Programmed in a garage and apartment, with the programmers and friends as the fighters. Ohh yeah, and White Zombie did the soundtrack. "Shaky Jake, WIN!"
Is everyone ignoring the fact that each state has their own rules regarding how one gets a license? In California it is similar to what you stated, if you are under 18. I went with my dad to license a car when I was 18 and walked out with a fully qualified license after having taken a 10 minute multiple choice test and driving for 15 minutes or so with a DMV employee (no parallel parking required).
Since you mentioned checking facts, I think you should double check yours.
Aparently, Soccor/Football doesn't even make the top 10 "recreational sports" in the U.S., and if you mean competative amateur sports, then Bowling is #1 and Soccer / Football still does not make the top five.
FYI, The standard procudure in Arizona (where I live) when you find an illegal is to process them, give them a court date, and then let them go. They only get deported if they show up for the court date and cant argue cause to remain in the country.
I am not sure how generous you should consider that.
For your numbers to work out, you make nearly $140k/yr as a GS-14 (meaning you are top step in most localities, or mid grade in DC/San Fran/LA).
A GS-14 is a solid upper management position. There are very few non managing 14's and above in the Fed; Critical Skills Experts or Functional Area Experts mostly, and a 14 is the equivalent of a military O5 (Lt. Colonel / Commander).
So, in industry it is quite likely that someone with 10 years experience (mid grade, 20 years high grade 14) at a mid to high level management position in a large organization should make twice what you do and retire with considerably more "cush".
I knew if I just held off upgrading my Orchid Righteous 3d (Voodoo 1) card long eoungh discrete 3d cards would become relavent again. You guys with your fancy Banshee cards can suck it.
I usually do not need a navigation tool to help me with small towns or cities (looking at a map once will show you the big highways and you can extrapolate from there).
HOWEVER, I do use one when going places like DC, where, if you miss your exit, or don't stay on the correct half of the highway (local vs through), you may need 30 minutes to an hour (no joke) to get back on the proper course. So just taking a random exit and re-situating is not always an option.
Something tells me that unless this law was specifically targeting people who take opportunity shots when presented, but otherwise are not actively engaged in these types of activities, it will not be effective.
I cant imagine it would require more than the most rudimentary knowledge of electronics to disable the speaker in a camera phone (and set phone to vibrate for normal use), or even put a switch in so that its functionality as a phone isn't inpinged.
I know I am jumping in on this a bit late, so there is little chance that anyone will actually read this, but I felt I needed to ask.
If I want to sell a piece of "previously used" software, that has been "activated" or otherwise tied to my hardware, preventing it from fully functioning for the person I sell it to, how is this different from any "usable" item?
What I mean is, if I buy a tub of bondo to fix a dent in my car, and it works perfectly well for me, but for whatever reason, I would like to resell it, either 1) I need to completely remove it from the car, which renders it unusable in its intended purpose for the next person (as it has been "tied" to my vehicle), or 2) I could sell the person the entire car, which has the fully functioning bondo in place.
Yes, the person buying the software cant use it as intended, which should lower its "re-sale" value, but even so, this doesn't prevent them me selling it and doesn't (at least in my mind) break any rules.
There is a reason that the majority of the slide show fucused on other issues than software threats, and the reason is that those threats are the least likely to cause a problem.
If I buy a counterfeit router and stick it in my secured network there is almost no chance that anyone will have the opportunity to exploit it. That is to say you would need physical access to a terminal within a secured area within a secured building on a secured post, you would need to defeat the access controls to use that system, and of course, you would need to know that your counterfeit hardware is in a usable position within the architecture. It doesn't help if a reliable firewall (juniper) blocks you before, or another (foundry) blocks you after you mannaged to get to your compromised one (cisco)(defense in depth / breadth anyone?).
Basically, for any secured network, anyone who would have the access to make use of a compromised router already has adequate access to do nasty things to the system.
A much bigger concern is the lesser build quality and the lack of vendor support.
Thay managed only to fill the main hall (and just barely) of the convention center with vendors and while there were a couple fun things to do (I must have wasted 3 hours on the Halo3 LAN setup) and contests to win, I easily saw everything in the show the first day. So I did not bother to show up for the other three that I paid for.
That said, it wasn't a total waste. The lack of "crowding" made it a bit more enjoyable (didn't feel like I needed to rush everywhere or plow my way through crowds).
Rockstar had a nice setup to promote their new games (GH3 Blah, RockBand Yeah!), there was a huge x.360 lan setup, Intel gave away nice airplane pillows, and more t-shirts than the last 3 E3's combined.
I think part of the lack of adoption of newer technology diesel cars has to do with tere still being people alive in the US who remember the VW Rabbit. No person who ever drove on of these, or knew someone who did, will ever consider diesel a clean fuel.
Its it bad that the first thing I thought of after having read that title was that the sci-fi guy would finally have to answer to all those angry spirits who watched him bilk their relatives on his cheasy tv show?
"You have to look at this through the needs of a child [in the developing world]. A child doesn't want to play the latest video games. he wants to be able to read a book." - Bletsas
They may be in the third world, but believing that most children would rather read an e-book than play a video game seems a bit out of touch. And before the rabbid Lemony Snicket and Harry Potter fans chime in, a couple things to keep in mind are that not all children can read, and of those who can and want to read, books tend to occupy less of their time [anecdotal I know, but seems intuitive] than most other activities (including playing video games).
No I didn't read the article, but judging from the blurb I can assume they plan to be able to fake another moon landing using the Unreal Engine by 2020, and a further Mars landing by 2035? Amazing.
Claims to although its an adaptive compression (builds the dictionary as your apllication is used) they claim an overall net decrease in latency because of the reduction in packets / packet size.
They also claim up to 100x reduction in bandwidth use.
Apparently there is a common belief among English speaking players that most non-English speakers are gold farmers and are only playing for commercial gain. As a result, players are asking anyone who wants to join a group to type one or two sentences in English. If the sentences contain spelling or grammar mistakes, the player is rejected. Since you have to join groups to complete certain quests in WOW, this is presenting many Chinese players with a serious problem.
Wait, they reject the players with spelling or grammar mistakes? Seems to me this approach may weed out a small percentage of foreign users, but it is certain to weed out nearly every US WoW player.
I know you probably spent a couple minutes trying to make your post confusing to read, but I got about half way through it (including the subject) before I even noticed what you were doing. I think I need to unplug for a while.
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Also had an intellivision.
Best game, by far, Truckin.
http://www.atariguide.com/41/4132.php
3DO:
Way of The Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Warrior_(video_game)
Programmed in a garage and apartment, with the programmers and friends as the fighters. Ohh yeah, and White Zombie did the soundtrack.
"Shaky Jake, WIN!"
And this is Slashdot, not FARK.
Is everyone ignoring the fact that each state has their own rules regarding how one gets a license? In California it is similar to what you stated, if you are under 18. I went with my dad to license a car when I was 18 and walked out with a fully qualified license after having taken a 10 minute multiple choice test and driving for 15 minutes or so with a DMV employee (no parallel parking required).
Since you mentioned checking facts, I think you should double check yours.
Aparently, Soccor/Football doesn't even make the top 10 "recreational sports" in the U.S., and if you mean competative amateur sports, then Bowling is #1 and Soccer / Football still does not make the top five.
My Source (where is yours?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_the_United_States#Most_Popular_Sports_in_the_United_States
FYI, The standard procudure in Arizona (where I live) when you find an illegal is to process them, give them a court date, and then let them go. They only get deported if they show up for the court date and cant argue cause to remain in the country.
I am not sure how generous you should consider that.
For your numbers to work out, you make nearly $140k/yr as a GS-14 (meaning you are top step in most localities, or mid grade in DC/San Fran/LA).
A GS-14 is a solid upper management position. There are very few non managing 14's and above in the Fed; Critical Skills Experts or Functional Area Experts mostly, and a 14 is the equivalent of a military O5 (Lt. Colonel / Commander).
So, in industry it is quite likely that someone with 10 years experience (mid grade, 20 years high grade 14) at a mid to high level management position in a large organization should make twice what you do and retire with considerably more "cush".
Is there a +1 "Jesus Christ, don't step on this guys lawn"?
The guy I share a cube with definately falls under this discription. He sprays a can of lysol per day around the cube and office.
Same card (both used the reference 3DFX Voodoo 1 chipset), but the Orchid card came out first ;)
I knew if I just held off upgrading my Orchid Righteous 3d (Voodoo 1) card long eoungh discrete 3d cards would become relavent again. You guys with your fancy Banshee cards can suck it.
I usually do not need a navigation tool to help me with small towns or cities (looking at a map once will show you the big highways and you can extrapolate from there).
HOWEVER, I do use one when going places like DC, where, if you miss your exit, or don't stay on the correct half of the highway (local vs through), you may need 30 minutes to an hour (no joke) to get back on the proper course. So just taking a random exit and re-situating is not always an option.
Never?
Something tells me that unless this law was specifically targeting people who take opportunity shots when presented, but otherwise are not actively engaged in these types of activities, it will not be effective.
I cant imagine it would require more than the most rudimentary knowledge of electronics to disable the speaker in a camera phone (and set phone to vibrate for normal use), or even put a switch in so that its functionality as a phone isn't inpinged.
I know I am jumping in on this a bit late, so there is little chance that anyone will actually read this, but I felt I needed to ask.
If I want to sell a piece of "previously used" software, that has been "activated" or otherwise tied to my hardware, preventing it from fully functioning for the person I sell it to, how is this different from any "usable" item?
What I mean is, if I buy a tub of bondo to fix a dent in my car, and it works perfectly well for me, but for whatever reason, I would like to resell it, either 1) I need to completely remove it from the car, which renders it unusable in its intended purpose for the next person (as it has been "tied" to my vehicle), or 2) I could sell the person the entire car, which has the fully functioning bondo in place.
Yes, the person buying the software cant use it as intended, which should lower its "re-sale" value, but even so, this doesn't prevent them me selling it and doesn't (at least in my mind) break any rules.
Again, please explain if you know otherwise.
There is a reason that the majority of the slide show fucused on other issues than software threats, and the reason is that those threats are the least likely to cause a problem.
If I buy a counterfeit router and stick it in my secured network there is almost no chance that anyone will have the opportunity to exploit it. That is to say you would need physical access to a terminal within a secured area within a secured building on a secured post, you would need to defeat the access controls to use that system, and of course, you would need to know that your counterfeit hardware is in a usable position within the architecture. It doesn't help if a reliable firewall (juniper) blocks you before, or another (foundry) blocks you after you mannaged to get to your compromised one (cisco)(defense in depth / breadth anyone?).
Basically, for any secured network, anyone who would have the access to make use of a compromised router already has adequate access to do nasty things to the system.
A much bigger concern is the lesser build quality and the lack of vendor support.
Thay managed only to fill the main hall (and just barely) of the convention center with vendors and while there were a couple fun things to do (I must have wasted 3 hours on the Halo3 LAN setup) and contests to win, I easily saw everything in the show the first day. So I did not bother to show up for the other three that I paid for.
That said, it wasn't a total waste. The lack of "crowding" made it a bit more enjoyable (didn't feel like I needed to rush everywhere or plow my way through crowds).
Rockstar had a nice setup to promote their new games (GH3 Blah, RockBand Yeah!), there was a huge x.360 lan setup, Intel gave away nice airplane pillows, and more t-shirts than the last 3 E3's combined.
I think part of the lack of adoption of newer technology diesel cars has to do with tere still being people alive in the US who remember the VW Rabbit. No person who ever drove on of these, or knew someone who did, will ever consider diesel a clean fuel.
Its it bad that the first thing I thought of after having read that title was that the sci-fi guy would finally have to answer to all those angry spirits who watched him bilk their relatives on his cheasy tv show?
"You have to look at this through the needs of a child [in the developing world]. A child doesn't want to play the latest video games. he wants to be able to read a book."
- Bletsas
They may be in the third world, but believing that most children would rather read an e-book than play a video game seems a bit out of touch. And before the rabbid Lemony Snicket and Harry Potter fans chime in, a couple things to keep in mind are that not all children can read, and of those who can and want to read, books tend to occupy less of their time [anecdotal I know, but seems intuitive] than most other activities (including playing video games).
No I didn't read the article, but judging from the blurb I can assume they plan to be able to fake another moon landing using the Unreal Engine by 2020, and a further Mars landing by 2035? Amazing.
"Wii don't even care whether or not wii care."
http://www.juniper.net/products/appaccel/wan/wxc/
Claims to although its an adaptive compression (builds the dictionary as your apllication is used) they claim an overall net decrease in latency because of the reduction in packets / packet size.
They also claim up to 100x reduction in bandwidth use.
Wait, they reject the players with spelling or grammar mistakes? Seems to me this approach may weed out a small percentage of foreign users, but it is certain to weed out nearly every US WoW player.
I know you probably spent a couple minutes trying to make your post confusing to read, but I got about half way through it (including the subject) before I even noticed what you were doing. I think I need to unplug for a while.