For the most part I actually agree with you. I am not really looking forward to the deluge of updates that are in store. Especially considering the number that already are showing up, "OMG only 2 days left to end the worst 8 years ever!"
Which would be fine, but clearly most of these people haven't even been voting age for 8 years -- let alone 12. So don't mind it when I don't trust their opinion on the state of the state as it were.
Its great that young people are more involved in politics now, I think that is a good thing for the country. Though I wish they would stop complaining about a single President and worry more about how to fix the things they don't like instead of hoping for a magical Obama panacea
Twitter's service is likely to be as screwed as the cell network with millions of people around the country tweeting about how they just saw (on TV, Internet or in person) Obama swear in, etc. Expect the service to be down most of the day imo.
I don't think so. It might at best be a secondary concern. I doubt in the current financial climate people are going to be stressing green in their purchases when they might be able to get a less-green alternative for less.
The green practices of high tech companies are how to properly recycle and make re-use of electronics is confusing to most people, considering that many still believe that these products are impossible to reuse. Anything more complicated than paper in the green bin, is mystifying to most people. I don't blame anyone for being skeptical of those claims.
This is essentially the fact of the matter. IPv6 adoption is still so small as to not matter. 300% of a tiny number is still a tiny number compared to the size of the IPv4 addresses.
I don't really see how this is going to kill VoIP and online gaming. Those two services are big users of UDP, no doubt, but its not like all of a sudden the explosion of UDP requests is going to sqeeze VoIP traffic out. If anything it should encourage ISPs and providers to increase the rate of their roll out of new tech.
This move should bring into focus the last mile problem that is the real source of most of the internet connection speed debate. I don't care how the solution ends up working, but I think there needs to be a plan given that most of the plans I have heard involve several years of lead time.
Anyone remember that California energy crisis from a few years ago? What exactly has been done (besides firing some politicians and energy execs) to help produce more power?
I'm not sure its a great idea to be building HUGE structural draws like this into (what will eventually become) every major city worth a damn, without a plan for how to power all of it. The "not in my backyard" problem must be solved first.
It would be nice if they also didn't put that button on the ass back of the machine. If it was say right next to the eject button or at least on the front.
Also I bet a lot of this comes from people leaving PS2s/PS3s in standby (does the Xbox/Wii have something similar?). It is deceptive to think that pressing that button actually turns the system off when it doesn't.
Is any of this really up to Obama? Isn't it Congress that decides where money is spent? Pretty sure that I took Civics in 8th grade and the Executive branch doesn't control all the cash. Unless Bush has changed all that in the last 8 years?
Which maybe isn't saying much, but this makes more sense than expected. However I doubt that zombies will suddenly drop off the map (Evil Dead 4 where are you!?) just because Obama took over the reigns. Also the line about competing tales of class warfare is total nonsense. Vampires = scary liberal democrats while zombies = brain dead republicans? I think some writer was just trying to be funny while letting his political bias show.
Assuming this was right, why wouldn't democrats out of power want to portray republicans as vampires too? And ditto with republicans showing democrats as zombies. The door swings both ways on this, clearly the argument was made without thinking it through.
And now I have officially spent as much time on this post as the writer did on the column
I never understand why this idea persists. RAID is more useful to me to increase write speeds when moving large files across multiple drives, than it is for having fault tolerance.
Why exactly are those questions harder for a computer to break? It seems to me that those might even be easier.
Unless you're planning on submitting entire paragraphs and then forcing people to do reading comprehension tests (which admittedly might increase the number of people everywhere who RTFA), this doesn't seem like a better alternative.
To Paul Sams the COO: It seems that Blizzard has become dependent on several big market properties (Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo), does Blizzard have plans to release any new properties soon?
To Leonard Boyarsky: Part of what made Diablo I and II great was the way the world expanded as the game went on, from a small town, to a jungle, to a desert, to Hell, etc. How do you plan to expand the World of Diablo for this installment compared the previous two?
Also note that by doing this Microsoft isn't required to use all of that $40bn either. If they see something more attractive they can always shift the money around later.
Also note that just sitting on a ridiculous amount of money (like the ~$30bn Microsoft has) is a terrible financial move. The board is right to do something with that money, and if they can't get Yahoo (all or part) with it, then best to do something worthwhile rather than sit on their hands and hope something good comes along
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For the most part I actually agree with you. I am not really looking forward to the deluge of updates that are in store. Especially considering the number that already are showing up, "OMG only 2 days left to end the worst 8 years ever!"
Which would be fine, but clearly most of these people haven't even been voting age for 8 years -- let alone 12. So don't mind it when I don't trust their opinion on the state of the state as it were.
Its great that young people are more involved in politics now, I think that is a good thing for the country. Though I wish they would stop complaining about a single President and worry more about how to fix the things they don't like instead of hoping for a magical Obama panacea
Twitter's service is likely to be as screwed as the cell network with millions of people around the country tweeting about how they just saw (on TV, Internet or in person) Obama swear in, etc. Expect the service to be down most of the day imo.
Maybe this will get Keira Knightly some more work as Ed, now that she refuses to let people digitally "enhance" her endowment.
I don't think so. It might at best be a secondary concern. I doubt in the current financial climate people are going to be stressing green in their purchases when they might be able to get a less-green alternative for less.
The green practices of high tech companies are how to properly recycle and make re-use of electronics is confusing to most people, considering that many still believe that these products are impossible to reuse. Anything more complicated than paper in the green bin, is mystifying to most people. I don't blame anyone for being skeptical of those claims.
The reddit-ization of slashdot?
This is essentially the fact of the matter. IPv6 adoption is still so small as to not matter. 300% of a tiny number is still a tiny number compared to the size of the IPv4 addresses.
How would those physics equations help on a calculus test? Maybe if it had the formula for finding a derivative or part of an integration table maybe.
I don't really see how this is going to kill VoIP and online gaming. Those two services are big users of UDP, no doubt, but its not like all of a sudden the explosion of UDP requests is going to sqeeze VoIP traffic out. If anything it should encourage ISPs and providers to increase the rate of their roll out of new tech.
This move should bring into focus the last mile problem that is the real source of most of the internet connection speed debate. I don't care how the solution ends up working, but I think there needs to be a plan given that most of the plans I have heard involve several years of lead time.
The Americans are the idiots, not the car.
Apparently if you don't live in SF, LA, or San Diego you're some kind of HUMMER driving, environmentalist hating suburbanite.
Anyone remember that California energy crisis from a few years ago? What exactly has been done (besides firing some politicians and energy execs) to help produce more power?
I'm not sure its a great idea to be building HUGE structural draws like this into (what will eventually become) every major city worth a damn, without a plan for how to power all of it. The "not in my backyard" problem must be solved first.
Even learning after the fact is better than not being told that the transaction is taking place at all.
Yeah apparently the ??? has always stood for "Sue".
It would be nice if they also didn't put that button on the ass back of the machine. If it was say right next to the eject button or at least on the front.
Also I bet a lot of this comes from people leaving PS2s/PS3s in standby (does the Xbox/Wii have something similar?). It is deceptive to think that pressing that button actually turns the system off when it doesn't.
Is any of this really up to Obama? Isn't it Congress that decides where money is spent? Pretty sure that I took Civics in 8th grade and the Executive branch doesn't control all the cash. Unless Bush has changed all that in the last 8 years?
This isn't emphasized nearly enough. Cost of living is incredibly important when changing areas. Especially when moving long distances.
Which maybe isn't saying much, but this makes more sense than expected. However I doubt that zombies will suddenly drop off the map (Evil Dead 4 where are you!?) just because Obama took over the reigns. Also the line about competing tales of class warfare is total nonsense. Vampires = scary liberal democrats while zombies = brain dead republicans? I think some writer was just trying to be funny while letting his political bias show.
Assuming this was right, why wouldn't democrats out of power want to portray republicans as vampires too? And ditto with republicans showing democrats as zombies. The door swings both ways on this, clearly the argument was made without thinking it through.
And now I have officially spent as much time on this post as the writer did on the column
science never sucks, it can only blow.
what about the .spamspamspameggsandspam?
I never understand why this idea persists. RAID is more useful to me to increase write speeds when moving large files across multiple drives, than it is for having fault tolerance.
Why exactly are those questions harder for a computer to break? It seems to me that those might even be easier. Unless you're planning on submitting entire paragraphs and then forcing people to do reading comprehension tests (which admittedly might increase the number of people everywhere who RTFA), this doesn't seem like a better alternative.
To Paul Sams the COO: It seems that Blizzard has become dependent on several big market properties (Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo), does Blizzard have plans to release any new properties soon?
To Leonard Boyarsky: Part of what made Diablo I and II great was the way the world expanded as the game went on, from a small town, to a jungle, to a desert, to Hell, etc. How do you plan to expand the World of Diablo for this installment compared the previous two?
since when is "fuckofftags" a useful tag?
Also note that by doing this Microsoft isn't required to use all of that $40bn either. If they see something more attractive they can always shift the money around later.
Also note that just sitting on a ridiculous amount of money (like the ~$30bn Microsoft has) is a terrible financial move. The board is right to do something with that money, and if they can't get Yahoo (all or part) with it, then best to do something worthwhile rather than sit on their hands and hope something good comes along
Essentially this is a move to prop up their stock price to make the other investors (the ones who don't sell the stock) happy.