This is so obviously an attempt to coerce l33t haxors to work for the govt after they are caught. I am sure that most of them would take a govt job and a nice payday to do the government's dirty work rather than be someone's bitch on CB4. There is no way that the govt would let talent like that rot when they could be used to fight our own "cyber battles".
I am not sure why you would think I was trolling here.
One thing that we definately know for sure is that nuclear waste is toxic to life. That automaticlly makes it a problem in my eyes for you and I right here on planet earth...
So while your point on the cost of transport is true, I think that it would indeed be worthwhile to consider sending some of this material into space then firing it off towards the sun. We have the potential to explode the shuttle everytime it goes, however, we have a decent rate of sucess in sending them up and returning them. I think that the chances of a mishap are small ( but indeed evident).
As for later usage, there is no shortage of ways to produce those heavy elements. We could always make more. The scientists are sitting in the Yucca ranges using the old stuff to experiment on. Nuclear waste is here to stay as far as our mortal lifespans are concerned....
This certainly stinks for the residents. Regardless of how remote an area might be, who knows what the landscape will look like 5,000 years from now. How will we tell people what they are digging up? Why don't we send it into the Sun?
What would you expect from MSN?
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Of course they would want to say something like this. They are owned by the Borg. It's just another case of Corporate owned news programs/channels who's job it is to promote their parent companies. No real suprises here...
It's very interesting how hard companies try to hold on to thier respective IP. When there are true hackers seeking knowledge and ways to expand technology's usage like this. I think that Microsoft should have take a different route with the indie/residential developer. If they had opened up and released a development environment like Sony with PS2 Linux, then they would be embracing this rather than feeling threatened.
To be honest, this and similar applications might be another reason for me to actually buy and X-Box and they need the sales and the press of people actually doing anything with the thing.
Unauthorizedending!!!! OMG! You mean I don't have the right to stop playing till they say so? I guess that's it, lock me up as a felon. I am admitting to ending my play sessions and movie watching without authorization!
I am not sure... Most of the female astronauts have been married or just downright plain-jane... I think I might have to double bag it for the bragging rights!!!
I would say that the interesting thing that was overlooked in this article was the fundamental role that music has played during the existence of the human race.
Music has an ability to reach places that words often fail. The book business of course fundamentally depends on earning it's money from a customer base that is at least educated to the point of having a base reading level. Music doesn't require this at all.
Music finds a way to tap into the inner feelings that humans have and allows us to communicate direnctly if even for only a moment. We have grown up with music as a component of our daily lives, we will continue to consume it.
What will change is the pricing for sure. Things will be more reasonable, which will allow for more and wider competition.
All I can say for sure is that those kids hanging out at MTV during TRL are buying into an image and a way of life driven by the music ( no matter how misguided that may be)
Saying that the music biz will be extinct is like saying that there will be no more kids who discover Dark Side of the Moon and imagine that they are the first people to discover this cool music.:)
Music is just too important to humans. If the record industry knew this and took the time to drop the prices, I think they would make even more money and people wouldn't want to "borrow" the next Eminem record off the net...
I know exactly what you are talking about, but let's be honest you wouldn't bid up to almost $100 dollars on an item that you thought would be worth at the most $50. If it's the seller, he is going to bump it until he feels he is close to the max bid, but not at the cost of going over. I know all about proxy bidding, that's not what I beleive is happening here.
Well what I am saying is that it's unlikely that the seller would know where to stop. Perhaps they decided that they earned enough and stopped. What sold me on it was when something was so way overpriced and the seller would have to know that it was and it still went almost to the max bid.
If I know something is worth $1 and I see it's going for $50 and I going to keep upping the bid? I might go over and lose whoever was legitimately bidding that much. I think it's unlikely that a seller would want to take that risk, especially when he had already pulled 5 times what he was expecting.
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I beleive that eBay has bid bots that work in the same way that the sellers do in an effort to pump the bids up to the max bid without going over. I will tell you why?
Several months ago a friend got suspicious when he won an auction for a no-name retro video game. He was suspicious because someone had bid against him with an "updated or changes username" and always bid some strange amounts at varying time intervals. The stranger would come on, bid, and then wait for some period of time to up the bid a little more. Then in a last two days the stranger bid exactly one dollar below my friends max bid, triggering it and getting all the money out of my buddy.
Most people would say coincidence. I thought so too, so we made another experiment with another seller. Another video game and we put $100 as the max bid on the game. This game wasn't rare or collectible in the slightest. As the auction went on, a similar activity occured. This time in the last hours of the auction the bid got bumped in the same way. The user knew that the game wasn't worth more that 10-15 bucks and probably wouldn't want to overbid and lose all the money,so it's unlikely in my opinion that it was the seller.
The auction ended and a $15 product was sold for $96 with this strange business described earlier.
My question? Who knows what the max bid is? eBay. Who gains when the max bid is retrieved as the selling price? The seller and eBay.
So it's in thier interest that any max bid be reached, by hook or by crook. I don't trust them, so I bid at the last minute and get things at the price I want to pay for them.
One is that Microsoft sucks for doing this... I think most people can agree to that.
Two is that people are stupid if they don't read those agreements. They are so used to clicking next that anyone who has agreed to this deserves to give thier info to M$
Make sure that you follow the first rule of game programming! Have Fun! Just go with it. Don't ever let people tell you that something can't be done. This is what the/. readership is all about. Learn something great along the way and make sure that you watch out for those common mistakes.
Everyone knows the MTV generation has a 15 second attention span and I haven't heard of an OS that can do much of anything usefull in 15 seconds. Certainly Windows can't.;)
If you have some credits right now you might be able to take the shortest route out of college. An MIS or CIS is looked at as being more practical from my experience. A CS degree might mean you lean more towards theory and research. Pick what you want to be known for and go with that. With almost any degree and some talent, you should be able to get work.
Man... Given that the money is made on consoles based on the royalties of the platform, I would think the M$ would have played a smarter hand in setting up the servicing contracts.
I guess this is just good news in the long run. No matter how big or how much money and sucess a company has, it can always fall on it's face.
My thoughts are that this is the kind of game that people will want to be playing. It was a little poor in the implementation, but the concept was strong. If people didn't want to get the phone calls, maybe that's not the game for them.
Is how they are trying to use this crap to "teach" a lesson. Know your rights!!!!
I think that Neo said it best:
"How bout I give you the finger and you give me my phone call."
I still think the biggest punk in the whole process is Adobe...they backed out of the process in order to save some face on thier own knowing full well it was too late to stop the prosecution. grrr....
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This is so obviously an attempt to coerce l33t haxors to work for the govt after they are caught. I am sure that most of them would take a govt job and a nice payday to do the government's dirty work rather than be someone's bitch on CB4.
There is no way that the govt would let talent like that rot when they could be used to fight our own "cyber battles".
I am not sure why you would think I was trolling here.
One thing that we definately know for sure is that nuclear waste is toxic to life. That automaticlly makes it a problem in my eyes for you and I right here on planet earth...
So while your point on the cost of transport is true, I think that it would indeed be worthwhile to consider sending some of this material into space then firing it off towards the sun. We have the potential to explode the shuttle everytime it goes, however, we have a decent rate of sucess in sending them up and returning them. I think that the chances of a mishap are small ( but indeed evident).
As for later usage, there is no shortage of ways to produce those heavy elements. We could always make more. The scientists are sitting in the Yucca ranges using the old stuff to experiment on. Nuclear waste is here to stay as far as our mortal lifespans are concerned....
This certainly stinks for the residents. Regardless of how remote an area might be, who knows what the landscape will look like 5,000 years from now. How will we tell people what they are digging up? Why don't we send it into the Sun?
Of course they would want to say something like this. They are owned by the Borg. It's just another case of Corporate owned news programs/channels who's job it is to promote their parent companies. No real suprises here...
It's very interesting how hard companies try to hold on to thier respective IP. When there are true hackers seeking knowledge and ways to expand technology's usage like this. I think that Microsoft should have take a different route with the indie/residential developer. If they had opened up and released a development environment like Sony with PS2 Linux, then they would be embracing this rather than feeling threatened.
To be honest, this and similar applications might be another reason for me to actually buy and X-Box and they need the sales and the press of people actually doing anything with the thing.
Unauthorizedending!!!! OMG! You mean I don't have the right to stop playing till they say so? I guess that's it, lock me up as a felon. I am admitting to ending my play sessions and movie watching without authorization!
Hahahahaha Who said I was a man?
I am not sure... Most of the female astronauts have been married or just downright plain-jane... I think I might have to double bag it for the bragging rights!!!
I would say that the interesting thing that was overlooked in this article was the fundamental role that music has played during the existence of the human race.
:)
Music has an ability to reach places that words often fail. The book business of course fundamentally depends on earning it's money from a customer base that is at least educated to the point of having a base reading level. Music doesn't require this at all.
Music finds a way to tap into the inner feelings that humans have and allows us to communicate direnctly if even for only a moment. We have grown up with music as a component of our daily lives, we will continue to consume it.
What will change is the pricing for sure. Things will be more reasonable, which will allow for more and wider competition.
All I can say for sure is that those kids hanging out at MTV during TRL are buying into an image and a way of life driven by the music ( no matter how misguided that may be)
Saying that the music biz will be extinct is like saying that there will be no more kids who discover Dark Side of the Moon and imagine that they are the first people to discover this cool music.
Music is just too important to humans. If the record industry knew this and took the time to drop the prices, I think they would make even more money and people wouldn't want to "borrow" the next Eminem record off the net...
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Get into the really cool strip clubs in Tokyo? Nothing has been able to get me in yet!
A Get out of Jail free card!
I wish I had one of those...
I know exactly what you are talking about, but let's be honest you wouldn't bid up to almost $100 dollars on an item that you thought would be worth at the most $50. If it's the seller, he is going to bump it until he feels he is close to the max bid, but not at the cost of going over.
I know all about proxy bidding, that's not what I beleive is happening here.
Well what I am saying is that it's unlikely that the seller would know where to stop. Perhaps they decided that they earned enough and stopped. What sold me on it was when something was so way overpriced and the seller would have to know that it was and it still went almost to the max bid.
If I know something is worth $1 and I see it's going for $50 and I going to keep upping the bid? I might go over and lose whoever was legitimately bidding that much. I think it's unlikely that a seller would want to take that risk, especially when he had already pulled 5 times what he was expecting.
I beleive that eBay has bid bots that work in the same way that the sellers do in an effort to pump the bids up to the max bid without going over. I will tell you why?
Several months ago a friend got suspicious when he won an auction for a no-name retro video game. He was suspicious because someone had bid against him with an "updated or changes username" and always bid some strange amounts at varying time intervals. The stranger would come on, bid, and then wait for some period of time to up the bid a little more. Then in a last two days the stranger bid exactly one dollar below my friends max bid, triggering it and getting all the money out of my buddy.
Most people would say coincidence. I thought so too, so we made another experiment with another seller. Another video game and we put $100 as the max bid on the game. This game wasn't rare or collectible in the slightest. As the auction went on, a similar activity occured. This time in the last hours of the auction the bid got bumped in the same way. The user knew that the game wasn't worth more that 10-15 bucks and probably wouldn't want to overbid and lose all the money,so it's unlikely in my opinion that it was the seller.
The auction ended and a $15 product was sold for $96 with this strange business described earlier.
My question? Who knows what the max bid is? eBay.
Who gains when the max bid is retrieved as the selling price? The seller and eBay.
So it's in thier interest that any max bid be reached, by hook or by crook. I don't trust them, so I bid at the last minute and get things at the price I want to pay for them.
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One is that Microsoft sucks for doing this... I think most people can agree to that.
Two is that people are stupid if they don't read those agreements. They are so used to clicking next that anyone who has agreed to this deserves to give thier info to M$
Make sure that you follow the first rule of game programming! Have Fun! Just go with it. Don't ever let people tell you that something can't be done. This is what the /. readership is all about. Learn something great along the way and make sure that you watch out for those common mistakes.
To build a 6day Million Man Lan!
:)
What do bionic packets sound like?
Dunnnnnnnananananananananana
Brwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I wonder if we will ever get to that bionics stuff into people...
Everyone knows the MTV generation has a 15 second attention span and I haven't heard of an OS that can do much of anything usefull in 15 seconds. Certainly Windows can't. ;)
If you have some credits right now you might be able to take the shortest route out of college. An MIS or CIS is looked at as being more practical from my experience. A CS degree might mean you lean more towards theory and research. Pick what you want to be known for and go with that. With almost any degree and some talent, you should be able to get work.
I can hear the Floyd sequel now!
I hope the band I'm in is not playing different tunes.....
Man... Given that the money is made on consoles based on the royalties of the platform, I would think the M$ would have played a smarter hand in setting up the servicing contracts.
I guess this is just good news in the long run. No matter how big or how much money and sucess a company has, it can always fall on it's face.
That's a big lift to the little guys!
I guess the Eyes have it. :)
:)
Sorry, couldn't stop the were-cheeser tranformation....
My thoughts are that this is the kind of game that people will want to be playing. It was a little poor in the implementation, but the concept was strong. If people didn't want to get the phone calls, maybe that's not the game for them.
Is how they are trying to use this crap to "teach" a lesson. Know your rights!!!!
I think that Neo said it best:
"How bout I give you the finger and you give me my phone call."
I still think the biggest punk in the whole process is Adobe...they backed out of the process in order to save some face on thier own knowing full well it was too late to stop the prosecution. grrr....