'unlawfully engaged in warfare against another state'
a) Possession & use of arms does not constitute warfare against another state unless you are using them against another state b) The use of such a challenge would likely have to be from a US citizen with regards to a case that happened within the US. c) It was an 'I wonder' - like I know shit about US constitutional law.
I always wondered why no one has tried a 2nd amendment challenge to those laws. The US officially recognizes 'cyberwarfare' so these "hacking tools" can now be classified as arms in digital warfare.
Not to mention the de-standardized the most intuitive thing: Win XP: left click = select what's at that point, right click = "what are my options" Vista onward: Left click = select this general thing even if you just want to click whitespace to change the focus. right click = well, it depends, what's selected and what we feel like doing for this particular window.
Makes it easier for touch but is something I'd expect from Apple not Microsoft.
My father managed a moderate sized law office. Part of the issue in upgrading was support from 3rd party software which was integral to their business. The main issue was soft costs. As an example, they upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007, the cost of the software was ~$10,000. Not a big deal at all. However, each employee had to be trained on the new software, new procedures drawn up & training for those, then the productivity loss was huge. Overtime costs went up, additional staff needed to be brought on to keep things up to speed during the adjustment period. 3 months in the actual cost of the upgrade was over $100,000 and they were still not back to the level of productivity they were at before. End result: they downgraded back to 2003 and repeated the process once 2010 came around. 2010 stuck but $100,000+ down the drain is not an easy cost to absorb - even if it did work out.
In the end it's probably cheaper to keep XP, toss on Deep Freeze and just keep a document server up to date until you have no choice but to upgrade.
Licensing fees are one thing but why not just sell them as DLC?
Core game = Free to Play, random players DLC = Individual players (so they can set their own licensing fee) DLC = Teams (set of individual players minus a hefty discount for buying the entire team) Season pass = all teams
Heck, you could even start selling old teams and have great players of the past square off against current teams, just buy the DLC for each... shit tonnes of money to be made this way I'm sure.
99% of the people I know use Excel and/or Powerpoint on a regular basis (at home) 100% of the people I know don't print jack shit if they don't have to and share almost everything in digital form 90% of people I know make extensive use of word's tables, custom fonts, etc - heck, resume's alone are more complicated than what you describe I'll give you access, it's just all kinds of pointless.
It may bring the "power" but 8gb and 32gb of memory!? My Xbox is filled with 240gb of mostly arcade games at the moment. Add on the cost of an external HDD + the performance slowdowns due to the USB interface - horrible. You're going to have to install/delete the games every time you want to switch games or wear out the optical drive in no time.
1) I drive my shitty little Echo 140km/h on the highway regularly. It's somewhere between 90 and 115 horsepower. 2) Electric cars have been able to hit speeds higher than this since the early 90's
Because everyone lives in the US and wants to do business with Apple.... oh wait, I tried doing business with Apple and got $4000 worth of tech that completely died within 18 months. Not good for a class 1 monitor (30" cinema HD) and a top of the line laptop (2 dead batteries, dead SuperDrive, failed HDD, overheating CPU, dead GPU, and more). Meanwhile the $1000 laptop and $250 monitor I bought elsewhere have been working for 4 years without repair or incident (minus a dead battery)...
Wait and see it fail. Everything claimed for Kinect 2 was supposed to be possible with Kinect 1. The video analysis alone for Kinect 1 was only marginally better than the MS camera.
You can quickly get the board to this state:.3182...7..2.....9....6..2. 46.3.1... 2.3.7...6 1..2..6..8.2...59....5.3.........2.4.
This doesn't seem like much having only placed 5 numbers... but the bottom right and middle right boxes now only have two places each where 2 can go. This means that either it's a multiple solution (which you've stated is not the case) so I now know that if I tease out one solution by placing a 2 in two of those 4 boxes it will either be right or wrong. Once you get the correct 2 they fall quickly in this order: 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 3, 1, 9
While "pairing" maybe an over simplified way of describing it, the method I use requires that I only "place" possible numbers if they fit in 2 boxes. If they fit in 3 the possibilities are ignored. The reasons for this are as follows:
- Eliminating 1 of the 2 possibilities immediately gets a result - Often (not always) provides straight lines which can be used to eliminate other possibilities - When a straight line isn't available, one can "assume" the position of a number, tease out the logic, if it doesn't work out you know it's not a possibility and the other location is. - once you have any 2 possibilities in both boxes of a possible number set you can immediately eliminate all other numbers as possibilities.
Sudokus are all the same difficulty: easy. Simple pairing method can solve almost any sudoku so long as you stick to pairing. The only difficulty comes when it's a multiple solution sudoku in which case it just depends on the first number you start working with.
What's needed is decentralized p2p indexing so taking down any given site doesn't affect the ability to locate files. How to accomplish this is beyond me but I'm sure it's possible.
Xbox has been a huge success. 67 million units sold, 19 million kinects, Microsoft Games is highly profitable; enough so to offset the losses from Windows Phone 7 in their entertainment division. All that aside, Xbox is a huge success for one simple reason: They broke the console sales trend. In all previous consoles by year 4 sales begin to decline, sharply. The 360 is the first that accelerated sales (rather dramatically) in year 5.
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Ahh, but that's the interesting part - the law in question prohibits the possession of such software if I'm not mistaken.
By admitting the possession and it's theoretical capabilities you do not have to admit that it's ever been used.... it's just a random musing though.
'unlawfully engaged in warfare against another state'
a) Possession & use of arms does not constitute warfare against another state unless you are using them against another state
b) The use of such a challenge would likely have to be from a US citizen with regards to a case that happened within the US.
c) It was an 'I wonder' - like I know shit about US constitutional law.
I always wondered why no one has tried a 2nd amendment challenge to those laws. The US officially recognizes 'cyberwarfare' so these "hacking tools" can now be classified as arms in digital warfare.
He's short, bald, really kind of a douche, and is determined to run Microsoft into oblivion.
http://scm-l3.technorati.com/11/01/31/25951/steve-ballmer.jpg
But if I click it, will it be porn? ;)
Not to mention the de-standardized the most intuitive thing: Win XP: left click = select what's at that point, right click = "what are my options" Vista onward: Left click = select this general thing even if you just want to click whitespace to change the focus. right click = well, it depends, what's selected and what we feel like doing for this particular window.
Makes it easier for touch but is something I'd expect from Apple not Microsoft.
That's 2 1/2 additional staff.
My father managed a moderate sized law office. Part of the issue in upgrading was support from 3rd party software which was integral to their business. The main issue was soft costs. As an example, they upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007, the cost of the software was ~$10,000. Not a big deal at all. However, each employee had to be trained on the new software, new procedures drawn up & training for those, then the productivity loss was huge. Overtime costs went up, additional staff needed to be brought on to keep things up to speed during the adjustment period. 3 months in the actual cost of the upgrade was over $100,000 and they were still not back to the level of productivity they were at before. End result: they downgraded back to 2003 and repeated the process once 2010 came around. 2010 stuck but $100,000+ down the drain is not an easy cost to absorb - even if it did work out.
In the end it's probably cheaper to keep XP, toss on Deep Freeze and just keep a document server up to date until you have no choice but to upgrade.
They're also using a DNA stitching technique which takes fragments from various samples and bringing them together to form a full strand.
Licensing fees are one thing but why not just sell them as DLC?
Core game = Free to Play, random players
DLC = Individual players (so they can set their own licensing fee)
DLC = Teams (set of individual players minus a hefty discount for buying the entire team)
Season pass = all teams
Heck, you could even start selling old teams and have great players of the past square off against current teams, just buy the DLC for each... shit tonnes of money to be made this way I'm sure.
99% of the people I know use Excel and/or Powerpoint on a regular basis (at home)
100% of the people I know don't print jack shit if they don't have to and share almost everything in digital form
90% of people I know make extensive use of word's tables, custom fonts, etc - heck, resume's alone are more complicated than what you describe
I'll give you access, it's just all kinds of pointless.
Somehow I think reality is somewhere in between.
*Zed-PMs ;)
So did the 360 - it was a little harder to replace in the original 360 but it could be done with a WD Scorpion drive.
It may bring the "power" but 8gb and 32gb of memory!? My Xbox is filled with 240gb of mostly arcade games at the moment. Add on the cost of an external HDD + the performance slowdowns due to the USB interface - horrible. You're going to have to install/delete the games every time you want to switch games or wear out the optical drive in no time.
As will Failblog I'm sure.
While he's awesome, I wonder how this made it to the front page of Failblog before it made it to Slashdot.
1) I drive my shitty little Echo 140km/h on the highway regularly. It's somewhere between 90 and 115 horsepower.
2) Electric cars have been able to hit speeds higher than this since the early 90's
Because everyone lives in the US and wants to do business with Apple.... oh wait, I tried doing business with Apple and got $4000 worth of tech that completely died within 18 months. Not good for a class 1 monitor (30" cinema HD) and a top of the line laptop (2 dead batteries, dead SuperDrive, failed HDD, overheating CPU, dead GPU, and more). Meanwhile the $1000 laptop and $250 monitor I bought elsewhere have been working for 4 years without repair or incident (minus a dead battery)...
Apple - "There's no option for that"
Wait and see it fail. Everything claimed for Kinect 2 was supposed to be possible with Kinect 1. The video analysis alone for Kinect 1 was only marginally better than the MS camera.
This was trivial.
You can quickly get the board to this state: .3182...7 ..2.....9 ....6..2. .2...59.. ..5.3.... .....2.4.
46.3.1...
2.3.7...6
1..2..6..8
This doesn't seem like much having only placed 5 numbers... but the bottom right and middle right boxes now only have two places each where 2 can go. This means that either it's a multiple solution (which you've stated is not the case) so I now know that if I tease out one solution by placing a 2 in two of those 4 boxes it will either be right or wrong. Once you get the correct 2 they fall quickly in this order: 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 3, 1, 9
While "pairing" maybe an over simplified way of describing it, the method I use requires that I only "place" possible numbers if they fit in 2 boxes. If they fit in 3 the possibilities are ignored. The reasons for this are as follows:
- Eliminating 1 of the 2 possibilities immediately gets a result
- Often (not always) provides straight lines which can be used to eliminate other possibilities
- When a straight line isn't available, one can "assume" the position of a number, tease out the logic, if it doesn't work out you know it's not a possibility and the other location is.
- once you have any 2 possibilities in both boxes of a possible number set you can immediately eliminate all other numbers as possibilities.
Computer Science 101 - build a simple brute force sudoku solver which solves for every variant. See how false that statement is.
Sudokus are all the same difficulty: easy. Simple pairing method can solve almost any sudoku so long as you stick to pairing. The only difficulty comes when it's a multiple solution sudoku in which case it just depends on the first number you start working with.
What's needed is decentralized p2p indexing so taking down any given site doesn't affect the ability to locate files. How to accomplish this is beyond me but I'm sure it's possible.
Xbox has been a huge success. 67 million units sold, 19 million kinects, Microsoft Games is highly profitable; enough so to offset the losses from Windows Phone 7 in their entertainment division. All that aside, Xbox is a huge success for one simple reason: They broke the console sales trend. In all previous consoles by year 4 sales begin to decline, sharply. The 360 is the first that accelerated sales (rather dramatically) in year 5.