can change' favorites. I hope they do retain the Civ4-like moddability (and even a semi-compatibility would be nice to provide for a lower learning curve from the existing modding base)
There's a Civ4 mod called 'Planetfall' that you might be interested in if you already have Civ4.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=278
Sure. But you said it yourself, Legitimate self defense.
You cannot legally pay someone to break into your house (so you can lie in wait and shoot them).
If you say you're going on vacation, and someone breaks into your house, and you have legitimate cause to execute deadly force in your own defense ("legitimate" varies by state/local law), then yes.
If you webcam your entry way 24/7 in the offchance you get to shoot someone, so be it.. you probably open yourself up to get reamed by a Wrongful Death suit though; but there's reasonable cause for you to be in fear of your life and defend yourself with lethal force, you can probably get out of going to jail.
" I know I'm not that interesting to anyone, but the idea of someone being able to pull up everything about me with a simple SQL SELECT statement and a couple of JOINS makes me cringe. "
Lame.
Obviously they need to ask thier DBAs to setup a VIEW for that...
In the case of consensual cannibalism, sure; However if the other partner is deceased, it'd be hard to prove consent after the fact (unless lengthy legalese is performed)
IMO, I think by definition you can't prove consent to be the submissive partner in Necrophilia (since you're allowed to change your vote of consent on sexual acts, even after they are concluded, you might have changed your mind on being necro'ed after you signed that part of your will, for example); Although I guess this comes down more to 'rights of the dead'. I guess right now you're pretty much considered property of the State (they generally have the ability to cut you up and sew you back together again)...
"Video streaming"
To put this in laymens terms.
Television.
That is all.
In Soviet Russia, compatibility browses you?
The only thing you listed that I'd care about would be gmail. .and even then I use Firefox for most of the time, so in practice isn't a non-issue.
What functionality does Twitter really provide that can't be done in even HTML3.2 syntax? Sure there's the wizz-bang of a live feed in Facebook using AJAX and other things to emulate your browser into a thick-client, but what's there that NEEDS to be there if I wasn't using IE9 or Firefox 4 or Opera 151 ? Sure the drag-and-drop in GMail for sorting is cool.. but I'm sorry, it's a nice UI feature; it's not required for the site (note, I feel differently about Google Docs, I think you sorta needa those UI features to make the app usable)
I mean seriously. It's not like they are using the BLINK tag even!
For people that -need- to reach their audience, build a lowest-common-denominator page, and just redirect people there. Put a nice !discreet! note somewhere suggesting they can get increased usability from one of several 'maximum compatibility' browsers, but they are not required.
I guess I'm being cranky with my old age, but I think there's to much damn javascript anyway.. and my 20 year-old-gripes about it not even being remotely like Java still hold credence dammit!
if you can, without doing it illegally, as per the rules of the game, get into a foreign nation, go for it.
I'm gonna guess that remaining in the continental US is probably a game requirement.
IMO, the best way to win would be to enter as a fake person.. can't find someone that doesn't actually exist. Perhaps as your pet dog, with some photo shopped photo/video entries?
Just because his valuation system for game value is different then yours, doesn't mean you get to pitch a fit either :]
IMO, DRM doesn't affect the value of the game, but does affect how I feel about the game publisher. There are currently some game titles I refuse to buy or play simply because I strongly disagree with how the developer/publisher house does things. It's the people that continue to take abuse from game companies and keep buying their products that you need to be yelling at.
As for El Muerte, he has props in my book because he indirectly helped create more games & mods (through his development of UE tools) then most people realize. (I personally found UnCodeX invaluable)