TFA shows an app on the phone that says how many trees you saved. What I don't get about green types is just that. I'll be the first to admit that this planet would really suck without trees, but why does it matter if we just replant after harvesting? Do trees have feelings that I'm not aware of? I'm really getting sick of tangential "green" products/methods/processes that wouldn't matter in the first place if your not an idiot with your resources. (i.e. suitable land, environment etc for trees)
At the risk of being overly obvious, in the context of this article, this comment is deliciously ironic.
So this post isn't a complete waste, if there was a backdoor, it is open source so the crackers would find it and exploit it (eventually) thus as time goes on you can be more and more sure of its security:) Oops, did I somehow tie the article in question into that?
It's not all a win for VIA, though. The benchmark concludes that in some ways all netbooks, underpowered as they are, remain in the IT stone ages."
Even if netbooks (whatever that comes to mean, netbooks keep evolving into more powerful machines, people start saying, "Ya email and surfing is great but what about some modern games and Matlab?", but I digress) don't turn out to be huge (I disagree, who doesn't want a machine with insane battery life?) the whole overpowered phones with intertubes will be huge. So if VIA plays their cards right, (and ARM for that matter) they could have a really huge untapped market on their hands.
I think there was a Microsoft Research paper on this a while back. (Paraprhasing) "The gene that makes you surf/troll on idle makes you a premature..." oh nevermind.
Couldn't you just use:
...
if(black_hole) {
exit( EXIT_SUCCESS );
}
else if(!black_hole && collapse_401k) {
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
...
It wouldn't take the rest of us down to:) But seriously, like bluefoxlucid said, this is bullshit.
This isn't because the publishers like you and want to give you free stuff.
Damnit, that leaves exactly nobody that likes me then. Thanks slashdot, I know you're just telling it like it is but ignorance can be bliss, even sometimes lifechanging. don'tchaknow?
They certainly don't directly profit from used game sales, but the studios do benefit from a used game market. Think about it for a minute. People who really leverage the used game market to get what they want a lot of times can't afford too buy new games at $60 a pop. (Like myself, employed and college student.) I may only speak for myself, but I am not a lost sale. If there was no used game market I just wouldn't game, period. I like it but not that much. Thus we "used market gamers" create a way for "new market gamers" to unload their old titles and free up some cash to chase more new titles they otherwise wouldn't have had money for. Just like umm, lemme think here, oh ya, a used market for any other product.
Then again, I don't have cable TV, so that festering cauldron of slop is not available to my kids.
Thank you, that just made my afternoon. FYI: I am in college and I would heavily agree with you on the whole "learn how to deal with it in the home environment before they leave the nest" idea. My parents didn't; probably because they are reluctant to talk about a lot of things (e.g. porn) but also because I was running around outside beating up my little brothers and setting things on fire all the time. The downside is I had a bit of a learning curve when I got here.
Reisinger ran several Web sites and also was active in an unsuccessful recall effort against the mayor. A recall site she created later showed a Fourth of July parade photograph of Perez with a U.S. flag that had been digitally replaced with a Mexican flag and the caption, âoePower to illegals?â
Reisinger told a Journal Sentinel reporter in July 2006 she did not know who put up the altered photo because the Web site allowed anyone to upload to the site.
Actually I'm way worse than that. I read it as "She scanned his brain with her brain (via brainwaves that is not MRI) and essentially microwaved his gray matter into something you could put on your PB&J." Obviously not true, even without reading TFA but still, it got me going for a minute.
As an addendum I would like to add "If history has taught us anything, it's that when someone predicts the end of the world caused by scientific discoveries, they are invariably 100% correct.
Ask you grandfather or great grandfather who got his head cracked open with a club for participating in a strike.
I can't do that seeing as my grandparents or great grandparents never were part of that movement. I could on the other hand go ask my Dad about the death threats his wife received from the union for being a non-union contractor. The proverbial hand plays two ways my fellow slashdotter.
Yes, and snipers have been engaging targets at 1km for quite some time now. Nothing new about that. However, your link is somewhat misleading. The M16 is.223 caliber, which is effective only out to 200-300 yds, depending on light cover, body armor etc. The M-107 is.50 caliber and is effective with respect to punching power past 1km (you can get decent punching power even out to ~2mi.) However the limitation in those long ranges is accuracy. Even with better binoculars, in fact assume any amount of magnification is available to sniper Joe. Now since the rifle itself can only shoot at a given MOA, even if Joe was a mechanically perfect shot (Joe also taking into account all external factors such as wind velocity, humidity, air pressure, curve of the earth in that location, accurately measured distance to target, uphill/downhill etc.) his shot will not be exactly where he placed it with the scope. It will be somewhere within his rifles MOA tolerance. For example if his rifle has a tolerance of 1 MOA, if he shoots at a target at 1 hundred yds., his shoot will be somewhere within a 1 in. diameter circle around the exact point he aimed at. A 2 in. diameter at 2 hundred yds., etc. Not all rifles of the same caliber are equal. I've never shot a M-107, but it is a semi-automatic, which means that it has reduced accuracy compared to a bolt action. Of course the benefit of semi-auto is increased firing rate. Also, and this may apply to the M-107, with clever engineering you can get the built in MOA lower.
Now I can actually reply to your point, which I'm assuming is that if the binoculars are 1 FPS, the target is 1 km away, and the velocity of the projectile is 1 km/s and the target is stationary you should be good to go. Yes, but since snipers can already effectively engage targets at 1 km, I would rather have a regular scope that gives me the FPS my eyes are capable of rather than 1. The reason being that said target may change his mind and decide to be moving and not stationary. I'd like to know that as soon as is possible, not worst case scenario, 1 sec later. When we are talking about sniping situations, 1 sec. is life or death, and not just for the target.
On the other hand, I think this could be very effective in binoculars, like the article said. The reason being, the ability to ID an item at a longer range because you now have greater magnification than before would be greatly useful in reconnaissance type situations. Obviously the line between a reconnaissance situation and sniping can be very fuzzy.
Well shit. I was just trying to look chill and cool to get that hot chic, so I took 8 shots of B. 151 in 15 minutes. I may or may not have done coke lines off some strippers ass, and a migdet orgy. Now the pictures are on the internets and I'm basically fucked. No, I'm not worried about my mom, I'm worried that all the annoying frat guys are gonna call be and be like "Dude where's the party?" Any suggestions on how to remove those pictures? (e.g. something a little less extreme than C4 vs. Facebook's servers)
In all seriousness though I have actually done that. (The shots, not the rest.) Luckily my friends weren't huge assholes to me.
It's also worthwhile to point out that if banks are guaranteed to be bought/supported by the gov't if they get too many defaults from bad loans, why would they even care?
For example, I make cars. The gov't tells me that since I am very central to this economy, if I go bankrupt they will buy/support my company. What's to prevent me from making extraordinarily risky (risky is not necessarily stupid, but it's like obsessive gambling, no matter how good you do, if you play long enough, you going to lose big) business decisions. Nothing, it would be like my gambling example, if someone told me that no matter how much I lost in the casino they would pick up the deficit, but I could keep the profits if I get any. Who wouldn't go batshit crazy and tip the strippers with Benjamins?
At any rate, the easy credit is too blame also, which is the Federal Reserves fault, although they were admittedly under great pressure from the administration to do what they did. Not to mention, IMO, Bernanke doesn't have half the brains or balls that Greenspan did.
On the other hand, this isn't to say that buyers didn't make really stupid decisions, they did, but as a society we shouldn't be trying to facilitate that.
All people are equal, But some people are more equal than others.
Whether or not that is in the US Constitution and which version is debatable, but I prefer a quote from gun toting circles I like to haunt: "God created all men. Mr. Colt made them all equal." This is talked about somewhere in the Bill of Rights if memory serves me right.
I was always confused if my pr0n was legit or not. In fact, not only was I confused, but it upset me morally that I had no reasonable method of determining whether or not such and such gang bang XXX was a pirated copy or not. I tried watching the entire flick multiple times, immersed myself in the genre, but never found a solution. I can die in peace now.
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IP addresss are NOT issued by the state.
Hopefully it stays that way.
TFA shows an app on the phone that says how many trees you saved. What I don't get about green types is just that. I'll be the first to admit that this planet would really suck without trees, but why does it matter if we just replant after harvesting? Do trees have feelings that I'm not aware of? I'm really getting sick of tangential "green" products/methods/processes that wouldn't matter in the first place if your not an idiot with your resources. (i.e. suitable land, environment etc for trees)
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
Did anyone else read this as they forget the * on *nix? Here I thought they were changing their security camera's OS's. Huh.
At the risk of being overly obvious, in the context of this article, this comment is deliciously ironic.
So this post isn't a complete waste, if there was a backdoor, it is open source so the crackers would find it and exploit it (eventually) thus as time goes on you can be more and more sure of its security:) Oops, did I somehow tie the article in question into that?
It's not all a win for VIA, though. The benchmark concludes that in some ways all netbooks, underpowered as they are, remain in the IT stone ages."
Even if netbooks (whatever that comes to mean, netbooks keep evolving into more powerful machines, people start saying, "Ya email and surfing is great but what about some modern games and Matlab?", but I digress) don't turn out to be huge (I disagree, who doesn't want a machine with insane battery life?) the whole overpowered phones with intertubes will be huge. So if VIA plays their cards right, (and ARM for that matter) they could have a really huge untapped market on their hands.
I think there was a Microsoft Research paper on this a while back. (Paraprhasing) "The gene that makes you surf/troll on idle makes you a premature..." oh nevermind.
Couldn't you just use:
...
if(black_hole) {
exit( EXIT_SUCCESS );
}
else if(!black_hole && collapse_401k) {
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
...
It wouldn't take the rest of us down to:) But seriously, like bluefoxlucid said, this is bullshit.
(I once had a dream that he was plotting world domination from a war room hidden the basement of an antique store in Ballard.)
That may be a sign to go outside more often:)
This isn't because the publishers like you and want to give you free stuff.
Damnit, that leaves exactly nobody that likes me then. Thanks slashdot, I know you're just telling it like it is but ignorance can be bliss, even sometimes lifechanging. don'tchaknow?
They certainly don't directly profit from used game sales, but the studios do benefit from a used game market. Think about it for a minute. People who really leverage the used game market to get what they want a lot of times can't afford too buy new games at $60 a pop. (Like myself, employed and college student.) I may only speak for myself, but I am not a lost sale. If there was no used game market I just wouldn't game, period. I like it but not that much. Thus we "used market gamers" create a way for "new market gamers" to unload their old titles and free up some cash to chase more new titles they otherwise wouldn't have had money for. Just like umm, lemme think here, oh ya, a used market for any other product.
So not one but two tags as "story," huh?
Then again, I don't have cable TV, so that festering cauldron of slop is not available to my kids.
Thank you, that just made my afternoon. FYI: I am in college and I would heavily agree with you on the whole "learn how to deal with it in the home environment before they leave the nest" idea. My parents didn't; probably because they are reluctant to talk about a lot of things (e.g. porn) but also because I was running around outside beating up my little brothers and setting things on fire all the time. The downside is I had a bit of a learning curve when I got here.
(Though, funnily enough, every time I say that, someone or some entity promptly proves me wrong.)
Hi, I'm here to prove you wrong.
Wait, before I go, it seems like I'm forgetting something... um, oh well forget it.
Reisinger ran several Web sites and also was active in an unsuccessful recall effort against the mayor. A recall site she created later showed a Fourth of July parade photograph of Perez with a U.S. flag that had been digitally replaced with a Mexican flag and the caption, âoePower to illegals?â Reisinger told a Journal Sentinel reporter in July 2006 she did not know who put up the altered photo because the Web site allowed anyone to upload to the site.
Asshole.
Actually I'm way worse than that. I read it as "She scanned his brain with her brain (via brainwaves that is not MRI) and essentially microwaved his gray matter into something you could put on your PB&J." Obviously not true, even without reading TFA but still, it got me going for a minute.
Seriously guys, this is what we have tiberium for... What's that Master Kane? Ya sure, whatever, I'll launch the damn missile. As I was saying...
As an addendum I would like to add "If history has taught us anything, it's that when someone predicts the end of the world caused by scientific discoveries, they are invariably 100% correct.
Ask you grandfather or great grandfather who got his head cracked open with a club for participating in a strike.
I can't do that seeing as my grandparents or great grandparents never were part of that movement. I could on the other hand go ask my Dad about the death threats his wife received from the union for being a non-union contractor. The proverbial hand plays two ways my fellow slashdotter.
Yes, and snipers have been engaging targets at 1km for quite some time now. Nothing new about that. However, your link is somewhat misleading. The M16 is .223 caliber, which is effective only out to 200-300 yds, depending on light cover, body armor etc. The M-107 is .50 caliber and is effective with respect to punching power past 1km (you can get decent punching power even out to ~2mi.) However the limitation in those long ranges is accuracy. Even with better binoculars, in fact assume any amount of magnification is available to sniper Joe. Now since the rifle itself can only shoot at a given MOA, even if Joe was a mechanically perfect shot (Joe also taking into account all external factors such as wind velocity, humidity, air pressure, curve of the earth in that location, accurately measured distance to target, uphill/downhill etc.) his shot will not be exactly where he placed it with the scope. It will be somewhere within his rifles MOA tolerance. For example if his rifle has a tolerance of 1 MOA, if he shoots at a target at 1 hundred yds., his shoot will be somewhere within a 1 in. diameter circle around the exact point he aimed at. A 2 in. diameter at 2 hundred yds., etc. Not all rifles of the same caliber are equal. I've never shot a M-107, but it is a semi-automatic, which means that it has reduced accuracy compared to a bolt action. Of course the benefit of semi-auto is increased firing rate. Also, and this may apply to the M-107, with clever engineering you can get the built in MOA lower.
Now I can actually reply to your point, which I'm assuming is that if the binoculars are 1 FPS, the target is 1 km away, and the velocity of the projectile is 1 km/s and the target is stationary you should be good to go. Yes, but since snipers can already effectively engage targets at 1 km, I would rather have a regular scope that gives me the FPS my eyes are capable of rather than 1. The reason being that said target may change his mind and decide to be moving and not stationary. I'd like to know that as soon as is possible, not worst case scenario, 1 sec later. When we are talking about sniping situations, 1 sec. is life or death, and not just for the target.
On the other hand, I think this could be very effective in binoculars, like the article said. The reason being, the ability to ID an item at a longer range because you now have greater magnification than before would be greatly useful in reconnaissance type situations. Obviously the line between a reconnaissance situation and sniping can be very fuzzy.
Assuming the calls average out at 4 minutes (most were ~3 but some were ten) that's $7.50 a minute. Either way completely ridiculous.
Yet. That's because he hasn't caught you staring at his wife's tits.
That is a very critical and thorough analysis. I must say that a gentleman of your intellectual stature ought to be in the venture capital business.
Well shit. I was just trying to look chill and cool to get that hot chic, so I took 8 shots of B. 151 in 15 minutes. I may or may not have done coke lines off some strippers ass, and a migdet orgy. Now the pictures are on the internets and I'm basically fucked. No, I'm not worried about my mom, I'm worried that all the annoying frat guys are gonna call be and be like "Dude where's the party?" Any suggestions on how to remove those pictures? (e.g. something a little less extreme than C4 vs. Facebook's servers) In all seriousness though I have actually done that. (The shots, not the rest.) Luckily my friends weren't huge assholes to me.
It's also worthwhile to point out that if banks are guaranteed to be bought/supported by the gov't if they get too many defaults from bad loans, why would they even care? For example, I make cars. The gov't tells me that since I am very central to this economy, if I go bankrupt they will buy/support my company. What's to prevent me from making extraordinarily risky (risky is not necessarily stupid, but it's like obsessive gambling, no matter how good you do, if you play long enough, you going to lose big) business decisions. Nothing, it would be like my gambling example, if someone told me that no matter how much I lost in the casino they would pick up the deficit, but I could keep the profits if I get any. Who wouldn't go batshit crazy and tip the strippers with Benjamins? At any rate, the easy credit is too blame also, which is the Federal Reserves fault, although they were admittedly under great pressure from the administration to do what they did. Not to mention, IMO, Bernanke doesn't have half the brains or balls that Greenspan did. On the other hand, this isn't to say that buyers didn't make really stupid decisions, they did, but as a society we shouldn't be trying to facilitate that.
All people are equal, But some people are more equal than others.
Whether or not that is in the US Constitution and which version is debatable, but I prefer a quote from gun toting circles I like to haunt: "God created all men. Mr. Colt made them all equal." This is talked about somewhere in the Bill of Rights if memory serves me right.
I was always confused if my pr0n was legit or not. In fact, not only was I confused, but it upset me morally that I had no reasonable method of determining whether or not such and such gang bang XXX was a pirated copy or not. I tried watching the entire flick multiple times, immersed myself in the genre, but never found a solution. I can die in peace now.