I just wanted to point out that Apple actually did contribute a significant amount of code back. If BSD had been GPL instead they just would have used another operating system.
That's a great point about how people are behaving and how the game feels much less social. It's true that LFD isn't brand new, but it seems like around the time of Cat people got used to the fact that you'd never see each other again and were all too happy to toss you for some minor infraction (such as not having enough DPS). For those players that get kicked, it's a pretty un-fun experience and makes running any other dungeon much more stressful.
Do you even bother to read the science? It *has* warmed in the last decade.
Remember, this is climate not weather. Year by year shifts aren't as important as the total area under the curve for the past decade when looking at something like this, and since something like 9 out of the 10 hottest years ever were in the last decade Im pretty sure its still warming. Check out places like climate.nasa.gov or realclimate.org if you want a good idea what the scientists currently believe to be the case. At least read the Copenhagen report that just came out a few days ago.
(I can see why climate scientists get frustrated dealing with this - I've taken a few hours to read and try to understand the basic science - you clearly haven't even gone that far - repeating what the so called skeptics say isn't the same as finding what the true arguments the scientists are making are)
Sounds like great advice to become "just friends". I must assume you are either married and forgot how to attract women or are single and have a lot of female friends.:)
Im not saying being a jerk is the answer but making the other sex feel "secure" around you before they are "yours" is a great way to make them feel "bored".
Sorry, if your company is forcing people to fly to Switzerland on the company dollar instead of you coming here...
where can I sign up? sounds like a great deal! Maybe we should become even more of a police state so I can get free trips to other countries? Win win win!
Version 7 wasn't that much better than 6.5 in my opinion. I am currently running 7 and its still a lot of the things that people complain about (bloated, hard to use, slow, unintuitive). However I am very excited about the upcoming LN8 (upcoming in my company I mean - its already out from IBM) because of the completely revamped user interface.
Circuit City can't compare to an Apple store in terms of employee happiness for the simple reason that there are millions of people out there that just *love* Apple products. Seriously, Jobs could tour the country literally whipping his employees and they'd probably still be happier than your average retail employee.
I think CC is just in a tough spot. With the low margin business they are in its difficult to pay people well, and its hard to pay people nothing and get competent, happy employees. Expect CC to follow CompUSA in the next few years.
Im sure they can find other ways of recouping the costs - not just traffic tickets but how about using Guiliani's method (when he was mayor of NYC) of using RICO to impound suspected drunk drivers cars. You had better watch your driving with one of these things flying over, because the brilliance of using RICO is that you don't have to be found guilty in a criminal court to lose your car. I bet they could make up the cost fairly quickly.
How can you even remember that long ago? I haven't the slighted recollection on how I ended up at slashdot... funny Im here ten years later:)
Strangely enough I think the fact that it was a weird name (with no www, nonetheless) that kept me here... made it easier to remember. The good ole days of working phone tech support, making no money, but surfing the web and sitting on slashdot all day...
NeXTStep was only acquired about a decade ago, so I think your numbers are a bit off. OS X Server came out in 1999, about two years after NeXT was purchased.
While no doubt the loss of RDA (and he really left after season 7 and just kinda phoned it in season 8) was a big loss I still think there have been some really highly rated episodes since then (Im bad with names... but I recall seeing a few of the season 9/10 episodes in the list of top 10 fan rated episodes). Personally I like the Ori and think they are a decent enemy mostly because of their creepiness and power. "Bad ancients" is just a way for them to continue to have a more powerful enemy in spite of the advancements that earth made.
It might be a different show.. a bit of a reboot.. but I'd argue that its still pretty good. Browder is no RDA... but his character is alright. And I think Claudia Black is fun.
I think the reason you see that is that people with strong tech chops and people/leadership skills are few and far between. So, what you end up with are techie managers who can't lead or manage... or non techies who don't know what the heck they are doing. Pick your poison.
If you think of Sony as just a console maker, then the PS3 isn't doing all that well, but if you think of it as a device to push Blu-Ray its doing great. I don't think Sony is as dumb as everyone else thinks they are. They just sold another 100k plus Blu-Ray players. In the end they will drop the PS3 price to something sort of reasonable and sell plenty of them. They can make it through the first year or so by reputation alone pushing game developers to create for the platform.
Of course if they do too poorly in sales then eventually the games will dry up and they will have won the next gen format war at the cost of their gaming platform. I wonder how much they care?
While I definitely see a big variety among different microwave popcorn vendors in terms of yield in the microwave - Ive noticed that taking the leftover kernels (what can I say, Im a cheapskate) and then later putting them in the air popper will drastically improve your results. I typically have maybe 5 or 6 KERNELs of popcorn out of 3 or 4 bags total that wont end up popped when going this route.
And actually it tastes better than your typical styrofoam air popped bag popcorn anyway - it has the grease, salt, and butter already built in. It does make the popper machine a little dirty, but they can be washed.
Well, Im obviously late getting back to this one - but I simply picked some very highly rated movies from IMDB (I don't actually agree with the top 250 for a lot of the movies - but tastes are different). Im sure if I had to I could find more than nine... you sound like my HS English teacher..
I can't really argue with "well this movie is too old" or "the story sucked"... but the fact is that they spent just as much effort (or more) on those sfx filled movies like Ben Hur as they did on Attack of the Clones. There isn't some magic thing that makes movies with special effects suck. And people liked them enough to give them high ratings, so....
Btw - its a testament to just how good the SFX in Gump were that you didn't even notice just how many there were. Most of the movie is effects.
So perhaps Im misunderstanding your post, but if no good hollywood movies are big FX fests how do you explain:
LOTR (all three) The Matrix 2001 Jaws (not a big FX by modern standards obviously - but it was for its day a big sfx filled hollywood movie) Aliens Blade Runner Forrest Gump (just because its not sf doesn't mean it didn't have a lot of special effects) Terminator/Terminator 2 Ben-Hur
and probably others...
Hell, I thought Empire out of the Star Wars series had a good storyline...
Now Im not saying any of these are necessarily high culture, but "sucks"?
(I just grabbed these from the IMDB Top 250 as some I liked - by no means an inclusive list - just a popular one)
Despite the fact that this is probably the last season being abandoned on a Friday night... I think Enterprise is finally hitting its groove. I know everyone has their opinion, but while it isn't comparable to the very best of DS9 or even TNG, its certainly miles ahead of Voyager in terms of quality. I don't think its the casting that's necessarily weak - but probably more the characters. Still, TNG didn't have characters as good as TOS... and DS9 was weaker than TNG until they brought Worf aboard. It took Avery Brooks until probably Season 3 or 4 to really start getting into Sisko... he wasn't like Patrick Stewart who had a great screen presence almost from the beginning (sorry, it took me a while to get used to the bald captain:) ). Voyager never.. NEVER had good characters.. at least the new series has Hoshi:) And really there isn't anyone groan inducing like Neelix (which is strange - because the doctor kind of reminds me of him - just not annoying) or Nog from DS9 or Wesley (sorry Wil.. still think *you're* cool) from TNG.
Seriously... go back and watch enterprise lately.. I think they are doing a great job. Not as good as it could be, and certainly not as "cool" (now the in thing is to be anti Star Trek) as Battlestar (now that we decided not to kill anyone for a female Starbuck and human cylons) or Stargate (but not Atlantis, because thats NOT cool in the eyes of the SF culture police)... but they are making it entertaining at least...
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This would prove to be enormously expensive of a mandate on businesses and thus it will never happen.
What can Apple do? Have a lot more good tablet apps - which they do.
If you Google you may have found this as the top result as I did:
http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-5s-touch-id-requires-a-live-finger-to-unlock-wont-work-with-one-thats-severed-from-body/
The attack you describe doesn't work - you can't use a severed finger either. It's not so trivial to bypass.
I just wanted to point out that Apple actually did contribute a significant amount of code back. If BSD had been GPL instead they just would have used another operating system.
That's a great point about how people are behaving and how the game feels much less social. It's true that LFD isn't brand new, but it seems like around the time of Cat people got used to the fact that you'd never see each other again and were all too happy to toss you for some minor infraction (such as not having enough DPS). For those players that get kicked, it's a pretty un-fun experience and makes running any other dungeon much more stressful.
My ATT / Blackberry Bold actually drops a call every single time I walk into work and move from a 3G network to a 2G one. Pretty annoying.
Do you even bother to read the science? It *has* warmed in the last decade.
Remember, this is climate not weather. Year by year shifts aren't as important as the total area under the curve for the past decade when looking at something like this, and since something like 9 out of the 10 hottest years ever were in the last decade Im pretty sure its still warming. Check out places like climate.nasa.gov or realclimate.org if you want a good idea what the scientists currently believe to be the case. At least read the Copenhagen report that just came out a few days ago.
(I can see why climate scientists get frustrated dealing with this - I've taken a few hours to read and try to understand the basic science - you clearly haven't even gone that far - repeating what the so called skeptics say isn't the same as finding what the true arguments the scientists are making are)
Sounds like great advice to become "just friends". I must assume you are either married and forgot how to attract women or are single and have a lot of female friends. :)
Im not saying being a jerk is the answer but making the other sex feel "secure" around you before they are "yours" is a great way to make them feel "bored".
Sorry, if your company is forcing people to fly to Switzerland on the company dollar instead of you coming here ...
where can I sign up? sounds like a great deal! Maybe we should become even more of a police state so I can get free trips to other countries? Win win win!
Version 7 wasn't that much better than 6.5 in my opinion. I am currently running 7 and its still a lot of the things that people complain about (bloated, hard to use, slow, unintuitive). However I am very excited about the upcoming LN8 (upcoming in my company I mean - its already out from IBM) because of the completely revamped user interface.
Here is a link with some "whats new" information from IBM - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes8-new/
Circuit City can't compare to an Apple store in terms of employee happiness for the simple reason that there are millions of people out there that just *love* Apple products. Seriously, Jobs could tour the country literally whipping his employees and they'd probably still be happier than your average retail employee.
I think CC is just in a tough spot. With the low margin business they are in its difficult to pay people well, and its hard to pay people nothing and get competent, happy employees. Expect CC to follow CompUSA in the next few years.
Im sure they can find other ways of recouping the costs - not just traffic tickets but how about using Guiliani's method (when he was mayor of NYC) of using RICO to impound suspected drunk drivers cars. You had better watch your driving with one of these things flying over, because the brilliance of using RICO is that you don't have to be found guilty in a criminal court to lose your car. I bet they could make up the cost fairly quickly.
How can you even remember that long ago? I haven't the slighted recollection on how I ended up at slashdot ... funny Im here ten years later :)
... made it easier to remember. The good ole days of working phone tech support, making no money, but surfing the web and sitting on slashdot all day ...
Strangely enough I think the fact that it was a weird name (with no www, nonetheless) that kept me here
NeXTStep was only acquired about a decade ago, so I think your numbers are a bit off. OS X Server came out in 1999, about two years after NeXT was purchased.
While no doubt the loss of RDA (and he really left after season 7 and just kinda phoned it in season 8) was a big loss I still think there have been some really highly rated episodes since then (Im bad with names ... but I recall seeing a few of the season 9/10 episodes in the list of top 10 fan rated episodes). Personally I like the Ori and think they are a decent enemy mostly because of their creepiness and power. "Bad ancients" is just a way for them to continue to have a more powerful enemy in spite of the advancements that earth made.
.. a bit of a reboot .. but I'd argue that its still pretty good. Browder is no RDA ... but his character is alright. And I think Claudia Black is fun.
It might be a different show
I think the reason you see that is that people with strong tech chops and people/leadership skills are few and far between. So, what you end up with are techie managers who can't lead or manage ... or non techies who don't know what the heck they are doing. Pick your poison.
If you think of Sony as just a console maker, then the PS3 isn't doing all that well, but if you think of it as a device to push Blu-Ray its doing great. I don't think Sony is as dumb as everyone else thinks they are. They just sold another 100k plus Blu-Ray players. In the end they will drop the PS3 price to something sort of reasonable and sell plenty of them. They can make it through the first year or so by reputation alone pushing game developers to create for the platform.
Of course if they do too poorly in sales then eventually the games will dry up and they will have won the next gen format war at the cost of their gaming platform. I wonder how much they care?
The Vail school district (unlike neighboring TUSD) is heavily Mac. These will be iBooks unless plans have changed (and I seriously doubt they have).
Yea, thats why the parents can just pay for Apple's insurance on the things. I don't remember the exact number, but its something like 50 bucks.
I wonder how well MCSEs are going to do with a fleet of white iBooks? Because thats what these are.
You mean free development tools and operating systems for students like this?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/defaul
(they donated this to us - forget about that so called fee - and many others)
While I definitely see a big variety among different microwave popcorn vendors in terms of yield in the microwave - Ive noticed that taking the leftover kernels (what can I say, Im a cheapskate) and then later putting them in the air popper will drastically improve your results. I typically have maybe 5 or 6 KERNELs of popcorn out of 3 or 4 bags total that wont end up popped when going this route.
:)
And actually it tastes better than your typical styrofoam air popped bag popcorn anyway - it has the grease, salt, and butter already built in. It does make the popper machine a little dirty, but they can be washed.
Enjoy
Well, Im obviously late getting back to this one - but I simply picked some very highly rated movies from IMDB (I don't actually agree with the top 250 for a lot of the movies - but tastes are different). Im sure if I had to I could find more than nine ... you sound like my HS English teacher ..
... but the fact is that they spent just as much effort (or more) on those sfx filled movies like Ben Hur as they did on Attack of the Clones. There isn't some magic thing that makes movies with special effects suck. And people liked them enough to give them high ratings, so ....
I can't really argue with "well this movie is too old" or "the story sucked"
Btw - its a testament to just how good the SFX in Gump were that you didn't even notice just how many there were. Most of the movie is effects.
So perhaps Im misunderstanding your post, but if no good hollywood movies are big FX fests how do you explain:
...
...
LOTR (all three)
The Matrix
2001
Jaws (not a big FX by modern standards obviously - but it was for its day a big sfx filled hollywood movie)
Aliens
Blade Runner
Forrest Gump (just because its not sf doesn't mean it didn't have a lot of special effects)
Terminator/Terminator 2
Ben-Hur
and probably others
Hell, I thought Empire out of the Star Wars series had a good storyline
Now Im not saying any of these are necessarily high culture, but "sucks"?
(I just grabbed these from the IMDB Top 250 as some I liked - by no means an inclusive list - just a popular one)
Despite the fact that this is probably the last season being abandoned on a Friday night ... I think Enterprise is finally hitting its groove. I know everyone has their opinion, but while it isn't comparable to the very best of DS9 or even TNG, its certainly miles ahead of Voyager in terms of quality. I don't think its the casting that's necessarily weak - but probably more the characters. Still, TNG didn't have characters as good as TOS ... and DS9 was weaker than TNG until they brought Worf aboard. It took Avery Brooks until probably Season 3 or 4 to really start getting into Sisko ... he wasn't like Patrick Stewart who had a great screen presence almost from the beginning (sorry, it took me a while to get used to the bald captain :) ). Voyager never .. NEVER had good characters .. at least the new series has Hoshi :) And really there isn't anyone groan inducing like Neelix (which is strange - because the doctor kind of reminds me of him - just not annoying) or Nog from DS9 or Wesley (sorry Wil .. still think *you're* cool) from TNG.
... go back and watch enterprise lately .. I think they are doing a great job. Not as good as it could be, and certainly not as "cool" (now the in thing is to be anti Star Trek) as Battlestar (now that we decided not to kill anyone for a female Starbuck and human cylons) or Stargate (but not Atlantis, because thats NOT cool in the eyes of the SF culture police) ... but they are making it entertaining at least ...
Seriously