Whether or not it's "natural" depends entirely on your definition of the word.
Are we going to start calling citric acid artificial because a lemon tree made it? Or call honey artificial, because a bunch of bees made it?
We're just as a part of nature as bees and lemon trees, so why is stuff we made suddenly unnatural?
Moreover, since it's completely arbitrary, why does it matter where we draw the line?
It's a completely useless definition. That is, unless you want to make millions off of people who think "natural" things are better than "unnatural" things. Barnum called those people "suckers".
According to the guys at twin galaxies, most of that movie is carefully edited to be sensational and is factually wrong on a number of important points.
I spent 2.5 semesters taking calculus, none of it was useful for me.
I'm now almost 6 years into my career and have never needed any of it. Good design skills, languages and knowledge of patterns are way more useful as practical money making skills. If the math interests you, by all means pursue it, if it doesn't, I'd try to get out of it.
Unless you want to get into a field where higher math is prevalent, and you'll actually be writing your own instead of using existing libraries written by people smarter than you, you probably won't need anything any mathematical operations but +, -, / and *. However, discrete math is very useful in basically all aspects of computer science because the computer is a discrete machine. And a lot of data fits well in concepts you'll learn there. It's also a lot easier than calculus.
Everything that's come out of hollywood has ever been a scam.
Selling not-so-cheap copies of media? That's based entirely on a government granted monopoly, absurd fines, and artificial scarcity of goods. The profit margins on plastic discs make the margins on furniture and electronics look pathetic by comparison.
Re-selling you your movies every time a new format comes out? Given that you supposedly bought the rights to a copy of the movie the first time, they should be free, but obviously aren't.
Trying to force RedBox to buy movies later? That's so they can finish milking you via the theaters.
What's sad, is that in this digital age seeing the business models propped up by new, invasive, unfair laws instead of fading into obsolecence/niche markets like the oil lamp, and horse-drawn carriage have.
The doctor still can't palpate anythying, nor even make a good visual examination since the quality is likely too poor to be of any use.
Answer? It's cheaper for the insurance company than a real doctor visit, and so saves them money, and you get inferior care for it, while they get increased profits.
Don't let them spin this as something good for you, it's just another way to reduce costs (and this time, care quality too).
It's their responsibility because the items were sold on their site.
Now, making good on their fuckup isn't the entitlement mindset, it's excellent, self-serving business sense. Allow me to explain, it's really quite simple:
You can buy a customer for life far cheaper than you can think by simply owning up to the problem, fixing it, then going beyond that.
It could be as cheap, and as easy as free overnight/cross shipping of the replacements. You absolutely lose money on the spot. But you're very likely to see the customer again. It's simply thinking long term.
That kind of service will get noticed and will bring people back next time because they know that even if shit goes wrong, they'll be well taken care of.
It's the same reasoning why most of my video cards are eVGA. Their customer service to my friends has been so stellar I know I'll be taken care of if their shit breaks. Yes, I wrote that correctly, I've never even had to deal with their customer service, yet they're my first choice for video cards. All because of stellar service they gave two of my friends. For a paltry $300 or so they bought three repeat customers. It's just another form of investment, and I'm living proof that it works. Hell, I just gave them great PR, and I hate PR.
No, what's completely unacceptable is requiring a constant connection, or in fact, any connection so you can continually assert that you bought the game.
An assertion they can deny at your own risk at any given time with no recourse.
They didn't choose to discontinue browser development in 2003.
No, they did it in 1998, yet shat out IE 6 after.
It's not like IE 6 was some first, beta version that they sent out that got adopted before it was ready. It was the sixth major release! They stopped caring because they had market share based on monopoly, not a superior browser. It wasn't until Firefox gave them serious competition that they started trying to fix it.
Yet nobody is complaining over the monopoly, or near monopoly held by Ticketmaster and Livenation (who are looking to merge, actually so they can fuck you even harder).
Ever heard of the infamous Ticketmaster(TM) "convenience fee"? That's right, they charge you a "convenience fee" just because they can get away with it because you don't have a choice. It's a market in dire need of some trust busting. Fortunately it's pure entertainment and concert going is not something your life depends on.
When Google released Buzz, it was a reminder that if they wanted to break gmail pretty badly, they'd be able to, and we'd have no recourse. With software on your own computer, you can at least refrain from running the upgrade.
It's worth mentioning, however, that Google unfucked the situation in less than 48 hours. Complete with deployment to everyone's Gmail account.
When Microsoft fucks you, you stay fucked until it's more profitable to pull out.
Ones that also have 120hz displays with special film from 3M.
Coming soon to an Amazon/Newegg/Tigerdirect/Dell/Apple near you.
Cause you bet your ass display manufacturers will be jumping all over this once it's mature, and 3M will happily take currency in exchange for this film.
: Women are generally able to multitask and see the "big picture" easier than men, gays stereotypically gravitate towards creative endeavors (theatre, graphic design, etc.), and the over 30 crowd has exactly the kind of in-depth understanding of the technology and experience necessary to use it that a bunch of twenty-somethings just can't match, no matter how good the training.
Wow, that was not where I thought you were going with that.
And it doesn't seem very rational. All of the in/famous hackers I can think of are at least men, and most are Caucasian. DVD John, Kevin Mitnic, Stroustrup, Paul Lutus, Linus Torvalds, Woz, Stall Man, Wall, Knuth, Shimomura, Johnathan James, and Adrian Lamo... And I don't think any of them are homosexual.. Do you have any counter-examples that would alter this perception?
I think the only thing these people have in common is they aren't just empty suits like the government seems to love to employ, but they are all men.
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There's a study out there that has proven that those security images don't work.
Whether or not it's "natural" depends entirely on your definition of the word.
Are we going to start calling citric acid artificial because a lemon tree made it? Or call honey artificial, because a bunch of bees made it?
We're just as a part of nature as bees and lemon trees, so why is stuff we made suddenly unnatural?
Moreover, since it's completely arbitrary, why does it matter where we draw the line?
It's a completely useless definition. That is, unless you want to make millions off of people who think "natural" things are better than "unnatural" things. Barnum called those people "suckers".
You guys are all missing something.
GFWL isn't for you. It's for Microsoft's benefit.
Not yours.
Well to be fair, if you stop worrying about all your immediate needs, you may not have a future to worry about.
There's a meeting for that.
According to the guys at twin galaxies, most of that movie is carefully edited to be sensational and is factually wrong on a number of important points.
The trick is we make sure that the we and the people whose tech we oversee make sure that the people don't gobble that shit up.
As if we actually have democracy, anywhere.
Most nations are a plutocracy disguised as a republic, and sold to the public as a democracy.
I spent 2.5 semesters taking calculus, none of it was useful for me.
I'm now almost 6 years into my career and have never needed any of it. Good design skills, languages and knowledge of patterns are way more useful as practical money making skills. If the math interests you, by all means pursue it, if it doesn't, I'd try to get out of it.
Unless you want to get into a field where higher math is prevalent, and you'll actually be writing your own instead of using existing libraries written by people smarter than you, you probably won't need anything any mathematical operations but +, -, / and *. However, discrete math is very useful in basically all aspects of computer science because the computer is a discrete machine. And a lot of data fits well in concepts you'll learn there. It's also a lot easier than calculus.
Everything that's come out of hollywood has ever been a scam.
Selling not-so-cheap copies of media? That's based entirely on a government granted monopoly, absurd fines, and artificial scarcity of goods. The profit margins on plastic discs make the margins on furniture and electronics look pathetic by comparison.
Re-selling you your movies every time a new format comes out? Given that you supposedly bought the rights to a copy of the movie the first time, they should be free, but obviously aren't.
Trying to force RedBox to buy movies later? That's so they can finish milking you via the theaters.
What's sad, is that in this digital age seeing the business models propped up by new, invasive, unfair laws instead of fading into obsolecence/niche markets like the oil lamp, and horse-drawn carriage have.
The census isn't a threat to your privacy.
It asks fewer things this time around than ever before.
Sitting presidents have been denied access to detailed information the census found.
How is this any better than a phone call?
The doctor still can't palpate anythying, nor even make a good visual examination since the quality is likely too poor to be of any use.
Answer? It's cheaper for the insurance company than a real doctor visit, and so saves them money, and you get inferior care for it, while they get increased profits.
Don't let them spin this as something good for you, it's just another way to reduce costs (and this time, care quality too).
They vetted the supplier.
It turns out they did a bad job of it.
It's their responsibility because the items were sold on their site.
Now, making good on their fuckup isn't the entitlement mindset, it's excellent, self-serving business sense. Allow me to explain, it's really quite simple:
You can buy a customer for life far cheaper than you can think by simply owning up to the problem, fixing it, then going beyond that.
It could be as cheap, and as easy as free overnight/cross shipping of the replacements. You absolutely lose money on the spot. But you're very likely to see the customer again. It's simply thinking long term.
That kind of service will get noticed and will bring people back next time because they know that even if shit goes wrong, they'll be well taken care of.
It's the same reasoning why most of my video cards are eVGA. Their customer service to my friends has been so stellar I know I'll be taken care of if their shit breaks. Yes, I wrote that correctly, I've never even had to deal with their customer service, yet they're my first choice for video cards. All because of stellar service they gave two of my friends. For a paltry $300 or so they bought three repeat customers. It's just another form of investment, and I'm living proof that it works. Hell, I just gave them great PR, and I hate PR.
Can we please stop saying we're declaring war on things that aren't sovereign nations?
Let's especially stop if they're ideas, conferences, or pieces of paper.
No, what's completely unacceptable is requiring a constant connection, or in fact, any connection so you can continually assert that you bought the game.
An assertion they can deny at your own risk at any given time with no recourse.
No, they did it in 1998, yet shat out IE 6 after.
It's not like IE 6 was some first, beta version that they sent out that got adopted before it was ready. It was the sixth major release! They stopped caring because they had market share based on monopoly, not a superior browser. It wasn't until Firefox gave them serious competition that they started trying to fix it.
Yet nobody is complaining over the monopoly, or near monopoly held by Ticketmaster and Livenation (who are looking to merge, actually so they can fuck you even harder).
Ever heard of the infamous Ticketmaster(TM) "convenience fee"? That's right, they charge you a "convenience fee" just because they can get away with it because you don't have a choice. It's a market in dire need of some trust busting. Fortunately it's pure entertainment and concert going is not something your life depends on.
It's worth mentioning, however, that Google unfucked the situation in less than 48 hours. Complete with deployment to everyone's Gmail account.
When Microsoft fucks you, you stay fucked until it's more profitable to pull out.
Apple is a publicly traded company not a private one.
Ones that also have 120hz displays with special film from 3M.
Coming soon to an Amazon/Newegg/Tigerdirect/Dell/Apple near you.
Cause you bet your ass display manufacturers will be jumping all over this once it's mature, and 3M will happily take currency in exchange for this film.
Tools are just tools.
How they're used says nothing about the tools and everything about the user.
Your privacy isn't essential to his quality of life, no.
Wow, that was not where I thought you were going with that.
And it doesn't seem very rational. All of the in/famous hackers I can think of are at least men, and most are Caucasian. DVD John, Kevin Mitnic, Stroustrup, Paul Lutus, Linus Torvalds, Woz, Stall Man, Wall, Knuth, Shimomura, Johnathan James, and Adrian Lamo... And I don't think any of them are homosexual.. Do you have any counter-examples that would alter this perception?
I think the only thing these people have in common is they aren't just empty suits like the government seems to love to employ, but they are all men.
But see, they're just going to call it unlawful, then block it. It doesn't matter one whit whether it is or not.
It's up to your to prove it isn't. Of course it'll take 18 months to resolve.
At least that's what I imagine they think.
Sadly, this is exactly the same thing spammers think. What's one more email?
It's why I regularly police my windows startups with Autoruns.