PHB: "Let's take a successful game franchise and change the latest title to not include what the game is best known for, but retain the same name. That way, anyone that doesn't know will still go buy it, and we can market it to a new segment, provided that the old fans dont read the new marketing before they buy."
What are people thinking? This would be like Quake 5 being in 2-d.
The industry of growing crops has been around for thousands of years... of course farmers shouldn't have to re-buy seeds. Using last year's seeds/etc is how the small farmer can even bear to get a living against a corporate farm.
It doesn't indicate what amounts of electricity could be retrieved, from what I read, but it almost wouldn't matter if it was cheap enough to build. You could blanket death valley with these things, and at least on summer days generate enough electricity to offset grid saturation by excess a/c units in some large area (hopefully large enough to justify the cost).
We all knew the kid growing up who had the porn, whose parents didn't care, and who had the latest violent-est video game. I guarantee that this will not slow down kids' exposure to such games, because they'll all just congregate at ol'johnny's house to play re-bloodening 3. It might slow down individual sales, but if exposure to the game is the problem, then consider it as unsolved as ever. In fact, making the games harder to get usually makes them more attractive to kids, as in "this one must be really bad, lets go to johnny's and see!"
If this is your first exposure to writing maintainable code, then odds are you shouldn't be programming for a living. Also, consider how bad IBM's code must be maintenance-wise if this is considered news! DOH!
What's really news is that you could not do any of these maintainable code options and easily have a long career of programming. All your projects will be crap, but unless you seriously break something, it's unlikely you'll be fired just for being inefficient.
based on progression of drive sizes, A 1.3+ terabyte drive should be available within a few years, and a 7.0+TB drive shortly thereafter. If you want cheap storage, just use large single drives. They are super cheap and while not super large, they are far less complicated than this setup.
to spy on a 17-year old in this manner is basically giving them a day-by-day countdown until they're rid of you, at which point they will have good reason to rebel and unfortunately maybe go a bit too wild. Anyone who's ever seen the first 2 weeks at a freshman dorm at say, 1 am, after the 30-kegger's get going, knows what happens to kids like this.
Sounds to me like a reverse fire sale... instead of selling items burned in a fire, they are selling items to prevent them from being burned in a fire. Hey, if they unloaded books to people, maybe it was worth it. I've seen thousands of people go into bookstores, read a book, and leave before a few actually buy the book. Anyone that's been to a Borders or B&N recently knows what I'm talking about.
If you compile different versions, or if a machine automatically translates for you, that doesn't mean you don't have to test on different platforms. If you expect to have a robust product that runs on linux, windows, and mac, you have to test it on all 3. I think people are confused that this will somehow eliminate that step, so you'd save yourself some time. If it's all one source base, then you'll have tons of stuff like this: -if running mac, then do this fix, if running windows then do some other fix, if running linux then do some third fix so either your code gets very large and unweildly, or you have 3 different versions and let them branch a bit. Either has advantages and drawbacks, but neither is what VM promises in theory.
Remember: "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is."
I am shocked that more people don't make the connection that: of course the murderer kid played violent video games... s/he was a violent person! If those games "made" people violent, then wouldn't there be a direct correlation between when a new game is released and some huge spike in murder statistics, where the new murderers mostly also owned the game?
I find it hard to believe that if you filter out spam, news digests, etc. and are down to personal communications, that you are honestly getting too many unless you're the president. If you are getting that many and you're not being paid enough to hire help, you should seriously reconsider why it is you're getting that many emails. Those add up to a sizeable population and should probably equate to some kind of increase in responsibility, and ergo an increase in pay significant enough to employ an assistant.
Microsoft pays a heavy subsidy to lock people in. So it costs you negative money at first, but believe me there is a positive cost at the end that more than makes up for it, or else they wouldn't do it. Open source is the same price the whole time: free.
It's great to see the SNES controller, it provided 6-button, finger-and-thumb controlling in about the most compact design possible. I see it as the bridge to all modern controllers, from the previous controllers like the NES, Atari,etc.
If it's basically like wearing a big plastic slab, isn't that going to get super hot? I'm assuming after they get a few breathable layers around it, that 5mm balloons to something much less inconspicuous. Still, any new ways to stop bullets reactively are a good thing.
My ancestors came here via Ellis Island, legally. The statue of liberty was speaking to those people. There's a good reason it doesn't say, "legal or not, y'all come on over!"
The people arguing that science is making "golden conclusions" are (shockingly) creationists. They want science to be another belief system, and it's not. If they win their argument, their point then becomes "why would anyone follow a belief system that didn't have a savior?" The whole point is that science is experimental, it was created by people to debunk claims of "mystical powers", by testing those powers. Recent tests of whether or not global warming is happening seem to conclude that we all better learn to swim really soon. You can believe anything you want, but you can also test for gravity, electricity, C-14 radioactive decay, and even global warming and see for yourself.
this just goes to show how completely retarded the management + opie n anthony show really were. They found a way to get kicked off of an uncensored channel... how dumb do you have to be to have that happen to you? Talk about lack of faith from management!
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I wonder what that meeting was like...
PHB: "Let's take a successful game franchise and change the latest title to not include what the game is best known for, but retain the same name. That way, anyone that doesn't know will still go buy it, and we can market it to a new segment, provided that the old fans dont read the new marketing before they buy."
What are people thinking? This would be like Quake 5 being in 2-d.
"Suppose your girlfriend"....you can stop right there, buddy, this is slashdot!
The industry of growing crops has been around for thousands of years... of course farmers shouldn't have to re-buy seeds. Using last year's seeds/etc is how the small farmer can even bear to get a living against a corporate farm.
the diff between day and night temperatures is extreme, same with temp between in sun and underground, either would work with right equipment.
It doesn't indicate what amounts of electricity could be retrieved, from what I read, but it almost wouldn't matter if it was cheap enough to build. You could blanket death valley with these things, and at least on summer days generate enough electricity to offset grid saturation by excess a/c units in some large area (hopefully large enough to justify the cost).
We all knew the kid growing up who had the porn, whose parents didn't care, and who had the latest violent-est video game. I guarantee that this will not slow down kids' exposure to such games, because they'll all just congregate at ol'johnny's house to play re-bloodening 3. It might slow down individual sales, but if exposure to the game is the problem, then consider it as unsolved as ever. In fact, making the games harder to get usually makes them more attractive to kids, as in "this one must be really bad, lets go to johnny's and see!"
If this is your first exposure to writing maintainable code, then odds are you shouldn't be programming for a living. Also, consider how bad IBM's code must be maintenance-wise if this is considered news! DOH!
What's really news is that you could not do any of these maintainable code options and easily have a long career of programming. All your projects will be crap, but unless you seriously break something, it's unlikely you'll be fired just for being inefficient.
Any table-top display is not complete unless it runs pac-man, and you can eat pizza off of it. That's the version I want!
Just let me pop in my all-Rush mixtape, and grab my bottle of New Coke...
based on progression of drive sizes, A 1.3+ terabyte drive should be available within a few years, and a 7.0+TB drive shortly thereafter. If you want cheap storage, just use large single drives. They are super cheap and while not super large, they are far less complicated than this setup.
Which would make you want to commit violence more, playing a video game or not getting a welfare check? Their priorities are completely messed up.
to spy on a 17-year old in this manner is basically giving them a day-by-day countdown until they're rid of you, at which point they will have good reason to rebel and unfortunately maybe go a bit too wild. Anyone who's ever seen the first 2 weeks at a freshman dorm at say, 1 am, after the 30-kegger's get going, knows what happens to kids like this.
Sounds to me like a reverse fire sale... instead of selling items burned in a fire, they are selling items to prevent them from being burned in a fire. Hey, if they unloaded books to people, maybe it was worth it. I've seen thousands of people go into bookstores, read a book, and leave before a few actually buy the book. Anyone that's been to a Borders or B&N recently knows what I'm talking about.
If you compile different versions, or if a machine automatically translates for you, that doesn't mean you don't have to test on different platforms. If you expect to have a robust product that runs on linux, windows, and mac, you have to test it on all 3. I think people are confused that this will somehow eliminate that step, so you'd save yourself some time. If it's all one source base, then you'll have tons of stuff like this:
-if running mac, then do this fix, if running windows then do some other fix, if running linux then do some third fix
so either your code gets very large and unweildly, or you have 3 different versions and let them branch a bit. Either has advantages and drawbacks, but neither is what VM promises in theory.
Remember: "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is."
I am shocked that more people don't make the connection that: of course the murderer kid played violent video games... s/he was a violent person! If those games "made" people violent, then wouldn't there be a direct correlation between when a new game is released and some huge spike in murder statistics, where the new murderers mostly also owned the game?
If you're the current president, chances are email's not the only thing you're not reading... bam! pow!
I find it hard to believe that if you filter out spam, news digests, etc. and are down to personal communications, that you are honestly getting too many unless you're the president. If you are getting that many and you're not being paid enough to hire help, you should seriously reconsider why it is you're getting that many emails. Those add up to a sizeable population and should probably equate to some kind of increase in responsibility, and ergo an increase in pay significant enough to employ an assistant.
06. Women know that guys NEVER listen when they give instructions, so telling some one how to fix a computer is pointless.
It's great when people just make things up. If guys don't listen to women, then why is the computer voice in fighter jets a female voice?
http://www.eleinc.com/erica.shtml
Microsoft pays a heavy subsidy to lock people in. So it costs you negative money at first, but believe me there is a positive cost at the end that more than makes up for it, or else they wouldn't do it. Open source is the same price the whole time: free.
It's great to see the SNES controller, it provided 6-button, finger-and-thumb controlling in about the most compact design possible. I see it as the bridge to all modern controllers, from the previous controllers like the NES, Atari,etc.
If it's basically like wearing a big plastic slab, isn't that going to get super hot? I'm assuming after they get a few breathable layers around it, that 5mm balloons to something much less inconspicuous. Still, any new ways to stop bullets reactively are a good thing.
My ancestors came here via Ellis Island, legally. The statue of liberty was speaking to those people. There's a good reason it doesn't say, "legal or not, y'all come on over!"
The people arguing that science is making "golden conclusions" are (shockingly) creationists. They want science to be another belief system, and it's not. If they win their argument, their point then becomes "why would anyone follow a belief system that didn't have a savior?" The whole point is that science is experimental, it was created by people to debunk claims of "mystical powers", by testing those powers. Recent tests of whether or not global warming is happening seem to conclude that we all better learn to swim really soon. You can believe anything you want, but you can also test for gravity, electricity, C-14 radioactive decay, and even global warming and see for yourself.
I've been using wi-fi for years, and I haven't noticed any brain damage amage amage amage.
Do i detect the familiar setup of a stage mommy/daddy here somewhere going "you're not raising seed money fast enough! no dinner tonight!"
this just goes to show how completely retarded the management + opie n anthony show really were. They found a way to get kicked off of an uncensored channel... how dumb do you have to be to have that happen to you? Talk about lack of faith from management!