Wow, thanks for the perspective; I never had, or knew anybody that had, the resources to own an Amiga (although we did get a Commodore 64), and didn't end up using a machine running Windows until the mid 90's because of my job, so I never got to personally make that comparison.
That's too bad--it sounds like all the data about sex life is self-reported, so if they did comment on whether the sex was consensual, I'm sure it would totally be a valid conclusion. After all, bad boys would never be inclined to lie about their sexual conquests and prowess on a study questionnaire.
I believe this would be the first time I've seen a flood of top-level posts all saying the same thing (ZOMG IT'S TEH EMBRACE,EXTEND,EXTINGUISHZORZ!!!1), all of them marked +3,4,5 Interesting/Insightful, instead of -1 Redundant. But then again maybe I just haven't paid attention to all the MS stories.
...I'm getting pretty sick of the trend of buying a physical product and being limited in what I'm allowed to do with it. It would appear that anyone who feels that way is in a minority so small that companies making physical products don't care.
I'm guessing she meant that women are more collaborative with other women. IMHO, however, if they have something to compete over, women can be just as "bad" as men in terms of the now (apparently) inherently evil attribute of "competitiveness."
Of course, maybe we could just evaluate individuals on their own merits, and classify people as "good coders" based on their actual performance instead of pre-loading biases into our expectations based on their sex, skin color, or religion. It's probably too crazy an idea to actually try, though.
Wow, and all this time I've been cursing the database and its creators for an hour before it gives me a straight answer. This could double my productivity!
Yea we do, the outer layers aren't much hotter than say the core of a nuclear reactor. Zoinks! Where is this reactor whose core consists of molten uranium alloy? I want to know so I can stay far, far away.
I don't know about gas-cooled reactors, but even the hottest bits inside water cooled reactors probably don't even get close to 1500F. The sun's surface is what, nearly 10,000F? Maybe 8000F on a shady day in a sunspot?
Somehow I get the feeling that, a short time after the expansion comes out, it will be just like it is now. Every time I step into a PvP event, I'll be facing a team of basement-dwellers that can (somehow) afford to grind rep/honor/arena points/badges 20 hours a day, so they're wearing the best possible gear in the game. Every time I'm out trying to quest, similar people with winning personalities will take great pleasure in blasting the shit out of me with their tier-whatever or uber-gladiator gear, with no fear whatsoever that I'll be able to beat them.
I really don't know if there's any way to make WoW work any differently without pissing off a large portion of their paying customers, but I hope they can come up with something to make it less painful for those of us that can't live in the game.
Yep, and I'm sure the video game industry doesn't mind his followers burning stuff they've already bought. If they ever decide to "turn back to their own vomit^H^H^H^H^Hvideo games and rap albums" in the future, they'll have to buy them all over again. Hell, the *IAA will be thrilled, because they'll be burning them instead of giving them away to their friends.;)
I recall seeing a documentary once (too lazy to look it up now to verify the story) that claimed William Tyndale's production of bibles in the 16th century was funded by angry religious authorities trying to stop their production. For every bible they bought to burn, Tyndale made enough money to make four more.
So I find it a little humorous that here in the 20th century we still have clergy indirectly funding the institutions they rail against. Not surprising (because people are still pretty much the same as they were 500 years ago), but humorous.
Not desktop apps, but Apple has a put good effort into OSS server and network apps.
http://www.macosforge.org/ Yeah, OSS server and network apps ported just so they'll run on OS X, which seems to be in line with what the AC you replied to was getting at.
It seems to me there's a non-trivial effort required to make a lot of OSS work on a Mac, as witnessed by the need for some Mac developer to custom-build every OSS project under the sun and post the MacThis, MacThat, MacTheOther installers on obscure web pages. The "configure;make;make install" dance never seemed to "just work" for me.
Queue "you're doing it wrong" responses in 5,4,3...
Even if economies of scale get the price down to $10 million per km the cost will be $4 billion. Let me see if I can convert that to units I can understand...I guess Libraries of Congress per second, Olympic Swimming Pools, and rods per hogshead have the wrong dimensions... how about 0.02 Wars on Terror, 10 bridges to nowhere, or 20 unmanned space probes?
First you need to write a domain-specific language on top of Lisp, and perhaps name it "Extraneous Xtension of Lisp," and *then* port it to Silverlight.
Then you can become the first Microsoft-Certified provider of AEXLAX web apps.
I think Gene Ray is somebody that enjoys gets his jollies thinking about how many people ask that question, and/or is one of those folks that has learned that woo-believers and conspiracy theorists will shell out money if you have a book/DVD/website and come give lectures to their little group.
If your brain thinks the words on that website make any kind of logical sense, then I don't think you'd be capable of learning how to use a computer well enough to manage a website, so I don't think the author is a true believer in...whatever he's talking about.
I welcome the idea that those with healthy lifestyles shouldn't be subsidizing those with unhealthy lifestyles. Plus, there is then an obvious economic incentive to become healthier. Maybe I'm just naive, but it seems to me that the *only* way to prevent healthy people from having to subsidize unhealthy people is to (1) allow health care providers to refuse to treat unhealthy people, AND (2) make everybody pay for their own health care. Anything less than that will involve some hidden subsidization via taxes, etc. (Please note I'm not saying I think it should work that way, just that subsidization is always going to be part of health care).
Also, sometimes bad health has nothing to do with having an unhealthy lifestyle. It seems to me that "giving an obvious economic incentive to become healthier" will also have the unintended consequence of economically punishing people who got an unlucky roll of the genetic dice.
So there's the "how and where do I go to make hobo meat edible" adventure-quest element... I think it might be worth buying just to see how that plays out...
Oh ye gods...that means my capacity for catching humor is on par with the average Slashdot moderator...I'm not exactly sure what that means but it's probably a sign I need to go outside in the sun for a while or something.
Why would somebody who has the ability to earn more than four times the national average wage go into a job that earns less than the average wage? Yep, that's damn sure one of the big reasons I'm not interested in being a teacher once I finish my graduate degree. If I wanted to deal with children telling me what to do and get paid peanuts for it I'd go back to software development.;)
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I'd say it held it back if anything.
<snip interesting timeline>Wow, thanks for the perspective; I never had, or knew anybody that had, the resources to own an Amiga (although we did get a Commodore 64), and didn't end up using a machine running Windows until the mid 90's because of my job, so I never got to personally make that comparison.
That's too bad--it sounds like all the data about sex life is self-reported, so if they did comment on whether the sex was consensual, I'm sure it would totally be a valid conclusion. After all, bad boys would never be inclined to lie about their sexual conquests and prowess on a study questionnaire.
I believe this would be the first time I've seen a flood of top-level posts all saying the same thing (ZOMG IT'S TEH EMBRACE,EXTEND,EXTINGUISHZORZ!!!1), all of them marked +3,4,5 Interesting/Insightful, instead of -1 Redundant. But then again maybe I just haven't paid attention to all the MS stories.
...I'm getting pretty sick of the trend of buying a physical product and being limited in what I'm allowed to do with it. It would appear that anyone who feels that way is in a minority so small that companies making physical products don't care.I'm guessing she meant that women are more collaborative with other women. IMHO, however, if they have something to compete over, women can be just as "bad" as men in terms of the now (apparently) inherently evil attribute of "competitiveness."
Of course, maybe we could just evaluate individuals on their own merits, and classify people as "good coders" based on their actual performance instead of pre-loading biases into our expectations based on their sex, skin color, or religion. It's probably too crazy an idea to actually try, though.
Wow, and all this time I've been cursing the database and its creators for an hour before it gives me a straight answer. This could double my productivity!
I don't know about gas-cooled reactors, but even the hottest bits inside water cooled reactors probably don't even get close to 1500F. The sun's surface is what, nearly 10,000F? Maybe 8000F on a shady day in a sunspot?
I think it's pretty safe to tag every MMO article as "moreofthesame" by default.
Somehow I get the feeling that, a short time after the expansion comes out, it will be just like it is now. Every time I step into a PvP event, I'll be facing a team of basement-dwellers that can (somehow) afford to grind rep/honor/arena points/badges 20 hours a day, so they're wearing the best possible gear in the game. Every time I'm out trying to quest, similar people with winning personalities will take great pleasure in blasting the shit out of me with their tier-whatever or uber-gladiator gear, with no fear whatsoever that I'll be able to beat them.
I really don't know if there's any way to make WoW work any differently without pissing off a large portion of their paying customers, but I hope they can come up with something to make it less painful for those of us that can't live in the game.
Yep, and I'm sure the video game industry doesn't mind his followers burning stuff they've already bought. If they ever decide to "turn back to their own vomit^H^H^H^H^Hvideo games and rap albums" in the future, they'll have to buy them all over again. Hell, the *IAA will be thrilled, because they'll be burning them instead of giving them away to their friends. ;)
I recall seeing a documentary once (too lazy to look it up now to verify the story) that claimed William Tyndale's production of bibles in the 16th century was funded by angry religious authorities trying to stop their production. For every bible they bought to burn, Tyndale made enough money to make four more.
So I find it a little humorous that here in the 20th century we still have clergy indirectly funding the institutions they rail against. Not surprising (because people are still pretty much the same as they were 500 years ago), but humorous.
http://www.macosforge.org/ Yeah, OSS server and network apps ported just so they'll run on OS X, which seems to be in line with what the AC you replied to was getting at.
It seems to me there's a non-trivial effort required to make a lot of OSS work on a Mac, as witnessed by the need for some Mac developer to custom-build every OSS project under the sun and post the MacThis, MacThat, MacTheOther installers on obscure web pages. The "configure;make;make install" dance never seemed to "just work" for me.
Queue "you're doing it wrong" responses in 5,4,3...
...because I have no fucking clue what KOTOR is?
First you need to write a domain-specific language on top of Lisp, and perhaps name it "Extraneous Xtension of Lisp," and *then* port it to Silverlight.
Then you can become the first Microsoft-Certified provider of AEXLAX web apps.
I think Gene Ray is somebody that enjoys gets his jollies thinking about how many people ask that question, and/or is one of those folks that has learned that woo-believers and conspiracy theorists will shell out money if you have a book/DVD/website and come give lectures to their little group.
If your brain thinks the words on that website make any kind of logical sense, then I don't think you'd be capable of learning how to use a computer well enough to manage a website, so I don't think the author is a true believer in...whatever he's talking about.
Also, sometimes bad health has nothing to do with having an unhealthy lifestyle. It seems to me that "giving an obvious economic incentive to become healthier" will also have the unintended consequence of economically punishing people who got an unlucky roll of the genetic dice.
But what's the current state of the art of telling whether a "photo" is created from scratch?
That particular brand of Kool-Aid is served in a lot more places than Redmond...
It's ok, I'm sure there's a participation medal for run-on sentences!
Oh ye gods...that means my capacity for catching humor is on par with the average Slashdot moderator...I'm not exactly sure what that means but it's probably a sign I need to go outside in the sun for a while or something.
Oops, posting 1 minute after the actual first post is waaay too subtle for me. Sorry for being an idiot.
Might as well...you know he'll already be on the DHS watch list just for the rockets and chemistry set.