It'd be less fun than you might think. In these post-9/11 days, do you think the government would actually let people fly their cars? No, even if the engineering problems were solved, the car's controls would only be accessible via an autopilot box fitted with more anti-tamper measures than an XBox 360 and embedded in a cube of epoxy. You'd only be able select from it's list of pre-approved 'safe landing zones' and it'd do the rest. The law will be proposed within a month after the first case of a drunk flier crashing into a building. Within a week if a child is killed.
With their higher body temp, the energy requirements for supporting a large mammal can become quite impractical. There's a reason for the expression 'eat like a horse.'
What does communism have to do with atheism? There is nothing to prevent a religious communism. Many have existed, but they just suffer the same flaw as secular communism: It doesn't scale.
A complication of pregnancy which is invariably (Baring one-in-a-million luck) fatal to both woman and fetus. The only options are death or abortion. It's used as a litmus test for the pro-life hardcore: Only the very strictest opponent of abortion would still forbid it in the cast of entropic pregnancy. It's the one and only circumstance in which the catholic church permits referal for abortion, though even then it'd have to be in a non-catholic hospital.
Religion is defined by it's followers. You could spend a lifetime arguing over what the Koran does or doesn't mean, and a lot of people have done just that - but, even if an answer is possible, it doesn't matter. The important part is what the believers believe it says, and particually that segment of believers that has the conviction to back up their interpretation with political action or even violence.
You could go out there and tell the fundamentalists that their interpretation of their holy text is wrong. Then they'd stone you as a heretic, and anyone else watching would probably be smart enough to keep their own views to themselves.
And requires ARM tablets sold with windows be firmware-locked to boot only windows eight, nothing else. While from a technical perspective x86(/64) and ARM are just two ways of achieving the same thing, from a business perspective ARM is a fresh start... a chance to do all the things that would be seen as outragious on x86,
.NET was originally a lot more than that - it started off as a big initiative to move towards more online services, centered around the.NET passport. The name almost made a little bit of sense then, though not very much. Then everything except the programming API and associated tools proved to be a massive flop.
"A home user doesn't need those features but it doesn't hurt to include them."
Doesn't hurt the user, does hurt microsoft. If they included those features in home edition, who would want to buy the more expensive professional edition? It's called price discrimination: The business technique of making sure every customer pays as close as possible to what they are willing to pay, even if customers are willing to pay different amounts.
It's actually quite simple. Microsoft realises how important tablets and touchscreen-only devices are going to be in future - the success of the iPad took everyone by surprise, and smartphones are just too lucrative by sheer numbers to pass up. But the traditional windows interface was made for keyboard and mouse. It's great at keyboard and mouse, but just try pressing a minimise button with your big fat finger. Microsoft was left with two options: Either go with very different interfaces on their desktop and touchscreen lines (Which in turn poses problems for application porting, and would doubtless be opposed by Marketing for making it difficult to maintain a consistant user experience and brand identity), or modify the desktop interface to reflect the needs of the touchscreen user, even if that means making things a little less optimal for the keyboard-and-mouse users. Microsoft chose the latter. Metro tries to be an interface for traditional or touchscreen use, and by trying to be both it manages to excel at neither - but the alternative option could have been even worse from a business perspective, by making it impossible to use Microsoft's established strength in the desktop sector to launch it into the tablet and smartphone where competitors already dominate.
The record labels aren't really that important any more. They date from a time when selling music on a large scale needed access to record-pressing factories, big chain store contracts, fleets of distribution trucks, hugely expensive professional recording gear and such things. Now anyone with a little talent can almost match that gear with a cheap computer and decent mic, and distribute online for free. Getting payment for it is a bit harder, but when the cost of production and distribution is so low even just donations can be profitable.
Movies, on the other hand, are still so expensive that very few individuals could afford to do it as a hobby. No getting around that one: If you want to see movies made, you need studio companies.
But in the middle is a compromise position where piracy runs rampant and technology is still locked-down and restricted. Neither side is happy with that. Piracy started off as just a way to get free stuff, but it's a lot more political now.
Trawl Phishing: Sending phishing emails in bulk without targetting, in the hope someone will be dumb enough. The classic approach, as opposed to spear phishing.
Cutting spending isn't as important for politicians as the appearance of cutting spending. If they want to stay in office, it's a good idea to find something to cut. The typical voter doesn't have much of a head for numbers, and sees just $X million saved. Millions of dollars always sounds like a lot, even when it really isn't.
"Server three choked on the db backup again, looks like D filled, bodged a script to tidy crap from temp folder on nightly before AV, it'll buy a couple days before the new HDDs arrive. Throw the whole DB there during weekend DT. Also, don't forget it's LP on Sun - make sure to get the steam DLs first this time."
Troll, yes... but words change, and I note that in some forums (/b/ being one) the term 'fag' is used as a general insult without sexual implication, in the same way that gamers might call something 'gay' to disparage it. So the homophobia is uncertain.
Good point. The fiasco of Chess comes to mind. Both sides went to extreme lengths to secure victory, with the Soviets working on ridiculously intensive chess-specialised training programs while the US worked with Fischer, a chess super-genius who made the types of ridiculous demands that even A-list movie stars can barely get away with.
China is really communist largely in tradition. They run their economy as a heavily-regulated semi-free market now.
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It'd be less fun than you might think. In these post-9/11 days, do you think the government would actually let people fly their cars? No, even if the engineering problems were solved, the car's controls would only be accessible via an autopilot box fitted with more anti-tamper measures than an XBox 360 and embedded in a cube of epoxy. You'd only be able select from it's list of pre-approved 'safe landing zones' and it'd do the rest. The law will be proposed within a month after the first case of a drunk flier crashing into a building. Within a week if a child is killed.
"Then, 11,000 years ago they died out."
Quite likely with a little help. Hunting may not have been enough to wipe them out alone, but it was at least a contributing factor.
Rawr.
With their higher body temp, the energy requirements for supporting a large mammal can become quite impractical. There's a reason for the expression 'eat like a horse.'
"Above all that, beyond playing tricks and crashing my browser, I'd be interested to know what incentive they would have to do that?"
Long-term botnet. Good for spamming, ad-fraud, DDoSing, that sort of thing.
What does communism have to do with atheism? There is nothing to prevent a religious communism. Many have existed, but they just suffer the same flaw as secular communism: It doesn't scale.
A complication of pregnancy which is invariably (Baring one-in-a-million luck) fatal to both woman and fetus. The only options are death or abortion. It's used as a litmus test for the pro-life hardcore: Only the very strictest opponent of abortion would still forbid it in the cast of entropic pregnancy. It's the one and only circumstance in which the catholic church permits referal for abortion, though even then it'd have to be in a non-catholic hospital.
Religion is defined by it's followers. You could spend a lifetime arguing over what the Koran does or doesn't mean, and a lot of people have done just that - but, even if an answer is possible, it doesn't matter. The important part is what the believers believe it says, and particually that segment of believers that has the conviction to back up their interpretation with political action or even violence.
You could go out there and tell the fundamentalists that their interpretation of their holy text is wrong. Then they'd stone you as a heretic, and anyone else watching would probably be smart enough to keep their own views to themselves.
And requires ARM tablets sold with windows be firmware-locked to boot only windows eight, nothing else. While from a technical perspective x86(/64) and ARM are just two ways of achieving the same thing, from a business perspective ARM is a fresh start... a chance to do all the things that would be seen as outragious on x86,
.NET was originally a lot more than that - it started off as a big initiative to move towards more online services, centered around the .NET passport. The name almost made a little bit of sense then, though not very much. Then everything except the programming API and associated tools proved to be a massive flop.
I just assumed 10" refered to the size of the buttons.
Still better than Vista.
"A home user doesn't need those features but it doesn't hurt to include them."
Doesn't hurt the user, does hurt microsoft. If they included those features in home edition, who would want to buy the more expensive professional edition? It's called price discrimination: The business technique of making sure every customer pays as close as possible to what they are willing to pay, even if customers are willing to pay different amounts.
It's actually quite simple. Microsoft realises how important tablets and touchscreen-only devices are going to be in future - the success of the iPad took everyone by surprise, and smartphones are just too lucrative by sheer numbers to pass up. But the traditional windows interface was made for keyboard and mouse. It's great at keyboard and mouse, but just try pressing a minimise button with your big fat finger. Microsoft was left with two options: Either go with very different interfaces on their desktop and touchscreen lines (Which in turn poses problems for application porting, and would doubtless be opposed by Marketing for making it difficult to maintain a consistant user experience and brand identity), or modify the desktop interface to reflect the needs of the touchscreen user, even if that means making things a little less optimal for the keyboard-and-mouse users. Microsoft chose the latter. Metro tries to be an interface for traditional or touchscreen use, and by trying to be both it manages to excel at neither - but the alternative option could have been even worse from a business perspective, by making it impossible to use Microsoft's established strength in the desktop sector to launch it into the tablet and smartphone where competitors already dominate.
The record labels aren't really that important any more. They date from a time when selling music on a large scale needed access to record-pressing factories, big chain store contracts, fleets of distribution trucks, hugely expensive professional recording gear and such things. Now anyone with a little talent can almost match that gear with a cheap computer and decent mic, and distribute online for free. Getting payment for it is a bit harder, but when the cost of production and distribution is so low even just donations can be profitable.
Movies, on the other hand, are still so expensive that very few individuals could afford to do it as a hobby. No getting around that one: If you want to see movies made, you need studio companies.
But in the middle is a compromise position where piracy runs rampant and technology is still locked-down and restricted. Neither side is happy with that. Piracy started off as just a way to get free stuff, but it's a lot more political now.
I imagine that if the CIA or NSA wishes to monitor anyone in Europe, they already can.
Trawl Phishing: Sending phishing emails in bulk without targetting, in the hope someone will be dumb enough. The classic approach, as opposed to spear phishing.
The future of manned space exploration may belong to China for just this reason.
Cutting spending isn't as important for politicians as the appearance of cutting spending. If they want to stay in office, it's a good idea to find something to cut. The typical voter doesn't have much of a head for numbers, and sees just $X million saved. Millions of dollars always sounds like a lot, even when it really isn't.
"Server three choked on the db backup again, looks like D filled, bodged a script to tidy crap from temp folder on nightly before AV, it'll buy a couple days before the new HDDs arrive. Throw the whole DB there during weekend DT. Also, don't forget it's LP on Sun - make sure to get the steam DLs first this time."
Troll, yes... but words change, and I note that in some forums (/b/ being one) the term 'fag' is used as a general insult without sexual implication, in the same way that gamers might call something 'gay' to disparage it. So the homophobia is uncertain.
The coasts, perhaps?
Sorry, I had them backwards.
Good point. The fiasco of Chess comes to mind. Both sides went to extreme lengths to secure victory, with the Soviets working on ridiculously intensive chess-specialised training programs while the US worked with Fischer, a chess super-genius who made the types of ridiculous demands that even A-list movie stars can barely get away with.
China is really communist largely in tradition. They run their economy as a heavily-regulated semi-free market now.