No reason to reveal sources & methods just that we DO have the ability to track the asshats back to their mansion/lair/cave/etc. Announce afterwards that while we aren't promising that level of protection to everyone everywhere, that we do intend to pick a few out for future tests AND to make some examples. Be right up front on the making examples angle. Put some fear into em up front and we might not ever have to endure a deliberate attack on major infrastructure. Remember that the best defense is often a good offense.
A little show of force then? Showing 'm what happens if you mess around with the wrong people? Instill some fear in those chaps. Funny now, that's *exactly* what these guys just did...
The networks, the towers..... DON'T run on batteries.
But any mobile provider worth his salt will have a backup generator. I work for a power company and everytime there's some sort of outage within a few minutes there will be a couple of mobile phone providers on the phone asking if they need to fire up the generators.
Dunno, but the SATA controller on my nForce3 based motherboard is detected just fine by a XP installation with SP2 splipstreamed in. Ofcourse, expecting an OS to detect a piece of kit that did not even exist when it was originally brought out doesn't make a lot of sense to begin with I suppose.
For the life of me, I still do not get America's obsession with small business. Sure, smaller businesses are less powerful, but they're also problematic from an economic standpoint; most small business either don't hire very many employees, or do not pay for their health insurance, or even both.
The problem is that as the number of employees that actually *produce* something in a business, be it a product or service, grows linearly, the number of managers, HR people, laywers, you name it, grows exponentially. More and more layers of management form between the folks at the top and the folks in the trenches. The big charm about small businesses is that one can arrive at the job in the morning and say "Morning Jack, whatcha think about that game last night?", where Jack just happens to be the owner of the place. Perhaps they don't contribute as much to society, but overall they can be a lot more laid back to work at.
You know how in every street there's a grumpy neighbour who'll refuse to give you your football back if it accidentally ends up in his garden and who spends his days muttering about them youngsters these days? Well, there's your target audience.
This is basically any IT / Helpdesk employee's story, not a lot of "inside Apple" info here. And the guy sucked at it because the most important part of being a good support guy/girl is to be able to get the customer to trust you and let you help them, EVEN if they're total bastards and very mad because something does not work.
Then again, there is a limit, and if you work for the right company, a properly defined one. Nevertheless, judging FTA, this guy makes the same classic mistake tons of helldesk employees do, which is to confuse the concept of "intelligence" with "knowledge about computers". It never ceases to amaze me how underpaid geeks somehow can't get it into their skulls that the guy is not stupid, he's a bloody doctor/lawyer/diplomat/you name it, for crying out loud. Perhaps someday they'll turn the tables and when a guy like this walks into a doctor's office the good ol' doc will expect him to know whether he's running a beta version of his appendix.
Most people in the US are comfortable with the censorship practiced here, but would not be satisfied with the degree to which it is practiced in China.
And that, my friend, is the difference. The government of the US, from a very naive point of view, represents the desires and wishes of the voters. Should they decide to do something the general public does not approve of, they can be replaced. The Chinese government doesn't quite work that way...
Unfortunately for your example there are also plenty of cases where using the assignment = as a condition. Granted, there's not much point when the value to be assigned is a constant, but I do use it constantly when doing for example a malloc...
You raise some very good points indeed. However, I'm somewhat reluctant to use the term "economic crisis". As fuel prices keep increasing with no decent alternative being commonly available at some point it is no longer interesting to ship certain goods over very long distances, which will mean certain industries that are currently located far, far away will come back. Who knows, maybe in 15 years I'll be wearing clothes made in eastern europe as opposed to the far east. The economy is definitely in for a rough ride, but on the other side of the medal there will, as always, be a lot of room for those with vision. I can potentially see the USA becoming a big producer in terms of ethanol, due to the sheer amounts of land it has at its disposal. Right now the Netherlands has the finest solar panel tech in the world. There's trouble, but then again, there's plenty of potential.
And oh well, if all fails, I suppose we could always bring back the VOC:-)
..except the one which has become our eventuality - a world who put every ounce of faith in its almighty petroleum god and woke up one morning to find it expended with a vital infrastructure which couldn't exist without it. Now THAT'S a plot!
Now, funnily enough I just saw a report on tv last night that will be presented to my government today concerning the steps we need to take in order to become self-sufficient in terms of energy within a 50 year timespan. Solar, wind, planetary heat, biogas, you name it, we're doing it. The way I see it, those countries that find the right solutions for durable energy are going to have a very prosperous future indeed, and the way things are looking right now, those countries will located in Western Europe. Sweden already has cars driving around on 85% ethanol. Germany has so many wind turbines that when there's too much wind the power grid gets more than it can handle. Cow shit is being used to generate electricity, with the remainder being chemically converted into fertilizer.
All the tech's right there for the taking. All it takes is a government with enough balls and a sufficient amount of long term vision to go for it.
Again - a subtle difference. The game SHIPPED with the skin, it was just a matter of renaming the file. I have no problem with the ESRBs descision here... it was undisclosed content (it was on the distribution media).
No, it's not undisclosed content for crying out loud. It's layering a texture that happens to have nipples(because it's a male texture, and for some reason men are allowed to run around barechested whereas women are not) layered on top of the female body.
Now, if you're excuse me, some Daedric god just gave me instructions on how to assassinate 2 people in such a way that an entire village will start killing each other, which will make me a nice tidy profit...
You could use this same silly counter-argument to get bar owners to stop checking ID. After all, any "responsible" parent would "always" know what their children are up to, wouldn't they?
When your kid is using the computer to surf the internet, odds are it is actually happening *inside* your house. If you can't even keep tabs on what is going on inside your own place something is seriously wrong. And please, don't give me the argument about schools or friends' places, in both cases there is a reasonable expectation that those in charge at those places keep an eye out as well.
Good lord, aside from the drug-injection allegation, some of the things you listed are positively cozy compared to special forces training. Not just in the U.S. but in many nations. The problem is that everyone has their own definition of torture.
Ehmm, yeah sure. Did these guys sign up for this training? Do they get to drop out when they can't take it anymore?
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So it is our right and our obligation to tell our employees that they're doing a bad job. Think of it as their personnel review.
Indeed, but there is one tiny problem. 80% of the shareholders are blithering idiots.
Who gets "baptists.xxx" or "mormon.xxx" or even "usgov.xxx"?
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No idea, but I can't wait to find out
No reason to reveal sources & methods just that we DO have the ability to track the asshats back to their mansion/lair/cave/etc. Announce afterwards that while we aren't promising that level of protection to everyone everywhere, that we do intend to pick a few out for future tests AND to make some examples. Be right up front on the making examples angle. Put some fear into em up front and we might not ever have to endure a deliberate attack on major infrastructure. Remember that the best defense is often a good offense.
A little show of force then? Showing 'm what happens if you mess around with the wrong people? Instill some fear in those chaps. Funny now, that's *exactly* what these guys just did...
If construction companies put conduits in house that made it easier to route network cables to all of the rooms, there would be no need use wireless.
How about just putting UTP and coax connectors in every room? Plenty of people I know that build new houses or fix old ones already do this.
How many people do you know who don't want more seconds (or more likely, minutes or hours) in a day?
Depends, I guess, where those seconds end up. Longer working days doesn't sound all that much fun to me, tbh.
I hope Apple wins this case, sues back Creative into oblivion and assimilates Zen into iPod family as prize.
Well, I sure hope not. Spider Daedra n Xivilai are tough enough when they're not being backed up by big corporations, thank you so very much.
The networks, the towers..... DON'T run on batteries.
But any mobile provider worth his salt will have a backup generator. I work for a power company and everytime there's some sort of outage within a few minutes there will be a couple of mobile phone providers on the phone asking if they need to fire up the generators.
Dunno, but the SATA controller on my nForce3 based motherboard is detected just fine by a XP installation with SP2 splipstreamed in. Ofcourse, expecting an OS to detect a piece of kit that did not even exist when it was originally brought out doesn't make a lot of sense to begin with I suppose.
For the life of me, I still do not get America's obsession with small business. Sure, smaller businesses are less powerful, but they're also problematic from an economic standpoint; most small business either don't hire very many employees, or do not pay for their health insurance, or even both.
The problem is that as the number of employees that actually *produce* something in a business, be it a product or service, grows linearly, the number of managers, HR people, laywers, you name it, grows exponentially. More and more layers of management form between the folks at the top and the folks in the trenches. The big charm about small businesses is that one can arrive at the job in the morning and say "Morning Jack, whatcha think about that game last night?", where Jack just happens to be the owner of the place. Perhaps they don't contribute as much to society, but overall they can be a lot more laid back to work at.
You know how in every street there's a grumpy neighbour who'll refuse to give you your football back if it accidentally ends up in his garden and who spends his days muttering about them youngsters these days? Well, there's your target audience.
Nah, this is just God's way of telling us to bring back Star Trek. Oh noes, something's broken, reverse the polarity!
This is basically any IT / Helpdesk employee's story, not a lot of "inside Apple" info here. And the guy sucked at it because the most important part of being a good support guy/girl is to be able to get the customer to trust you and let you help them, EVEN if they're total bastards and very mad because something does not work.
Then again, there is a limit, and if you work for the right company, a properly defined one. Nevertheless, judging FTA, this guy makes the same classic mistake tons of helldesk employees do, which is to confuse the concept of "intelligence" with "knowledge about computers". It never ceases to amaze me how underpaid geeks somehow can't get it into their skulls that the guy is not stupid, he's a bloody doctor/lawyer/diplomat/you name it, for crying out loud. Perhaps someday they'll turn the tables and when a guy like this walks into a doctor's office the good ol' doc will expect him to know whether he's running a beta version of his appendix.
Most people in the US are comfortable with the censorship practiced here, but would not be satisfied with the degree to which it is practiced in China.
And that, my friend, is the difference. The government of the US, from a very naive point of view, represents the desires and wishes of the voters. Should they decide to do something the general public does not approve of, they can be replaced. The Chinese government doesn't quite work that way...
Unfortunately for your example there are also plenty of cases where using the assignment = as a condition. Granted, there's not much point when the value to be assigned is a constant, but I do use it constantly when doing for example a malloc...
while(a=1) { GiveMorphine(1); }
:)
sounds just fine to me, really
(I'm afraid I don't understand the VOC reference)
;-)
The Verenigde Oost-Indië Compagnie, aka the Dutch East Indie Company. Big wooden sailing ships, back when us dutchies ruled the world
In the 2.4 release, cloth (even tearable cloth) is supported.
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Thereby granting any and all games that use this engine an immediate M rating?
Yeah, I should've made an exception for one's parents. The in-laws are pretty hard to say no to, too. :)
Or, in my case, the landlord(who lives directly above me).
You raise some very good points indeed. However, I'm somewhat reluctant to use the term "economic crisis". As fuel prices keep increasing with no decent alternative being commonly available at some point it is no longer interesting to ship certain goods over very long distances, which will mean certain industries that are currently located far, far away will come back. Who knows, maybe in 15 years I'll be wearing clothes made in eastern europe as opposed to the far east. The economy is definitely in for a rough ride, but on the other side of the medal there will, as always, be a lot of room for those with vision. I can potentially see the USA becoming a big producer in terms of ethanol, due to the sheer amounts of land it has at its disposal. Right now the Netherlands has the finest solar panel tech in the world. There's trouble, but then again, there's plenty of potential.
:-)
And oh well, if all fails, I suppose we could always bring back the VOC
..except the one which has become our eventuality - a world who put every ounce of faith in its almighty petroleum god and woke up one morning to find it expended with a vital infrastructure which couldn't exist without it. Now THAT'S a plot!
Now, funnily enough I just saw a report on tv last night that will be presented to my government today concerning the steps we need to take in order to become self-sufficient in terms of energy within a 50 year timespan. Solar, wind, planetary heat, biogas, you name it, we're doing it. The way I see it, those countries that find the right solutions for durable energy are going to have a very prosperous future indeed, and the way things are looking right now, those countries will located in Western Europe. Sweden already has cars driving around on 85% ethanol. Germany has so many wind turbines that when there's too much wind the power grid gets more than it can handle. Cow shit is being used to generate electricity, with the remainder being chemically converted into fertilizer.
All the tech's right there for the taking. All it takes is a government with enough balls and a sufficient amount of long term vision to go for it.
If the problem is that it makes the material easier to find
Google should just argue they were working for the government and cover it under a blanket of national security...problem solved.
Again - a subtle difference. The game SHIPPED with the skin, it was just a matter of renaming the file. I have no problem with the ESRBs descision here... it was undisclosed content (it was on the distribution media).
No, it's not undisclosed content for crying out loud. It's layering a texture that happens to have nipples(because it's a male texture, and for some reason men are allowed to run around barechested whereas women are not) layered on top of the female body.
Now, if you're excuse me, some Daedric god just gave me instructions on how to assassinate 2 people in such a way that an entire village will start killing each other, which will make me a nice tidy profit...
You could use this same silly counter-argument to get bar owners to stop checking ID. After all, any "responsible" parent would "always" know what their children are up to, wouldn't they?
When your kid is using the computer to surf the internet, odds are it is actually happening *inside* your house. If you can't even keep tabs on what is going on inside your own place something is seriously wrong. And please, don't give me the argument about schools or friends' places, in both cases there is a reasonable expectation that those in charge at those places keep an eye out as well.
Good lord, aside from the drug-injection allegation, some of the things you listed are positively cozy compared to special forces training. Not just in the U.S. but in many nations. The problem is that everyone has their own definition of torture.
Ehmm, yeah sure. Did these guys sign up for this training? Do they get to drop out when they can't take it anymore?
oh man, Silent Death...in space, noone can hear you scream. Great game, wonderful memories indeed.