The information provided in the Reuters article is total crap, and some propagandist thinks that the name "Stars" is subtle. Good thing you have all those young experts, Gholamreza Jalali! Otherwise some might mistake the Stars virus (which does minor damage) for some executive files of government organisations! Gee, the Israelis and Americans sure are cyber-stupid to try the same cyber-thing twice on you guys! You're so clever!
Think of the strawmen, people! Thousands, nay, millions of scarecrows being massacred constantly by unscrupulous argument tactics! Murderers and probably also child rapists walk our streets, unpunished for their crimes against these defenseless innocents!
Even the most unscrupulous of organizations will self-regulate if it's directly essential to retaining their customers. Besides, with games, unlike other media, it's natural to hold off on access to things until certain conditions have been met: "YOU MUST BE AT LEAST LEVEL 17 TO PURCHASE THIS GAME."
That's true—but the Liberian flag is "red, white, and blue" in the sense frequently used by American patriots. It's only got one star, sure, but it's still pretty spangled and definitely a banner.
Here's the details. Yes, there are obvious problems with repeats, but it's still noteworthy that we can get such good contigs in all that data. And no, I'm talking about de novo sequencing, not with a reference genome.
Microsoft had free soda vending machines for a while. These were discontinued when the profit hike from XP started to fade, but apparently the sheer amount of soda involved was a notorious donor of extra body mass, so they weren't exactly missed.
It's less like "late to the party" and more like "started the party over ten years ago, and were so unpopular that they've stormed off at least thrice now, each time returning with the same hideous blue and green beer, hoping that because it's popular everywhere else, someone will pay attention to them"—ignoring the fact that the party is an anniversary celebration for a win connoisseurs' society.
See the links. Behold the lack of complete inaccuracy. Rejoice at the power of algorithms. Did you know you can assemble a DNA sequence for an entire 2.2 Gb organism from 100-nucleotide fragments, if those fragments overlap? Numbers are amazing sometimes like that.
Essential to this process is (1) a poorly written software spec handed down from the PHBs that constantly contradicts itself and (2) a bit of a sense of humour. Every company server is a potential Miller experiment, but only some have the right atmospheric mixture.
I guess that, in Microsoft's world, you can't patent something after releasing it. i4i isn't so impressed by that idea:
Microsoft's assertions that i4i included the XML editor in a product before applying for the patent and that it destroyed source code are "utter nonsense," Owen added.
Still, this is all just a bucket of dren. No one should be able to patent anything involving XML, and the reasoning is simple: the kind of cruft that accumulates in XML files (and, by extension, application-specific XML parsers) is analogous to biological evolution, and therefore XML is a phenomenon outside of human control. It would be like patenting natural genes or something! And we all know that would never be legalized.
There's a slippery slope hidden in that. More realistic modelling of human interaction removes a fairly important cue that we normally use to separate it from real social environments, and that could poison the social development of young gamers. But it's just a thought.
I think that the answer to GP's question is simple, though: we're talking about humans here. They're not soulless killing machines, no matter what the media has taught us about the militaries of the DPRK or NSDAP, or about soldiers of any given army being immoral people. In World War I, there were often cases where the troops on the ground were so horrified by the violence, and so aware of the basic goodness of each other as human beings, that they wouldn't fight; one particular story tells of a German soldier visiting an English trench for Christmas dinner. Although the powerful ideologies carried by modern military aggressors often bury this, it's not trivial to forget that your enemies are humans. Don't mistake the cartoonish sensibility of early-nineties id Software for reality!
(That being said, Doom's narrative was built to fail by the time of release.)
I used to lose sleep over that, too, but (a) if a registrar did that, they'd just be driving business elsewhere and (b) the idea of seizing a porn domain like the DHS has been seizing "copyright-infringing" domains would be a problem given the lack of a stern party convinced their rights are being infringed.
I mean, no one could be so stupid as to claim that, right?
NOTE: If in Australia, assume all porn is censored anyway.
Well, imagine you have a car with 250,000,000,000 seatbelts that break after being used once. The car has 105 million seats, and can drive in both directions on a road at once.
Also, there is only one road, and it is constantly clogged by other cars because the municipality responsible for the roads refuses to admit they have a traffic congestion problem.
1 LoC = 10 TiB, so you get 0.0227373675443232059478759765625 Libraries of Congress per month, at a speed of 9.5238095238095238095238095238095e-9 LoC/sec.
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This may surprise you, but there's also Office for the Mac. And there was once Internet Explorer, too.
The information provided in the Reuters article is total crap, and some propagandist thinks that the name "Stars" is subtle. Good thing you have all those young experts, Gholamreza Jalali! Otherwise some might mistake the Stars virus (which does minor damage) for some executive files of government organisations! Gee, the Israelis and Americans sure are cyber-stupid to try the same cyber-thing twice on you guys! You're so clever!
The strawman never saw it coming. They never do.
Think of the strawmen, people! Thousands, nay, millions of scarecrows being massacred constantly by unscrupulous argument tactics! Murderers and probably also child rapists walk our streets, unpunished for their crimes against these defenseless innocents!
Or maybe they just want a shared experience? That's the point of going to see a film as a group in the first place.
Not quite. But interesting nevertheless.
Dad, are you space?
'fraid it doesn't work that way. Like most communist parties, "being a Nazi" is a more general term than, say, "being an elected democrat" in the US. In fact, there were 8.5 million members at its time of dissolution.
Even the most unscrupulous of organizations will self-regulate if it's directly essential to retaining their customers. Besides, with games, unlike other media, it's natural to hold off on access to things until certain conditions have been met: "YOU MUST BE AT LEAST LEVEL 17 TO PURCHASE THIS GAME."
That's true—but the Liberian flag is "red, white, and blue" in the sense frequently used by American patriots. It's only got one star, sure, but it's still pretty spangled and definitely a banner.
Here's the details. Yes, there are obvious problems with repeats, but it's still noteworthy that we can get such good contigs in all that data. And no, I'm talking about de novo sequencing, not with a reference genome.
Microsoft had free soda vending machines for a while. These were discontinued when the profit hike from XP started to fade, but apparently the sheer amount of soda involved was a notorious donor of extra body mass, so they weren't exactly missed.
Aaagh! "wine"! Not win! "wine"! Alas, poor funny moderation—I knew him, Horatio...
It's less like "late to the party" and more like "started the party over ten years ago, and were so unpopular that they've stormed off at least thrice now, each time returning with the same hideous blue and green beer, hoping that because it's popular everywhere else, someone will pay attention to them"—ignoring the fact that the party is an anniversary celebration for a win connoisseurs' society.
See the links. Behold the lack of complete inaccuracy. Rejoice at the power of algorithms. Did you know you can assemble a DNA sequence for an entire 2.2 Gb organism from 100-nucleotide fragments, if those fragments overlap? Numbers are amazing sometimes like that.
Essential to this process is (1) a poorly written software spec handed down from the PHBs that constantly contradicts itself and (2) a bit of a sense of humour. Every company server is a potential Miller experiment, but only some have the right atmospheric mixture.
I guess that, in Microsoft's world, you can't patent something after releasing it. i4i isn't so impressed by that idea:
Microsoft's assertions that i4i included the XML editor in a product before applying for the patent and that it destroyed source code are "utter nonsense," Owen added.
Still, this is all just a bucket of dren. No one should be able to patent anything involving XML, and the reasoning is simple: the kind of cruft that accumulates in XML files (and, by extension, application-specific XML parsers) is analogous to biological evolution, and therefore XML is a phenomenon outside of human control. It would be like patenting natural genes or something! And we all know that would never be legalized.
There's a slippery slope hidden in that. More realistic modelling of human interaction removes a fairly important cue that we normally use to separate it from real social environments, and that could poison the social development of young gamers. But it's just a thought.
Better yet, sometimes they were Nazi zombies.
I think that the answer to GP's question is simple, though: we're talking about humans here. They're not soulless killing machines, no matter what the media has taught us about the militaries of the DPRK or NSDAP, or about soldiers of any given army being immoral people. In World War I, there were often cases where the troops on the ground were so horrified by the violence, and so aware of the basic goodness of each other as human beings, that they wouldn't fight; one particular story tells of a German soldier visiting an English trench for Christmas dinner. Although the powerful ideologies carried by modern military aggressors often bury this, it's not trivial to forget that your enemies are humans. Don't mistake the cartoonish sensibility of early-nineties id Software for reality!
(That being said, Doom's narrative was built to fail by the time of release.)
I really think you should try to be less pedantic about such a standard piece of terminology. You might go blind from the high blood pressure.
Don't be silly—it's just a coincidence that the schematics are identical.
Indeed! In fact, the capacities listed in TFA and FS are wrong. They're over here.
I used to lose sleep over that, too, but (a) if a registrar did that, they'd just be driving business elsewhere and (b) the idea of seizing a porn domain like the DHS has been seizing "copyright-infringing" domains would be a problem given the lack of a stern party convinced their rights are being infringed.
I mean, no one could be so stupid as to claim that, right?
NOTE: If in Australia, assume all porn is censored anyway.
Fear not! We can all switch to MegaVideo. At least, you can.
Well, imagine you have a car with 250,000,000,000 seatbelts that break after being used once. The car has 105 million seats, and can drive in both directions on a road at once.
Also, there is only one road, and it is constantly clogged by other cars because the municipality responsible for the roads refuses to admit they have a traffic congestion problem.
1 LoC = 10 TiB, so you get 0.0227373675443232059478759765625 Libraries of Congress per month, at a speed of 9.5238095238095238095238095238095e-9 LoC/sec.
Not if you have vertical integration so tight that you shut out the concept of independent artists.
Of course, no one's talking about that—but just sayin'.