I can only hope that Google hires some gymnastic girls in tights to defend their site. I also look forward to Bill Gates sitting in a big chair petting his white cat giving orders for his commandos to attack it.
Just think, all that hardware and $ just to store millions of "Me too!" replies off of the web.
File sharing is flat along with the rest of the recording industry. Maybe because most of the music and movies they are pushing are repetitive and tiresome? Cookie cutter hip-hop, American Idol pseudo Vegas acts and movie takeoffs of TV shows (or worse, pointless remakes i.e. The Omen) are the problem. If I were them I'd be very worried that people aren't even willing to take your product for free.
Based on the huge amount of porn available out there I'd say the number of people who have bought it is only slightly higher than the number of people who have appeared in it.
When I worked in Cambridge, Mass, I was near enough to MIT to see what a coworker and I called "The Cult of Richard Stallman". It consisted of the occasional solitary pudgy male wearing at least a too-tight black t-shirt if not all black. The t-shirt usually had a computer reference on it (usually a Linux penguin) or an anime image. An unkempt and long beard and hair were requirements.
Since I never talked to one of these guys I can't say for certain if any of them has ever said "Worst episode ever!".
I'm no geologist but from what I gather for metals to be profitably mined requires deposits with high enough concentrations of the metal to make it worth while. Iron can be found almost everywhere but in certain places it is so concentrated that it is much cheaper to mine and extract (i.e. hematite deposits around the US Great Lakes). Many metal deposits come from place that have experienced volcanic activity in the past where superheated water has carried metal compounds in solution through cracks in rocks. Ultimately you get metal ore "veins". The copper deposits in Cyprus are an example of this . They may have been fundemental to the advancement of civilization in that area. Another hot spot for copper is the Andes which are also riddled with volcanoes. Iron deposits are even older and many were formed by the reduction of iron in water when the first oxygen producing bacteria and algae appeared on earth. The iron deposits around the Great Lakes and in Sweden are in very old rocks. Sweden also happens to be a good source for rare earth metals.
Diamonds are another material that depends on volcanic activity but it requires powerful upwellings of material from near the upper mantle to bring them up. These deposits either have to be mined (South Africa) or can get eroded and washed into river deposits (West Africa).
You won't get metallic lumps of iron (except in meteorites) due to the ease it oxidizes but you can find lumps of copper, silver, and gold in things like quartz viens.
I think the UK's iron industry is not due to the location of Iron (they can get that from Sweden) but due to the coal deposits in Wales that provide the other part of the equation for smelting, energy.
Personally, one thing I'd like to know is why certain places have deposits of uranium. Why just that and not, say, copper too? How did it become seperated from other ores to such a degree?
Environmentally friendly isn't just for making tree huggers like me happy, it generally means the elimination of waste, expensive materials, and extra processing that means greater efficiency and lower costs. Chemical plants and foundries are full of nasty processes that can kill or injure employees or even neighbors. Then there are all of old plants that have left toxic swaths of land behind, usually in areas that once were the outskirts of cities but today are smack-dab in the middle of suburbs. The cost of cleaning these up is generally left to the public (tax $) since usually the companies have long since folded. Researchers like Sadoway are helping make industry not just better for the environment (which includes us) but it is also good for profits.
Most consumer goods that use Ti are made from stamped pieces with a minimal amount of spot welding. Ti consumer goods are already ridiculously expensive without adding in the cost of inert gas welds.
What's the problem? Tonawanda NY has plenty of room for more dirty, ugly plants. It is no coincidence that many aluminum plants are up there (and near Oak Ridge TN). Bring 'em on!
No critical military systems are unmonitored and Windows dependent. My experience with government systems (including military) is that important systems are 99% of the time Unix or some archaic OS (like Unisys) and the code is C, Ada, or something along those lines.
I'll also toss in my 10 cents in favor of Lian-Li. I researched parts for my last pc obsessively and went with their PC-60B. It is a beautifully simple case with lots of effort put into the important areas and the fluff left out. It is a simple black which many drive manufactures have as an option so you can find matching parts easily. It would be easy to fix scratches on the black paintjob also.
It has plenty of external and internal space for the vast majority of builders and the construction (aluminum) feels solid. Parts come together snugly with no sloppy joints and thumb screws are included. Construction was painless (literally with the edge guards). The front fan is filtered and sits directly in front of the drive cage which is good design. It doesn't have a motherboard tray but how often do most builders swap out motherboards anyway? There is space for an extra fan on top (back and front fans included) and it has also the basic external ports in a hidden panel on the bottom-front.
If I had to give any criticism of it I'd have to say I wish it was a bit deeper so there was more room for cables to pass between components. I'd also like to have some sort of gasket for the power supply hole since my Aerocool power supply leaves a 1/5" gap between the case and itself in the back.
I'll also eventually add some sort of light behind the front power switch to make it stand out from the case (black on black).
"...screw this man, the Lieutenant is a dick making me wash trucks all weekend."
"That's nothing, I just got told they're thinking of redeploying me AGAIN."
"You've only been here a year, right? Damn If I wasn't this close to being able to get a pension I'd tell them to stick their reenlistment papers up thier..."
You must've had a lot of in-house support if they treated developers like that. That is, most of the environments I've worked in required having to do many tasks considered admin jobs and these required getting in as root (usually sudo'ing). Even for satellite control systems I was constantly going in as root for drive admin, installs, etc. It would've taken twice as long to do anything if I had to rely on getting a hold of a full-time admin, submit a request, wait for them to take care of it, get a confirmation, try it out, etc.
Then you have to make popcorn at the concessions stand, over and over again. Tons of it. Until you get a "Movie Viewer" skill level of 50. You could always just go out and pay a guy on Ebay to come and get a seat for you too.
That's what happens when you start with a game and then write a story to justify it. Just like George Lucas created a few movies then tried to shoehorn a series of movies around it.
I'll stick to games with rational, clear storylines like Donkey Kong. "You are a plumber who runs up ramps avoiding flaming barrels thrown by a raging giant, princess kidnapping, gorilla."
The feds will take serious action only if they are told the following:
1. Spam is violating copyrights and trademarks 2. Spam supports Islamic terrorists and drug dealers (the only two issues that generate funds anymore) 3. Spam hurts conservative Christian fundementalist political donors 4. Kids see naughty pictures. Please think of the children!
Telling them that spam is making the lives of most Americans difficult, funding criminal organizations, committing widescale fraud, and costing companies money obviously isn't sufficiently persuasive.
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He was misquoted...
"I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"
What he really said was:
"I would never ship a game"
I can only hope that Google hires some gymnastic girls in tights to defend their site. I also look forward to Bill Gates sitting in a big chair petting his white cat giving orders for his commandos to attack it.
Just think, all that hardware and $ just to store millions of "Me too!" replies off of the web.
It helps your rig budget if you get free parts for evaluation from vendors.
He actually said, "Mankind must get me the hell out of this chair"
File sharing is flat along with the rest of the recording industry. Maybe because most of the music and movies they are pushing are repetitive and tiresome? Cookie cutter hip-hop, American Idol pseudo Vegas acts and movie takeoffs of TV shows (or worse, pointless remakes i.e. The Omen) are the problem. If I were them I'd be very worried that people aren't even willing to take your product for free.
Based on the huge amount of porn available out there I'd say the number of people who have bought it is only slightly higher than the number of people who have appeared in it.
Sorry but Simon and Garfunkel already published their research on this.
When I worked in Cambridge, Mass, I was near enough to MIT to see what a coworker and I called "The Cult of Richard Stallman". It consisted of the occasional solitary pudgy male wearing at least a too-tight black t-shirt if not all black. The t-shirt usually had a computer reference on it (usually a Linux penguin) or an anime image. An unkempt and long beard and hair were requirements.
Since I never talked to one of these guys I can't say for certain if any of them has ever said "Worst episode ever!".
The really sad thing is that people who are middle-eastern or non-white & middle class will also treat you preferentially.
I'm no geologist but from what I gather for metals to be profitably mined requires deposits with high enough concentrations of the metal to make it worth while. Iron can be found almost everywhere but in certain places it is so concentrated that it is much cheaper to mine and extract (i.e. hematite deposits around the US Great Lakes). Many metal deposits come from place that have experienced volcanic activity in the past where superheated water has carried metal compounds in solution through cracks in rocks. Ultimately you get metal ore "veins". The copper deposits in Cyprus are an example of this . They may have been fundemental to the advancement of civilization in that area. Another hot spot for copper is the Andes which are also riddled with volcanoes. Iron deposits are even older and many were formed by the reduction of iron in water when the first oxygen producing bacteria and algae appeared on earth. The iron deposits around the Great Lakes and in Sweden are in very old rocks. Sweden also happens to be a good source for rare earth metals.
Diamonds are another material that depends on volcanic activity but it requires powerful upwellings of material from near the upper mantle to bring them up. These deposits either have to be mined (South Africa) or can get eroded and washed into river deposits (West Africa).
You won't get metallic lumps of iron (except in meteorites) due to the ease it oxidizes but you can find lumps of copper, silver, and gold in things like quartz viens.
I think the UK's iron industry is not due to the location of Iron (they can get that from Sweden) but due to the coal deposits in Wales that provide the other part of the equation for smelting, energy.
Personally, one thing I'd like to know is why certain places have deposits of uranium. Why just that and not, say, copper too? How did it become seperated from other ores to such a degree?
Environmentally friendly isn't just for making tree huggers like me happy, it generally means the elimination of waste, expensive materials, and extra processing that means greater efficiency and lower costs. Chemical plants and foundries are full of nasty processes that can kill or injure employees or even neighbors. Then there are all of old plants that have left toxic swaths of land behind, usually in areas that once were the outskirts of cities but today are smack-dab in the middle of suburbs. The cost of cleaning these up is generally left to the public (tax $) since usually the companies have long since folded. Researchers like Sadoway are helping make industry not just better for the environment (which includes us) but it is also good for profits.
I think you'd see a lot of effort put into keeping Ti welds to a minimum in the first place by using more cast and stamped pieces.
Seeing as you seem to be pretty familiar with metallurgy, how does cast Ti stand up in terms of strength and brittleness?
Most consumer goods that use Ti are made from stamped pieces with a minimal amount of spot welding. Ti consumer goods are already ridiculously expensive without adding in the cost of inert gas welds.
What's the problem? Tonawanda NY has plenty of room for more dirty, ugly plants. It is no coincidence that many aluminum plants are up there (and near Oak Ridge TN). Bring 'em on!
No critical military systems are unmonitored and Windows dependent. My experience with government systems (including military) is that important systems are 99% of the time Unix or some archaic OS (like Unisys) and the code is C, Ada, or something along those lines.
Only administrative systems would use windows.
President: "I'm starved. I'd kill for a bannanna right now."
Aide: "Yes sir, I'll get right on it."
I'd like to see them start naming chips after parts of the Maine coast. The "Herring Gut"-anium CPU would kick ass.
"That's because, as a rule, european folk have enough problems that most people see no point in highlighting yet another."
I'm sure those Europeans will be crying themselves to sleep in their beach chairs while you are in your cubicle.
"but that's because every artist has a *monopoly* - like it or not - on his works"
Actually most artists don't own the rights to their own work. They have to sign them over to get a recording contract.
I'll also toss in my 10 cents in favor of Lian-Li. I researched parts for my last pc obsessively and went with their PC-60B. It is a beautifully simple case with lots of effort put into the important areas and the fluff left out. It is a simple black which many drive manufactures have as an option so you can find matching parts easily. It would be easy to fix scratches on the black paintjob also.
It has plenty of external and internal space for the vast majority of builders and the construction (aluminum) feels solid. Parts come together snugly with no sloppy joints and thumb screws are included. Construction was painless (literally with the edge guards). The front fan is filtered and sits directly in front of the drive cage which is good design. It doesn't have a motherboard tray but how often do most builders swap out motherboards anyway? There is space for an extra fan on top (back and front fans included) and it has also the basic external ports in a hidden panel on the bottom-front.
If I had to give any criticism of it I'd have to say I wish it was a bit deeper so there was more room for cables to pass between components. I'd also like to have some sort of gasket for the power supply hole since my Aerocool power supply leaves a 1/5" gap between the case and itself in the back.
I'll also eventually add some sort of light behind the front power switch to make it stand out from the case (black on black).
An example of a transcript of an audio feed:
--- START OF FEED ---
"...screw this man, the Lieutenant is a dick making me wash trucks all weekend."
"That's nothing, I just got told they're thinking of redeploying me AGAIN."
"You've only been here a year, right? Damn If I wasn't this close to being able to get a pension I'd tell them to stick their reenlistment papers up thier..."
--- FEED LOST ---
You must've had a lot of in-house support if they treated developers like that. That is, most of the environments I've worked in required having to do many tasks considered admin jobs and these required getting in as root (usually sudo'ing). Even for satellite control systems I was constantly going in as root for drive admin, installs, etc. It would've taken twice as long to do anything if I had to rely on getting a hold of a full-time admin, submit a request, wait for them to take care of it, get a confirmation, try it out, etc.
Then you have to make popcorn at the concessions stand, over and over again. Tons of it. Until you get a "Movie Viewer" skill level of 50. You could always just go out and pay a guy on Ebay to come and get a seat for you too.
That's what happens when you start with a game and then write a story to justify it. Just like George Lucas created a few movies then tried to shoehorn a series of movies around it.
I'll stick to games with rational, clear storylines like Donkey Kong. "You are a plumber who runs up ramps avoiding flaming barrels thrown by a raging giant, princess kidnapping, gorilla."
The feds will take serious action only if they are told the following:
1. Spam is violating copyrights and trademarks
2. Spam supports Islamic terrorists and drug dealers (the only two issues that generate funds anymore)
3. Spam hurts conservative Christian fundementalist political donors
4. Kids see naughty pictures. Please think of the children!
Telling them that spam is making the lives of most Americans difficult, funding criminal organizations, committing widescale fraud, and costing companies money obviously isn't sufficiently persuasive.