Not necessarily. Water is only one tiny part of the requirements for life (as we know it). Of course it is possible, theoretically, for life to exist in other situations, but that is all we have: theory.
Before anyone points out that life on Earth has adapted for situations well outside the normal range of Earth life (high radiation or temperatures, for example), the key word there is "adapted". In other words, such life is able to exist because the Earth overall is a fairly easy environment for life to develop, which means you end up with a massive quantity of it which is capable of adapting to any situation (in other words, if a billion species fail to adapt, you have several billion more waiting to try). But if the entire planet was high radiation (for example), such life may never be able to arise in the first place.
Well, besides the fact that it can interfere with your ability to find actual content (as others have pointed out), it's also the "frog in boiling water" problem. While it may not interfere with your ability to do what you want now, I have no doubt MS is looking at the possibility of doing things like playing unskippable ads before you can play DVDs or games, or adding ads into games (or even movies) on the fly. Anything they can do to make even more money. And so long as people have a good deal already invested in the platform (in the form of locked-in games and whatnot), people won't switch away. Whatever MS can get away with, they will do, eventually.
4 people is insufficient genetically to produce a viable colony, so their sex makeup is more or less irrelevant. They can only establish the precursor to an expanding colony, not the whole colony. Add to this that you really don't want 1-3 people to be unable to conduct work for extended periods of time (while pregnant), and that babies further require more time after birth to watch and educate, and you can see that that should wait until they have a larger colony established (at least 10-20 people at a minimum, I would say).
The solution is perfectly simple. A squirt of nice, warm water, which will then be recycled to drink (probably along with their urine and humidity from sweat). That should also answer the question of why it isn't used on earth (although I believe the Japanese do use it or something similar, I'd assume without the recycling bit, but maybe I assume too much).
Yeah, they're actually starting to become a thing that card makers are pushing. I remember seeing guides of how to fry the RFID chip (I believe a microwave for a few seconds works, but don't blame me if it also breaks the card) because even a lot of non-techies realize the security risk.
That is the specific grounds for the sanctions, but if you read the actual court order they make it pretty clear they despise his tactics overall, which is a good sign (not sure if it sets any kind of precedent, but it might). The judge seemed pretty pissed over the idea of what he was doing, not just the fact that he was breaking the rules. I may be reading slightly too much into it, but I don't think so.
But if capitalizing on the accused's inability to weather the risks and costs of trial are an unacceptable tactic, doesn't that mean plea deals by prosecutors are also unacceptable?
Not really. Plea deals save both sides money, which when the cost of prosecution falls on the state (read: taxpayers), as does the cost of imprisonment, is not insignificant. Add to that the fact that admission of guilt should reduce the punishment, and they really are nothing alike (not to mention the possibility that the individual will reveal details of other criminals under the bargain, which is also quite common).
SSL cert signing helps a bit with that problem. If you are facing someone with a signed cert for that domain and the ability to do a DNS redirect, you're pretty well screwed. Not a lot you can realistically do to prevent that.
Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 would like to have a word with you (I never played them, but apparently they weren't very good). Yes, I'd rather they made a single-player sequel to KOTOR also instead of SWTOR, but ever since they got bought out by EA, they've been rather unreliable anyways, and frankly I've lost most of my faith in them. Which is sad, because they used to be amazing (KOTOR is still one of my favorite games of all time, and I keep meaning to find and play a copy of the Baldur's Gate series, which I never did play).
I know. But the market has always been saturated by bad games, multiplayer or not. The companies making bad multiplayers games were never going to make good single-player games, so it ends up not really mattering much, in the long run.
OTOH, I personally have probably played DotA for over 1000+ hours, and unlike most of those super-long "real story", that wasn't 70% grinding to level-up (which a lot of them had a lot of). Anyone can do a long single-played game. Hell, I've played an RPG that was developed by one guy that was probably 50+ hours long. But a near-perfectly balanced multiplayer game refined over the course of approaching a decade? No offense, but that is better than pretty much any of those old-school stories.
Now, COD? Yeah, that sucks. But a few multi-player online games really do know what they are doing and are more fun than most of those older games.
It probably wasn't illegal. Google just realized it would be easier to pay up-front than get involved in a legal dispute over who did what when that would drag out and be all over the news for the next month with headlines like "Did Google Hack Apple Products?" Which you know would happen.
So all I need to do now if I get sued by a copyright holder is claim that my wireless could be used by other people, and therefore you can't use the IP address to identify me?
I mean, I know that's a fact, but does this set any precedent in the law?
Sure would be nice if the law had more to do with facts....
Actually you can. It's a pretty major issue law enforcement (such as the FBI) are becoming aware of. Of course, they will probably issue a warrant to examine your PC, and if it has been wiped recently you probably won't be winning the case (assuming it is a civil case, they don't need to prove beyond a doubt you did it, just that you probably did).
Ah, not BS, the judge dismissed the claim, which implies that in fact you can not sue someone for negligence simply for them using your hardware. Next time, might want to read the summary slightly more carefully.
I'm sure Valve will be watching closely how many people vote for a game vs how many of those same people actually buy it. The whole thing is largely an experiment: Valve likes to do that. Some of them fail (like the Half-Life episodes, which was supposed to be small bits of content every few months. Yeah, about that...) Some of them succeed beyond their wildest dreams, like F2P TF2.
Publishing angry birds onto the Apple store is easy because apple has a dedicated team to sift through the crap from the cream. This also leads to Apple favouritism in apps and makes publishing very luck of the draw. Valve wants the neat, tidy, clean environment Apple products have, but without all the politics and costs. Even the Google play store has a minimal approval process. Valve does not want to hire a team, lest that be another expense and essentially hold them liable for review and what makes it.
So they developed an intelligent solution: they don't have to hire a team that sifts through and decide what looks good, the users do. They aren't liable for what makes it on their, its up to the developer. They aren't directing games, they aren't influencing game production, its straight on just being a conduit between gamers and developers, for a smaller cost than hiring people to manage that connection.
Valve does have a team for this, and they still will (since the community is most certainly not 100% reliable). I'm still slightly uncertain what the point of Greenlight is, but I imagine Valve probably got contacted by angry developers/fans screaming "why is x game not on Steam?!?!?" This helps to solve that issue. Now they can point to Greenlight and say "well, it either isn't on there or doesn't have enough people who want it on Steam. You want it on Steam? Fix those problems." Boom, problem solved for Valve.
Ironically, "Columbia" is the correct spelling in English (taken from "Columbus"). "Colombia" is the Spanish spelling (taken from "Colón"). Since English doesn't have the "ó", we use a "u" instead. Now, being a proper name you can use either (English is very flexible), but the English spelling is "Columbia".
Because, as others have pointed out, the summary and linked "article" are complete and utter bullshit. All the Executive Order actually does is designate to whom and how the government should go about maintaining communications in an emergency, i.e. it delegates powers the President already holds either through legislation or through the Constitution itself. On other words, it cannot delegate unconstitutional power because the President doesn't have such power (in theory, in practice it may differ, but that is for the courts to decide). It does not make a new law, it does not give the government new power, it just tells certain people what their role is in an emergency (and preparing for one).
Executive Order != legislation. The President cannot enact legislation. All an order can do is give certain organizations power that the President already holds. If he doesn't hold them already, he cannot designate them to another body, which means TFA is probably wildly exaggerating what the order actually means.
Basic compass navigation has two data points: North and South. This has millions. It uses a compass, true, but it uses a sophisticated vector map of magnetic fields which normal compass navigation does not.
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Not necessarily. Water is only one tiny part of the requirements for life (as we know it). Of course it is possible, theoretically, for life to exist in other situations, but that is all we have: theory.
Before anyone points out that life on Earth has adapted for situations well outside the normal range of Earth life (high radiation or temperatures, for example), the key word there is "adapted". In other words, such life is able to exist because the Earth overall is a fairly easy environment for life to develop, which means you end up with a massive quantity of it which is capable of adapting to any situation (in other words, if a billion species fail to adapt, you have several billion more waiting to try). But if the entire planet was high radiation (for example), such life may never be able to arise in the first place.
Well, besides the fact that it can interfere with your ability to find actual content (as others have pointed out), it's also the "frog in boiling water" problem. While it may not interfere with your ability to do what you want now, I have no doubt MS is looking at the possibility of doing things like playing unskippable ads before you can play DVDs or games, or adding ads into games (or even movies) on the fly. Anything they can do to make even more money. And so long as people have a good deal already invested in the platform (in the form of locked-in games and whatnot), people won't switch away. Whatever MS can get away with, they will do, eventually.
4 people is insufficient genetically to produce a viable colony, so their sex makeup is more or less irrelevant. They can only establish the precursor to an expanding colony, not the whole colony. Add to this that you really don't want 1-3 people to be unable to conduct work for extended periods of time (while pregnant), and that babies further require more time after birth to watch and educate, and you can see that that should wait until they have a larger colony established (at least 10-20 people at a minimum, I would say).
The solution is perfectly simple. A squirt of nice, warm water, which will then be recycled to drink (probably along with their urine and humidity from sweat). That should also answer the question of why it isn't used on earth (although I believe the Japanese do use it or something similar, I'd assume without the recycling bit, but maybe I assume too much).
Yeah, they're actually starting to become a thing that card makers are pushing. I remember seeing guides of how to fry the RFID chip (I believe a microwave for a few seconds works, but don't blame me if it also breaks the card) because even a lot of non-techies realize the security risk.
That is the specific grounds for the sanctions, but if you read the actual court order they make it pretty clear they despise his tactics overall, which is a good sign (not sure if it sets any kind of precedent, but it might). The judge seemed pretty pissed over the idea of what he was doing, not just the fact that he was breaking the rules. I may be reading slightly too much into it, but I don't think so.
But if capitalizing on the accused's inability to weather the risks and costs of trial are an unacceptable tactic, doesn't that mean plea deals by prosecutors are also unacceptable?
Not really. Plea deals save both sides money, which when the cost of prosecution falls on the state (read: taxpayers), as does the cost of imprisonment, is not insignificant. Add to that the fact that admission of guilt should reduce the punishment, and they really are nothing alike (not to mention the possibility that the individual will reveal details of other criminals under the bargain, which is also quite common).
SSL cert signing helps a bit with that problem. If you are facing someone with a signed cert for that domain and the ability to do a DNS redirect, you're pretty well screwed. Not a lot you can realistically do to prevent that.
It isn't just the graphics card, you need a a Mac with a 64-bit EFI (Ars Technica article has more detail at the bottom).
With a first gen macbook pro I think your due for a new laptop......3-5 years is my max of keeping them around.
Well, maybe, but Apple fans often triumph how their laptops last for 5+ years, so for Apple to drop support like this is a bit of a smack in the face.
(Yes, I hate Apple, I fully admit it).
Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 would like to have a word with you (I never played them, but apparently they weren't very good). Yes, I'd rather they made a single-player sequel to KOTOR also instead of SWTOR, but ever since they got bought out by EA, they've been rather unreliable anyways, and frankly I've lost most of my faith in them. Which is sad, because they used to be amazing (KOTOR is still one of my favorite games of all time, and I keep meaning to find and play a copy of the Baldur's Gate series, which I never did play).
I know. But the market has always been saturated by bad games, multiplayer or not. The companies making bad multiplayers games were never going to make good single-player games, so it ends up not really mattering much, in the long run.
OTOH, I personally have probably played DotA for over 1000+ hours, and unlike most of those super-long "real story", that wasn't 70% grinding to level-up (which a lot of them had a lot of). Anyone can do a long single-played game. Hell, I've played an RPG that was developed by one guy that was probably 50+ hours long. But a near-perfectly balanced multiplayer game refined over the course of approaching a decade? No offense, but that is better than pretty much any of those old-school stories.
Now, COD? Yeah, that sucks. But a few multi-player online games really do know what they are doing and are more fun than most of those older games.
It probably wasn't illegal. Google just realized it would be easier to pay up-front than get involved in a legal dispute over who did what when that would drag out and be all over the news for the next month with headlines like "Did Google Hack Apple Products?" Which you know would happen.
So all I need to do now if I get sued by a copyright holder is claim that my wireless could be used by other people, and therefore you can't use the IP address to identify me? I mean, I know that's a fact, but does this set any precedent in the law? Sure would be nice if the law had more to do with facts....
Actually you can. It's a pretty major issue law enforcement (such as the FBI) are becoming aware of. Of course, they will probably issue a warrant to examine your PC, and if it has been wiped recently you probably won't be winning the case (assuming it is a civil case, they don't need to prove beyond a doubt you did it, just that you probably did).
Ah, not BS, the judge dismissed the claim, which implies that in fact you can not sue someone for negligence simply for them using your hardware. Next time, might want to read the summary slightly more carefully.
I'm sure Valve will be watching closely how many people vote for a game vs how many of those same people actually buy it. The whole thing is largely an experiment: Valve likes to do that. Some of them fail (like the Half-Life episodes, which was supposed to be small bits of content every few months. Yeah, about that...) Some of them succeed beyond their wildest dreams, like F2P TF2.
Publishing angry birds onto the Apple store is easy because apple has a dedicated team to sift through the crap from the cream. This also leads to Apple favouritism in apps and makes publishing very luck of the draw. Valve wants the neat, tidy, clean environment Apple products have, but without all the politics and costs. Even the Google play store has a minimal approval process. Valve does not want to hire a team, lest that be another expense and essentially hold them liable for review and what makes it.
So they developed an intelligent solution: they don't have to hire a team that sifts through and decide what looks good, the users do. They aren't liable for what makes it on their, its up to the developer. They aren't directing games, they aren't influencing game production, its straight on just being a conduit between gamers and developers, for a smaller cost than hiring people to manage that connection.
Valve does have a team for this, and they still will (since the community is most certainly not 100% reliable). I'm still slightly uncertain what the point of Greenlight is, but I imagine Valve probably got contacted by angry developers/fans screaming "why is x game not on Steam?!?!?" This helps to solve that issue. Now they can point to Greenlight and say "well, it either isn't on there or doesn't have enough people who want it on Steam. You want it on Steam? Fix those problems." Boom, problem solved for Valve.
Ironically, "Columbia" is the correct spelling in English (taken from "Columbus"). "Colombia" is the Spanish spelling (taken from "Colón"). Since English doesn't have the "ó", we use a "u" instead. Now, being a proper name you can use either (English is very flexible), but the English spelling is "Columbia".
Bing vs. Google: Fight! Yeah, Bing loses pretty badly.
Because, as others have pointed out, the summary and linked "article" are complete and utter bullshit. All the Executive Order actually does is designate to whom and how the government should go about maintaining communications in an emergency, i.e. it delegates powers the President already holds either through legislation or through the Constitution itself. On other words, it cannot delegate unconstitutional power because the President doesn't have such power (in theory, in practice it may differ, but that is for the courts to decide). It does not make a new law, it does not give the government new power, it just tells certain people what their role is in an emergency (and preparing for one).
Executive Order != legislation. The President cannot enact legislation. All an order can do is give certain organizations power that the President already holds. If he doesn't hold them already, he cannot designate them to another body, which means TFA is probably wildly exaggerating what the order actually means.
Anonymous are anarchists, thats kinda the whole point. However, you are correct that not all anarchists are "Anonymous."
Why would I want a shoe with a printer?
Basic compass navigation has two data points: North and South. This has millions. It uses a compass, true, but it uses a sophisticated vector map of magnetic fields which normal compass navigation does not.