I think the point of that slide is to show that the war is complex and judging by the laughing it worked. It's basically like Primer in this XKCD comic, the point is not is understand the picture but to see that its very complex.
>The Slate article claims that Jewish religious law allow most other laws can be broken to save the life of a Jew
Actually the article states that "for the sake of saving a life, a Jew is allowed to break just about any commandment." No mention of the person being saved was Jewish or not, a big difference.
IO9 has an interview with Neill Blomkamp giving a lot of the back story explaining #1, #2. See http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-director-tells-us-all-about-his-alien-back-story
The really big question - what happens in three years when the alien says he will return? Do the Prawns get picked up by a few transport shops and leave peacefully or is there a fleet of really well armed and angry aliens coming to Earth? Will the humans end up working in cat food factories for their alien overlords?
>Microsoft's proposal opens the door for Google to work with PC manufacturers to get Chrome on new machines.
This has always been an option. If Google wants to pay PC manufacturers to install Chrome as a default they can do so both in the US and the EU. It's one of the results of the anti-trust cases of the 90s.
I don't think you can make the assumption that an internet connection is available during the time of install so a binary will be needed in the Windows image.
Of course all the browsers included in the ballot should auto update themselves on first run.
I think the Apollo landing sites should be off limits. One mistake and Armstrong's first boot prints could be destroyed. I cannot believe that a group of scientists have the audacity to mess around with the Apollo 11 site.
It was not a 40% improvement in individual scores. The article states that in some schools it was a 40% improvement in the number of kids meeting some exam standard. What the prior or new scores and what the standard is was not given. Paying may help but I doubt by 40%.
Yes, but the publisher basically is. Unless they start publishing books 1-4 with a warning label, "This series is unfinished, and may never be completed" any new readers have right to complain.
It's somewhat useful in that you can say "suppose the screen was 1/2 the current price?" and get an estimate on what that could do to the retail price of the whole unit.
It also tells people don't expect an $100 or even $200 unit any without a change in the pricing model.
Unless your O(n^3) in house app was apparently tested against a dataset of about 10 items and is now being used for thousands. Having a good initial design is the best way but when that is missing sometimes it is better to redesign an app than try to throw more hardware at it.
SP3 is not a bug fix but rather a rollup of previous fixes that users should already have and a few new features - mostly related to networking. There is no "patch" to exploit.
This does not sound right. The article states that Apophis has a mass of 200 billion tonnes. How would colliding with a satellite which except for the ISS max out at about 20 tonnes do anything at all to Apophis' orbit? Forget the link to the wire story where is a link to NASA statement that the impact chance is really 1 in 450?
I've always thought that Tolkien sold the film and stage rights to LoTR and The Hobbit in 1969 for a fixed amount. The issue is not whether the LoTR movies made a lot of money or had a high gross but whether there is some contract between the studio and the Tolkien Trust stating that the Tolkien Trust is owed part of the movie's receipts. If there is some a contract the Trust should make it publicly available.
It's possible/likely that Bill Gates knows exactly what the initial planned feature list for IE 8 was, what is currently done, what might need to be cut to make the release target, and what's already slipped to IE 9. What is lacking is communicating any of these various bits of info to anyone outside of Microsoft.
Microsoft Research only gets about $250 million (see http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=133) of the $6.6 billion R&D budget mentioned. The rest is the cost of maintaining and creating new versions of Windows, Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc. The Zdnet blog entry by Mitch Ratcliffe sounds right - the instant Microsoft slashes spending on these areas why would anybody continue to buy them? Microsoft's sales would rapidly fall to zero as people switched to Macs or Linux instead of Windows, Oracle instead of SQL Server, etc.
However, remember that a lot of the background of Warcraft 3 came from the WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans adventure game so maybe we might see some of Starcraft: Ghost in say Starcraft 2.
When Arial Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, openly bragged on October 3rd that, "We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it", why should I not find this statement objectionable, and anti-American? I whole-heartedly support this inquiry because the Israelis cannot be trusted with our (American) interests.
I think the parent comment was a joke about the shuttle never flying again and the only thing to do was send it to Houston to sit next to the Saturn V on the Johnson Space Center's lawn.
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Airships in the sky seem to be the hallmark of alternate realities. Having lots of them in our sky could confuse things.
I think the point of that slide is to show that the war is complex and judging by the laughing it worked. It's basically like Primer in this XKCD comic, the point is not is understand the picture but to see that its very complex.
Maybe if you use IE and Silverlight on a Windows PC. Flash on Chrome in a Linux machine is going cost you!
>The Slate article claims that Jewish religious law allow most other laws can be broken to save the life of a Jew
Actually the article states that "for the sake of saving a life, a Jew is allowed to break just about any commandment." No mention of the person being saved was Jewish or not, a big difference.
IO9 has an interview with Neill Blomkamp giving a lot of the back story explaining #1, #2. See http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-director-tells-us-all-about-his-alien-back-story
The really big question - what happens in three years when the alien says he will return? Do the Prawns get picked up by a few transport shops and leave peacefully or is there a fleet of really well armed and angry aliens coming to Earth? Will the humans end up working in cat food factories for their alien overlords?
Batteries and remove the wires leading to your house.
>Microsoft's proposal opens the door for Google to work with PC manufacturers to get Chrome on new machines.
This has always been an option. If Google wants to pay PC manufacturers to install Chrome as a default they can do so both in the US and the EU. It's one of the results of the anti-trust cases of the 90s.
I don't think you can make the assumption that an internet connection is available during the time of install so a binary will be needed in the Windows image.
Of course all the browsers included in the ballot should auto update themselves on first run.
I think the Apollo landing sites should be off limits. One mistake and Armstrong's first boot prints could be destroyed. I cannot believe that a group of scientists have the audacity to mess around with the Apollo 11 site.
It was not a 40% improvement in individual scores. The article states that in some schools it was a 40% improvement in the number of kids meeting some exam standard. What the prior or new scores and what the standard is was not given. Paying may help but I doubt by 40%.
From Gaiman's posting:
>George R. R. Martin is not working for you.
Yes, but the publisher basically is. Unless they start publishing books 1-4 with a warning label, "This series is unfinished, and may never be completed" any new readers have right to complain.
It's somewhat useful in that you can say "suppose the screen was 1/2 the current price?" and get an estimate on what that could do to the retail price of the whole unit.
It also tells people don't expect an $100 or even $200 unit any without a change in the pricing model.
What this the big deal about the Beatles' music being online or not. Just rip your CDs!
Unless your O(n^3) in house app was apparently tested against a dataset of about 10 items and is now being used for thousands. Having a good initial design is the best way but when that is missing sometimes it is better to redesign an app than try to throw more hardware at it.
SP3 is not a bug fix but rather a rollup of previous fixes that users should already have and a few new features - mostly related to networking. There is no "patch" to exploit.
This does not sound right. The article states that Apophis has a mass of 200 billion tonnes. How would colliding with a satellite which except for the ISS max out at about 20 tonnes do anything at all to Apophis' orbit? Forget the link to the wire story where is a link to NASA statement that the impact chance is really 1 in 450?
What makes you think that anything in this "scoop" is true? Direct your critism to the article's author.
I've always thought that Tolkien sold the film and stage rights to LoTR and The Hobbit in 1969 for a fixed amount. The issue is not whether the LoTR movies made a lot of money or had a high gross but whether there is some contract between the studio and the Tolkien Trust stating that the Tolkien Trust is owed part of the movie's receipts. If there is some a contract the Trust should make it publicly available.
It's possible/likely that Bill Gates knows exactly what the initial planned feature list for IE 8 was, what is currently done, what might need to be cut to make the release target, and what's already slipped to IE 9. What is lacking is communicating any of these various bits of info to anyone outside of Microsoft.
>I betting on atleast one CPU line after the Core 2 Quads to support the LGA 775
Sorry, the Intel chips due out in Q4 2008 use a different socket to support the on-chip memory controller.
See http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/02/intel_bloomfield_to_debut_lga1366/
Microsoft Research only gets about $250 million (see http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=133) of the $6.6 billion R&D budget mentioned. The rest is the cost of maintaining and creating new versions of Windows, Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc. The Zdnet blog entry by Mitch Ratcliffe sounds right - the instant Microsoft slashes spending on these areas why would anybody continue to buy them? Microsoft's sales would rapidly fall to zero as people switched to Macs or Linux instead of Windows, Oracle instead of SQL Server, etc.
I guess there was more to it than counting all the money.
However, remember that a lot of the background of Warcraft 3 came from the WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans adventure game so maybe we might see some of Starcraft: Ghost in say Starcraft 2.
When Arial Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, openly bragged on October 3rd that, "We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it", why should I not find this statement objectionable, and anti-American? I whole-heartedly support this inquiry because the Israelis cannot be trusted with our (American) interests.
That quote is a fake.
I think the parent comment was a joke about the shuttle never flying again and the only thing to do was send it to Houston to sit next to the Saturn V on the Johnson Space Center's lawn.