How many movies? In what release window? will they be in HD? Will my xbox/PS3/blu-ray player support their streaming? Will they mail physical copies of movies that aren't available for streaming to my mailbox within 24-hours? What's the monthly fee?
Until these and many more questions are answered, I wouldn't call them a Netflix competitor at all.
But then again, if they offer international service, I would call them a Netflix killer, regardless of the other (important) question you have raised. Then again, availability most often depends on the studios themselves.
My dad got GBS a few years ago, in a very severe form (for 2-3 months he couldn't even breathe by himself). It took him about a year to return home, and he's still not in perfect shape, and never will be - but he can walk, and he can use the computer just fine. So have faith.
Also, you didn't "get it" from anywhere - autoimmune disease are not something you can get infected in, it's just that usually another infection is the catalyst.
The medicine is intended to ease the withdrawal symptoms that appear while trying to abstain from playing your favorite game. Taking it by itself does not make you want to play less; taking it while already trying to play less will make you less depressed.
Regarding your subject line: some Israelis would like to be in the EU, some don't. I suspect the majority don't. I don't believe the Israeli government made any official statement about it, and I don't think the EU is particularly interested in that, so most of the discussions about that are hypothetical.
I do recall one idea though, which was for the EU to offer membership to both Israel and a future Palestinian state as an incentive for reaching a solution on the conflict between them. But I don't think such an offer was ever made by an official.
The article only mentions municipal (local) elections, and not parliamentary ones (national).
Like I said, there are issues today with treatments of some communities and minorities - the shitty unrecognized settlement situation, affecting some Bedouin tribes, being one of them (and it's worse than only lack of municipal elections) - but all citizens do have the right to vote in the national elections, which is what I am stressing.
I'm not talking about the Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied lands, I'm talking about the Bedouin and the other Israeli Arabs [...] who are prevented from participating in the democratic system [...]
All Israeli citizens are eligible to vote in the parliamentary elections, regardless of sex, religion, ethnicity, etc.
There are enough legitimate issues with Israeli-Arabs rights you can complain about without lying.
I disagree. I would say it sometimes takes more courage to wage war than to engage in diplomacy. Diplomacy requires almost nothing - not the amount of resources war requires, certainly not the personal sacrifices taken by soldiers and their family members (and that, in turns, affects the public opinion and thus the politicians). Between having a discussion and getting shot at, there's no doubt what's the scarier activity. But sometimes you just need to take risks and stand up for yourself.
I do agree that once hostilities do commence, diplomacy quickly becomes less popular as people just want plain old revenge, and it takes courage from the leaders to face the public opinion and start negotiation. So I'm not actually saying you're wrong, I'm just stressing that many people prefer diplomacy over warfare, and are willing to risk a lot - maybe too much - for that. Sometimes you need the courage to choose the military option, even when you know it means your son might not come back.
It's true that a few years ago you had to stay close to the cutting edge and now you don't; but I'm pretty sure it's not because graphics cards had outpaced games, but because game developers slowed their pace because they wanted good performance on consoles.
I'm sure game developers could easily overwhelm graphics cards if they wanted to, but that doesn't only block PCs without high-end cards, but also all the consoles. I have to say that as a PC-only gamer, I find the situation very positive. I like not having to upgrade constantly.
What do Dell, Apple, HP, and Asus have in common? Their relationship to Intel. AMD is a non-competitor in the netbook space right now, and Intel has enough clout to throw their weight around and get what they want.
I think it's the other way around. I've worked at Intel, and the mindset was more towards "what can we do FOR our customers" (Dell, Apple etc.).
It's true they're leading the market now, but a good method to make sure it stays that way is to keep the customers happy.
First of all, I don't think kids' introduction to programming should be by studying any specific algorithm. I personally taught myself the feeling of programming by playing around in Pascal, trying to just make things happen. In retrospect my code must be horrible, inefficient, non-modular, etc. but it was fun and it really gave me the "hanging" of programming. I'm sure many others around here started much the same. Sure, in high-school we were taught proper CS which we sometimes practiced on paper in pseudo-code, but that came later.
Secondly, I don't think this is about "relying on any specific language concept". From my experience switching programming language is not that difficult of a thing to do. Having started my way on Pascal might have made ML, Prolog and Befunge more difficult for me to learn, but I have successfully written code in them.
A teenager needs a simple, intuitive environment, in which she can play around. I think something like Basic or Pascal fits that role perfectly.
Dunno man... it worked for me, once I changed the settings it behaves just like in 3.0 except it doesn't display the x button (but I can close it just fine with either middle-click or File->Close Tab).
They changed the default behavior, but you change it back from about:config (type about:config in your url bar):
set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.
I RTFA and found one paragraph to really show everything in a new way:
"Show BioShock to a non-gamer -- someone who hasn't been desensitized to killing virtual people -- and watch their reaction. Show them how you bludgeon people to death with a pipe wrench. If they don't wince and express some form of shock at what's taking place on the screen, they're either seriously disturbed or they're a seasoned gamer."
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I don't know any place in which the freedom of expression is absolute. There are always restrictions - to prevent libel, because of national security, to avoid incitement to violence, etc. Yet I'd still say freedom of expression exists with those limitations.
Because the websites in question might not fall under German jurisdiction.
Although, since most countries have anti-child-pornography laws, it might be possible after all through cooperation - and that trying to close the sites down is probably a better alternative.
The thing is, there really is no middle ground. You need to use a mark-and-sweep algorithm to avoid leaking cyclic references, which means you have no way of determining if an object should or should not be destroyed if it leaves scope.
There are cycle-detection algorithms that do not require a full mark-and-sweep; they run a limited, local scan which can be immediately performed any time a reference is decreased to 1.
I disagree about the "boring" part. I took a university course on garbage collection (and a bit more, but that was the main topic) and it was absolutely fascinating. It was filled with a lot of interesting challenges - like how to handle multithreaded systems, how to avoid dirtying the cache, how to write incremental garbage collectors to prevent pauses, etc.
That's informative, but are you sure it will still be considered "private e-mail" if it was sent from a company address and signed (explicitly) as a company employee?
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Are you positive it's CUDA only? Browsing the code it does seem to have an OpenCL "backend", at https://github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1/tree/master/src/edu/syr/pcpratts/rootbeer/generate/opencl
That sounds... completely feasible. And pretty reasonable. Man, smartphones really make me feel like I'm living in the future :)
How many movies? In what release window? will they be in HD? Will my xbox/PS3/blu-ray player support their streaming? Will they mail physical copies of movies that aren't available for streaming to my mailbox within 24-hours? What's the monthly fee?
Until these and many more questions are answered, I wouldn't call them a Netflix competitor at all.
But then again, if they offer international service, I would call them a Netflix killer, regardless of the other (important) question you have raised. Then again, availability most often depends on the studios themselves.
My dad got GBS a few years ago, in a very severe form (for 2-3 months he couldn't even breathe by himself). It took him about a year to return home, and he's still not in perfect shape, and never will be - but he can walk, and he can use the computer just fine. So have faith. Also, you didn't "get it" from anywhere - autoimmune disease are not something you can get infected in, it's just that usually another infection is the catalyst.
The medicine is intended to ease the withdrawal symptoms that appear while trying to abstain from playing your favorite game. Taking it by itself does not make you want to play less; taking it while already trying to play less will make you less depressed.
32 bit? I count 116 bits in your address.
It's a joke. It's very clear from his website (link in the video), as long as you find something specific there - I won't ruin the surprise :)
He was making a pun...
Regarding your subject line: some Israelis would like to be in the EU, some don't. I suspect the majority don't. I don't believe the Israeli government made any official statement about it, and I don't think the EU is particularly interested in that, so most of the discussions about that are hypothetical.
I do recall one idea though, which was for the EU to offer membership to both Israel and a future Palestinian state as an incentive for reaching a solution on the conflict between them. But I don't think such an offer was ever made by an official.
The article only mentions municipal (local) elections, and not parliamentary ones (national).
Like I said, there are issues today with treatments of some communities and minorities - the shitty unrecognized settlement situation, affecting some Bedouin tribes, being one of them (and it's worse than only lack of municipal elections) - but all citizens do have the right to vote in the national elections, which is what I am stressing.
I'm not talking about the Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied lands, I'm talking about the Bedouin and the other Israeli Arabs [...] who are prevented from participating in the democratic system [...]
All Israeli citizens are eligible to vote in the parliamentary elections, regardless of sex, religion, ethnicity, etc. There are enough legitimate issues with Israeli-Arabs rights you can complain about without lying.
I disagree. I would say it sometimes takes more courage to wage war than to engage in diplomacy. Diplomacy requires almost nothing - not the amount of resources war requires, certainly not the personal sacrifices taken by soldiers and their family members (and that, in turns, affects the public opinion and thus the politicians). Between having a discussion and getting shot at, there's no doubt what's the scarier activity. But sometimes you just need to take risks and stand up for yourself.
I do agree that once hostilities do commence, diplomacy quickly becomes less popular as people just want plain old revenge, and it takes courage from the leaders to face the public opinion and start negotiation. So I'm not actually saying you're wrong, I'm just stressing that many people prefer diplomacy over warfare, and are willing to risk a lot - maybe too much - for that. Sometimes you need the courage to choose the military option, even when you know it means your son might not come back.
Maybe they do that when their machine is first released. I doubt they do that with each new driver version.
It's true that a few years ago you had to stay close to the cutting edge and now you don't; but I'm pretty sure it's not because graphics cards had outpaced games, but because game developers slowed their pace because they wanted good performance on consoles.
I'm sure game developers could easily overwhelm graphics cards if they wanted to, but that doesn't only block PCs without high-end cards, but also all the consoles. I have to say that as a PC-only gamer, I find the situation very positive. I like not having to upgrade constantly.
What do Dell, Apple, HP, and Asus have in common? Their relationship to Intel. AMD is a non-competitor in the netbook space right now, and Intel has enough clout to throw their weight around and get what they want.
I think it's the other way around. I've worked at Intel, and the mindset was more towards "what can we do FOR our customers" (Dell, Apple etc.).
It's true they're leading the market now, but a good method to make sure it stays that way is to keep the customers happy.
First of all, I don't think kids' introduction to programming should be by studying any specific algorithm. I personally taught myself the feeling of programming by playing around in Pascal, trying to just make things happen. In retrospect my code must be horrible, inefficient, non-modular, etc. but it was fun and it really gave me the "hanging" of programming. I'm sure many others around here started much the same. Sure, in high-school we were taught proper CS which we sometimes practiced on paper in pseudo-code, but that came later. Secondly, I don't think this is about "relying on any specific language concept". From my experience switching programming language is not that difficult of a thing to do. Having started my way on Pascal might have made ML, Prolog and Befunge more difficult for me to learn, but I have successfully written code in them. A teenager needs a simple, intuitive environment, in which she can play around. I think something like Basic or Pascal fits that role perfectly.
Dunno man... it worked for me, once I changed the settings it behaves just like in 3.0 except it doesn't display the x button (but I can close it just fine with either middle-click or File->Close Tab).
They changed the default behavior, but you change it back from about:config (type about:config in your url bar):
set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.
"Show BioShock to a non-gamer -- someone who hasn't been desensitized to killing virtual people -- and watch their reaction. Show them how you bludgeon people to death with a pipe wrench. If they don't wince and express some form of shock at what's taking place on the screen, they're either seriously disturbed or they're a seasoned gamer."
According to Babylon,
Anachronicity No matches found. Anachronic adj. not according to chronology, anachronistic, obsolete, out of date; not properly dated, not assigned to the correct time period (of a person, object or event)I don't know any place in which the freedom of expression is absolute. There are always restrictions - to prevent libel, because of national security, to avoid incitement to violence, etc. Yet I'd still say freedom of expression exists with those limitations.
Because the websites in question might not fall under German jurisdiction.
Although, since most countries have anti-child-pornography laws, it might be possible after all through cooperation - and that trying to close the sites down is probably a better alternative.
The thing is, there really is no middle ground. You need to use a mark-and-sweep algorithm to avoid leaking cyclic references, which means you have no way of determining if an object should or should not be destroyed if it leaves scope.
There are cycle-detection algorithms that do not require a full mark-and-sweep; they run a limited, local scan which can be immediately performed any time a reference is decreased to 1.
I disagree about the "boring" part. I took a university course on garbage collection (and a bit more, but that was the main topic) and it was absolutely fascinating. It was filled with a lot of interesting challenges - like how to handle multithreaded systems, how to avoid dirtying the cache, how to write incremental garbage collectors to prevent pauses, etc.
That's informative, but are you sure it will still be considered "private e-mail" if it was sent from a company address and signed (explicitly) as a company employee?