Side note, OT: How the hell do you escape greater/less than signs???
Slashdot uses a subset of HTML tags and codes. < and > does it, <see?> although you don't have to put in a escape sequence for a greater than that doesn't match a previous less than; Slashdot doesn't swallow those.
Remember the infamous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman"? How could the Chicago Daily Tribune have gotten it so wrong? Well, one reason was their polls that showed Dewey with an insurmontable lead. Polls that were conducted via telephone, back in the days when not everybody had their own phone. Turns out that people who didn't have telephones (i.e., poor people) voted very heavily for Truman.
True. But I wonder how long will it be before the researchers apply the same techniques to analyse block by block the political beliefs of the residents.
You're behind the times. Political campaigns already do that.
Let me get this straight. Obama's administration has, by court ruling, blatantly ignored the Constitution, and it's the *Republican Party's* fault? Say what?
Unless another game I haven't heard about yet shows up and convinces me I have to play it, I'll probably get it when Final Fantasy XV comes out, which at the moment isn't more specific than "sometime in 2014".
Thing is, its amortization schedule was roughly 2 decades at least if I were to guess. They bought it in 1984, I last saw it in 1999, and I bet it's still running today if their CFO has anything to say about it. Anything after the amortization date is pure gravy for them, methinks.
If only it didn't require power and A/C, and if only it didn't require support. Power costs for one of these beasts is most likely all by itself more than it would cost to buy a modern replacement.
And support from IBM is astronomical, if it's even available. If you're not paying for support, well, that's another kind of cost. But you won't find out about it until the bill comes due.
$0. They didn't give him money becuase a) it was a shit bug report and b) corporations are innately averse to giving out money to *anybody*, even if there's a policy saying they have to. Palestine has nothing to do with it.
No they aren't, because *finding* a security flaw is not the same thing as illegally *exploiting* a security flaw. If you need a proof of concept, you can hack your own account.
Two pie charts, both nonsensical! Racial distribution of adults who smoke is meaningless because total population of each classification varies widely. Meaningful would've been the *proportion* of each racial classification that smokes, which would have been best plotted as a bar chart, not a pie chart. And in the second one, "Funds available for controlling tobacco use"? Who says those funds are supposed to be used for that purpose? Who says that *only* those funds are supposed to be used for that purpose? "Funds available for controlling tobacco use" are the funds the legislature appropriates for that purpose, no more, no less.
Wikipedia says HFT was 50% of the overall trading volume in terms of equity in 2012.
Well, duh. High Frequency Trading produces large trading volumes. That's hardly a surprise. The question is, how much of the market they hold? If we assume HFTs trade a holding an average of twice a day (on days when the market is open), and others trade an average of once every six months, we come out that HFTs hold about 0.2% of the market. Not very impressive.
Find the highest sales tax rate any state or region charges, and bill the buyer that amount for tax recovery.
Transfer the money to a subsidiary whose job is to figure out which tax rate applies, pay to the relevant authorities, and keep the difference between the highest tax anywhere and the tax they had to pay as their profit.
And then get sued for fraud, because that's what charging sales tax that is not in fact due is.
Ho ho ho. A riot, you are. Debian stable (7.1, "wheezy") uses the 3.2 kernel (and incorporates patches from as far upstream as 3.4.47) and GCC 4.7.2. Debian testing ("jessie") (which you shouldn't hesitate to use if you need the newer versions of stuff) has the 3.10 kernel, and GCC 4.8.1.
If users are telling developers that they fucked up their favorite game, then the users are right and the developers are wrong.
By definition, pretty much. If the users don't like the game, then it isn't a good game. Two points to keep in mind, though: make sure that a majority (or at least a large minority) don't like the game, not just a vocal, abusive few. Also, while the gamer's overall opinion of the game is not only valid but in the end the only one that counts, that doesn't mean his diagnosis of what exactly is wrong with the game and how to fix it is correct. In fact, it most likely isn't.
A memory trick I once learned (for remember names or phone numbers, for example) is to write the item with your finger on a roughish surface like your pants 3 times.
How do you get your finger to leave a mark? And what if you're not wearing those pants when you need to remember it?
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Slashdot uses a subset of HTML tags and codes. < and > does it, <see?> although you don't have to put in a escape sequence for a greater than that doesn't match a previous less than; Slashdot doesn't swallow those.
And you think people don't do that too?
He'll be eligible for parole in seven years. It's unlikely that he'll serve the full 35.
SaaLUTE!
Remember the infamous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman"? How could the Chicago Daily Tribune have gotten it so wrong? Well, one reason was their polls that showed Dewey with an insurmontable lead. Polls that were conducted via telephone, back in the days when not everybody had their own phone. Turns out that people who didn't have telephones (i.e., poor people) voted very heavily for Truman.
You're behind the times. Political campaigns already do that.
Let me get this straight. Obama's administration has, by court ruling, blatantly ignored the Constitution, and it's the *Republican Party's* fault? Say what?
Since always. Oh, did you mean *your* privacy? Hahahahahaha...
Unless another game I haven't heard about yet shows up and convinces me I have to play it, I'll probably get it when Final Fantasy XV comes out, which at the moment isn't more specific than "sometime in 2014".
If only it didn't require power and A/C, and if only it didn't require support. Power costs for one of these beasts is most likely all by itself more than it would cost to buy a modern replacement.
And support from IBM is astronomical, if it's even available. If you're not paying for support, well, that's another kind of cost. But you won't find out about it until the bill comes due.
$0. They didn't give him money becuase a) it was a shit bug report and b) corporations are innately averse to giving out money to *anybody*, even if there's a policy saying they have to. Palestine has nothing to do with it.
No they aren't, because *finding* a security flaw is not the same thing as illegally *exploiting* a security flaw. If you need a proof of concept, you can hack your own account.
Obviously, they should get a Dell instead.
Two pie charts, both nonsensical! Racial distribution of adults who smoke is meaningless because total population of each classification varies widely. Meaningful would've been the *proportion* of each racial classification that smokes, which would have been best plotted as a bar chart, not a pie chart. And in the second one, "Funds available for controlling tobacco use"? Who says those funds are supposed to be used for that purpose? Who says that *only* those funds are supposed to be used for that purpose? "Funds available for controlling tobacco use" are the funds the legislature appropriates for that purpose, no more, no less.
I didn't realize it wasn't Socialistan until I read your post just now.
Well, duh. High Frequency Trading produces large trading volumes. That's hardly a surprise. The question is, how much of the market they hold? If we assume HFTs trade a holding an average of twice a day (on days when the market is open), and others trade an average of once every six months, we come out that HFTs hold about 0.2% of the market. Not very impressive.
And then get sued for fraud, because that's what charging sales tax that is not in fact due is.
Does that make the Congress robots?
Ho ho ho. A riot, you are. Debian stable (7.1, "wheezy") uses the 3.2 kernel (and incorporates patches from as far upstream as 3.4.47) and GCC 4.7.2. Debian testing ("jessie") (which you shouldn't hesitate to use if you need the newer versions of stuff) has the 3.10 kernel, and GCC 4.8.1.
Because God knows, you don't want to miss Ubuntu's next exciting innovation.
...Debian will be available FREE all day today!
By definition, pretty much. If the users don't like the game, then it isn't a good game. Two points to keep in mind, though: make sure that a majority (or at least a large minority) don't like the game, not just a vocal, abusive few. Also, while the gamer's overall opinion of the game is not only valid but in the end the only one that counts, that doesn't mean his diagnosis of what exactly is wrong with the game and how to fix it is correct. In fact, it most likely isn't.
Silly. Don't you know that when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal?
Step Three: Profit!
How do you get your finger to leave a mark? And what if you're not wearing those pants when you need to remember it?