Have you actually looked through the catalog? There really are few, if any, books on advanced math or science. They are primarily policy recommendations.
"Boohoohoo, why don't people give me everything I want, right away, for free, in the format I demand, no strings attached!"
Have you ever heard that you're not supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth? If people give you free shit, you don't accuse them of being devious bastards laying a trap. You say "thanks" or "thanks, but no thanks".
Let me know when it's released under a CC license, then I'll think about downloading it.
I am sure they await your approval with bated breath.
Even if you accept the US's jurisdiction as world-wide, what Wikileaks did wasn't illegal. It falls squarely under freedom of the press. What Manning did was illegal, and he'll be punished for it, but once the information is out there, the media has no obligation to cover it up.
True, but I think MS has learned that lesson. That's why they are now buying/partnering with hardware companies, and that method is working much better for them. The Kinect is the obvious success story. They bought the hardware, developed the software for it, and it became the fastest selling consumer electronic in history. The W7 Phones are way, way better than previous MS offerings hardware-wise, and are only really losing because they missed the window to enter the market -- Apple and Google have it sewn up.
If they did ever exercise the Nvidia buyout option, I'd be willing to bet my (suddenly extremely valuable) NVDA shares that they would leave the company alone and just let it do its thing.
Which is good, because from what I've heard from engineers in the respective companies, their cultures could not be more different. MS operates the way you'd expect a giant to, but Nvidia has an almost startup-like way of doing things.
Nothing, because Amazon will immediately go out of business, and so no one will care.
You really think a company that relies on shipping goods could operate primarily overseas? That people will buy a book and pay $50 for it to be shipped from Taiwan?
Corporations haven't killed people? How fucking clueless can you be?
Hint: look outside of the first world for once in your life.
By the way, how is the government going to keep corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights without taxes? Because that's what this whole "debate" is about. The government wants to collect taxes, and you libertarian-anarchists are screaming that it's an assault on freedom.
Well, that does happen, but that's what the technical portion of interviews are for. Get a group of three or four engineers asking simple, rapid-fire questions about the field. You'll find out real quick whether or not your candidate knows their stuff. I swear to God, I've seen "engineers" who couldn't solve a quadratic equation without a calculator, or who thought Ohm's law was V = I/R.
That's the case now, but back when the reservations were set up, they were absolutely analogous to concentration camps. Entire civilizations were rounded up and sent on a death march to tiny parcels of low-value land, resulting in obscene high mortality rates. If it were done today, it would rightfully be called ethnic cleansing.
I'm not at all the sort to hate on America -- modern day Americans are in no way responsible for the actions of people living close to two centuries ago. Heck, while I don't know the statistics, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of Americans aren't even descended from the English settlers who were living here back then. But we do need to acknowledge that what was done was wrong.
Wow, I wish I had mod points. That's way more interesting than TFA. Plus, while everyone with a high school education has probably heard about Enigma, I at least had never heard of Sigaba.
Bullshit. They broke into a computer network, stole and released username/password combos, and mocked the system admins as they tried to regain control of the site. They have shown a pattern of criminal behavior, attacking anyone who dares say something they don't like. They are crooks, and should be treated as such.
These punks need to learn that there are consequences for their actions. The trolling culture on the internet today teaches kids (and man-children) that as long as you're laughing, you win, and there are never any consequences for fucking with people. A reminder of how the real world works is long overdue.
Right, because as we know, Mr. Assange was charged with crimes carrying a life sentence. Oh, wait, he wasn't charged with anything. A bunch of right-wing fascists called for his murder, but they do that to anyone who looks at them wrong.
You can insult the president all you like(in practice, even in situations where private citizens or celebrities might reach for the libel suit, presidents don't seem to bother)
As a matter of fact, public officials are specifically exempted from protection against libel and slander. If they weren't, the American political scene would look very, very different.
Oh please. As much bitter hatred as you may harbor for the US, there's simply no comparison between shit like this, and the charges against Roman Polanski, or whoever you happen to be referring to. There are such things as just and unjust laws. It is when unjust laws are applied that people get upset.
Cigarette companies specifically advertised their brands as being the "healthy choice". They would claim to be endorsed by doctors and dentists the way toothpastes do now. They would claim that the filters made them safer, or that they used "mild" or "light" tobacco. They would get testimonials from famous athletes and opera singers, with the obvious subtext that these people are clearly healthy. Of course, the stars giving the testimonials often didn't actually smoke... but that's no different from most modern celebrity endorsements.
Here's some examples. My favorite is the Lucky Strikes claiming endorsement by 20,679 physicians -- no more, no less!
That was just one instance, and an intentionally vulnerable machine [four years ago], but have improvements in security software software, and in Windows itself, made things so much better since then?
Yes.
Is it really surprising that computers with service packs, hot fixes, virus scanners, and firewalls are significantly more secure than those without?
Of course, it's also worth noting that the real infection rate is probably at least a little bit higher. The people who don't download this particular scanner are the same ones who wouldn't download the aforementioned service packets, hot fixes, virus scanners, and firewalls. The unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable, question is how many such people are out there.
People can be amazingly adept at "contesting" science they don't like. See: creationism, vaccines causing autism, climate change denial, or (a few decades ago) cigarettes being harmless.
Right. Just ask the shipping companies that pay ransoms to pirates. It's not their job to fight crime. They just look out for themselves, and leave the crime fighting to the feds. Likewise, you shouldn't go battle the mob yourself. Leave that to the FBI, and pay the protection money in the meantime.
It's not protection money. Microsoft has been in the software industry forever. They undoubtedly have millions of perfectly legal patents on shit like "Method for adding an integer to another integer". Don't blame MS for playing the game, blame the government for making the rules so retarded.
There was an article in Nature a while back in which they showed that you can create microglial cells from stem cells (at least for mice). I know that's not the same as the macroglial cells you're referring to, and it's not as effective as transition directly from skin cells to the desired cells, but it is a step in the right direction.
There's a local electronics hobby shop in my town. Good for when you need to pick up a particular type of cable or adapter, or some R/L/C component, or whatever, without waiting a week for it to show up from Digikey or Newark. But I'll admit, I have no idea how they're still in business.
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Have you actually looked through the catalog? There really are few, if any, books on advanced math or science. They are primarily policy recommendations.
"Boohoohoo, why don't people give me everything I want, right away, for free, in the format I demand, no strings attached!"
Have you ever heard that you're not supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth? If people give you free shit, you don't accuse them of being devious bastards laying a trap. You say "thanks" or "thanks, but no thanks".
Let me know when it's released under a CC license, then I'll think about downloading it.
I am sure they await your approval with bated breath.
Even if you accept the US's jurisdiction as world-wide, what Wikileaks did wasn't illegal. It falls squarely under freedom of the press. What Manning did was illegal, and he'll be punished for it, but once the information is out there, the media has no obligation to cover it up.
You are correct that it's legal, but that doesn't mean that Skype is under any obligation to make it easy.
True, but I think MS has learned that lesson. That's why they are now buying/partnering with hardware companies, and that method is working much better for them. The Kinect is the obvious success story. They bought the hardware, developed the software for it, and it became the fastest selling consumer electronic in history. The W7 Phones are way, way better than previous MS offerings hardware-wise, and are only really losing because they missed the window to enter the market -- Apple and Google have it sewn up.
If they did ever exercise the Nvidia buyout option, I'd be willing to bet my (suddenly extremely valuable) NVDA shares that they would leave the company alone and just let it do its thing.
Which is good, because from what I've heard from engineers in the respective companies, their cultures could not be more different. MS operates the way you'd expect a giant to, but Nvidia has an almost startup-like way of doing things.
Nothing, because Amazon will immediately go out of business, and so no one will care.
You really think a company that relies on shipping goods could operate primarily overseas? That people will buy a book and pay $50 for it to be shipped from Taiwan?
Maybe, just maybe, countries don't need to "run" - they just need to "exist". Food for thought.
That sound like something a stoner would say, shortly before "pass the doritos".
Corporations haven't killed people? How fucking clueless can you be?
Hint: look outside of the first world for once in your life.
By the way, how is the government going to keep corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights without taxes? Because that's what this whole "debate" is about. The government wants to collect taxes, and you libertarian-anarchists are screaming that it's an assault on freedom.
This is the company that thinks it invented the word "app". I wouldn't put anything past them.
Well, that does happen, but that's what the technical portion of interviews are for. Get a group of three or four engineers asking simple, rapid-fire questions about the field. You'll find out real quick whether or not your candidate knows their stuff. I swear to God, I've seen "engineers" who couldn't solve a quadratic equation without a calculator, or who thought Ohm's law was V = I/R.
That's the case now, but back when the reservations were set up, they were absolutely analogous to concentration camps. Entire civilizations were rounded up and sent on a death march to tiny parcels of low-value land, resulting in obscene high mortality rates. If it were done today, it would rightfully be called ethnic cleansing.
I'm not at all the sort to hate on America -- modern day Americans are in no way responsible for the actions of people living close to two centuries ago. Heck, while I don't know the statistics, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of Americans aren't even descended from the English settlers who were living here back then. But we do need to acknowledge that what was done was wrong.
Wow, I wish I had mod points. That's way more interesting than TFA. Plus, while everyone with a high school education has probably heard about Enigma, I at least had never heard of Sigaba.
Bullshit. They broke into a computer network, stole and released username/password combos, and mocked the system admins as they tried to regain control of the site. They have shown a pattern of criminal behavior, attacking anyone who dares say something they don't like. They are crooks, and should be treated as such.
Surprisingly, crimes do not become okay just because some asshole on the internet laughed at them.
These punks need to learn that there are consequences for their actions. The trolling culture on the internet today teaches kids (and man-children) that as long as you're laughing, you win, and there are never any consequences for fucking with people. A reminder of how the real world works is long overdue.
Right, because as we know, Mr. Assange was charged with crimes carrying a life sentence. Oh, wait, he wasn't charged with anything. A bunch of right-wing fascists called for his murder, but they do that to anyone who looks at them wrong.
You can insult the president all you like(in practice, even in situations where private citizens or celebrities might reach for the libel suit, presidents don't seem to bother)
As a matter of fact, public officials are specifically exempted from protection against libel and slander. If they weren't, the American political scene would look very, very different.
Oh please. As much bitter hatred as you may harbor for the US, there's simply no comparison between shit like this, and the charges against Roman Polanski, or whoever you happen to be referring to. There are such things as just and unjust laws. It is when unjust laws are applied that people get upset.
Cigarette companies specifically advertised their brands as being the "healthy choice". They would claim to be endorsed by doctors and dentists the way toothpastes do now. They would claim that the filters made them safer, or that they used "mild" or "light" tobacco. They would get testimonials from famous athletes and opera singers, with the obvious subtext that these people are clearly healthy. Of course, the stars giving the testimonials often didn't actually smoke... but that's no different from most modern celebrity endorsements.
Here's some examples. My favorite is the Lucky Strikes claiming endorsement by 20,679 physicians -- no more, no less!
That was just one instance, and an intentionally vulnerable machine [four years ago], but have improvements in security software software, and in Windows itself, made things so much better since then?
Yes.
Is it really surprising that computers with service packs, hot fixes, virus scanners, and firewalls are significantly more secure than those without?
Of course, it's also worth noting that the real infection rate is probably at least a little bit higher. The people who don't download this particular scanner are the same ones who wouldn't download the aforementioned service packets, hot fixes, virus scanners, and firewalls. The unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable, question is how many such people are out there.
People can be amazingly adept at "contesting" science they don't like. See: creationism, vaccines causing autism, climate change denial, or (a few decades ago) cigarettes being harmless.
Right. Just ask the shipping companies that pay ransoms to pirates. It's not their job to fight crime. They just look out for themselves, and leave the crime fighting to the feds. Likewise, you shouldn't go battle the mob yourself. Leave that to the FBI, and pay the protection money in the meantime.
It's not protection money. Microsoft has been in the software industry forever. They undoubtedly have millions of perfectly legal patents on shit like "Method for adding an integer to another integer". Don't blame MS for playing the game, blame the government for making the rules so retarded.
There was an article in Nature a while back in which they showed that you can create microglial cells from stem cells (at least for mice). I know that's not the same as the macroglial cells you're referring to, and it's not as effective as transition directly from skin cells to the desired cells, but it is a step in the right direction.
There's a local electronics hobby shop in my town. Good for when you need to pick up a particular type of cable or adapter, or some R/L/C component, or whatever, without waiting a week for it to show up from Digikey or Newark. But I'll admit, I have no idea how they're still in business.