... and Microsoft will be looking for non-existent bugs.
Do you really think that Microsoft has a team of people searching through these reports and actively fixing bugs based on them? It's more a metric of how bad a known bug is, that is, how many people are reporting crashes from known bug A as opposed to known bug B.
I really don't get articles like this; of course tech can provide some new versions of the same old store; but the fundamentals still hold true - some people are just going to go through life stupidly, trusting that someone else will bail them out.
You want an answer; hold them accountable for their actions. For the idjits with the Salty Water; fine them the Rangers time, the fuel in the vehicles, plus a 10K punitive fine.
So if you are wealthy, and $20k is pocket change, then you can get this service any time you want? Fining is never the solution. Community service. Now there is a way to make the rich pay for their folly.
Thing is, its easier to drug the kid into being a averagely behaving consumer then it is to actually look at why said kid was depressed. This because it is likely that societal changes will be needed to actually fix the source of the depression.
For some people, drugs are not required. For severe cases with a definite physical cause, i.e. a lack of certain neurochemicals, drugs can be a godsend. Please do not discount the cases where people really do need drugs because it is oversubscribed to those who don't.
If that's not physical addiction, I don't know what is.
That's dependency, not addiction. You have to ramp off of these drugs slowly, that is take lower dosages over several weeks, so that your body adjusts. But once you are off, you don't have cravings to start taking it again. That would be a sign of addiction.
Just a note, Welbutrin isn't an SSRI, it's a completely different class of drug. Apparently it -does- behave in a similar manner to cocaine, though, but without any euphoria.
It's a DSRI and NSRI, that is, dopamine and norepenephrine reuptake inhibitor. I've been on it for several years now, and I can actually stop playing Civ when I feel like it. It really does work.
Because he violated his orders and actively breached security protocol. **IT DOES NOT MATTER** what he "leaked" or why, it just matters that he broke the law.
If we were so worried about the absolute authority of the law, we would never have had a revolution for independence.
>>>we have what amounts to a protest over the cost of the original book...
Bullshit. It's theft of another person's labor. Equivalent to if you spend a year of your life as an engineer, but you only get half the pay. The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit for your work, even though they didn't do a damn thing. They are parasites... nothing more.
That would be the case if the author actually received the bulk of the revenue. They get a tiny cut. Almost all of that goes right into the pockets of the fat cats at the publishing company. These text books could cost a fraction of the current cost, and the the author could get twice as much per book, and the publishers would still get their fair share.
At least those with increasing prices by one cent. Those where the bids are going down don't fit this explanation.
And that is what this junk is, completely bogus bids with no intent other than to cost your competitors clock cycles.
I worked for a couple of years at one of the big trading exchanges in Chicago. Our offices were on a lower floor, and whenever our traders got off the elevator, coming back from lunch, they would hit all the floor buttons to delay the traders returning to the higher floors, and anyone else unlucky enough to be on the same elevator. But that was one of the minor reasons that I quit that business sector. The piles of spilled cocaine on the bathroom floors, and my boss asking me "Do you love money? I love money. In order to be in this business you have to love money!" were two others.
I wish I had the cash to make an open source (GPL or BSD license preferably) bounty for the following in a filesystem/LVM replacement, since ZFS isn't going to be going past Sun hardware these days:
And it really hasn't taken off there either. All the Sun shops that I know still use Veritas volume manager and filesystem.
Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against. They should get the same as the Gay/Lesbian couples, some people may not believe in marrage or may not want to get married for one reason or another. Why should they be forced to marry just to avoid a tax?
In California there are laws for just that situation. Let's hope the rest of the country catches up some time soon.
However, I'll have to challenge you to select other passages from the bible that contradict or refute the ones quoted above. Sure, that filthy hippy Jesus waffled some peacenik tree hugging propaganda about loving and forgiving sinners, but I don't recall him saying that it wasn't a sin.
Those are all potential mistranslations. Please submit the original Greek/Hebrew, etc., and let's see that the passages really say.
I don't understand why they don't have a simple voting system. If a user does something bad or obscene, vote them down. Then match the poorly rated people with each other. Or just have an obscenity button and if a person triggers it multiple times they get kicked off.
Because it's too easy to get an innocent person voted down just to fuck with them. That will lead to nothing but shenanigans.
Yea, they haven't talked about the new drum kit at all yet, but i'm certainly hoping for massive improvements. The reason people hold drum sticks poorly when playing the rock band kit is because they basically have to. First off, the pads have a pretty crappy response, forcing you to hit harder than you'd like to get the right response. But more importantly, the damn high hat is on the wrong side of the snare, which makes anything but the most basic rhythms extremely awkward. Now, the other reason people hold sticks improperly that probably won't change is they've never been taught the right way. Hopefully pro mode will start with some (optional) tutorial videos to help people out on that front.
I am not sure, but looking at the video I think I saw a dot over certain notes to represent cymbal hits, and a half sized bar to represent high hat. I currently use my Roland kit, but I'm limited to the four pads and one pedal. I'll finally get to use the whole kit! And maybe learn to play the drums IRL.
I can't read the article due to work filter, but since the game will come with a "real" midi controller, can I use my own with the game? I have an M-Audio Axiom 25.
Probably. I already use my Roland TD4 drum set through a Guitar Hero World Tour drum kit via the midi interface. Can't stand that POS drum set that they sell with the games.
It's apparently common to use fragrance (either sprayed perfume or scented magazine inserts) for "enrichment" of zoo animals so they don't get bored. A zookeeper maybe spritzes a log in the course of cleaning the tiger enclosure, and when the tigers come back in, they go nuts over this new smell, sniffing it repeatedly, rubbing against it, clawing at it etc.. I recall hearing that tigers go especially mental over Obsession and Charlie (probably all the musk).
You mean trying to obliterate the smell by rubbing their own scent producing glands in their paws and cheeks on it? I don't think that means that they like the smell, or are "going mental" over it. It means that they don't like having that smell in their cage.
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
What a stupid statement that is complete tautology. The entire point of starting a business is to make money. Otherwise the business *ahem* goes out of business.
You miss the point. The only reason that they are a success is through their shady practices to gain a monopoly, and in their even shadier practices to stay there. They have been a bane to the free market since they broke with IBM, and they have been able to crush a lot of good companies who had good products and were making money, until they ended up in Microsoft's crosshairs. One of the reasons that they have so much money to throw around is that they spend so little on actually creating products that people want, and instead spend it all on marketing and sales teams (that which people love to bash Apple over) and destroying the competition in whatever way possible, short of making a better product.
Most cop cars have dash mounted cameras. It's not the idea that a cop does not want to be recorded, they want a system that the end user does not have the ability to alter. The individual cop can't get to the video, I am sure only internal affairs and their superiors have access.
And how many times that camera "malfunction" at an inopportune time when it comes to providing evidence in court? Just saying.
Tolerance Yes... But it is all about keeping the body off balance. There is little doubt that coffee (aka caffeine) makes you more focused and energized. I mean to suggest that over 300 years of active "research" has no validity is kind of nieve in my mind. Sometimes so called researches have a hard time remembering this...
The capacity of the human for denial is beyond limit, in all cultures and all ages. Sometimes people forget this.
I wish there was a 'bring to the attention of the slashmods' button.. but yeah, it looks like Apple is acting a lot worse than Microsoft ever did.
Puleeze. When Apple has congress critters from their home state on TV explaining that monopolies are good for the trade deficit, then pinch me. Apple is micromanaging their products, sure, and it sucks. But do not confuse this with the marginally criminal acts that Microsoft has gotten away with throughout the years.
Religious can be equated as any form of spirituality, depending on how you want to interpret the numbers. Most scientists that I know have a certain level of spirituality, but this in no way equates to any organized religion.
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Do you really think that Microsoft has a team of people searching through these reports and actively fixing bugs based on them? It's more a metric of how bad a known bug is, that is, how many people are reporting crashes from known bug A as opposed to known bug B.
No, there need to be fewer and better thought out laws. A blanket $300 tax on any blog that makes money, for example, is not well thought out
Without break points and step functions, there would be no jobs for tax accountants.
I really don't get articles like this; of course tech can provide some new versions of the same old store; but the fundamentals still hold true - some people are just going to go through life stupidly, trusting that someone else will bail them out.
You want an answer; hold them accountable for their actions. For the idjits with the Salty Water; fine them the Rangers time, the fuel in the vehicles, plus a 10K punitive fine.
So if you are wealthy, and $20k is pocket change, then you can get this service any time you want? Fining is never the solution. Community service. Now there is a way to make the rich pay for their folly.
Thing is, its easier to drug the kid into being a averagely behaving consumer then it is to actually look at why said kid was depressed. This because it is likely that societal changes will be needed to actually fix the source of the depression.
For some people, drugs are not required. For severe cases with a definite physical cause, i.e. a lack of certain neurochemicals, drugs can be a godsend. Please do not discount the cases where people really do need drugs because it is oversubscribed to those who don't.
If that's not physical addiction, I don't know what is.
That's dependency, not addiction. You have to ramp off of these drugs slowly, that is take lower dosages over several weeks, so that your body adjusts. But once you are off, you don't have cravings to start taking it again. That would be a sign of addiction.
Just a note, Welbutrin isn't an SSRI, it's a completely different class of drug. Apparently it -does- behave in a similar manner to cocaine, though, but without any euphoria.
It's a DSRI and NSRI, that is, dopamine and norepenephrine reuptake inhibitor. I've been on it for several years now, and I can actually stop playing Civ when I feel like it. It really does work.
Because he violated his orders and actively breached security protocol. **IT DOES NOT MATTER** what he "leaked" or why, it just matters that he broke the law.
If we were so worried about the absolute authority of the law, we would never have had a revolution for independence.
>>>we have what amounts to a protest over the cost of the original book...
Bullshit. It's theft of another person's labor. Equivalent to if you spend a year of your life as an engineer, but you only get half the pay. The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit for your work, even though they didn't do a damn thing. They are parasites... nothing more.
That would be the case if the author actually received the bulk of the revenue. They get a tiny cut. Almost all of that goes right into the pockets of the fat cats at the publishing company. These text books could cost a fraction of the current cost, and the the author could get twice as much per book, and the publishers would still get their fair share.
Sociopaths are, well, sociopathic. They couldn't care less how their actions affect other people.
At least those with increasing prices by one cent. Those where the bids are going down don't fit this explanation.
And that is what this junk is, completely bogus bids with no intent other than to cost your competitors clock cycles.
I worked for a couple of years at one of the big trading exchanges in Chicago. Our offices were on a lower floor, and whenever our traders got off the elevator, coming back from lunch, they would hit all the floor buttons to delay the traders returning to the higher floors, and anyone else unlucky enough to be on the same elevator. But that was one of the minor reasons that I quit that business sector. The piles of spilled cocaine on the bathroom floors, and my boss asking me "Do you love money? I love money. In order to be in this business you have to love money!" were two others.
The "Science Of ___________" meme has finally jumped the shark.
Congratulations! Misuse of both terms meme and jump the shark.
Perfect mirrors, with not a single imperfection that will melt them in a microsecond, which are completely dust free in spite of being outdoors.
A second is an awfully long time to stay targeted on the exact same spot on a speeding missile.
I know their stuff is nice and shiny but this really pissed me off.
I just found the attitude in the store a little extreme. And the price for the repair.
I had a battery die in my MacBookPro, and as I had an appointment at the Apple store, I went in and in 10 minutes I had a new battery, free of charge.
Anecdotal account is anecdotal.
I wish I had the cash to make an open source (GPL or BSD license preferably) bounty for the following in a filesystem/LVM replacement, since ZFS isn't going to be going past Sun hardware these days:
And it really hasn't taken off there either. All the Sun shops that I know still use Veritas volume manager and filesystem.
Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against. They should get the same as the Gay/Lesbian couples, some people may not believe in marrage or may not want to get married for one reason or another. Why should they be forced to marry just to avoid a tax?
In California there are laws for just that situation. Let's hope the rest of the country catches up some time soon.
However, I'll have to challenge you to select other passages from the bible that contradict or refute the ones quoted above. Sure, that filthy hippy Jesus waffled some peacenik tree hugging propaganda about loving and forgiving sinners, but I don't recall him saying that it wasn't a sin.
Those are all potential mistranslations. Please submit the original Greek/Hebrew, etc., and let's see that the passages really say.
I don't understand why they don't have a simple voting system. If a user does something bad or obscene, vote them down. Then match the poorly rated people with each other. Or just have an obscenity button and if a person triggers it multiple times they get kicked off.
Because it's too easy to get an innocent person voted down just to fuck with them. That will lead to nothing but shenanigans.
Yea, they haven't talked about the new drum kit at all yet, but i'm certainly hoping for massive improvements. The reason people hold drum sticks poorly when playing the rock band kit is because they basically have to. First off, the pads have a pretty crappy response, forcing you to hit harder than you'd like to get the right response. But more importantly, the damn high hat is on the wrong side of the snare, which makes anything but the most basic rhythms extremely awkward. Now, the other reason people hold sticks improperly that probably won't change is they've never been taught the right way. Hopefully pro mode will start with some (optional) tutorial videos to help people out on that front.
I am not sure, but looking at the video I think I saw a dot over certain notes to represent cymbal hits, and a half sized bar to represent high hat. I currently use my Roland kit, but I'm limited to the four pads and one pedal. I'll finally get to use the whole kit! And maybe learn to play the drums IRL.
I can't read the article due to work filter, but since the game will come with a "real" midi controller, can I use my own with the game? I have an M-Audio Axiom 25.
Probably. I already use my Roland TD4 drum set through a Guitar Hero World Tour drum kit via the midi interface. Can't stand that POS drum set that they sell with the games.
It's apparently common to use fragrance (either sprayed perfume or scented magazine inserts) for "enrichment" of zoo animals so they don't get bored. A zookeeper maybe spritzes a log in the course of cleaning the tiger enclosure, and when the tigers come back in, they go nuts over this new smell, sniffing it repeatedly, rubbing against it, clawing at it etc.. I recall hearing that tigers go especially mental over Obsession and Charlie (probably all the musk).
You mean trying to obliterate the smell by rubbing their own scent producing glands in their paws and cheeks on it? I don't think that means that they like the smell, or are "going mental" over it. It means that they don't like having that smell in their cage.
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
What a stupid statement that is complete tautology. The entire point of starting a business is to make money. Otherwise the business *ahem* goes out of business.
You miss the point. The only reason that they are a success is through their shady practices to gain a monopoly, and in their even shadier practices to stay there. They have been a bane to the free market since they broke with IBM, and they have been able to crush a lot of good companies who had good products and were making money, until they ended up in Microsoft's crosshairs. One of the reasons that they have so much money to throw around is that they spend so little on actually creating products that people want, and instead spend it all on marketing and sales teams (that which people love to bash Apple over) and destroying the competition in whatever way possible, short of making a better product.
Most cop cars have dash mounted cameras. It's not the idea that a cop does not want to be recorded, they want a system that the end user does not have the ability to alter. The individual cop can't get to the video, I am sure only internal affairs and their superiors have access.
And how many times that camera "malfunction" at an inopportune time when it comes to providing evidence in court? Just saying.
Tolerance Yes... But it is all about keeping the body off balance. There is little doubt that coffee (aka caffeine) makes you more focused and energized. I mean to suggest that over 300 years of active "research" has no validity is kind of nieve in my mind. Sometimes so called researches have a hard time remembering this...
The capacity of the human for denial is beyond limit, in all cultures and all ages. Sometimes people forget this.
I wish there was a 'bring to the attention of the slashmods' button.. but yeah, it looks like Apple is acting a lot worse than Microsoft ever did.
Puleeze. When Apple has congress critters from their home state on TV explaining that monopolies are good for the trade deficit, then pinch me. Apple is micromanaging their products, sure, and it sucks. But do not confuse this with the marginally criminal acts that Microsoft has gotten away with throughout the years.
Religious can be equated as any form of spirituality, depending on how you want to interpret the numbers. Most scientists that I know have a certain level of spirituality, but this in no way equates to any organized religion.