Wait, so the company paid this person a salary and allowed her to own a home in the first place, but when the company stopped helping her it's "ruining her life"? That is some screwed up entitlement mentality.
The idea lived on though but now we use monkeys. They tend to be a little smarter and they can turn dials in addition to pushing buttons. Most commercial satellites now launch with monkeys aboard.
Won't the monkeys be too busy writing Shakespeare?
Drag in air, water or any other normal substance is always proportional to the square of the velocity. This is because if you double the speed of an object travelling through a fluid, the particles will hit the object twice as fast, causing twice as much change in velocity, and there will be twice as many particles hitting it per second. Combine those two effects and you get the proportionality to v^2.
There have been precious few movies that portrayed the use of cover and concealment in a combat situation. The heroes always strut around the battlefield like a bunch of banty roosters, the enemy can't hit the heroes with anything, and the heroes can't miss the most difficult shot.
Or, alternatively, only the heroes understand the concept of taking cover while the enemies just stand there like a turret.
Ok, but you lose the ability to climb up onto things - you can either climb stairs or jump but any higher and you're screwed. Also, your weapons pass right through people who are friendly to you, although if you pat them on the back out of friendliness it will, for some reason, work fine. You cannot run faster than 12 kilometers per hour under any circumstances. You can store multiple pens in your pocket, but only if they are of the same make (no mixing different companies or even different versions allowed). The same applies to tissues, fruit and anything else that's small. Your car will always be able to teleport to your location when you press the button, but it can't do that while you're inside it. DRM will be perfect - you cannot possibly copy any document such as a recipe or even have multiple people look at it. Banks will store things in some magical subspace where you can go anywhere and access them from your local branch, but you most certainly cannot send people through that system. People with infinite supplies of godlike weapons will sell them to you for exorbitant prices, and there are no antitrust regulators to help you. FIreballs which can kill giant robots of steel will be useless against a simple locked door. You will save the world, but only have an item which will be replaced in 2 weeks to show for it.
Why would China care about keeping information from people who are either going to take the return flight home in a few days or are already educated enough to circumvent the censorship?
Any reasonable person would see it as a joke after reading a few articles. As for News Corp, they look like a legitimate news source and they are not a humor source - they're just a source of made-up stuff and exaggerated stories about Loch Ness Monsters woven from 20 pixels in a picture,
Just because the tax is called a "license fee" does not mean that it isn't still a tax. And because the federal government collects the tax, and despite the fact that the money doesn't pass through the federal government and the fact that the BBC isn't regulated like other federally funded services, the BBC is federally funded.
As presiding judge over Slashdot Court and after hearing the above testimonies from expert witnesses, I hereby order the environment to remain at least three hundred feet away from all businesses and places of commerce. Failure to do so will result in a one hundred dollar fine to mother nature and her related entities.
This reminds me of the idea of setting a legal minimum temperature during the winter.
Of course, people are going to claim that IPV4 depletion is always 700 days away - this is true. But what they're missing is that IPV4 depletion is like peak oil - you won't have some random guy scrape the bottom with his shovel and suddenly that's the end and there's chaos everywhere. As there are fewer and fewer IP addresses, people will become more and more conservative about them, trying to conserve them, and eventually there will be a cost to each IP address that will keep increasing. The problem is, some of the tricks used to save addresses, like NAT, are really bad for the internet - NAT traversal difficulties make it much harder for two computers to connect. If the world could switch to using water as an energy source just by changing a protocol, you wouldn't see much opposition at all.
I always just hard-code all my levels - it's easier to just go back and recompile (which takes 15 seconds in C or 0 seconds in python) than code all the extra logic in for reading from files. As another plus, this makes it harder for other people to cheat. Speaking of cheating, once I called my player save file "makefile" to discourage people from looking at it or modifying it.
And, I never split my code into multiple files - scroll and Ctrl+F were good enough for my grandfather, and they're good enough for me!
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"They nearly ruined my life."
Wait, so the company paid this person a salary and allowed her to own a home in the first place, but when the company stopped helping her it's "ruining her life"? That is some screwed up entitlement mentality.
The idea lived on though but now we use monkeys. They tend to be a little smarter and they can turn dials in addition to pushing buttons. Most commercial satellites now launch with monkeys aboard.
Won't the monkeys be too busy writing Shakespeare?
1 woman, 9 glasses of wine, 1 romantic overlook = 1 baby
Will the baby run Linux?
I usually misread it as "libertarians".
Drag in air, water or any other normal substance is always proportional to the square of the velocity. This is because if you double the speed of an object travelling through a fluid, the particles will hit the object twice as fast, causing twice as much change in velocity, and there will be twice as many particles hitting it per second. Combine those two effects and you get the proportionality to v^2.
Just because you have different names for things doesn't mean they're different. A rose by any other name, and all that.
There have been precious few movies that portrayed the use of cover and concealment in a combat situation. The heroes always strut around the battlefield like a bunch of banty roosters, the enemy can't hit the heroes with anything, and the heroes can't miss the most difficult shot.
Or, alternatively, only the heroes understand the concept of taking cover while the enemies just stand there like a turret.
Ok, but you lose the ability to climb up onto things - you can either climb stairs or jump but any higher and you're screwed. Also, your weapons pass right through people who are friendly to you, although if you pat them on the back out of friendliness it will, for some reason, work fine. You cannot run faster than 12 kilometers per hour under any circumstances. You can store multiple pens in your pocket, but only if they are of the same make (no mixing different companies or even different versions allowed). The same applies to tissues, fruit and anything else that's small. Your car will always be able to teleport to your location when you press the button, but it can't do that while you're inside it. DRM will be perfect - you cannot possibly copy any document such as a recipe or even have multiple people look at it. Banks will store things in some magical subspace where you can go anywhere and access them from your local branch, but you most certainly cannot send people through that system. People with infinite supplies of godlike weapons will sell them to you for exorbitant prices, and there are no antitrust regulators to help you. FIreballs which can kill giant robots of steel will be useless against a simple locked door. You will save the world, but only have an item which will be replaced in 2 weeks to show for it.
For magic and swords, it may be worth it.
Why would China care about keeping information from people who are either going to take the return flight home in a few days or are already educated enough to circumvent the censorship?
Any reasonable person would see it as a joke after reading a few articles. As for News Corp, they look like a legitimate news source and they are not a humor source - they're just a source of made-up stuff and exaggerated stories about Loch Ness Monsters woven from 20 pixels in a picture,
The real question is, which one does it go up to?
All you're missing is the mention of a hidden 25 million dollars.
Dell is willingly in a partnership with a criminal. That road is not supposed to be a smooth one.
Just because the tax is called a "license fee" does not mean that it isn't still a tax. And because the federal government collects the tax, and despite the fact that the money doesn't pass through the federal government and the fact that the BBC isn't regulated like other federally funded services, the BBC is federally funded.
You may put News Corp. in a different category than The Onion, but that is your problem.
The Onion does not claim to be providing actual news.
Sounds like a layer of obfuscation on top of the Russian system.
And here I was thinking that kind of thing is reserved for cyberpunk dystopias.
I personally prefer "cops at my door brb in 25 to life"
If I were one of the generals I'd put it in the giant wooden horse.
tl;dw
Uh, I mean:
Why not just stick a Linux distro on there? You'll just use whatever computer you get as if it's your own.
So what if some guy in 2657 with his quark computer decrypts my hard drive and finds my plans to blow up the White House next year?
As presiding judge over Slashdot Court and after hearing the above testimonies from expert witnesses, I hereby order the environment to remain at least three hundred feet away from all businesses and places of commerce. Failure to do so will result in a one hundred dollar fine to mother nature and her related entities.
This reminds me of the idea of setting a legal minimum temperature during the winter.
Of course, people are going to claim that IPV4 depletion is always 700 days away - this is true. But what they're missing is that IPV4 depletion is like peak oil - you won't have some random guy scrape the bottom with his shovel and suddenly that's the end and there's chaos everywhere. As there are fewer and fewer IP addresses, people will become more and more conservative about them, trying to conserve them, and eventually there will be a cost to each IP address that will keep increasing. The problem is, some of the tricks used to save addresses, like NAT, are really bad for the internet - NAT traversal difficulties make it much harder for two computers to connect. If the world could switch to using water as an energy source just by changing a protocol, you wouldn't see much opposition at all.
I always just hard-code all my levels - it's easier to just go back and recompile (which takes 15 seconds in C or 0 seconds in python) than code all the extra logic in for reading from files. As another plus, this makes it harder for other people to cheat. Speaking of cheating, once I called my player save file "makefile" to discourage people from looking at it or modifying it.
And, I never split my code into multiple files - scroll and Ctrl+F were good enough for my grandfather, and they're good enough for me!