These swings are fairly meaningless since Bitcoin hasn't achieved its goal of becoming a currency yet.
The markets have turned it into a volatile foreign exchange game, and people are just trying to make a quick buck playing the market. There currently isn't any 'currency' aspect to it, since there's damn near nothing you can buy with bitcoins.
Since they failed to achieve any intrinsic value of their own, they are currently just bad, unreliable representations of legal tender. As long as that is true, nobody will ever accept them as payment for real goods or services.
I received a similar notification from US Bank today with regards to my linuxfund.org credit card. They called out Epsilon as the source of the leak, and claim no financial data was compromised.
--- As a valued U.S. Bank customer, we want to make you aware of a situation that has occurred related to your email address.
We have been informed by Epsilon Interactive, a vendor based in Dallas, Texas, that files containing your email address were accessed by unauthorized entry into their computer system. Epsilon helps us send you emails about products and services that may be of interest to you.
We want to assure you that U.S. Bank has never provided Epsilon with financial information about you. For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails. ---
Four years development. Is this an alternate universe Boeing? Perhaps it is a Boeing from the past, when they could actually build airplanes that might approach a reasonable construction time.
Yeah, it's safe to ignore both time and money estimates from government contractors until it has blown both its time and budget constraints a few times. The first bid is always impossible and full of half-truths and omissions to win the contract. The politics are stupid, but at least sometimes it results in good research.
The price of Graflex synchronizers has gone through the roof because of Star Wars nerds who want their own authentic-looking light sabers. This is a real nightmare for those of us who love flash bulb photography, since new Graflexes aren't being made anymore (except replicas without the electronics, specifically for building light sabers). Please, if you want to make a light saber, buy a Graflex replica instead of an original. They're cheaper, in better condition, and don't deprive anyone of a now-rare useful tool.
Considering how many entry forms still don't allow '+' in an e-mail address (or, worse, allow it in the sign-up box but not in the unsubscribe box), and considering how many banks still restrict you to an 8-character password, does it come as any surprise that they have difficulty with something that isn't defined in an RFC?
Couldn't the restaurant... buy regular duck eggs and ferment them?
A century egg can apparently be made quickly by soaking the egg in salt and sodium hydroxide for a week or two. Or you could actually bury it in alkaline soil... believe it or not, you don't actually have to be in China to accomplish this.
I propose we round up any dirty chinamen buying drain cleaner at the grocery store on the grounds that they must be no good commie spies!
Planet Moon Studios, the guys who did Giants: Citizen Kabuto, released a game for PC and Xbox recently called Armed and Dangerous. Both Giants and A&D have more than their share of wacky comedy, most of which can be classified as "British humour." In A&D, you have a gun that shoots sharks, a bomb that flips everyone upside down, health packs in the form of teacups, and so on, plus oddball characters like those from Giants. If you want more British humor in games, maybe you should go out and support these guys. They seem to be the only ones putting a distinct cultural spin on their games.
Or you can always fire up the old Amstrad CPC emulator and play a little bit of "How to be a Complete Bastard." I've never played it, but what a great name.
The Y communication library and the YC++ library, being the contents of the libY and libYc++ directories in this archive, are licensed according to the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, contained in the file COPYING.LGPL.
The yiterm program, being the contents of the clients/yiterm directory in this archive, are licensed according to the terms of the Common Public License, contained in the file COPYING.CPL.
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further down the chart, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for GameCube can only manage a disappointing 26th place, with 310,000 copies sold
Don't you think it's a little harsh to be criticizing the sales of a game that doesn't even come out until February 9th, 2004 and still managed to out-sell out every Xbox game?
What about those roll-up keyboards? ThinkGeek sells some, and I even saw one at CompUSA recently. I've never used one, but I assume they're made mostly of rubber. I'm willing to bet those are silent.
"And Red Hat will offer more expensive but still discounted options for schools that want Red Hat technical support."
So you can buy it discounted with no support, or expensive with support. Why would anybody take the first option? There are plenty of free distributions with updates and no support...
Some of the examples on their site take a lot more time and mental effort than just looking at a word and typing it. I would be very bothered if I had to take one of those little tests just to fill out a form.
Trying to get people to change their habits is a terrible idea. Nobody wants to spend the effort to learn a new OS when they already have one that seems to work. If you are really that interested in expanding the linux userbase, suggest to your local school board that they invest in Linux labs. Even just one linux computer in a lab full of windows boxes would be great. Ideally, they'd have 1/3rd windows, 1/3rd mac, and 1/3rd linux, and everyone would be required to work with all three.
Capcom's Cannon Spike is one of my favorites. It's a very simple and short action game, but it's great when you only have 10 or 15 minutes and just feel like blowing some stuff up. Also, Mega Man is a secret character. It's kind of like a shoot-em-up version of Power Stone: quick, frantic, and surprisingly entertaining.
For those of you who don't know, Dali has a small history in film: IMDB's profile. They also have a wonderful picture of him.
Most notable of those is Un Chien Andalou that he did with the somewhat famous director Luis Bunuel. It's only a few minutes long and it makes *NO* sense at all, but it's very fun to watch.
Poor Nintendo... a mere $572 million in profits. How can they ever survive? Seems hopeless, eh?
With such pathetically unoriginal titles like Pikmin, Warioware, and Metroid Prime, it seems like the Gamecube is little more than trash that they through out because they refuse to let well-enough alone.
What Nintendo really needs is to start pumping out some derivative First-Person shooter titles with laggy internet support so I can get my ass kicked by cocky assholes with bad grammar.
It should be noted, however, that Alienware actually buys their laptops from a company called Clevo, paints 'em green, and resells them for $600 more. You can buy identical laptops for much cheaper from other Clevo resellers, like Sager. Check pctorque.com and powernotebooks.com for "Alienware" laptops without the expensive paint. Of course, they're still ridiculously expensive.
I find that most of my friends in high school who know how to program started (and most ended) with web programming. It seems building your first webpage is about as important as taking your first step nowadays. And after learning to walk, they learn to run. Even "jocks" seem to know PHP now. I don't think I know anyone who can't whip up a PHP/SQL site.
So instead of going BASIC->Pascal->C->C++, today's children are going HTML->Javascript->PHP->Java. In ten years, we're going to have a LOT of web developers.
There is another difference between the two that I have noticed. My friends who started in BASIC learned compiled languages first, and then ventured into interpreted languages. My friends who started with web development never ventured into compiled languages, except for maybe a bit of Java.
How can we all agree that "violent video games" don't make kids into hell-bent killers, and then turn around and say "bad parenting" does? If I go out and kill someone, I'm the murder. Not my parents, and not my Gamecube.
Just because we're "minors" doesn't mean we can't be held accountable for our own behavior. You don't have to find someone else to blame. It's hard to determine exactly when a child has transitioned from ignorant to insane, but it's definitely earlier than 18. It may be that a 15-year-old kid kills his teacher because he's violent and his parents/teachers/video games/movies didn't teach him how to deal with anger properly, but he's still the violent one. If you don't think a 15-year-old realizes what the result of killing is, then perhaps it's been too long since you last spoke with one.
One problem lies in our whole system of treating "minors" completely differently. If a 15-year-old kills his family, it's blamed on his parents and his hobbies, it makes news headlines around the world, and inspires weeks and months and years of angry discussion about what causes violence in youths. If an 18-year-old kills his family, everyone just says, "he's one sick bastard" and he goes to prison. The minor is rewarded with fame and attention, the rest are rewarded with hatred.
I'm 17, I've been playing violent video games for longer than I can remember without parental supervision or limitations. I'm the polar opposite of "aggressive", to the point that I can't drive in heavy traffic because I'm not aggressive enough to switch lanes. When a recruiter for the Marines called me, I told him, "I'm sorry, I don't kill people" and hung up the phone.
On the other hand, I played a Ferrari racing game in an arcade yesterday, and 10 minutes later I was in my car peeling out at red lights and red-lining in every gear.
I guess that means that I "suffer a deleterious effect on [my] psychological health" when I play racing games. Those evil devices should be illegal!
Or maybe it means that I'm a bad driver. That game didn't hypnotize me and make me drive like an asshole. I was fully aware of what I was doing, and chose to do it anyway. Sure, the game triggered that behavior, but something else could have triggered it just as easily. Being passed by a 350Z on the highway does the same thing. Vroom vroom.
I'm willing to bet a good sum of money that that's how violent video games work too. They don't make people violent, they make violent people active. The question is, would their violence be triggered by something else if not by a video game?
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These swings are fairly meaningless since Bitcoin hasn't achieved its goal of becoming a currency yet.
The markets have turned it into a volatile foreign exchange game, and people are just trying to make a quick buck playing the market. There currently isn't any 'currency' aspect to it, since there's damn near nothing you can buy with bitcoins.
Since they failed to achieve any intrinsic value of their own, they are currently just bad, unreliable representations of legal tender. As long as that is true, nobody will ever accept them as payment for real goods or services.
I received a similar notification from US Bank today with regards to my linuxfund.org credit card. They called out Epsilon as the source of the leak, and claim no financial data was compromised.
---
As a valued U.S. Bank customer, we want to make you aware of a situation that has occurred related to your email address.
We have been informed by Epsilon Interactive, a vendor based in Dallas, Texas, that files containing your email address were accessed by unauthorized entry into their computer system. Epsilon helps us send you emails about products and services that may be of interest to you.
We want to assure you that U.S. Bank has never provided Epsilon with financial information about you. For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails.
---
Four years development. Is this an alternate universe Boeing? Perhaps it is a Boeing from the past, when they could actually build airplanes that might approach a reasonable construction time.
Yeah, it's safe to ignore both time and money estimates from government contractors until it has blown both its time and budget constraints a few times. The first bid is always impossible and full of half-truths and omissions to win the contract. The politics are stupid, but at least sometimes it results in good research.
The price of Graflex synchronizers has gone through the roof because of Star Wars nerds who want their own authentic-looking light sabers. This is a real nightmare for those of us who love flash bulb photography, since new Graflexes aren't being made anymore (except replicas without the electronics, specifically for building light sabers). Please, if you want to make a light saber, buy a Graflex replica instead of an original. They're cheaper, in better condition, and don't deprive anyone of a now-rare useful tool.
Considering how many entry forms still don't allow '+' in an e-mail address (or, worse, allow it in the sign-up box but not in the unsubscribe box), and considering how many banks still restrict you to an 8-character password, does it come as any surprise that they have difficulty with something that isn't defined in an RFC?
$20 billion? It's like in that movie 'Contact', it costs that much for everyone else to build, but Japan secretly already built one for a few million.
Couldn't the restaurant... buy regular duck eggs and ferment them?
A century egg can apparently be made quickly by soaking the egg in salt and sodium hydroxide for a week or two. Or you could actually bury it in alkaline soil... believe it or not, you don't actually have to be in China to accomplish this.
I propose we round up any dirty chinamen buying drain cleaner at the grocery store on the grounds that they must be no good commie spies!
Planet Moon Studios, the guys who did Giants: Citizen Kabuto, released a game for PC and Xbox recently called Armed and Dangerous. Both Giants and A&D have more than their share of wacky comedy, most of which can be classified as "British humour." In A&D, you have a gun that shoots sharks, a bomb that flips everyone upside down, health packs in the form of teacups, and so on, plus oddball characters like those from Giants. If you want more British humor in games, maybe you should go out and support these guys. They seem to be the only ones putting a distinct cultural spin on their games.
Or you can always fire up the old Amstrad CPC emulator and play a little bit of "How to be a Complete Bastard." I've never played it, but what a great name.
From the COPYING file:
The Y communication library and the YC++ library, being the contents of the
libY and libYc++ directories in this archive, are licensed according to the
terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, contained in the file
COPYING.LGPL.
The yiterm program, being the contents of the clients/yiterm directory in this
archive, are licensed according to the terms of the Common Public License,
contained in the file COPYING.CPL.
The remainder of the files in this archive are, unless otherwise stated in the
file, licensed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License,
contained in the file COPYING.GPL.
(C) 2003 Mark Thomas
further down the chart, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for GameCube can only manage a disappointing 26th place, with 310,000 copies sold
Don't you think it's a little harsh to be criticizing the sales of a game that doesn't even come out until February 9th, 2004 and still managed to out-sell out every Xbox game?
What about those roll-up keyboards? ThinkGeek sells some, and I even saw one at CompUSA recently. I've never used one, but I assume they're made mostly of rubber. I'm willing to bet those are silent.
Just be sure they understand that if any invoices show up from the RIAA/MPAA/SCO/Penthouse, it's coming out of their allowance.
"And Red Hat will offer more expensive but still discounted options for schools that want Red Hat technical support."
So you can buy it discounted with no support, or expensive with support. Why would anybody take the first option? There are plenty of free distributions with updates and no support...
Take a look at cheapassgamers.
They have one that generates sounds. You're in trouble if you're blind and deaf, though.
Some of the examples on their site take a lot more time and mental effort than just looking at a word and typing it. I would be very bothered if I had to take one of those little tests just to fill out a form.
Trying to get people to change their habits is a terrible idea. Nobody wants to spend the effort to learn a new OS when they already have one that seems to work. If you are really that interested in expanding the linux userbase, suggest to your local school board that they invest in Linux labs. Even just one linux computer in a lab full of windows boxes would be great. Ideally, they'd have 1/3rd windows, 1/3rd mac, and 1/3rd linux, and everyone would be required to work with all three.
Capcom's Cannon Spike is one of my favorites. It's a very simple and short action game, but it's great when you only have 10 or 15 minutes and just feel like blowing some stuff up. Also, Mega Man is a secret character. It's kind of like a shoot-em-up version of Power Stone: quick, frantic, and surprisingly entertaining.
For those of you who don't know, Dali has a small history in film: IMDB's profile. They also have a wonderful picture of him.
Most notable of those is Un Chien Andalou that he did with the somewhat famous director Luis Bunuel. It's only a few minutes long and it makes *NO* sense at all, but it's very fun to watch.
Poor Nintendo... a mere $572 million in profits. How can they ever survive? Seems hopeless, eh?
With such pathetically unoriginal titles like Pikmin, Warioware, and Metroid Prime, it seems like the Gamecube is little more than trash that they through out because they refuse to let well-enough alone.
What Nintendo really needs is to start pumping out some derivative First-Person shooter titles with laggy internet support so I can get my ass kicked by cocky assholes with bad grammar.
Breaking news: NES sales down 100%! Decrease blamed on church vandals.
Custom laptops? Can't help there.
It should be noted, however, that Alienware actually buys their laptops from a company called Clevo, paints 'em green, and resells them for $600 more. You can buy identical laptops for much cheaper from other Clevo resellers, like Sager. Check pctorque.com and powernotebooks.com for "Alienware" laptops without the expensive paint. Of course, they're still ridiculously expensive.
I find that most of my friends in high school who know how to program started (and most ended) with web programming. It seems building your first webpage is about as important as taking your first step nowadays. And after learning to walk, they learn to run. Even "jocks" seem to know PHP now. I don't think I know anyone who can't whip up a PHP/SQL site.
So instead of going BASIC->Pascal->C->C++, today's children are going HTML->Javascript->PHP->Java. In ten years, we're going to have a LOT of web developers.
There is another difference between the two that I have noticed. My friends who started in BASIC learned compiled languages first, and then ventured into interpreted languages. My friends who started with web development never ventured into compiled languages, except for maybe a bit of Java.
How can we all agree that "violent video games" don't make kids into hell-bent killers, and then turn around and say "bad parenting" does? If I go out and kill someone, I'm the murder. Not my parents, and not my Gamecube.
Just because we're "minors" doesn't mean we can't be held accountable for our own behavior. You don't have to find someone else to blame. It's hard to determine exactly when a child has transitioned from ignorant to insane, but it's definitely earlier than 18. It may be that a 15-year-old kid kills his teacher because he's violent and his parents/teachers/video games/movies didn't teach him how to deal with anger properly, but he's still the violent one. If you don't think a 15-year-old realizes what the result of killing is, then perhaps it's been too long since you last spoke with one.
One problem lies in our whole system of treating "minors" completely differently. If a 15-year-old kills his family, it's blamed on his parents and his hobbies, it makes news headlines around the world, and inspires weeks and months and years of angry discussion about what causes violence in youths. If an 18-year-old kills his family, everyone just says, "he's one sick bastard" and he goes to prison. The minor is rewarded with fame and attention, the rest are rewarded with hatred.
I'm 17, I've been playing violent video games for longer than I can remember without parental supervision or limitations. I'm the polar opposite of "aggressive", to the point that I can't drive in heavy traffic because I'm not aggressive enough to switch lanes. When a recruiter for the Marines called me, I told him, "I'm sorry, I don't kill people" and hung up the phone.
On the other hand, I played a Ferrari racing game in an arcade yesterday, and 10 minutes later I was in my car peeling out at red lights and red-lining in every gear.
I guess that means that I "suffer a deleterious effect on [my] psychological health" when I play racing games. Those evil devices should be illegal!
Or maybe it means that I'm a bad driver. That game didn't hypnotize me and make me drive like an asshole. I was fully aware of what I was doing, and chose to do it anyway. Sure, the game triggered that behavior, but something else could have triggered it just as easily. Being passed by a 350Z on the highway does the same thing. Vroom vroom.
I'm willing to bet a good sum of money that that's how violent video games work too. They don't make people violent, they make violent people active. The question is, would their violence be triggered by something else if not by a video game?