greece isn't bankrupt unless they stop paying the interests on their loans.
they're out of money, yes, but as long as they pay the interest rates they're not bankrupt.
USA isn't bankrupt either and it's had to see how it could be bankrupt when USA controls the creation of the money used to pay their interests, loans and other obligations.
sure, the money might lose it's value..
and if you want to look at a country that's out of money then look at venezuela. how did they make every company in the country look like they can't do anything? by forcing companies to sell at lower prices than what they can acquire goods at - and doing the same thing as a government.
it's not even hyper inflation that made them lose the goods in store.
and really if you don't think that the american government could just create 1000 trillion dollars out of thin air the you're an idiot - sure, the government would have to agree to do that, but that's the point of not having a dictatorship.
well the 10 billion spent has gone into private sector pockets. that's what spending in this case means. the military research spending is mostly a jobs program in USA, so the money stays mostly in USA.
better than wasting a trillion in Iraq anyway.
(I'm not a citizen of USA).
and now.. for the generals comment.. it's also money gone into his projects and paying his wage. but give the scenario of a war in the scale where this kind of stuff matters.
Here's an idea for how to spend the next 1 trillion in USA military better: just fucking educate your troops better, make the grunts have 3 year training. frigging conscript armies have longer training and they don't even expect to go to war. where as your grunts basically get just bootcamp and then it's to another culture to act effectively in the role of police, so it's rather ridiculous that the training hasn't been geared towards that. it's rather ridiculous that your mercenary grunts have such short and shoddy training(yeah it's a mercenary army, they're all getting paid and benefits and none of them were forced to be there at the moment).
or better yet use it to give your police a 5+ year training like any other proper 1st world country does(despite those countries paying their coppers less, while having higher minimum wages). does a lot more for your citizens safety. would do better for their safety as well, much more than just dumping military hardware on them with no training.
anyways, use it for training the coppers to be better with people, either the world coppers or the domestic. anyone can learn to shoot well in pretty much a weekend it's all the social interaction they end up in that's hard. who cares about the missile destroying an USA city scenario, which would change quite a lot in the world(and retaliation to which would again then need said educated coppers/soldiers).
I mean it's neat, because it's on such a crapp microcontroller.
the atmel avr used is pretty much an ancient microcontroller today. I mean, it's pretty much slower than the first pc our family had(8mhz x86 vs atmel 8mhz, or maybe 16, depends). our first pc also had a video card to take care about the graphics display and so forth...
sure, if you loaded an emulator on raspberry pi, I wouldn't give a shit or any props. but for this yes.
then there's software that uses GIT to fetch essential pieces of it to itself after you have already installed the software.... that's like double stupid. adding the dependency of git into the software itself.
you trusted those websites before this? that's funny, sorry.
my most worthless purchase from play store? GTA III, probably. why? i don't make lots of purchases from the android market, play market or whatever they want to call it this year.
and that had it's worth only brought down by the crappy sniping control, which made one mission way too hard.
if you want to carry this, you end up carrying more weight. you need to carry this, the binder and water too. freeze dried is sort of a lie, that's not really what was done to it.
just carrying margarita mixer powder and vodka would get you easier and with less to carry.
basically the only advantage to palcohol is potentially eating it, because there is no weight saving. it's not like pure spirits get any lighter, they're already pure(everclear). vodka is pure with water and the water you need to carry to hiking probably anyways.
just take a plastic bottle of vodka. or a baggie of vodka.
1) use a video hosting site such as youtube, vimeo, amazon or who the fucking ever.
2) OR host your own site. many popular online content creators do both, as their own site gives better advertising money BUT it's useless to try to find new viewers unless you're on youtube.
if you want to generate money, get on patreon. and keep the vids where they are, making exclusive content to patreon supporters is unlikely to generate too many new supporters so try to keep it all available anyways. if people like what you're doing, they'll chip in.
for example, look at how others are doing stuff.
punkeffect.com for one, cinemassacre for another, tested.com etc etc.
but if you get totally out of youtube, you'll lose 95% of your random viewers.
they used to call this EXTREME PROGRAMMING 12+ years ago and were pitting programming as pairs as the hottest thing since sliced bread.
just goes on to show that the teaching programming and how the programs should be structured and all that.. they don't know, so they just change whatever every year a little bit for sake of changing things and then when there's enough years it goes back in cycle, sometimes with a new name for the old thing. I think they were just calling it XP back then because there were athlon XP's and windows xp around..
unfortunately digital "agents" are still very much a thing with ask google and siri and cortana... the idea that you have an ai that knows better than what you want to do is stil very much alive, though not of course working at all like described.
"there's an open source driver that's not compatible with opengl for intels new gpu so that the intel gpu can now run a game described as RETRO by the ceo of one of the companies".
something like that. who cares. intels gpu's still are so crap that you can make headlines of playing a 10 year old game on them, just like their gpu's were crappy 10 years ago in similar fashion.
because if you _need_ an internet connection to play, it really makes little principal difference if you stream the games or if they run locally. you still need the internet connection.
instead, it was coming from any browser in the world that fetched a page(or rather, piece of tracking javascript code from baidu) _in_ china. they still would have only had to mitm the baidu.
and they probably already were sitting on the pipe to baidu or were able to divert the traffic. that's why people are saying that it's the state, because either it's the state OR baidus internet tap is hacked.
In some cases yes, in others just the patched exe works. And yes it is a great plan. It's precisely how c64, DOS and other classic games are played today.
except that your original c64 and ms dos games still work just fine(unless media got damaged). so a pretty shitty analogy. you find an unopened boxed star control II, ultima underworld or whatever... and you can play it just fine, it doesn't need a callback to home like many modern games that require steam for installation.
as to the promise of being able to download the final library if steam goes under.. HAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH HAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAH.
no bankruptcy trustee would ever let that happen really - and more than that would require new agreements from all the publishers anyways.
the good thing I suppose is that steam is profitable as itself so it doesn't look like it's going away any time soon. but let's say that sony bought it.... no fucking way they would let you download the games with drm stripped.
your plan is as good as this: just pirate the game in the first place. even then, I would recommend pirating the GoG version, since it comes with no drm.
also, if it was posted as news on CNN or whatever, sure yeah, a link to there would be worth it. but this year slashdot was just full of these fucking shitty old "jokes" that were posted only to slashdot. like, for april 1st slashdot turned into an original news site with no source attribution or nothing. shitty jokes with links to something that explains the joke and no other link in the summary(that is to say the "summary" became the article).
the point was that because your company used innovation tokens already then you need to stick to something old, leading to situation where you would use access 2000 to store data shown by a web front end generated by node.js, just because "well, can't have too much new stuff".
either you bought an already compromised tablet or you installed something suspect from the appstore.
and you can find out the offending app with free programs available from the appstore too, if you really can't remember what shit game you installed that it came with. if you don't have anything showing up on the application manager that you would guess to be the culprit, then your tablet came with the malware to begin with.
you know what's funny? slashdot runs apps on the mobile side that occasionally just forward you to another page that tries to get you to install a malware.apk.
if you want a system into which you can't install any apk if you so wish after setting the setting to do so, then too bad, buy an iphone or a microsoft phone.
anyways, you could report it to google. at least report what they're advertising. it is against the rules to do such popups you know.
(and if you can't take care of it wtf you're doing on slashdot anyways, if you can't uninstall 2015's purple monkey from your machine)
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greece isn't bankrupt unless they stop paying the interests on their loans.
they're out of money, yes, but as long as they pay the interest rates they're not bankrupt.
USA isn't bankrupt either and it's had to see how it could be bankrupt when USA controls the creation of the money used to pay their interests, loans and other obligations.
sure, the money might lose it's value..
and if you want to look at a country that's out of money then look at venezuela. how did they make every company in the country look like they can't do anything? by forcing companies to sell at lower prices than what they can acquire goods at - and doing the same thing as a government.
it's not even hyper inflation that made them lose the goods in store.
and really if you don't think that the american government could just create 1000 trillion dollars out of thin air the you're an idiot - sure, the government would have to agree to do that, but that's the point of not having a dictatorship.
well the 10 billion spent has gone into private sector pockets. that's what spending in this case means. the military research spending is mostly a jobs program in USA, so the money stays mostly in USA.
better than wasting a trillion in Iraq anyway.
(I'm not a citizen of USA).
and now.. for the generals comment.. it's also money gone into his projects and paying his wage. but give the scenario of a war in the scale where this kind of stuff matters.
Here's an idea for how to spend the next 1 trillion in USA military better: just fucking educate your troops better, make the grunts have 3 year training. frigging conscript armies have longer training and they don't even expect to go to war. where as your grunts basically get just bootcamp and then it's to another culture to act effectively in the role of police, so it's rather ridiculous that the training hasn't been geared towards that. it's rather ridiculous that your mercenary grunts have such short and shoddy training(yeah it's a mercenary army, they're all getting paid and benefits and none of them were forced to be there at the moment).
or better yet use it to give your police a 5+ year training like any other proper 1st world country does(despite those countries paying their coppers less, while having higher minimum wages). does a lot more for your citizens safety. would do better for their safety as well, much more than just dumping military hardware on them with no training.
anyways, use it for training the coppers to be better with people, either the world coppers or the domestic. anyone can learn to shoot well in pretty much a weekend it's all the social interaction they end up in that's hard. who cares about the missile destroying an USA city scenario, which would change quite a lot in the world(and retaliation to which would again then need said educated coppers/soldiers).
well, kind of.
I mean it's neat, because it's on such a crapp microcontroller.
the atmel avr used is pretty much an ancient microcontroller today. I mean, it's pretty much slower than the first pc our family had(8mhz x86 vs atmel 8mhz, or maybe 16, depends). our first pc also had a video card to take care about the graphics display and so forth...
sure, if you loaded an emulator on raspberry pi, I wouldn't give a shit or any props. but for this yes.
sure you need to.
like, to install git in the first place.
then there's software that uses GIT to fetch essential pieces of it to itself after you have already installed the software.... that's like double stupid. adding the dependency of git into the software itself.
you are aware of the APPLE WAY to do multi-dpi support?
they'll just double the pixels, it's a relatively fast operation to blit it in double size on the gpu.
also, if you wondered why they have to DOUBLE the dpi with new model and not just 1.5x.. well, there's your answer.
so the other produce 10k$ watches and the other produces 10k$ watches.
what's there to confuse, really?
you trusted those websites before this? that's funny, sorry.
my most worthless purchase from play store? GTA III, probably. why? i don't make lots of purchases from the android market, play market or whatever they want to call it this year.
and that had it's worth only brought down by the crappy sniping control, which made one mission way too hard.
if you want to carry this, you end up carrying more weight. you need to carry this, the binder and water too. freeze dried is sort of a lie, that's not really what was done to it.
just carrying margarita mixer powder and vodka would get you easier and with less to carry.
basically the only advantage to palcohol is potentially eating it, because there is no weight saving. it's not like pure spirits get any lighter, they're already pure(everclear). vodka is pure with water and the water you need to carry to hiking probably anyways.
just take a plastic bottle of vodka. or a baggie of vodka.
well.. we would look them up from encyclopedias etc.. after first looking on a dictionary to translate.
yeah.. why can't you just smash numbers in random until you get enough for a good seed?
they're trying to market it as having new useful features.
they don't mention anything worthwhile though. quick wifi etc access on notification bar? YEEHAAAAW
there's two ways.
1) use a video hosting site such as youtube, vimeo, amazon or who the fucking ever.
2) OR host your own site. many popular online content creators do both, as their own site gives better advertising money BUT it's useless to try to find new viewers unless you're on youtube.
if you want to generate money, get on patreon. and keep the vids where they are, making exclusive content to patreon supporters is unlikely to generate too many new supporters so try to keep it all available anyways. if people like what you're doing, they'll chip in.
for example, look at how others are doing stuff.
punkeffect.com for one, cinemassacre for another, tested.com etc etc.
but if you get totally out of youtube, you'll lose 95% of your random viewers.
they used to call this EXTREME PROGRAMMING 12+ years ago and were pitting programming as pairs as the hottest thing since sliced bread.
just goes on to show that the teaching programming and how the programs should be structured and all that.. they don't know, so they just change whatever every year a little bit for sake of changing things and then when there's enough years it goes back in cycle, sometimes with a new name for the old thing. I think they were just calling it XP back then because there were athlon XP's and windows xp around..
unfortunately digital "agents" are still very much a thing with ask google and siri and cortana... the idea that you have an ai that knows better than what you want to do is stil very much alive, though not of course working at all like described.
yeah..
it would make more sense first to ban the book. after that they can try to remove it from the internet along with everything else.
but as it remains a legal book, what's the point or legal basiss for trying to remove it from the internet?
"there's an open source driver that's not compatible with opengl for intels new gpu so that the intel gpu can now run a game described as RETRO by the ceo of one of the companies".
something like that. who cares. intels gpu's still are so crap that you can make headlines of playing a 10 year old game on them, just like their gpu's were crappy 10 years ago in similar fashion.
because if you _need_ an internet connection to play, it really makes little principal difference if you stream the games or if they run locally. you still need the internet connection.
couple of billion dollars could change his mind.
or he might die from being too fat(seriously).
ah but the dos wasn't coming from china.
instead, it was coming from any browser in the world that fetched a page(or rather, piece of tracking javascript code from baidu) _in_ china. they still would have only had to mitm the baidu.
and they probably already were sitting on the pipe to baidu or were able to divert the traffic. that's why people are saying that it's the state, because either it's the state OR baidus internet tap is hacked.
In some cases yes, in others just the patched exe works. And yes it is a great plan. It's precisely how c64, DOS and other classic games are played today.
except that your original c64 and ms dos games still work just fine(unless media got damaged). so a pretty shitty analogy. you find an unopened boxed star control II, ultima underworld or whatever... and you can play it just fine, it doesn't need a callback to home like many modern games that require steam for installation.
as to the promise of being able to download the final library if steam goes under.. HAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH HAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAH.
no bankruptcy trustee would ever let that happen really - and more than that would require new agreements from all the publishers anyways.
the good thing I suppose is that steam is profitable as itself so it doesn't look like it's going away any time soon. but let's say that sony bought it.. .. no fucking way they would let you download the games with drm stripped.
your plan is as good as this: just pirate the game in the first place. even then, I would recommend pirating the GoG version, since it comes with no drm.
not really if the plugin is used incorrectly.
like the plugin is used after it's memory is freed.
it was funny the first 100 times.
also, if it was posted as news on CNN or whatever, sure yeah, a link to there would be worth it. but this year slashdot was just full of these fucking shitty old "jokes" that were posted only to slashdot. like, for april 1st slashdot turned into an original news site with no source attribution or nothing. shitty jokes with links to something that explains the joke and no other link in the summary(that is to say the "summary" became the article).
it's shit.
it's shit.
no article either, the link is info link not article link.
that's not the point!
the point was that because your company used innovation tokens already then you need to stick to something old, leading to situation where you would use access 2000 to store data shown by a web front end generated by node.js, just because "well, can't have too much new stuff".
either you bought an already compromised tablet or you installed something suspect from the appstore.
and you can find out the offending app with free programs available from the appstore too, if you really can't remember what shit game you installed that it came with. if you don't have anything showing up on the application manager that you would guess to be the culprit, then your tablet came with the malware to begin with.
you know what's funny? slashdot runs apps on the mobile side that occasionally just forward you to another page that tries to get you to install a malware .apk.
if you want a system into which you can't install any apk if you so wish after setting the setting to do so, then too bad, buy an iphone or a microsoft phone.
anyways, you could report it to google. at least report what they're advertising. it is against the rules to do such popups you know.
(and if you can't take care of it wtf you're doing on slashdot anyways, if you can't uninstall 2015's purple monkey from your machine)