If you really, really, really care THAT DAMN MUCH about modding your XBox, you'd buy 2 -- one for online play on XBL, the other for souped-up media center purposes. Can't afford a second XBox? Then maybe modding and/or XBL isn't for you.
A modded XBox increases the probability the end user has a cheat enabled to give you an unfair advantage in an online competitive game. I applaud any service that wants to preserve purity in a competitive arena. It's just like every major competitive sport having regulations over the specifications of all equipment used in all games.
Well, there IS global dimming. We're not going to run out, it just hurts the efficiency. I am confident the technological breakthroughs will outpace the rate of dimming. And if carbon pollution goes down at the same time, because of the abundance of a solar-intake infrastructure, the rate of dimming will decrease, too.
If I have a long comment explaining "magic", 99 times out of 100 it's because I'm being forced to interface with a bad API which THAT CODER didn't properly understand. Glaring errors in the documentation, unexpected outputs, unexpected hangups... these are my duty to comment about. Of course I don't understand why the API is malfunctioning... it's a BLACK BOX. My employer might be too much of a cheapskate to purchase product support to troubleshoot the API. Or the vendor might charge outrageous support fees for their mess ups. I cannot switch to a different API, because I do not have the authority to make that decision.
My comments are self-defense when backed up against the wall. It does nothing to gauge my programming ability.
Remember those personalized hologram ads in Minority Report? Now, if they know your SSN, they can personalize a "deal" for you at a price you might be more willing to pay for it.
Nexia Biotechnology used to breed genetically modified goats that produce Golden Orb spider silk proteins in their milk glands. They would milk the goats like normal, sift the proteins out, and then mechanically spin the threads. They wanted to use it for medical sutures, bullet-proof vests, and stuff like that. They eventually wanted to genetically modify plants they could just grind up to get the proteins out of their leaves.
Anyway, I lost $1000 investing in that company. Seems NANOTUBES could do everything the spider silk could do, only better, and possibly in even more applications.
Seriously, people, all they did was evacuate. So what? A few office buildings lost a day of work. Ooooh...scary! You're definitely overreacting to alleged overreacting.
Didn't the earliest research into "lasers" involve microwave radiation, thus the first acronym being M.A.S.E.R, not L.A.S.E.R.? So shouldn't this be X.R.A.S.E.R or X.A.S.E.R.?
I understand that X-Rays are still light, but not visible light. But if the differentiation between maser and laser existed, with laser solely belonging to visible light, I'd like to see this tradition upheld.
"If his attention to detail is that lax on something that is presumably important to him, imagine how lax it'll be on something that's important to you."
It's fool's play to think that attention to the former has any predictive ability about the latter.
It's like those recruiters who get all upset about putting salt on your food before you try it. They spout that same overplayed anecdote about the nuclear submarine captain who thought anyone who did that would most likely cause a nuclear meltdown because they didn't look at the readings first.
Well, I'm fairly certain if a waitress informed me my behavior during a meal could have DIRECT consequences -- such an imminent death via high-doses of radiation or a violent explosion -- I really would have thought twice about touching any container, whether it held salt or any other seemingly mundane substance.
However, in absence of such dire warnings, what I do when I eat helps predict -- wait for it -- how I will behave during subsequent meals. That's it.
Well now politicians know how it feels.
They get hard-ons thinking about all the warrantless raids and seizures they can do under the Patriot Act. They shake their heads and claim "Privacy? What Privacy? You actually expect to still have Privacy in this day and age?"
But the minute someone turns the table and cracks their personal email accounts... suddenly, OMG! YOU VIOLATED MY *PRIVACY* !!!
GOOD RIDDANCE! I #$@*#&@# hate puzzles in my FPS!!! I want to blow things up, not chasedown colored access cards or have megarmor dangled in my face at the start of the mission, wondering how to get to it. There's a reason I didn't go very far in Half-Life 2, ya know.
Yes. It was either Doom or Doom II. Junior admins would be equipped with weaker weapons. More important processes were represented by tougher creatures.
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"Liters is for Coke, not gas."
You mean petro?
I had to read your sig 4 times to get the joke inside the joke inside the joke. Well played!
The Ultimate Maker Convention is where all con-goers construct together the convention grounds themselves.
If you really, really, really care THAT DAMN MUCH about modding your XBox, you'd buy 2 -- one for online play on XBL, the other for souped-up media center purposes. Can't afford a second XBox? Then maybe modding and/or XBL isn't for you.
A modded XBox increases the probability the end user has a cheat enabled to give you an unfair advantage in an online competitive game. I applaud any service that wants to preserve purity in a competitive arena. It's just like every major competitive sport having regulations over the specifications of all equipment used in all games.
Well, there IS global dimming. We're not going to run out, it just hurts the efficiency. I am confident the technological breakthroughs will outpace the rate of dimming. And if carbon pollution goes down at the same time, because of the abundance of a solar-intake infrastructure, the rate of dimming will decrease, too.
If I have a long comment explaining "magic", 99 times out of 100 it's because I'm being forced to interface with a bad API which THAT CODER didn't properly understand. Glaring errors in the documentation, unexpected outputs, unexpected hangups ... these are my duty to comment about. Of course I don't understand why the API is malfunctioning ... it's a BLACK BOX. My employer might be too much of a cheapskate to purchase product support to troubleshoot the API. Or the vendor might charge outrageous support fees for their mess ups. I cannot switch to a different API, because I do not have the authority to make that decision.
My comments are self-defense when backed up against the wall. It does nothing to gauge my programming ability.
"I'm Dirty D, damnit! I just need to be diiiirty!"
Remember those personalized hologram ads in Minority Report? Now, if they know your SSN, they can personalize a "deal" for you at a price you might be more willing to pay for it.
The whole tax evasion angle ... this is how they got AL CAPONE!
Nice try at FUD-making. We see right through you.
I first read this as "Ass Slaps Nuts In the Face"
One if by land, two if by sea
According to FSM, as the world temperatures rise, the number of pirates go down.
So drive a Hummer.
Nexia Biotechnology used to breed genetically modified goats that produce Golden Orb spider silk proteins in their milk glands. They would milk the goats like normal, sift the proteins out, and then mechanically spin the threads. They wanted to use it for medical sutures, bullet-proof vests, and stuff like that. They eventually wanted to genetically modify plants they could just grind up to get the proteins out of their leaves.
Anyway, I lost $1000 investing in that company. Seems NANOTUBES could do everything the spider silk could do, only better, and possibly in even more applications.
Seriously, people, all they did was evacuate. So what? A few office buildings lost a day of work. Ooooh...scary! You're definitely overreacting to alleged overreacting.
Didn't the earliest research into "lasers" involve microwave radiation, thus the first acronym being M.A.S.E.R, not L.A.S.E.R.? So shouldn't this be X.R.A.S.E.R or X.A.S.E.R.? I understand that X-Rays are still light, but not visible light. But if the differentiation between maser and laser existed, with laser solely belonging to visible light, I'd like to see this tradition upheld.
"If his attention to detail is that lax on something that is presumably important to him, imagine how lax it'll be on something that's important to you." It's fool's play to think that attention to the former has any predictive ability about the latter. It's like those recruiters who get all upset about putting salt on your food before you try it. They spout that same overplayed anecdote about the nuclear submarine captain who thought anyone who did that would most likely cause a nuclear meltdown because they didn't look at the readings first. Well, I'm fairly certain if a waitress informed me my behavior during a meal could have DIRECT consequences -- such an imminent death via high-doses of radiation or a violent explosion -- I really would have thought twice about touching any container, whether it held salt or any other seemingly mundane substance. However, in absence of such dire warnings, what I do when I eat helps predict -- wait for it -- how I will behave during subsequent meals. That's it.
My company also uses Citrix solely for remote desktop. No serving of applications.
There's something fundamentally wrong with you if someone opines the threat of death is chilling and your reply is "Howso?"
Well now politicians know how it feels. They get hard-ons thinking about all the warrantless raids and seizures they can do under the Patriot Act. They shake their heads and claim "Privacy? What Privacy? You actually expect to still have Privacy in this day and age?" But the minute someone turns the table and cracks their personal email accounts ... suddenly, OMG! YOU VIOLATED MY *PRIVACY* !!!
You beat me to the punch!
So Demetri Martin wasn't big enough of a comic, eh?
GOOD RIDDANCE! I #$@*#&@# hate puzzles in my FPS!!! I want to blow things up, not chasedown colored access cards or have megarmor dangled in my face at the start of the mission, wondering how to get to it. There's a reason I didn't go very far in Half-Life 2, ya know.
Something Awful called and it wants its tagline back.
Yes. It was either Doom or Doom II. Junior admins would be equipped with weaker weapons. More important processes were represented by tougher creatures.