This is what happens when you have a rabidly anti-regulation administration in power at the federal level; the states have to take over some of those duties.
I have an IBM PCjr at home but they keyboard looks nothing like the one in the photo. Did PCjr come out with a second keyboard design in one year before they were discontinued?
My PCjr's keyboard looked nothing like that picture as well. Either they quickly upgraded it shortly after releasing it, or the author of the article found a concept picture that never made it into production.
Yes, you know who you are! You who on the news groups said that "what they did in the matrix is not feasible and never will be because you could never extract enough heat from a human to power anything!"
I think it was more like "the energy you put into feeding the people is vastly greater than the amount of energy you get from them digesting that food"...
This series of blogs has generated a fair amount of discussion on several photography forums, and I would like for the Slashdot community to clarify matters
Why would the Slashdot community be able to clarify matters?
Seriously, just taking one simple look at reality and counting the number of parties in India, the UK and the US really should end that line of argumentation. India has tons, the UK three major and several smaller, the US has two. I mean, you can register as a voter as Democrat, Republican or Other.
What the vast majority of non-US slashdotters don't understand is that "Republican" and "Democrat" encompass a much wider range of views than parties in most other countries.
the summary makes it sound like having a PI license gives you almost automatic "expert witness" status. (From my IANAL point of view, that is a specific determination that the court has to make, and normally they don't take it lightly.
They don't take it lightly, and honestly official status or certification doesn't make it automatic. A judge will have no problem disqualifying a well-credentialed expert because the basis of his or her specific testimony in that case is insufficient.
So? There are a lot of areas of inquiry that are not useful, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be made. I spent a couple of hours last night playing a video game. I got no use out of it. Does that mean I shouldn't have done it?
The really funny thing is they (surprise surprise) focus their show on young, attractive women with this "problem." THEN, the doctor the have commenting on the problems is coincidentally ridiculously hot.
I have as little sympathy for people who got into trouble with sub-prime mortgages....they should have read the contract first, and asked questions if they didn't understand things.
It's not the sub-prime borrowers who got in trouble; they're not out money they don't have, and their credit was already lousy. It's the sub-prime lenders who fell victim to their own greed and predatory lending practices. It's kind of funny in a way.
Thank God for the BBC. Funded via a tax (which is it in all but name) so they don't have to pander to chasing ratings, dumbing down, and getting advertisers.
Yes, because the BBC would NEVER pander to its audience.
You've heard someone say "I don't believe in evolution," where it's obvious they mean that humans evolved from single-celled life forms, and then responded as though they were saying they don't believe in the evolution we observe today!
I know of a lot of people who have no idea what the digital switch even is. When I try to break it down into the simplest terms "Your old TV is going to quit working without an extra box in 2009.", they generally just laugh it off as if I'd told them aliens were going to invade.
You know that many people without cable or satellite?
Linux/OSS are the tools which allow Google to exist.
I think Google could exist without Linux or OSS. It all comes down to the algorithm, and the brand they built on it, and that could have been built on anything.
Just out of curiosity: Did you pay the better workers a better wage based not on education but on performance?
Performance in the law, especially trial law, is based enormously on experience. A doctor fresh out of medical school is better equipped to handle a patient than a lawyer fresh out of law school. When a doctor treats a patient generally there isn't a doctor on the other side of the operating room intentionally trying to make the patient worse.
From Ayn Rand's Reardon character to the latest round in the ongoing SCO saga, the courts have ALWAYS been used by lesser competitors to slow down/stop/hassel the competition.
Ummm...Ayn Rand wrote fiction, you know. You can't judge the court system by non-real happenings in it.
I'm going to assume that this is Obvious Day, so I'm expecting the next headline to read something along the lines of "Scientists Announce That The Xbox 360 Is Less Effective At Making Toast Than An Actual Toaster".
You honestly think the fact that playing wii tennis burns only 2% more calories than an xbox game is obvious? Wasn't obvious to me.
1UP: The Northeast ain't exactly the hotbed of game development. Where are you finding your talent?
KL: Having a hit game makes recruitment a lot easier. I remember the early days of recruiting on System Shock 2, we'd get some pretty depressing resumes. But we're extremely selective. It took us ten years to build the team that made BioShock.
Ahh, West Coast arrogance. Maybe they weren't attracting top quality talent because nobody had ever heard of them?
So their highest paid salespeople made just under $30K a year? If highest-paid == best producing, they can easily command a lot more than that elsewhere.
For big box retail? Isn't that pretty much the ceiling? I've been fortunate enough never to work retail, so I don't know, but I didn't think they got meaningful commissions (if any), and the hourly rate never got that high.
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This is what happens when you have a rabidly anti-regulation administration in power at the federal level; the states have to take over some of those duties.
I have an IBM PCjr at home but they keyboard looks nothing like the one in the photo. Did PCjr come out with a second keyboard design in one year before they were discontinued?
My PCjr's keyboard looked nothing like that picture as well. Either they quickly upgraded it shortly after releasing it, or the author of the article found a concept picture that never made it into production.
Yes, you know who you are! You who on the news groups said that "what they did in the matrix is not feasible and never will be because you could never extract enough heat from a human to power anything!"
I think it was more like "the energy you put into feeding the people is vastly greater than the amount of energy you get from them digesting that food"...
This series of blogs has generated a fair amount of discussion on several photography forums, and I would like for the Slashdot community to clarify matters
Why would the Slashdot community be able to clarify matters?
My company insists on thinking of IT as a cost center rather than a strategic advantage.
It IS a cost center though. And every department should be a strategic advantage, otherwise you might as well get rid of them.
Seriously, just taking one simple look at reality and counting the number of parties in India, the UK and the US really should end that line of argumentation. India has tons, the UK three major and several smaller, the US has two. I mean, you can register as a voter as Democrat, Republican or Other.
What the vast majority of non-US slashdotters don't understand is that "Republican" and "Democrat" encompass a much wider range of views than parties in most other countries.
the summary makes it sound like having a PI license gives you almost automatic "expert witness" status. (From my IANAL point of view, that is a specific determination that the court has to make, and normally they don't take it lightly.
They don't take it lightly, and honestly official status or certification doesn't make it automatic. A judge will have no problem disqualifying a well-credentialed expert because the basis of his or her specific testimony in that case is insufficient.
It's just not a useful avenue for speculation.
So? There are a lot of areas of inquiry that are not useful, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be made. I spent a couple of hours last night playing a video game. I got no use out of it. Does that mean I shouldn't have done it?
Perhaps it's a big problem?
The really funny thing is they (surprise surprise) focus their show on young, attractive women with this "problem." THEN, the doctor the have commenting on the problems is coincidentally ridiculously hot.
I have as little sympathy for people who got into trouble with sub-prime mortgages....they should have read the contract first, and asked questions if they didn't understand things.
It's not the sub-prime borrowers who got in trouble; they're not out money they don't have, and their credit was already lousy. It's the sub-prime lenders who fell victim to their own greed and predatory lending practices. It's kind of funny in a way.
Thank God for the BBC. Funded via a tax (which is it in all but name) so they don't have to pander to chasing ratings, dumbing down, and getting advertisers.
Yes, because the BBC would NEVER pander to its audience.
You've heard someone say "I don't believe in evolution," where it's obvious they mean that humans evolved from single-celled life forms, and then responded as though they were saying they don't believe in the evolution we observe today!
It's the same evolution.
I know of a lot of people who have no idea what the digital switch even is. When I try to break it down into the simplest terms "Your old TV is going to quit working without an extra box in 2009.", they generally just laugh it off as if I'd told them aliens were going to invade.
You know that many people without cable or satellite?
Linux/OSS are the tools which allow Google to exist.
I think Google could exist without Linux or OSS. It all comes down to the algorithm, and the brand they built on it, and that could have been built on anything.
(and how do you expect the market share if the game publishers don't make Linux games? HMPH!)
Loki tried it, and failed miserably. There really isn't that much demand out there.
Just out of curiosity: Did you pay the better workers a better wage based not on education but on performance?
Performance in the law, especially trial law, is based enormously on experience. A doctor fresh out of medical school is better equipped to handle a patient than a lawyer fresh out of law school. When a doctor treats a patient generally there isn't a doctor on the other side of the operating room intentionally trying to make the patient worse.
Of course I know Rand's character was fictional but the character was there to demonstrate the relationship between business and the state.
Then you're claiming that Rand was some sort of perceptive judge of society, which I completely disagree with.
a) I've never played Deus Ex, nor seen it played, really (I had a roommate who played, but I didn't pay much attention).
I would highly recommend getting a copy and playing it.
Isn't Deus Ex generally considered an RPG, not an FPS?
Nah, genre-wise it's a stealth FPS. Like Thief with implants and skills, and both work more like FPS "items" gameplay-wise than RPG skills/abilities.
From Ayn Rand's Reardon character to the latest round in the ongoing SCO saga, the courts have ALWAYS been used by lesser competitors to slow down/stop/hassel the competition.
Ummm...Ayn Rand wrote fiction, you know. You can't judge the court system by non-real happenings in it.
I'm going to assume that this is Obvious Day, so I'm expecting the next headline to read something along the lines of "Scientists Announce That The Xbox 360 Is Less Effective At Making Toast Than An Actual Toaster".
You honestly think the fact that playing wii tennis burns only 2% more calories than an xbox game is obvious? Wasn't obvious to me.
1UP: The Northeast ain't exactly the hotbed of game development. Where are you finding your talent?
KL: Having a hit game makes recruitment a lot easier. I remember the early days of recruiting on System Shock 2, we'd get some pretty depressing resumes. But we're extremely selective. It took us ten years to build the team that made BioShock.
Ahh, West Coast arrogance. Maybe they weren't attracting top quality talent because nobody had ever heard of them?
Is it the legality of heroin/coke/meth what keeps you off of it?
No, but the illegality keeps it hard to find, and the harder it is to find the fewer people experimenting with it.
As I see it, extramely harmful drug use is widespread despite prohibition.
Without prohibition it would be a lot more widespread.
You'd really need to back Ron Paul.
I'm watching him on Meet the Press right now seeing his chances sink even lower.
So their highest paid salespeople made just under $30K a year? If highest-paid == best producing, they can easily command a lot more than that elsewhere.
For big box retail? Isn't that pretty much the ceiling? I've been fortunate enough never to work retail, so I don't know, but I didn't think they got meaningful commissions (if any), and the hourly rate never got that high.