Or it could be the video games. In pic 24 in TFA, you can see one of the relics in the collection is a second-generation Sega Genesis complete with controller and Sonic the Hedgehog.
Well, since it was part of a school program I'd say they were probably some species of orb weaver, since they're both harmless and famous for their webs. But we can dream of a colony of poisonous space spiders, can't we?
I know, oh, I know. The situation at my work is a classic case of an upper brass blanket policy as part of their effort to "go green". Sleep modes apparently don't cut it for them. It was hard enough for those people who regularly run overnight processes to keep their machines up. IT got around the update issue by setting the computers to run updates at around 10am. I love it when windows insists on reminding me to install updates every few minutes as if I'd somehow forgotten the last ten times.
Damn straight. As soon as I come in the door I clock in. Booting up the computer and going through the morning routine is part of the job, especially - if your work is like mine - when they have an energy saving policy that requires us to shut down the computer every night.
Cutting corners like this only causes resentment among the employees, which overall probably makes the whole shenanigan pointless. I wonder if these companies have calculated the cost of higher turnover rate because of these shady practices, or the lessened productivity by those who do harbor resentment. Is it still profitable then?
Haha, that's exactly what I thought as soon as I read this. What girl would want to sit around a bunch of smelly, unwashed nerds knowing that they know she's probably their only real shot at hooking up with a girl all semester? Most girls who crave the attention can get from someone who doesn't breath through their teeth and quote Monty Python in Klingon.
Are you kidding? Yeah, it's been done using current technology, but to date there isn't one that isn't some clunky, oversized, borg-looking construction that requires an impractical amount of power. We need a "transitor" of the man-machine interface, something compact, efficient and reliable, and this looks like a step in the right direction. Or are you going to tell me since we've had vacuum tubes and wires for ages, we never should have moved on from ENIAC?
They're trying to keep their games out of the used market to begin with. This guy basically wants people to pay twice just because they didn't buy like the company wanted them to and it's obvious no one is going to go for that. The whole concept is ridiculous. People buy used because they don't want to pay full price. Why the hell would they pay extra after the fact?
If they actually go through with this, what will happen is these DLC games will become blacklisted on the used market just like MMOs and DRM-crazy games like Spore are now. The renter market doesn't matter because no retailers rent out PC games.
I really don't see this working for consoles either. Renting still wouldn't matter because most renters don't beat the game. And those that do are also probably zealous enough to boycott a company for intentionally locking a game and then trying to charge extra to unlock it. Not to mention whatever fees Sony or M$ would charge to use their services would either cancel out the DLC profit or put the price so high no one would buy it anyway.
If they really wanted DLC to fly they'd study the Korean's business model more. It makes much more sense to give out a basic game free and charge small fees for extra content, rather than what they're considering here.
As limited as the currently accepted theory of gravity may be, those limitations will not preclude you from death by jumping off the top of a skyscraper. Humans may not have a complete grasp of even one force of nature, but that which is known is quite real. Perception has nothing to do with it. If someone convinces himself that gravity doesn't exist, he will not suddenly become exempt to the forces of gravity. You don't see babies floating around or doing things outside the realms of physics because they have no concept of them.
Ideas like the earth being flat and the earth being the center of the solar system were scientific theories that could be and have been affected and changed by perception. Gravity exists despite our perception, and has been reliably measured and quantified time and again from earth to the farthest reaches thus far measured in space. Even if we discover additional properties of gravity or any other force, it will not preclude what is known now.
We refer to gravity as a theory because, as you say, we have not seen the entire universe and therefore cannot know every property it may have. But, it is also a Law, because it exists outside of perception, and no change in perception will cause gravity to simply not exist.
Vaporware indeed. How is this even news? The IDEA of a laptop is 40 years old? Do airplanes now date back to the times of da Vinci? Do we now trace automobiles back to the first time some guy got into his horse'n'buggy and said 'Man, I wish this thing could drive itself.'? Should we be celebrating the first time someone wrote about teleporters? Gimme a break. How about we make note of things that actually happened? He may be credited for it, but I doubt the guy in TFA wasn't the only or even the first one to think it'd be neat to have a computer small enough to carry around.
I'm sure plenty of MS employees read/. so how about some of you there push to have a gamers edition? There are what, six versions of Vista? It's reasonable to expect them to do it again with 7. So why not charge the same price as an "Ultimate" version to get a slim-downed, optimized, and sans-bloatware version of Windows 7 for gamers? Hell, just make it sans-bloatware and you can call it "optimized" without actually doing anything extra. It'll even have a slick name: "Windows 7GE".
Most of the states that supposedly benefit from DST have actual winters. I don't know where you live, but here in Kansas no one is thinking about the wonders of sunlight when it's 10F outside. The closest you get is a fond wistfulness for summer.
There's also the fact that this "extra daytime" is at the beginning of the day, when the vast majority of people need to be heading off to work anyway. And by the time they get out again it's already dusk.
So while I agree that benefits of sunlight are great, the majority of people either can't (because they're at work) or won't (because it's bitter ass cold outside) take advantage of them.
Seriously, how hard is it to learn a Linux distro? The first time I used Linux I was working as an intern for a small non-profit. The founders had brought in this desktop with SUsE on it to use as the website's server and run the office LAN. Up to that point I'd only used PCs and Mac and my boss was a hardcore MacAddict; neither of us knew anything about linux except that it was free. Basically they set it down and said "Make it work." We had it running a small LAN and serving the website in a couple of days. The internet and the built-in man pages were more than enough to figure everything out.
Obviously, the needs of a small non-profit pale in comparison to any larger company, but if two guys who knows zip about linux can setup a webserver and a network in a couple afternoons, then a team of professionals should be able to get things done.
Is that really so bad? I've got my mom using Ubuntu and she's by no means a computer expert. If someone with a MSCE can't adapt to Linux, then I don't think they were worth holding onto anyway.
There are so many stars (an estimated 200 - 400 billion in our galaxy alone) it just seems more unrealistic to think ours is the only planet in the universe to have beaten the odds.
I'm calling occam's razor on the anthropic principle. Somehow earth was the only planet in the hundreds of billions of planets that exist that managed to hit the "golden age" of the universe and not be born too soon or too late to sustain life? Not likely.
Even if we are in the golden age of the universe and life can only exist in this era of time, probability alone accounts for at least one other planet currently supporting sentient life, and probably more.
Chances are humans will never meet an alien species within the time line of our existence, but I'm sure others exist.
Makes sense, but I don't see how your previous comment refutes or explains the other poster's quote "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." I think it's pretty clear in the bible that Jesus advocated a simple, hard-working life. I don't believe a lazy man would be rewarded in a physical or spiritual sense even if he was a strong believer in God. Or is it also implied that "worrying primarily about the things of God" includes doing the simple, hard-working part?
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Hmm... a man... a room with a bear... decent weapons... add an audience and we've got blood sports! I'll take 10:1 odds, bear's favor! Bets open!
Then we'll get to reenact Planet of the Apes without the monkey suits?
Or it could be the video games. In pic 24 in TFA, you can see one of the relics in the collection is a second-generation Sega Genesis complete with controller and Sonic the Hedgehog.
"Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply"
Yes, because the first thing any company should do when using experimental technology to bring back an extinct species is cut corners.
Let's hope the next announcement from these guys isn't for "Mammoth Park".
Well, since it was part of a school program I'd say they were probably some species of orb weaver, since they're both harmless and famous for their webs. But we can dream of a colony of poisonous space spiders, can't we?
I know, oh, I know. The situation at my work is a classic case of an upper brass blanket policy as part of their effort to "go green". Sleep modes apparently don't cut it for them. It was hard enough for those people who regularly run overnight processes to keep their machines up. IT got around the update issue by setting the computers to run updates at around 10am. I love it when windows insists on reminding me to install updates every few minutes as if I'd somehow forgotten the last ten times.
Any rich nerds want to give this a go?
Damn straight. As soon as I come in the door I clock in. Booting up the computer and going through the morning routine is part of the job, especially - if your work is like mine - when they have an energy saving policy that requires us to shut down the computer every night.
Cutting corners like this only causes resentment among the employees, which overall probably makes the whole shenanigan pointless. I wonder if these companies have calculated the cost of higher turnover rate because of these shady practices, or the lessened productivity by those who do harbor resentment. Is it still profitable then?
Haha, that's exactly what I thought as soon as I read this. What girl would want to sit around a bunch of smelly, unwashed nerds knowing that they know she's probably their only real shot at hooking up with a girl all semester? Most girls who crave the attention can get from someone who doesn't breath through their teeth and quote Monty Python in Klingon.
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Sounds like a beowulf cluster.
Okay, carry on.
Are you kidding? Yeah, it's been done using current technology, but to date there isn't one that isn't some clunky, oversized, borg-looking construction that requires an impractical amount of power. We need a "transitor" of the man-machine interface, something compact, efficient and reliable, and this looks like a step in the right direction. Or are you going to tell me since we've had vacuum tubes and wires for ages, we never should have moved on from ENIAC?
They're trying to keep their games out of the used market to begin with. This guy basically wants people to pay twice just because they didn't buy like the company wanted them to and it's obvious no one is going to go for that. The whole concept is ridiculous. People buy used because they don't want to pay full price. Why the hell would they pay extra after the fact?
If they actually go through with this, what will happen is these DLC games will become blacklisted on the used market just like MMOs and DRM-crazy games like Spore are now. The renter market doesn't matter because no retailers rent out PC games.
I really don't see this working for consoles either. Renting still wouldn't matter because most renters don't beat the game. And those that do are also probably zealous enough to boycott a company for intentionally locking a game and then trying to charge extra to unlock it. Not to mention whatever fees Sony or M$ would charge to use their services would either cancel out the DLC profit or put the price so high no one would buy it anyway.
If they really wanted DLC to fly they'd study the Korean's business model more. It makes much more sense to give out a basic game free and charge small fees for extra content, rather than what they're considering here.
They were replaced by blackberries.
Ignorance is a poor choice to refute validity.
As limited as the currently accepted theory of gravity may be, those limitations will not preclude you from death by jumping off the top of a skyscraper. Humans may not have a complete grasp of even one force of nature, but that which is known is quite real. Perception has nothing to do with it. If someone convinces himself that gravity doesn't exist, he will not suddenly become exempt to the forces of gravity. You don't see babies floating around or doing things outside the realms of physics because they have no concept of them.
Ideas like the earth being flat and the earth being the center of the solar system were scientific theories that could be and have been affected and changed by perception. Gravity exists despite our perception, and has been reliably measured and quantified time and again from earth to the farthest reaches thus far measured in space. Even if we discover additional properties of gravity or any other force, it will not preclude what is known now.
We refer to gravity as a theory because, as you say, we have not seen the entire universe and therefore cannot know every property it may have. But, it is also a Law, because it exists outside of perception, and no change in perception will cause gravity to simply not exist.
Vaporware indeed. How is this even news? The IDEA of a laptop is 40 years old? Do airplanes now date back to the times of da Vinci? Do we now trace automobiles back to the first time some guy got into his horse'n'buggy and said 'Man, I wish this thing could drive itself.'? Should we be celebrating the first time someone wrote about teleporters? Gimme a break. How about we make note of things that actually happened? He may be credited for it, but I doubt the guy in TFA wasn't the only or even the first one to think it'd be neat to have a computer small enough to carry around.
I'm sure plenty of MS employees read /. so how about some of you there push to have a gamers edition? There are what, six versions of Vista? It's reasonable to expect them to do it again with 7. So why not charge the same price as an "Ultimate" version to get a slim-downed, optimized, and sans-bloatware version of Windows 7 for gamers? Hell, just make it sans-bloatware and you can call it "optimized" without actually doing anything extra. It'll even have a slick name: "Windows 7GE".
Most of the states that supposedly benefit from DST have actual winters. I don't know where you live, but here in Kansas no one is thinking about the wonders of sunlight when it's 10F outside. The closest you get is a fond wistfulness for summer.
There's also the fact that this "extra daytime" is at the beginning of the day, when the vast majority of people need to be heading off to work anyway. And by the time they get out again it's already dusk.
So while I agree that benefits of sunlight are great, the majority of people either can't (because they're at work) or won't (because it's bitter ass cold outside) take advantage of them.
...Or not use RedHat.
Seriously, how hard is it to learn a Linux distro? The first time I used Linux I was working as an intern for a small non-profit. The founders had brought in this desktop with SUsE on it to use as the website's server and run the office LAN. Up to that point I'd only used PCs and Mac and my boss was a hardcore MacAddict; neither of us knew anything about linux except that it was free. Basically they set it down and said "Make it work." We had it running a small LAN and serving the website in a couple of days. The internet and the built-in man pages were more than enough to figure everything out.
Obviously, the needs of a small non-profit pale in comparison to any larger company, but if two guys who knows zip about linux can setup a webserver and a network in a couple afternoons, then a team of professionals should be able to get things done.
Is that really so bad? I've got my mom using Ubuntu and she's by no means a computer expert. If someone with a MSCE can't adapt to Linux, then I don't think they were worth holding onto anyway.
If they could get DNA from a cartoon character, it would indeed be interesting.
Doesn't having Vista on it automatically take it out of the "supercomputer" category?
There are so many stars (an estimated 200 - 400 billion in our galaxy alone) it just seems more unrealistic to think ours is the only planet in the universe to have beaten the odds.
I'm calling occam's razor on the anthropic principle. Somehow earth was the only planet in the hundreds of billions of planets that exist that managed to hit the "golden age" of the universe and not be born too soon or too late to sustain life? Not likely.
Even if we are in the golden age of the universe and life can only exist in this era of time, probability alone accounts for at least one other planet currently supporting sentient life, and probably more.
Chances are humans will never meet an alien species within the time line of our existence, but I'm sure others exist.
I sense the impending loss of one of the greatest superhero teams of all time.
Makes sense, but I don't see how your previous comment refutes or explains the other poster's quote "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." I think it's pretty clear in the bible that Jesus advocated a simple, hard-working life. I don't believe a lazy man would be rewarded in a physical or spiritual sense even if he was a strong believer in God. Or is it also implied that "worrying primarily about the things of God" includes doing the simple, hard-working part?
Are you implying that God will magically conjure people clothes, a bed and sandwiches if they believe hard enough?