Ten years seems excessive, yes, but I'm sure he'll get out in a couple years or so if he's a non-violent inmate. Read more about what he did... it's quite a laundry list of abhorrent behavior.
All of those 'cons' that are listed as problems with MMORPGs, you know, like questing and gear progression, are actually things that people enjoy, as long as they're designed fairly. See GW2 as an excellent example of this.
While it would certainly be nice if this claim were true (I doubt it is), social engineering is a bigger problem and one that, one would think, we could see more benefit in working to eliminate than the benefit we might see from buying some outrageous claim.
Early criticism of D3 are valid, but those are a thing of the past. D3 will grow and continue to improve and enjoy a much larger, more involved community and trading market than TL2 ever will. And the new changes around the corner in 1.05 are a vast step in the right direction.
It may sound cheesy, but if you are going to get the answer correct 50% of the time then the most important piece becomes knowing which question to ask, and being able to test whether your 50% answer is right. If not, rinse and repeat. Eventually you're going to get something interesting.
Given that most conservatives I know don't even have a smartphone let alone know how to install an App for it, this should work quite well.
(ok I admit this is mostly a troll post but there's some truth to it!)
I wish I could have multiple devices with the same SIM card address and just tell the network which one I am using at the time. Then I'd use this 7" device at home and leave the iPhone on the charger, and vice versa when I'm traveling.
Events like that have been dubbed as Black Swans by author Nassim Taleb... The lesson is essentially as stated: probability theory only works for certain types of scenarios. He calls the realm of these scenarios 'mediocristan' and the realm of scenarios where extreme events can take place 'extremistan'. Examples: Average distribution of human height is relatively predictable, and in mediocristan. But try to predict how much wealth one person has from one to the next and you'll suddenly run into a billionaire and completely destroy your nice little data set from the last thousand people you looked at.
Before people jump on me for thinking this is a bad idea please just keep in mind that I'm only focused on the fact that their 'study' lasted a single day.
Seriously, what is one day? The novelty of working from home would wear off after about a week and then what? I know what. You'd find me 'working' in my underwear, covered in fried chicken with several empty margarita glasses about me. My e-mails would show a very noticeable trend in typos from about noon onward...
I'm thankful for Firefox as well. I used to use it all the time. Then it started to break. The newer releases were slower than the previous releases. Websites simply wouldn't work, like Facebook, which used to work the best on Firefox.
I think the world is ready again for a browser that you actually have to pay for. That is, as long as it is worth paying for. The old saying applies to Firefox, sadly. Firefox is free, and you get what you pay for.
So if I make a 'photonic circuit'... doesn't some kind of electrical impulse have to modulate the light pathways, i.e. turning them on and off to allow light through, in order to create logic structure? i.e... doesn't this still require transistors? Or does this material actually *change* like a transistor gate when subjected to light, and change back when the light is taken away... Now that I could see making logic gates with.
This is where out US patent group, judicial branch, executive branch, I don't know who exactly, needs to step in and say "YOU DID NOT INVENT REMINDING PEOPLE TO DO STUFF!" and prevent these companies from spending (wasting) money and time on winning the patent to do it. Their struggle to win that patent is not value adding for the country in any way whatsoever, but they'll do it anyway for their own gain. It's wasted money that could better go into R&D, for example. So tell them now, level the field... and prevent all that wasted effort.
Or to take it even further, back in the 1300s when an engineer was someone who operated military 'engines' - aka machines like catapults.
And let's not forget the Army Corps of Engineers.
Point being, if someone goes to school to learn how to mix chemicals together and then comes out angry that other people are calling themselves engineers, too, but without the schooling, then maybe that someone should go BACK to school and learn some history.
Because, you know, the 1000+ currently open job postings for keyword "programmer" on Monster.com are just a perfect example of situations where people are already looking to fire you. After all, that's why they created the posting, just so they could waste company resources and fire someone.
The difference between OS and Browser is fast shrinking. Example: WebOS.
I'm glad Microsoft is taking a stand. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Windows or IE, least of all Microsoft.
And last I checked, the competition isn't exactly hurting...
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...considering how tight this beam was, and that you'd have to be pretty much directly in its path to intercept the transmission.
Ten years seems excessive, yes, but I'm sure he'll get out in a couple years or so if he's a non-violent inmate. Read more about what he did... it's quite a laundry list of abhorrent behavior.
All of those 'cons' that are listed as problems with MMORPGs, you know, like questing and gear progression, are actually things that people enjoy, as long as they're designed fairly. See GW2 as an excellent example of this.
What's the next word of the year? WYSIWYG?
While it would certainly be nice if this claim were true (I doubt it is), social engineering is a bigger problem and one that, one would think, we could see more benefit in working to eliminate than the benefit we might see from buying some outrageous claim.
Early criticism of D3 are valid, but those are a thing of the past. D3 will grow and continue to improve and enjoy a much larger, more involved community and trading market than TL2 ever will. And the new changes around the corner in 1.05 are a vast step in the right direction.
It may sound cheesy, but if you are going to get the answer correct 50% of the time then the most important piece becomes knowing which question to ask, and being able to test whether your 50% answer is right. If not, rinse and repeat. Eventually you're going to get something interesting.
Given that most conservatives I know don't even have a smartphone let alone know how to install an App for it, this should work quite well. (ok I admit this is mostly a troll post but there's some truth to it!)
I wish I could have multiple devices with the same SIM card address and just tell the network which one I am using at the time. Then I'd use this 7" device at home and leave the iPhone on the charger, and vice versa when I'm traveling.
Saying a particle has a "job" sounds an awful lot like intended purpose, which means design... So, which physicists says this again?
Celebs do it all the time on public TV. (promote products they probably don't use let alone like).
Tell your friends you're astroturfing outside of the social networking sites and move on with your life.
Events like that have been dubbed as Black Swans by author Nassim Taleb... The lesson is essentially as stated: probability theory only works for certain types of scenarios. He calls the realm of these scenarios 'mediocristan' and the realm of scenarios where extreme events can take place 'extremistan'. Examples: Average distribution of human height is relatively predictable, and in mediocristan. But try to predict how much wealth one person has from one to the next and you'll suddenly run into a billionaire and completely destroy your nice little data set from the last thousand people you looked at.
This is an easy enough fix for EA. Allow parents to 'turn off the gay' in Mass Effect if they want to.
Actually, strike that... I think EA should just ignore these morons.
Before people jump on me for thinking this is a bad idea please just keep in mind that I'm only focused on the fact that their 'study' lasted a single day.
Seriously, what is one day? The novelty of working from home would wear off after about a week and then what? I know what. You'd find me 'working' in my underwear, covered in fried chicken with several empty margarita glasses about me. My e-mails would show a very noticeable trend in typos from about noon onward...
Never stare directly into the ... wormhole.
I'm thankful for Firefox as well. I used to use it all the time. Then it started to break. The newer releases were slower than the previous releases. Websites simply wouldn't work, like Facebook, which used to work the best on Firefox.
I think the world is ready again for a browser that you actually have to pay for. That is, as long as it is worth paying for. The old saying applies to Firefox, sadly. Firefox is free, and you get what you pay for.
So if I make a 'photonic circuit'... doesn't some kind of electrical impulse have to modulate the light pathways, i.e. turning them on and off to allow light through, in order to create logic structure? i.e... doesn't this still require transistors? Or does this material actually *change* like a transistor gate when subjected to light, and change back when the light is taken away... Now that I could see making logic gates with.
This is where out US patent group, judicial branch, executive branch, I don't know who exactly, needs to step in and say "YOU DID NOT INVENT REMINDING PEOPLE TO DO STUFF!" and prevent these companies from spending (wasting) money and time on winning the patent to do it. Their struggle to win that patent is not value adding for the country in any way whatsoever, but they'll do it anyway for their own gain. It's wasted money that could better go into R&D, for example.
So tell them now, level the field... and prevent all that wasted effort.
1) These are just the ones we KNOW about.
2) The real #1 is still the human brain.
When can I get a phone with WATSON??
Or to take it even further, back in the 1300s when an engineer was someone who operated military 'engines' - aka machines like catapults.
And let's not forget the Army Corps of Engineers.
Point being, if someone goes to school to learn how to mix chemicals together and then comes out angry that other people are calling themselves engineers, too, but without the schooling, then maybe that someone should go BACK to school and learn some history.
Agreed - my initial evaluation of this 'story' was it is someone's personal experience that they are projecting as general truth.
Because, you know, the 1000+ currently open job postings for keyword "programmer" on Monster.com are just a perfect example of situations where people are already looking to fire you. After all, that's why they created the posting, just so they could waste company resources and fire someone.
/sarcasm
The difference between OS and Browser is fast shrinking. Example: WebOS.
I'm glad Microsoft is taking a stand. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Windows or IE, least of all Microsoft.
And last I checked, the competition isn't exactly hurting...