IANAL either, but I would expect that GameStop owns the games until they sell them, and can do with them as they wish, given that the games are their property. What they are obligated to do or not to do contractually with the game maker may be a different story.
With lazy teachers, lazy administrators, and the increasingly popular "zero tolerance" policies which are there to cater to the laziness & not to enforce discipline, and with police forces all to happy to use tickets as means of revenue generation, should anyone truly be surprised by this?
for the same reason Carly fired almost all of R&D, sold the itanium engineers to Intel, and considered getting out the printer market, despite those sales being the majority of their revenue: greed, short-sightedness, selfishness, and the desire to be seen in the news.
The key to enjoying any movie is correct expectations. If you, like CmdrTaco, cannot help but to compare this with Firefly/Serenity, you will be disappointed. It's not a space western, it's a Close Encounter, and quite honestly, has more in common with that movie than any western. It uses the usual suspects of western stereotypes in order to keep the backstories to a minimum, and does it as effectively as any other movie has. Ultimately it's an action movie, and the action delivers a 6 or 7 out of 10, which is the only real complaint.
Analogy is there to validate the context, without which the point would be pointless. So while there is no proof by analogy, quite often, there would not be proof without it.
if you download mp3's to your phone (via amazon, google, or anything else) you'll want an anti-virus scan of them. If you share wallpaper, ring tones, photos, or anything else with anyone else, you'll want to scan that stuff to. If you connect your phone to your desktop, laptop, tablet, or anything else--whether that other device and an anti-virus program on it or not--you'll want to know that your phone is clean. And don't assume that an iphone is the answer. If may not be the target of a virus (yet) but it is certainly capable of being a vector.
What about algorithms? Simply taking a bunch of components (that someone else invented) and rearranging the order in which they are used or interact isn't inventive, it's just mucking about with an algorithm.
Open discussions can either be primarily informative with an "anything goes from anyone" approach, or primarily educational in that some attempt is made to improve the signal-to-noise ratio by dealing with the trolls and spammers. In either case, any given forum will have to initially take a perspective to be either informational with the exercise left to the reader for picking out the wheat from the chaff; or if their perspective is educational and hence doing some guiding of the discussion for relevance to the topic. And clearly, some venues will have a more obvious beneficial choice to make than others. This is the internet, and I would hope by now that we can get over the false notion that there is a one-size-fits-all solution for anything.
Yes, hence the "may not". The reviewer mentioned poor writing and grammar, and I would hope that English as a second language would be a much more forgivable excuse for that than simply being under-educated and/or sloppy.
Looking at the author's bio on Pact's web site: http://www.packtpub.com/authors/profiles/emily-h-halili it would appear that English may not be her first language, and given that she's worn 6 different IT hats in 12 years, she's obviously not spent enough time doing any one thing to become an expert at anything. And now she's a consultant, which affirms the old saying "those who cannot do, teach".
Sure. There's the SALT 1, SALT II, START I, START II, START III, SORT and New START treaties with the USSR/Russian Federation. The US had 32,000 nuclear weapons in the 1960s, and are down to a little over 3,000 weapons deployed, and another few thousand in inventory, being decommissioned or used for R&D, with the full implementation of the New START treaty dropping deployed weapons to 1,550.
It's physically and politically impossible to eliminate 32,000 nukes over-night. And while you may argue with the length of the time table, a 95% reduction in weapons that are manned and ready to use certainly ought to count for "moving".
It's nonsense like this that makes Slashdot less relevant every day. Whether or not the incident in the story is real, it's so blindly obvious and stupid that it ought not to have warranted consideration for posting. And yet, here it is, and brought to us by CmdrTaco, Mr. Slashdot himself. Between the product-placement ads & book reviews, the old news dredged up from digg, reddit, and fark, and "ask slashdot" ridiculousness like this, what are the editors doing with their time that they aren't filtering out this crap any better?
First of all, let me remark by saying that shell scripting is something learned more on a need basis than as a tool to solve the main problem. People would seldom write shell scripts as standalone programs
Seriously? So you write your application's/etc/init.d scripts in something other than bash (or csh if on solaris, or ksh if on aix)? Granted not everyone would want, let alone try, to write 500+ line bash scripts like I occasionally do; but, there are a ridiculous number of 100+ line perl scripts that could have been done in bash or ksh in fewer lines, and with more clarity, and without the overheard of loading dozens of perl modules due to interdependencies among them.
Recall that the The Garden was at the confluence of 5 rivers: the Tigress, the Euphrates, and three others I can't be bothered to look-up right now. If you compact the continents so that the Mediterranean sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf become no wider than rivers, the confluence point moves to the The Sinai Peninsula, which is part of Africa.
How do we quantify a human characteristic like courage? Knowing a player is competing despite having a minor injury is one thing; knowing how hard he will compete and how well he will play is something else. Until we can quantify both qualitative human characteristics like courage, fear, ambition, and stubbornness, as well as the "gut call" a coach makes based on his impressions of the individuals on the field and how they function as a group, computers aren't going to be better at this. They will probably be wrong more then humans are. How do you teach a computer that when dealing with people, the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts? We are basically talking about creating computer programs that are not completely logical, but that are both logical and intuitive--which implies a certain amount of irrationality.
ITT Tech was started by ITT back when they were still a highly respected conglomerate. DeVry was started by Bell & Howell (of old-school movie projector fame). I graduated from DeVry back when it was "DeVry Institute of Technology" in 1986. I had $17K in student loans and got a job making $20k. I also think that that is a decent benchmark: getting a job with a salary higher than your loan debt. How many schools today, in how many fields of study, realistically offer that sort of opportunity?
Trusteer's research team has reverse engineered and dissected OddJob's code methodology, right down to the banks it targets and its attack methods.
No one thought it important enough to list the banks being targeted? Or is this "professional courtesy" on the part of whatever law enforcement agency is conducting the investigation to leave all of the banks' customers in the dark, lest the banks get a bad rep?
There's already been 1 fan-produced documentary and 1 fan-produced movie based on Serenity and Firefly. And a major reason why those got to be made is because Joss Whedon wasn't all heavy-handed about copyrights. And as mentioned above, it's possible to make a relatively low-budget Sci-Fi movie like District 9 that is commercially successful.
When a PG-13 movie like Serenity has a viable, enthusiastic, and most importantly a measurable fan base, and yet no studio wants to pony-up for a sequel, that ought to be a clear indicator that there is zero possibility for an R-rated Science Fiction film. Think how last year's Sherlock Holmes (albeit, not a Sci-Fi flick), which was rated PG-13, could have been darker, gorier, sexier, and clearly better had they told the story in a more graphic manner and just went with the resultant R rating. But money talks louder than art, so we get what we get, not what we want.
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fail to tow the line, \
Where do you think the government would like the line towed to?
IANAL either, but I would expect that GameStop owns the games until they sell them, and can do with them as they wish, given that the games are their property. What they are obligated to do or not to do contractually with the game maker may be a different story.
With lazy teachers, lazy administrators, and the increasingly popular "zero tolerance" policies which are there to cater to the laziness & not to enforce discipline, and with police forces all to happy to use tickets as means of revenue generation, should anyone truly be surprised by this?
for the same reason Carly fired almost all of R&D, sold the itanium engineers to Intel, and considered getting out the printer market, despite those sales being the majority of their revenue: greed, short-sightedness, selfishness, and the desire to be seen in the news.
The key to enjoying any movie is correct expectations. If you, like CmdrTaco, cannot help but to compare this with Firefly/Serenity, you will be disappointed. It's not a space western, it's a Close Encounter, and quite honestly, has more in common with that movie than any western. It uses the usual suspects of western stereotypes in order to keep the backstories to a minimum, and does it as effectively as any other movie has. Ultimately it's an action movie, and the action delivers a 6 or 7 out of 10, which is the only real complaint.
Analogy is there to validate the context, without which the point would be pointless. So while there is no proof by analogy, quite often, there would not be proof without it.
It's all about marketing. Given the rates for TV, radio, and print advertising, this was undoubtedly a good investment.
if you download mp3's to your phone (via amazon, google, or anything else) you'll want an anti-virus scan of them. If you share wallpaper, ring tones, photos, or anything else with anyone else, you'll want to scan that stuff to. If you connect your phone to your desktop, laptop, tablet, or anything else--whether that other device and an anti-virus program on it or not--you'll want to know that your phone is clean. And don't assume that an iphone is the answer. If may not be the target of a virus (yet) but it is certainly capable of being a vector.
I would not at all be unhappy if they got Dina Meyer to do it again.
What about algorithms? Simply taking a bunch of components (that someone else invented) and rearranging the order in which they are used or interact isn't inventive, it's just mucking about with an algorithm.
Open discussions can either be primarily informative with an "anything goes from anyone" approach, or primarily educational in that some attempt is made to improve the signal-to-noise ratio by dealing with the trolls and spammers. In either case, any given forum will have to initially take a perspective to be either informational with the exercise left to the reader for picking out the wheat from the chaff; or if their perspective is educational and hence doing some guiding of the discussion for relevance to the topic. And clearly, some venues will have a more obvious beneficial choice to make than others. This is the internet, and I would hope by now that we can get over the false notion that there is a one-size-fits-all solution for anything.
Yes, hence the "may not". The reviewer mentioned poor writing and grammar, and I would hope that English as a second language would be a much more forgivable excuse for that than simply being under-educated and/or sloppy.
Looking at the author's bio on Pact's web site: http://www.packtpub.com/authors/profiles/emily-h-halili it would appear that English may not be her first language, and given that she's worn 6 different IT hats in 12 years, she's obviously not spent enough time doing any one thing to become an expert at anything. And now she's a consultant, which affirms the old saying "those who cannot do, teach".
Sure. There's the SALT 1, SALT II, START I, START II, START III, SORT and New START treaties with the USSR/Russian Federation. The US had 32,000 nuclear weapons in the 1960s, and are down to a little over 3,000 weapons deployed, and another few thousand in inventory, being decommissioned or used for R&D, with the full implementation of the New START treaty dropping deployed weapons to 1,550.
It's physically and politically impossible to eliminate 32,000 nukes over-night. And while you may argue with the length of the time table, a 95% reduction in weapons that are manned and ready to use certainly ought to count for "moving".
It's nonsense like this that makes Slashdot less relevant every day. Whether or not the incident in the story is real, it's so blindly obvious and stupid that it ought not to have warranted consideration for posting. And yet, here it is, and brought to us by CmdrTaco, Mr. Slashdot himself. Between the product-placement ads & book reviews, the old news dredged up from digg, reddit, and fark, and "ask slashdot" ridiculousness like this, what are the editors doing with their time that they aren't filtering out this crap any better?
nope, it only takes three:
ls -l |sort -k3|tail -1
First of all, let me remark by saying that shell scripting is something learned more on a need basis than as a tool to solve the main problem. People would seldom write shell scripts as standalone programs
/etc/init.d scripts in something other than bash (or csh if on solaris, or ksh if on aix)? Granted not everyone would want, let alone try, to write 500+ line bash scripts like I occasionally do; but, there are a ridiculous number of 100+ line perl scripts that could have been done in bash or ksh in fewer lines, and with more clarity, and without the overheard of loading dozens of perl modules due to interdependencies among them.
Seriously? So you write your application's
Recall that the The Garden was at the confluence of 5 rivers: the Tigress, the Euphrates, and three others I can't be bothered to look-up right now. If you compact the continents so that the Mediterranean sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf become no wider than rivers, the confluence point moves to the The Sinai Peninsula, which is part of Africa.
No. $14B is shares, and $25B is cash. RTFA.
How do we quantify a human characteristic like courage? Knowing a player is competing despite having a minor injury is one thing; knowing how hard he will compete and how well he will play is something else. Until we can quantify both qualitative human characteristics like courage, fear, ambition, and stubbornness, as well as the "gut call" a coach makes based on his impressions of the individuals on the field and how they function as a group, computers aren't going to be better at this. They will probably be wrong more then humans are. How do you teach a computer that when dealing with people, the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts? We are basically talking about creating computer programs that are not completely logical, but that are both logical and intuitive--which implies a certain amount of irrationality.
ITT Tech was started by ITT back when they were still a highly respected conglomerate. DeVry was started by Bell & Howell (of old-school movie projector fame). I graduated from DeVry back when it was "DeVry Institute of Technology" in 1986. I had $17K in student loans and got a job making $20k. I also think that that is a decent benchmark: getting a job with a salary higher than your loan debt. How many schools today, in how many fields of study, realistically offer that sort of opportunity?
as opposed to the real complacency that most people have toward computer security?
Trusteer's research team has reverse engineered and dissected OddJob's code methodology, right down to the banks it targets and its attack methods.
No one thought it important enough to list the banks being targeted? Or is this "professional courtesy" on the part of whatever law enforcement agency is conducting the investigation to leave all of the banks' customers in the dark, lest the banks get a bad rep?
There's already been 1 fan-produced documentary and 1 fan-produced movie based on Serenity and Firefly. And a major reason why those got to be made is because Joss Whedon wasn't all heavy-handed about copyrights. And as mentioned above, it's possible to make a relatively low-budget Sci-Fi movie like District 9 that is commercially successful.
When a PG-13 movie like Serenity has a viable, enthusiastic, and most importantly a measurable fan base, and yet no studio wants to pony-up for a sequel, that ought to be a clear indicator that there is zero possibility for an R-rated Science Fiction film. Think how last year's Sherlock Holmes (albeit, not a Sci-Fi flick), which was rated PG-13, could have been darker, gorier, sexier, and clearly better had they told the story in a more graphic manner and just went with the resultant R rating. But money talks louder than art, so we get what we get, not what we want.