TO CLARIFY......if you live IN CHINA and bad-mouth the Chinese Premier or the government, they can end you on a whim if they so choose or do the things I previously mentioned..... eye roll....
I, for one, appreciate that it takes money to protect my freedom from terrorists. I have nothing to hide
I might even use so-called "free" software one day if it would stop circumventing the efforts of those trying to protect us. In the meantime I'll stick with Microsoft and Apple.
If I have to choose I would prefer China spying on me than the US. China doesn't care wether I download movies and music, or if I want to smoke something else than tobacco. The US can have me extradicted and put me in jail for made up charges, China much, much less likely.
No, they may not care about you downloading movies or music, but bad-mouth the Chinese Premier or say something bad about the Chinese government and they can kick in your door at any time and make you disappear when they feel like it.
Really? Can you tell me where they pushed out the unofficial patch packs and so on. Well we already know they didn't, because there's no way to mod on consoles or fix problems like that. Then again, I suppose if you want to use a console and get taken to the cleaners it's all up to you. But let me point out that a $450 PC built today will crush both consoles in terms of graphics alone, and let you mod, play MP games, and not charge you for it.
(j) Whoever, not being a law enforcement officer, and notwithstanding any license obtained by him under the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty, carries on his person a firearm as hereinafter defined, loaded or unloaded or other dangerous weapon in any building or on the grounds of any elementary or secondary school, college or university without the written authorization of the board or officer in charge of such elementary or secondary school, college or university shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. For the purpose of this paragraph, “firearm” shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged by whatever means.
Any officer in charge of an elementary or secondary school, college or university or any faculty member or administrative officer of an elementary or secondary school, college or university failing to report violations of this paragraph shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
So, if you DON'T report it you can be fined and prosecuted at least for a misdemeanor according to the last paragraph. So the principal is screwed both ways and cannot use common sense like the rest of us would...
In other words, within a year or two we will be rolling out ads that you will be forced to watch before you can view the programming you pay a subscription fee for.
Then Netflix would just be Hulu. I don't mind show teasers since that lets me know what is upcoming, but once third party ads start, I'm outta there.
that in a divine justice way, the researchers who develop these things are close by when Skynet turns these robots into killing machines.
Naw...the next step is to make the robot bi-pedal with a shiny chrome plated metal endoskeleton, able to run and jump and carry a large mini-gun at the same time. THEN Skynet will do its dirty work!
I wonder how far technology would have to advance and how long it might be before people actually choose to have a limb or limbs removed specifically so that they can be replaced with something more powerful or capable? 20 years? 100 years? Or would natural human aversion to losing body parts prevent this?
For folks with muscular degenerative diseases, I would think it would be a Godsend. If my limbs were wasting away due to some ailment, hell yea I would have them swapped out.
Now if they could get ocular implants perfected (like Geordi LaForge in Star Trek - Nemesis), I would swap out my lazy eye in a heartbeat so I could have 20/20 vision (or close) in both eyes!
Here in the USA Dental health is looked at as a luxury. Dentists fight like hell to keep costs high and insurance crappy.
It's a crime that most americans have almost no dental care they can afford. Yes most. you have to count the 90% that make less than $65,000 a year.
No kidding.....I owe over $1400 to my dentist AFTER insurance paid last year due to several crowns and root canals I had to have done. Luckily he is very good at working with you and setting up payment plans that you can easily deal with. But I would rather not have that debt hanging over my head if dental insurance was a little better.
In Corporate America IT: You build a an image with complete OS and App stack, test, verify, and deploy to workstations. If that's too much trouble, then just roll out a Terminal Server with thin-clients. The idea is to either mitigate risks, reduce redundancy in the process, or a combination of all the above.
IT is a cost center; it's an occupation not loved, but deemed a "necessary evil".
Snarky slogan time: Get over IT!!!
Thin clients and Citrix. Problem solved. That is how we do it here.
Another issue to watch for is air conditioning, especially if the LAN is in a smaller room. You basically have a small data center running and all those machines generate a lot of heat.
A bunch here locally ran a small LAN party (40-50 players) in one of our large conference rooms at my place of work in the dead of winter. They had to throw open the external doors and deploy fans until facilities management could turn on the A/C for that room (and it was a cold-ass day that day). It was roasting in that room until it cooled down.
I watch League of Legends professional play fairly regularly.
I'm personally Platinum-ranked in League of Legends myself. This means I'm (barely) in the top 10% of LoL players.
The pros know SO MUCH more than I do, the way they develop and execute strategies, the little tricks they use to get the most out of their champions, it's all on a whole other level from what I know/do. So I watch them to learn from them. For those who play League, I mean things like using flash during Gragas bodyslam or Vi vaultbreaker to instant-hit the spell before your enemy can dodge, stuff like that. Before I watched LCS I didn't know you could flash mid-spell without interrupting the spell. I became a better player because I adapted what I watched into my own repertoire.
I don't honestly care very much who wins, although some teams are known for more innovation than others, so I tend to root for them >_>
We have a 5v5 LoL tournament coming up in my town next month and am looking forward to checking it out. Not gonna play, tho. Haven't even tried to play LoL. Now if it had RPGs and mini-guns, I might give it a shot.;)
I'm 38 years old. I've been gaming since as long as I can remember. From arcade games, home computers, consoles, and handhelds. I'm still a gamer today. But I can't imagine anything as boring as watching other people play a videogame. I'd rather watch golf and I don't even play.
About 10 years ahead of you in age, but still enjoy gaming. Just built a real nice rig to play BF4 and other FPS games and am currently playing more games than ever since.
I still enjoy watching other folks play, especially the FPS genre. Follow a few gamers on Twitch and watch some of the matches via Twitch's main page occasionally. Granted there are some games like LoL and the *craft ilk that I don't understand, but still fun to watch those players do things that I don't have to eyesight nor the reflexes to ever replicate.
No.....golf IMO is WAAAAYYYYY more boring to watch...rather watch da game strams.....
I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of insiders rigging lotteries.
I should think knowing all of those zillions of dollars are just sitting there would cause more people to decide to see if they could get away with it.
I had always thought, like so many lotteries for random things, that those associated with the company, even by merely being a family member of someone that is employed by them, makes it so that they can not participate in the drawings. It is so common place of a rule, I thought it was required by federal law. I suppose it isn't.
Well, if they can't catch him, good on him. I'm certain they will add the law / rule during this trial.
According to the article, that rule was in place for this lottery. Video cameras caught him buying the ticket, but the drone behind the counter probably didn't know him from Adam...
with 1MW power, the 50KWh battery would be dead in 3 minutes at full throttle.. jeez.
Roughly equivalent to a gasoline car with a 2-gallon tank... lol. (1 gal=33KWh)
Um...the car won't be going full woody all the way up the mountain. Due to the large amount of torque that the motors will likely be putting out, the driver will probably be feathering the throttle pretty lightly.....so it won't use that much power all at once...
I think they would be great for long trips. You could just kick back and read a book, sleep, plunk around on Twitter or other favorite social site with your phone. Just have the car wake you when you get there.
The problem is, something like this will never happen. The ISPs will stomp their feet, throw a tantrum and lawyer up.
Only when folks are standing at the doors with pitchforks and torches will they change...
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TO CLARIFY. .....if you live IN CHINA and bad-mouth the Chinese Premier or the government, they can end you on a whim if they so choose or do the things I previously mentioned..... eye roll....
That's what I freakin' meant, but Overshoot didn't pick up on that...
I, for one, appreciate that it takes money to protect my freedom from terrorists. I have nothing to hide
I might even use so-called "free" software one day if it would stop circumventing the efforts of those trying to protect us. In the meantime I'll stick with Microsoft and Apple.
Says the person posting as A C.
If I have to choose I would prefer China spying on me than the US. China doesn't care wether I download movies and music, or if I want to smoke something else than tobacco. The US can have me extradicted and put me in jail for made up charges, China much, much less likely.
No, they may not care about you downloading movies or music, but bad-mouth the Chinese Premier or say something bad about the Chinese government and they can kick in your door at any time and make you disappear when they feel like it.
Looking at all those sites reminds me of the 90's all over again. Silly sounding site names with silly business models IMO .....
Really? Can you tell me where they pushed out the unofficial patch packs and so on. Well we already know they didn't, because there's no way to mod on consoles or fix problems like that. Then again, I suppose if you want to use a console and get taken to the cleaners it's all up to you. But let me point out that a $450 PC built today will crush both consoles in terms of graphics alone, and let you mod, play MP games, and not charge you for it.
Hey! You're that guy from the internet! http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-...
Would you be able to be sure the black gun shaped thing was a toy from that distance?
Guns. Aren't. Fucking. Illegal.
So tired of light-loafered nanny-statists piddling themselves at the mere sight of a firearm. Go live in North Korea.
Apparently THEY ARE ILLEGAL at a Massachusetts school!! Source >> https://malegislature.gov/laws...
(j) Whoever, not being a law enforcement officer, and notwithstanding any license obtained by him under the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty, carries on his person a firearm as hereinafter defined, loaded or unloaded or other dangerous weapon in any building or on the grounds of any elementary or secondary school, college or university without the written authorization of the board or officer in charge of such elementary or secondary school, college or university shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. For the purpose of this paragraph, “firearm” shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged by whatever means.
Any officer in charge of an elementary or secondary school, college or university or any faculty member or administrative officer of an elementary or secondary school, college or university failing to report violations of this paragraph shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
So, if you DON'T report it you can be fined and prosecuted at least for a misdemeanor according to the last paragraph. So the principal is screwed both ways and cannot use common sense like the rest of us would...
In other words, within a year or two we will be rolling out ads that you will be forced to watch before you can view the programming you pay a subscription fee for.
Then Netflix would just be Hulu. I don't mind show teasers since that lets me know what is upcoming, but once third party ads start, I'm outta there.
that in a divine justice way, the researchers who develop these things are close by when Skynet turns these robots into killing machines.
Naw...the next step is to make the robot bi-pedal with a shiny chrome plated metal endoskeleton, able to run and jump and carry a large mini-gun at the same time. THEN Skynet will do its dirty work!
Is the simple math too hard for you? Perhaps you could ask a third grader to do it for you.
Man, the dickheads are everywhere today!
I wonder how far technology would have to advance and how long it might be before people actually choose to have a limb or limbs removed specifically so that they can be replaced with something more powerful or capable? 20 years? 100 years? Or would natural human aversion to losing body parts prevent this?
For folks with muscular degenerative diseases, I would think it would be a Godsend. If my limbs were wasting away due to some ailment, hell yea I would have them swapped out. Now if they could get ocular implants perfected (like Geordi LaForge in Star Trek - Nemesis), I would swap out my lazy eye in a heartbeat so I could have 20/20 vision (or close) in both eyes!
Folks, someone mod the OP as troll and lets move on....
Here in the USA Dental health is looked at as a luxury. Dentists fight like hell to keep costs high and insurance crappy.
It's a crime that most americans have almost no dental care they can afford. Yes most. you have to count the 90% that make less than $65,000 a year.
No kidding.....I owe over $1400 to my dentist AFTER insurance paid last year due to several crowns and root canals I had to have done. Luckily he is very good at working with you and setting up payment plans that you can easily deal with. But I would rather not have that debt hanging over my head if dental insurance was a little better.
Enron and the California deregulation debacle (rolling blackouts anyone?) 'Nuff said concerning deregulation...
In Corporate America IT: You build a an image with complete OS and App stack, test, verify, and deploy to workstations. If that's too much trouble, then just roll out a Terminal Server with thin-clients. The idea is to either mitigate risks, reduce redundancy in the process, or a combination of all the above.
IT is a cost center; it's an occupation not loved, but deemed a "necessary evil".
Snarky slogan time: Get over IT!!!
Thin clients and Citrix. Problem solved. That is how we do it here.
Another issue to watch for is air conditioning, especially if the LAN is in a smaller room. You basically have a small data center running and all those machines generate a lot of heat. A bunch here locally ran a small LAN party (40-50 players) in one of our large conference rooms at my place of work in the dead of winter. They had to throw open the external doors and deploy fans until facilities management could turn on the A/C for that room (and it was a cold-ass day that day). It was roasting in that room until it cooled down.
Strong this.
I watch League of Legends professional play fairly regularly.
I'm personally Platinum-ranked in League of Legends myself. This means I'm (barely) in the top 10% of LoL players.
The pros know SO MUCH more than I do, the way they develop and execute strategies, the little tricks they use to get the most out of their champions, it's all on a whole other level from what I know/do. So I watch them to learn from them. For those who play League, I mean things like using flash during Gragas bodyslam or Vi vaultbreaker to instant-hit the spell before your enemy can dodge, stuff like that. Before I watched LCS I didn't know you could flash mid-spell without interrupting the spell. I became a better player because I adapted what I watched into my own repertoire.
I don't honestly care very much who wins, although some teams are known for more innovation than others, so I tend to root for them >_>
We have a 5v5 LoL tournament coming up in my town next month and am looking forward to checking it out. Not gonna play, tho. Haven't even tried to play LoL. Now if it had RPGs and mini-guns, I might give it a shot. ;)
I'm 38 years old. I've been gaming since as long as I can remember. From arcade games, home computers, consoles, and handhelds. I'm still a gamer today. But I can't imagine anything as boring as watching other people play a videogame. I'd rather watch golf and I don't even play.
About 10 years ahead of you in age, but still enjoy gaming. Just built a real nice rig to play BF4 and other FPS games and am currently playing more games than ever since. I still enjoy watching other folks play, especially the FPS genre. Follow a few gamers on Twitch and watch some of the matches via Twitch's main page occasionally. Granted there are some games like LoL and the *craft ilk that I don't understand, but still fun to watch those players do things that I don't have to eyesight nor the reflexes to ever replicate. No.....golf IMO is WAAAAYYYYY more boring to watch...rather watch da game strams.....
Bill Paxton was amazing in Independence Day!
Will Smith was in Independence Day, not Bill Paxton...
I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of insiders rigging lotteries.
I should think knowing all of those zillions of dollars are just sitting there would cause more people to decide to see if they could get away with it.
I had always thought, like so many lotteries for random things, that those associated with the company, even by merely being a family member of someone that is employed by them, makes it so that they can not participate in the drawings. It is so common place of a rule, I thought it was required by federal law. I suppose it isn't.
Well, if they can't catch him, good on him. I'm certain they will add the law / rule during this trial.
According to the article, that rule was in place for this lottery. Video cameras caught him buying the ticket, but the drone behind the counter probably didn't know him from Adam...
3 minutes of glorious acceleration... and then?
Battery is dead...
Yea....in a straight line with no turns........but not the case here......
with 1MW power, the 50KWh battery would be dead in 3 minutes at full throttle.. jeez. Roughly equivalent to a gasoline car with a 2-gallon tank... lol. (1 gal=33KWh)
Um...the car won't be going full woody all the way up the mountain. Due to the large amount of torque that the motors will likely be putting out, the driver will probably be feathering the throttle pretty lightly.....so it won't use that much power all at once...
I think they would be great for long trips. You could just kick back and read a book, sleep, plunk around on Twitter or other favorite social site with your phone. Just have the car wake you when you get there.
The problem is, something like this will never happen. The ISPs will stomp their feet, throw a tantrum and lawyer up. Only when folks are standing at the doors with pitchforks and torches will they change...
I knew of Om Malik due to him dropping in on Twit.TV once in awhile to chat with Leo Laporte on This Week In Tech, but never followed his site.