That's nothing. Just wait until I finish perfecting my device that will target advertising based on what RFID tags you are foolishly carrying around on you. Bwaahahahah!
I quit buying consoles when they quit distributing games in cartridges. To me, it was all about the load time. (Yes, I watch my DVDs with a player that skips all the legal shit, menus, etc. too.)
It's becoming obvious that MMO's new to the scene need to offer consumers more than just combat content. Will STO be able to coax both the Sims Online and World of Warcraft crowds?
Given that Star Trek is 40 years old, that there hasn't been a decent series on the air in 10 years, that the movies have sucked since ST6 (15 years ago?) and that a lot of young geeks are jerking off to Star Wars instead of Star Trek these days, I'd say the target audience for Star Trek in 2006 is pretty grey. So, why not try coaxing the Majhong/Solitaire crowd instead?
I think I'm about ready to quit reading Slashdot. Most of the "articles" posted here over the past six months just seem to be warmed over press releases. An announcement about a future announcement is about as low as it gets; regular readers like me are looking for meat, not hype.
Try it this way. 240 working days a year x $430/day = $103,200 If you're an independent contractor, expect something like 35% tax. That gets you down to about $67K/year.
Previously, forums were the best sources of information on the internet, from motorcycle maintenance to videogame modding, you could learn a lot from a forum.
...by "forum", did you mean "usenet"? (Or even, "newsgroups"?)
However, with Wikis dominating the internet as dense and highly-searchable information repositories, forums are becoming purely social with no utility beyond personal expression or companionship.
Wiki = highly searchable? Hmmm...never used one tied to MySQL's default "full text search", have you?
I wonder what the "Google Toolbar" rates...
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Never trust guys (or girls) who use nested clauses. You just can't (as I've learned from past experience) know that what you've heard (or perhaps read) is really what they (or their source) really meant (or felt).
If everyone agrees on a cryptographic hash, modern technology (and law) often let you toss the physical media as long as you can prove you haven't changed the digital contents. (This is where the concepts of "integrity checks" and "non-repudidation" come in.)
We do this every day with checks, payroll sheets, purchase orders, receipts and all kinds of other tidbits that used to have to have a physical component, but we (and our various industries) got smarter.
"Keep the original CD" sounds like a silly requirement. Why not just upload the contents of the CD to a file server, do a SHA1 hash of the original filesystem on both the CD and the file server, replicate the fuck out of the file server and toss the CD?
I'd bet you could ROI the "don't keep the original CDs" plan to under a year.
I'm shocked that I haven't seen a Slashdot dup today, but this is probably the next best thing. Can I still claim "dup" in a few months from now when the announced announcement is made?
1) Americans have lower tolerances for dangerous situations; there is much less concern about the political fashions of "soccer moms" in countries where life is already cheap.
2) American space agencies can't do anything without checking with their defense contractors and their home states first to make sure the money will flow to political contributors and reliable voters.
You're welcome.
DBA, please. "unique pluggable"?
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...MySQL's unique pluggable engine model...
I've been working with MySQL for something like seven years. Not once has it been important that MySQL's engine model is "unique" or "pluggable"; what is important is that it supports a couple of different database formats.
Let's face it: if you're a SciFi male, your Friday nights already contain a viewing of Battlestar Galactica. That kind of makes SG1 superfluous; you're already watching. However, SG-Atlantis is as close to "Dr. Quinn, Starship Woman" as SciFi gets, so they keep that one around so SciFi females have something to watch too.
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That's nothing. Just wait until I finish perfecting my device that will target advertising based on what RFID tags you are foolishly carrying around on you. Bwaahahahah!
ZZZZ....wake me up when someone posts a link to the free PDFs...ZZZZ
I thought the same thing: if nerds have been reduced to reading comic books, who's left to read real books?
(Instead W. joke here.)
I call "dup"
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See:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11
I quit buying consoles when they quit distributing games in cartridges. To me, it was all about the load time. (Yes, I watch my DVDs with a player that skips all the legal shit, menus, etc. too.)
I think I'm about ready to quit reading Slashdot. Most of the "articles" posted here over the past six months just seem to be warmed over press releases. An announcement about a future announcement is about as low as it gets; regular readers like me are looking for meat, not hype.
AFAIK, record companies still file tax returns...
Your math is bad: $430/day = $67K/year
Try it this way. 240 working days a year x $430/day = $103,200
If you're an independent contractor, expect something like 35% tax.
That gets you down to about $67K/year.
I wonder what the "Google Toolbar" rates...
Never trust guys (or girls) who use nested clauses. You just can't (as I've learned from past experience) know that what you've heard (or perhaps read) is really what they (or their source) really meant (or felt).
If everyone agrees on a cryptographic hash, modern technology (and law) often let you toss the physical media as long as you can prove you haven't changed the digital contents. (This is where the concepts of "integrity checks" and "non-repudidation" come in.)
We do this every day with checks, payroll sheets, purchase orders, receipts and all kinds of other tidbits that used to have to have a physical component, but we (and our various industries) got smarter.
"Keep the original CD" sounds like a silly requirement. Why not just upload the contents of the CD to a file server, do a SHA1 hash of the original filesystem on both the CD and the file server, replicate the fuck out of the file server and toss the CD?
I'd bet you could ROI the "don't keep the original CDs" plan to under a year.
I'm shocked that I haven't seen a Slashdot dup today, but this is probably the next best thing. Can I still claim "dup" in a few months from now when the announced announcement is made?
Why no American involvement?
1) Americans have lower tolerances for dangerous situations; there is much less concern about the political fashions of "soccer moms" in countries where life is already cheap.
2) American space agencies can't do anything without checking with their defense contractors and their home states first to make sure the money will flow to political contributors and reliable voters.
You're welcome.
Nah, "Masters of Orion".
If you kiss like you spell, I don't want any ;)
Your handle is "ginger unicorn" and you watch SG-Atlantis? I think you just proved my point ;)
Let's face it: if you're a SciFi male, your Friday nights already contain a viewing of Battlestar Galactica. That kind of makes SG1 superfluous; you're already watching. However, SG-Atlantis is as close to "Dr. Quinn, Starship Woman" as SciFi gets, so they keep that one around so SciFi females have something to watch too.