So the Chicago school districts which are grossly underfunded piles of crap are going to magically extract the funding for a comp sci program from a laughing pony's asshole? All so they can fall into debt trap anyway because they can't afford college, and a company isn't going to hire a high school graduate whose only coding experience is babies first intro to Python? 100% bullshit.
The most famous example is Valve corporation. They released their employee handbook a couple years back detailing what they had done to achieve their organization state. The one that stuck out the most to me was that Gabe Newell stated that bossless had to be bossless which had to include the CEO. Its seems like the CEO didn't quite get that memo as he made sure to keep himself presiding over bonuses and raises in the company as others in the comments have pointed out.
Even this implementation was not immune to criticism as reports have been made by former employees that its very hard to get anything done because there is no one to set hard goals and priorities. If you want to get a project going then you have to convince your coworkers to join in. This apparently lead to an interoffice popularity contest with cliques forming around certain individuals, and the rest of the people being left out to dry because they didn't have the same social clout.
Here is an interview with a former Valve employee at the escapist:
It's good to know that NCAA is currently uninterested, but the only real reason that one sport or event receives more money at an undergraduate level is popularity, and by extension profitability. Football gets the largest amount of money in the budget because they can make the most money for the school. If video games takes off in popularity at the college level the way it has taken off at the pro level then I think it would be a matter of time before the school started to capitalize on that. As for the diversity issues they might as well not exist. As you said gaming is male dominated, but so is football, and at least in the case of football no one will do anything because there is too much money in it. Assuming (and I realize that my arguments rest on this assumption) that gaming can be as successful at the college scene as in the professional scene, the money will quash any significant action.
In addition its not like it would take much money to start the club. Five moderate gaming rigs and 5 people plus a team manager/club director will probably run the school less than most other small club teams when all is said and done. That's assuming that the club members aren't providing their own machines which is highly likely at the outset.
Yea, I understand that part, but unlike other sports clubs competitive gaming has been shown to be highly profitable which I feel makes it a matter of time before it gets upgraded. Most sports clubs are only clubs because they are unable to attract a sufficient audience for lucrative TV deals.
More like the colleges are realizing that there is another bumper crop of highly marketable kids that they can exploit for multi-million dollar TV and streaming deals where they don't have to pay the players anything at all. I am waiting for the NCAA's drool to start accumulating over another pool of exploitable labor.
Otherwise this is pretty good for eSports. This can serve as a recruitment ground for skilled players as skills rarely port well from the general ladder to competitive team play. Also, as League of Legends is legally recognized as a sport in the US this might allow people to apply for visas and scholarships.
And for the people who will inevitably flood this comments section with nonsense about how eSports isn't a real sport please just stop. No one cares if they are real sports by a definition that is arbitrary to begin with, and they certainly don't want to hear your opinion about it in your relentless pursuit of overdefinition.
Had a friend that did this. Created a virtual hard disk in RAM and used it to play his games. The 64 gigs of ram where wholly unnecessary, but damn... those frame rates...
The faces on the standard ASCII table serve a very important purpose: to let you know that your C/C++ code is outputting garbage, and you need to check your pointers.
This seems like the best solution for online multiplayer. As a long time player of Dark Souls the limiting of communications to a series of gestures and emotes is probably what created the startlingly elaborate social norms and etiquette around pvp combat. (don't use healing items, if you bow it's 1v1, and the one who interferes in a honor duel gets ganked). For such an inherently frustrating game to have any semblance of etiquette at all is probably an achievement of the communication methods.
Speaking as someone who lived in Texas for 5 years. I saw more Teslas there than anywhere else I have traveled. Not being able to sell them in the state has done nothing to stop people from getting them. Every single grocery store has electric chargers out in front, as well as every apartment complex. Just on one street I could have had access to over 15 chargers. Electric cars were very popular in Dallas.
Yes actively filtering information to determine what is true and what is not is a valuable skill on the internet and one that I use regularly, but that is only useful when you are trying to evaluate opinions on complex issues.
I will gladly sift through competing opinions to formulate my own opinion, but what I will not do is sift through bald faced lies to determine what is true and what is not just to get to the point of being able to form my own opinion. That is a waste of my time.
"In a move that has inspired "dread" among the publication's journalists, as well as long time readers, Rupert Murdoch has just bought a controlling interest in all of National Geographic's media properties."
Read this portion and knew that I had read all I needed to. A shame as I have subscribed to the magazine for quite some time.
Came here to say this. Add to that local universities and large companies. Both will probably give you relative discounts if you direct business towards them and in many cases they are going to throw away the old machines anyway. My old university had a lot of money, but also had closets full of old Pentium and core 2 duo machines that they had no idea how to get rid of. Craigslist is also your friend.
Used computers are probably the best way to go if you are looking for a machine for sub $50, and I doubt you will be able to go down to 20 unless you or the kids are willing to go dumpster diving for parts or are really lucky.
The other alternative is to do what I did growing up without a computer with typed document requirements. Get to school before class and stay after to type up the documents at the library computers. Just a simple thumb drive allowed me to save all of my documents. I never even owned my own computer until High School (in the late 2000's). If I didn't have time in school I would draft the documents by hand and just transcribe them in the mornings.
Hence, why the big three play such an important roll in protecting privacy. Yes, the NSA can circumvent just about any safeguard, beyond encrypting the entire hard drive before unplugging the machine and destroying the keys, but that is only the case for one person.
Why are they in such a tizzy about google and apple's default encryption? Because when everyone is encrypted it means no more free lunch. They will have to dedicate resources at the individual level, and that will obscure the normal persons data. In order for them to justify the time an expense of cracking encryption they will need prior evidence that indicates the time and expense will be worth the effort which brings us closer to where we should be in law enforcement. It will mean greater attention to physical evidence.
The error messages that you send to Microsoft contain a full memory image at the time of the crash, which includes all encryption keys that have not been explicitly zeroed out, and a full image of every other program you have running.
The point is that the relationship between sleep and the strength of the immune system has been well know and tested for years so it's obvious that if you have a stronger immune system that you would be more resilient to getting a cold.
Even if they spot the drone what can they do about it? It's not like they can randomly fire bird shot at it, and they don't have any sort of practical anti air system for such a small flying device. The laser system is meant to fill that gap.
My guess is that this will be marketed towards governments to protect capital buildings from drone attacks. Just recently in Japan someone managed to fly a drone with radioactive and onto the roof of the parliament building and left it there for a week before anyone found it. There have also been other such incidents involving drones, and the white house, to which the secret service have admitted they have no way to stop. These will be far out of reach of you average Joe.
If you had read the article you would know that Texas doesn't subsidize solar. The made a vast improvement to their power grid that would allow private businesses to do what they will with it. In fact you will probably find that this measure is quite popular in Texas as they are quite proud that their state has its own energy grid. The key difference here is that Texas owns its own power lines, and any investment in their lines directly benefits everyone.
Energy as a whole is very well done in Texas. When I lived their for 5 years I had a choice between at least 5 power companies at any address I chose, and I could select the source of my power, be it hydro, wind or solar. Renewables isn't some crazy conspiracy to the people there. Just another option.
Exactly. Also in a system like the one in the United States the ones at higher monetary risk for the insurance companies are the poor. They can't afford to go to doctor as frequently, they work in more physically oriented jobs exposing them to greater risk for injury, and they have less collateral in case of default. All this means that if you are poor you will be called upon to pay higher premiums to insurance companies than a rich person, and these are the people who can least afford it.
In essence, healthcare in the United States is a system of the poor subsidizing the rich through higher premiums. The logical solution to this is to shift the costs to taxation. It has the benefit of ensuring that more poor people get the medical attention they need instead of waiting to get a checkup on that heart pain they've been having.
This kind of preventative care reduces the cost of health care to everyone, while at the same time freeing up much needed capital for poorer families to invest and better their situation. For instance they can make sure that their car doesn't break down thus costing them their job.
Does this mean that rich people will have to drop more into the pot? Sure, but these are services that required for a healthy population, and I would much rather have the rich subsidizing the poor than the other way around.
So I guess if you want to sell a medicine that you will be able to until the FDA or the Feds punish you? Of course not there are approval processes which mean that dangerous products are weeded out before they are sold.
Are people being shadow banned for being involved in unpopular sub-reddits?
I don't know, but there was period where offensive sub-reddits were locked and required an email address and consent to view. During an interview with the CEO one user asked whether this was a tactic to identify any people who were involved with the sub-reddits. While it remains unsubstantiated it raises an interesting question. I am sure that Reddit logged the email addresses, and we will know within the next couple of weeks whether this was a plan to out visitors for shadowbans or overt bans.
Honestly I struggle to think of a small business where losing one employee would be disastrous outside of a small startup, but that dives into the realm of whether women should be expected to set aside their family life for their career. Either way, it is probably poor planning if maternity leave isn't something that your business can handle outside of the lead-up and launch periods.
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So the Chicago school districts which are grossly underfunded piles of crap are going to magically extract the funding for a comp sci program from a laughing pony's asshole? All so they can fall into debt trap anyway because they can't afford college, and a company isn't going to hire a high school graduate whose only coding experience is babies first intro to Python? 100% bullshit.
The most famous example is Valve corporation. They released their employee handbook a couple years back detailing what they had done to achieve their organization state. The one that stuck out the most to me was that Gabe Newell stated that bossless had to be bossless which had to include the CEO. Its seems like the CEO didn't quite get that memo as he made sure to keep himself presiding over bonuses and raises in the company as others in the comments have pointed out.
Even this implementation was not immune to criticism as reports have been made by former employees that its very hard to get anything done because there is no one to set hard goals and priorities. If you want to get a project going then you have to convince your coworkers to join in. This apparently lead to an interoffice popularity contest with cliques forming around certain individuals, and the rest of the people being left out to dry because they didn't have the same social clout.
Here is an interview with a former Valve employee at the escapist:
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...
It seems like the general culture is positive, but only due to a lot of conscious effort on the part of the people.
It's good to know that NCAA is currently uninterested, but the only real reason that one sport or event receives more money at an undergraduate level is popularity, and by extension profitability. Football gets the largest amount of money in the budget because they can make the most money for the school. If video games takes off in popularity at the college level the way it has taken off at the pro level then I think it would be a matter of time before the school started to capitalize on that. As for the diversity issues they might as well not exist. As you said gaming is male dominated, but so is football, and at least in the case of football no one will do anything because there is too much money in it. Assuming (and I realize that my arguments rest on this assumption) that gaming can be as successful at the college scene as in the professional scene, the money will quash any significant action.
In addition its not like it would take much money to start the club. Five moderate gaming rigs and 5 people plus a team manager/club director will probably run the school less than most other small club teams when all is said and done. That's assuming that the club members aren't providing their own machines which is highly likely at the outset.
Yea, I understand that part, but unlike other sports clubs competitive gaming has been shown to be highly profitable which I feel makes it a matter of time before it gets upgraded. Most sports clubs are only clubs because they are unable to attract a sufficient audience for lucrative TV deals.
More like the colleges are realizing that there is another bumper crop of highly marketable kids that they can exploit for multi-million dollar TV and streaming deals where they don't have to pay the players anything at all. I am waiting for the NCAA's drool to start accumulating over another pool of exploitable labor.
Otherwise this is pretty good for eSports. This can serve as a recruitment ground for skilled players as skills rarely port well from the general ladder to competitive team play. Also, as League of Legends is legally recognized as a sport in the US this might allow people to apply for visas and scholarships.
And for the people who will inevitably flood this comments section with nonsense about how eSports isn't a real sport please just stop. No one cares if they are real sports by a definition that is arbitrary to begin with, and they certainly don't want to hear your opinion about it in your relentless pursuit of overdefinition.
Had a friend that did this. Created a virtual hard disk in RAM and used it to play his games. The 64 gigs of ram where wholly unnecessary, but damn... those frame rates...
I can imagine whoever wrote this article sitting in a large leather office chair, holding a white cat while saying "one BILLION clicks!"
The faces on the standard ASCII table serve a very important purpose: to let you know that your C/C++ code is outputting garbage, and you need to check your pointers.
This seems like the best solution for online multiplayer. As a long time player of Dark Souls the limiting of communications to a series of gestures and emotes is probably what created the startlingly elaborate social norms and etiquette around pvp combat. (don't use healing items, if you bow it's 1v1, and the one who interferes in a honor duel gets ganked). For such an inherently frustrating game to have any semblance of etiquette at all is probably an achievement of the communication methods.
Speaking as someone who lived in Texas for 5 years. I saw more Teslas there than anywhere else I have traveled. Not being able to sell them in the state has done nothing to stop people from getting them. Every single grocery store has electric chargers out in front, as well as every apartment complex. Just on one street I could have had access to over 15 chargers. Electric cars were very popular in Dallas.
Yes actively filtering information to determine what is true and what is not is a valuable skill on the internet and one that I use regularly, but that is only useful when you are trying to evaluate opinions on complex issues.
I will gladly sift through competing opinions to formulate my own opinion, but what I will not do is sift through bald faced lies to determine what is true and what is not just to get to the point of being able to form my own opinion. That is a waste of my time.
"In a move that has inspired "dread" among the publication's journalists, as well as long time readers, Rupert Murdoch has just bought a controlling interest in all of National Geographic's media properties."
Read this portion and knew that I had read all I needed to. A shame as I have subscribed to the magazine for quite some time.
Came here to say this. Add to that local universities and large companies. Both will probably give you relative discounts if you direct business towards them and in many cases they are going to throw away the old machines anyway. My old university had a lot of money, but also had closets full of old Pentium and core 2 duo machines that they had no idea how to get rid of. Craigslist is also your friend.
Used computers are probably the best way to go if you are looking for a machine for sub $50, and I doubt you will be able to go down to 20 unless you or the kids are willing to go dumpster diving for parts or are really lucky.
The other alternative is to do what I did growing up without a computer with typed document requirements. Get to school before class and stay after to type up the documents at the library computers. Just a simple thumb drive allowed me to save all of my documents. I never even owned my own computer until High School (in the late 2000's). If I didn't have time in school I would draft the documents by hand and just transcribe them in the mornings.
Hence, why the big three play such an important roll in protecting privacy. Yes, the NSA can circumvent just about any safeguard, beyond encrypting the entire hard drive before unplugging the machine and destroying the keys, but that is only the case for one person.
Why are they in such a tizzy about google and apple's default encryption? Because when everyone is encrypted it means no more free lunch. They will have to dedicate resources at the individual level, and that will obscure the normal persons data. In order for them to justify the time an expense of cracking encryption they will need prior evidence that indicates the time and expense will be worth the effort which brings us closer to where we should be in law enforcement. It will mean greater attention to physical evidence.
This is just marketing bullshit, but I do think it's funny that an article about google's new font uses an image tag that has the old font.
The error messages that you send to Microsoft contain a full memory image at the time of the crash, which includes all encryption keys that have not been explicitly zeroed out, and a full image of every other program you have running.
The point is that the relationship between sleep and the strength of the immune system has been well know and tested for years so it's obvious that if you have a stronger immune system that you would be more resilient to getting a cold.
Even if they spot the drone what can they do about it? It's not like they can randomly fire bird shot at it, and they don't have any sort of practical anti air system for such a small flying device. The laser system is meant to fill that gap.
My guess is that this will be marketed towards governments to protect capital buildings from drone attacks. Just recently in Japan someone managed to fly a drone with radioactive and onto the roof of the parliament building and left it there for a week before anyone found it. There have also been other such incidents involving drones, and the white house, to which the secret service have admitted they have no way to stop. These will be far out of reach of you average Joe.
If you had read the article you would know that Texas doesn't subsidize solar. The made a vast improvement to their power grid that would allow private businesses to do what they will with it. In fact you will probably find that this measure is quite popular in Texas as they are quite proud that their state has its own energy grid. The key difference here is that Texas owns its own power lines, and any investment in their lines directly benefits everyone.
Energy as a whole is very well done in Texas. When I lived their for 5 years I had a choice between at least 5 power companies at any address I chose, and I could select the source of my power, be it hydro, wind or solar. Renewables isn't some crazy conspiracy to the people there. Just another option.
Exactly. Also in a system like the one in the United States the ones at higher monetary risk for the insurance companies are the poor. They can't afford to go to doctor as frequently, they work in more physically oriented jobs exposing them to greater risk for injury, and they have less collateral in case of default. All this means that if you are poor you will be called upon to pay higher premiums to insurance companies than a rich person, and these are the people who can least afford it.
In essence, healthcare in the United States is a system of the poor subsidizing the rich through higher premiums. The logical solution to this is to shift the costs to taxation. It has the benefit of ensuring that more poor people get the medical attention they need instead of waiting to get a checkup on that heart pain they've been having.
This kind of preventative care reduces the cost of health care to everyone, while at the same time freeing up much needed capital for poorer families to invest and better their situation. For instance they can make sure that their car doesn't break down thus costing them their job.
Does this mean that rich people will have to drop more into the pot? Sure, but these are services that required for a healthy population, and I would much rather have the rich subsidizing the poor than the other way around.
So I guess if you want to sell a medicine that you will be able to until the FDA or the Feds punish you? Of course not there are approval processes which mean that dangerous products are weeded out before they are sold.
Just think how much tin foil you could buy for that money. You could have a different hat for each day of the year.
Are people being shadow banned for being involved in unpopular sub-reddits?
I don't know, but there was period where offensive sub-reddits were locked and required an email address and consent to view. During an interview with the CEO one user asked whether this was a tactic to identify any people who were involved with the sub-reddits. While it remains unsubstantiated it raises an interesting question. I am sure that Reddit logged the email addresses, and we will know within the next couple of weeks whether this was a plan to out visitors for shadowbans or overt bans.
Honestly I struggle to think of a small business where losing one employee would be disastrous outside of a small startup, but that dives into the realm of whether women should be expected to set aside their family life for their career. Either way, it is probably poor planning if maternity leave isn't something that your business can handle outside of the lead-up and launch periods.