News flash. I'm a Comp Eng, I've been involved in writing software for all of my career, and I tell people I'm in the IT (Information Technology) business. Do you mean admin work? It shouldn't be a problem, unless you end up tailing log files and faxing the errors if you see them. Do you mean equipment/line installation? I wouldn't say the Cable Guy is in the IT business.
Odd that it takes a death threat to get people to use condoms? Condoms take the animal unbridled instinct feeling out of sex, which makes it less fun. The fun in sex is to a large extent due to the fact that it's on kernel code level. The moment you have to escape from kernel code into userland, you lose the feeling of... lack of control:) The point of fornication (which sex with a condom definitely attempts to be) is the pleasure you get out of letting your most basic programming take over. Pulling out a condom is almost like hearing "I think we should paint the ceiling blue".
The fact that this is compiled from superimposed youtube clips in no way detracts from how absolutely awesome this is. If I were to tell you what I'm seeing, you would also compare my description with images that you know and imagine my vision via metaphors.... which, all things considered, works quite well in everyday life, by the way.
From the comment, it seems that these ladies really do not know they are part of a scam. They're probably just as knowledgeable about computers as the people they are scamming. Sounds sort of like that fake Apple store in China, whose employees thought they were working for Apple, but in fact were not. The lady above probably really thinks she's working for Windows Operating System too....
I'm no expert, but this is what it seems like to me: Printing is a bit weird; it causes changes in measurement calibration of the money system, while globally, the system will still be unstable. You're only supposed to print enough to cover your GDP growth and keep inflation at a slight positive which makes your mesurements (valuations) constant for certain reference amounts, but you can't influence the system.
Money supply is like water in a container. Usually, there are ripples and waves, but once in a while, you get a tidal wave, because the whole system gets a shock. So here we are with a tidal wave that has just left our "shore" of the container. We don't like the water level, so we just add water on our end to bring the level to something comfy, right? Think what will happen, when the tide comes back. What are you going to do then? Siphon the water? The water is money.. who will you take it from? There is actually no right amount of water to add! You are not supposed to do it, no matter how tempting! (this is assuming you want to keep *average* inflation more or less constant)
So what is done instead is maneuvers that don't add water to the system. You can take the water from another location in the container and put it where you need it. But that takes energy... you need a source. And if the system is very unstable, your source is also going to be difficult to manage... and you're not going to change things anyway. The source of the instability is not the level (exchange rate) of water... so adding water (money) doesn't actually solve the tidal wave problem in any predictable way.
How would this lie detector react to someone blaming themselves for a death, but being otherwise innocent in the face of the law and reason? They will say no, but will they believe it?
The same article says that the cheering "crowd" was offered cake and did not know the intention of the celebration of which they were part. This is nitpicking.
In case anyone is wondering a few years from now why their internet liberty will be so limited, it is this kind of abuse of freedom that will get us there. Thanks in advance Anonymous et al.
If information wants to be free, let's all get tracking chips today!
Pope John Paul II had an all but televised death. All CNN could do at the time was speculate on the successor, as if an election campaign was in full swing and the incumbent was going to retire in the Bahamas. Televising TP's death in all its seriousness is above what already happened on CNN.
Where's the equivalent of You Don't Know Jack for modern consoles? Buzz is a good start, but you can do better, I'm sure! Is that too high budget? I'm 34. I play with my wife and sometimes with friends. I PAY for my games. I demand some respect!
For some reason the expansion of the target audience to 5-50 caused game model ideas to revert to the stone age. It's a greenfield people! It's your next frontier for excellent games. Get to work!
Back in university days I took a course on entrepreneurship. The prof then said, "if you need to do something and you don't think its going to get you in trouble, don't ask for permission, just do it. Ask the permission later."
This is exactly what Apple did. They were plannig sync functionality (or liked what this guy was doing, which is less likely), so they rejected him and put out their version. This is what they needed to do. Now comes the "ask for permission" part. In Apple's case, this will mean paying off the dude in what will probably be an out-of-court settlement. This is just business. It's sad, but as a business, Apple could do nothing better. Jobs is no charity, and this shouldn't come as a surprise.
For the idealist in you, for most of the cool apps out there the dream payoff is to get bought out by someone big (Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, IBM, whatever). There are many ways to get bought out. Settlement is one of these ways, and is no worse than a restrictive takeover.
If you do not put a value on freedom of speech, free enterprise, the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, then yes. Everything is relative and there is no good and no evil, communist regimes are about power to the people, and all countries are just as bad for having killed some of their citizens at one time or another. Now, with that out of the way, I heard great things about North Korea. You hardly hear any complaints coming out of that country.
The one thing that I find constant in accounts of massacres at the time they happen is that they get underestimated. Usually, first-hand accounts by the well-connected are based on observations from safe vantage points or from second-hand information. Also, if you spend a lot of time in a safe place, you end up being very careful to not overstate anything and sound alarmist, lest you are seen as panic-stricken or sensationalist.... or wrong.
So, in accounts of how regimes treat their victims, I tend to believe the more brutal accounts of what happened. It's hard to underestimate how cruel people can be toward eachother.
As I found out in my aunt's case of terminal cancer, a time comes, when the drugs administered are in doses that could kill (via liver failure, for example). The doses are then not increased, or alternate lighter drugs are given. In either case, the patient suffers extreme pain. The idea that modern medicine ensures no pain is a myth.
This could even be done for school purposes.. I don't remember there being some sort of copyright agreement between me and my high school that gave the school special rights to my essays. What difference does it make if it's done as homework?
This MUST be true. My wife has an N97. I do not believe for one moment that one single manager or exec at Nokia uses that piece of garbage. They probably still use their N95. Truth is that with N97, Nokia probably lost its entire early adopter base. My wife's next phone will with 100% certainly not be a Nokia, and she was a Nokia-only customer. I have an N900. Even though I don't hack on it, I really like it as a phone, but I feel abandoned after shelling out $500 for it on preorder.
F*ck these guys. They certainly know how to screw their highest margin customers.
Apple, here we come. Not out of choice, but out of desperation.
Sony entered the music label business not too long ago, and they went for a billion $ spending spree, they paid their way into the music industry. Whatever their sins, they're not as bas as the RIAA; they're on the fence with DRM (they did initially offer the Other OS option), but seem to be influenced by their music industry affiliation now.
Google could buy another label and make competition for Sony. They would put pressure on the music industry and make money on that (I would certainly spend more money on music if it wasn't a ripoff), and they would put pressure on Sony to continue what they started. Sony could use a good slap to wake them up; it's a sorry company nowdays. I have some Sony stuff, but with each purchase I get more and more convinced that there's no actual premium value in buying Sony any more.
Or, they could buy Sony and... oh man, I would love for the PS3 to get a decent browser and media playing capability.
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Does this mean that at your bank there is a CS department and an IT department? You must be joking.
News flash. I'm a Comp Eng, I've been involved in writing software for all of my career, and I tell people I'm in the IT (Information Technology) business. Do you mean admin work? It shouldn't be a problem, unless you end up tailing log files and faxing the errors if you see them. Do you mean equipment/line installation? I wouldn't say the Cable Guy is in the IT business.
Odd that it takes a death threat to get people to use condoms? Condoms take the animal unbridled instinct feeling out of sex, which makes it less fun. The fun in sex is to a large extent due to the fact that it's on kernel code level. The moment you have to escape from kernel code into userland, you lose the feeling of... lack of control :) The point of fornication (which sex with a condom definitely attempts to be) is the pleasure you get out of letting your most basic programming take over. Pulling out a condom is almost like hearing "I think we should paint the ceiling blue".
The fact that this is compiled from superimposed youtube clips in no way detracts from how absolutely awesome this is. If I were to tell you what I'm seeing, you would also compare my description with images that you know and imagine my vision via metaphors.... which, all things considered, works quite well in everyday life, by the way.
From the comment, it seems that these ladies really do not know they are part of a scam. They're probably just as knowledgeable about computers as the people they are scamming. Sounds sort of like that fake Apple store in China, whose employees thought they were working for Apple, but in fact were not. The lady above probably really thinks she's working for Windows Operating System too....
If you look at TFA, it seems that the connector actually introduces flex where there wasn't any before.
Most likely an Apple patent.
I'm no expert, but this is what it seems like to me:
Printing is a bit weird; it causes changes in measurement calibration of the money system, while globally, the system will still be unstable. You're only supposed to print enough to cover your GDP growth and keep inflation at a slight positive which makes your mesurements (valuations) constant for certain reference amounts, but you can't influence the system.
Money supply is like water in a container. Usually, there are ripples and waves, but once in a while, you get a tidal wave, because the whole system gets a shock. So here we are with a tidal wave that has just left our "shore" of the container. We don't like the water level, so we just add water on our end to bring the level to something comfy, right? Think what will happen, when the tide comes back. What are you going to do then? Siphon the water? The water is money.. who will you take it from? There is actually no right amount of water to add! You are not supposed to do it, no matter how tempting! (this is assuming you want to keep *average* inflation more or less constant)
So what is done instead is maneuvers that don't add water to the system. You can take the water from another location in the container and put it where you need it. But that takes energy... you need a source. And if the system is very unstable, your source is also going to be difficult to manage... and you're not going to change things anyway. The source of the instability is not the level (exchange rate) of water... so adding water (money) doesn't actually solve the tidal wave problem in any predictable way.
How would this lie detector react to someone blaming themselves for a death, but being otherwise innocent in the face of the law and reason? They will say no, but will they believe it?
And selling the pig at 6ms price accuracy impacts the farmer's decision to sell how?
The same article says that the cheering "crowd" was offered cake and did not know the intention of the celebration of which they were part. This is nitpicking.
What are checks?
This reads like a commit log, not a list of great new features.
In case anyone is wondering a few years from now why their internet liberty will be so limited, it is this kind of abuse of freedom that will get us there. Thanks in advance Anonymous et al.
If information wants to be free, let's all get tracking chips today!
Pope John Paul II had an all but televised death. All CNN could do at the time was speculate on the successor, as if an election campaign was in full swing and the incumbent was going to retire in the Bahamas.
Televising TP's death in all its seriousness is above what already happened on CNN.
Where's the equivalent of You Don't Know Jack for modern consoles? Buzz is a good start, but you can do better, I'm sure! Is that too high budget? I'm 34. I play with my wife and sometimes with friends. I PAY for my games. I demand some respect!
For some reason the expansion of the target audience to 5-50 caused game model ideas to revert to the stone age. It's a greenfield people! It's your next frontier for excellent games. Get to work!
Back in university days I took a course on entrepreneurship. The prof then said, "if you need to do something and you don't think its going to get you in trouble, don't ask for permission, just do it. Ask the permission later."
This is exactly what Apple did. They were plannig sync functionality (or liked what this guy was doing, which is less likely), so they rejected him and put out their version. This is what they needed to do. Now comes the "ask for permission" part. In Apple's case, this will mean paying off the dude in what will probably be an out-of-court settlement. This is just business. It's sad, but as a business, Apple could do nothing better. Jobs is no charity, and this shouldn't come as a surprise.
For the idealist in you, for most of the cool apps out there the dream payoff is to get bought out by someone big (Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, IBM, whatever). There are many ways to get bought out. Settlement is one of these ways, and is no worse than a restrictive takeover.
Since when does one eyewitness account of some diplomat (usually these are not the freedom fighter types, to put it mildly) "show" anything?
If you do not put a value on freedom of speech, free enterprise, the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, then yes. Everything is relative and there is no good and no evil, communist regimes are about power to the people, and all countries are just as bad for having killed some of their citizens at one time or another.
Now, with that out of the way, I heard great things about North Korea. You hardly hear any complaints coming out of that country.
Yea! They had it coming, didn't they? Kudos to the PLA for putting a swift end to the mischief.
The one thing that I find constant in accounts of massacres at the time they happen is that they get underestimated. Usually, first-hand accounts by the well-connected are based on observations from safe vantage points or from second-hand information. Also, if you spend a lot of time in a safe place, you end up being very careful to not overstate anything and sound alarmist, lest you are seen as panic-stricken or sensationalist.... or wrong.
So, in accounts of how regimes treat their victims, I tend to believe the more brutal accounts of what happened. It's hard to underestimate how cruel people can be toward eachother.
Mod parent up.
As I found out in my aunt's case of terminal cancer, a time comes, when the drugs administered are in doses that could kill (via liver failure, for example). The doses are then not increased, or alternate lighter drugs are given. In either case, the patient suffers extreme pain. The idea that modern medicine ensures no pain is a myth.
This could even be done for school purposes.. I don't remember there being some sort of copyright agreement between me and my high school that gave the school special rights to my essays. What difference does it make if it's done as homework?
This MUST be true. My wife has an N97. I do not believe for one moment that one single manager or exec at Nokia uses that piece of garbage. They probably still use their N95.
Truth is that with N97, Nokia probably lost its entire early adopter base. My wife's next phone will with 100% certainly not be a Nokia, and she was a Nokia-only customer.
I have an N900. Even though I don't hack on it, I really like it as a phone, but I feel abandoned after shelling out $500 for it on preorder.
F*ck these guys. They certainly know how to screw their highest margin customers.
Apple, here we come. Not out of choice, but out of desperation.
Sony entered the music label business not too long ago, and they went for a billion $ spending spree, they paid their way into the music industry. Whatever their sins, they're not as bas as the RIAA; they're on the fence with DRM (they did initially offer the Other OS option), but seem to be influenced by their music industry affiliation now.
Google could buy another label and make competition for Sony. They would put pressure on the music industry and make money on that (I would certainly spend more money on music if it wasn't a ripoff), and they would put pressure on Sony to continue what they started. Sony could use a good slap to wake them up; it's a sorry company nowdays. I have some Sony stuff, but with each purchase I get more and more convinced that there's no actual premium value in buying Sony any more.
Or, they could buy Sony and... oh man, I would love for the PS3 to get a decent browser and media playing capability.