I somewhat agree with the GP.
While it's true LPN is somewhat of a worthless degree, a BSN is only a guaranteed job if you're willing to move. I volunteer at a hospital, and I can go all day without seeing a nurse under 40. In fact, 60 and 70 year-old nurses greatly outnumber 20 and 30 year olds, even though 20 and 30 year olds greatly outnumber 60 & 70 year olds in the population and let's face it. Health care is for the young, since it's a very strenuous activity with it's 12+ hour shifts and constant walking.
With all the nurses being trained every year, and the huge waiting list at colleges, I can't help but wonder where 20 and 30 year olds end up. My guess is McDonald.
DDR is currently in a gray area, since it crosses the line between video game and jukebox. Especially if it's positioned in an area so everyone can watch it. There hasn't been a "ruling" one way or the other from ASCAP on it. There are complications, because a lot of DDR songs are unlicensed in the US or are original performances by Konami.
GH is a better test case, which is probably why they're using it.
The gold farmer often hack other players and use game exploits to obtain their gold. They obtain gold outside of the game's mechanics. They are an outside force in the game between monster drops and marketing for gold.
Gold farmers increase the supply of money and therefore increase the price of everything. I've seen games where farmers have gone nuts and drove the price where it was impossible to earn enough gold through legitimate means to play fairly with people who have enough gold.
Worse, is that the gold farmers, especially those that use an exploit take away that area for normal players. No one can train or farm for gold legitimately, because a gold farmer has ruined the training area for everyone else*.
*An example would be a vacuum hack, which causes all items to be vacuumed into a hacker's inventory and far away from legitimate players.
Gold farmers also ruin the community, because they don't play to be part of the community.
Actually, the entire virus / worm / trojan definition is pretty muddled.
AFAIK, Worm meant it propagated by the Internet. Trojan horse was something that was an undesirable feature in a software package and did not propagate on it's own. Virus attacked itself to different software packages by itself, unlike a trojan horse, and it relied on piracy to spread. And since the sneaker net was way more prevelent than the Internet, making the virus the most common in early computing, virus came to refer to all 3.
Self-emailing malware share more features with worms than trojans, so they're more often classified as worms, although there is a move to reclassify them as trojans.
All anti-virus programs detect and fix it, and there are also stand alone fixes avalible. Clicky The problem is all the unpatched boxes.
I'm addicted to MapleStory, and I often pay. Unlike WoW, where I'm required to fork over $15 a month, I can pay as much or as little as I'm willing and still get a fair amount of game experience. That is what keeps me there.
Now, the game comes with all the problems of a free online game, meaning that the individuals has little invested in the community, and for every good person, there's at least one or two assholes. The GMs have gotten better at policing them, but high level players who are willing to screw with you just because they're bored are not uncommon.
The other problem with the game, is that originally, the micropayments offered little gameplay advantage to those people who payed. It was limited to clothing items to customize your avatar, as well as other cosmetic changes.
Now, we can have pets that loot for you and give bonuses to speed and jump($12/3 months). Shops to sell things when you're offline($2/month to $10/month). Cards that give you 2x experience and 2x drops($19/month each). Teleport rocks so you can avoid waiting between continents($2 per use).
It's fairly easy to spend more than a normal pay only game, and those that do have a huge advantage over time than those that don't. There are people in the community that have hundreds, if not thousands invested in their characters.
Still, I get a good gaming experience for on average about $5/month, so I prefer it over a bigger commitment..
MapleStory is a free MMORPG that uses in game currency to buy certian items that do not directly inpact the gameplay. There's pets that autoloot, teleportation rocks that let you get to maps faster and store permits to open stores.
One of the things you can buy is a Gachapon tickets. The Gach is simular to those prize eggs in the Supermarket, one ticket gives you an item randomly. Some are worth billions, but you can get something that's worth almost nothing. This is basically trading real money for in game money, but it also helps control inflation by limiting the number of good items that go into the world.
Kubrick shot all his film with the same ratio as TV, and they were cut to size for the American theater releases. That's why Kubrick doesn't have widescreen movies, because he didn't intend for his movies to be widescreen.
Ok, I will admit, DaiKatana would have been a revolutionary game if it had come out within 1 ~ 2 years of it's conception. It suffers from several major problems.
1. It was over hyped. 5 years of ads for this game. 2. The partner AI sucked. They often found interesting ways to die and screw up your game. They would sit in doors until they died, since the doors did damage. They would just head in guns blazing and kill the enemy, without any strategy. And when they died, the game was over. 3. The gameplay was very old fashion, especially compared to Quake II, Deus Ex and Half-life.(which came out before it) 4. The graphics were very old fashion, compared to Quake III, Half-life. and Unreal Tournament.(Again, released before DaiKatana) 5. The game, when released, contained horrible, game stopping bugs. The biggest examples include parts where you leave your partners behind to finish a section, only to return and find them gone, making you unable to finish the game. This was later fixed by patches. 6. The game's acting borders on racism. 7. Multiplayer was getting popular, with CounterStrike being released as a mod at the time, and DaiKatana's multiplayer was lackluster and laggy. I'm not sure if they fixed this with patches.
Like I said before, if DaiKatana was released a year or two after the start of development, maybe it would have been a revolutionary FPS. It does have some good points, including a large number of weapons and some memberable maps but compared to the different games at it's time, it was a penny short and a day late.
When the Unisys/CompuServe gif controversy started, the GIMP ended up dropping support for gif, except in those countries where the gif patent was not active. It's likely that GIMP's gif loading and saving code did not come from those countries, which would force all copies of the GIMP to drop gif support.
Since the GIMP includes American coders, a coder whose country doesn't have an active LZW patent couldn't simply distribute a patch, because that would be similar to paying someone to avoid a software patent.
If you want to to it the really n00b way: Place a link to a spacer.gif image in the email, then look at who accessed the image from your logs. You can even be script-kiddie clever by using a script disguised as an image to record all sorts of good information, like IP, browser, etc.
And yes, spammers use this to see if someone accessed their emails.
The point of confirmation is breeding. You show a beautiful dog, and when it gets 15 points(and at least two majors) he gets the title of Champion, which is basically a permission to breed.(You can breed dogs that aren't champions as long as their line is good, but you really want to breed champions)
A dog missing one or more of his testicles is disqualified, but they don't actually check how well his equipment works, but rather, they just feel up the dog to make sure he's intact. Fake nuts are sometimes used when a dog is missing their equipment. This is not only against what confirmation should be about, but a neutered dog has the advantage, because they're not distracted by females and they're usually calmer overall.
Could someone with more insight please explain why there are scientists who deny there's a link?
There are many reasons, one is because a good scientist always questions theories. I mean, until someone goes, "Maybe the Earth revolves around the sun", we'll just grind away at a false theory, like the Arab Astrologers did in the middle ages with the geocentric model.
The second reason is because a room full of people can never agree on a single thing, that's why Government is done by majority, not by unanimous voting, because there will never be a perfect consensus. There will always be a group of people in this world who disagree with something.
Thirdly, money can corrupt, and someone can easily take a wrong stance to make some cash. Like Psychics that make money off of grieving people, "scientist" can sell some books on their false stances on controversial issues. It's sick, but it's capitalism and free speech. Like a website that claims that HIV becomes AIDS only when stimulated by having anal sex.(yes, that's on that website he linked to)
And lastly, our ideas about AIDS has changed. It's unfair to bring up a theory of AIDS in 1987, when our understanding of the disease was much different then today. A good theory about the atoms being composed of the Fire / Air / Earth / Water may have been a sound theory during the B.C., but it's not accepted now.
I don't follow. Selecting one out of two equally deserving candidates is wrong?
The idea is, that if you buy something from your sister for $5, the money stays in the family, but if you buy that same thing for $3 at Walmart, you may get a good deal now, but now that money is no longer in your family. While we're saving money in the short run, but in the long run, we can no longer borrow $2 from our family, because Walmart has all our money.
This is what the grandfather is getting at, investing in your local work force will pay off later, in the form of having an experienced workforce to choose from. If no one gives anything to the current entry-level workforce, there will be no experienced workforce.
The trick to malware writing in DOS is to hide from DOS. We do that by placing malware in some unclaimed memory and rapidly change it to keep malware scanners from pattern matching the malware.
Windows changed that. Malware needs to be recognized by Windows, in some form or else it's not going to get it's messages and it's not going to be able to access the wonderful WinAPI, which will give it more power and make it smaller. There's no point in a spy changing their clothing to disguise themselves if they always have to wear a nametag.
Rootkits are the obvious solution to this problem, because it allows a program to be recognized by Windows and hide from programs using Windows to attempt to recognize it. We're only seeing rootkits now because it's getting harder to disguise malware by giving it a nondescript name.
You act like there was no way for the witter to write a underage sexual orgy without resorting in softcore pornography. The truth is, the witter made the choice to illustrate it that way. There are also many places for softcore porn writers to do their thing, like Cinemax pretty much all the time.
This is simply another producer setting aside standards to increase viewership. They wanted to push the bar; they should take the personal responsibility for doing so.
It means what it means. You can type in someone's AIM account in ICQ and message them and type in someone's ICQ number in AIM and message them. They're compatible, although you cannot warn people across each other.
All those 'compeditive' entertainment you listed aren't as good as movies, because people want to leave their house. They want to go out and seeing a movie is a pretty cheap way to accomplish that task(w/o popcorn, of course!). There's just no movie that peaks their interests. Batman Begins was alright, it didn't have the hype,the dramatic story, nor the like-able characters of Batman(1991). And Revenge of the Sith was even quality with Clone Wars, even fans who liked it said it was good for a Star Wars movie. Both franchises have burnt enough fans over the years with poor releases. People are heading in droves to see March of the Penguins, which I found more enjoyable than Batman or SWIII.
There hasn't been a theatre release in a while that matches the quality of The Ring, Lord of the Rings or the Six Sense. Heck, I'd even go as far is to say this year hasn't even produced a movie on par with Dawn of the Dead(2004). I think this year has produced movies on par with King Arthur(2004). They're solid works of cinematography and have a decent story, but they have all failed to capture the imagination of the audiance.
I'll make an exception with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a solid and fun movie, but it was a children's movie and many critics objected to a "rewritting" the prevous movie, which probably hurt sales.
It means that everyone with the correct software can ALSO get your info, instead of simply 911.
The only one I can currently think of is the mapquest software(not free). It gets your GPS as your starting point and gives you driving directrions based on that information or pulls up a map from your GPS location.
1. Everyone loves the battle scenes, so it's 90% battle scenes. Barely a few lines of dialog are spoken before someone else is killed or fighting for their lives. And many of them are better than anything in Eposide I & II.
2. All the acting between Anakin and Padme, Padme is the only one talking while Anakin does what he does best. Pouts.
The acting sucks, the plot is thin and unconvincing, but the adrenaline rush is well worth the ticket price.
Linux Console development requires the same tools developed for pirated use. There is no console Linux unless that console can run unsigned code, which is the same aim as piracy.
Linux development has not created new piracy techniques, but piracy has created new places for Linux.
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I somewhat agree with the GP. While it's true LPN is somewhat of a worthless degree, a BSN is only a guaranteed job if you're willing to move. I volunteer at a hospital, and I can go all day without seeing a nurse under 40. In fact, 60 and 70 year-old nurses greatly outnumber 20 and 30 year olds, even though 20 and 30 year olds greatly outnumber 60 & 70 year olds in the population and let's face it. Health care is for the young, since it's a very strenuous activity with it's 12+ hour shifts and constant walking. With all the nurses being trained every year, and the huge waiting list at colleges, I can't help but wonder where 20 and 30 year olds end up. My guess is McDonald.
DDR is currently in a gray area, since it crosses the line between video game and jukebox. Especially if it's positioned in an area so everyone can watch it. There hasn't been a "ruling" one way or the other from ASCAP on it. There are complications, because a lot of DDR songs are unlicensed in the US or are original performances by Konami. GH is a better test case, which is probably why they're using it.
The gold farmer often hack other players and use game exploits to obtain their gold. They obtain gold outside of the game's mechanics. They are an outside force in the game between monster drops and marketing for gold.
Gold farmers increase the supply of money and therefore increase the price of everything. I've seen games where farmers have gone nuts and drove the price where it was impossible to earn enough gold through legitimate means to play fairly with people who have enough gold.
Worse, is that the gold farmers, especially those that use an exploit take away that area for normal players. No one can train or farm for gold legitimately, because a gold farmer has ruined the training area for everyone else*.
*An example would be a vacuum hack, which causes all items to be vacuumed into a hacker's inventory and far away from legitimate players.
Gold farmers also ruin the community, because they don't play to be part of the community.
The best buy employee will just re-shrinkwrap it and sell it as new. All you'll be doing is wasting your life sticking it to "teh man".
Actually, the entire virus / worm / trojan definition is pretty muddled.
AFAIK, Worm meant it propagated by the Internet. Trojan horse was something that was an undesirable feature in a software package and did not propagate on it's own. Virus attacked itself to different software packages by itself, unlike a trojan horse, and it relied on piracy to spread. And since the sneaker net was way more prevelent than the Internet, making the virus the most common in early computing, virus came to refer to all 3.
Self-emailing malware share more features with worms than trojans, so they're more often classified as worms, although there is a move to reclassify them as trojans.
All anti-virus programs detect and fix it, and there are also stand alone fixes avalible. Clicky The problem is all the unpatched boxes.
I'm addicted to MapleStory, and I often pay. Unlike WoW, where I'm required to fork over $15 a month, I can pay as much or as little as I'm willing and still get a fair amount of game experience. That is what keeps me there.
Now, the game comes with all the problems of a free online game, meaning that the individuals has little invested in the community, and for every good person, there's at least one or two assholes. The GMs have gotten better at policing them, but high level players who are willing to screw with you just because they're bored are not uncommon.
The other problem with the game, is that originally, the micropayments offered little gameplay advantage to those people who payed. It was limited to clothing items to customize your avatar, as well as other cosmetic changes.
Now, we can have pets that loot for you and give bonuses to speed and jump($12/3 months). Shops to sell things when you're offline($2/month to $10/month). Cards that give you 2x experience and 2x drops($19/month each). Teleport rocks so you can avoid waiting between continents($2 per use).
It's fairly easy to spend more than a normal pay only game, and those that do have a huge advantage over time than those that don't. There are people in the community that have hundreds, if not thousands invested in their characters.
Still, I get a good gaming experience for on average about $5/month, so I prefer it over a bigger commitment..
MapleStory is a free MMORPG that uses in game currency to buy certian items that do not directly inpact the gameplay. There's pets that autoloot, teleportation rocks that let you get to maps faster and store permits to open stores.
One of the things you can buy is a Gachapon tickets. The Gach is simular to those prize eggs in the Supermarket, one ticket gives you an item randomly. Some are worth billions, but you can get something that's worth almost nothing. This is basically trading real money for in game money, but it also helps control inflation by limiting the number of good items that go into the world.
Kubrick shot all his film with the same ratio as TV, and they were cut to size for the American theater releases. That's why Kubrick doesn't have widescreen movies, because he didn't intend for his movies to be widescreen.
Ok, I will admit, DaiKatana would have been a revolutionary game if it had come out within 1 ~ 2 years of it's conception. It suffers from several major problems.
1. It was over hyped. 5 years of ads for this game.
2. The partner AI sucked. They often found interesting ways to die and screw up your game. They would sit in doors until they died, since the doors did damage. They would just head in guns blazing and kill the enemy, without any strategy. And when they died, the game was over.
3. The gameplay was very old fashion, especially compared to Quake II, Deus Ex and Half-life.(which came out before it)
4. The graphics were very old fashion, compared to Quake III, Half-life. and Unreal Tournament.(Again, released before DaiKatana)
5. The game, when released, contained horrible, game stopping bugs. The biggest examples include parts where you leave your partners behind to finish a section, only to return and find them gone, making you unable to finish the game. This was later fixed by patches.
6. The game's acting borders on racism.
7. Multiplayer was getting popular, with CounterStrike being released as a mod at the time, and DaiKatana's multiplayer was lackluster and laggy. I'm not sure if they fixed this with patches.
Like I said before, if DaiKatana was released a year or two after the start of development, maybe it would have been a revolutionary FPS. It does have some good points, including a large number of weapons and some memberable maps but compared to the different games at it's time, it was a penny short and a day late.
When the Unisys/CompuServe gif controversy started, the GIMP ended up dropping support for gif, except in those countries where the gif patent was not active. It's likely that GIMP's gif loading and saving code did not come from those countries, which would force all copies of the GIMP to drop gif support.
Since the GIMP includes American coders, a coder whose country doesn't have an active LZW patent couldn't simply distribute a patch, because that would be similar to paying someone to avoid a software patent.
It's common sense for the tech crowd.
But the story isn't targeting them, it's targeting people who probably don't know or care about that sorta thing.
If you want to to it the really n00b way: Place a link to a spacer.gif image in the email, then look at who accessed the image from your logs. You can even be script-kiddie clever by using a script disguised as an image to record all sorts of good information, like IP, browser, etc.
And yes, spammers use this to see if someone accessed their emails.
The point of confirmation is breeding. You show a beautiful dog, and when it gets 15 points(and at least two majors) he gets the title of Champion, which is basically a permission to breed.(You can breed dogs that aren't champions as long as their line is good, but you really want to breed champions)
A dog missing one or more of his testicles is disqualified, but they don't actually check how well his equipment works, but rather, they just feel up the dog to make sure he's intact. Fake nuts are sometimes used when a dog is missing their equipment. This is not only against what confirmation should be about, but a neutered dog has the advantage, because they're not distracted by females and they're usually calmer overall.
Could someone with more insight please explain why there are scientists who deny there's a link?
There are many reasons, one is because a good scientist always questions theories. I mean, until someone goes, "Maybe the Earth revolves around the sun", we'll just grind away at a false theory, like the Arab Astrologers did in the middle ages with the geocentric model.
The second reason is because a room full of people can never agree on a single thing, that's why Government is done by majority, not by unanimous voting, because there will never be a perfect consensus. There will always be a group of people in this world who disagree with something.
Thirdly, money can corrupt, and someone can easily take a wrong stance to make some cash. Like Psychics that make money off of grieving people, "scientist" can sell some books on their false stances on controversial issues. It's sick, but it's capitalism and free speech. Like a website that claims that HIV becomes AIDS only when stimulated by having anal sex.(yes, that's on that website he linked to)
And lastly, our ideas about AIDS has changed. It's unfair to bring up a theory of AIDS in 1987, when our understanding of the disease was much different then today. A good theory about the atoms being composed of the Fire / Air / Earth / Water may have been a sound theory during the B.C., but it's not accepted now.
I don't follow. Selecting one out of two equally deserving candidates is wrong?
The idea is, that if you buy something from your sister for $5, the money stays in the family, but if you buy that same thing for $3 at Walmart, you may get a good deal now, but now that money is no longer in your family. While we're saving money in the short run, but in the long run, we can no longer borrow $2 from our family, because Walmart has all our money.
This is what the grandfather is getting at, investing in your local work force will pay off later, in the form of having an experienced workforce to choose from. If no one gives anything to the current entry-level workforce, there will be no experienced workforce.
It's possible that the cliff is steep for a rail.
The trick to malware writing in DOS is to hide from DOS. We do that by placing malware in some unclaimed memory and rapidly change it to keep malware scanners from pattern matching the malware.
Windows changed that. Malware needs to be recognized by Windows, in some form or else it's not going to get it's messages and it's not going to be able to access the wonderful WinAPI, which will give it more power and make it smaller. There's no point in a spy changing their clothing to disguise themselves if they always have to wear a nametag.
Rootkits are the obvious solution to this problem, because it allows a program to be recognized by Windows and hide from programs using Windows to attempt to recognize it. We're only seeing rootkits now because it's getting harder to disguise malware by giving it a nondescript name.
Actually, the first thought in my head after watching this clip was a particular Onion article.
You act like there was no way for the witter to write a underage sexual orgy without resorting in softcore pornography. The truth is, the witter made the choice to illustrate it that way. There are also many places for softcore porn writers to do their thing, like Cinemax pretty much all the time.
This is simply another producer setting aside standards to increase viewership. They wanted to push the bar; they should take the personal responsibility for doing so.
It means what it means. You can type in someone's AIM account in ICQ and message them and type in someone's ICQ number in AIM and message them. They're compatible, although you cannot warn people across each other.
All those 'compeditive' entertainment you listed aren't as good as movies, because people want to leave their house. They want to go out and seeing a movie is a pretty cheap way to accomplish that task(w/o popcorn, of course!). There's just no movie that peaks their interests. Batman Begins was alright, it didn't have the hype,the dramatic story, nor the like-able characters of Batman(1991). And Revenge of the Sith was even quality with Clone Wars, even fans who liked it said it was good for a Star Wars movie. Both franchises have burnt enough fans over the years with poor releases. People are heading in droves to see March of the Penguins, which I found more enjoyable than Batman or SWIII.
There hasn't been a theatre release in a while that matches the quality of The Ring, Lord of the Rings or the Six Sense. Heck, I'd even go as far is to say this year hasn't even produced a movie on par with Dawn of the Dead(2004). I think this year has produced movies on par with King Arthur(2004). They're solid works of cinematography and have a decent story, but they have all failed to capture the imagination of the audiance.
I'll make an exception with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a solid and fun movie, but it was a children's movie and many critics objected to a "rewritting" the prevous movie, which probably hurt sales.
It means that everyone with the correct software can ALSO get your info, instead of simply 911.
The only one I can currently think of is the mapquest software(not free). It gets your GPS as your starting point and gives you driving directrions based on that information or pulls up a map from your GPS location.
You missed the Wicked Twister, which has a problem with high winds.
George Lucas made two choices for this movie...
1. Everyone loves the battle scenes, so it's 90% battle scenes. Barely a few lines of dialog are spoken before someone else is killed or fighting for their lives. And many of them are better than anything in Eposide I & II.
2. All the acting between Anakin and Padme, Padme is the only one talking while Anakin does what he does best. Pouts.
The acting sucks, the plot is thin and unconvincing, but the adrenaline rush is well worth the ticket price.
Linux Console development requires the same tools developed for pirated use. There is no console Linux unless that console can run unsigned code, which is the same aim as piracy.
Linux development has not created new piracy techniques, but piracy has created new places for Linux.
Piracy always comes first. That's where the profit comes from.
It's linux that's riding the coattails of piracy, not vice versa.