Yes, or as my server friend commented on after a late night shift:
A fairly large lady comes in with a friend after a night at the bar. She orders the double-decker cheeseburger, poutined fries with gravy, and a side of apple pie. Then she asks for a "diet coke" and comments "I'm trying to lose weight"
I wonder about the filesystem patents when most big Android vendors have now killed off the use of SD cards in phones. There's no need at all to use FAT unless you've for media that is going between phones and PC's. When transferring by wifi or USB/app, the FS doesn't matter
Doesn't make as much sense on Slashdot. Steam is a service that offers a catalogue of games, including some free ones. Slashdot basically offers one product that's free/ad-supported, and the ability to post is directly tied to that service (not necessarily so the ability to chat/voice-chat in the games).
However, I could see somebody coming who offers a third-party service web-presence validation service. $5 for a validated account, which then could be used to login to others such as Slashdot etc via OpenID or something similar. I would actually be willing to pay for that if it could get past the initial growth hurdles.
If you're know they're in, wouldn't it be better to turn the "breach" into a honeypot? Let them into a secured system which looks useful, but in reality feeds them bad data.
However, it's also gone beyond the original intended purpose (killing weeds), and is used as a desiccant. To make wheat easier to harvest, it is soaked in glyphosate to speed the drying process pre-harvest. That's convenient for the farmers, but there are a lot of studies showing links between celiac'ism etc and glyphosate overuse. Notably, a lot of people with gluten intolerance seem to be able to eat wheat-products in Europe (where the roundup/glyphosate use is often banned), but get sick when eating it in the US.
My understanding is that caffeine and other stuff in coffee beans is intended to keep away predators (insects etc). I've been collecting coffee grounds as adding them to my garden as a) They add minerals which plants love (phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen, magnesium) b) For tomatoes, they help keep the tomato bugs away
Examples of things that couldn't care less: streaming large assets that are decompressed in realtime, like audio or video files. Loading a word processing document. Downloading a game patch. Encoding a DVD. Playing RAM-resident video games.
Yes, any one of those things. However, if you're downloading a game patch while playing a game and maybe playing some music in the background, at the same time as perhaps download a few torrents or copying files, whatever... SSD's kick ass.
Why? Because singularly those things aren't IO-bound, but once you start doing 2+ things that require semi-hefty disk access then on an HDD you're going to have a lot of thrashing and speed goes out the window.
Generally evolution isn't going to go on a per-decade rate, especially for humans that live for 50-100 years. That's something that happens over generations. It's hard to measure in the long-term because the standards of measure have also changed.
There's also the upbringing factor: development is not only genetics, it's tied to health and nutrition. Your average "poor" person might not have a great outlook in that regard due to malnutrition etc.
Complaining "Your service sucks, your employees are rude, and etc etc" isn't going to be a big deal. If they want to publish somebody saying they suck go ahead
Saying to an employee (to paraphrase) "you're an ugly, fat uneducated idiot with no usefulness as a human being blah blah and I'm going to use my power to RUIN you" is not so open to interpretation. I've gotten ticked off at people in stores, but I don't resort to personal attacks because I'm not an asshole.
And there a difference between "government and industry watching your every move" versus "portable recording devices easily available"
I don't want to be recorded and tracked 24/7 by government/industry, but I don't particular have an issue with the people around me having cameras. Yes, somebody could catch me at a bad moment, but they can also film a lot of good things such as abuse of power (e.g. cop shooting fleeing suspect in the back and then planting a taser on the body), he-said-she-said (dashcams of car accidents, somebody assaulting a cop and saying it was abusive police), etc.
Public shaming of true a-holes isn't a terrible thing as well, so long as we don't get to the point where neighbours are posting our pictures wanted-ad style because a cat crapped on somebody's petunias once.
Perhaps somebody has a patent against using a cellular wireless chip to tune FM frequencies? It's weird, because my old Samsung flip-phone had a nice FM tuner which worked with the headphones, but here (Canada) I haven't seen any such thing in newer smartphones.
One thing I note is that the particle effects are quite impressive, including explosions and sparks, etc. I'm guessing those are PhysX enabled or possibly Mantle? Whatever is being used, it definitely helps lend a bit of a Starwars/movie feel to things.
I wonder if this might apply to ragers/trolls as well? On games that are free (DOTA2) etc, there is a system for reporting, but at the moment it just seems to temporarily put you in the "slow queue". I'm actually had some people say "go ahead, report me, I'll be back" (generally these are not even necessarily trolls, but people who spend the whole game screaming on the mic and spewing vile profanity at team members). If you could have a steam-account perma-banned, that would be nice, but obviously the bigger a-holes/trolls are just going to go from account bob1222 to making account bob1223. A $5 block to prevent them from certain in-game activities might be nice too.
There's been a lot of discussion about the sexist/misogynist/racist trolls online. My personal take is that - in the gaming community - it's not really a particular problem with any of those mentioned categories, but rather a problem with trolls/assholes in general. If we can reduce that issue it'll probably make life nicer for everyone.
"ex-Kennedy and ex-Kitty Hawk are currently in long term storage"
How exactly does one do "long term storage" on something the size of an aircraft carrier Serious question, it's not like you can just park it in the garage/barn and cover it with a tarp.
Believe it or not, I did read the article. It said she regained consciousness after drilling her skull and removing half the tumour. It's after that that it says they did chemo, radiation, and more surgeries which lost 80% of her left brain and paralysed her. After that she regained some vision and mobility, but the cancer still spread to the remaining brain.
So from the sound of it, there wasn't a whole lot of brain left. 80% of the left is gone, and the right had already been eaten away by cancer as well.
Yes, and it's pretty much just a brain, because the other half was already destroyed by cancer.
That part doesn't make much sense to me at all. Spinal Damage. Stopped Heart. Sure. Brain injury that prevents consciousness but doesn't seem to impact primary function, maybe.
But half her brain is gone. What are they preserving, exactly?
Yes. One strong consideration in regards to the UK is that just handing people over to foreign governments (US or otherwise) doesn't work quite as well for high-profile persons. Sure, some people are going to be upset if you hand over "random person X" to a foreign power where he/she may likely be tortured or abused, but in many cases those people might not even be in a position to know it was done by the government, just that Bob didn't show up for work one day and nobody knows where he is.
If the UK government hands over Assange, there's enough eyes involved that it would probably spike somewhat significant protests etc. Kinda like airing your dirty laundry on the front porch rather than in the back yard.
Even an RNG etc might periodically need updates, for which it's not unreasonable to assume USB drives might be used. Having better audit practices would help, but it sounds like they already had a "minimum 2-person team" requirement that this dude bypassed due to his privileges as head of security. It's a case of "who watches the watchers"
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Yes, or as my server friend commented on after a late night shift:
A fairly large lady comes in with a friend after a night at the bar. She orders the double-decker cheeseburger, poutined fries with gravy, and a side of apple pie. Then she asks for a "diet coke" and comments "I'm trying to lose weight"
I wonder about the filesystem patents when most big Android vendors have now killed off the use of SD cards in phones.
There's no need at all to use FAT unless you've for media that is going between phones and PC's. When transferring by wifi or USB/app, the FS doesn't matter
Doesn't make as much sense on Slashdot. Steam is a service that offers a catalogue of games, including some free ones.
Slashdot basically offers one product that's free/ad-supported, and the ability to post is directly tied to that service (not necessarily so the ability to chat/voice-chat in the games).
However, I could see somebody coming who offers a third-party service web-presence validation service. $5 for a validated account, which then could be used to login to others such as Slashdot etc via OpenID or something similar. I would actually be willing to pay for that if it could get past the initial growth hurdles.
If you're know they're in, wouldn't it be better to turn the "breach" into a honeypot?
Let them into a secured system which looks useful, but in reality feeds them bad data.
If sales of EV's etc are going down, perhaps the SMART people can pick them up at a lower price-point...
However, it's also gone beyond the original intended purpose (killing weeds), and is used as a desiccant. To make wheat easier to harvest, it is soaked in glyphosate to speed the drying process pre-harvest.
That's convenient for the farmers, but there are a lot of studies showing links between celiac'ism etc and glyphosate overuse. Notably, a lot of people with gluten intolerance seem to be able to eat wheat-products in Europe (where the roundup/glyphosate use is often banned), but get sick when eating it in the US.
My understanding is that caffeine and other stuff in coffee beans is intended to keep away predators (insects etc).
I've been collecting coffee grounds as adding them to my garden as
a) They add minerals which plants love (phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen, magnesium)
b) For tomatoes, they help keep the tomato bugs away
I don't think you replied to the comment you think you were replying to...
Examples of things that couldn't care less: streaming large assets that are decompressed in realtime, like audio or video files. Loading a word processing document. Downloading a game patch. Encoding a DVD. Playing RAM-resident video games.
Yes, any one of those things. However, if you're downloading a game patch while playing a game and maybe playing some music in the background, at the same time as perhaps download a few torrents or copying files, whatever... SSD's kick ass.
Why? Because singularly those things aren't IO-bound, but once you start doing 2+ things that require semi-hefty disk access then on an HDD you're going to have a lot of thrashing and speed goes out the window.
"How many 62 year olds do you know who ... diagnose their own problems before going to the doctor"
A lot, unless you mean "correctly" and without being a huge PITA ;-)
Generally evolution isn't going to go on a per-decade rate, especially for humans that live for 50-100 years. That's something that happens over generations. It's hard to measure in the long-term because the standards of measure have also changed.
There's also the upbringing factor: development is not only genetics, it's tied to health and nutrition. Your average "poor" person might not have a great outlook in that regard due to malnutrition etc.
I'd say that "anyone can make it big" but "most people won't" and "being wealthy helps improve the odds a lot"
history is rife with examples of men with questionable looks and stunning women
How many of those had average income?
Complaining "Your service sucks, your employees are rude, and etc etc" isn't going to be a big deal. If they want to publish somebody saying they suck go ahead
Saying to an employee (to paraphrase) "you're an ugly, fat uneducated idiot with no usefulness as a human being blah blah and I'm going to use my power to RUIN you" is not so open to interpretation. I've gotten ticked off at people in stores, but I don't resort to personal attacks because I'm not an asshole.
And there a difference between "government and industry watching your every move" versus "portable recording devices easily available"
I don't want to be recorded and tracked 24/7 by government/industry, but I don't particular have an issue with the people around me having cameras. Yes, somebody could catch me at a bad moment, but they can also film a lot of good things such as abuse of power (e.g. cop shooting fleeing suspect in the back and then planting a taser on the body), he-said-she-said (dashcams of car accidents, somebody assaulting a cop and saying it was abusive police), etc.
Public shaming of true a-holes isn't a terrible thing as well, so long as we don't get to the point where neighbours are posting our pictures wanted-ad style because a cat crapped on somebody's petunias once.
Perhaps somebody has a patent against using a cellular wireless chip to tune FM frequencies?
It's weird, because my old Samsung flip-phone had a nice FM tuner which worked with the headphones, but here (Canada) I haven't seen any such thing in newer smartphones.
One thing I note is that the particle effects are quite impressive, including explosions and sparks, etc. I'm guessing those are PhysX enabled or possibly Mantle? Whatever is being used, it definitely helps lend a bit of a Starwars/movie feel to things.
I wonder if this might apply to ragers/trolls as well? On games that are free (DOTA2) etc, there is a system for reporting, but at the moment it just seems to temporarily put you in the "slow queue".
I'm actually had some people say "go ahead, report me, I'll be back" (generally these are not even necessarily trolls, but people who spend the whole game screaming on the mic and spewing vile profanity at team members). If you could have a steam-account perma-banned, that would be nice, but obviously the bigger a-holes/trolls are just going to go from account bob1222 to making account bob1223. A $5 block to prevent them from certain in-game activities might be nice too.
There's been a lot of discussion about the sexist/misogynist/racist trolls online. My personal take is that - in the gaming community - it's not really a particular problem with any of those mentioned categories, but rather a problem with trolls/assholes in general. If we can reduce that issue it'll probably make life nicer for everyone.
"ex-Kennedy and ex-Kitty Hawk are currently in long term storage"
How exactly does one do "long term storage" on something the size of an aircraft carrier
Serious question, it's not like you can just park it in the garage/barn and cover it with a tarp.
Believe it or not, I did read the article.
It said she regained consciousness after drilling her skull and removing half the tumour. It's after that that it says they did chemo, radiation, and more surgeries which lost 80% of her left brain and paralysed her. After that she regained some vision and mobility, but the cancer still spread to the remaining brain.
So from the sound of it, there wasn't a whole lot of brain left. 80% of the left is gone, and the right had already been eaten away by cancer as well.
Yes, and it's pretty much just a brain, because the other half was already destroyed by cancer.
That part doesn't make much sense to me at all.
Spinal Damage. Stopped Heart. Sure.
Brain injury that prevents consciousness but doesn't seem to impact primary function, maybe.
But half her brain is gone. What are they preserving, exactly?
Australia has corporate tax rates that are in general lower than those in, say, the United States.
How do the laws/loopholes allowing companies to "write off" such taxes compare?
It doesn't mean so much as bumping up the salary of all the workers, but it might make it easier to argue with the shareholders.
Yes. One strong consideration in regards to the UK is that just handing people over to foreign governments (US or otherwise) doesn't work quite as well for high-profile persons. Sure, some people are going to be upset if you hand over "random person X" to a foreign power where he/she may likely be tortured or abused, but in many cases those people might not even be in a position to know it was done by the government, just that Bob didn't show up for work one day and nobody knows where he is.
If the UK government hands over Assange, there's enough eyes involved that it would probably spike somewhat significant protests etc. Kinda like airing your dirty laundry on the front porch rather than in the back yard.
Even an RNG etc might periodically need updates, for which it's not unreasonable to assume USB drives might be used. Having better audit practices would help, but it sounds like they already had a "minimum 2-person team" requirement that this dude bypassed due to his privileges as head of security. It's a case of "who watches the watchers"