My sister in law, who is japanese born and bred, still has trouble reading some newspapers due to the complexity of the characters. She even needs to use multiple dictionaries (3?) to properly understand what she's reading.
Add that to the fact that, as the article points out, everything now it typed (let alone the Chinese using simplified characters), it's no surprise that they're forgetting it. But, hey, look on the bright side: just like Latin, it'll evolve into easier, more coherent languages.
Since when has PT, $1/month blogging become a business!?
While this is insanely stupid, I'm wondering what the impact will be on free speech (now i have to PAY to have the privilege to express my opinions!? Since when has this become a privilege, and not a right anymore?).
The ironic part, if you think about it, is that the government is trying to raise revenues to "help the poor" (their usual excuse), yet it's the lower income bloggers (who can't afford the $300 fee) who will have to shut up in favour of those with money who can afford the fees.
Unless they find a way to make the text searcheable and just search for "social security number" or "credit card number" and look at what's written right next to it. And while I don't know how to do that personally, it seems like the type of thing that would take about 10 minutes to figure out and then another 10 minutes to actually do.
Not sure if that's possible, really. At least not in the short run. Besides, it's not that hard to flip through thousands of images of lolcats, asses or whatever and separate from real documents. A somewhat determined criminal could do it in a day or two, and the potential payoff (blackmail, id theft, sell to the black market, etc...) is more than likely to be worth it.
The question here is - how long will the eruption and the ash cloud last? Judging from historical records, it's not uncommon for eruptions to last decades. If - then what? New routes? Limit cross-atlantic flights endpoints to southern Spain or something?
According to this article , it may last for another month, and possibly a year or longer. It will be interesting, if somewhat uneasy, to see how people will react to this (boats to the US? fly above/below the ash clouds?). Clearly this cannot go on for long, given the damage that it is doing in terms of lost revenue for businesses, mail not being delivered (so i hear) and thousands of stranded customers.
Do you want to keep your job? Don't forget that in this economy (especially), there are going to be countless skilled professionals, already out of work, more than willing to put the extra effort for that position. So if you want your job, then show them that you're better than the competition and that you're worth keeping. Otherwise, dont blame the company for wanting to choose someone who has shown more diligence, hard work and skill over you.
they found life even there?? what's next, finding living organisms on C-SPAN?
Whoah, there. Let's take baby steps. I'd say the next logical step would be to determine whether Larry King is actually alive. Then Elvis, and then C-SPAN.
This is the most rediculous theory I've heard in a long time. Why does he assume that alien beings not only evolve like Earth-like beings, but also have the same, identical characteristics of humans? If we send alien signals to cats, would they respond back? i think not. Do they sit on their kitty-asses playing Wii? not a chance. and yet they exist.
There are way too many variables and unknowns for us to simply conclude that "aliens are playing video games" or "engaging in excessive consumerism" as the reasons for no contact. Come to think of it, this theory is stinking of we-must-take-care-of-ourselves-if-we-want-to-survive propaganda.
Whatever. this article is too retarded for me to further waste my time on.
New applications of technology are always much more expensive than their older counterparts. Why do you think the latest and greatest Nvidia video cards cost $hundreds? (disclaimer: it's been years since i've worked with or built computers, so the details may a bit out of date, but the concept still stands) In part, supply and demand. Part also because they are trying out new techniques which require substantial R&D costs. Once problems are ironed out and people start buying en masse (assuming it's not a shoddy product/tech to begin with, like 3D -- until now), economies of scale will kick in and the "true market value" (for lack of better terminology) of the mass will ultimately dictate whether it's ultimately worth the investment or not. That's the way it was with the introduction of PCs, CDs, video game consoles and any other type of technology conceivable. this will be no different.
If you don't like it now, that's fine (and very understandable), but just give it another few years until the market takes over before making any judgements. In the mean time, sit back, relax, and let the uber-geeks do their thing:-)
It may not be to my personal taste, but if noone is getting hurt, then why the hell is it being intefered with?
So those in power can force upon you their own moral beliefs of what is right and wrong regardless of your own opinion. Same as any other victimless crime.
I own a wii. It's been unplugged for over a year and I play the 360 every day, but I am still a wii owner.
Yes, you're a wii owner, but that means crap if you never use it. If, hypothetically, Nintendo found out that nobody actually used their wiis, would it realistically be considered more successful than, say, the PS3 where the players actually use it?
Having said that a much more meaningful (and correspondingly more difficult to measure) statistic is not the number of downloads or number of OS's installed, but rather the time used in each OS. For example, I have both XP and Ubuntu, yet almost never use XP. It wouldn't make sense to count them the same. this is especially true given that Ubuntu is free (how many downloaded vs actually used consistently or occasionally?) Perhaps someone could write a program to "phone home" the number of hours used per month...? just a thought
Summary doesn't make it clear that the Sheriff in question is Joe Arpaio, a sadistic, authoritarian monster that that believes in making prison as demeaning and painful affair as possible no matter what the offense. He's a sick, twisted psychopath that needs to be stopped at all cost.
Yes, it is him (here), although i had to do a bit of google searching for his name to come up...
They are not required to take part in an actual discussion. If posting material that everyone on a forum can be expected to disagree with, and then not bothering to stay around to defend your views any further than that, does not quality as "trolling," then I do not know what does.
It's more than that. if you look at one of their syllabi (sp?) here they refer to science as the "chief antagonist" of Intelligent design. Further evidence is shown by your remark. The problem here is that they are encouraging their students to have open hostility towards anything science (or at least anything anti-ID) rather than a simple "let's sit down and talk", which is far more effective.
I remember once having a roommate who was HARDCORE Christian - always church, everything was because of God etc.. I, on the other hand, am an agnostic, and to me everything has to be proven scientifically (or reasonably well) for me to bother with it. In other words, we were polar opposites. Yet, he was probably my best roommate I have ever had. Why? Because in our frequent science vs. religion conversations we had, we never referred to each other as the "bad guys" (even jokingly) and we always tried to see the other person's POV. There was nothing "antagonist" or "hostile" about either of us, yet we managed to have some of the best conversations I have ever had with anybody.
The approach they are taking here is the opposite: science is the bad guy, and ID is the good guy and anybody who sides with the beliefs of the bad guys are equally bad. This is no different (in principle, anyways) than the fundamentalist islam when claiming their superiority over western culture. Both unacceptable, and both breeding ground for contempt.
Also, would someone care to explain their NEGATIVE percentage attributed to "active class participation" here?
I remember when working for a major financial firm in Boston, they had the most ridiculous password policies for each password. We had to have at least four or five different passwords according to what you needed to access, each with their own rules and limitations (size, characters allowed etc...). Not only that, but each password expired in different intervals. So basically every week, you'd have to change at least one password making the whole damn thing impossible to remember.So, what did people do? They wrote them down in little sticky-notes. Sure, I came up with my own schemes to facilitate remembering them, but nevertheless a forgotten password was bound to happen. It amazes me how paranoid firms are about some policies, yet leave the back door wide open due to such stupidity
Due to a recent identity-theft scare I had the other day, it made me realize the importance of safe-guarding the data with good passwords. Since then, I've used KeePass to generate and store all my 20-digit random passwords that I've since never have to remember (a backup, of course, is constantly made and stored in a safe place). Either way, I'm no security expert, but it seems to me an approach like this would be much more sensible than inconsistent password policies that expire randomly. Just my $0.02
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Where's the link to the source article? Or is this yet another anti-MS rant?
you Khan believe in!
My sister in law, who is japanese born and bred, still has trouble reading some newspapers due to the complexity of the characters. She even needs to use multiple dictionaries (3?) to properly understand what she's reading.
Add that to the fact that, as the article points out, everything now it typed (let alone the Chinese using simplified characters), it's no surprise that they're forgetting it. But, hey, look on the bright side: just like Latin, it'll evolve into easier, more coherent languages.
2030: Gmail clones a soulmate for you (based on conversations you've had using it's service), and delivers it to your door.
Now my parents finally have the answer to their decade-old question "when will you ever get a girlfriend?"
Since when has PT, $1/month blogging become a business!? While this is insanely stupid, I'm wondering what the impact will be on free speech (now i have to PAY to have the privilege to express my opinions!? Since when has this become a privilege, and not a right anymore?). The ironic part, if you think about it, is that the government is trying to raise revenues to "help the poor" (their usual excuse), yet it's the lower income bloggers (who can't afford the $300 fee) who will have to shut up in favour of those with money who can afford the fees.
two heads are better than none.
There fixed that for you.
I'd say you've never even heard of a little country called Ireland...
Actually, it's an even littler country called Northern Ireland
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give it to 4chan?
Unless they find a way to make the text searcheable and just search for "social security number" or "credit card number" and look at what's written right next to it. And while I don't know how to do that personally, it seems like the type of thing that would take about 10 minutes to figure out and then another 10 minutes to actually do.
Not sure if that's possible, really. At least not in the short run. Besides, it's not that hard to flip through thousands of images of lolcats, asses or whatever and separate from real documents. A somewhat determined criminal could do it in a day or two, and the potential payoff (blackmail, id theft, sell to the black market, etc...) is more than likely to be worth it.
would also imply more experienced developers. And that's not (necessarily) a bad thing.
The question here is - how long will the eruption and the ash cloud last? Judging from historical records, it's not uncommon for eruptions to last decades. If - then what? New routes? Limit cross-atlantic flights endpoints to southern Spain or something?
According to this article , it may last for another month, and possibly a year or longer. It will be interesting, if somewhat uneasy, to see how people will react to this (boats to the US? fly above/below the ash clouds?). Clearly this cannot go on for long, given the damage that it is doing in terms of lost revenue for businesses, mail not being delivered (so i hear) and thousands of stranded customers.
Do you want to keep your job? Don't forget that in this economy (especially), there are going to be countless skilled professionals, already out of work, more than willing to put the extra effort for that position. So if you want your job, then show them that you're better than the competition and that you're worth keeping. Otherwise, dont blame the company for wanting to choose someone who has shown more diligence, hard work and skill over you.
they found life even there?? what's next, finding living organisms on C-SPAN?
Whoah, there. Let's take baby steps. I'd say the next logical step would be to determine whether Larry King is actually alive. Then Elvis, and then C-SPAN.
What? didn't you hear? They're playing video games !
This is the most rediculous theory I've heard in a long time. Why does he assume that alien beings not only evolve like Earth-like beings, but also have the same, identical characteristics of humans? If we send alien signals to cats, would they respond back? i think not. Do they sit on their kitty-asses playing Wii? not a chance. and yet they exist.
There are way too many variables and unknowns for us to simply conclude that "aliens are playing video games" or "engaging in excessive consumerism" as the reasons for no contact. Come to think of it, this theory is stinking of we-must-take-care-of-ourselves-if-we-want-to-survive propaganda.
Whatever. this article is too retarded for me to further waste my time on.
Some schools teach creationism. Some teach actual theology. Why should alien abduction be treated any differently? Teach the controversy!
do you really think it's a good idea to teach scientology to college students?
New applications of technology are always much more expensive than their older counterparts. Why do you think the latest and greatest Nvidia video cards cost $hundreds? (disclaimer: it's been years since i've worked with or built computers, so the details may a bit out of date, but the concept still stands) In part, supply and demand. Part also because they are trying out new techniques which require substantial R&D costs. Once problems are ironed out and people start buying en masse (assuming it's not a shoddy product/tech to begin with, like 3D -- until now), economies of scale will kick in and the "true market value" (for lack of better terminology) of the mass will ultimately dictate whether it's ultimately worth the investment or not. That's the way it was with the introduction of PCs, CDs, video game consoles and any other type of technology conceivable. this will be no different.
If you don't like it now, that's fine (and very understandable), but just give it another few years until the market takes over before making any judgements. In the mean time, sit back, relax, and let the uber-geeks do their thing :-)
It may not be to my personal taste, but if noone is getting hurt, then why the hell is it being intefered with?
So those in power can force upon you their own moral beliefs of what is right and wrong regardless of your own opinion. Same as any other victimless crime.
it's just a bloody search engine. How is this newsworthy (even for /.)?
I own a wii. It's been unplugged for over a year and I play the 360 every day, but I am still a wii owner.
Yes, you're a wii owner, but that means crap if you never use it. If, hypothetically, Nintendo found out that nobody actually used their wiis, would it realistically be considered more successful than, say, the PS3 where the players actually use it?
Having said that a much more meaningful (and correspondingly more difficult to measure) statistic is not the number of downloads or number of OS's installed, but rather the time used in each OS. For example, I have both XP and Ubuntu, yet almost never use XP. It wouldn't make sense to count them the same. this is especially true given that Ubuntu is free (how many downloaded vs actually used consistently or occasionally?) Perhaps someone could write a program to "phone home" the number of hours used per month...? just a thought
Whoah! Looks like MS might be right on this one. After some detective work worthy of Sherlock Holmes, I have uncovered this.
I thought it was $240 mil. Is that a typo or have they been fined again?
Summary doesn't make it clear that the Sheriff in question is Joe Arpaio, a sadistic, authoritarian monster that that believes in making prison as demeaning and painful affair as possible no matter what the offense. He's a sick, twisted psychopath that needs to be stopped at all cost.
Yes, it is him (here), although i had to do a bit of google searching for his name to come up...
They are not required to take part in an actual discussion. If posting material that everyone on a forum can be expected to disagree with, and then not bothering to stay around to defend your views any further than that, does not quality as "trolling," then I do not know what does.
It's more than that. if you look at one of their syllabi (sp?) here they refer to science as the "chief antagonist" of Intelligent design. Further evidence is shown by your remark. The problem here is that they are encouraging their students to have open hostility towards anything science (or at least anything anti-ID) rather than a simple "let's sit down and talk", which is far more effective.
I remember once having a roommate who was HARDCORE Christian - always church, everything was because of God etc.. I, on the other hand, am an agnostic, and to me everything has to be proven scientifically (or reasonably well) for me to bother with it. In other words, we were polar opposites. Yet, he was probably my best roommate I have ever had. Why? Because in our frequent science vs. religion conversations we had, we never referred to each other as the "bad guys" (even jokingly) and we always tried to see the other person's POV. There was nothing "antagonist" or "hostile" about either of us, yet we managed to have some of the best conversations I have ever had with anybody.
The approach they are taking here is the opposite: science is the bad guy, and ID is the good guy and anybody who sides with the beliefs of the bad guys are equally bad. This is no different (in principle, anyways) than the fundamentalist islam when claiming their superiority over western culture. Both unacceptable, and both breeding ground for contempt.
Also, would someone care to explain their NEGATIVE percentage attributed to "active class participation" here?
I remember when working for a major financial firm in Boston, they had the most ridiculous password policies for each password. We had to have at least four or five different passwords according to what you needed to access, each with their own rules and limitations (size, characters allowed etc...). Not only that, but each password expired in different intervals. So basically every week, you'd have to change at least one password making the whole damn thing impossible to remember.So, what did people do? They wrote them down in little sticky-notes. Sure, I came up with my own schemes to facilitate remembering them, but nevertheless a forgotten password was bound to happen. It amazes me how paranoid firms are about some policies, yet leave the back door wide open due to such stupidity
Due to a recent identity-theft scare I had the other day, it made me realize the importance of safe-guarding the data with good passwords. Since then, I've used KeePass to generate and store all my 20-digit random passwords that I've since never have to remember (a backup, of course, is constantly made and stored in a safe place). Either way, I'm no security expert, but it seems to me an approach like this would be much more sensible than inconsistent password policies that expire randomly. Just my $0.02