I, for one, would love to see the UI that the techs use to run the queries on obscure NFL statistics during games.
"This is only the second time 3 consecutive 3rd down conversions have occurred between 11-3 rated AFC teams in outdoor stadiums with 2nd string quarterbacks using a QB option play"
And they are able to run these queries quickly...usually within the time of the next play. How do they do that? Is it raw TSQL styled queries or do they have some kind of UI for that?
That or they've got John Madden chained up in a cage out of camera shot...
Apple are in the process of trying to Trade mark the term "App Store" - the term "app" will be next, so you'll have start paying to use the word in the near future, more than likely...;p
All members of the Nobel Committee have been apprehended by the US government, due to suspicion by the US government that they are aiding in terrorist activities.
This comment is all the more funny because it could become so dangerously close to the truth...
You mean like how China refused to let the Nobel prize winner go to his own ceremony? Maybe between now and then, the US will arrest Assange and do the same thing. That would truly be ironic.
(US acting like China).
Assange arrested? That could never happen - oh, wait...
A kill switch lets people know that it has been flipped. Things stop functioning entirely, and the net "routes around it".
Why not instead use a "congestion switch" to slow down traffic to a point where government created misinformation can be spread in real time to achieve whatever goals the government wants?
Can I get a "congestion switch" to stop the guys on my exchange who are torrenting so many large files that they kill my net connection, please?
Actually, I think that the idea that the NSA doesn't already have one in place is pretty far-fetched. The real question, to me, is: what would cause them to actually use it?
A leak which they couldn't stop in time.
I think that Wikileaks has already consistently beaten them to the punch on that score; all it takes is one person with the data leak on a USB flash drive to get to a satellite phone, a data com uplink, a POTS modem or over the border into the US or Mexico and it's game over.
Not even close. I've never, ever, received a link to a video on wikipedia (or any other wikimedia project). Ever. I bet most people aren't even aware that there *are* videos on wikipedia.
If they were big enough to matter, people would already be installing Theora plug-ins or switching over to browsers like Firefox in order to view Theora videos. You'd hear iPhone and other smartphone users complaining about lack of Theora support. There would be how-tos on playing Theora content. Etc.
Hmmm... I don't need any of these "plugin" thingamywhatits to view Theora videos. Oh yes, now I see why - it's natively supported in Opera already.:)
Also, why are publishers still getting most of the money for ebook sales? There's nothing to publish. You still need an editor and a marketer, but there's no text to lay out, no pages to print, no bindings to make, and no boxes of books to distribute. Previously, publishing was controlled by a few companies who subsequently raised prices to where they were taking an exorbitant slice of the pie. But with the Internet, ebooks, and electronic publishing, you could do it all yourself if you wanted. This is a shakeup to the industry's business model which has long been needed.
Text still needs laying out in an eBook; if you write something and don't get it properly proofread, edited and laid out, it will be unreadable, which rather defeats the point of writing it in the first place...
Quite a few authors are self-publishing these days. It's a good way to for niche writers who have small followings and don't have their own agent or publisher. It's also a good way for writers to get revenues from previous works that they no longer see from reprints of their work, which have become a thing of the past for all except the extremely high volume sales authors like JKR, etc.
I want to emphasize that this is about spreading American *values*, not American hegemony. The Egyptian riots are a problem for America as an empire, but if we play it right it can be a huge win for American ideals.
Surely you meant to write "If the Egyptians play it right, it can be a huge win for them?"
Snipers always shoot people who aren't a threat to the sniper themselves. That's what they are for.
Blatantly untrue. Most decently trained military Snipers (and I've no doubt that Egyptian Snipers come into this category) are taught counter-sniping strategy and tactics so that they, and the rest of their force, are not harassed, injured or killed by opposition sniping from a distance.
Windows Phone 7 (not "the Windows 7 Phone") is doing just fine. It hasn't been a runaway success, but its done reasonably well on all carriers its been released on and is coming to both Verizon and Sprint soon.
I wouldn't call an OS doing "just fine" when it has been reported as having excessive data usage of "between 30 and 50MB of data" per day and 500MB being used up overnight in some cases. BGR Reports that MS has identified "a third-party solution commonly accessed from Windows Phones is configured in a manner that potentially cause larger than expected data downloads." The third party has not been identified and a timeline for a fix has not yet been given...
And IE9 won't be made to work on XP, shutting out a large segment of users. Meanwhile, the latest Firefox (and other browsers) will run on Linux, MacOS, Vista, 7, *and* XP.
Firefox/Mozilla: Free, Open Source, standards based, actively developed, multiplatform, supports older versions of OS's, and huge market penetration. If I were developing ANY type of web application, I would absolutely use Firefox as the main target.
If I were developing ANY type of web application, I would absolutely use Opera as the main target, as it has been explicitly designed from the very start to conform to W3C specifications...
The existing workforce doesn't get raises, or only gets a pittance, and so the newest hires almost always make the same or more than veterans.
I've only had one pay raise in the last four years working for the same UK company, which didn't even cover the increased cost of living, which wasn't that much of an increase due to low Inflation at the time.
I'm always amazed to hear you have to pay to receive messages in some parts of the world (America?)
Realistically, you pay for receiving texts in every country, but you just pay for them in indirect ways, wrapped up in the cost of your line rental or how much it costs you to send and SMS instead...
I keep wondering why someone with, for example, Vodafone UK has to pay roaming charges when calling on the Vodafone NL network. They're the same fucking company! The call itself is routed through voip for cost reasons anyway, so the cost difference can be minimised.
They're different localised parts of the same company, with each operating as a nationally bound operation in terms of funding, profit & loss and legal strictures. Yes, they are part of the same multinational group, but VF UK and VF NL are not the same company. Call to the UK when you've got a VFUK SIM roaming in the Netherlands and you will get cheaper roaming costs than on any other network in NL, however...
What's the difference between a "heterosexually oriented" dating service and a gay one? The ones that I've seen always ask your sex and sexual preference.
I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
I hope that the 10% of the human population who are bisexual will totally b0rk the code for this website...;p
I've said it before. WikiLeaks lost the high ground when they started releasing the diplomatic cables for no other reason than retaliation. They decided to go to war. That Anonymous is supporting them is sad. The only thing I can say is that at least Julian Assange isn't hiding behind anonymity. Gotta give him props for that. I supported Anonymous' when they went after Scientology. But this time they're supporting a would-be journalist, attention whore who I hope gets what he deserves.
Well, after EasyDNS pulled their DNS entry, Amazon stopped hosting them, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard all stopped allowing payments to them, posting more of the content that has been leaked to them is just about the only ammunition they have left to fire with. There are enough people motivate to keep wikileaks going, with 1426 mirrors or the original site in operation at the current time.
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I, for one, would love to see the UI that the techs use to run the queries on obscure NFL statistics during games.
"This is only the second time 3 consecutive 3rd down conversions have occurred between 11-3 rated AFC teams in outdoor stadiums with 2nd string quarterbacks using a QB option play"
And they are able to run these queries quickly...usually within the time of the next play. How do they do that? Is it raw TSQL styled queries or do they have some kind of UI for that?
That or they've got John Madden chained up in a cage out of camera shot...
What does "widgets of code" mean here? What does "Tech" mean in the title?
What does "what" mean?
There's an app for that.
Apple are in the process of trying to Trade mark the term "App Store" - the term "app" will be next, so you'll have start paying to use the word in the near future, more than likely... ;p
All members of the Nobel Committee have been apprehended by the US government, due to suspicion by the US government that they are aiding in terrorist activities.
This comment is all the more funny because it could become so dangerously close to the truth...
>>>I'm sure this will be suppressed somehow
You mean like how China refused to let the Nobel prize winner go to his own ceremony? Maybe between now and then, the US will arrest Assange and do the same thing. That would truly be ironic.
(US acting like China).
Assange arrested? That could never happen - oh, wait...
The obvious solution is to make a webpage to crack the code, and then make a deal with someone who has a smartphone but makes much less than $600/day.
OCR FTW! :D
A kill switch lets people know that it has been flipped. Things stop functioning entirely, and the net "routes around it".
Why not instead use a "congestion switch" to slow down traffic to a point where government created misinformation can be spread in real time to achieve whatever goals the government wants?
Can I get a "congestion switch" to stop the guys on my exchange who are torrenting so many large files that they kill my net connection, please?
Actually, I think that the idea that the NSA doesn't already have one in place is pretty far-fetched. The real question, to me, is: what would cause them to actually use it?
A leak which they couldn't stop in time.
I think that Wikileaks has already consistently beaten them to the punch on that score; all it takes is one person with the data leak on a USB flash drive to get to a satellite phone, a data com uplink, a POTS modem or over the border into the US or Mexico and it's game over.
Not even close. I've never, ever, received a link to a video on wikipedia (or any other wikimedia project). Ever. I bet most people aren't even aware that there *are* videos on wikipedia.
If they were big enough to matter, people would already be installing Theora plug-ins or switching over to browsers like Firefox in order to view Theora videos. You'd hear iPhone and other smartphone users complaining about lack of Theora support. There would be how-tos on playing Theora content. Etc.
Hmmm... I don't need any of these "plugin" thingamywhatits to view Theora videos. Oh yes, now I see why - it's natively supported in Opera already. :)
Also, why are publishers still getting most of the money for ebook sales? There's nothing to publish. You still need an editor and a marketer, but there's no text to lay out, no pages to print, no bindings to make, and no boxes of books to distribute. Previously, publishing was controlled by a few companies who subsequently raised prices to where they were taking an exorbitant slice of the pie. But with the Internet, ebooks, and electronic publishing, you could do it all yourself if you wanted. This is a shakeup to the industry's business model which has long been needed.
Text still needs laying out in an eBook; if you write something and don't get it properly proofread, edited and laid out, it will be unreadable, which rather defeats the point of writing it in the first place... Quite a few authors are self-publishing these days. It's a good way to for niche writers who have small followings and don't have their own agent or publisher. It's also a good way for writers to get revenues from previous works that they no longer see from reprints of their work, which have become a thing of the past for all except the extremely high volume sales authors like JKR, etc.
I want to emphasize that this is about spreading American *values*, not American hegemony. The Egyptian riots are a problem for America as an empire, but if we play it right it can be a huge win for American ideals.
Surely you meant to write "If the Egyptians play it right, it can be a huge win for them?"
Snipers always shoot people who aren't a threat to the sniper themselves. That's what they are for.
Blatantly untrue. Most decently trained military Snipers (and I've no doubt that Egyptian Snipers come into this category) are taught counter-sniping strategy and tactics so that they, and the rest of their force, are not harassed, injured or killed by opposition sniping from a distance.
How are you supposed to get porn over HAM radio?
I'm sure you'd be able to see a good porking... ;p
Windows Phone 7 (not "the Windows 7 Phone") is doing just fine. It hasn't been a runaway success, but its done reasonably well on all carriers its been released on and is coming to both Verizon and Sprint soon.
I wouldn't call an OS doing "just fine" when it has been reported as having excessive data usage of "between 30 and 50MB of data" per day and 500MB being used up overnight in some cases. BGR Reports that MS has identified "a third-party solution commonly accessed from Windows Phones is configured in a manner that potentially cause larger than expected data downloads." The third party has not been identified and a timeline for a fix has not yet been given...
Caveat emptor!
And IE9 won't be made to work on XP, shutting out a large segment of users. Meanwhile, the latest Firefox (and other browsers) will run on Linux, MacOS, Vista, 7, *and* XP.
Firefox/Mozilla: Free, Open Source, standards based, actively developed, multiplatform, supports older versions of OS's, and huge market penetration. If I were developing ANY type of web application, I would absolutely use Firefox as the main target.
If I were developing ANY type of web application, I would absolutely use Opera as the main target, as it has been explicitly designed from the very start to conform to W3C specifications...
Main store is on a MAC
Can't store a lot of data in 6 bytes...
It's compressed... a lot.
Did you use Alt + F4 to compress it?
It's a Nokia. That's pretty tame by Nokia standards; some of their keypad designs have been somewhat Avant Garde over the years...
The existing workforce doesn't get raises, or only gets a pittance, and so the newest hires almost always make the same or more than veterans.
I've only had one pay raise in the last four years working for the same UK company, which didn't even cover the increased cost of living, which wasn't that much of an increase due to low Inflation at the time.
I'm always amazed to hear you have to pay to receive messages in some parts of the world (America?)
Realistically, you pay for receiving texts in every country, but you just pay for them in indirect ways, wrapped up in the cost of your line rental or how much it costs you to send and SMS instead...
I keep wondering why someone with, for example, Vodafone UK has to pay roaming charges when calling on the Vodafone NL network. They're the same fucking company! The call itself is routed through voip for cost reasons anyway, so the cost difference can be minimised.
They're different localised parts of the same company, with each operating as a nationally bound operation in terms of funding, profit & loss and legal strictures. Yes, they are part of the same multinational group, but VF UK and VF NL are not the same company. Call to the UK when you've got a VFUK SIM roaming in the Netherlands and you will get cheaper roaming costs than on any other network in NL, however...
What's the difference between a "heterosexually oriented" dating service and a gay one? The ones that I've seen always ask your sex and sexual preference.
I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
I hope that the 10% of the human population who are bisexual will totally b0rk the code for this website... ;p
It's sad, but America is no longer the beacon of hope and freedom for the world that it once was - it's a bloated, corrupted, fading superpower.
Well, there's a switch...
US carriers also bill customers for receiving incoming calls and text messages too, just to add insult to injury...
Maybe all of these new phones have an AOL CD pre-installed with the entire Internet on them?
I've said it before. WikiLeaks lost the high ground when they started releasing the diplomatic cables for no other reason than retaliation. They decided to go to war. That Anonymous is supporting them is sad. The only thing I can say is that at least Julian Assange isn't hiding behind anonymity. Gotta give him props for that. I supported Anonymous' when they went after Scientology. But this time they're supporting a would-be journalist, attention whore who I hope gets what he deserves.
Well, after EasyDNS pulled their DNS entry, Amazon stopped hosting them, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard all stopped allowing payments to them, posting more of the content that has been leaked to them is just about the only ammunition they have left to fire with. There are enough people motivate to keep wikileaks going, with 1426 mirrors or the original site in operation at the current time.