No, not every order is debatable. Then again, due obedience is not an excuse. It is the soldier's responsibility to know when he has grounds to disobey an order.
Too many variations? Erm... Audi/Volkswagen/Seat use basically the same control software, for example, even if different revisions of it. And i'ts not like you can't put several attack vectors inside a 3-4MB file, right?
I guess all graduates in other engineering degrees know all that there is to know about their field, let alone all the tools and machines available for them.
Reasonably smart kids may aim for a college degree. Smart kids also know that it provides them with the means to quickly learn applications of it in their field of engineering, the same way getting a driver's license means you are ready to get experience with real life driving. Reasonably smart businesses know that too and invest on getting smart kids up to snuff on their internal processes, some of which wouldn't be even available to study out those same businesses (secret production methods still exist).
That's strange. I have an AMD laptop with just 1.5GB and a Mobility Radeon X700 (five year old computer) and I don't seem to have too many problems playing games that have a few years on them (which excludes Black Ops, but I consider it too expensive anyway). Are you perhaps trying to play what's essentially a FPS with full resolution? Perhaps you should consider not worrying about that so much, it's a FPS, you are not there to watch the scenery;)
An anecdote doesn't make an statistic, but I find that PCs have more casual gamers than consoles, and I postulate that it is because you can use a PC for other things, besides playing with it. Can you do that with a console (PS3 Linux mode excluded)?
When you buy a console you buy something to play games, and only to play games (oh, yes, and perhaps play some movies if you don't already have a DVD player). When you buy a computer you can play games, watch DVDs and do lots of other things (from office work to video editing, from CAD to software development, from composing music to learning mecanography...). And you can play RTS and FPS better. I have only found the consoles being better when playing games that require gradual joystick control (racers, fliers and the like) and if you really want to play one of those you can always buy a joystick or a gamepad if needed.
This last paragraph is my personal opinion on the matter, and not supposed to be the end-all of the neverending debate about what platform is better. But, IMO, the facts point to PC being it.
Erm... on a PC, perhaps? It's not like you are posting at Slashdot from your PS3, is it? I don't know, though, if CoD allows you to use a mouse on the console version. That might be the only sane (for me) explanation for someone playing it on a console:)
It scarred me for life. But you learn so so much about how *nix works from the inside. I'm assuming "CS" is the developing sector , not learning how to get it to run.
I'm sorry you have such a fragile skin;) Joking aside, "the developing sector" includes, usually, things like "getting it to run" (installation and maintenance). You don't program in a vacuum, and if you develop enterprise software you will have to worry about little things like that.
You are mistaken. He states that his son was alright, was vaccinated, and after vaccination his son started having problems. In this context he is implying there is a cause (vaccination) and effect (problems) without providing any more information. As such, it's a post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (sassing in Eskimo talk aside).
If you are the AC I answered to, yes, I'm answering to you. My being impudent or insolent is, though, a matter of opinion. Oh, and just so you don't need to read the link I put just in case you didn't want to learn a little bit of Latin, here is my statement in English: correlation (things happening close together) does not mean causation (something happening because something else did).
Thanks, but that is related to the IP rights, not the hardware itself as far as I understand the text. At least, it would be the first time I see industrially produced hardware use subjected to IP laws (its design, though, might be both through copyright and patents). Oh, and nowhere in the EULA is the hardware declared as rented, loaned or leased.
Would you be so kind to please specify which PS3 EULA are you talking about? (a link to the corresponding file on Sony's website and a paragraph number (or searchable content) would be best).
I may be mistaken, but having a quasar just 200.000 light-years from here would probably mean all life on Earth would have been annihilated some time ago. Just consider that the diametre of the Milky Way (our galaxy) is 100.000 light years. As such, it seems more reasonable to conclude that the quasar was 200.000 light-years away from the cloud, which is, itself 650 million light-years away from us. I don't want to think what a stream of radiation able to reach through 650 million light-years would do to something just 200.000 light-years away:)
Sorry for being such a nitpicker. Actually, if the quasar that lit up the cloud died about 200.000 years ago, I don't expect the cloud to glow much longer than that, as in... perhaps just a million years? I guess it basically depends on the distance between the quasar and the cloud, so I might be mistaken by several ordes of magnitude.
Actually, the gas cloud is about 650 million light-years away. The quasar would have died just 200.000 years ago (which is quite recent in astronomy, AFAIK). Perhaps I should have made it clear that I meant recently relative to the gas cloud.
... the blob is, according to observations, a gas cloud who was irradiated until recently by a now dead quasar. The irradiation excited the oxygen atoms in the cloud, making it glow green.
I think it wouldn't have been too much to add this to the entry.
BadAnalogyGuy, is that you? Ads are not "toll booths", not are the destinations they provide something that usually will take me longer to get to through other means. Getting back to your flawed analogy, all those interstitial ads and the like actually make me take longer to get what I want. It's a bad strategy when the toll booths at the highway make you arrive later than driving through the normal road.
Interesting but entirely offtopic. We are not discussing whether ads make you buy or not, but whether we want to see ads or not. It can be the best ad in the world, it can be the best product in the world, but if I don't want to see ads, I don't want to see ads. In my case, because I want to decide how I spend/waste my time, and ads are no it.
This is just another trend in ad-blocking blocking. I have already seen a few webs where the important text is enclosed in DIVs and the like so it won't show up if you are using an ad blocker (basically, they fool the browser into thinking everything is an ad). Their loss: they aren't providing anything that I can't get in tens of other websites.
Ok, hypothetical question. I send a letter to the letters section of a newspaper. It is not published. Do I lose my freedom of speech?
Another hypothetical question. I post a comment at someone's blog, and it gets deleted. Do I lose my freedom of speech?
On both cases, my opinion is that I don't. There is a difference between freedom of speech and freedom of the press: simplifying, I can say anything I want, but that doesn't mean anybody else has to publish it. Hey, it happens everyday: lots of letters to the newspapers don't get published, and nobody screams bloody murder about it.
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No, not every order is debatable. Then again, due obedience is not an excuse. It is the soldier's responsibility to know when he has grounds to disobey an order.
Too many variations? Erm... Audi/Volkswagen/Seat use basically the same control software, for example, even if different revisions of it. And i'ts not like you can't put several attack vectors inside a 3-4MB file, right?
Reasonably smart kids may aim for a college degree. Smart kids also know that it provides them with the means to quickly learn applications of it in their field of engineering, the same way getting a driver's license means you are ready to get experience with real life driving. Reasonably smart businesses know that too and invest on getting smart kids up to snuff on their internal processes, some of which wouldn't be even available to study out those same businesses (secret production methods still exist).
An anecdote doesn't make an statistic, but I find that PCs have more casual gamers than consoles, and I postulate that it is because you can use a PC for other things, besides playing with it. Can you do that with a console (PS3 Linux mode excluded)?
When you buy a console you buy something to play games, and only to play games (oh, yes, and perhaps play some movies if you don't already have a DVD player). When you buy a computer you can play games, watch DVDs and do lots of other things (from office work to video editing, from CAD to software development, from composing music to learning mecanography...). And you can play RTS and FPS better. I have only found the consoles being better when playing games that require gradual joystick control (racers, fliers and the like) and if you really want to play one of those you can always buy a joystick or a gamepad if needed.
This last paragraph is my personal opinion on the matter, and not supposed to be the end-all of the neverending debate about what platform is better. But, IMO, the facts point to PC being it.
Erm... on a PC, perhaps? It's not like you are posting at Slashdot from your PS3, is it? I don't know, though, if CoD allows you to use a mouse on the console version. That might be the only sane (for me) explanation for someone playing it on a console :)
It scarred me for life. But you learn so so much about how *nix works from the inside. I'm assuming "CS" is the developing sector , not learning how to get it to run.
I'm sorry you have such a fragile skin ;) Joking aside, "the developing sector" includes, usually, things like "getting it to run" (installation and maintenance). You don't program in a vacuum, and if you develop enterprise software you will have to worry about little things like that.
You are mistaken. He states that his son was alright, was vaccinated, and after vaccination his son started having problems. In this context he is implying there is a cause (vaccination) and effect (problems) without providing any more information. As such, it's a post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (sassing in Eskimo talk aside).
Correction, it _is_ aired. I have never watched Big Bang Theory though.
Oh, am I supposed to know about that series? AFAIK, it doesn't get aired here in Spain ;)
Yes, IHBT. IHL. IWHAND.
Thanks, but that is related to the IP rights, not the hardware itself as far as I understand the text. At least, it would be the first time I see industrially produced hardware use subjected to IP laws (its design, though, might be both through copyright and patents). Oh, and nowhere in the EULA is the hardware declared as rented, loaned or leased.
Would you be so kind to please specify which PS3 EULA are you talking about? (a link to the corresponding file on Sony's website and a paragraph number (or searchable content) would be best).
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, nice fallacy.
I may be mistaken, but having a quasar just 200.000 light-years from here would probably mean all life on Earth would have been annihilated some time ago. Just consider that the diametre of the Milky Way (our galaxy) is 100.000 light years. As such, it seems more reasonable to conclude that the quasar was 200.000 light-years away from the cloud, which is, itself 650 million light-years away from us. I don't want to think what a stream of radiation able to reach through 650 million light-years would do to something just 200.000 light-years away :)
Sorry for being such a nitpicker. Actually, if the quasar that lit up the cloud died about 200.000 years ago, I don't expect the cloud to glow much longer than that, as in... perhaps just a million years? I guess it basically depends on the distance between the quasar and the cloud, so I might be mistaken by several ordes of magnitude.
Actually, the gas cloud is about 650 million light-years away. The quasar would have died just 200.000 years ago (which is quite recent in astronomy, AFAIK). Perhaps I should have made it clear that I meant recently relative to the gas cloud.
If they had done as Napoleon did, they would be "Search Emperor" ;)
I think it wouldn't have been too much to add this to the entry.
I would worry less about her being his wife, and more about her comparing the plastic and you ;)
BadAnalogyGuy, is that you? Ads are not "toll booths", not are the destinations they provide something that usually will take me longer to get to through other means. Getting back to your flawed analogy, all those interstitial ads and the like actually make me take longer to get what I want. It's a bad strategy when the toll booths at the highway make you arrive later than driving through the normal road.
This is just another trend in ad-blocking blocking. I have already seen a few webs where the important text is enclosed in DIVs and the like so it won't show up if you are using an ad blocker (basically, they fool the browser into thinking everything is an ad). Their loss: they aren't providing anything that I can't get in tens of other websites.
Have Been Trolled :)
and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all.
That is, no problems besides those in the open sourced code.
But you had to be innecessarily agressive. Well, you reap what you sow.
(And no, this comment isn't Insightful or anything else; actually I probably HBT).
Mmm... paint me mistaken, then. Freedom of press doesn't have anything to do with the issue. I will go hide in my basement again :)
Another hypothetical question. I post a comment at someone's blog, and it gets deleted. Do I lose my freedom of speech?
On both cases, my opinion is that I don't. There is a difference between freedom of speech and freedom of the press: simplifying, I can say anything I want, but that doesn't mean anybody else has to publish it. Hey, it happens everyday: lots of letters to the newspapers don't get published, and nobody screams bloody murder about it.