Yet, 200g can get you nothing worthwhile. You can't buy any items that are 'good' to a 60 character for anything less than 450g!
You can't buy any items that are 'good' to a level 60 character, period. Anything worthwhile is Bind on Pickup. For some classes, there's maybe one Bind on Equip epic item that's useful at level 60, but it's not worth the ridiculous prices people try to charge for it. It takes far less of your time to gain better gear raiding than it would to generate that much gold. Apart from the one-time expense of a level 60 mount and ongoing repair costs, there is very little use for gold at level 60.
On the contrary, what is legal and what is moral are often in conflict. If enough people feel that a law is wrong, breaking it repeatedly is an excellent method of making everyone else realize that the law should be changed. Many of the great leaders and heroes of our history engaged in civil disobedience as a means to change society. The right to unionize, universal adult suffrage, an end to racial discrimination laws, the withdrawal of colonial governments from occupied nations--refusing to follow bad laws played a key role in all of these.
As someone with a graduate degree in robotics from the largest robotics research center in North America, I find the concept of robots posing any sort of threat to anything more than a handful of humans at at time to be completely laughable for now and the forseeable future. Even were we to produce robots sufficiently competent to be capable of causing intentional lasting harm, it would only be at the behest of their controllers, due to the amount of maintenance required to keep them running. A self-maintaining, much less self-replicating robotic threat of any sort is decades away, at a minimum. The current level of deadliness a robot can generate is a cruise missile, which is a robotic suicide bomber that will kill you dead, but in no poses a threat to humanity as a whole.
An important consideration in naming things now is the uniqueness of your name, and thus the ability of people to search for it. If you use a common word, you will be buried under a ton of irrelevant material already existing, and you may even have issues with trying to advertise your product due to a trademark with the same name existing in another domain (which doesn't preclude you from naming your product that, but can be an annoyance). This is why I intend to name my next algorithm "Oltor the Defiler" regardless of what it does...
The card must have a reservoir of quantom-entangled particles that can be used to communicate instantaneously with the server (which has the other half of each pair). You'll probably have to subscribe to a service that ships you new bundles of particles each month to replace the bandwidth you use up. Be careful not to do anything important with it, or you'll violate causality, and cause all sorts of trouble for the universe...
That's not DRM. That's dropping support for older models because eventually the cost of keeping drivers up-to-date for old hardware surpasses the goodwill Apple generates by letting you run a fresh new OS you won't be buying anyway on an ancient computer you're clearly not spending money on.
They can call it C.A.R.E.--Copyright Abuse Resistance Education. Maybe even have cops come in and show off a simulated pirated download, so the kids can identify them when they encounter them. Teach the students to avoid peer-to-peer pressure...
It's called a toy, as opposed to a game. While Animal Crossing seems like a very open-ended game, Electroplankton is definitely a toy. It's a neat thing that has certain properties and lets you do stuff, and you can play around with it to see what's possible and what isn't. Given the historical popularity of physical toys, it doesn't seem that surprising that virtual ones are gaining ground.
The current Conan series of comics from Dark Horse does a pretty good job of keeping the feel of the original Howard stories, both in the adapted stories and in most of the original ones they publish.
It's not even that much more expensive. In the case of T-Mobile, you basically get a $100 discount if you get a T-Mobile phone at the same time as a one-year contract for a plan that costs at least $40 a month, and a one-time autonomy tax of $100 isn't that much for most of us that lust after such gadgets.
I just bought myself an unlocked Nokia 6682, available from as pedestrian a place as CompUSA for $400, which is at least as cheap as I could find it from online retailers where I would have had to wait for it. With any of the Symbian-based smartphones, primarily from Nokia but also a few from other manufacturers, you're getting a tiny computer with an OS you control, onto which you can load whatever you want through either a computer and BlueTooth or USB, or directly off the internet via a data plan. (Which, for T-Mobile, is $20 for unlimited data with a voice plan (the cheapest of which is another $20) or $30 as a standalone plan with no included minutes (and a rate of $0.20 per voice minute).)
You may be able to do similar things with Cingular, but I've heard horror stories about their customer service, as well as at least one alleged account of a unlocked Treo 650 getting locked to their network when used with their SIM Card, with Cingular subsequently refusing to unlock it. (I'm not actually sure if such a thing is possible, though.) Their data plans are also much more expensive than T-Mobile. With the CDMA (or iDEN) providers, you're pretty much stuck in their tightly-constrained walled gardens (as well as confined to the US networks, if international use matters to you).
When shopping around for a mobile phone, my #1 priority was that I have control over the device, not the company. I'm fairly happy with my combination of an unlocked Nokia 6682 and a separately purchased unlimited data plan from T-Mobile. The phone itself runs the Symbian OS and supports J2ME applications as well as native ones, but most importantly lets me do whatever I want on it, without having to jump through hoops and being trapped in a walled garden that charges you $2 for a stupid GIF or a MIDI file.
In the US, you're really only going to have that degree of freedom with T-Mobile (and possibly Cingular, but their customer service is reputed to be abysmal, plus their data plans cost a fortune). All the others insist you play by their rules. If you want a flexible smartphone, though, you'll have to buy it yourself and sign up for a plan without any incentive discounts on the hardware, as T-Mobile's phone offerings are rather limited. (They used to have better ones, but they narrowed them down last year for some reason.) Be aware also that T-Mobile's network is substantially less robust in terms of coverage than some of the other providers available, though, on the plus side, it's GSM so you can take your phone internationally and have it work (though possibly at ludicrous rates, depending on specifics).
The key, then is to not give out absolute ratings, but rather relative ones. The rating you personally see for people you haven't rated yourself should be based on how they're rated by people you yourself have rated highly. This goes a long way towards preventing abuse by effectively negating the ratings assigned by people you don't like.
I haven't noted a boom in the number of ".info" domains lately.
I have. I've also added ".info" to the blacklist of things you're not allowed to say in the comments of my blog. I don't think there's a single legitimate site in the entirety of the.info TLD...
Before, the Great Firewall of China would kill all connections from entire organizations for a while when someone tried a query that pissed off the Chinese government. Now, only the query in question will be partly censored. Access to information has been increased. It is still not complete, but it is better than previously. What do you propose they should have done instead?
If they refuse to provide any service at all, China doesn't care. They have Baidu.com, which is perfectly willing to kowtow to the government under which they operate completely. Most Chinese people haven't even heard of Google. If Google shuts them out, they'll keep on using the censored services available and not even know they're being censored.
What doctor would purposely refuse patients that he was capable of treating?
How about one who lose his license for treating certain conditions the government feels are the fault of the people who have them or which should not be treated, making it harder for him to provide treatment for everything else?
What cable television operator would choose not to make available highly desirable channels/content?
How about one that will be shut down if he transmits those channels, because they offend the totalitarian government under which he lives?
What newspaper would exist by not reporting the news?
How about one whose reporters will be thrown in jail if they report on stories their government doesn't like?
What book publisher would exist by not publishing important/desirable books?
How about one who would be burned alive by a politically-powerful church that has deemed those books heretical?
The point is that governments are big and can generally kick your ass, even if you're a large company. Trying to defy them directly is suicide, quite possibly literally. Sometimes, you just have to do all that you can do under their restraints, and settle for trying to lift those constraints.
The correct zero point to determine the reduction in heat output would be room temperature. Compare the difference between room temperature and the high-volt processor with the difference between room temperature and the low volt-processor. After all, if it were outputting no heat at all, it would be sitting at room temperature, a 100% reduction in heat output from its initial running state.
If MS had the number of exploits or security issues that OSX had in the last year, the world would be in chaos with rampant viruses running everywhere.
Not to be facetious, but that sounds like a rather accurate description of the Windows world.
It is trivial to not be compatible, it would be suicidal to be compatible. Apple is a hardware company, Mac OS/X is merely the justification for buying the more expensive (with the possible exception of the Mini) Apple hardware. Mac clones nearly killed Apple when Apple had control over them.
That doesn't follow. Compatibility isn't necessarily reciprocal. Apple could easily produce Intel Macintoshes that can boot into Windows without making Mac OS X bootable on non-Macintosh Intel computers.
Well, it doesn't represent the application itself. Close the window. Note that iTunes is still running. Hence, the window is not the application, just its primary manifestation and the means with which you typically interact with iTunes's most commonly-used features (though most of them have keyboard shorcuts as well).
From tfa: "The longer people have been using the Internet, the more likely it is that Google will be their search engine of choice" and "people whose primary search engine is Google are more likely to have household incomes above US$60,000"
You can't conclude that. It's like saying "I'm left handed. I like linux. Therefore, all left handed like linux". What they have found out is, that people with more experience has a higher paid job. There's no statistical evidence tying it to their search engine of choice.
Yes, you can conclude that. The phrase "more likely" does not imply causation, merely correlation. If the data you gather shows that two factors are correlated then, without even trying to construct a causation model for this correlation, you can use one as a predictor of the other. The article is merely saying that the longer a randomly-selected user has been using the internet the likelier it is they use Google, and that the fraction of Google users with incomes over $60,000 is higher than the fraction of non-Google users with incomes over $60,000.
That survery is good to see which search engine is the most popular. Google obviously is. But if you only have 9% MSN users in your statistical material, then you can't compare them. You need to compare groups of similar size.
No, you don't. There is no statistical requirement that various groups you are trying to compare be of similar size in order to make comparisons. There is only a requirement that all your groups be sufficiently large to have a high likelihood of being representative of the population from which they are being drawn. WIth 1000 users and 9% MSN that's only 90 users, which is probably not enough to draw broad conclusions about MSN's user base, but the study as a whole seems to be mostly comparing the 52% Google users to the 48% non-Google users. That certainly seems like a reasonable number of samples to support the conclusion that Google use, technical experience, and income are all positively correlated.
The title's reference to OpenDoc threw me. OpenDoc was an early component architecture developed and then abandoned by Apple in the 90s. Ahh, the days of CyberDog...
On the blacklist I use to keep spam-related URLs off the comments on my blog, I added the entirety of the.info TLD a while back. I don't think there's a single legitimate site anywhere in.info...
It's true. When interviewing with tech companies like Google and Amazon, I was explicitly asked to not wear a suit--not that I had any intention of wearing one anyway. As a grad student, when I went to conferences where we met with our sponsors, I was always sure to slightly underdress so as to project an air of technical competence.
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You can't buy any items that are 'good' to a level 60 character, period. Anything worthwhile is Bind on Pickup. For some classes, there's maybe one Bind on Equip epic item that's useful at level 60, but it's not worth the ridiculous prices people try to charge for it. It takes far less of your time to gain better gear raiding than it would to generate that much gold. Apart from the one-time expense of a level 60 mount and ongoing repair costs, there is very little use for gold at level 60.
On the contrary, what is legal and what is moral are often in conflict. If enough people feel that a law is wrong, breaking it repeatedly is an excellent method of making everyone else realize that the law should be changed. Many of the great leaders and heroes of our history engaged in civil disobedience as a means to change society. The right to unionize, universal adult suffrage, an end to racial discrimination laws, the withdrawal of colonial governments from occupied nations--refusing to follow bad laws played a key role in all of these.
As someone with a graduate degree in robotics from the largest robotics research center in North America, I find the concept of robots posing any sort of threat to anything more than a handful of humans at at time to be completely laughable for now and the forseeable future. Even were we to produce robots sufficiently competent to be capable of causing intentional lasting harm, it would only be at the behest of their controllers, due to the amount of maintenance required to keep them running. A self-maintaining, much less self-replicating robotic threat of any sort is decades away, at a minimum. The current level of deadliness a robot can generate is a cruise missile, which is a robotic suicide bomber that will kill you dead, but in no poses a threat to humanity as a whole.
An important consideration in naming things now is the uniqueness of your name, and thus the ability of people to search for it. If you use a common word, you will be buried under a ton of irrelevant material already existing, and you may even have issues with trying to advertise your product due to a trademark with the same name existing in another domain (which doesn't preclude you from naming your product that, but can be an annoyance). This is why I intend to name my next algorithm "Oltor the Defiler" regardless of what it does...
The card must have a reservoir of quantom-entangled particles that can be used to communicate instantaneously with the server (which has the other half of each pair). You'll probably have to subscribe to a service that ships you new bundles of particles each month to replace the bandwidth you use up. Be careful not to do anything important with it, or you'll violate causality, and cause all sorts of trouble for the universe...
That's not DRM. That's dropping support for older models because eventually the cost of keeping drivers up-to-date for old hardware surpasses the goodwill Apple generates by letting you run a fresh new OS you won't be buying anyway on an ancient computer you're clearly not spending money on.
Cingular (which includes the former AT&T Wireless) and T-Mobile are both GSM providers serving the United States. Verizon and Sprint are CDMA.
They can call it C.A.R.E.--Copyright Abuse Resistance Education. Maybe even have cops come in and show off a simulated pirated download, so the kids can identify them when they encounter them. Teach the students to avoid peer-to-peer pressure...
It's called a toy, as opposed to a game. While Animal Crossing seems like a very open-ended game, Electroplankton is definitely a toy. It's a neat thing that has certain properties and lets you do stuff, and you can play around with it to see what's possible and what isn't. Given the historical popularity of physical toys, it doesn't seem that surprising that virtual ones are gaining ground.
The current Conan series of comics from Dark Horse does a pretty good job of keeping the feel of the original Howard stories, both in the adapted stories and in most of the original ones they publish.
It's not even that much more expensive. In the case of T-Mobile, you basically get a $100 discount if you get a T-Mobile phone at the same time as a one-year contract for a plan that costs at least $40 a month, and a one-time autonomy tax of $100 isn't that much for most of us that lust after such gadgets.
I just bought myself an unlocked Nokia 6682, available from as pedestrian a place as CompUSA for $400, which is at least as cheap as I could find it from online retailers where I would have had to wait for it. With any of the Symbian-based smartphones, primarily from Nokia but also a few from other manufacturers, you're getting a tiny computer with an OS you control, onto which you can load whatever you want through either a computer and BlueTooth or USB, or directly off the internet via a data plan. (Which, for T-Mobile, is $20 for unlimited data with a voice plan (the cheapest of which is another $20) or $30 as a standalone plan with no included minutes (and a rate of $0.20 per voice minute).)
You may be able to do similar things with Cingular, but I've heard horror stories about their customer service, as well as at least one alleged account of a unlocked Treo 650 getting locked to their network when used with their SIM Card, with Cingular subsequently refusing to unlock it. (I'm not actually sure if such a thing is possible, though.) Their data plans are also much more expensive than T-Mobile. With the CDMA (or iDEN) providers, you're pretty much stuck in their tightly-constrained walled gardens (as well as confined to the US networks, if international use matters to you).
When shopping around for a mobile phone, my #1 priority was that I have control over the device, not the company. I'm fairly happy with my combination of an unlocked Nokia 6682 and a separately purchased unlimited data plan from T-Mobile. The phone itself runs the Symbian OS and supports J2ME applications as well as native ones, but most importantly lets me do whatever I want on it, without having to jump through hoops and being trapped in a walled garden that charges you $2 for a stupid GIF or a MIDI file.
In the US, you're really only going to have that degree of freedom with T-Mobile (and possibly Cingular, but their customer service is reputed to be abysmal, plus their data plans cost a fortune). All the others insist you play by their rules. If you want a flexible smartphone, though, you'll have to buy it yourself and sign up for a plan without any incentive discounts on the hardware, as T-Mobile's phone offerings are rather limited. (They used to have better ones, but they narrowed them down last year for some reason.) Be aware also that T-Mobile's network is substantially less robust in terms of coverage than some of the other providers available, though, on the plus side, it's GSM so you can take your phone internationally and have it work (though possibly at ludicrous rates, depending on specifics).
The key, then is to not give out absolute ratings, but rather relative ones. The rating you personally see for people you haven't rated yourself should be based on how they're rated by people you yourself have rated highly. This goes a long way towards preventing abuse by effectively negating the ratings assigned by people you don't like.
This has been leaked before by none other than Bill Gates.
I have. I've also added ".info" to the blacklist of things you're not allowed to say in the comments of my blog. I don't think there's a single legitimate site in the entirety of the
If they refuse to provide any service at all, China doesn't care. They have Baidu.com, which is perfectly willing to kowtow to the government under which they operate completely. Most Chinese people haven't even heard of Google. If Google shuts them out, they'll keep on using the censored services available and not even know they're being censored.
How about one who lose his license for treating certain conditions the government feels are the fault of the people who have them or which should not be treated, making it harder for him to provide treatment for everything else?
How about one that will be shut down if he transmits those channels, because they offend the totalitarian government under which he lives?
How about one whose reporters will be thrown in jail if they report on stories their government doesn't like?
How about one who would be burned alive by a politically-powerful church that has deemed those books heretical?
The point is that governments are big and can generally kick your ass, even if you're a large company. Trying to defy them directly is suicide, quite possibly literally. Sometimes, you just have to do all that you can do under their restraints, and settle for trying to lift those constraints.
The correct zero point to determine the reduction in heat output would be room temperature. Compare the difference between room temperature and the high-volt processor with the difference between room temperature and the low volt-processor. After all, if it were outputting no heat at all, it would be sitting at room temperature, a 100% reduction in heat output from its initial running state.
Just to nitpick, there's no such thing as "degrees Kelvin". It's just "Kelvins". e.g. "Water boils at 373 Kelvins."
Not to be facetious, but that sounds like a rather accurate description of the Windows world.
That doesn't follow. Compatibility isn't necessarily reciprocal. Apple could easily produce Intel Macintoshes that can boot into Windows without making Mac OS X bootable on non-Macintosh Intel computers.
Well, it doesn't represent the application itself. Close the window. Note that iTunes is still running. Hence, the window is not the application, just its primary manifestation and the means with which you typically interact with iTunes's most commonly-used features (though most of them have keyboard shorcuts as well).
Yes, you can conclude that. The phrase "more likely" does not imply causation, merely correlation. If the data you gather shows that two factors are correlated then, without even trying to construct a causation model for this correlation, you can use one as a predictor of the other. The article is merely saying that the longer a randomly-selected user has been using the internet the likelier it is they use Google, and that the fraction of Google users with incomes over $60,000 is higher than the fraction of non-Google users with incomes over $60,000.
No, you don't. There is no statistical requirement that various groups you are trying to compare be of similar size in order to make comparisons. There is only a requirement that all your groups be sufficiently large to have a high likelihood of being representative of the population from which they are being drawn. WIth 1000 users and 9% MSN that's only 90 users, which is probably not enough to draw broad conclusions about MSN's user base, but the study as a whole seems to be mostly comparing the 52% Google users to the 48% non-Google users. That certainly seems like a reasonable number of samples to support the conclusion that Google use, technical experience, and income are all positively correlated.
The title's reference to OpenDoc threw me. OpenDoc was an early component architecture developed and then abandoned by Apple in the 90s. Ahh, the days of CyberDog...
On the blacklist I use to keep spam-related URLs off the comments on my blog, I added the entirety of the .info TLD a while back. I don't think there's a single legitimate site anywhere in .info...
It's true. When interviewing with tech companies like Google and Amazon, I was explicitly asked to not wear a suit--not that I had any intention of wearing one anyway. As a grad student, when I went to conferences where we met with our sponsors, I was always sure to slightly underdress so as to project an air of technical competence.