Yes, we all believe it, western and/or israeli intelligence are so advanced and subtle to make a virus that reduces the quality of the enrichment. Wow, what an achievement!!
Looks like these intelligence services are so desperate to have some 'success' stories and coverage of their awesomeness in the press that they are inventing stories about a malware.
Really, everyone in Iran is worried about sneaky malwares now.
Coverage of any kind is sort of against the mission statement of an intelligence agency, wouldn't you say?
[Hypothetical Russian Contractor]:"Well, this Stuxnet worm is nasty stuff, so obviously it's going to cost a lot of money for us to clean it up. Of course, an event like this was not covered in our contract so we will need additional funding to proceed."
That kind of shit has been creeping into children's television for decades.
Ever watch Sesame Street? All that stuff they say about sharing? Sounds an awful lot like commie pinko propaganda, don't you think? And that green fucker in the garbage can looks a hell of a lot like Stalin.
Man, don't even get me started on the Teletubbies and their Homosexual Socialist agenda.
If college students are good at any one thing (besides getting wasted and pulling all-nighters) is raising hell for a good cause. Why not teach a few hundred students how to use Bittorrent and have them download Linux ISOs and other legitimate, legal stuff nonstop to, in effect, flood the system and make something like that completely ineffective. Or better yet, maybe a student could create a DDOS software variant where a bunch of computers would connect peer-to-peer on the college's network and trade junk data between each other via Bittorrent, Gnutella, and other similar filesharing protocols.
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
Everyone who seeks to become a U.S. citizen (i.e. Non-Americans until they're naturalized) have to take this exact oath. I would think it's standard practice for immigrants wishing to become citizens in nearly any civilized country.
Yes, his experience plays a lot into possible cost overruns, but I'd imagine a long career in science and engineering (as much of the team building this thing surely has) would equate to just as much experience towards figuring out roughly how long it would take to build this thing as well as how much.
Everything is the sum of its parts. Surely the telescope could have been broken down into small enough parts that they could have figured a better estimate for time and cost to manufacture?
At this rate, the British are going to discover warp drive instead of the Americans. Do you know what that means? We'll have to fly on the left side of space!
My father's a carpenter and has been for the better part of 40 years. One of the cardinal rules he was taught (and taught me) is that in contract work of his sort (and many other kinds), always estimate 130%. If you think a job is gonna cost $10,000, tell your customre $13,000. It gives you a good margin for error.
But these ridiculous low bids, well... we'll never see something sensible like that.
Scoring? Do exactly what Diablo II does. Every time a new patch comes out, the rules are essentially changed. New balance, new items, new monsters - it's a different game. So the old leaderboard is frozen for all time, viewable to all, and a new one is started.
Occasional restarts of the leaderboards (yearly is good IMO) will keep the competition fresh and keep the bands with 15 billion fans from remaining #1 forever.
Let's say BP fucks up another oil well. Here's what happens.
1) BP does a cleanup operation as best they can while their stock takes a nosedive.
2a) Things get so bad that they file for bankruptcy protection.
2b) They manage to get through things financially without much of an issue.
3) BP is rebranded under an entirely different name.
4) As the logo and name will be carefully designed to be nothing like BP, most people will not recognize BP 2.0 for what it is. Almost all of the employees and assets will remain intact, and much of the upper management and board will remain in place. An aggressive marketing campaign will help reinforce this rebranding due to Advertising 101: if you shout often enough and loudly enough, people will listen.
5) Legally, almost nothing will happen to BP. No economic sanctions, no jail time, etc. They'd likely "sell" all of their assets to the "new" company so that the old BP virtually doesn't exist anymore in a legal sense.
6) Another corporation gets off scot free. Repeat as necessary.
Holodeck technology is based on transporter/replicator technology and force fields. You're essentially asking that the car be invented before the covered wagon.
I would think that nearly anyone in the world would rather have no worries for material wealth compared to a new entertainment medium. Yes, the holodeck can essentially act as a training program or a really advanced AutoCAD, but that's about the extension of its usefulness. Compared to ending the scarcity of all major necessary resources, the holodeck just doesn't stack up IMO.
I can do it in about 60 seconds and I'm not very good.
I would think anyone who can solve a Rubik's Cube in around a minute could consider themselves good.
I seem to recall an article about Will Smith and how he was taking up speedcubing. His teacher said a good goal for the average person - the point where they "get it" - is about 2 minutes. So you're at least twice as good at something as Will Smith.
Well, my viewpoint comes from facts like 1/6th of the people in the world don't have access to clean water.
A replicator is essentially an alchemy machine. Break down matter, convert it to energy, and convert it back into anything else (so long as it can fit in the replicator slot - hence why there are ostensibly much larger "industrial" replicators).
A holodeck would be great scientifically. You could do all sorts of wonderful things like creating prototypes, running experiments in relative safety, etc. But a replicator would mean the end of scarcity of everything. No food shortages, no oil shortages, no lack of clean water, no lack of medicine, etc. It would also mean the end of hazardous materials, largely. Nuclear waste? Put it in the replicator and have it broken down. Styrofoam cups, plastics, all of those things that won't biodegrade - no problem!
I'd prefer that the whole world has proper nutrition, hydration, and medical care over some scientists and people in the first world having a fun new toy.
To answer your question "Why replicate what you can simulate?": because simulations don't keep people fed, hydrated, and healthy.
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Are you joking?
Having to sit through Jersey Shore with the girlfriend - if that's not sharing of misery, I don't know what is.
Hackers 4: One Half-Life To Live
Starring Shia LeBeouf, Robert Pattinson, Michael Cera, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, and Megan Fox
Yes, we all believe it, western and/or israeli intelligence are so advanced and subtle to make a virus that reduces the quality of the enrichment. Wow, what an achievement!!
Looks like these intelligence services are so desperate to have some 'success' stories and coverage of their awesomeness in the press that they are inventing stories about a malware.
Really, everyone in Iran is worried about sneaky malwares now.
Coverage of any kind is sort of against the mission statement of an intelligence agency, wouldn't you say?
[Hypothetical Russian Contractor]:"Well, this Stuxnet worm is nasty stuff, so obviously it's going to cost a lot of money for us to clean it up. Of course, an event like this was not covered in our contract so we will need additional funding to proceed."
Yeah, what motivation could Russia possibly have?
That kind of shit has been creeping into children's television for decades.
Ever watch Sesame Street? All that stuff they say about sharing? Sounds an awful lot like commie pinko propaganda, don't you think? And that green fucker in the garbage can looks a hell of a lot like Stalin.
Man, don't even get me started on the Teletubbies and their Homosexual Socialist agenda.
What you don't know is that the newspaper was loaded onto a JooJoo pad.
The recipient has filed charges for felonious assault of his aesthetic sense.
Who knew the laziness, apathy, and general contempt they hold for the public that the police have could be put to good use?
That might be a good "I am Spartacus" situation.
If college students are good at any one thing (besides getting wasted and pulling all-nighters) is raising hell for a good cause. Why not teach a few hundred students how to use Bittorrent and have them download Linux ISOs and other legitimate, legal stuff nonstop to, in effect, flood the system and make something like that completely ineffective. Or better yet, maybe a student could create a DDOS software variant where a bunch of computers would connect peer-to-peer on the college's network and trade junk data between each other via Bittorrent, Gnutella, and other similar filesharing protocols.
I worked in Colorado for a company headquartered in Sunnyvale...
Then they wanted to bring some of us out to CA to live permanently, but didn't want to give us the cost of living adjustments.
Well yeah, do you have any idea how much the company must be spending on vampire and demon insurance?
Oh... SunnyVALE. Nevermind...
Imam al-Diesel: What are you smiling about?
Paullah al-bin-Walker: Dude, I almost had my freedom!
Imam al-Diesel:You almost had your freedom? You never had your freedom! You never had any of your rights!
Cut to shot of Paullah al-bin Walker standing alone in a desert
[Directed by M. Night Shymalan]
Ah, see, now I know why he got in trouble. That's not nearly dry enough to pass for British humor. They're just trying to preserve their heritage!
Yeah, an oath of allegiance is ridiculous!
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
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Everyone who seeks to become a U.S. citizen (i.e. Non-Americans until they're naturalized) have to take this exact oath. I would think it's standard practice for immigrants wishing to become citizens in nearly any civilized country.
My dad also barely finished high school.
Yes, his experience plays a lot into possible cost overruns, but I'd imagine a long career in science and engineering (as much of the team building this thing surely has) would equate to just as much experience towards figuring out roughly how long it would take to build this thing as well as how much.
Everything is the sum of its parts. Surely the telescope could have been broken down into small enough parts that they could have figured a better estimate for time and cost to manufacture?
Wow, I'd never thought I'd see a celestial drunk dial of an ex-girlfriend.
I was always more fond of the off-Broadway play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_i9qXLuog
I agree wholeheartedly.
At this rate, the British are going to discover warp drive instead of the Americans. Do you know what that means? We'll have to fly on the left side of space!
My father's a carpenter and has been for the better part of 40 years. One of the cardinal rules he was taught (and taught me) is that in contract work of his sort (and many other kinds), always estimate 130%. If you think a job is gonna cost $10,000, tell your customre $13,000. It gives you a good margin for error.
But these ridiculous low bids, well... we'll never see something sensible like that.
I agree with your point the way you wrote it, but that justifies at most 1 new game. Everything in RB3 should have been in 2 IMO. =/
Everything here could have been patched in.
Scoring? Do exactly what Diablo II does. Every time a new patch comes out, the rules are essentially changed. New balance, new items, new monsters - it's a different game. So the old leaderboard is frozen for all time, viewable to all, and a new one is started.
Occasional restarts of the leaderboards (yearly is good IMO) will keep the competition fresh and keep the bands with 15 billion fans from remaining #1 forever.
In this day and age, it wouldn't really matter.
Let's say BP fucks up another oil well. Here's what happens.
1) BP does a cleanup operation as best they can while their stock takes a nosedive.
2a) Things get so bad that they file for bankruptcy protection.
2b) They manage to get through things financially without much of an issue.
3) BP is rebranded under an entirely different name.
4) As the logo and name will be carefully designed to be nothing like BP, most people will not recognize BP 2.0 for what it is. Almost all of the employees and assets will remain intact, and much of the upper management and board will remain in place. An aggressive marketing campaign will help reinforce this rebranding due to Advertising 101: if you shout often enough and loudly enough, people will listen.
5) Legally, almost nothing will happen to BP. No economic sanctions, no jail time, etc. They'd likely "sell" all of their assets to the "new" company so that the old BP virtually doesn't exist anymore in a legal sense.
6) Another corporation gets off scot free. Repeat as necessary.
It's all in the eyes.
Holodeck technology is based on transporter/replicator technology and force fields. You're essentially asking that the car be invented before the covered wagon.
I would think that nearly anyone in the world would rather have no worries for material wealth compared to a new entertainment medium. Yes, the holodeck can essentially act as a training program or a really advanced AutoCAD, but that's about the extension of its usefulness. Compared to ending the scarcity of all major necessary resources, the holodeck just doesn't stack up IMO.
There was no real need for a Rock Band 2 or 3 IMO.
If it were on PC the functionality in the new games could have just been patched in.
Rock Band had it right, 2-3 new songs per week. That's how you keep people's interest in a game.
I can do it in about 60 seconds and I'm not very good.
I would think anyone who can solve a Rubik's Cube in around a minute could consider themselves good.
I seem to recall an article about Will Smith and how he was taking up speedcubing. His teacher said a good goal for the average person - the point where they "get it" - is about 2 minutes. So you're at least twice as good at something as Will Smith.
Incidentally, have you tried rapping lately?
Well, my viewpoint comes from facts like 1/6th of the people in the world don't have access to clean water.
A replicator is essentially an alchemy machine. Break down matter, convert it to energy, and convert it back into anything else (so long as it can fit in the replicator slot - hence why there are ostensibly much larger "industrial" replicators).
A holodeck would be great scientifically. You could do all sorts of wonderful things like creating prototypes, running experiments in relative safety, etc. But a replicator would mean the end of scarcity of everything. No food shortages, no oil shortages, no lack of clean water, no lack of medicine, etc. It would also mean the end of hazardous materials, largely. Nuclear waste? Put it in the replicator and have it broken down. Styrofoam cups, plastics, all of those things that won't biodegrade - no problem!
I'd prefer that the whole world has proper nutrition, hydration, and medical care over some scientists and people in the first world having a fun new toy.
To answer your question "Why replicate what you can simulate?": because simulations don't keep people fed, hydrated, and healthy.