And more insurance companies like that in the world.
Not those that take your money when times are good (take everyone's money when times are really bad;) ). But have all sorts of little clauses which they use to not pay out.
That only works if the cell phone users don't mind being unable to connect to sites that don't support IPv6 at all - which could include their corporate sites, shopping sites, search engines, map, email, blog, "social" sites.
Dual-IP no NAT schemes only work if you actually have IPv4 addresses - which we are running out of if you haven't noticed already.
Schemes involving NAT "kinda" work, but if people really didn't mind using NAT, then we could skip going to IPv6 and stick with mass IPv4 NATing.
FWIW I think NZ should ban GMO stuff in NZ (they can do GM joint ventures with other countries but in those countries of course). They really have no need for GM- given the volcanic soil and the climate a lot of stuff tends to not have problems growing easily without additional help.
This is more from a branding perspective. I believe many around the world perceive NZ as "clean, green and healthy". And in the long run there is a high chance of someone somewhere screwing up with the GM stuff, in which case NZ can just say "hey rich people, don't worry, you can buy GM free stuff from us- NZ - the clean green place". For a premium of course. And there would be a queue...
As for animal agriculture, fact is humans are omnivores (and for some reason we do very well on fish - albeit non mercury laden fish;) ). Yes we can survive on vegan diets if we take special care. And so can many omnivores. But it's not really such a good diet for us (nor is red meat every day- we're not carnivores either).
Of course a vegan diet for us might be better for the cows and chickens in long term quality of life, but not quantity of life though - since there would be far fewer cows and chickens if we didn't farm and eat them;).
China's kind of like the neighbor kid that knocks on my door and offers to mow the lawn for $20. It's not that I can't mow myself, but when it's so cheap to pay someone else why do it myself? If he ever didn't show up for a couple weeks I'd just do it myself, but as long as he's offering I'll keep paying him.
And even better, you're paying him in "iamhassi" dollars some of which you borrowed from him ( like 2+ trillion or so:) ). To cap it off you can create trillions of "iamhassi" dollars on your computer anytime you want (and the US already has: google Federal Reserve trillions).
The US likes to make out China as the bad guy. Sure China are bad, but China's not screwing the USA as much as the USA has been screwing everybody else- since much of the world buys and sells stuff in US dollars, whenever the USA creates money they in effect tax the rest of the world.
With all the savings from the "neighbor kid"'s abnormally cheap services and goods, you could:
a) invest it wisely for the future b) buy a huge TV, junk food, sit on your butt and grow fat. c) spend it on fighting a war with two other neighbours.
They are all just digits in a bunch of computers somewhere. If enough people decide it's real, it's real enough:). If for some reason everyone decides the US dollar is worth nothing, Bill Gates becomes worth a lot less.
Fact is most of what we do is a waste of time. Most of it does not really endure much longer than that Pacman high-score, nor means much more.
A hundred thousand years from now, someone might rate the entire human race's "achievements" by 2010 as "so fucking what".
And 100000 years isn't very long. The "classic" dinosaurs were around for about 160 _million_ years.
Read the stuff yourself: The probiotic infusion can also be administered through a nasogastric tube, delivering the bacteria directly to the small intestine.
That is if you didn't fail comprehension 101.
Maybe this is more right up your "alley": Go eat shit and die!
Java ad with malware caused a buffer overflow condition (which was caught by McAfee) in JRE v11. Then it snuck in a malware executable (which was caught by McAfee) . Which then signaled other malware that I was open for business.
Uh. How the heck can it signal other malware if it was really caught by McAfee?
At least what Apple had going for it was a superior user experience over the next best thing at the time.
And Steve Job's "Reality Distortion Field":).
I don't find OSX really much easier to use but I'm not their target market (harder for me to manage 30+ open windows, Expose is just slower for me - multiple clicks vs just one click to bring up the window I want). Two of my friends use OSX, but when I ask, turns out they are using screen for "window management"- so the OSX GUI is basically managing "screen" and a browser! And two of my colleagues were swearing _at_ (not swearing by) the Macs when they were trying to use them- the glossy screen gave one of them severe eye strain or something (heh, I "helpfully" suggested she wear sunglasses... Talk about glare;) ).
But the ones who like it seem to be in love with it.
FWIW, Windows 2K/XP in classic mode works well for me, there's still much room for improvement of course. Windows 7's application grouping thingy is good and so is the individual sound control. But the other Win7 stuff isn't that helpful for me. The start menu search thingy probably helps noobs a lot (except someone today just didn't seem to understand the concept while being supposedly an "IT worker". Doh... ).
"High-frequency traders often confound other investors by issuing and then canceling orders almost simultaneously. Loopholes in market rules give high-speed investors an early glance at how others are trading. And their computers can essentially bully slower investors into giving up profits -- and then disappear before anyone even knows they were there. "
"And when a former Goldman Sachs programmer was accused this month of stealing secret computer codes -- software that a federal prosecutor said could "manipulate markets in unfair ways" -- it only added to the mystery. Goldman acknowledges that it profits from high-frequency trading, but disputes that it has an unfair advantage."
In the recent US stock market crash fiasco, it seems that if their "fancy" computer programs screw up, the stock exchange rolls back the transactions. They don't do that for small investors.
Now when small time investors (relatively anyway) beat some computer program at its game, they get convicted.
Thanks. So I suppose some percentage of the subscribers will have done that.
Someone I know was playing it for the PvP, and I did watch him play and some bits seemed silly to me.
For example: say you want to go to a keep (for some battle), so you teleport to some starting point, ride your mount towards the keep for a few minutes, then turns out the keep is too full, when that happens you are _forcibly_ teleported ALL THE WAY BACK to the starting point. Then you ride towards the keep, maybe get killed on the way this time... Or get teleported back again. Repeat till you give up or get in. Why not just say "too full" and leave you outside the zone to maybe fight enemies who are trying to get in - have the siege extend outside as well - so it might become somewhat of a logistics problem- even if your side are losing in the keep, if you stop enough enemies from entering the keep zone, you might eventually turn the tide.
The other thing was - many play WAR for the massive battles, but if your PC and network connection aren't good enough, it becomes a slideshow in massive battles. So perhaps many had systems and connections that weren't good enough for a satisfactory experience. I heard that sometimes it's the server's fault...
I've never played WAR but instead of two sides perhaps they should have had 3 sides. Though that is more work for the developers and game balancers, it could mean that if one side gets too powerful the other two could gang up on it. Rather than one side keep losing all the time and having the players give up (which means even more losses - since results of massive battles can be more dependent on the numbers involved than the skill - assuming not too many noobs;) ).
FWIW I play Guild Wars. It's probably a dying game too, but I don't have to pay any subscription:).
How would they afford all the tech know-how to be able to keep logs and bits of everyone who wanders into their business and asks for a latte while holding a laptop?
By making users pay for it? e.g. no more free WiFi?
Unless of course there's a clause which says that if hotels provide free internet access then they are not ISPs - since they are not charging for internet access.
In which case it's not so bad news for the users, but not so good for those providing systems to hotels for "expensive internet" (like a previous employer of mine).
I don't even regard that as "relationship". That's just categorization/classification (as per my post above).
Difference between figuring out relationships and classification:
GreatGrandDad, GrandDad and Dad could be classified under parent.
But with a mere classification system, there is no easy and efficient way to handle stuff like: "GreatGrandDad is to GrandDad" like "GrandDad is to Dad".
That makes it harder for the AI to look for similar relationships, and even differentiate between them: "father of" vs "mother of" vs "foster parent" vs "son of" etc.
IMO if AI researchers aren't understanding even simple stuff like that, it's no wonder AIs haven't made significant progress - and all they are doing are just "faster" protoAIs.
If your data structures are wrong certain things become very difficult to do.
Slashdot Mirror
What's an easy way to get OSX to run in a VM?
But their website requires Flash!
:)
Evil!
A pressed accelerator overpowers breaks
Only if your brakes urgently need repairing. Or the other vehicle is a) very high powered, b) something like an 18 wheeler.
I wouldn't try to stop a truck with this maneuver. I doubt the "heroic engineer" would either.
They were free to jump out when he told them what he was about to do.
Yeah great... Don't you just love these "My way or the highway" guys? Talk about hitting the road.
And more insurance companies like that in the world.
Not those that take your money when times are good (take everyone's money when times are really bad ;) ). But have all sorts of little clauses which they use to not pay out.
e.g. http://acleanbreast.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/sht-theres-a-hole-in-my-coverage-make-that-a-manhole/
Or they delay pay-outs.
Yeah: Classic :).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpoTwHAVd7w
http://www.virtualapple.org/dinoeggsdisk.html
And since hot air rises, cool air sinks and people are closer to the ground than ceiling... Go figure :)
Soon maybe some random personal site can't even be slashdotted...
That only works if the cell phone users don't mind being unable to connect to sites that don't support IPv6 at all - which could include their corporate sites, shopping sites, search engines, map, email, blog, "social" sites.
Dual-IP no NAT schemes only work if you actually have IPv4 addresses - which we are running out of if you haven't noticed already.
Schemes involving NAT "kinda" work, but if people really didn't mind using NAT, then we could skip going to IPv6 and stick with mass IPv4 NATing.
Yeah I'm sure most judges won't be very impressed or convinced with the typical Slashdot Pedant's attempts of weaseling out via "perfect logic".
Those pedants are like those nerdy kids who have "figured out game rules" but haven't figured out why nobody wants to play with them.
FWIW I think NZ should ban GMO stuff in NZ (they can do GM joint ventures with other countries but in those countries of course). They really have no need for GM- given the volcanic soil and the climate a lot of stuff tends to not have problems growing easily without additional help.
;) ). Yes we can survive on vegan diets if we take special care. And so can many omnivores. But it's not really such a good diet for us (nor is red meat every day- we're not carnivores either).
;).
This is more from a branding perspective. I believe many around the world perceive NZ as "clean, green and healthy". And in the long run there is a high chance of someone somewhere screwing up with the GM stuff, in which case NZ can just say "hey rich people, don't worry, you can buy GM free stuff from us- NZ - the clean green place". For a premium of course. And there would be a queue...
As for animal agriculture, fact is humans are omnivores (and for some reason we do very well on fish - albeit non mercury laden fish
Of course a vegan diet for us might be better for the cows and chickens in long term quality of life, but not quantity of life though - since there would be far fewer cows and chickens if we didn't farm and eat them
China's kind of like the neighbor kid that knocks on my door and offers to mow the lawn for $20. It's not that I can't mow myself, but when it's so cheap to pay someone else why do it myself? If he ever didn't show up for a couple weeks I'd just do it myself, but as long as he's offering I'll keep paying him.
And even better, you're paying him in "iamhassi" dollars some of which you borrowed from him ( like 2+ trillion or so :) ). To cap it off you can create trillions of "iamhassi" dollars on your computer anytime you want (and the US already has: google Federal Reserve trillions).
The US likes to make out China as the bad guy. Sure China are bad, but China's not screwing the USA as much as the USA has been screwing everybody else- since much of the world buys and sells stuff in US dollars, whenever the USA creates money they in effect tax the rest of the world.
With all the savings from the "neighbor kid"'s abnormally cheap services and goods, you could:
a) invest it wisely for the future
b) buy a huge TV, junk food, sit on your butt and grow fat.
c) spend it on fighting a war with two other neighbours.
If you pick b) + c) why is it the kid's fault?
And everyone can see Carlos Slim and Bill Gate's "high scores" too: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html
They are all just digits in a bunch of computers somewhere. If enough people decide it's real, it's real enough :). If for some reason everyone decides the US dollar is worth nothing, Bill Gates becomes worth a lot less.
Fact is most of what we do is a waste of time. Most of it does not really endure much longer than that Pacman high-score, nor means much more.
A hundred thousand years from now, someone might rate the entire human race's "achievements" by 2010 as "so fucking what".
And 100000 years isn't very long. The "classic" dinosaurs were around for about 160 _million_ years.
Gene Simmons has always been a businessman first
I wonder if he could put ads on his website in response.
Some might do direct hits bypassing the ads, but maybe enough might not :).
Read the stuff yourself: The probiotic infusion can also be administered through a nasogastric tube, delivering the bacteria directly to the small intestine.
That is if you didn't fail comprehension 101.
Maybe this is more right up your "alley": Go eat shit and die!
Eat shit and not die?
I heard some bears eat herbivore poop after hibernation supposedly to get back some desirable bacteria.
That's why I suggested this years ago:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002May/0021.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/mozilla-security@mozilla.org/msg01448.html
I think mozilla are finally trying to do something about it:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Security/CSP
But after so many years, worms and exploits...
Java ad with malware caused a buffer overflow condition (which was caught by McAfee) in JRE v11. Then it snuck in a malware executable (which was caught by McAfee) . Which then signaled other malware that I was open for business.
Uh. How the heck can it signal other malware if it was really caught by McAfee?
At least what Apple had going for it was a superior user experience over the next best thing at the time.
And Steve Job's "Reality Distortion Field" :).
I don't find OSX really much easier to use but I'm not their target market (harder for me to manage 30+ open windows, Expose is just slower for me - multiple clicks vs just one click to bring up the window I want). Two of my friends use OSX, but when I ask, turns out they are using screen for "window management"- so the OSX GUI is basically managing "screen" and a browser! And two of my colleagues were swearing _at_ (not swearing by) the Macs when they were trying to use them- the glossy screen gave one of them severe eye strain or something (heh, I "helpfully" suggested she wear sunglasses... Talk about glare ;) ).
But the ones who like it seem to be in love with it.
FWIW, Windows 2K/XP in classic mode works well for me, there's still much room for improvement of course. Windows 7's application grouping thingy is good and so is the individual sound control. But the other Win7 stuff isn't that helpful for me. The start menu search thingy probably helps noobs a lot (except someone today just didn't seem to understand the concept while being supposedly an "IT worker". Doh... ).
Most stock traders aren't targeting one other stock trader with a series of transactions
Yes, the high frequency traders target more than one stock trader, after all they can make more money that way:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/24/business/0724-webBIZ-trading.ready.html
"High-frequency traders often confound other investors by issuing and then canceling orders almost simultaneously. Loopholes in market rules give high-speed investors an early glance at how others are trading. And their computers can essentially bully slower investors into giving up profits -- and then disappear before anyone even knows they were there. "
"And when a former Goldman Sachs programmer was accused this month of stealing secret computer codes -- software that a federal prosecutor said could "manipulate markets in unfair ways" -- it only added to the mystery. Goldman acknowledges that it profits from high-frequency trading, but disputes that it has an unfair advantage."
In the recent US stock market crash fiasco, it seems that if their "fancy" computer programs screw up, the stock exchange rolls back the transactions. They don't do that for small investors.
Now when small time investors (relatively anyway) beat some computer program at its game, they get convicted.
Disgusting.
Thanks. So I suppose some percentage of the subscribers will have done that.
;) ).
:).
Someone I know was playing it for the PvP, and I did watch him play and some bits seemed silly to me.
For example: say you want to go to a keep (for some battle), so you teleport to some starting point, ride your mount towards the keep for a few minutes, then turns out the keep is too full, when that happens you are _forcibly_ teleported ALL THE WAY BACK to the starting point. Then you ride towards the keep, maybe get killed on the way this time... Or get teleported back again. Repeat till you give up or get in. Why not just say "too full" and leave you outside the zone to maybe fight enemies who are trying to get in - have the siege extend outside as well - so it might become somewhat of a logistics problem- even if your side are losing in the keep, if you stop enough enemies from entering the keep zone, you might eventually turn the tide.
The other thing was - many play WAR for the massive battles, but if your PC and network connection aren't good enough, it becomes a slideshow in massive battles. So perhaps many had systems and connections that weren't good enough for a satisfactory experience. I heard that sometimes it's the server's fault...
I've never played WAR but instead of two sides perhaps they should have had 3 sides. Though that is more work for the developers and game balancers, it could mean that if one side gets too powerful the other two could gang up on it. Rather than one side keep losing all the time and having the players give up (which means even more losses - since results of massive battles can be more dependent on the numbers involved than the skill - assuming not too many noobs
FWIW I play Guild Wars. It's probably a dying game too, but I don't have to pay any subscription
It may not have the same namepower as Starcraft, but it still sold 1+ million copies. So that's namepower enough.
Their problem is they didn't retain enough subscribers.
If you want to know why it failed, ask the subscribers why they left, and then pick out the common points.
How would they afford all the tech know-how to be able to keep logs and bits of everyone who wanders into their business and asks for a latte while holding a laptop?
By making users pay for it? e.g. no more free WiFi?
Unless of course there's a clause which says that if hotels provide free internet access then they are not ISPs - since they are not charging for internet access.
In which case it's not so bad news for the users, but not so good for those providing systems to hotels for "expensive internet" (like a previous employer of mine).
I don't even regard that as "relationship". That's just categorization/classification (as per my post above).
Difference between figuring out relationships and classification:
GreatGrandDad, GrandDad and Dad could be classified under parent.
But with a mere classification system, there is no easy and efficient way to handle stuff like: "GreatGrandDad is to GrandDad" like "GrandDad is to Dad".
That makes it harder for the AI to look for similar relationships, and even differentiate between them: "father of" vs "mother of" vs "foster parent" vs "son of" etc.
IMO if AI researchers aren't understanding even simple stuff like that, it's no wonder AIs haven't made significant progress - and all they are doing are just "faster" protoAIs.
If your data structures are wrong certain things become very difficult to do.
Somehow that reminds me of dailywtf :).