Ok, sorry but it's highly irrelevant/misleading you saying you don't want to live to 150. You only don't want to live to 150 because you haven't had this miracle drug that slows down ageing. Thus your current 50 is nothing what 50 would be if you _were_ going to live to be 150.
Verizon better be careful with testing it's mobile data or they might come back to find thousand $ mobile data bills at their desk when they are done...
Modded insightful for blindly following the "banks are evil!" bandwagon?
But no, you are right. We don't need banks and financial services. They don't provide any valuable services. Just do away with them, then see if you are better off without them.
It's the people who post this crap on slashdot that incentives mozilla to spit out version after version simply in the hopes that it will remind people to use firefox instead of the better alternative, Chrome.
A superior product doesn't need to keep shoving it in your face. And before someone mentions Chrome's commercials- that is to get the word out to audiences that are unaware of alternatives, it's not what mozilla keeps doing to keep it in the tech news where everyone is aware of the alternatives.
Heck, I recall even playing texas hold em with guildies during raids through an ingame mod when I was playing Warcraft.
You will have to elaborate, but I'm assuming by "mod" you mean he linked you to something via an ingame web broswer? I'm somehow doubting WoW allows you to do anything more than that.
But anyway, the appeal of minecraft is that you are "physically" creating things in the game, even more amazing is you can do so with other people in realtime. You aren't writing (arguably boring) code and then adding it into the game*, you really get to feel like you are building things and discovering how to make something work. It really engages the player by having just simple tools at your disposal and you can go and try to build amazing and crazy things.
So does it deserve all the attention it gets? Absolutely. Go play it and you might be surprised how amazing it is.
*Granted you can have "mods" by coding as well, but that is mostly rewriting server logic/abilities, and not generally modifying anything about how the game works itself.
From the article it sounds like they figured out that people who liked getting achievements were more likely to get more achievements even if the achievements were not related to one another.... SHOCKER.
Any objective person can see that saying "Follow us on twitter!" is an endorsement of a commercial service, and it's not legal in France to pepper news programs with adverts like this.
Any objective person would have the complete opposite view.
Are they getting paid to say "Follow us on twitter!"? If they are, then I agree, but it's probably not the case that every single news network (if any) is getting paid by Twitter to use twitter. If they aren't, then they are simply endorsing THEMSELVES (not Twitter) by wanting people to join their feed so they can have more people using their news or whatever.
You can do both.. the room has an ip address, and supposedly however it's hooked up the room will know what is connected to it automatically so it doesn't matter if their ip addresses change.
However then that also gives you the option of talking to a specific device without requiring to go through the room overlay.
Same with corporations; if you're going to give them all tax breaks on their water coolers, just drop the rates.
So, company makes revenue of $100. They end up spending around $100 to furnish their office and things that are a legitimate business expense (like, a water cooler).
Current: Let's assume a high 35% rate, but with deductinos ($100 - $100) * 35% = $0 tax since they had costs. Net profit after tax = $0 Your solution: Lowering the rate ($100 - 0) * 20% = $20 tax. Net profit after tax = -$20.
Great, your solution just made them pay tax and actually lose money even though legitimate costs had them breaking even pre-tax.
See how easy taxes are!!
All you guys that just spout out "it's so easy, let's just do this" never actually think about the consequences... tax may have a lot of exceptions, but there are quite a bit of valid reasons for it. I'm not saying it couldn't be simplified some, but there are a lot of things to take into account.
I saw someone mention lipsync as a dropbox alternative. Sorry to be a bit offtopic, but I was hoping someone had a recommendation for a 1-directional real-time file syncing software for Windows (bi-directional would be fine too of course, but that isn't a requirement. And if it was just a linux one but worked amazing I would be glad to know about that as well). I have just not been able to find any good real-time syncing that will do updates after each change.
I know there are plenty of syncing where you just put in the source & dest folder and sync away, however those are never meant for real-time syncing and have serious downsides. And furthermore, I need one built with syncing over the internet in mind where upload speeds may be sub-par.
For this type of setup, what I would see as being necessary is having both server and client software communicating and sending the appropriate file modification messages to each other to know when and what to sync, thus giving it the ability to be very light on the data transfer and quick on the updates.
The setup I always see in programs is the program only running on one side, meaning to do any regular syncs it needs to constantly re-download/re-create the source and/or destinations entire file structure each time to do comparisons. Even if it prestores some XML files with the current data and just does updates, it still ends up needing to send say 30-40megabytes of data in my case each time. This is obviously not very efficient, and when syncing large file systems with so-so upload speeds, it's simply impossible to do anywhere near real-time backups.
Any recommendations would be great.. I'm sure there have to be programs out there I just can't find any. All i want is: A) Local computer for drive/folders to be monitored when changes are being made "server" B) Remote computer, "client" A starts up, needs to do a full sync with client B at first to make sure everything is up to date. Then A continuously monitors folder/drive, any modifications/new files are sent to B. B confirms the new changes are done before new updating occurs. B always contains data from A.
What if banks operated this way? They find a ring of fraudsters using bank accounts to commit fraud, and the bank responds by freezing everyone's accounts for weeks? It would be totally unacceptable.
Except it's not a bank, it's a video game service for gods sake.
That's complete and utter hogwash. You think imperial is "natural" simply because you are more used to it. Any non-American (except for a few Brits, Aussies and Kanuks) think metric units are more "natural".
Did you not even read his very first sentence? "I was born and raised in a country that is firmly and decidedly "metric"." and after that "Then I moved to US"
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Ok, sorry but it's highly irrelevant/misleading you saying you don't want to live to 150. You only don't want to live to 150 because you haven't had this miracle drug that slows down ageing. Thus your current 50 is nothing what 50 would be if you _were_ going to live to be 150.
Verizon better be careful with testing it's mobile data or they might come back to find thousand $ mobile data bills at their desk when they are done...
Modded insightful for blindly following the "banks are evil!" bandwagon?
But no, you are right. We don't need banks and financial services. They don't provide any valuable services. Just do away with them, then see if you are better off without them.
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It's the people who post this crap on slashdot that incentives mozilla to spit out version after version simply in the hopes that it will remind people to use firefox instead of the better alternative, Chrome.
A superior product doesn't need to keep shoving it in your face. And before someone mentions Chrome's commercials- that is to get the word out to audiences that are unaware of alternatives, it's not what mozilla keeps doing to keep it in the tech news where everyone is aware of the alternatives.
I do.
You are awesome.
Heck, I recall even playing texas hold em with guildies during raids through an ingame mod when I was playing Warcraft.
You will have to elaborate, but I'm assuming by "mod" you mean he linked you to something via an ingame web broswer? I'm somehow doubting WoW allows you to do anything more than that.
But anyway, the appeal of minecraft is that you are "physically" creating things in the game, even more amazing is you can do so with other people in realtime. You aren't writing (arguably boring) code and then adding it into the game*, you really get to feel like you are building things and discovering how to make something work. It really engages the player by having just simple tools at your disposal and you can go and try to build amazing and crazy things.
So does it deserve all the attention it gets? Absolutely. Go play it and you might be surprised how amazing it is.
*Granted you can have "mods" by coding as well, but that is mostly rewriting server logic/abilities, and not generally modifying anything about how the game works itself.
Those numbers are completely out of context, no idea if that's good or bad. Nice job, summary.
From the article it sounds like they figured out that people who liked getting achievements were more likely to get more achievements even if the achievements were not related to one another.... SHOCKER.
You do realize that was a quote from the article?
Yeah, because no information is on Facebook or Twitter........
Any objective person can see that saying "Follow us on twitter!" is an endorsement of a commercial service, and it's not legal in France to pepper news programs with adverts like this.
Any objective person would have the complete opposite view.
Are they getting paid to say "Follow us on twitter!"?
If they are, then I agree, but it's probably not the case that every single news network (if any) is getting paid by Twitter to use twitter.
If they aren't, then they are simply endorsing THEMSELVES (not Twitter) by wanting people to join their feed so they can have more people using their news or whatever.
You can do both.. the room has an ip address, and supposedly however it's hooked up the room will know what is connected to it automatically so it doesn't matter if their ip addresses change.
However then that also gives you the option of talking to a specific device without requiring to go through the room overlay.
Same with corporations; if you're going to give them all tax breaks on their water coolers, just drop the rates.
So, company makes revenue of $100. They end up spending around $100 to furnish their office and things that are a legitimate business expense (like, a water cooler).
Current: Let's assume a high 35% rate, but with deductinos
($100 - $100) * 35% = $0 tax since they had costs. Net profit after tax = $0
Your solution: Lowering the rate
($100 - 0) * 20% = $20 tax. Net profit after tax = -$20.
Great, your solution just made them pay tax and actually lose money even though legitimate costs had them breaking even pre-tax.
See how easy taxes are!!
All you guys that just spout out "it's so easy, let's just do this" never actually think about the consequences... tax may have a lot of exceptions, but there are quite a bit of valid reasons for it. I'm not saying it couldn't be simplified some, but there are a lot of things to take into account.
I saw someone mention lipsync as a dropbox alternative. Sorry to be a bit offtopic, but I was hoping someone had a recommendation for a 1-directional real-time file syncing software for Windows (bi-directional would be fine too of course, but that isn't a requirement. And if it was just a linux one but worked amazing I would be glad to know about that as well). I have just not been able to find any good real-time syncing that will do updates after each change.
I know there are plenty of syncing where you just put in the source & dest folder and sync away, however those are never meant for real-time syncing and have serious downsides. And furthermore, I need one built with syncing over the internet in mind where upload speeds may be sub-par.
For this type of setup, what I would see as being necessary is having both server and client software communicating and sending the appropriate file modification messages to each other to know when and what to sync, thus giving it the ability to be very light on the data transfer and quick on the updates.
The setup I always see in programs is the program only running on one side, meaning to do any regular syncs it needs to constantly re-download/re-create the source and/or destinations entire file structure each time to do comparisons. Even if it prestores some XML files with the current data and just does updates, it still ends up needing to send say 30-40megabytes of data in my case each time. This is obviously not very efficient, and when syncing large file systems with so-so upload speeds, it's simply impossible to do anywhere near real-time backups.
Any recommendations would be great.. I'm sure there have to be programs out there I just can't find any. All i want is:
A) Local computer for drive/folders to be monitored when changes are being made "server"
B) Remote computer, "client"
A starts up, needs to do a full sync with client B at first to make sure everything is up to date. Then A continuously monitors folder/drive, any modifications/new files are sent to B. B confirms the new changes are done before new updating occurs. B always contains data from A.
Simple as that. Thanks for any help!
Your proof is overwhelming.. oh wait, you have none.
Then... don't live in fear?
Just because your sex life went downhill after the first time doesn't mean things can't improve...
Yeah, because I'm sure he would just tell us everything we want to know...
Would killing the CEO of any large corporation make it fold and cease to exist?
You mean like, Apple?
What if banks operated this way? They find a ring of fraudsters using bank accounts to commit fraud, and the bank responds by freezing everyone's accounts for weeks? It would be totally unacceptable.
Except it's not a bank, it's a video game service for gods sake.
Xbox live is great. I'm quite sure you don't actually use it, but thanks for commenting.
That's complete and utter hogwash. You think imperial is "natural" simply because you are more used to it. Any non-American (except for a few Brits, Aussies and Kanuks) think metric units are more "natural".
Did you not even read his very first sentence?
"I was born and raised in a country that is firmly and decidedly "metric"."
and after that
"Then I moved to US"
You are the one that bought 10 year old software. So yes, the date it was first released is fairly meaningful.
If you buy a 10 year old car do you expect that you can still get a standard warranty with it?