I think it's pretty much a non story, and I think most agree since nearly every commenter so far hasn't bothered to RTFA and proved it with ignorant comments.
Basically Bill Gates gives a talk about the environment and says we need to burn hippies for energy (or something with nuclear power, I haven't watched the video yet) and people cheer.
Microsoft, which Bill Gates has next to nothing to do with anymore, says to the city, stop fucking around and build the bridge you have been planing since forever before the old one falls down, but because some hippies want to make last minute design changes like powering the lights with bicycles (or maybe adding more HOV lanes or something) which would mean redoing a lot of work and added years of delays, somehow makes Microsoft anti environment.
Actually a large number of real medicines are diluted poisons. Snake venom, toxins and radioactive material are all used to cure when a small enough amount is used and it makes sense if you think about it. Were trying to kill bacteria and cancers inside of our bodies so we use large enough amounts of poison to kill it but small enough amounts to not kill our selves.
The Moon is probably a great place to start and the rest of this thread suggests several other natural satellites such as Jupiter or Mars but you can also try finding some artificial satellites as well like the International Space Station (ISS) It orbits fast enough that the station is visible several times each day all day long, it's just a matter of tracking it. How much detail you can see I don't know, probably not a lot but the fact that you can see something man made hovering overhead in space is amazing in of it self.
That said, the core issue here is that WGA is not a critical security update by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually, I can stretch my imagination a bit... WGA is required to get security updates, thus it's a critical security patch because without it, you can't get the critical security patches.
It's also quite critical that you pay me a toll before you use your computer because if you don't I'm not going to let you use your computer.
WGA is a restriction only because MS has decided that is should be.
Why does potential enjoyment of a product have to start decreasing from the release date? I certainly wasn't in line the day XBoX was released for sale. I'm sure there are a lot of poorer kids that waited a few years for prices to come down and to save up enough to buy the system, and those that waited for something to appear in the used game bin before they bought that. I'm sure there are plenty of games people haven't had even a year and now they are loosing support? How is that fair?
Yea, you tell them. I love masturbating and if I had to stop for days or even weeks because I was on a jury, I'd probably shoot up the place...wait, what ingrained habits were you referring to again?
I don't understand why everyone is just saying this article is just a blame the victim story. It looks to be more like a understanding the victim. Everything has more than one approach so why just focus on bullies, look at the bullied and maybe help them too.
Lets use a car analogy, Slashdot likes that.
Your in your car sitting at a red light waiting. The light turns green so you go, but half way through the intersection some fucker that was trying to beat his red light now runs the red and t-bones you. Now who what at fault? That's easy, the other guy. Your the victim in this scenario. You had the complete right of way, BUT if you the "victim" took a bit of self responsibility and maybe looked both ways before going you might have noticed the other guy wasn't stopping and avoided the whole thing. You would still have your car, avoided any injuries, recovery time and possible deaths. I'm not faulting you for the accident it self but for not being a better driver.
The same for the article it self, it points out that there are reasons that specif children get picked on and if you can identify them you can help them become better people and in doing so they get along with others better and get picked on less. Now kids are still going to get picked on because some bullies are just jerks, just like you can be a perfect driver that does everything right and more and some fucker still plows into you, but were not analyzing that side of the coin here.
I'm not saying that I agree with everything in the article but the study it self has some merit. But then again, maybe I'm just arguing with a thousand bullied nerds that have deep emotional scars that won't allow them to believe for a moment that they did anything to bring on a bullies wrath.
but it's quite strange that he would license Calvin pissing on Ford. I never understood that one. He must not like Ford.;-)
That's because he didn't license Calvin pissing on a Ford or Calvin pissing on anything. All of those stickers are not authorized images but Bill, well aware of them has also decided that he's not going to bother going after anyone as he figures that it's not really worth it.
But what? But he may or may not still be thinking about that stuff? But he may be thinking about raping a kid? But he might go to a public school and rape a class room? Your assuming the worst about someone based on a single conviction. Maybe he is totally perverted or maybe he was just mildly curious and happened to get busted.
Basically I see this like a guy that was busted for smoking pot and now he is being arrested for smoking a cigarette because it's kind of similar.
I would totally expect you or anyone to be able to do the tasks much faster but would you be able to to them as long. Spirit has been there for 6 years and for the most part doing science save for mechanical problems and winter hibernation's, 24 hours, 37 minuets each Mars day.
Driving around faster doesn't equate to getting more done. The rover has been taking hundreds of samples and photos and scans on it's entire trip. Sure a Rover is great if you have certain goals and are only there for a few days like we were on the moon but it doesn't matter how fast the rovers goes because there is plenty to do.
Secondly, while the rovers have been a marvelous success story, consider if they had gotten stuck like this three days instead of six years after landing. What's the return ratio on that cost, then? A human can obviously deal with far rougher terrain, and would be able to dig out of bigger trouble.
Even if the rover got stuck 3 days into it's mission, it would still be doing work like it is now. Sure we wouldn't have the images and samples that we have now but it would still be considered a partial success. Now consider this. What if we have been sending people to Mars. Sure a person can walk nearly anywhere and fix things on site but at least on the last two missions before the rovers, the missions were complete failures. One launch missed the planet completely and a second burned up on entry. Its one thing to shoot 100 million dollars worth of equipment into deep space, it's another to shoot 100 million dollars worth of equipment and a few people into deep space.
Sure, assuming that the humans don't actually discover something you didn't expect to find. But how do you already know what sort of information can be gained?
I agree, there is always the potential for great discoveries on Mars, we are still discovering things on Earth but Mars is a whole new game. We got to learn the rules first before we go there and we are not ready yet. It's like saying there are fantastic things to learn in University, but we all need to go to public school first to learn the basics.
Like most people on the internet, you have no idea what your talking about. NASA's funding is a fraction of what it was during the Apollo era and is doing things safer and better than ever. You think their are throwing money away at a "digital camera on wheels"? It cost ten times the money to put a man on Mars. You need to feed them, give them an atmosphere to breath to keep them alive, entertained or busy so they don't go crazy, gently land them on the planet unlike the rovers that inflate bags around them, crash into the planet and bounce off the fucker a couple dozen times. There is also that little thing about bringing them back to earth. Also, what do you expect people to do once they get to Mars? Discover life forms? Evolve to superior beings? No, they are going to take rock samples and do what the rovers are doing right now.
Frankly it would be amazing to put a man on Mars and when it does happen it will be a historic even much like the moon landing but NASA learned a lot from the moon landing and the big one was "Now that were are here, now what?" What is the point of putting people on Mars other than to be the first. They can't do much more than what robots are doing now and the cost doesn't justify the information gained.
I think the question it self is flawed. Your trying to assign a quantitative number to a game as if it represents some level of value that you can extract at a later date. A game isn't a used car. A car can be worth $100 or it can be worth $20,000. A game has only 2 choices. It's worth it, or it's not. The problem is that it is an individual test of worth so your standards of worth it or not worth it, or even any number system you can come up with, are going to be completely irrelevant to me. People can spend hours on end playing Bejeweled or any other time waster type game and it can be completely worth the time spend playing it because they enjoyed it the entire time. Personally I don't thing it's worth it because I don't enjoy those types of games for very long. So all ready there is inconsistency in the "worth" of a game and I'm just referring to free flash games. I haven't even brought in money yet.
Once you start talking about money, in the end your only going to spend what you can afford. Everyone earns different amounts of money and has different responsibilities. A teen living at home may not have a problem dropping an entire pay cheque on rock band where an older adult with a mortgage and kids will be more particular about spending money. Of course the more money you have the less value money has. If your a millionaire you will be more willing to throw away money on crappy games than someone making minimum wage so again this value of worth is meaningless to anyone else but yourself.
Personally a game is worth it if I really enjoyed playing it but the experience is enhanced by friends that play the same game. We can talk about the game afterwords and share experiences and even play multiplayer games together which is more enjoyable than random strangers online. If your looking to get value out of a game, buy games that your friends have that you can play together. If you want to stretch you money, buy single player games your friends don't have and you can trade and borrow games with each other so you can experience more.
If your looking for advice on games to buy, look to your friends. If your trying to evaluate what you already have, your over thinking it.
Ethics may be a part of it but time and money will be a larger part of it. If you need to have an entire office of people to run China's version of Google, spending man hours on complying with every government request and policy and continually undoing what Google does (it finds stuff), there comes a point when it's just not worth the effort. Then you find out that the government that you have been bending over backwards for just to please enough to allow you to do business hacks your machines just to get more of what they want may have been the final straw. It may be easier to just set the auto reply for any email from China to "fuck off" and go back to running business in the rest of the world.
This makes absolutely no sense. People with insurance, high deductible or not, generally do not question the costs of remaining in good health. They sign consent forms for procedures and deal with the bills after the fact. This is why bankruptcy rates from health care bills are so high. The people who do not seek treatment based on costs are almost exclusively the uninsured. If the internal link to your argument is seriously that patient will start haggling with the people responsible for keeping them alive, you might want to rethink your position.
People don't question the costs because they are not paying it. The insurance usually does. It's all the insurance plans that drive prices up. If you got full coverage, what do you care what the doctors charge and how much drugs are. If you actually look at what is available you will find that doctors are prescribing drugs that are $50 a pill when there are generic brands that are the same thing for $5 a pill. The thing is no one is asking why the price difference because the default attitude is "Insurance is paying for it", doctors and patients alike.
Thermal Imaging is IR! Unless you got her up against the wall and you get her really hot, you not going to see anything and even then your just going to get a blob. Thermal Cameras record surface temperatures like the wall you are trying to see through.
iBurst appointed an independent and accredited EIA consultant and that the correct procedures were followed - including notifying the adjacent property owners and publishing notices in the press and on the site itself. He added that he is confident that all processes and procedures were followed to the letter.
I figure that this is more like what happened.
"Damn cell phones. The service sucks out here! I pay good money every month and I can hardly ever get a signal. I've been calling those lazy bastard to do something every week but those corporate fat cats are too busy counting their money. I swear some day I'm gona... what the. What are all those trucks and people doing there? Building a cell tower? I don't want a cell tower in our town. Those things cause cancer and other things. I don't want to look at an ugly tower. Go build that thing in another town. What the hell made you guys thing that we wanted a tower here?"
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Hippies are flamebait? What ever.
I think it's pretty much a non story, and I think most agree since nearly every commenter so far hasn't bothered to RTFA and proved it with ignorant comments.
Basically Bill Gates gives a talk about the environment and says we need to burn hippies for energy (or something with nuclear power, I haven't watched the video yet) and people cheer.
Microsoft, which Bill Gates has next to nothing to do with anymore, says to the city, stop fucking around and build the bridge you have been planing since forever before the old one falls down, but because some hippies want to make last minute design changes like powering the lights with bicycles (or maybe adding more HOV lanes or something) which would mean redoing a lot of work and added years of delays, somehow makes Microsoft anti environment.
Actually a large number of real medicines are diluted poisons. Snake venom, toxins and radioactive material are all used to cure when a small enough amount is used and it makes sense if you think about it. Were trying to kill bacteria and cancers inside of our bodies so we use large enough amounts of poison to kill it but small enough amounts to not kill our selves.
So your saying Linux is only stable because it offers so much less functionality?
No. It was stable, then they broke it.
Maybe he was dictating?
The Moon is probably a great place to start and the rest of this thread suggests several other natural satellites such as Jupiter or Mars but you can also try finding some artificial satellites as well like the International Space Station (ISS) It orbits fast enough that the station is visible several times each day all day long, it's just a matter of tracking it. How much detail you can see I don't know, probably not a lot but the fact that you can see something man made hovering overhead in space is amazing in of it self.
That said, the core issue here is that WGA is not a critical security update by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually, I can stretch my imagination a bit... WGA is required to get security updates, thus it's a critical security patch because without it, you can't get the critical security patches.
It's also quite critical that you pay me a toll before you use your computer because if you don't I'm not going to let you use your computer. WGA is a restriction only because MS has decided that is should be.
Why does potential enjoyment of a product have to start decreasing from the release date? I certainly wasn't in line the day XBoX was released for sale. I'm sure there are a lot of poorer kids that waited a few years for prices to come down and to save up enough to buy the system, and those that waited for something to appear in the used game bin before they bought that. I'm sure there are plenty of games people haven't had even a year and now they are loosing support? How is that fair?
Scroll up a bit, I made an actual analogy, using cars too.
Yea, you tell them. I love masturbating and if I had to stop for days or even weeks because I was on a jury, I'd probably shoot up the place...wait, what ingrained habits were you referring to again?
I don't understand why everyone is just saying this article is just a blame the victim story. It looks to be more like a understanding the victim. Everything has more than one approach so why just focus on bullies, look at the bullied and maybe help them too.
Lets use a car analogy, Slashdot likes that.
Your in your car sitting at a red light waiting. The light turns green so you go, but half way through the intersection some fucker that was trying to beat his red light now runs the red and t-bones you. Now who what at fault? That's easy, the other guy. Your the victim in this scenario. You had the complete right of way, BUT if you the "victim" took a bit of self responsibility and maybe looked both ways before going you might have noticed the other guy wasn't stopping and avoided the whole thing. You would still have your car, avoided any injuries, recovery time and possible deaths. I'm not faulting you for the accident it self but for not being a better driver.
The same for the article it self, it points out that there are reasons that specif children get picked on and if you can identify them you can help them become better people and in doing so they get along with others better and get picked on less. Now kids are still going to get picked on because some bullies are just jerks, just like you can be a perfect driver that does everything right and more and some fucker still plows into you, but were not analyzing that side of the coin here.
I'm not saying that I agree with everything in the article but the study it self has some merit. But then again, maybe I'm just arguing with a thousand bullied nerds that have deep emotional scars that won't allow them to believe for a moment that they did anything to bring on a bullies wrath.
"The number one need of any human is to be liked by other humans"
Admit it.
I don't care if girls like me, I just want them to touch my penis.
but it's quite strange that he would license Calvin pissing on Ford. I never understood that one. He must not like Ford. ;-)
That's because he didn't license Calvin pissing on a Ford or Calvin pissing on anything. All of those stickers are not authorized images but Bill, well aware of them has also decided that he's not going to bother going after anyone as he figures that it's not really worth it.
Maybe they only found the cartoons, but...
But what? But he may or may not still be thinking about that stuff? But he may be thinking about raping a kid? But he might go to a public school and rape a class room? Your assuming the worst about someone based on a single conviction. Maybe he is totally perverted or maybe he was just mildly curious and happened to get busted.
Basically I see this like a guy that was busted for smoking pot and now he is being arrested for smoking a cigarette because it's kind of similar.
Driving around faster doesn't equate to getting more done. The rover has been taking hundreds of samples and photos and scans on it's entire trip. Sure a Rover is great if you have certain goals and are only there for a few days like we were on the moon but it doesn't matter how fast the rovers goes because there is plenty to do.
Secondly, while the rovers have been a marvelous success story, consider if they had gotten stuck like this three days instead of six years after landing. What's the return ratio on that cost, then? A human can obviously deal with far rougher terrain, and would be able to dig out of bigger trouble.
Even if the rover got stuck 3 days into it's mission, it would still be doing work like it is now. Sure we wouldn't have the images and samples that we have now but it would still be considered a partial success. Now consider this. What if we have been sending people to Mars. Sure a person can walk nearly anywhere and fix things on site but at least on the last two missions before the rovers, the missions were complete failures. One launch missed the planet completely and a second burned up on entry. Its one thing to shoot 100 million dollars worth of equipment into deep space, it's another to shoot 100 million dollars worth of equipment and a few people into deep space.
Sure, assuming that the humans don't actually discover something you didn't expect to find. But how do you already know what sort of information can be gained?
I agree, there is always the potential for great discoveries on Mars, we are still discovering things on Earth but Mars is a whole new game. We got to learn the rules first before we go there and we are not ready yet. It's like saying there are fantastic things to learn in University, but we all need to go to public school first to learn the basics.
Like most people on the internet, you have no idea what your talking about. NASA's funding is a fraction of what it was during the Apollo era and is doing things safer and better than ever. You think their are throwing money away at a "digital camera on wheels"? It cost ten times the money to put a man on Mars. You need to feed them, give them an atmosphere to breath to keep them alive, entertained or busy so they don't go crazy, gently land them on the planet unlike the rovers that inflate bags around them, crash into the planet and bounce off the fucker a couple dozen times. There is also that little thing about bringing them back to earth. Also, what do you expect people to do once they get to Mars? Discover life forms? Evolve to superior beings? No, they are going to take rock samples and do what the rovers are doing right now.
Frankly it would be amazing to put a man on Mars and when it does happen it will be a historic even much like the moon landing but NASA learned a lot from the moon landing and the big one was "Now that were are here, now what?" What is the point of putting people on Mars other than to be the first. They can't do much more than what robots are doing now and the cost doesn't justify the information gained.
Yes but science is so much cooler when your doing it while going off a ramp catching some big air.
I think the question it self is flawed. Your trying to assign a quantitative number to a game as if it represents some level of value that you can extract at a later date. A game isn't a used car. A car can be worth $100 or it can be worth $20,000. A game has only 2 choices. It's worth it, or it's not. The problem is that it is an individual test of worth so your standards of worth it or not worth it, or even any number system you can come up with, are going to be completely irrelevant to me. People can spend hours on end playing Bejeweled or any other time waster type game and it can be completely worth the time spend playing it because they enjoyed it the entire time. Personally I don't thing it's worth it because I don't enjoy those types of games for very long. So all ready there is inconsistency in the "worth" of a game and I'm just referring to free flash games. I haven't even brought in money yet.
Once you start talking about money, in the end your only going to spend what you can afford. Everyone earns different amounts of money and has different responsibilities. A teen living at home may not have a problem dropping an entire pay cheque on rock band where an older adult with a mortgage and kids will be more particular about spending money. Of course the more money you have the less value money has. If your a millionaire you will be more willing to throw away money on crappy games than someone making minimum wage so again this value of worth is meaningless to anyone else but yourself.
Personally a game is worth it if I really enjoyed playing it but the experience is enhanced by friends that play the same game. We can talk about the game afterwords and share experiences and even play multiplayer games together which is more enjoyable than random strangers online. If your looking to get value out of a game, buy games that your friends have that you can play together. If you want to stretch you money, buy single player games your friends don't have and you can trade and borrow games with each other so you can experience more.
If your looking for advice on games to buy, look to your friends. If your trying to evaluate what you already have, your over thinking it.
Ethics may be a part of it but time and money will be a larger part of it. If you need to have an entire office of people to run China's version of Google, spending man hours on complying with every government request and policy and continually undoing what Google does (it finds stuff), there comes a point when it's just not worth the effort. Then you find out that the government that you have been bending over backwards for just to please enough to allow you to do business hacks your machines just to get more of what they want may have been the final straw. It may be easier to just set the auto reply for any email from China to "fuck off" and go back to running business in the rest of the world.
What dangers? Just because it uses power it's now a potentially dangerous device? You fucking stand on it!
This makes absolutely no sense. People with insurance, high deductible or not, generally do not question the costs of remaining in good health. They sign consent forms for procedures and deal with the bills after the fact. This is why bankruptcy rates from health care bills are so high. The people who do not seek treatment based on costs are almost exclusively the uninsured. If the internal link to your argument is seriously that patient will start haggling with the people responsible for keeping them alive, you might want to rethink your position.
People don't question the costs because they are not paying it. The insurance usually does. It's all the insurance plans that drive prices up. If you got full coverage, what do you care what the doctors charge and how much drugs are. If you actually look at what is available you will find that doctors are prescribing drugs that are $50 a pill when there are generic brands that are the same thing for $5 a pill. The thing is no one is asking why the price difference because the default attitude is "Insurance is paying for it", doctors and patients alike.
Thermal Imaging is IR! Unless you got her up against the wall and you get her really hot, you not going to see anything and even then your just going to get a blob. Thermal Cameras record surface temperatures like the wall you are trying to see through.
Not everyone can get higher than ever by being an astronaut. Everyone else needs to find another way.
iBurst appointed an independent and accredited EIA consultant and that the correct procedures were followed - including notifying the adjacent property owners and publishing notices in the press and on the site itself. He added that he is confident that all processes and procedures were followed to the letter.
I figure that this is more like what happened. "Damn cell phones. The service sucks out here! I pay good money every month and I can hardly ever get a signal. I've been calling those lazy bastard to do something every week but those corporate fat cats are too busy counting their money. I swear some day I'm gona... what the. What are all those trucks and people doing there? Building a cell tower? I don't want a cell tower in our town. Those things cause cancer and other things. I don't want to look at an ugly tower. Go build that thing in another town. What the hell made you guys thing that we wanted a tower here?"