Why complain about it if you voluntarily went to a school like that? I went to a college where all my undergraduate courses were about 20:1 student to teacher because that's what I wanted. The options are out there.
Thank you for your post full of stereotypical and uninformed derp..223 is for the military? No.223 is the civilian chambering of the 5.56 military round (they operate at different pressures). The.223 is a common hunting round and I own a pistol chambered in it as well. However the 5.56 is for most purposes functionally identical and I'd bet it's used for hunting to a large extent as well. It's also one of the most inexpensive mid range rifle calibers for target shooting, far cheaper to target shoot with than the custom wildcat calibers many target shooters use.
Also please stop talking about about high velocity rounds and walls before you actually read something on the subject.
Exactly this, it's the same issue with the stupid 'assault weapon ban' the democratic party insists on keeping on it's ticket. They are used in a miniscule amount of gun related incidents (low single digit percent) and the DOJ studies all confirmed that the ban did nothing. However it sounds scary and makes a great news sound byte so it still persists just like the printing guns angle. The people who can afford to print and manufacture there own guns share a very small part of the venn diagram with people who commit crimes using guns.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if both of your fake examples were true, by the same logic that you try and argue about guns. I'd suspect people who are going into situations where dehydration is a real concern are more likely to bring bottled water but even with that precaution are more likely to end up lost and dead of dehydration. Similarly I'd suspect people who are more likely to carry jumper cables are people who know they have older cars/batteries.
This thought experiment is mostly pointless as your statistics are mostly bogus and in no way represent controlled experiments.
Having spent the last year developing an app that falls strictly into the later category (tracking) I was operating under the impression that the division you described is how things currently operate. The idea I received from our client was that as long as we did not encourage decisions or try to promote behavior we didn't have to worry about going through FDA regulation. This didn't save us from developing to the same standards as we would have for FDA submission, since the client has plans to expand the product in the future.
Glad to see this coming to fruition, The head of this project from Valve was at the future of education panel at PAX east this year and it was quite an interesting presentation. It was pretty annoying that it got shunted into a slightly shorter time slot, this is an incredibly interesting subject area.
I followed three links deep and couldn't find anywhere that actually said what the 'pornography' claim is based on. I haven't read it since college but I can't think of anything that would fall under the term pornography.
There's no NDA in the beta. Non elective mode has 'slots' and you pick one of a selection of skills for each slot based on it's type. For example, pick a rage generator for this slot (bash, cleave, frenzy, etc), this slot you have to pick a rage spender, and this slot is for a utility skill. Elective mode just lets you pick any skills for your bar and gets rid of the slots.
I received my only cease and desist letter around 06 for downloading a game I already owned. I'd left my NWN2 cds at home when I went back to school and just grabbed a new copy of it and used my cd keys for the install. The annoying part was they sent the letter to my schools IT department, who just told me I was in violation, so I deleted everything questionable only to find out it was the one thing I didn't delete because I legitimately owned. This is probably why I'm such a sucker for steam now and have 200+ games on my account.
I was thinking the same thing when debating if I should mention Gene Wolfe in this thread. The reason for mentioning him is that it seems like almost everyone who has found his works has done so by accident. However he's gotten more deserved recognition recently. I know he's popped up on several 'best of sci-fi/fantasy' lists in the last year. "The Book of the New Sun" is simply wonderful, that is all.
While I don't really have too much of a horse in this race, and I don't think it's indicative of all outsourcing teams, I remember one gem from an internship I was working during college. We were given a code base developed by a 'guru' from eastern European country, I want to say Ukrainian. The product was an add-on for Outlook, and at one point I was given the problem of 'The app is slow with more then 10 contacts, almost unusable, speed it up.' After a bit of hunting around I found the problem was where the add-on was searching through the contacts lists trying to find a subset.
They'd managed to create a search algorithm with a big O of something around n cubed. I set about rewriting it to get it down to N all while wondering why on earth Outlooks API didn't support this relatively basic feature. It was at this point that I discovered that the API actually did support it, however the programmer had written a wrapper around the API hiding the method in question, then re-implemented it in the train wreck of code I was removing. That was the last time I ever worried about competition from cheap outsourced labor.
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It's an audacious product for a company no one trusts to behave responsibly with our data
Hyperbole much? Given the amount of data I already trust google with I think it's safe to say I trust google with this.
Why complain about it if you voluntarily went to a school like that? I went to a college where all my undergraduate courses were about 20:1 student to teacher because that's what I wanted. The options are out there.
Thank you for your post full of stereotypical and uninformed derp. .223 is for the military? No .223 is the civilian chambering of the 5.56 military round (they operate at different pressures). The .223 is a common hunting round and I own a pistol chambered in it as well. However the 5.56 is for most purposes functionally identical and I'd bet it's used for hunting to a large extent as well. It's also one of the most inexpensive mid range rifle calibers for target shooting, far cheaper to target shoot with than the custom wildcat calibers many target shooters use.
Also please stop talking about about high velocity rounds and walls before you actually read something on the subject.
http://how-i-did-it.org/drywall/ammunition.html
Exactly this, it's the same issue with the stupid 'assault weapon ban' the democratic party insists on keeping on it's ticket. They are used in a miniscule amount of gun related incidents (low single digit percent) and the DOJ studies all confirmed that the ban did nothing. However it sounds scary and makes a great news sound byte so it still persists just like the printing guns angle. The people who can afford to print and manufacture there own guns share a very small part of the venn diagram with people who commit crimes using guns.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if both of your fake examples were true, by the same logic that you try and argue about guns. I'd suspect people who are going into situations where dehydration is a real concern are more likely to bring bottled water but even with that precaution are more likely to end up lost and dead of dehydration. Similarly I'd suspect people who are more likely to carry jumper cables are people who know they have older cars/batteries.
This thought experiment is mostly pointless as your statistics are mostly bogus and in no way represent controlled experiments.
The VM's ram footprint is larger than the amount of memory he listed.
My local development database CentOs VM with a stripped down dataset is larger than your plenty of memory.
I also did this :( Never played an actual pen and paper game with other people until I got to college.
Having spent the last year developing an app that falls strictly into the later category (tracking) I was operating under the impression that the division you described is how things currently operate. The idea I received from our client was that as long as we did not encourage decisions or try to promote behavior we didn't have to worry about going through FDA regulation. This didn't save us from developing to the same standards as we would have for FDA submission, since the client has plans to expand the product in the future.
I was really hoping for more useful information at the "Largely Hopeless" hyperlink, I should have examined the url first.
I'm a complete convert to Bsnes, it really is a magnificent piece of software and a noble effort.
I believe that's what he meant by the field being self interacting. It effects itself.
Glad to see this coming to fruition, The head of this project from Valve was at the future of education panel at PAX east this year and it was quite an interesting presentation. It was pretty annoying that it got shunted into a slightly shorter time slot, this is an incredibly interesting subject area.
Well said. This thread is killing my faith in Slashdot.
Yes? It's hardly inappropriate for any fifth graders who actually find it interesting to read.
Because it's a great children's book? I read it in third grade the first time.
I followed three links deep and couldn't find anywhere that actually said what the 'pornography' claim is based on. I haven't read it since college but I can't think of anything that would fall under the term pornography.
There's no NDA in the beta. Non elective mode has 'slots' and you pick one of a selection of skills for each slot based on it's type. For example, pick a rage generator for this slot (bash, cleave, frenzy, etc), this slot you have to pick a rage spender, and this slot is for a utility skill. Elective mode just lets you pick any skills for your bar and gets rid of the slots.
Old news is old.
I received my only cease and desist letter around 06 for downloading a game I already owned. I'd left my NWN2 cds at home when I went back to school and just grabbed a new copy of it and used my cd keys for the install. The annoying part was they sent the letter to my schools IT department, who just told me I was in violation, so I deleted everything questionable only to find out it was the one thing I didn't delete because I legitimately owned. This is probably why I'm such a sucker for steam now and have 200+ games on my account.
I was thinking the same thing when debating if I should mention Gene Wolfe in this thread. The reason for mentioning him is that it seems like almost everyone who has found his works has done so by accident. However he's gotten more deserved recognition recently. I know he's popped up on several 'best of sci-fi/fantasy' lists in the last year. "The Book of the New Sun" is simply wonderful, that is all.
I enjoyed the e-mail correspondence with the Apple/IBM joke in the signature. Interesting what two decades would change.
Apparently the lameness filter hates dashes.
http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/01/dome.jpg The dome I grew up with.
While I don't really have too much of a horse in this race, and I don't think it's indicative of all outsourcing teams, I remember one gem from an internship I was working during college. We were given a code base developed by a 'guru' from eastern European country, I want to say Ukrainian. The product was an add-on for Outlook, and at one point I was given the problem of 'The app is slow with more then 10 contacts, almost unusable, speed it up.' After a bit of hunting around I found the problem was where the add-on was searching through the contacts lists trying to find a subset.
They'd managed to create a search algorithm with a big O of something around n cubed. I set about rewriting it to get it down to N all while wondering why on earth Outlooks API didn't support this relatively basic feature. It was at this point that I discovered that the API actually did support it, however the programmer had written a wrapper around the API hiding the method in question, then re-implemented it in the train wreck of code I was removing. That was the last time I ever worried about competition from cheap outsourced labor.