I must have crossed the border into adulthood somewhere back there because I would never pay that much for a performance uptick in a video game. I can get myself a nice new laptop for that cash, and it would be still be proficient at 90% of today's games.
"Of all places, the police department is not a workplace where one should have to be concerned about an unscrupulous fellow employee." commented FBI Assistant Director in Charge George Venizelos.
Hmm, let me fix that for you, Mr Venizelos:
"Of all places, the police department is the workplace where one should be most concerned about an unscrupulous fellow employee."
1) Make copycat Internet company (say... copy Pandora) 2) Name it after a verb with a grammatically incorrect "er" (how about... Castr) 3) Get bought by Yahoo 4) Profit!
I came here to ask this.... although I was going to go with something along the lines of "What makes you think we need another vampire movie"
Of course, lets take a look at the movies we can be expecting soon... Another Superman movie (Man of steel), Fast and Furious 6 (AKA return of the dead characters), Hangover 3, Thor 2, Jurassic Park 4, Star Trek Into Darkness (reboot part deux), and on and on. Why do we even expect new stuff anymore?
If I understand the release correctly, this will mean that MariaDB will continue with organizational support from SkySQL. Sounds like they are well on the road to being the top MySQL "distribution" which is good reassurance for making the switch.
All of this assumes that the complexity of life, as he defines it, increases at a relatively constant rate. There is no reason that this has to be true. Environmental effects on organisms increases selective pressure and causes evolution to progress at a faster rate. Cataclysmic events happen every now and then and causes extinctions and hardship on surviving organisms. Seems pretty uneven to me...
It's a Firefox addon. Check it out. Also Adblock Plus. With those two installed and running, things get a lot safer. Of course, NoScript requires a bit of savvy to be able to browse the web correctly. You might have to help. Otherwise, tell them to bring their own darn laptop.
There's no reason to think that. Even though Chrome and Safari both use webkit components, they are not the same browser and they don't necessarily even act the same... even now. Google could have already done what you describe, but they didn't. Web standards were far less important when IE came about than they are now. For Google to go non standard would be an incredible shock and is unlikely IMHO.
I am also pretty sure the money will never be awarded. But that's because MAGIC ISN'T REAL. I haven't seen that program you mention, but it is very hard to do Good Science on a television show. It's too boring. That is probably why Randi didn't play along.
Which things really surprised you by how well, or poorly, they blended?
Tom: Honestly, there were actually few things that surprised me because I have been blending things in my blenders for years. But there have been many really fun, and scary ones for safety reasons. That’s why we make sure to place “Do Not Try This At Home” on all of our videos.
Who. Friggin. Cares. Way to tell me nothing. If I was a teacher and this was submitted to a free response question on a quiz, I would give an F.
This nonsense is merely a result of defense contractors managing to convince the decision-makers that this kind of capability is necessary. Some imagined threat of "cyberwarfare" (that at most could do about the same damage to the United States as a widespread power outage) is used to justify spending untold billions on a division of... what? Are these people supposed to be hackers? information gatherers? Cyber-warriors just sounds cool I guess. Let's go through the fundamentals: Who is the enemy? What threat do they pose? What damages have we suffered in the past that could have been prevented? What kind of damage could be inflicted using what weapons, exactly? What does international law say about this activity? How closely can this related to actual war? I doubt lawmaker in that hearing could answer any of those questions accurately.
As if American companies like Google aren't already leading experts in online security. Google is full of smart people, they can take care of their own front gate.
We live in an exciting time. Stuxnet opened Pandora's box, so-to-speak. However for all that technology, I'm more worried about lunatics with assault rifles. That stuff is REAL.
With the current state of things, computers and electronics are ubiquitous, cheap, and rapidly evolving. At this point, I consider machines from the era to be essentially trash, even when they can function well enough using your favorite distro. They take up too much space and use too much power, and they struggle to handle the world's new common platform: HTML+CSS+js. They will also accelerate down the slide to obsolescence much faster than newer equipment over an equal period of time.
I feel like dumping those things on charities is just giving them a burden. They may have to spend money to put the machines to use, and they will have to take care of throwing them away soon enough. I say use your energy to find a good recycler so that the metals in those old junkers might be reclaimed for tomorrow's tech.
I can't see from work but is this anything more than a pick-and-place machine? For home made circuit boards, that is hardly the bottleneck. Etching and drilling is the part that needs machine precision.
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I must have crossed the border into adulthood somewhere back there because I would never pay that much for a performance uptick in a video game. I can get myself a nice new laptop for that cash, and it would be still be proficient at 90% of today's games.
See what happens.
Don't forget the "music career" with that tasteless music video!
From TFA:
"Of all places, the police department is not a workplace where one should have to be concerned about an unscrupulous fellow employee." commented FBI Assistant Director in Charge George Venizelos.
Hmm, let me fix that for you, Mr Venizelos:
"Of all places, the police department is the workplace where one should be most concerned about an unscrupulous fellow employee."
Glad I could help.
1) Make copycat Internet company (say... copy Pandora)
2) Name it after a verb with a grammatically incorrect "er" (how about... Castr)
3) Get bought by Yahoo
4) Profit!
Can we be over zombies now, too? pretty please?
I came here to ask this.... although I was going to go with something along the lines of "What makes you think we need another vampire movie"
Of course, lets take a look at the movies we can be expecting soon... Another Superman movie (Man of steel), Fast and Furious 6 (AKA return of the dead characters), Hangover 3, Thor 2, Jurassic Park 4, Star Trek Into Darkness (reboot part deux), and on and on. Why do we even expect new stuff anymore?
If I understand the release correctly, this will mean that MariaDB will continue with organizational support from SkySQL. Sounds like they are well on the road to being the top MySQL "distribution" which is good reassurance for making the switch.
Easily one of my top 3 favorite Futurama episodes!
I still read this fine magazine: Circuit Cellar
It's worth it.
All of this assumes that the complexity of life, as he defines it, increases at a relatively constant rate. There is no reason that this has to be true. Environmental effects on organisms increases selective pressure and causes evolution to progress at a faster rate. Cataclysmic events happen every now and then and causes extinctions and hardship on surviving organisms. Seems pretty uneven to me...
Funny how we call helium a scarce resource... it's the 2nd most common element in the Universe.
I wonder how he tested the radio link. That would be the main technical challenge, I would think.
It's a Firefox addon. Check it out. Also Adblock Plus. With those two installed and running, things get a lot safer. Of course, NoScript requires a bit of savvy to be able to browse the web correctly. You might have to help. Otherwise, tell them to bring their own darn laptop.
There's no reason to think that. Even though Chrome and Safari both use webkit components, they are not the same browser and they don't necessarily even act the same... even now. Google could have already done what you describe, but they didn't. Web standards were far less important when IE came about than they are now. For Google to go non standard would be an incredible shock and is unlikely IMHO.
I am also pretty sure the money will never be awarded. But that's because MAGIC ISN'T REAL.
I haven't seen that program you mention, but it is very hard to do Good Science on a television show. It's too boring. That is probably why Randi didn't play along.
The concept of improving consumer listening experience using studio quality recording has been thoroughly debunked, right here on Slashdot...
Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless
AT&T publishes the addresses on the web, even though they aren't advertised, they are essentially free to anyone who knows where to look.
Guy finds it, attempts to blow the whistle
Guy is criminal, AT&T takes no liability
Justice!
It did not.
which ones surprised you
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Which things really surprised you by how well, or poorly, they blended?
Tom: Honestly, there were actually few things that surprised me because I have been blending things in my blenders for years. But there have been many really fun, and scary ones for safety reasons. That’s why we make sure to place “Do Not Try This At Home” on all of our videos.
Who. Friggin. Cares.
Way to tell me nothing. If I was a teacher and this was submitted to a free response question on a quiz, I would give an F.
This nonsense is merely a result of defense contractors managing to convince the decision-makers that this kind of capability is necessary. Some imagined threat of "cyberwarfare" (that at most could do about the same damage to the United States as a widespread power outage) is used to justify spending untold billions on a division of... what? Are these people supposed to be hackers? information gatherers? Cyber-warriors just sounds cool I guess. Let's go through the fundamentals: Who is the enemy? What threat do they pose? What damages have we suffered in the past that could have been prevented? What kind of damage could be inflicted using what weapons, exactly? What does international law say about this activity? How closely can this related to actual war? I doubt lawmaker in that hearing could answer any of those questions accurately.
As if American companies like Google aren't already leading experts in online security. Google is full of smart people, they can take care of their own front gate.
We live in an exciting time. Stuxnet opened Pandora's box, so-to-speak. However for all that technology, I'm more worried about lunatics with assault rifles. That stuff is REAL.
With the current state of things, computers and electronics are ubiquitous, cheap, and rapidly evolving. At this point, I consider machines from the era to be essentially trash, even when they can function well enough using your favorite distro. They take up too much space and use too much power, and they struggle to handle the world's new common platform: HTML+CSS+js. They will also accelerate down the slide to obsolescence much faster than newer equipment over an equal period of time.
I feel like dumping those things on charities is just giving them a burden. They may have to spend money to put the machines to use, and they will have to take care of throwing them away soon enough. I say use your energy to find a good recycler so that the metals in those old junkers might be reclaimed for tomorrow's tech.
Tau Day
I can't see from work but is this anything more than a pick-and-place machine? For home made circuit boards, that is hardly the bottleneck. Etching and drilling is the part that needs machine precision.
What do you expect, with the business environment that we are working. They would work on the flying cars if they thought they could sell any of them.