Clearly you've never had a mother dwarf, maddened by grief over the death of her child, kill the elephant that did the deed and then, leaving a trail of crippled dwarfs along the way, proceed to pull the lever that floods your fortress with lava and killing everyone.
After I was done cursing, it was kind of poignant.
You honestly think BP will face more than token consequences and maybe a name change
Not really, but I'm still shorting BP in hopes they'll get reamed.
Much like the Exxon case, I imagine they'll weasel out of the worst of it, but there were lots of people at BP were screwing things up for months, unlike the Valdez's one passed-out captain and a few sleepy overworked crewmen.
It's kind of like that saying "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Similarly, malware will expand until it is an infectious, remotely controlled rootkit that bots MMORPGs using your credit card.
Say I have 4 phones. One is my regular phone, one is connected to a computer, 2 are connected to micro controllers.
I can have each of them in a different state, at least one of them floating 1,000 feet above ground, and all making voice calls and texts at the same time, legitimately. It'd be better with just data, but 3G is spotty at altitude and I'm a cheap bastard.
I realize this isn't normal usage, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are more scientists/geeks doing this than criminals. Everything that makes a cell phone handy for setting off a bomb makes it more useful for other pursuits.
Get a warrant to surveil the person. When you know they are carrying a powered phone, get out your big antenna and listen for the identification codes that let the cell tower know it is there. Match up all the IDs, find any that are prepaid, repeat in a few different locations to eliminate random passers-by. Then get a warrant to wiretap those accounts.
Or just ask your friendly phone company to do it for you, I'm sure they have no qualms about it.
Comparatively cheap? The thing costs almost as much as a Wii and doesn't do anything by itself. At least when somebody switched from Gamecube to Wii, they could ebay the Gamecube.
And having a pack-in SKU available isn't nearly the same as having it from launch. The market of games for this will be much lower than those that don't require it, so few companies will risk making substantial games after the "launch". Natal games are going to make Wii shovel-ware look good.
The reason JM character was named "Jane" was because they were still shopping Neuromancer and didn't want to block the bigger deal if the buyer wanted an exclusivity contract.
You can step through a large block of code bit by bit with the debugger. You can't do that with a regex.
There are many tools to go through a regex step-by-step(e.g. regex-coach).
And even if there weren't, you could just break it up into the constituent pieces and evaluate them individually and sequentially. If you have trouble with that, other regexp testers like regexpal have syntax coloring. I imagine several IDEs do, as well.
And you forget that Japan has 100 Megabit fiber for $20/month. They can have inefficient, multi-hop routing, bandwidth hogging protocols, because they have tons of bandwidth. Inside the country, anyway.
It's easily shown to be true, just look at convictions of teachers for having sex with students: Hot chicks get community service, ugly chicks get a few years. Handsome guys get a few years, ugly guys get 20-life.
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The pedant part of me says RAdio Detection And Ranging requires radio-waves by definition. If visible light is used, it is call LI(ght)DAR.
Another part of me says as long as the "audible signal" sounds like the pinging sound they use in movies, it is awesome.
It just started shipping, that page is out of date.
It is rather embarrassing, considering the Zipit has similar specs, wireless, and only costs $50.
Slightly less Free, though.
Clearly you've never had a mother dwarf, maddened by grief over the death of her child, kill the elephant that did the deed and then, leaving a trail of crippled dwarfs along the way, proceed to pull the lever that floods your fortress with lava and killing everyone.
After I was done cursing, it was kind of poignant.
According to most production companies, never in any world.
Otherwise they might have to pay those suckers who agreed to work for a percentage of the net profits.
I don't know about your fascist library, but mine only keeps records of what books you currently have checked out.
Once you return them in good condition, the entry showing you checked them out gets wiped from the system.
Um... This is slashdot, after all.
It is really that hard to click "find", type in the song/band/whatever, then highlight and drag the files that show up?
Have you never used anything other than a Mac to not realize that other OSs have searching capabilities?
Not really, but I'm still shorting BP in hopes they'll get reamed.
Much like the Exxon case, I imagine they'll weasel out of the worst of it, but there were lots of people at BP were screwing things up for months, unlike the Valdez's one passed-out captain and a few sleepy overworked crewmen.
"When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realised that God doesn't work in that way
- so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness." - Emo Phillips
Like you couldn't redirect on GET instead of serving up the app?
It's kind of like that saying "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Similarly, malware will expand until it is an infectious, remotely controlled rootkit that bots MMORPGs using your credit card.
Say I have 4 phones. One is my regular phone, one is connected to a computer, 2 are connected to micro controllers.
I can have each of them in a different state, at least one of them floating 1,000 feet above ground, and all making voice calls and texts at the same time, legitimately. It'd be better with just data, but 3G is spotty at altitude and I'm a cheap bastard.
I realize this isn't normal usage, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are more scientists/geeks doing this than criminals. Everything that makes a cell phone handy for setting off a bomb makes it more useful for other pursuits.
Get a warrant to surveil the person. When you know they are carrying a powered phone, get out your big antenna and listen for the identification codes that let the cell tower know it is there. Match up all the IDs, find any that are prepaid, repeat in a few different locations to eliminate random passers-by. Then get a warrant to wiretap those accounts.
Or just ask your friendly phone company to do it for you, I'm sure they have no qualms about it.
Comparatively cheap? The thing costs almost as much as a Wii and doesn't do anything by itself. At least when somebody switched from Gamecube to Wii, they could ebay the Gamecube.
And having a pack-in SKU available isn't nearly the same as having it from launch. The market of games for this will be much lower than those that don't require it, so few companies will risk making substantial games after the "launch". Natal games are going to make Wii shovel-ware look good.
The reason JM character was named "Jane" was because they were still shopping Neuromancer and didn't want to block the bigger deal if the buyer wanted an exclusivity contract.
Not because Gibson didn't have the rights.
Because then schoolchildren could imagesearch porn without being blocked by filters?
Ack, no! I would rather have them patent this instead of copyright it. Patents expire in a decade or two, copyrights last a day less than forever.
You're right, never has been. It is a range of sizes:0.001-10,000 micron
A taser might put someone down, but it doesn't mean they won't stop fighting when the jolt stops.
It took this guy at least 4 before he stopped trying to get up. Some people can even sleep through it. Although that was a civvy unit.
There are many tools to go through a regex step-by-step(e.g. regex-coach).
And even if there weren't, you could just break it up into the constituent pieces and evaluate them individually and sequentially. If you have trouble with that, other regexp testers like regexpal have syntax coloring. I imagine several IDEs do, as well.
And you forget that Japan has 100 Megabit fiber for $20/month. They can have inefficient, multi-hop routing, bandwidth hogging protocols, because they have tons of bandwidth. Inside the country, anyway.
It isn't exactly confusing, all the actions map into standard filesystem interactions.
I think theodp probably has an alias for "ls" called "list_folder".
It's easily shown to be true, just look at convictions of teachers for having sex with students: Hot chicks get community service, ugly chicks get a few years. Handsome guys get a few years, ugly guys get 20-life.
Germany only wants it because it is a crime to have unsecured wifi. They just want to hand out a bunch of fines.
Google should send them a bunch of folded platters that have been heated to the Curie point.