Allow me to not take the "news" as *facts*. My logic says that some powerful countries like France & Italy didn't agree with some of Gaddafi's oil policies so they helped the local population overthrow him. I'm not saying that Gaddafi wasn't a dictator and he didn't deserve to be hanged. But thanking NATO for its actions in Libya is hypocrisy at large - If the NATO countries really cared for the Libyan people then they would have killed that asshole DECADES ago.
Oh and regarding the "mass immigration" to Europe, actually most of Europe's African immigrants don't come from Libya but from countries near the equator like Siera Leone, Liberia, Somalia etc (that happen to be in civil war for decades and NATO doesn't give a shit)
The only self interest for the respective NATO countries involved in this was prevention of mass immigration to Europe if Gaddafi continued to make things worse in his country, but mostly this was the first bout of military action in a long while that was actually meaningful, just, and most importantly - succesful.
Errr, well, no. Europe and especially France & Italy are very dependent on Libyan oil. It's not like one day the Europeans woke up and discovered that there's a dictatorship in Libya and some people are revolting against it. If not all, at least most European leaders (Tony Blair, Sarkozy, Berlusconi etc) have shaked hands with Gaddafi in the past in good spirit (just google it). And Europe's relationship with Libya was in good terms until 1 year ago.
So, the matters in Libya are way more complicated than they seem (or than some mass media let us see them) and one must be really naive to think that this is just about some poor people revolting against an oppressing regime.
... EU MEP Tiziano Motti (Italy) can't tell the difference between desktop PCs, laptops, smartphones and e-readers. Like most of the politicians anyway.
Six or seven years ago in Greece some morons (a.k.a. the parliament majority) voted for a law to prohibit electronic gambling - On their way, they made Internet Cafés illegal as well as coin-up arcade games. It was fun to watch the police bust into Internet Cafés and arrest their owners just because they had 5-6 desktops PCs connected to the Internet.
IBM's patents might be useless for defending against MS & Apple (after all they bought Motorola for this reason) but they might prove useful for other plans that Google might have
“There are 50 opposed piston engine companies out there, and they all haven’t gotten to the point where they’ve figured out what their Achilles’ heel is,” says Byron Shaw, general manager at GM’s Advanced Technology division in Palo Alto.
“It’s unlikely that [the engine startups] have discovered something that isn’t known,” he continues. “Let’s say they really improve the ability to run air flow ratios super lean, but then they haven’t solved the NOx problem [nitrogen oxides, a by-product of combustion and the source of smog and acid rain]. There is always a ‘but,’ and most of these companies haven’t gotten to the ‘but’ yet. In India and China they don’t have any idea what the ‘but’ is. They are a pure growth trajectory. But as those markets mature, so will their expectations.”
and the best part:
As if to illustrate Cleeves’ point, Shaw tells a story from his days as a young, just-out-of-college engineer at GM in 1988. “I came up with this change to an internal part of the air conditioning compressor,” he says. It was part of a project to switch over to a new, environmentally safer coolant. “It passed every test. I was rocking and rolling. I was going to change the world. My boss said, ‘Okay, why don’t you get on the plane and go down to the plant and tell them all about it.’ So I go down there and I start to give my spiel. And the plant manager says, ‘Let me give you a tour of the factory.’
“He shows me where the blank aluminum comes in and where it’s machined and processed. And then he takes me down this line of machines. There are 320 steps and each machine does one step and it’s really fast and precise. And at the end of the line this part rolls off. And he says ‘The part you want to change is machined on step number two. And on every machine after step number two, that’s where they grab the part and hold it to do all the subsequent machine steps. So we’d have to retool 320 machines. Is your change that good? How much more are people willing to pay for their cars based on the improved performance from your little part change, versus what it’s going to cost the company?’ That was a really interesting lesson for me.”
Loads of crap stories make it to the front page, lots of blogspam and very few "news for nerds stuff that matters". Also the front page design sucks. Please bring back this one
before hunkering down under the strongest table available.
You definitely don't want to do this since a brick wall or piece of concrete falling from the ceiling would make short work of your table and, well, you. Having been in numerous earthquakes in my region, the best "anti-earthquake" measure isn't predicting when it will happen (you can't be 100% sure) but strong and well-built buildings / houses. The Japanese have had earthquakes above 7 in Richter scale (that's big) for decades but you won't see any disaster in the scale of Haiti in 2010 or even Turkey and Greece at the late '90s where buildings collapsed in seconds.
I've been thinking of switching completely to Debian, but the amount of work to get that running right as a modern desktop is daunting. I can do it, I have done it, but for example, to have a modern browser you either have to manually install it bypassing the package management (bad!) or use backports to get modern compiles of iceweasel. Neither is optimal.
I've been using debian as main desktop for several years & installed it on several systems and not even once did i have to do any "work" to get it running as a modern desktop. Except ofcourse if by "modern desktop" you mean all that fancy compiz-stuff. IMO debian & gnome2 is the way to go if someone needs a stable and practical environment & any issues with outdated software were solved with the backports repository.
I agree that the MBAs are not stupid, but here we're talking about Diablo not some random title. It is one of the most successful game franchises, with a huge player base (there are thousands still playing D2 more than 10 years after its release) so I can't see why this justifies even a 1-2 month success of this DRM measure (and anyway it usually takes less than a weak for a ripped-pirated version of the game to be released). People (myself included) are already on the fence, D3 will probably be the most anticipated game for 2012 and it will probably break some sales record, but this achievement won't be caused by the fear of this DRM.. IMO this is a no-win situation for Blizzard, they're only forcing some of their customers (a tiny percent of-course) into piracy..the rest of us will buy the game and be utterly annoyed if the connection drops
Really? The Diablo series is most fun when played over battle.net, do they REALLY worry about the "90% PC game piracy" ?? That's bullsh*t . The only people who are screwed over this inexcusable decision are the legitimate players. There WILL be a pirated version of the game sooner or later. Maybe those game companies-execs should start thinking of better ways to counter piracy - what about lower prices? Ok now i'm being irrational..
Dunno if you're just kidding, but i'd like to see the collapse of all this hypocrisy around steroids. Last 20 or so years have been a race between the pharmaceutical companies and IAAF's doctors, and the latter will always be 2 steps behind the former. Its no secret, everybody and his grandma is on steroids if he's willing to compete at World-class level so why all the fuss around drugs? just let the athletes choose themselves if they want smaller dicks and lots of medals. So bring on the cyborg olympics!
You would be surprised how much business logic companies tend to squeeze into office documents, especially excel documents. I'd go as far as saying most of the world runs on excel sheets + VBA. Horrible but true.
This is so horrible and yet so true, I've seen excel documents being used for an insane variety of purposes, from simple event monitoring to full CRM & Payroll
So this woman EJ rented her house, with her personal stuff, photos, jewelry etc to a COMPLETE stranger through some web site..and now she's mad & surprised because she got robbed? WTF ?
for example in writing printer and scanner drivers
Cost of training plus the constant whining of users who were used to Windows for most their lifetime is understandable as a downside of the linux desktop.
But "writing printer and scanner drivers" ? Really? So one can guess that they change their printers & scanners in a yearly or even 6-month basis and the linux community can't keep up with the drivers, so the German Foreign Office employees have to sit down and write their own..!
Removing all pre-installed software is the standard procedure for any new laptop that my clients buy. I wish the OEM's spared us of the trouble and gave the customer the option to install or not their bloatware on first boot.
players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks). There’s an excess of profanity, of course, including frequent use of F-words. And Bulletstorm is particularly gruesome, with body parts that explode all over the screen.
Gore-fest! Awesome! Never heard of this game before but now I'm gonna definitely get it!!
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He wasn't very entrenched in 2007 when he visited France or in 2009 when he visited Italy.
Allow me to not take the "news" as *facts*. My logic says that some powerful countries like France & Italy didn't agree with some of Gaddafi's oil policies so they helped the local population overthrow him. I'm not saying that Gaddafi wasn't a dictator and he didn't deserve to be hanged. But thanking NATO for its actions in Libya is hypocrisy at large - If the NATO countries really cared for the Libyan people then they would have killed that asshole DECADES ago. Oh and regarding the "mass immigration" to Europe, actually most of Europe's African immigrants don't come from Libya but from countries near the equator like Siera Leone, Liberia, Somalia etc (that happen to be in civil war for decades and NATO doesn't give a shit)
The only self interest for the respective NATO countries involved in this was prevention of mass immigration to Europe if Gaddafi continued to make things worse in his country, but mostly this was the first bout of military action in a long while that was actually meaningful, just, and most importantly - succesful.
Errr, well, no. Europe and especially France & Italy are very dependent on Libyan oil. It's not like one day the Europeans woke up and discovered that there's a dictatorship in Libya and some people are revolting against it. If not all, at least most European leaders (Tony Blair, Sarkozy, Berlusconi etc) have shaked hands with Gaddafi in the past in good spirit (just google it). And Europe's relationship with Libya was in good terms until 1 year ago. So, the matters in Libya are way more complicated than they seem (or than some mass media let us see them) and one must be really naive to think that this is just about some poor people revolting against an oppressing regime.
... EU MEP Tiziano Motti (Italy) can't tell the difference between desktop PCs, laptops, smartphones and e-readers. Like most of the politicians anyway. Six or seven years ago in Greece some morons (a.k.a. the parliament majority) voted for a law to prohibit electronic gambling - On their way, they made Internet Cafés illegal as well as coin-up arcade games. It was fun to watch the police bust into Internet Cafés and arrest their owners just because they had 5-6 desktops PCs connected to the Internet.
There are quite a few alternative browsers out there. Although those who complain about this change will probably adapt to it in a week or so
What could possibly go wrong
Don't worry the US are the testbed for such stuff. The UK will adopt it if it hasn't already and then the rest of the EU
Judging from the plot, probably in a week
IBM's patents might be useless for defending against MS & Apple (after all they bought Motorola for this reason) but they might prove useful for other plans that Google might have
“There are 50 opposed piston engine companies out there, and they all haven’t gotten to the point where they’ve figured out what their Achilles’ heel is,” says Byron Shaw, general manager at GM’s Advanced Technology division in Palo Alto. “It’s unlikely that [the engine startups] have discovered something that isn’t known,” he continues. “Let’s say they really improve the ability to run air flow ratios super lean, but then they haven’t solved the NOx problem [nitrogen oxides, a by-product of combustion and the source of smog and acid rain]. There is always a ‘but,’ and most of these companies haven’t gotten to the ‘but’ yet. In India and China they don’t have any idea what the ‘but’ is. They are a pure growth trajectory. But as those markets mature, so will their expectations.”
and the best part:
As if to illustrate Cleeves’ point, Shaw tells a story from his days as a young, just-out-of-college engineer at GM in 1988. “I came up with this change to an internal part of the air conditioning compressor,” he says. It was part of a project to switch over to a new, environmentally safer coolant. “It passed every test. I was rocking and rolling. I was going to change the world. My boss said, ‘Okay, why don’t you get on the plane and go down to the plant and tell them all about it.’ So I go down there and I start to give my spiel. And the plant manager says, ‘Let me give you a tour of the factory.’ “He shows me where the blank aluminum comes in and where it’s machined and processed. And then he takes me down this line of machines. There are 320 steps and each machine does one step and it’s really fast and precise. And at the end of the line this part rolls off. And he says ‘The part you want to change is machined on step number two. And on every machine after step number two, that’s where they grab the part and hold it to do all the subsequent machine steps. So we’d have to retool 320 machines. Is your change that good? How much more are people willing to pay for their cars based on the improved performance from your little part change, versus what it’s going to cost the company?’ That was a really interesting lesson for me.”
Loads of crap stories make it to the front page, lots of blogspam and very few "news for nerds stuff that matters". Also the front page design sucks. Please bring back this one
before hunkering down under the strongest table available.
You definitely don't want to do this since a brick wall or piece of concrete falling from the ceiling would make short work of your table and, well, you. Having been in numerous earthquakes in my region, the best "anti-earthquake" measure isn't predicting when it will happen (you can't be 100% sure) but strong and well-built buildings / houses. The Japanese have had earthquakes above 7 in Richter scale (that's big) for decades but you won't see any disaster in the scale of Haiti in 2010 or even Turkey and Greece at the late '90s where buildings collapsed in seconds.
I've been thinking of switching completely to Debian, but the amount of work to get that running right as a modern desktop is daunting. I can do it, I have done it, but for example, to have a modern browser you either have to manually install it bypassing the package management (bad!) or use backports to get modern compiles of iceweasel. Neither is optimal.
I've been using debian as main desktop for several years & installed it on several systems and not even once did i have to do any "work" to get it running as a modern desktop. Except ofcourse if by "modern desktop" you mean all that fancy compiz-stuff. IMO debian & gnome2 is the way to go if someone needs a stable and practical environment & any issues with outdated software were solved with the backports repository.
Apple has been on lawsuit-rampage during the last 6 months, its nice to see at last some action from Google. This is going to be fun!
it cost $700 million they could at least put a decent camera on-board the spacecra....oh wait....
Naked/nude photos are mentioned twice in the summary but there aren't any in the linked articles. How did this story make it to the front page?
I agree that the MBAs are not stupid, but here we're talking about Diablo not some random title. It is one of the most successful game franchises, with a huge player base (there are thousands still playing D2 more than 10 years after its release) so I can't see why this justifies even a 1-2 month success of this DRM measure (and anyway it usually takes less than a weak for a ripped-pirated version of the game to be released). People (myself included) are already on the fence, D3 will probably be the most anticipated game for 2012 and it will probably break some sales record, but this achievement won't be caused by the fear of this DRM.. IMO this is a no-win situation for Blizzard, they're only forcing some of their customers (a tiny percent of-course) into piracy..the rest of us will buy the game and be utterly annoyed if the connection drops
Really? The Diablo series is most fun when played over battle.net, do they REALLY worry about the "90% PC game piracy" ?? That's bullsh*t . The only people who are screwed over this inexcusable decision are the legitimate players. There WILL be a pirated version of the game sooner or later. Maybe those game companies-execs should start thinking of better ways to counter piracy - what about lower prices? Ok now i'm being irrational..
Heaven forbid some folks actually try to glom together and do good.
Not always
Dunno if you're just kidding, but i'd like to see the collapse of all this hypocrisy around steroids. Last 20 or so years have been a race between the pharmaceutical companies and IAAF's doctors, and the latter will always be 2 steps behind the former. Its no secret, everybody and his grandma is on steroids if he's willing to compete at World-class level so why all the fuss around drugs? just let the athletes choose themselves if they want smaller dicks and lots of medals. So bring on the cyborg olympics!
You would be surprised how much business logic companies tend to squeeze into office documents, especially excel documents. I'd go as far as saying most of the world runs on excel sheets + VBA. Horrible but true.
This is so horrible and yet so true, I've seen excel documents being used for an insane variety of purposes, from simple event monitoring to full CRM & Payroll
So this woman EJ rented her house, with her personal stuff, photos, jewelry etc to a COMPLETE stranger through some web site..and now she's mad & surprised because she got robbed? WTF ?
for example in writing printer and scanner drivers
Cost of training plus the constant whining of users who were used to Windows for most their lifetime is understandable as a downside of the linux desktop. But "writing printer and scanner drivers" ? Really? So one can guess that they change their printers & scanners in a yearly or even 6-month basis and the linux community can't keep up with the drivers, so the German Foreign Office employees have to sit down and write their own..!
Removing all pre-installed software is the standard procedure for any new laptop that my clients buy. I wish the OEM's spared us of the trouble and gave the customer the option to install or not their bloatware on first boot.
players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks). There’s an excess of profanity, of course, including frequent use of F-words. And Bulletstorm is particularly gruesome, with body parts that explode all over the screen.
Gore-fest! Awesome! Never heard of this game before but now I'm gonna definitely get it!!