But they call it a blog, a term that means one thing - a site for public news and discourse.
Oh, is that the definition. Interesting. And here I was thinking "Blog" was merely a stupid abbreviation of "Web log". It would therefore mean that it is some kind of a web-journal where regular entries are made.
And personally, on my weblog, I'm not going to have any inhibitions about deleting whatever comments I want, for whatever reason I want. It's not a "site for public news and discourse". It's a site where I spew lies, write boring shit, display my incompetence for all to see, and occasionally put something interesting up (Much like Slashdot!) I think HP ought to have the same privilege on their own site.
They probably did the same thing myself, my friend, and most of the open source coders I know did:
Refuse to sign it.
Just politely explain that that particular clause doesn't work for you, as you do a lot of programming at home for projects unrelated to their business and you want to continue to do so as you feel it helps to hone your programming skills. They will likely agree to strike out the clause. Yes, if you're just starting a new job and the job market is bad, it takes some cajones to do this. But realistically the chances are extremely low they'll simply say, "Oh, okay. Goodbye." and, presuming that they do say that, and you respond by offering to sign the damn waiver, the chances are even lower that they would continue to refuse to employ you. And at that point you can be very sure that they were just planning on using you as a carpet anyway, if the fact that you showed a bit of backbone scares them so much. Realistically, all most companies want is an employee who knows their stuff and works hard.
As a bonus, when you do this, you will likely be remembered as someone who stands up for themselves a bit more. As a result, you're more likely to get better raises and bonuses, simply due to the fact that the bosses don't really want to get into arguments or make a big deal about things most of the time (after all, their time is so valuable *cough*) so they'll give you a little more than most of the other people, since they'll think of you as someone who's more likely to argue about it.
"upgrade" to a mac user means "buy a whole new computer"
By and large, yes it does.
But you're not telling the whole story. You left out the part where the mac user sells the old mac on eBay for far less of a discount than you'd need to put on a similarly aged PC. Easily over half the original price, in my experience. Sometimes ends up being as much as 2/3rds the price of a new mac just by selling your old one, depending on how frequently you upgrade.
Well, mostly because things like the sound barrier were not based on any particularly hard science.
Beyond that, also because it is inevitable that as we discover more about the universe we will become gradually more confident that our answers are getting closer and closer to the "truth". Somewhat counterintuitively, each theory we disprove actually means we know a little more about the universe and how it works (or at least, how it does not work), and therefore our current set of theories is that much more trustworthy and correct.
By the way, I do not accept the speed of light being the maximum possible velocity personally. I think that's much to depressing to accept. It basically rules out humanity really ever expanding beyond our little group of local stars, nevermind to the other end of the galaxy, and certainly not other galaxies. And being the great explorers that we are, that would just be sad. I am sure that someday, somehow, it will be broken. Even if it's just faster-than-light communication, a la Ender's Game. (This, at least, is theoretically possible via quantum entanglement... the bits would be in finite supply though.. forget about that interstellar OC-192.)
the current model of time traveled dictated by relativity suggests that one cannot travel backwards in time past the point where the time machine was discovered/invented.
This has absolutely nothing to do with general or special relativity.
It is a theory cooked up by some scientists and propped up with a few bits of logic, to try and explain why no one has ever met a real time traveller if time travel will indeed one day become possible.
It's a counter-argument to the suggestion that because surely in the vastness of time, at least one time traveller from the future would inevitably return to somewhere within our recorded history and make themselves known. But since we have never seen it happen, the argument goes, time travel must not be possible.
It's a crackpot theory pitted against another crackpot theory which refutes another crackpot theory, and so on and so on. Relativity itself suggests that time travel is possible -- but only by impossible means (exceeding the speed of light), so it basically says it's not possible unless another part of the theory is wrong. However, even Einstein thought he would be proven wrong one day, so you never know.
The ethernet port *is* the power input. RJ-45s have 8 connectors. PoE uses some of the spare conductors to provide power, the rest still do data.
ObRTFA:
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) works because when data is sent down network cables it is represented by voltages. PoE uses spare wires in cables that link computers back to network hubs and pump power down these, separate from data traffic.
He claims that 'games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person shooter.' His kids have obviously showed him too much Halo 2, and not enough Half-Life 2.
Yeah, because Half-Life 2, there's a fucking revolutionary game. You get guns, and shoot aliens -- HOLY SHIT. But wait, there's more! You can also pick up boxes and throw them around, just like Deus Ex! REVOLUTIONARY! Important gameplay advances!!!
Nitwit fanboi.
There are a few revolutionary games you could've put in there. Half-Life 2 is not one of them, and it never will be, no matter how much you want it to be. It is yet another cookie cutter FPS. The addition of a grav-gun does not make it revolutionary.
Of course, I will get modded troll for this, because everyone *loves* Half-life 2. But I am tired of simply watching this mediocre game get treated like the second coming of Jesus.
I was gonna be nice, but you started getting personal near the end, so, whatever.
Vulcan cannons are expensive. very expensive. You can build couple of bertha/timmy (intimidator) with the same resources and you can fine tune those better.
Thank you for repeating the part of the parent's post that I was agreeing with.
But this strategy does not work against good players.
I never said it did.
I mean if you are just getting into it or playing with non-hardcore friends, vulcans are the shits and is definitely part of the unreasonable displays of power. But if you are playing the game for real (you are considered good on online communities/rankings) you are either dead before you can finish a vulcan/ the conditions of the game will make vulcan an unworthy investment.
I am not. I am a terrible player. I do not play online because I would get my ass handed to me. I have no illusions about this. Furthermore, I have zero desire to ever even *become* a 'good' player. I think it would suck all the fun out of the game for me. I *like* being a Porc. I quite enjoy fighting the AI and my non-hardcore friends, thankyouverymuch. This is the assumption the entire rest of your post is based on, and without this foundation the rest of it falls flat.
If I start building timmies (one by one) and you start building a vulcan, I'll have a timmy done before you finish the vulcan. I'll start shooting faster than you can. And when we both finish our project, we'll have approximately the same firepower. And I'll have better ranges too.
Thank you for repeating what I said, this time.
Your opponent is an idiot for letting you get that far.
Yes, that's why I play the AI, it makes it easy for me to have FUN in the game.
(stop playing the stupid computer, and play real people. Even the most advanced cheating AI on TA have weaknesses depending on the particularity of the specific map.)
No thanks, and I know.
You could have killed your opponent without building 150 berthas.
Most decidedly yes. You couldn't be more right. I had hundreds of opportunities to crush him. But then I would never have been able to build 150 berthas. Do you see where I am going with this?
Defeating the enemy player is the ultimate goal, sure, but I didn't know we were doing time trials I prefer to have fun doing it. Would you call me a shitty player if I first destroyed every single unit and building the other player had except for a single metal extractor, and then built my giant field of berthas? If that'll make you feel better, I'll do it. Just for you. But that gets a little boring, and I like to have plenty of pieces of metal flying around when I finally get to fire my array, and metal extractors just don't explode all that big, so I don't think I'll do that very often.
So, as much as your opponent sucks, you don't know how to attack for shit.
Not knowing and not doing are two very different things my friend.
I mean get some ground troops and air strike force for crying out loud!
No.
noob
... because that really added to your argument, good job.
The Vulcan was a truly awesome weapon. Admittedly, it was slow to build and relatively fragile. It's range was not nearly as limited as you imply though, in my memory it fired at least 3/4ths as far as a Bertha.
I'll agree with you that it was an excellent base defense but not so great as an offense. For a obsessive porc like myself though, they are a dream. On large metal maps, you *need* a vulcan, if not several, to defend your base. It is absolutely unbelievable the amount of bots the AI will send at you if you give him a good 4 hours to get his base setup.
The major downfall of the vulcan was the fact that as you let it collect kills (it would generally have at least 200 after a few minutes of operation) it would be upgraded to uber-veteran status until it was pinpoint accuracy. That's nice for most units, but for the vulcan, it's massive spread was the best thing about it. I don't think I've ever had a vulcan that got over about 400 kills. It becomes nearly impossible to get the kind of widespread destruction it enjoyed in its non-veteran days.:P If that problem had been fixed somehow, I think the Vulcan would've been an indispensable unit for long games. As it stands, it's just "good". Although the satisfaction of watching it firing for extended periods of time is still worth it.
I definitely agree with you on the immense utility of Bertha/Intimidator batteries though. Not only are they reasonably quick (albeit resource intensive) to build, but as soon as the first one goes online you can start firing, you don't have to wait for them all to finish. They also take much longer to succumb to the veteran problem, since the kills are distributed across the entire array.
Personally, my favourite was when I built a battery of roughly 150 Berthas, and (this was the hard part) enough fusion plants and energy storages to power them all. A Vulcan is satisfying, but there's nothing quite like the ominous turning of 150 barrels, and then the roar of all the berthas firing simultaneously at my command. Best done after pressing 'T' to track their shots. Follow the swarm of tightly grouped little yellow plasma pellets into the enemy base, watch it as it gets literally wiped off the map.
I have yet to discover something quite as enjoyable as that in any other game.
I don't see the millions of environmentalists giving up electricity or their homes in the suburbs or the country.
Perhaps you need to look closer. Those dorks riding scooters and bikes to work might actually be environmentalists. Live downtown? Same thing. Work from home? Entirely possible. You don't have to live off the grid in a house made of recycled tires (although I know someone who does) to be an environmentalist. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition, and not dedicating your entire life to being environmentally friendly does not make you a hypocrite. You don't have to have front-row seats to every single game/concert/whatever to be considered a fan of a sport/a band/whatever, but I see that logic applied to environmentalists, vegetarians, and plenty of other things all the time. It doesn't seem particularly fair to me.
Mythbusters busted that myth. See the "Peeing on the third rail" episode.
I have issues with their test method. Their fake, gravity-powered bladder is no match for a real, muscle-powered bladder. The correct next step would be to film a real guy peeing to see if the stream is solid, not to move the rail up to within an inch of their dummy. But I guess they didn't have time to do that or something, so instead they go with the cheap, easy way out so they can show their dummy getting 'electrocuted' in front of the camera to wrap up their show.
Rather disappointing, and I think their results would've been different otherwise.
A format is not "property". Does Nikon own the pictures I take with my camera? No? Then why the hell can't I read the white balance information in them?
My picture, my property. Ability to read my picture? Also belongs to me.
May not be the way it is right now, but it's the way it damn well should be.
Well, yes. But they're a pretty poor "RP" in the first place. Everyone starts off the same. In a real RPG (ie, pen-n-paper) I can be whatever I want if the DM doesn't consider it powergaming. If I want to be a rich snob with robes made out of spun gold, and all sorts of magical trinkets, because my character's family made money buying and selling 'x' during the great 'y', I can do that. In most CRPGs, and all MMORPGs, I cannot, and that's not true roleplaying.
Now, admittedly, most people playing these games are pretty cheesy roleplayers, and prone to excessive powergaming, so I can see why things like this are restricted. But you can't say that simply having the ability to start (or augment) your character with specific items he or she could not otherwise afford or obtain, well, if you're using it as an RP device, it seems to me that it would enhance roleplay, NOT detract from it.
I understand this is not how current MMORPGs are, in reality, but the concept is sound.
If you are Friendly Neighborhood Bank (A Division of FinancialFirst GlobalCon Holdings Unlimited), will you use Choicepoint or someone that has 100% perfect records?
When they discover that Choicepoint has more data, better prices, more marketing, better reputation (from their point of view), more name recognition they can toss around to their shareholders...
There is a MIME type that lets Kmail (etc) easily open MS Word documents but there is no MIME type that associates a shell script with the application "/bin/sh", for example. I'm sure some thought was given to security when putting together the MIME types, and no one assumed that OOo would be exploitable like this.
Besides application/x-sh you mean. I'm fairly certain 'security' wasn't a concern when developing MIME types. They're simply types that roughly describe a chunk of data. They're not the attachment-opening police. That's (rightly) left to the mail reader.
Are you sure you don't mean, "EA Games is pursuing exclusive rights to develop games in the province of Ontario"?
Seriously though, things like this are why I don't much like Quebec. They subsidise everything. They expect everything subsidized. It's a whole culture of subsidy, and they need to get over it real quick. Things like that are what lead to the sponsorship scandal. But anyway, they attract all this business into their province, and run up huge defecits doing so, and then they go whining to the federal government, "Oh no, look at how hard off we are, we need more monies from transfer payments!" and bleeding more money out of the provinces who make the transfer payments (Ontario and Alberta), and siphoning off the transfer payments from where they really need to be going: Atlantic Canada.
I mean come on, Quebec. You've got one of the largest power generation networks in all of North America. Step up to the plate, get your finances in order, and stop leeching off the rest of us.
So, let me get this straight, you'd prefer to have some anonymous 'guy who runs a gaming site' read the press release for you, and make some randomy whiney slashdot-esque comments about it, and then go read that instead?
Ever considered thinking for yourself? Any gaming site would just be reading from the same press release you are. Or are you that anxious to have it pre-spun as "EA are teh evilz0rz!@" for you?
First of all it's "YOUR feeling" not "YOU ARE (YOU'RE) feeling"
Secondly, he is absolutely right. MIT does not cater to undergrads. They are unapologetic about this fact (and it is a fact). They are a research university, and like other research universities, research is done by grad students, not by undergrads.
When I was younger, being naive and idealistic, I always wanted to go to MIT. However, even Dr. Edmund Bertschinger told me not to bother, that there were many other schools which focus on, and do a better job of, teaching undergraduates.
You really sound like you're trying to rationalize your own going to MIT for undergrad, except that your atrocious grammar suggests that you didn't. That or they really aren't a very good undergrad school after all.
Slashdot Mirror
But they call it a blog, a term that means one thing - a site for public news and discourse.
Oh, is that the definition. Interesting. And here I was thinking "Blog" was merely a stupid abbreviation of "Web log". It would therefore mean that it is some kind of a web-journal where regular entries are made.
And personally, on my weblog, I'm not going to have any inhibitions about deleting whatever comments I want, for whatever reason I want. It's not a "site for public news and discourse". It's a site where I spew lies, write boring shit, display my incompetence for all to see, and occasionally put something interesting up (Much like Slashdot!) I think HP ought to have the same privilege on their own site.
They probably did the same thing myself, my friend, and most of the open source coders I know did:
Refuse to sign it.
Just politely explain that that particular clause doesn't work for you, as you do a lot of programming at home for projects unrelated to their business and you want to continue to do so as you feel it helps to hone your programming skills. They will likely agree to strike out the clause. Yes, if you're just starting a new job and the job market is bad, it takes some cajones to do this. But realistically the chances are extremely low they'll simply say, "Oh, okay. Goodbye." and, presuming that they do say that, and you respond by offering to sign the damn waiver, the chances are even lower that they would continue to refuse to employ you. And at that point you can be very sure that they were just planning on using you as a carpet anyway, if the fact that you showed a bit of backbone scares them so much. Realistically, all most companies want is an employee who knows their stuff and works hard.
As a bonus, when you do this, you will likely be remembered as someone who stands up for themselves a bit more. As a result, you're more likely to get better raises and bonuses, simply due to the fact that the bosses don't really want to get into arguments or make a big deal about things most of the time (after all, their time is so valuable *cough*) so they'll give you a little more than most of the other people, since they'll think of you as someone who's more likely to argue about it.
That's been my experience anyway.
"upgrade" to a mac user means "buy a whole new computer"
By and large, yes it does.
But you're not telling the whole story. You left out the part where the mac user sells the old mac on eBay for far less of a discount than you'd need to put on a similarly aged PC. Easily over half the original price, in my experience. Sometimes ends up being as much as 2/3rds the price of a new mac just by selling your old one, depending on how frequently you upgrade.
Upgrades are for chumps.
Well, mostly because things like the sound barrier were not based on any particularly hard science.
Beyond that, also because it is inevitable that as we discover more about the universe we will become gradually more confident that our answers are getting closer and closer to the "truth". Somewhat counterintuitively, each theory we disprove actually means we know a little more about the universe and how it works (or at least, how it does not work), and therefore our current set of theories is that much more trustworthy and correct.
By the way, I do not accept the speed of light being the maximum possible velocity personally. I think that's much to depressing to accept. It basically rules out humanity really ever expanding beyond our little group of local stars, nevermind to the other end of the galaxy, and certainly not other galaxies. And being the great explorers that we are, that would just be sad. I am sure that someday, somehow, it will be broken. Even if it's just faster-than-light communication, a la Ender's Game. (This, at least, is theoretically possible via quantum entanglement... the bits would be in finite supply though.. forget about that interstellar OC-192.)
the current model of time traveled dictated by relativity suggests that one cannot travel backwards in time past the point where the time machine was discovered/invented.
This has absolutely nothing to do with general or special relativity.
It is a theory cooked up by some scientists and propped up with a few bits of logic, to try and explain why no one has ever met a real time traveller if time travel will indeed one day become possible.
It's a counter-argument to the suggestion that because surely in the vastness of time, at least one time traveller from the future would inevitably return to somewhere within our recorded history and make themselves known. But since we have never seen it happen, the argument goes, time travel must not be possible.
It's a crackpot theory pitted against another crackpot theory which refutes another crackpot theory, and so on and so on. Relativity itself suggests that time travel is possible -- but only by impossible means (exceeding the speed of light), so it basically says it's not possible unless another part of the theory is wrong. However, even Einstein thought he would be proven wrong one day, so you never know.
The ethernet port *is* the power input. RJ-45s have 8 connectors. PoE uses some of the spare conductors to provide power, the rest still do data.
ObRTFA:
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) works because when data is sent down network cables it is represented by voltages. PoE uses spare wires in cables that link computers back to network hubs and pump power down these, separate from data traffic.
He claims that 'games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person shooter.' His kids have obviously showed him too much Halo 2, and not enough Half-Life 2.
Yeah, because Half-Life 2, there's a fucking revolutionary game. You get guns, and shoot aliens -- HOLY SHIT. But wait, there's more! You can also pick up boxes and throw them around, just like Deus Ex! REVOLUTIONARY! Important gameplay advances!!!
Nitwit fanboi.
There are a few revolutionary games you could've put in there. Half-Life 2 is not one of them, and it never will be, no matter how much you want it to be. It is yet another cookie cutter FPS. The addition of a grav-gun does not make it revolutionary.
Of course, I will get modded troll for this, because everyone *loves* Half-life 2. But I am tired of simply watching this mediocre game get treated like the second coming of Jesus.
I was gonna be nice, but you started getting personal near the end, so, whatever.
Vulcan cannons are expensive. very expensive. You can build couple of bertha/timmy (intimidator) with the same resources and you can fine tune those better.
Thank you for repeating the part of the parent's post that I was agreeing with.
But this strategy does not work against good players.
I never said it did.
I mean if you are just getting into it or playing with non-hardcore friends, vulcans are the shits and is definitely part of the unreasonable displays of power. But if you are playing the game for real (you are considered good on online communities/rankings) you are either dead before you can finish a vulcan/ the conditions of the game will make vulcan an unworthy investment.
I am not. I am a terrible player. I do not play online because I would get my ass handed to me. I have no illusions about this. Furthermore, I have zero desire to ever even *become* a 'good' player. I think it would suck all the fun out of the game for me. I *like* being a Porc. I quite enjoy fighting the AI and my non-hardcore friends, thankyouverymuch. This is the assumption the entire rest of your post is based on, and without this foundation the rest of it falls flat.
If I start building timmies (one by one) and you start building a vulcan, I'll have a timmy done before you finish the vulcan. I'll start shooting faster than you can. And when we both finish our project, we'll have approximately the same firepower. And I'll have better ranges too.
Thank you for repeating what I said, this time.
Your opponent is an idiot for letting you get that far.
Yes, that's why I play the AI, it makes it easy for me to have FUN in the game.
(stop playing the stupid computer, and play real people. Even the most advanced cheating AI on TA have weaknesses depending on the particularity of the specific map.)
No thanks, and I know.
You could have killed your opponent without building 150 berthas.
Most decidedly yes. You couldn't be more right. I had hundreds of opportunities to crush him. But then I would never have been able to build 150 berthas. Do you see where I am going with this?
Defeating the enemy player is the ultimate goal, sure, but I didn't know we were doing time trials I prefer to have fun doing it. Would you call me a shitty player if I first destroyed every single unit and building the other player had except for a single metal extractor, and then built my giant field of berthas? If that'll make you feel better, I'll do it. Just for you. But that gets a little boring, and I like to have plenty of pieces of metal flying around when I finally get to fire my array, and metal extractors just don't explode all that big, so I don't think I'll do that very often.
So, as much as your opponent sucks, you don't know how to attack for shit.
Not knowing and not doing are two very different things my friend.
I mean get some ground troops and air strike force for crying out loud!
No.
noob
... because that really added to your argument, good job.
The Vulcan was a truly awesome weapon. Admittedly, it was slow to build and relatively fragile. It's range was not nearly as limited as you imply though, in my memory it fired at least 3/4ths as far as a Bertha.
:P If that problem had been fixed somehow, I think the Vulcan would've been an indispensable unit for long games. As it stands, it's just "good". Although the satisfaction of watching it firing for extended periods of time is still worth it.
I'll agree with you that it was an excellent base defense but not so great as an offense. For a obsessive porc like myself though, they are a dream. On large metal maps, you *need* a vulcan, if not several, to defend your base. It is absolutely unbelievable the amount of bots the AI will send at you if you give him a good 4 hours to get his base setup.
The major downfall of the vulcan was the fact that as you let it collect kills (it would generally have at least 200 after a few minutes of operation) it would be upgraded to uber-veteran status until it was pinpoint accuracy. That's nice for most units, but for the vulcan, it's massive spread was the best thing about it. I don't think I've ever had a vulcan that got over about 400 kills. It becomes nearly impossible to get the kind of widespread destruction it enjoyed in its non-veteran days.
I definitely agree with you on the immense utility of Bertha/Intimidator batteries though. Not only are they reasonably quick (albeit resource intensive) to build, but as soon as the first one goes online you can start firing, you don't have to wait for them all to finish. They also take much longer to succumb to the veteran problem, since the kills are distributed across the entire array.
Personally, my favourite was when I built a battery of roughly 150 Berthas, and (this was the hard part) enough fusion plants and energy storages to power them all. A Vulcan is satisfying, but there's nothing quite like the ominous turning of 150 barrels, and then the roar of all the berthas firing simultaneously at my command. Best done after pressing 'T' to track their shots. Follow the swarm of tightly grouped little yellow plasma pellets into the enemy base, watch it as it gets literally wiped off the map.
I have yet to discover something quite as enjoyable as that in any other game.
I don't see the millions of environmentalists giving up electricity or their homes in the suburbs or the country.
Perhaps you need to look closer. Those dorks riding scooters and bikes to work might actually be environmentalists. Live downtown? Same thing. Work from home? Entirely possible. You don't have to live off the grid in a house made of recycled tires (although I know someone who does) to be an environmentalist. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition, and not dedicating your entire life to being environmentally friendly does not make you a hypocrite. You don't have to have front-row seats to every single game/concert/whatever to be considered a fan of a sport/a band/whatever, but I see that logic applied to environmentalists, vegetarians, and plenty of other things all the time. It doesn't seem particularly fair to me.
Mythbusters busted that myth. See the "Peeing on the third rail" episode.
I have issues with their test method. Their fake, gravity-powered bladder is no match for a real, muscle-powered bladder. The correct next step would be to film a real guy peeing to see if the stream is solid, not to move the rail up to within an inch of their dummy. But I guess they didn't have time to do that or something, so instead they go with the cheap, easy way out so they can show their dummy getting 'electrocuted' in front of the camera to wrap up their show.
Rather disappointing, and I think their results would've been different otherwise.
It wasn't given a chance (or aired in the right order) from the get-go. The pilot episode didn't even air until the show had already been cancelled.
A format is not "property". Does Nikon own the pictures I take with my camera? No? Then why the hell can't I read the white balance information in them?
My picture, my property. Ability to read my picture? Also belongs to me.
May not be the way it is right now, but it's the way it damn well should be.
Well, yes. But they're a pretty poor "RP" in the first place. Everyone starts off the same. In a real RPG (ie, pen-n-paper) I can be whatever I want if the DM doesn't consider it powergaming. If I want to be a rich snob with robes made out of spun gold, and all sorts of magical trinkets, because my character's family made money buying and selling 'x' during the great 'y', I can do that. In most CRPGs, and all MMORPGs, I cannot, and that's not true roleplaying.
Now, admittedly, most people playing these games are pretty cheesy roleplayers, and prone to excessive powergaming, so I can see why things like this are restricted. But you can't say that simply having the ability to start (or augment) your character with specific items he or she could not otherwise afford or obtain, well, if you're using it as an RP device, it seems to me that it would enhance roleplay, NOT detract from it.
I understand this is not how current MMORPGs are, in reality, but the concept is sound.
the issue here is, Rogers actually wants to keep their customers.
You wouldn't know it from their cellphone customer service, but I agree that's what it seems like.
*shock*
So, inquiring minds want to know:
Why DID they vote Bush into office then?
If you are Friendly Neighborhood Bank (A Division of FinancialFirst GlobalCon Holdings Unlimited), will you use Choicepoint or someone that has 100% perfect records?
When they discover that Choicepoint has more data, better prices, more marketing, better reputation (from their point of view), more name recognition they can toss around to their shareholders...
Which one will they use, indeed.
200 MB / 1 million queries = roughly 200 bytes per query.
It's an underestimate, if anything.
There is a MIME type that lets Kmail (etc) easily open MS Word documents but there is no MIME type that associates a shell script with the application "/bin/sh", for example. I'm sure some thought was given to security when putting together the MIME types, and no one assumed that OOo would be exploitable like this.
Besides application/x-sh you mean. I'm fairly certain 'security' wasn't a concern when developing MIME types. They're simply types that roughly describe a chunk of data. They're not the attachment-opening police. That's (rightly) left to the mail reader.
Why is it a problem? It saves space, increasing readability, and avoids this horrible bug: [Insert C code here]
Or you could just use Python, which enforces readability and avoids the entire concept of silly bugs like that in the process.
Are you sure you don't mean, "EA Games is pursuing exclusive rights to develop games in the province of Ontario"?
Seriously though, things like this are why I don't much like Quebec. They subsidise everything. They expect everything subsidized. It's a whole culture of subsidy, and they need to get over it real quick. Things like that are what lead to the sponsorship scandal. But anyway, they attract all this business into their province, and run up huge defecits doing so, and then they go whining to the federal government, "Oh no, look at how hard off we are, we need more monies from transfer payments!" and bleeding more money out of the provinces who make the transfer payments (Ontario and Alberta), and siphoning off the transfer payments from where they really need to be going: Atlantic Canada.
I mean come on, Quebec. You've got one of the largest power generation networks in all of North America. Step up to the plate, get your finances in order, and stop leeching off the rest of us.
So, let me get this straight, you'd prefer to have some anonymous 'guy who runs a gaming site' read the press release for you, and make some randomy whiney slashdot-esque comments about it, and then go read that instead?
Ever considered thinking for yourself? Any gaming site would just be reading from the same press release you are. Or are you that anxious to have it pre-spun as "EA are teh evilz0rz!@" for you?
You're "feeling" was wrong.
First of all it's "YOUR feeling" not "YOU ARE (YOU'RE) feeling"
Secondly, he is absolutely right. MIT does not cater to undergrads. They are unapologetic about this fact (and it is a fact). They are a research university, and like other research universities, research is done by grad students, not by undergrads.
When I was younger, being naive and idealistic, I always wanted to go to MIT. However, even Dr. Edmund Bertschinger told me not to bother, that there were many other schools which focus on, and do a better job of, teaching undergraduates.
You really sound like you're trying to rationalize your own going to MIT for undergrad, except that your atrocious grammar suggests that you didn't. That or they really aren't a very good undergrad school after all.
(See also: the idiots who keep proudly saying "Viola!")
No, those are just the bad spellers or bad typers. The idiots are the ones who keep proudly saying "Walla!"
*shudder*
Please visit a mechanic immediately, your sarcasm detector is badly malfunctioning.