Unlikely, since you cant get phone numbers for free. In regards to availability phone numbers are closer to IP addresses then emails (limited amount, regulation etc). Also those numbers would quickly become 1000 ranked because of huge activity.
while phone number is unique at any given moment, it doesnt necessarily mean it stays with same person. Most providers sell the used numbers some time after they got inactive. Good luck to the new buyer of 1000 ranked number:)
only if by discarded you mean droping the mail with standard mailer deamon reply "couldnt be delivered". Otherwise I prefer my spam filter to actually work, thank you.
How can a truly civilized race possibly take us as anything other than animals when we still dont worship the Great Kztplrhw and dont kill all heretics using most brutal tortures imaginable? Thats what you meant, right?
about 2 and 3: get some normal programming language instead of provided blocks. When I played with it in college we were using some C API with it, so we pretty much had a normal language available. Obviously there were still API limitations on our hardware interfaces, but for normal calculations, delays etc we could do pretty much whatever we wanted (it was simple unix programing with some hardware api).
as for 1: yeah, number of in and out slots was always a bit of a problem. Still you can do quite a lot within those limits.
Ill second this: this is what we used in Introduction to Robotics course in my college. During practicals we had to build and program robots to accomplish some moderately complex tasks on its own. It was great fun trying to program and work around hardware limitations in my teams robot - we overcomplicated it quite a bit and it turned out a bit inferior to its competitors. Still it gave me great impression of difference between controlling pure software stuff vs a real life hardware.
2B figure relates to the total cost of program (including PR spendings and other stuff). . On the other hand there is also some extra computer related costs: "(...) $227 million in computer costs, including complicated application forms that slow processing times; and $332 million for other programming costs, including money to pay staff to process the forms (...)"
from S1E11 animated series episode: boss: "Everybody who donates will get one of these colorful, stylish I-get-to-keep-my-job T-shirts. Of course participation is completely 100% voluntary."
I guess it may help some people that crash in some remote place in the night (so basically where none would report it anyway). Unfortunately it solves pretty much the wrong problem. The biggest issue with help is not that it is not notified in time, but that it cant arrive in time. There is not enough ambulances and they often have to travel vast distance to help. Adding new source of calls wont help. Whats more they will now get more distracting calls from accidents that are resolved by participants or cops (no serious injuries - sensors cant tell about this) or even completely bogus from defective cars, so the ambulances will move around needlessly at some times (likely failing to help some extra people due to extra distance).
From the Rockstar announcement: "In the event we decide to absolve any of these cheaters for their past transgressions they may re-enter play with the general public, however a second offense will result in their indefinite banishment." So: 1. it only applies to those that get moved back to normal servers 2. word "banishment" may mean ban, but may also mean just being poot in cheaters pool without chance of returning to normal game (and I think second interpretation is the correct one)
Interesting... Mine is 13 MB while in tray, 20 - 25MB in library. Entering shop I get ~60MB. Seems like switching between html tabs (shop, community, news) wastes some memory (steam uses more after each switch). But after putting steam back in tray all that memory is released and it goes back to 13MB.
And does it finally have proper support for MS docx format? I rarely write anything in Writer and it works good enough in that aspect. Unfortunately my main use for such application is reading docs (specification etc) send by someone else and docx support is just abysmal - I had to install MS Word Viewer for this. And no, getting them to send it in some normal format is not always an option.
Everyone here is bitching about privacy breach, algorithm complexity etc. Actually it has nothing to do with this experiment. From TFA "Anyone with a Facebook account can participate to verify if everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. You’ll be asked to select one of your Facebook friends whom you believe is most likely to know the “target person” that has been assigned to you. A message will then be sent from friend to friend until you get it to the “target person.” The goal is to do this in as few steps as possible. "
Basically they are just repeating the old mail experiment, but with a new way of passing messages - unless you (or one of your friends) participates nothing happens to your privacy - no computer algorithm is involved - no problem with celebrity profiles linking thousands of people that now nothing about each other
And why not? Even with GPL I can decide I don't want to distribute my program anymore and stop doing this. I just can't stop other people that already got it from distributing it on their own.
First, we dont really know they make any use of this data. They have the possibility, but they dont have to use it (its quite likely they do, but thats a different matter)
Second, to avoid sending this data they would have to either limit some functionality or go out of their way and create some special domains to avoid passing the cookies between the systems. And this would be for no gain for them whatsoever - "not stealing" personal information is never a news topic. Also the only people who actually can be "offended" by this are some geeks that, lets be honest, are not an important market part to them,
IMO the most realistic scenario for this is accidental data collection. They started partnering with whomever they could and putting their logo button there just to bring more traffic to their site (and their ads). PERHAPS then someone noticed that they can make also use of this extra data they get.
from another article (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/23/china-traffic-jam.html?ref=rss):
"Another driver, Wang, told Xinhua he'd been stuck in the traffic jam for three days and two nights."
Perhaps they are just trying to save storage space? Storing a price as a floating point would require 4 bytes. But if you store full dollars and cents as a separate (single) bytes you only need two (and who would buy electronic book for over 250$). With such a simple change we saved half of the space! But still we can get more: if we set the cents number to a fixed value, we get to cut another byte from storage. Now we need 4 TIMES less space to store the price!
Switzerland has more direct democracy than most countries. Even if the legislation passes parliament, if someone gathers 50k signatures against some law (in 100 days), he can cause national vote on this matter. In this vote all citizens decide whether the law should stay or be rejected. So to get rid of it they just need to convince normal people (and not politicians) that this is a bad idea.
The few times I was actually forced to do some homework it usually raised my results up to about 80 - 85%.
From a "fail" to a "barely acceptable".
Just for the record: no one in the class had a consistent record of over 90% scores and it was class only for people skilled in mathematics (to get into it you had to pass an extra math entrance exam, that was much harder then normal one) . Actually on the very first test in high school only 4 people out of 29 managed to get past 50% mark. Oh, and 50% + 1 point was the minimum for passing the test.
I can't agree that homework is useless. It's actually a mean of forcing the children to do something they don't like to do - repeat what they learned in school. And repetitions are the only way for most people to really learn something. I'm personally skilled in mathematics and in high school I tended to skip the homework completely because I was to lazy to do it(it was mandatory, but usually wasn't enforced). With this I got around 60 - 65% in tests (it was a class with math as "specialization", so it wasn't THAT bad:D ). The few times I was actually forced to do some homework it usually raised my results up to about 80 - 85%. Also later, in my college days, I had experienced cases where simple lack of practice caused me to perform much below expectations on exams - even though I knew how to do something, I simply wasn't fast enough to complete it and other assignments in a given time.
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Unlikely, since you cant get phone numbers for free. In regards to availability phone numbers are closer to IP addresses then emails (limited amount, regulation etc).
Also those numbers would quickly become 1000 ranked because of huge activity.
while phone number is unique at any given moment, it doesnt necessarily mean it stays with same person. Most providers sell the used numbers some time after they got inactive. :)
Good luck to the new buyer of 1000 ranked number
only if by discarded you mean droping the mail with standard mailer deamon reply "couldnt be delivered". Otherwise I prefer my spam filter to actually work, thank you.
How can a truly civilized race possibly take us as anything other than animals when we still dont worship the Great Kztplrhw and dont kill all heretics using most brutal tortures imaginable?
Thats what you meant, right?
about 2 and 3: get some normal programming language instead of provided blocks. When I played with it in college we were using some C API with it, so we pretty much had a normal language available. Obviously there were still API limitations on our hardware interfaces, but for normal calculations, delays etc we could do pretty much whatever we wanted (it was simple unix programing with some hardware api).
as for 1: yeah, number of in and out slots was always a bit of a problem. Still you can do quite a lot within those limits.
Ill second this: this is what we used in Introduction to Robotics course in my college.
During practicals we had to build and program robots to accomplish some moderately complex tasks on its own. It was great fun trying to program and work around hardware limitations in my teams robot - we overcomplicated it quite a bit and it turned out a bit inferior to its competitors. Still it gave me great impression of difference between controlling pure software stuff vs a real life hardware.
its not really legislation as it has no binding power whatsoever. Its pretty much "Hey, we dont like this idea" shout from them.
2B figure relates to the total cost of program (including PR spendings and other stuff). .
On the other hand there is also some extra computer related costs:
"(...) $227 million in computer costs, including complicated application forms that slow processing times; and $332 million for other programming costs, including money to pay staff to process the forms (...)"
Very large part of sites that want/need to stream DRMed video content.
Because they just turn java off on regular basis. Sometimes even when user explicitly tells them not to do this
from S1E11 animated series episode:
boss:
"Everybody who donates will get one of these colorful, stylish I-get-to-keep-my-job T-shirts. Of course participation is completely 100% voluntary."
I guess it may help some people that crash in some remote place in the night (so basically where none would report it anyway).
Unfortunately it solves pretty much the wrong problem. The biggest issue with help is not that it is not notified in time, but that it cant arrive in time. There is not enough ambulances and they often have to travel vast distance to help. Adding new source of calls wont help.
Whats more they will now get more distracting calls from accidents that are resolved by participants or cops (no serious injuries - sensors cant tell about this) or even completely bogus from defective cars, so the ambulances will move around needlessly at some times (likely failing to help some extra people due to extra distance).
From the Rockstar announcement:
"In the event we decide to absolve any of these cheaters for their past transgressions they may re-enter play with the general public, however a second offense will result in their indefinite banishment."
So:
1. it only applies to those that get moved back to normal servers
2. word "banishment" may mean ban, but may also mean just being poot in cheaters pool without chance of returning to normal game (and I think second interpretation is the correct one)
Interesting... Mine is 13 MB while in tray, 20 - 25MB in library. Entering shop I get ~60MB. Seems like switching between html tabs (shop, community, news) wastes some memory (steam uses more after each switch). But after putting steam back in tray all that memory is released and it goes back to 13MB.
And does it finally have proper support for MS docx format? I rarely write anything in Writer and it works good enough in that aspect. Unfortunately my main use for such application is reading docs (specification etc) send by someone else and docx support is just abysmal - I had to install MS Word Viewer for this. And no, getting them to send it in some normal format is not always an option.
Everyone here is bitching about privacy breach, algorithm complexity etc. Actually it has nothing to do with this experiment. From TFA
"Anyone with a Facebook account can participate to verify if everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. You’ll be asked to select one of your Facebook friends whom you believe is most likely to know the “target person” that has been assigned to you. A message will then be sent from friend to friend until you get it to the “target person.” The goal is to do this in as few steps as possible. "
Basically they are just repeating the old mail experiment, but with a new way of passing messages
- unless you (or one of your friends) participates nothing happens to your privacy
- no computer algorithm is involved
- no problem with celebrity profiles linking thousands of people that now nothing about each other
And why not? Even with GPL I can decide I don't want to distribute my program anymore and stop doing this. I just can't stop other people that already got it from distributing it on their own.
First, we dont really know they make any use of this data. They have the possibility, but they dont have to use it (its quite likely they do, but thats a different matter) Second, to avoid sending this data they would have to either limit some functionality or go out of their way and create some special domains to avoid passing the cookies between the systems. And this would be for no gain for them whatsoever - "not stealing" personal information is never a news topic. Also the only people who actually can be "offended" by this are some geeks that, lets be honest, are not an important market part to them, IMO the most realistic scenario for this is accidental data collection. They started partnering with whomever they could and putting their logo button there just to bring more traffic to their site (and their ads). PERHAPS then someone noticed that they can make also use of this extra data they get.
from another article (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/23/china-traffic-jam.html?ref=rss): "Another driver, Wang, told Xinhua he'd been stuck in the traffic jam for three days and two nights."
http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=378
Perhaps they are just trying to save storage space? Storing a price as a floating point would require 4 bytes. But if you store full dollars and cents as a separate (single) bytes you only need two (and who would buy electronic book for over 250$). With such a simple change we saved half of the space! But still we can get more: if we set the cents number to a fixed value, we get to cut another byte from storage. Now we need 4 TIMES less space to store the price!
Switzerland has more direct democracy than most countries. Even if the legislation passes parliament, if someone gathers 50k signatures against some law (in 100 days), he can cause national vote on this matter. In this vote all citizens decide whether the law should stay or be rejected. So to get rid of it they just need to convince normal people (and not politicians) that this is a bad idea.
From a "fail" to a "barely acceptable".
Just for the record: no one in the class had a consistent record of over 90% scores and it was class only for people skilled in mathematics (to get into it you had to pass an extra math entrance exam, that was much harder then normal one) . Actually on the very first test in high school only 4 people out of 29 managed to get past 50% mark. Oh, and 50% + 1 point was the minimum for passing the test.
I can't agree that homework is useless. It's actually a mean of forcing the children to do something they don't like to do - repeat what they learned in school. And repetitions are the only way for most people to really learn something. I'm personally skilled in mathematics and in high school I tended to skip the homework completely because I was to lazy to do it(it was mandatory, but usually wasn't enforced). With this I got around 60 - 65% in tests (it was a class with math as "specialization", so it wasn't THAT bad :D ). The few times I was actually forced to do some homework it usually raised my results up to about 80 - 85%. Also later, in my college days, I had experienced cases where simple lack of practice caused me to perform much below expectations on exams - even though I knew how to do something, I simply wasn't fast enough to complete it and other assignments in a given time.