It seems to me that automating the operation of the BBQ is a Bad Thing as it eliminates the excuse that one needs to be out back drinking because the fire must be tended.
What he said is the very foundation of why men BBQ. It's a neat homebrew tech project and I even entertained the idea till you set me straight. Heck if the menfolk were not out in the backyard tending the fire the women would pull out the honeydo list. Those of us geeks that are married have firsthand knowlege of the terrible thing that is the honeydo list. The wives should NEVER have knowledge of this contraption as it would result in no beer drinking and tons of excess work.
If their R&D is so awesome, why can't they make their own products and not resort to ripping off other businesses to make money?
You fail to understand that ripping off competitors is the new industry standard. No one really makes anything new anymore. They just copy ip and wait to get sued. Success is not measured by innovation but rather the skill of your legal department. Seriously though I'm having a hard time believing Microsoft has research in social computing. Does anyone remember the Kin?
You, Microsoft has a huge R&D division in the following subjects
- Algorithms and theory
- Hardware development
- Human–computer interaction
- Machine learning, adaptation, and intelligence
- Multimedia and graphics
- Search, retrieval, and knowledge management
- Security and cryptography
- Social computing
- Software development
- Systems, architectures, mobility, and networking
- Computational and Systems Biology
It's the largest one in the industry. They really do lots of research, and should enjoy the results aswell.
I don't have any mod points and I'm not sure if your comment is correct but I see nothing that merits a troll rating. Can someone fix this please?
It can be purchased from Amazon, Best Buy, Wirefly and Sprint. I don't own one but it looks like you can buy one that is unlocked for 400-500 or you can buy one with a reduced price which may or may not need to be rooted. I couldn't ascertain that from the site (pretty sure that's not by mistake).
"The Scottsdale, Arizona based company which has built its marketing around scantly-clad women"
There it is. Now we do the traditional Wall street dance known as the hump and dump. Send the Go Daddy girls in.
FTFA "When an airplane flies through a cloud, its propellers cause the expansion and cooling of the air behind them which can cause water droplets to spontaneously cool and crystals to form." However the picture shows a jet aircraft which if very different from a plane that has a standard propeller on the front. If the study took into account the differences between the two types of aircraft I'm reasonably sure that the effect would be different. Ergo there is a significant difference between a standard prop an a jet engine and the author of the article should have noted that. And will these scientists stop "rediscovering" that which has been known for years.
Someone with mod points needs to use them on the parent comment. So I should trust a corporation to screen out potential terrorists for me. Meanwhile they lost money this quarter and had to scale back on the security personnell. Yeah right not happening.
1-record a non complex song
2-record company promoton
3-profit$$$$
The music industry has been doing it for a while now and they have the formula down pat. Then again maybe I'm just a snob because I was exposed to classical music as a kid. My father had a huge collection of tapes and played them all day long. I don't listen to classical but I tend to stray as far away from pop music as possible.
You know, back when Phil Zimmerman was under fire for PGP, we (the geek community) stepped up and used PGP for trivial messages, thereby lending it strength, and making it pointless to bother working to decrypt the messages.
And he WON.
Based on you getting a +5 for saying you want to bury your head in the sand, I'd say we're just throwing the battle. And I'd say you're a jackass.
Don't let the FUD take you down. They're just grunts who want a day off eating hot dogs with the family same as you. If they want to be assholes for a few bucks they won't even remember having earned in 6 months, let them waste their time. But make sure it's a waste of time. Make sure it's a HUGE waste of time. Because they're the ones we want to keep busy.
I wish I still had those mod points that I splurged away yesterday because your comment is right on target. Sticking your head in the sand is not the answer because eventually you will run out of sand and have to face reality. Better deal with it now while you still have a chance to make things right.
I'm not the only one who has become numb to violence. Society as a whole is numb to certain kinds of violence. You make a very good point though. I don't usually play team deathmatch or FFA because they are boring. I feel like I accomplished something if I was able to evade the enemy and sneak in to capture their flag or activate the bomb in demo. But the federal governent does not need to establish any additional ratings on violent games because I can understand the difference between killing pixels and killing real people. My daughter is pretty smart and can distinguish the two as well but I shield this game from her because she does not need be exposed to this level of violence. That's good parenting. You can't legislate it. Nor can you expect every parent to excercise the same good judgement. And that was my original point.
Someone needs to start dropping USB sticks that physically destroy hardware when plugged in. Overclock video cards 30%. Issue ATA nuke commands. Scribble over optical drive firmware. Flash the BIOS with a LMOS bootloader. Maybe then people will realise that You Do Not Fucking Do This.
And maybe one day you will realize that you can't fix stupid. I believe the motivation is greed not stupidity. Also, it's not very nice to wish others ill will.
"Gamasutra reminds us that even though most game developers are breathing a sigh of relief, many would like to see the industry shift toward something more creative and meaningful than violence."
When I come home after a full day of dealing with idiots I like to blow off some steam by killing people (on my computer of course:-) I don't consider COD Black Ops an especialy violent game. I do my best to keep this away from my daughter so I have to wait till she goes to bed to play. If the industry self regulates who gets to buy these "violent" games why is this an issue. Ok maybe some parents may expose younger children to violent games but that is not the fault of the industry. That's just bad parenting. This whole thing is just a big waste of time.
The credit card companies would have to overhaul the entire infrastructure and that would cost money. The goverment could stop giving them tax writeoff's for business losses. That might jump start the process a bit.
About 5 years ago I worked for a compliance unit in the brokerage section of Citi. Prior to the creation of this unit managers in different departmets were responsible for making sure their employees were in compliance. When I started there we found that the firewall guys were granting access to whole segments of ip addresses instead of just the 7 or 8 that were needed. We also found the Unix guys were not deleting access to highly sensative databases after employees left the company. Something tells me that the culture of ignorance in that place isn't going to stop any time soon. About 2 years after our group was formed they sent our jobs over to India. We were only there to develop the process and iron out the kinks. They gave the crew in India a month to learn our process manual and 8-9 months later they still didn't get it. Lets add greed to a culture of incompetance. BTW that's where the name shoehornjob comes from. For a while there the manager would come to us and shoehorn in new processes without review or vetting them.
I'll assume you are joking because Lulzsec is not a terrorist group. Branding them (or anyone for that matter) a terrorist group seems to be in vogue these days. Terrorists kill people (innocent or not) for their cause. Lulzsec has broken a few laws and maybe put a few companies in their place (Sony for example) but that's a far cry from terrorism.
I think the Nanny state needs to back the F off and let the people decide what they want to block. I don't need the gubbermint to tell me what I can or can't see. Those who control the flow of information believe themselves to be your master. Information is power.
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It seems to me that automating the operation of the BBQ is a Bad Thing as it eliminates the excuse that one needs to be out back drinking because the fire must be tended.
What he said is the very foundation of why men BBQ. It's a neat homebrew tech project and I even entertained the idea till you set me straight. Heck if the menfolk were not out in the backyard tending the fire the women would pull out the honeydo list. Those of us geeks that are married have firsthand knowlege of the terrible thing that is the honeydo list. The wives should NEVER have knowledge of this contraption as it would result in no beer drinking and tons of excess work.
it's almost impossible to bring a product to market without infringing dozens upon dozens of completely random patents.
+1 insightful for that bit right there.
If their R&D is so awesome, why can't they make their own products and not resort to ripping off other businesses to make money?
You fail to understand that ripping off competitors is the new industry standard. No one really makes anything new anymore. They just copy ip and wait to get sued. Success is not measured by innovation but rather the skill of your legal department. Seriously though I'm having a hard time believing Microsoft has research in social computing. Does anyone remember the Kin?
You, Microsoft has a huge R&D division in the following subjects - Algorithms and theory - Hardware development - Human–computer interaction - Machine learning, adaptation, and intelligence - Multimedia and graphics - Search, retrieval, and knowledge management - Security and cryptography - Social computing - Software development - Systems, architectures, mobility, and networking - Computational and Systems Biology It's the largest one in the industry. They really do lots of research, and should enjoy the results aswell.
I don't have any mod points and I'm not sure if your comment is correct but I see nothing that merits a troll rating. Can someone fix this please?
It can be purchased from Amazon, Best Buy, Wirefly and Sprint. I don't own one but it looks like you can buy one that is unlocked for 400-500 or you can buy one with a reduced price which may or may not need to be rooted. I couldn't ascertain that from the site (pretty sure that's not by mistake).
LMAO so true.
Cool but useless
And yet I'm sure someone got a research grant for this thing.
LMAO Oh I need some mod points for that one.
This is going to be fun to watch in the next three years.
My thoughts exactly. So much drama.
"The Scottsdale, Arizona based company which has built its marketing around scantly-clad women" There it is. Now we do the traditional Wall street dance known as the hump and dump. Send the Go Daddy girls in.
No no no. That's not eugenics, that's economics.
On point though sad but true.+1
FTFA "When an airplane flies through a cloud, its propellers cause the expansion and cooling of the air behind them which can cause water droplets to spontaneously cool and crystals to form." However the picture shows a jet aircraft which if very different from a plane that has a standard propeller on the front. If the study took into account the differences between the two types of aircraft I'm reasonably sure that the effect would be different. Ergo there is a significant difference between a standard prop an a jet engine and the author of the article should have noted that. And will these scientists stop "rediscovering" that which has been known for years.
Someone with mod points needs to use them on the parent comment. So I should trust a corporation to screen out potential terrorists for me. Meanwhile they lost money this quarter and had to scale back on the security personnell. Yeah right not happening.
1-record a non complex song 2-record company promoton 3-profit$$$$ The music industry has been doing it for a while now and they have the formula down pat. Then again maybe I'm just a snob because I was exposed to classical music as a kid. My father had a huge collection of tapes and played them all day long. I don't listen to classical but I tend to stray as far away from pop music as possible.
You know, back when Phil Zimmerman was under fire for PGP, we (the geek community) stepped up and used PGP for trivial messages, thereby lending it strength, and making it pointless to bother working to decrypt the messages.
And he WON.
Based on you getting a +5 for saying you want to bury your head in the sand, I'd say we're just throwing the battle. And I'd say you're a jackass.
Don't let the FUD take you down. They're just grunts who want a day off eating hot dogs with the family same as you. If they want to be assholes for a few bucks they won't even remember having earned in 6 months, let them waste their time. But make sure it's a waste of time. Make sure it's a HUGE waste of time. Because they're the ones we want to keep busy.
I wish I still had those mod points that I splurged away yesterday because your comment is right on target. Sticking your head in the sand is not the answer because eventually you will run out of sand and have to face reality. Better deal with it now while you still have a chance to make things right.
John Dvorak puts up an argument which hints that some of these Amazon reviews may be corrupt."
Ya think so huh? Of course they are corrupt. What a dumbass. /rancor
I'm not the only one who has become numb to violence. Society as a whole is numb to certain kinds of violence. You make a very good point though. I don't usually play team deathmatch or FFA because they are boring. I feel like I accomplished something if I was able to evade the enemy and sneak in to capture their flag or activate the bomb in demo. But the federal governent does not need to establish any additional ratings on violent games because I can understand the difference between killing pixels and killing real people. My daughter is pretty smart and can distinguish the two as well but I shield this game from her because she does not need be exposed to this level of violence. That's good parenting. You can't legislate it. Nor can you expect every parent to excercise the same good judgement. And that was my original point.
Someone needs to start dropping USB sticks that physically destroy hardware when plugged in. Overclock video cards 30%. Issue ATA nuke commands. Scribble over optical drive firmware. Flash the BIOS with a LMOS bootloader. Maybe then people will realise that You Do Not Fucking Do This.
And maybe one day you will realize that you can't fix stupid. I believe the motivation is greed not stupidity. Also, it's not very nice to wish others ill will.
"Gamasutra reminds us that even though most game developers are breathing a sigh of relief, many would like to see the industry shift toward something more creative and meaningful than violence." When I come home after a full day of dealing with idiots I like to blow off some steam by killing people (on my computer of course :-) I don't consider COD Black Ops an especialy violent game. I do my best to keep this away from my daughter so I have to wait till she goes to bed to play. If the industry self regulates who gets to buy these "violent" games why is this an issue. Ok maybe some parents may expose younger children to violent games but that is not the fault of the industry. That's just bad parenting. This whole thing is just a big waste of time.
Just another way to screw the little man.
The credit card companies would have to overhaul the entire infrastructure and that would cost money. The goverment could stop giving them tax writeoff's for business losses. That might jump start the process a bit.
About 5 years ago I worked for a compliance unit in the brokerage section of Citi. Prior to the creation of this unit managers in different departmets were responsible for making sure their employees were in compliance. When I started there we found that the firewall guys were granting access to whole segments of ip addresses instead of just the 7 or 8 that were needed. We also found the Unix guys were not deleting access to highly sensative databases after employees left the company. Something tells me that the culture of ignorance in that place isn't going to stop any time soon. About 2 years after our group was formed they sent our jobs over to India. We were only there to develop the process and iron out the kinks. They gave the crew in India a month to learn our process manual and 8-9 months later they still didn't get it. Lets add greed to a culture of incompetance. BTW that's where the name shoehornjob comes from. For a while there the manager would come to us and shoehorn in new processes without review or vetting them.
Those NASA scientists are getting high on. Talk about going to extreme measures to protect their stash.
I'll assume you are joking because Lulzsec is not a terrorist group. Branding them (or anyone for that matter) a terrorist group seems to be in vogue these days. Terrorists kill people (innocent or not) for their cause. Lulzsec has broken a few laws and maybe put a few companies in their place (Sony for example) but that's a far cry from terrorism.
I think the Nanny state needs to back the F off and let the people decide what they want to block. I don't need the gubbermint to tell me what I can or can't see. Those who control the flow of information believe themselves to be your master. Information is power.