Despite connection problems plaguing the opening days after launch, city-building simulation SimCity has sold more than 1.1 million copies, publisher Electronic Arts announced. -- USA Today, March 18.
Amazon lists it for $60 and has a release date of March 4. So it grossed $66 million in two weeks.
I doubt the SimCity launch was the reason for this guy leaving.
For the unenlightened, the NVD is where the official NIST computer configuration baselines and DISA STIGs are hosted. For example, the USGCB (formerly FDCC) is also down.
To put it in perspective, this is the 13th time North Korea has cut the phone line with the South and "broken" the Armistice Agreement since this crap all started.
Considering how fast the various web browsers fall, it *is* impressive. Chrome OS machines are wonderful for giving to clueless relatives who just browse the web.
He had a lot of people thinking about it, until he offered up dropping a Hellfire on Jane Fonda. Now they're all thinking "Let's not be hasty here. This is the perfect test case."
TFA itself contains many useful links, including a link to Thingverse, which in turn has a link to the BOM and everything else needed in the way of documentation.
This gadget will essentially take the control of the supply of the refined product (filament) out of the hands of the middlemen. It allows the end-users to refine the raw material themselves.
Can anyone tell me how well ABS recycles? I'm thinking about something like this extruder, but instead of using bulk pellets, dicing up old projects and tossing them in the hopper. Recycle the plastic to make new stuff.
I considered it, as it would be the most "logical" use. However, the actual USE of nuclear weapons, regardless of how, would simply be the trigger. Everyone would be using it as an example of "if they'll do that, who knows what they'll bomb next! Probably ! Stop them now at all costs!"
Also, just about every Gulf Arab state would be screaming to eradicate Iran out of fear.
Crossing the line is all it would really take to initiate a completely eviscerating response. It won't matter whether it is a toe across the line or a full on blitz.
I understand North Korea is within spitting distance of not only South Korea, but Japan as well. But we aren't talking about them. Iran is different from North Korea. The only U.S. ally in that area is Israel -- who is pushing harder for U.S. action than anyone.
Exactly how do you think having a couple of nuclear weapons would deter the U.S. from invading? Keep in mind you're talking about decision makers in the U.S. who were calculating the odds regarding facing a Soviet threat of several THOUSAND nukes capable of reaching anywhere in the U.S.
Say the U.S. does invade. What is the scenario? Iran uses the nukes on their own soil as defense? Good luck with that. They use them on Israel just because they're fuckwits? Quite possible, but would lead to the same result as using them on the U.S. proper. (See below.)
Option 3, use them on a U.S. city. And then what? The U.S. citizenry goes "OMG! We didn't expect that! Pull out now!" Or, more likely, they demand that the entire country of Iran is turned into a glowing, glass parking lot and rendered uninhabitable for millennia.
M.A.D. is a deterrent. They having a few handful and we having thousands, coupled with ICBMs and submarines, and decades of experience isn't.
Saying govt contacts must go to the lowest bidder is a myth. Every one I have dealt with has been "best value" and we have a certain amount of discretion.
Evaluating bids is a two part process. The technical evaluation and the cost evaluation. The technical eval is more than just "does it meet the minimum specs". I've sat on Technical Evaluation Boards that awarded contracts to huge bidders because the quality was superior. The awards withstood protest.
No. If a competitor is the Occulus Rift at $300 and this Canon unit is $125,000 with a $25,000 annual maintenance charge I think they've blown right past 50% more expensive.
I'd rather get the Occulus with the optional Tesla S Performance and save a few bucks.
Sorry, wrong. I lost my job and house in 2008 and moved my family into my grandmother's basement. 5 people in 250 sq ft subsisting on food stamps, church support and about $500 a month in income from selling stuff off, which went mostly to into train tickets (Chicago 'burbs). Computer time was at the public library and on "client" systems.
It took me 9 months of that before I was back in the game.
Stop answering job ads by filling out forms and sending them to HR drones. Find a way to make direct contact with people who make hiring decisions. Network. Schmooze. Volunteer at charitable events -- especially charity golf events.
When I was out of work I volunteered to update the web presence of an exclusive downtown executive club in a big city. It was a horrid mess of Cold Fusion and Visual Basic -- the old kind, before dot Net. Fixing it wasn't point. Getting free invites to attend functions at the exclusive downtown business club got me to rub elbows with people who made hiring decisions -- and needed competent IT employees.
Getting ahead without a degree can be done. Yes, it is harder, but alternate paths do exist if you try. And then there is the "I have no student loan debt" benefit.
You'll also be surprised how many of the people who own their own successful businesses at those exclusive clubs never finished college.
Not in this case. The agent is the one that filled in the form by copying the invoice data over in the first place. If she had the authority to do that, she has the authority to either correct it or scrap it and do another one.
If he's requesting DHCP, then set up DHCP to give one range and statically assign your stuff in a different range. Then traffic shape the DHCP range down to 300 baud. Fuck 'em.
Better yet, start live injecting Google Ads into his IP stream and collect revenues.
E-mails, Facebook and all that other social media stuff is done thru a web browser. Windows has nothing to do with it, as the familiarity is in the browser and not the OS.
Witness Google's success with Chromebooks. For many people, the browser is the only interface they see.
My wife's laptop is Win7 and my desktop is Kubuntu. She is equally at home with both. The process on both is 100% identical. "Click the Firefox icon. Do whatever else -- Gmail, Hulu Plus, Amazon/Amazon Prime, Ebay, general browsing." Bookmarks are synced, both print to the same printer. The OS is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
You weren't paying attention. He isn't pushing Linux, he's pushing Ubuntu. The entirety of the system here is what he is selling.
The point of the transition is that the tablet physically becomes the desktop when you simply add a keyboard and mouse, probably via Bluetooth. You don't drop your tablet when getting home or to the office, you just dock it. There is just one device. Well, two as you'll also have a phone.
What this seems to hope to achieve is a seamless computing experience with no "put this down, boot the PC, do work, shut PC down, grab tablet and go".
Sort of a "one device to rule them all". After watching the video, I was far more intrigued than I expected to be. I fully expect my reaction to be "what a stupid fucking idea", but instead found myself saying "damn, that actually looks nice. I want one."
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Despite connection problems plaguing the opening days after launch, city-building simulation SimCity has sold more than 1.1 million copies, publisher Electronic Arts announced. -- USA Today, March 18.
Amazon lists it for $60 and has a release date of March 4. So it grossed $66 million in two weeks.
I doubt the SimCity launch was the reason for this guy leaving.
Yes, sorry, I phrased that wrong.
NVD's search will reference the STIGs and then link to the .mil location. For us civilian types the NVD site is the gateway.
For the unenlightened, the NVD is where the official NIST computer configuration baselines and DISA STIGs are hosted. For example, the USGCB (formerly FDCC) is also down.
As Sergeant "Big Toe" Hulka Said, "Lighten up, Francis!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs
Tor Hidden Services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_services
To put it in perspective, this is the 13th time North Korea has cut the phone line with the South and "broken" the Armistice Agreement since this crap all started.
Considering how fast the various web browsers fall, it *is* impressive. Chrome OS machines are wonderful for giving to clueless relatives who just browse the web.
As much as I like bashing the gov't, at 36-40% marginal income tax bracket is a long, long, LONG way from "take all my money".
Get a grip.
He had a lot of people thinking about it, until he offered up dropping a Hellfire on Jane Fonda. Now they're all thinking "Let's not be hasty here. This is the perfect test case."
That wasn't a rip-off of Exodus, it was basically The Book of Mormon. It was a pretty good series.
Hmmm...that last line there sums up the GPL pretty nicely.
You sound like an engineer. :-)
TFA itself contains many useful links, including a link to Thingverse, which in turn has a link to the BOM and everything else needed in the way of documentation.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:34653
Supply and demand, the same with everything else
This gadget will essentially take the control of the supply of the refined product (filament) out of the hands of the middlemen. It allows the end-users to refine the raw material themselves.
Can anyone tell me how well ABS recycles? I'm thinking about something like this extruder, but instead of using bulk pellets, dicing up old projects and tossing them in the hopper. Recycle the plastic to make new stuff.
I considered it, as it would be the most "logical" use. However, the actual USE of nuclear weapons, regardless of how, would simply be the trigger. Everyone would be using it as an example of "if they'll do that, who knows what they'll bomb next! Probably ! Stop them now at all costs!"
Also, just about every Gulf Arab state would be screaming to eradicate Iran out of fear.
Crossing the line is all it would really take to initiate a completely eviscerating response. It won't matter whether it is a toe across the line or a full on blitz.
I understand North Korea is within spitting distance of not only South Korea, but Japan as well. But we aren't talking about them. Iran is different from North Korea. The only U.S. ally in that area is Israel -- who is pushing harder for U.S. action than anyone.
Exactly how do you think having a couple of nuclear weapons would deter the U.S. from invading? Keep in mind you're talking about decision makers in the U.S. who were calculating the odds regarding facing a Soviet threat of several THOUSAND nukes capable of reaching anywhere in the U.S.
Say the U.S. does invade. What is the scenario? Iran uses the nukes on their own soil as defense? Good luck with that. They use them on Israel just because they're fuckwits? Quite possible, but would lead to the same result as using them on the U.S. proper. (See below.)
Option 3, use them on a U.S. city. And then what? The U.S. citizenry goes "OMG! We didn't expect that! Pull out now!" Or, more likely, they demand that the entire country of Iran is turned into a glowing, glass parking lot and rendered uninhabitable for millennia.
M.A.D. is a deterrent. They having a few handful and we having thousands, coupled with ICBMs and submarines, and decades of experience isn't.
Saying govt contacts must go to the lowest bidder is a myth. Every one I have dealt with has been "best value" and we have a certain amount of discretion.
Evaluating bids is a two part process. The technical evaluation and the cost evaluation. The technical eval is more than just "does it meet the minimum specs". I've sat on Technical Evaluation Boards that awarded contracts to huge bidders because the quality was superior. The awards withstood protest.
No. If a competitor is the Occulus Rift at $300 and this Canon unit is $125,000 with a $25,000 annual maintenance charge I think they've blown right past 50% more expensive.
I'd rather get the Occulus with the optional Tesla S Performance and save a few bucks.
Sorry, wrong. I lost my job and house in 2008 and moved my family into my grandmother's basement. 5 people in 250 sq ft subsisting on food stamps, church support and about $500 a month in income from selling stuff off, which went mostly to into train tickets (Chicago 'burbs). Computer time was at the public library and on "client" systems.
It took me 9 months of that before I was back in the game.
Luxury never entered into the equation.
It isn't what you know, it is WHO you know.
Stop answering job ads by filling out forms and sending them to HR drones. Find a way to make direct contact with people who make hiring decisions. Network. Schmooze. Volunteer at charitable events -- especially charity golf events.
When I was out of work I volunteered to update the web presence of an exclusive downtown executive club in a big city. It was a horrid mess of Cold Fusion and Visual Basic -- the old kind, before dot Net. Fixing it wasn't point. Getting free invites to attend functions at the exclusive downtown business club got me to rub elbows with people who made hiring decisions -- and needed competent IT employees.
Getting ahead without a degree can be done. Yes, it is harder, but alternate paths do exist if you try. And then there is the "I have no student loan debt" benefit.
You'll also be surprised how many of the people who own their own successful businesses at those exclusive clubs never finished college.
Not in this case. The agent is the one that filled in the form by copying the invoice data over in the first place. If she had the authority to do that, she has the authority to either correct it or scrap it and do another one.
If he's requesting DHCP, then set up DHCP to give one range and statically assign your stuff in a different range. Then traffic shape the DHCP range down to 300 baud. Fuck 'em.
Better yet, start live injecting Google Ads into his IP stream and collect revenues.
E-mails, Facebook and all that other social media stuff is done thru a web browser. Windows has nothing to do with it, as the familiarity is in the browser and not the OS.
Witness Google's success with Chromebooks. For many people, the browser is the only interface they see.
My wife's laptop is Win7 and my desktop is Kubuntu. She is equally at home with both. The process on both is 100% identical. "Click the Firefox icon. Do whatever else -- Gmail, Hulu Plus, Amazon/Amazon Prime, Ebay, general browsing." Bookmarks are synced, both print to the same printer. The OS is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
You weren't paying attention. He isn't pushing Linux, he's pushing Ubuntu. The entirety of the system here is what he is selling.
The point of the transition is that the tablet physically becomes the desktop when you simply add a keyboard and mouse, probably via Bluetooth. You don't drop your tablet when getting home or to the office, you just dock it. There is just one device. Well, two as you'll also have a phone.
What this seems to hope to achieve is a seamless computing experience with no "put this down, boot the PC, do work, shut PC down, grab tablet and go".
Sort of a "one device to rule them all". After watching the video, I was far more intrigued than I expected to be. I fully expect my reaction to be "what a stupid fucking idea", but instead found myself saying "damn, that actually looks nice. I want one."