Aside from common sense, there are other issues that may arise from unwashed pants. Fungal problems are among the first that come to mind. Ever seen a boy with 15-month jock itch spread over his legs?
This is exactly why I think it is negligible that no one outside of a very select group of scientists is consulted as to the safety of this type of experiment. I live very near the accelerator in Illinois, and I dread the day they are scheduled to ramp up this new one to its full potential.
What if they do make the whole Earth go boom?
What if there is a God, and he isn't happy about us playing with creation?
Did anyone ask the rest of us before they tried?
With all the problems that occurred during the various stages of building and testing the new Collider, theory that perhaps it was the universe defensively preventing its unmaking doesn’t sound that far-fetched any longer:)
One more step towards planting a bug in my arse. We haven't had privacy rights in the way we knew them as children since the Patriot Act. Your Internet, phone, cellular, Satellite, and other electronic communications are not private. In the internet of "National Security", the government as the right to review anything they want.
I am not a "big brother" alarmist by any means, but if you follow the path laid clear by Slashdot alone in the last year it paints a picture of: implanted chips for kids, biometric data collection, communication monitoring, throttling, and blocking, ISP filtering, the review of everything from website traffic to text msgs in the name of preventing child porn, cameras at every stoplight and street corner, non-military UAVs for the police force, etc. Add these additional "emergency powers", and there is just one more medium that the federal government has complete control over, any time they deem it necessary.
Yay for our side.... or have we already lost?
How about we create a tax on video games to support the failing board game industry? Or 20% tax on fuel injectors to subsidize the failing buggy whip market?
Give me a friggin break people. It was NEVER the government's responsibility to support failing market initiatives, or outdated technology. The need creates the market. If the market isn't buying it, then the need has moved elsewhere.
Imagine this: We let the newspapers die. There are no longer major news websites associated with those papers to provide material for pseudo news groups to link to for free. Other new sources will spring up, and the more legitimate and satisfying of those will flourish, and grow to become larger news sites. Those new sources of news will decide how best to be profitable, either by charging a fee for access to their service, or by using the free popularity model to drive the desirability for advertising space within their site.
How do you think all these "Free" sites became popular, and then desirable, and finally powerful? (Google, Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.)
Let the genre evolve how it will. Stop squeezing more money out of our @$$E$ by trying to reverse time and evolution already!
How does this affect gamers then, specifically MMOs? You are connected at a constant up/down stream connection that takes advantage of whatever available bandwidth you have as far as I know (unconfirmed). You are generally connected for a lot longer than 15 min. and you are not downloading anything p2p, yet your heavy usage is going to be punished now I assume. For those of us that purchase the higher bandwidth connections to begin with in order to game, this bytes:)
Can anyone confirm how they prioritize gaming traffic over their networks?
What a terrible idea! Pain sensors exist for a reason - to let even big dumb animals realize when something hurts, so they can attempt to remove themselves from the cause if possible. I don't believe morally that removing the end-result (pain) makes causing their body harm any less inhumane.
More importantly, there are other reasons for removing the factory farm. You are what you eat folks. Animals that feed on grass and walk around becoming strong are inherently HEALTHIER, which means you are too. They require fewer antibiotics, steroids, and anything else you don't want to ingest on a regular basis.
Hey, maybe we should bring back the home lobotomy kits so that people won't be bored anymore 8)-
I force myself to spell correctly (even when typing) and can't stand what I read within MMOs, or even in the workplace most of the time these days. I also try to never use a calculator, and it allows me to retain my ability to compute in my head.
The grammatical ability of the average person I game with is just atrocious. I am chastised for correcting people with "what are you an English teacher?". What they don't realize however is that to the rest of the world, they sound ignorant.
I do find that I type quite a bit faster than I write these days. My writing was never great, but it has definitely declined. More importantly, I tried to write in cursive not long ago, and realized that my brain/hands have forgotten some of the letters.
If you don't use it, you might not lose it entirely, but you do lose your proficiency!
If your cell carrier does not charge by the second, they round UP to the nearest full minute.
If they do, they increment them all, and while you don't think 15 seconds is costing you much, multiply that by the number of times per year you listen to those messages. Then multiply that by the number of cell phone users...
I worked with a specialist for a time who was an Asset Center (once called Peregrine) consultant. That handles the level of asset management that you are looking for, and can up configured to be updated automatically from databases, network components, etc.
Having completed part of my education via UoP, which requires students to work in teams for every course (I was pursuing an IT BS, so coding courses did exist in my curriculum), utilizing a simple means of communicating and sharing work was important.
What is wrong with a simple instant messenger? Skype, and AIM allow you to chat via IM, or verbally 1-on-1, and in small groups. You can also file transfer.txt files with your code back and forth in seconds.
This was the easiest method of remote collaboration. It was up to the group to decide how to handle things like delegation of the workload, etc. The pair should be able to handle splitting up the assignment, pasting together their parts, and file sharing.txt files to work on a project together.
This isn't about the "economic recession". The decline in video game sales from last June to this June can be explained easily by the following:
- Last June people were still buying a new system (this year is another year further from their inception). I bought a PS3 for the first time last year for example.
- This year there is a HUGE absence of new, quality titles available right now. Most people are waiting for the large flood of games that are being released this coming fall/winter. This is usually the case seasonally, but this June seems dryer than last.
- Last year the Guitar Hero/RB craze was still going strong, and since the "newness" has worn off quite a bit by now, so as the demand for $150-200 accessory packages.
They were lucky to be doing as well as they were last June. They are still making a fair buck. People traditionally play fewer games in the summer do to: wanting to be outdoors instead of turning into mushrooms, vacations, sports, etc. This isn't time to cry "the industry is way down due to the recession". Just wait for the holiday season with: Diablo 3, Aion, Batman:Darkham Asylum, Rock Band: Beatles, and a ton of others being released.
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Aside from common sense, there are other issues that may arise from unwashed pants. Fungal problems are among the first that come to mind. Ever seen a boy with 15-month jock itch spread over his legs?
They were attempting to travel down the rabbit hole...
This is exactly why I think it is negligible that no one outside of a very select group of scientists is consulted as to the safety of this type of experiment. I live very near the accelerator in Illinois, and I dread the day they are scheduled to ramp up this new one to its full potential. What if they do make the whole Earth go boom? What if there is a God, and he isn't happy about us playing with creation? Did anyone ask the rest of us before they tried? With all the problems that occurred during the various stages of building and testing the new Collider, theory that perhaps it was the universe defensively preventing its unmaking doesn’t sound that far-fetched any longer :)
One more step towards planting a bug in my arse. We haven't had privacy rights in the way we knew them as children since the Patriot Act. Your Internet, phone, cellular, Satellite, and other electronic communications are not private. In the internet of "National Security", the government as the right to review anything they want. I am not a "big brother" alarmist by any means, but if you follow the path laid clear by Slashdot alone in the last year it paints a picture of: implanted chips for kids, biometric data collection, communication monitoring, throttling, and blocking, ISP filtering, the review of everything from website traffic to text msgs in the name of preventing child porn, cameras at every stoplight and street corner, non-military UAVs for the police force, etc. Add these additional "emergency powers", and there is just one more medium that the federal government has complete control over, any time they deem it necessary. Yay for our side.... or have we already lost?
How about we create a tax on video games to support the failing board game industry? Or 20% tax on fuel injectors to subsidize the failing buggy whip market? Give me a friggin break people. It was NEVER the government's responsibility to support failing market initiatives, or outdated technology. The need creates the market. If the market isn't buying it, then the need has moved elsewhere. Imagine this: We let the newspapers die. There are no longer major news websites associated with those papers to provide material for pseudo news groups to link to for free. Other new sources will spring up, and the more legitimate and satisfying of those will flourish, and grow to become larger news sites. Those new sources of news will decide how best to be profitable, either by charging a fee for access to their service, or by using the free popularity model to drive the desirability for advertising space within their site. How do you think all these "Free" sites became popular, and then desirable, and finally powerful? (Google, Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) Let the genre evolve how it will. Stop squeezing more money out of our @$$E$ by trying to reverse time and evolution already!
they'd never try this in Saudi Arabia. They'd end up executed for sorcery.
Since it was a UFO prank, wouldn't the charge be saucery?
Booo hisss ..... :)
How does this affect gamers then, specifically MMOs? You are connected at a constant up/down stream connection that takes advantage of whatever available bandwidth you have as far as I know (unconfirmed). You are generally connected for a lot longer than 15 min. and you are not downloading anything p2p, yet your heavy usage is going to be punished now I assume. For those of us that purchase the higher bandwidth connections to begin with in order to game, this bytes :)
Can anyone confirm how they prioritize gaming traffic over their networks?
What a terrible idea! Pain sensors exist for a reason - to let even big dumb animals realize when something hurts, so they can attempt to remove themselves from the cause if possible. I don't believe morally that removing the end-result (pain) makes causing their body harm any less inhumane.
More importantly, there are other reasons for removing the factory farm. You are what you eat folks. Animals that feed on grass and walk around becoming strong are inherently HEALTHIER, which means you are too. They require fewer antibiotics, steroids, and anything else you don't want to ingest on a regular basis.
Hey, maybe we should bring back the home lobotomy kits so that people won't be bored anymore 8)-
I force myself to spell correctly (even when typing) and can't stand what I read within MMOs, or even in the workplace most of the time these days. I also try to never use a calculator, and it allows me to retain my ability to compute in my head. The grammatical ability of the average person I game with is just atrocious. I am chastised for correcting people with "what are you an English teacher?". What they don't realize however is that to the rest of the world, they sound ignorant. I do find that I type quite a bit faster than I write these days. My writing was never great, but it has definitely declined. More importantly, I tried to write in cursive not long ago, and realized that my brain/hands have forgotten some of the letters. If you don't use it, you might not lose it entirely, but you do lose your proficiency!
If your cell carrier does not charge by the second, they round UP to the nearest full minute. If they do, they increment them all, and while you don't think 15 seconds is costing you much, multiply that by the number of times per year you listen to those messages. Then multiply that by the number of cell phone users...
I worked with a specialist for a time who was an Asset Center (once called Peregrine) consultant. That handles the level of asset management that you are looking for, and can up configured to be updated automatically from databases, network components, etc.
Having completed part of my education via UoP, which requires students to work in teams for every course (I was pursuing an IT BS, so coding courses did exist in my curriculum), utilizing a simple means of communicating and sharing work was important. What is wrong with a simple instant messenger? Skype, and AIM allow you to chat via IM, or verbally 1-on-1, and in small groups. You can also file transfer .txt files with your code back and forth in seconds.
This was the easiest method of remote collaboration. It was up to the group to decide how to handle things like delegation of the workload, etc. The pair should be able to handle splitting up the assignment, pasting together their parts, and file sharing .txt files to work on a project together.
This isn't about the "economic recession". The decline in video game sales from last June to this June can be explained easily by the following: - Last June people were still buying a new system (this year is another year further from their inception). I bought a PS3 for the first time last year for example. - This year there is a HUGE absence of new, quality titles available right now. Most people are waiting for the large flood of games that are being released this coming fall/winter. This is usually the case seasonally, but this June seems dryer than last. - Last year the Guitar Hero/RB craze was still going strong, and since the "newness" has worn off quite a bit by now, so as the demand for $150-200 accessory packages. They were lucky to be doing as well as they were last June. They are still making a fair buck. People traditionally play fewer games in the summer do to: wanting to be outdoors instead of turning into mushrooms, vacations, sports, etc. This isn't time to cry "the industry is way down due to the recession". Just wait for the holiday season with: Diablo 3, Aion, Batman:Darkham Asylum, Rock Band: Beatles, and a ton of others being released.