Well the point is the man is so paranoid (rightfully so in my opinion) that he'd never do that, so the US need never expect to requisition the resources to deal with him. I just thought how darkly funny it would be if this whole debacle were a Burn After Reading style affair:)
You know I was just thinking, what if the US are just scaring the shit out of Assange and know full well that the case would never stand up in court if Assange simply turned himself in. However they know that he absolutely won't do that, and they're having a helluva laugh about it while watching him self destruct.
Just because one cannot run a mile in under five minutes does not mean that one should belittle those that can. The people competing in the Olympics are at the pinnacle of human fitness which takes dedication and skill no less equal to eroding your muscle mass while chowing down on sugary snacks and tapping away at a keyboard. Oh wait. See what I did there in the name of sensationalism?
I imagine you're going to need some fairly fit people to survive a trip to Mars without their bodies failing. So the art of physical fitness isn't wasted.
The QWERTY layout was chosen because typists could type so fast with the standard ABCD layout that typewriters would jam, hence QWERTY was introduced to slow them down. What these guys have done is taken the old layout and re-introduced it. Top google link:
I do hope they'll have a very safe day. Or their may be some regrets; a few survivors of their personal holocaust who can't wait to meet the men responsible for the total annihilation of their race.
I used Edge to try and diversify myself away from Flash development at my last job. As I'm stating this in retrospect, you can probably guess how well that went. My biggest issue with Edge was that (at least when I used it) the javascript libraries and html output came in at around 200kb, which was just utter insanity. Now I develop iPad games with Unity which is just as painful, but at least it seems to have an immediate future.
Nah Flash was always a terrible product, it's just that no one knew it back then. Wonder why Flash Player 10+ has so much bloat? It's because it can STILL run all that old crap that was developed for the original Actionscript Virtual Machine (FP8 and below). Not only that, as Flash became super popular it also became a vector for an increasingly large number of malware attacks which necessitated all of those fixes and patches, and the awful, AWFUL flash player security model that is the bane of every single Flash developer's life. If we could have FP10 and ONLY FP10 in a flash player that would be grand, and a good start at streamlining the player for CPU / power usage conscientious users. Finally, with the addition of new capabilities for flash player, like 3D, all those animators and designers that made the 'streamlined' oldschool animations... Guess what happened to them? Well they've continued to make all those fancy animations except now they use a bajillion 3rd party code libraries (because programming was never in their job description) and LOOAADS of GPU hungry effects. Seriously, most Flash developers aren't actually developers in the traditional sense at all. Case study: me having to fix the old flash "developer's" game code to add new functionality and finding that the player control handling code was duplicated in every single level for the game, which was itself a separate flash project.
Most of the faults of DS9 are however made up for by the Defiant when it decides to blow shit up in what usually amount to fantastically one sided fights.
I like how the article quite randomly mentions that Jobs used to do LSD, for no apparent reason:
"But where does Steve Jobs fit into all this? Before he passed, the famed Apple CEO (and former LSD user) met with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page as Google CEO by that time."
I'm not sure exactly what reaction that little interjection was supposed to elicit from the reader...
If you try to do anything medical or get any medical device in the USA you would be charged 10-50 times more than it actually costs. The prices are grossly inflated and then the big insurance companies negotiate them down by 90% or so. This is mostly in make sure that you don't go and get healthcare on your own. It also serves as a good way to keep some new insurance company from springing up - if you are not big enough, you can't negotiate such a discount, so you can't be profitable.
The insurance companies are all in a cartel. It would be illegal for any other business, but health insurance companies have a special exception.
There is no free market in health insurance in the USA and there has never been one, so there is no competition. Thus all the prices and profit margins are simply decided at the cartel meeting without any regard to real cost or social benefit.
My advice to the OP - go to a country with a real healthcare somewhere in EU or Canada or Asia and get some hearing aids there. It will come out cheaper even with a plane ticket.
I whole heartedly agree. I ended up spending more time making 'dumb' little video games and levels for Doom than on my homework. I even had real difficulty learning Math in school because we spent so much time on the theory instead of its practical application. Once I got to University things got more interesting; the course I took had a reasonable element of Math to it, but we weren't simply made to write answers to long differential equations - one of our courseworks involved modeling bezier curves in 3D which advanced my knowledge of mathematics forward more by itself than all of the teachers at secondary school ever had.
And the next step in the great human condition: "Man, all you assholes living in this galaxy, telling us we can't suck up a planet or two for our intergalactic spaceship! We'd leave all of you ungrateful trans-humans behind if only you'd let us!"
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Ah, another follower of the creed of The Friday Job.
"However, since you obviously just think I'm stupid (as well as the people who modded you up), why don't you explain the error in my logic?"
Well, for starters, your son might be gay...
Well the point is the man is so paranoid (rightfully so in my opinion) that he'd never do that, so the US need never expect to requisition the resources to deal with him. I just thought how darkly funny it would be if this whole debacle were a Burn After Reading style affair :)
You know I was just thinking, what if the US are just scaring the shit out of Assange and know full well that the case would never stand up in court if Assange simply turned himself in. However they know that he absolutely won't do that, and they're having a helluva laugh about it while watching him self destruct.
Nah it'll be in Javascript like everything is these days.
Just because one cannot run a mile in under five minutes does not mean that one should belittle those that can. The people competing in the Olympics are at the pinnacle of human fitness which takes dedication and skill no less equal to eroding your muscle mass while chowing down on sugary snacks and tapping away at a keyboard. Oh wait. See what I did there in the name of sensationalism?
I imagine you're going to need some fairly fit people to survive a trip to Mars without their bodies failing. So the art of physical fitness isn't wasted.
Yep I see my logic bomb there now, must be one of those days.
That's what I said.
The QWERTY layout was chosen because typists could type so fast with the standard ABCD layout that typewriters would jam, hence QWERTY was introduced to slow them down. What these guys have done is taken the old layout and re-introduced it. Top google link:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question458.htm
The torrent doesn't come with a tutorial?
I hope not, because things would most assuredly end terribly.
I do hope they'll have a very safe day. Or their may be some regrets; a few survivors of their personal holocaust who can't wait to meet the men responsible for the total annihilation of their race.
I used Edge to try and diversify myself away from Flash development at my last job. As I'm stating this in retrospect, you can probably guess how well that went. My biggest issue with Edge was that (at least when I used it) the javascript libraries and html output came in at around 200kb, which was just utter insanity. Now I develop iPad games with Unity which is just as painful, but at least it seems to have an immediate future.
Nah Flash was always a terrible product, it's just that no one knew it back then. Wonder why Flash Player 10+ has so much bloat? It's because it can STILL run all that old crap that was developed for the original Actionscript Virtual Machine (FP8 and below). Not only that, as Flash became super popular it also became a vector for an increasingly large number of malware attacks which necessitated all of those fixes and patches, and the awful, AWFUL flash player security model that is the bane of every single Flash developer's life. If we could have FP10 and ONLY FP10 in a flash player that would be grand, and a good start at streamlining the player for CPU / power usage conscientious users. Finally, with the addition of new capabilities for flash player, like 3D, all those animators and designers that made the 'streamlined' oldschool animations... Guess what happened to them? Well they've continued to make all those fancy animations except now they use a bajillion 3rd party code libraries (because programming was never in their job description) and LOOAADS of GPU hungry effects. Seriously, most Flash developers aren't actually developers in the traditional sense at all. Case study: me having to fix the old flash "developer's" game code to add new functionality and finding that the player control handling code was duplicated in every single level for the game, which was itself a separate flash project.
Shing!
Most of the faults of DS9 are however made up for by the Defiant when it decides to blow shit up in what usually amount to fantastically one sided fights.
I like how the article quite randomly mentions that Jobs used to do LSD, for no apparent reason:
"But where does Steve Jobs fit into all this? Before he passed, the famed Apple CEO (and former LSD user) met with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page as Google CEO by that time."
I'm not sure exactly what reaction that little interjection was supposed to elicit from the reader...
If you try to do anything medical or get any medical device in the USA you would be charged 10-50 times more than it actually costs. The prices are grossly inflated and then the big insurance companies negotiate them down by 90% or so. This is mostly in make sure that you don't go and get healthcare on your own. It also serves as a good way to keep some new insurance company from springing up - if you are not big enough, you can't negotiate such a discount, so you can't be profitable.
The insurance companies are all in a cartel. It would be illegal for any other business, but health insurance companies have a special exception.
There is no free market in health insurance in the USA and there has never been one, so there is no competition. Thus all the prices and profit margins are simply decided at the cartel meeting without any regard to real cost or social benefit.
My advice to the OP - go to a country with a real healthcare somewhere in EU or Canada or Asia and get some hearing aids there. It will come out cheaper even with a plane ticket.
I'm anonymous coward!
I whole heartedly agree. I ended up spending more time making 'dumb' little video games and levels for Doom than on my homework. I even had real difficulty learning Math in school because we spent so much time on the theory instead of its practical application. Once I got to University things got more interesting; the course I took had a reasonable element of Math to it, but we weren't simply made to write answers to long differential equations - one of our courseworks involved modeling bezier curves in 3D which advanced my knowledge of mathematics forward more by itself than all of the teachers at secondary school ever had.
And then they'll sue the victims for damage to the missile payload
Sounds like he has a pretty well rounded set of skills, he can probably infer very quickly that which you call wisdom.
Ah, the never ending cycle of sentient enlightenment!
And the next step in the great human condition: "Man, all you assholes living in this galaxy, telling us we can't suck up a planet or two for our intergalactic spaceship! We'd leave all of you ungrateful trans-humans behind if only you'd let us!"