After reading Manning's response to that question, I have to ask how many such tips those news outlets get each day. If he really wanted to release the docs to them, couldn't he have just... released the docs to them? Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the modus operandi for large whistleblower intel dumps.
You claim that Texas is 4th in the nation for child poverty, and I'm asking which specific statistic you're using to say that. Many statistics use the national poverty line to rank states, which is inaccurate for many reasons. I can't use the internet to answer my question if I don't know what specific study you're talking about.
Not to say that you're necessarily wrong, but how many of the statistics for minimum wage jobs, poverty, etc take into account Texas's lower cost of living? Last time I checked, making $20,000 in Austin is roughly equivalent to making $32,000 in Seattle, and $40,000 in San Francisco.
It's not an instability so much as a metastability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability)
So the properties aren't going to slowly, subtly change over time, so much as near-instantenously change as soon as someone pushes the metaphorical ball over the hill. Until then, things should remain quite stable.
This doomsday theory seems to have a lot in common with the idea of a False Vacuum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum)
That's interesting, and the article should have included that information. "Scientist Removed From EPA Panel Due To Industry Opposition is Vindicated 6 Years Later" would be a perfectly relevant story.
Unfortunately, the closest thing I can find in the article is "Two years later, the EPA moved to cease production of decaBDE, a chemical it views as a possible carcinogen. In Maine, Rice's research had supported a state ban on the chemical.", which I guess means this article would have been relevant in 2009.
You have to get to the 4th paragraph of the actual article before it's explicitly stated that all this happened 6 years ago. The summary is vague enough that one could easily be led to think she was appointed in 2007 and only recently removed. It should have been more specific.
And my question was actually a question, not a snarky jab. I'm legitimately curious why this is being brought up now. Is there currently a wave of exposure for the shady maneuvers of Environmental lobbyists? Or is it just a slow enough news day that someone has to reach back 6 years to find something controversial?
I composed all the numbers you gave, expecting some kind of secret knowledge. Maybe the number of the beast, or e, or how many Apple Engineers it takes to create a proprietary light-bulb socket.
There were arguments on Slashdot that the homebrew Kinect stuff actually could hurt Microsoft. They could no longer assume that 8 million Kinects sold meant 8 million Xbox 360 systems with the Kinect peripheral, which turn could make it harder to convince developers that there's an actual market for Kinect games.
I have no idea if that's true, I just remember it being brought up around here.
They could also just be reminding everyone that this "feature" is not officially supported. It's very possible that there are legitimate reasons to change the implementation of the security mechanism in ways that break the tool.
Keep in mind they didn't take any action against the homebrew Kinect stuff.
Take a step back and seriously consider his criticism, as if he were one of your 10+ year coworkers. Whether or not he's right informs the right reaction.
It is a good thing, and Steam and GoG have eased a lot of the complications that come with PC gaming. However, it's not a fix-all. For instance, I'm not aware of any reliable method (even involving DOSBox) for getting System Shock to run on a modern computer (and it's not likely to ever be available on GoG), and not even any unreliable method that's not a great deal of hassle. I'd also have trouble finding the parts to build a Windows 95 machine. However, it's very easy to find an old SNES somewhere and play Super Metroid (released the same year).
Because my whole point is that consoles require less hassle. If Nintendo sets up a VM on the console, that's not additional hassle for the user. But if I have to set one up myself on my PC, then it is. For instance, should my VM be Windows 95? 98? XP? Maybe I need to set all three up, since certain games only run without issue on certain operating systems.
And even then, setting up a VM frequently isn't enough, as processor/video/audio errors can still appear. For example, when I played through Grim Fandango back in the fall of 2008 I hit a point where I can't run along a conveyor belt that you have to traverse. Turns out that section of the game has framerate dependencies and my processor was too fast. So I had to download a special program to tie up my processor and slow the game down enough for me to beat that section. This is FAR more hassle than consoles generally (I'll grant, not always) require.
Consoles have issues, yeah, but they are much less frequent than they are on PC. And when the console itself isn't defective in some way, all games generally run without issue.
Please run a Windows DOS game on Windows 7. If you can't (without video or audio issues, and without using virtual machines), then please lick my butt.
is to avoid a fractious market. This lets developers focus more on the actual game, and less on supporting all the different hardware/OS combinations. This also lets consumers spend more time playing games, and less time diagnosing problems.
For example, I got a new computer back in the summer, and found that it played a couple games incredibly slowly for no good reason (Warhammer Spacemarine and the new XCOM). The games ran fine on friends' computers, but chugged on mine even at minimum settings. I eventually found out that this was an issue with certain versions of certain motherboards and that the solution was to update my BIOS. I'd never done this, and had read stories of people bricking their computers as a result of BIOS flashing gone wrong, so I was understandably nervous about just trying a bunch of solutions. After further research, I found the BIOS upgrade I needed, and proceeded to try installing it. Woe unto me, the BIOS installer couldn't read my flashdrive, and the only clue as to why was some mention on some old forum of thumbdrives larger than 512 mb not working. Fortunately, our IT guy at work had an old 256 mb drive buried somewhere and let me borrow it. I copied the files over, booted into the BIOS flasher, and everything went smoothly. When the computer finished restarting, I was very pleased to find both games now running at perfectly playable framerates.
On my Xbox, I put the disc in and the damn thing just works. Will that still be the case if we have umpteen different consoles?
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After reading Manning's response to that question, I have to ask how many such tips those news outlets get each day. If he really wanted to release the docs to them, couldn't he have just... released the docs to them? Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the modus operandi for large whistleblower intel dumps.
Run the numbers yourself, if you don't believe me: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/
Another reason for the lower cost of living is that Texas has no state income tax, so you see more of your paycheck than in California.
You claim that Texas is 4th in the nation for child poverty, and I'm asking which specific statistic you're using to say that. Many statistics use the national poverty line to rank states, which is inaccurate for many reasons. I can't use the internet to answer my question if I don't know what specific study you're talking about.
However, this is an interesting article that came up, and illustrates my point: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Texas-vs-California-myth-busting-time-4257744.php
Not to say that you're necessarily wrong, but how many of the statistics for minimum wage jobs, poverty, etc take into account Texas's lower cost of living? Last time I checked, making $20,000 in Austin is roughly equivalent to making $32,000 in Seattle, and $40,000 in San Francisco.
It's not an instability so much as a metastability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability)
So the properties aren't going to slowly, subtly change over time, so much as near-instantenously change as soon as someone pushes the metaphorical ball over the hill. Until then, things should remain quite stable.
This doomsday theory seems to have a lot in common with the idea of a False Vacuum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum)
That's interesting, and the article should have included that information. "Scientist Removed From EPA Panel Due To Industry Opposition is Vindicated 6 Years Later" would be a perfectly relevant story.
Unfortunately, the closest thing I can find in the article is "Two years later, the EPA moved to cease production of decaBDE, a chemical it views as a possible carcinogen. In Maine, Rice's research had supported a state ban on the chemical.", which I guess means this article would have been relevant in 2009.
You have to get to the 4th paragraph of the actual article before it's explicitly stated that all this happened 6 years ago. The summary is vague enough that one could easily be led to think she was appointed in 2007 and only recently removed. It should have been more specific.
And my question was actually a question, not a snarky jab. I'm legitimately curious why this is being brought up now. Is there currently a wave of exposure for the shady maneuvers of Environmental lobbyists? Or is it just a slow enough news day that someone has to reach back 6 years to find something controversial?
The summary makes it seem like this just happened, but she was actually removed back in 2007. Why is this coming up now, 6 years later?
Man, I'm not sure I've ever been quite so ashamed of a pun before :(
Those fly pointky end first.
So wait... maybe... all energy comes from the universe?!?!
I feel like we've made great progress in this discussion B-)
Races to the bottom can have winners. India and China, in this case.
I composed all the numbers you gave, expecting some kind of secret knowledge. Maybe the number of the beast, or e, or how many Apple Engineers it takes to create a proprietary light-bulb socket.
Instead, all I got was 20.6712% :(
Parent deserves a +1 Funny
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/01/05/225256/what-negative-temperature-really-means
Yes
There were arguments on Slashdot that the homebrew Kinect stuff actually could hurt Microsoft. They could no longer assume that 8 million Kinects sold meant 8 million Xbox 360 systems with the Kinect peripheral, which turn could make it harder to convince developers that there's an actual market for Kinect games.
I have no idea if that's true, I just remember it being brought up around here.
Since when did playing devil's advocate call for that kind of insinuation?
I must have forgotten to end my post with a cynical anti-M$ blurb. Ya know, a unique contribution that really enhances the discussion.
They could also just be reminding everyone that this "feature" is not officially supported. It's very possible that there are legitimate reasons to change the implementation of the security mechanism in ways that break the tool.
Keep in mind they didn't take any action against the homebrew Kinect stuff.
Take a step back and seriously consider his criticism, as if he were one of your 10+ year coworkers. Whether or not he's right informs the right reaction.
It is a good thing, and Steam and GoG have eased a lot of the complications that come with PC gaming. However, it's not a fix-all. For instance, I'm not aware of any reliable method (even involving DOSBox) for getting System Shock to run on a modern computer (and it's not likely to ever be available on GoG), and not even any unreliable method that's not a great deal of hassle. I'd also have trouble finding the parts to build a Windows 95 machine. However, it's very easy to find an old SNES somewhere and play Super Metroid (released the same year).
Because my whole point is that consoles require less hassle. If Nintendo sets up a VM on the console, that's not additional hassle for the user. But if I have to set one up myself on my PC, then it is. For instance, should my VM be Windows 95? 98? XP? Maybe I need to set all three up, since certain games only run without issue on certain operating systems.
And even then, setting up a VM frequently isn't enough, as processor/video/audio errors can still appear. For example, when I played through Grim Fandango back in the fall of 2008 I hit a point where I can't run along a conveyor belt that you have to traverse. Turns out that section of the game has framerate dependencies and my processor was too fast. So I had to download a special program to tie up my processor and slow the game down enough for me to beat that section. This is FAR more hassle than consoles generally (I'll grant, not always) require.
Consoles have issues, yeah, but they are much less frequent than they are on PC. And when the console itself isn't defective in some way, all games generally run without issue.
Please run a Windows DOS game on Windows 7. If you can't (without video or audio issues, and without using virtual machines), then please lick my butt.
is to avoid a fractious market. This lets developers focus more on the actual game, and less on supporting all the different hardware/OS combinations. This also lets consumers spend more time playing games, and less time diagnosing problems.
For example, I got a new computer back in the summer, and found that it played a couple games incredibly slowly for no good reason (Warhammer Spacemarine and the new XCOM). The games ran fine on friends' computers, but chugged on mine even at minimum settings. I eventually found out that this was an issue with certain versions of certain motherboards and that the solution was to update my BIOS. I'd never done this, and had read stories of people bricking their computers as a result of BIOS flashing gone wrong, so I was understandably nervous about just trying a bunch of solutions. After further research, I found the BIOS upgrade I needed, and proceeded to try installing it. Woe unto me, the BIOS installer couldn't read my flashdrive, and the only clue as to why was some mention on some old forum of thumbdrives larger than 512 mb not working. Fortunately, our IT guy at work had an old 256 mb drive buried somewhere and let me borrow it. I copied the files over, booted into the BIOS flasher, and everything went smoothly. When the computer finished restarting, I was very pleased to find both games now running at perfectly playable framerates.
On my Xbox, I put the disc in and the damn thing just works. Will that still be the case if we have umpteen different consoles?
"Stanford Team Developing Spiked Robots To Explore Robots"
My initial reaction was "Poor robots :("