What kind of idiot story is this? Android and IOS just got done destroying the Microsoft/RIM duopoly... Suddenly they are the underdog deserving of our sympathy? They are doing poorly because they suck... not because they are being crushed by Google/Apples corporate might.
It's pretty funny to watch how bought and sold the press is... All this shit about guns in the news and articles like this that make no sense what-so-ever... Trying to tie real guns to games or something... it's just ridiculous at its face. I wonder who paid for the article.
I was in a similar situation. Then I noticed there were women that would knit while on the phone and they didn't seem to have a problem with that. So, always up for a challenge, I learned to knit. I made a 22foot, stitch for stitch replica of the original Dr Who Scarf.
nah, you're wrong, he's right. The tech was getting cheaper, and there were those of use that saw the potential. These suits just provided what we were willing to pay for. If silicon Valley hadn't been where it was, it would have popped up somewhere else. Necessity is the mother of invention. Our needs are what made these people.
The only thing that can ruin someones political ambitions is... well nothing. Your petition sure as fuck wont. Ted Kennedy, while married, got drunk, drove his car off a bridge, killing his girlfriend/mistress, then waited till the next day to report the incident to police, who then refused to investigate it. You can cheat on your wife, drunk drive your car off a bridge, kill someone and still hold office... If people support your political party they will believe anything you say.
Are you drunk? What the fuck did the president, or any member of government do... exactly... after one of these petitions were "successful" and I mean, besides fuck a hooker.
When I was in highschool, schools were filled with Macs. Worthless in the realworld, in the buisness world... you know, where you could actually get a job. My senior year physics teacher brought the first PC into the school. Then, those of us that knew PCs came out of the woodwork. The entire school was converted to PC's in less than 2 years.
If even 5% of these make it into the hands of students that give a shit, it's going to make a world of difference in their lives. In my graduating class of 400, I'd guess than 3 or 4 of us knew shit about a computer. That's less than 1% and my generation created what we now call the internet. All of us with our own small parts. That's was going on here... giving people the opportunity to be a small part of something much bigger. What will come after the internet? I don't know... but it wont get created by people with iPhones and Windows Metro. You've got to give them the tools, and let them loose.
The problem is, to move the players, they have to be disconnected first. Once moved they can reconnect. Unfortunately, an easy way to get out of fights would be just to pull your Ethernet cable, so when a disconnect happens they just log YOU out and not your ship. So, if you get disconnected you're still getting hammered by your opponents. BUT... if they drop the entire solar system (i.e. Zone) you are in, then your opponents get dropped at the same time. So the system is basically filled with ghost ships until it comes back up. Problem solved right? No... everyone knows how this works and as soon as the System (zone) drops, those that understand how it works are hammering the re-connect button. Whomever can connect fastest is going to pull into a zone filled with defenseless ships ready to go. The tactic they talk about in the article is when some Corps (guilds) try to intentionally crash a system by getting as many people to zerg and unprepared system as possible. They just pile in more and more junk ships or noobs or whatever into some unsuspecting system and try to crash it. Then they reconnect before anyone knows what's happening and take out their target.
He's right that their architectures are similar to financial institutions, but where they differ is in the quality of their hardware and staff. While I'm sure Eve's people are great, they are nothing compared to the dudes working on wallstreet or the hardware involved in trading. 3000 people on the same server is a joke compared to what they're dealing with.
Legacy support for TV/PVR is probably one of the last things on their mind. Next you'll be complaining about their horrible phonograph support. Stop consuming your media in such and ancient, outdated manner and you'll suddenly find out how great XBMC really is. The vast majority of XBMC users don't even have Cable/Satellite subscriptions anymore. We get all our media via XBMC and/or downloads. Create your own channels and drop your carrier.
We have 2 political parties. They both control the government. They both control the media. They both control who's allowed to be on the ballot. They both control the courts. They both control which businesses thrive and which businesses wither on the vine.
It's similar to a Hydraulic Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire They control information in this case, and control us all by it. If we disobey them, they cut off our access to it. Or use it to imprison us. If buisnesses disobey they seize their domains or cut off their access to funding via Credit Card and crush them. This is not an easy problem to solve. They have us by the short-hairs and most of us don't even realize it.
You do realize they do absolutely nothing about those petitions at all, even if you get the signatures. They're just a honey pot for gathering the names of political dissidents. I know a lot of you don't think this has started in this country but it has.
All you need to know is that this only applies to phones under a cellular contract. Cellular contracts are awful things to begin with and now they are even worse. The only thing that makes people sign them is the high price of phones which WILL go down. In a few years and smartphones will be $50. Granted, the carriers will find some excuse to charge $500 for them, but if you've got half a brain in your head you'll just buy your phone outright and avoid the contract.
In the meantime there's Walmart. They now sell unlocked, prepaid smartphones. No contract, unlimited talk, text and data for $50/month (prepaid) I believe it's $60 for international calling. It's on the Verizon network so coverage is better than most. I don't generally shill for Walmart but this is by far the best cellular deal out there. I've even heard you can get them to transfer certain phones from other carriers (Verizon for example) I'll be losing my work phone in about 6 months and I'll be going strait to walmart after work.
Dropped from the sky by Parachute is supposed to tell me it's rugged? We had about 300 kids design systems at home to protect eggs dropped from a helicopter when I was highschool. I do not find this impressive.
They've been doing it here for years. They give you a "discount" for cash. Which is usually exactly the amount they have to pay Visa... 5%... if you use a credit card. So, use cash... they give you the 5%... use credit card... they give it to visa. Around here most of the businesses doing it are small.. barely staying afloat places... family run delis or gas stations. It reflects badly on the business usually. Weather that's a correct representation, I do not know. But it's there none-the-less.
Back in the 80s/early 90s the fee was high enough that stores would sometimes refuse credit cards for purchases under $5 or $10. I remember a particular incident at K-mart back in the day where my father tried to buy a lightbulb on his credit card and at the time Kmart was going through some sort of business rules change and it was unclear what should be done in that situation. The store manager came and told my father he'd be happy to take care of the situation. He, very matter of factly, explained that the fee they would have to pay Visa on the item he was purchasing was higher than the value of the item, and he at that time had no direction regarding what to do about the situation other than honor the patrons request, and keep costs low. He could see no other way out of the situation but to give my father the lightbulb for free. They rang it up for $0 and he even got a reciepte for it. He kept it for months showing everyone and explaining how he had cleverly beaten kmart out of $1.25 (or whatever it cost)
Do yourself a favor and buy a ruggedized outdoor phone. They last forever, have long battery life and unlike most smartphones are actually usable for making phone calls.
They still aren't waterproof. And I have a 300 watt, 120vlt aquarium heater that argues strongly against the idea that it's not possible to make a cellphone waterproof.
Exaclty, I work for a multi-billion dollar company and we have finance reports that are produced then exported to excel files because that's all the directors know how to use. They then make pivot tables or simple formulas on them, often incorrectly and our entire businesses numbers are based on that shit. Simple things like the "average" function that treats NULL as 0... completely hoses what they think are valid numbers. Even when you show them the damned function in the help menu and it explicitly explains this they refuse to believe anythings wrong. The numbers have always worked before right? All businesses are full of this kind of shit. If it doesn't appear to be broken, don't fix it.
You mean the part where he stole all of his ideas from existing works by some of the first "open source" people before there was even an "open source" or the part where he parked in handicap spots for most of his life using his money to keep his Mercedes unregistered, just so he could... because simply getting his own parking slot wouldn't show the world just how big his dick really was?
Jimmy: So hows the new real estate agency dad said you started? Uncle Jim: The whole office is a mess. We've got a bunch of computers, and we got one of those box things to connect them all together at walmart... But it only has 10 plugins and now we've got this new printer... Jimmy: Uh... I think we can just get a bunch of old network cards, put them in that computer in the basement and install linux on it... Uncle Jim: Is Linux secure? Jimmy: It's the best. I think Nasa uses it. Uncle Jim: Wow, this is great that was going to cost me Twenty...er... hey I'll give you $10 an hour to do it. Jimmy:Really? Awsome... *starts doing wikipedia searches for linux*
Don't create more visa's, give the workers easy pathways to citizenship. Work on an H1-b for 5 years without run-ins with the law and you're a citizen. If you don't want citizenship then you lose your visa. Simple as that. Is there not enough skilled labor? Or is there not enough cheap labor? Making more visas brings in cheap labor. Making more citizens brings in talented labor. If you're a law abiding person and go through the proper channels citizenship should be easy in this country. I work in a shop with a lot of H1-B people, from India, Russia, Israel, etc... and I'd be happy to have any of them get citizenship here. They're great people and I like most of them better than my asshole neighbors.
You've got that backward. Air gets hot as its compressed. Very hot. To store the kind of PSI they'll need, that tank will be scortching hot unless they have some system to use that heat. Then, when it's released and the air expands, it cools. It says the drive train is hydrolic. I suspect it's a lot like a hydrostatic garden tractor. They've got a pully that when they spin it produces drive. If you've got compressed air driving that pully, and you have a gasoline engine driving it at the same time, the engine would be extremely efficient to begin with... then, as the compressed air tank loses preasure the load on the gasoline engine would become greater, reducing its efficiency. The result is that it's actually a gasoline powered car that gets a great efficiency boost while it still has air in its tank. Once it runs out, its just a normal car. So you can have a very efficient drive to and from work, but trips to grandmas not so much.
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What kind of idiot story is this? Android and IOS just got done destroying the Microsoft/RIM duopoly... Suddenly they are the underdog deserving of our sympathy? They are doing poorly because they suck... not because they are being crushed by Google/Apples corporate might.
It's pretty funny to watch how bought and sold the press is... All this shit about guns in the news and articles like this that make no sense what-so-ever... Trying to tie real guns to games or something... it's just ridiculous at its face. I wonder who paid for the article.
you shouldn't be able to patent common sense. Simple as that.
I was in a similar situation. Then I noticed there were women that would knit while on the phone and they didn't seem to have a problem with that. So, always up for a challenge, I learned to knit. I made a 22foot, stitch for stitch replica of the original Dr Who Scarf.
Yes he was.
nah, you're wrong, he's right. The tech was getting cheaper, and there were those of use that saw the potential. These suits just provided what we were willing to pay for. If silicon Valley hadn't been where it was, it would have popped up somewhere else. Necessity is the mother of invention. Our needs are what made these people.
The only thing that can ruin someones political ambitions is... well nothing. Your petition sure as fuck wont. Ted Kennedy, while married, got drunk, drove his car off a bridge, killing his girlfriend/mistress, then waited till the next day to report the incident to police, who then refused to investigate it. You can cheat on your wife, drunk drive your car off a bridge, kill someone and still hold office... If people support your political party they will believe anything you say.
Are you drunk? What the fuck did the president, or any member of government do... exactly... after one of these petitions were "successful" and I mean, besides fuck a hooker.
When I was in highschool, schools were filled with Macs. Worthless in the realworld, in the buisness world... you know, where you could actually get a job. My senior year physics teacher brought the first PC into the school. Then, those of us that knew PCs came out of the woodwork. The entire school was converted to PC's in less than 2 years.
If even 5% of these make it into the hands of students that give a shit, it's going to make a world of difference in their lives. In my graduating class of 400, I'd guess than 3 or 4 of us knew shit about a computer. That's less than 1% and my generation created what we now call the internet. All of us with our own small parts. That's was going on here... giving people the opportunity to be a small part of something much bigger. What will come after the internet? I don't know... but it wont get created by people with iPhones and Windows Metro. You've got to give them the tools, and let them loose.
The Federal Reserve has no guiding principle but profit. It does what it does to keep tax revenues high, not out of some altruistic en-devour.
The problem is, to move the players, they have to be disconnected first. Once moved they can reconnect. Unfortunately, an easy way to get out of fights would be just to pull your Ethernet cable, so when a disconnect happens they just log YOU out and not your ship. So, if you get disconnected you're still getting hammered by your opponents. BUT... if they drop the entire solar system (i.e. Zone) you are in, then your opponents get dropped at the same time. So the system is basically filled with ghost ships until it comes back up. Problem solved right? No... everyone knows how this works and as soon as the System (zone) drops, those that understand how it works are hammering the re-connect button. Whomever can connect fastest is going to pull into a zone filled with defenseless ships ready to go. The tactic they talk about in the article is when some Corps (guilds) try to intentionally crash a system by getting as many people to zerg and unprepared system as possible. They just pile in more and more junk ships or noobs or whatever into some unsuspecting system and try to crash it. Then they reconnect before anyone knows what's happening and take out their target.
He's right that their architectures are similar to financial institutions, but where they differ is in the quality of their hardware and staff. While I'm sure Eve's people are great, they are nothing compared to the dudes working on wallstreet or the hardware involved in trading. 3000 people on the same server is a joke compared to what they're dealing with.
Legacy support for TV/PVR is probably one of the last things on their mind. Next you'll be complaining about their horrible phonograph support. Stop consuming your media in such and ancient, outdated manner and you'll suddenly find out how great XBMC really is. The vast majority of XBMC users don't even have Cable/Satellite subscriptions anymore. We get all our media via XBMC and/or downloads. Create your own channels and drop your carrier.
We have 2 political parties. They both control the government. They both control the media. They both control who's allowed to be on the ballot. They both control the courts. They both control which businesses thrive and which businesses wither on the vine.
It's similar to a Hydraulic Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire
They control information in this case, and control us all by it. If we disobey them, they cut off our access to it. Or use it to imprison us. If buisnesses disobey they seize their domains or cut off their access to funding via Credit Card and crush them.
This is not an easy problem to solve. They have us by the short-hairs and most of us don't even realize it.
You do realize they do absolutely nothing about those petitions at all, even if you get the signatures. They're just a honey pot for gathering the names of political dissidents. I know a lot of you don't think this has started in this country but it has.
All you need to know is that this only applies to phones under a cellular contract. Cellular contracts are awful things to begin with and now they are even worse. The only thing that makes people sign them is the high price of phones which WILL go down. In a few years and smartphones will be $50. Granted, the carriers will find some excuse to charge $500 for them, but if you've got half a brain in your head you'll just buy your phone outright and avoid the contract.
In the meantime there's Walmart. They now sell unlocked, prepaid smartphones. No contract, unlimited talk, text and data for $50/month (prepaid) I believe it's $60 for international calling. It's on the Verizon network so coverage is better than most. I don't generally shill for Walmart but this is by far the best cellular deal out there. I've even heard you can get them to transfer certain phones from other carriers (Verizon for example) I'll be losing my work phone in about 6 months and I'll be going strait to walmart after work.
Dropped from the sky by Parachute is supposed to tell me it's rugged? We had about 300 kids design systems at home to protect eggs dropped from a helicopter when I was highschool. I do not find this impressive.
They've been doing it here for years. They give you a "discount" for cash. Which is usually exactly the amount they have to pay Visa... 5%... if you use a credit card. So, use cash... they give you the 5%... use credit card... they give it to visa. Around here most of the businesses doing it are small.. barely staying afloat places... family run delis or gas stations. It reflects badly on the business usually. Weather that's a correct representation, I do not know. But it's there none-the-less.
Back in the 80s/early 90s the fee was high enough that stores would sometimes refuse credit cards for purchases under $5 or $10. I remember a particular incident at K-mart back in the day where my father tried to buy a lightbulb on his credit card and at the time Kmart was going through some sort of business rules change and it was unclear what should be done in that situation. The store manager came and told my father he'd be happy to take care of the situation. He, very matter of factly, explained that the fee they would have to pay Visa on the item he was purchasing was higher than the value of the item, and he at that time had no direction regarding what to do about the situation other than honor the patrons request, and keep costs low. He could see no other way out of the situation but to give my father the lightbulb for free. They rang it up for $0 and he even got a reciepte for it. He kept it for months showing everyone and explaining how he had cleverly beaten kmart out of $1.25 (or whatever it cost)
Do yourself a favor and buy a ruggedized outdoor phone. They last forever, have long battery life and unlike most smartphones are actually usable for making phone calls.
They still aren't waterproof. And I have a 300 watt, 120vlt aquarium heater that argues strongly against the idea that it's not possible to make a cellphone waterproof.
Exaclty, I work for a multi-billion dollar company and we have finance reports that are produced then exported to excel files because that's all the directors know how to use. They then make pivot tables or simple formulas on them, often incorrectly and our entire businesses numbers are based on that shit. Simple things like the "average" function that treats NULL as 0... completely hoses what they think are valid numbers. Even when you show them the damned function in the help menu and it explicitly explains this they refuse to believe anythings wrong. The numbers have always worked before right? All businesses are full of this kind of shit. If it doesn't appear to be broken, don't fix it.
You mean the part where he stole all of his ideas from existing works by some of the first "open source" people before there was even an "open source" or the part where he parked in handicap spots for most of his life using his money to keep his Mercedes unregistered, just so he could... because simply getting his own parking slot wouldn't show the world just how big his dick really was?
Jimmy: So hows the new real estate agency dad said you started?
Uncle Jim: The whole office is a mess. We've got a bunch of computers, and we got one of those box things to connect them all together at walmart... But it only has 10 plugins and now we've got this new printer...
Jimmy: Uh... I think we can just get a bunch of old network cards, put them in that computer in the basement and install linux on it...
Uncle Jim: Is Linux secure?
Jimmy: It's the best. I think Nasa uses it.
Uncle Jim: Wow, this is great that was going to cost me Twenty...er... hey I'll give you $10 an hour to do it.
Jimmy:Really? Awsome... *starts doing wikipedia searches for linux*
The modern fix for this isn't that the printers are anymore secure, it's that the employee you're trying to get hold of only speaks Korean.
Protons are growing as well... along with everything else.
Don't create more visa's, give the workers easy pathways to citizenship. Work on an H1-b for 5 years without run-ins with the law and you're a citizen. If you don't want citizenship then you lose your visa. Simple as that. Is there not enough skilled labor? Or is there not enough cheap labor? Making more visas brings in cheap labor. Making more citizens brings in talented labor. If you're a law abiding person and go through the proper channels citizenship should be easy in this country. I work in a shop with a lot of H1-B people, from India, Russia, Israel, etc... and I'd be happy to have any of them get citizenship here. They're great people and I like most of them better than my asshole neighbors.
You've got that backward. Air gets hot as its compressed. Very hot. To store the kind of PSI they'll need, that tank will be scortching hot unless they have some system to use that heat. Then, when it's released and the air expands, it cools. It says the drive train is hydrolic. I suspect it's a lot like a hydrostatic garden tractor. They've got a pully that when they spin it produces drive. If you've got compressed air driving that pully, and you have a gasoline engine driving it at the same time, the engine would be extremely efficient to begin with... then, as the compressed air tank loses preasure the load on the gasoline engine would become greater, reducing its efficiency. The result is that it's actually a gasoline powered car that gets a great efficiency boost while it still has air in its tank. Once it runs out, its just a normal car. So you can have a very efficient drive to and from work, but trips to grandmas not so much.