We're taking speculation from Butterfly Labs now? The company that delivers their products 6-8 months behind schedule?...Actually nevermind... Their products are pure speculation so I guess that's what they're good at.;)
I've played Thief 1, 2, and 3, and each game has a 'shelf' point for me about 3/4ths through. I love the concept of the game to death, but I've never been able to muster the effort to push through these sticking points... I hate to admit that I've never beat any of the three games.:P
I'm sure WOW will take long to fade to the point where it has to close down because subscriptions don't pay for maintenance anymore. Some time after 2010, I guess.
That's only 3 years away. WoW will most likely still be the king of the MMO market in just 3 years time. If I had to guess a year that they'll have to shut down because it's not profitable anymore, I'd say 10 years, or 2014 at the very earliest. 10 years is not a long time in MMO time, there are many that have been around even longer. 2020 or so is probably a closer estimation.
It's as flattering an analogy as saying a DVD is like a child, and someone who wants to play that DVD on a computer running linux is like a pedophile who wants to have sex with that child.
Really? You mean political opponents and vocal critics being killed and imprisoned in eastern Europe during the cold war doesn't quite measure up to tapping a telephone line? I think you need to have your scales of justice recalibrated.
ANY attack on a people's freedoms are equal. Whether it be free speech, privacy, or life. These values should all be held equally; any attack on one should be defended as vehemently as an attack on any other.
That's just it. There are no warrants involved here. They want every citizen, every person and business in the entire nation, regardless of who you are or what you have done, to hand their keys over.
I for one don't believe that an oath to secrecy trumps the constitution, or the risk of the destruction of our nation from corruption. Obviously the people releasing this information agree. They believe that our rights and freedoms are more important than keeping damaging secrets. They of all people would know that the goings on that we're not aware of are more damaging to our nation than they are helping. They wouldn't release it otherwise.
Interesting... but just wondering, whatever happened to the idea of backup power being stored in giant underground flywheels; the energy would be stored by bringing these up to speed, and released by slowing them down.
This idea is already in use: Even as we speak, dead physicists the world over are spinning in their graves from the posting of this Slashdot article. We simply need to harness this energy to solve the worlds energy problems!
I think right now we're in an anti-intellectual period in the United States, but I think the pendulum will swing back in the other direction again.
Anti-intellectual? The US is more pro-intellectual than it has been in a very long time. It's finally cool to be smart, to an extent. If anything, the pendulum is only just beginning to swing back in our favor. It may not look like it now, but we just need to give the pendulum more time.
There's more functionality than I have access to, but it's basically a database system for processing and tracking purchase orders, invoices, and the like. Invoices from purchases and services incurred by our department can be directly paid for and tracked through SAP, straight from our own budget to the supplier.
Can it possibly be that Java -- once the hippest of hip software -- has become a legacy technology, as old and out of style as IBM's (IBM) mainframe computers and SAP's corporate applications?
I work for a major telecom company and we just UPGRADED to SAP software.:P
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You haven't known many people without money, have you?
And apparantly you haven't, either. While I agree that there are a number of people who would in fact just buy a plasma TV and some 20" wheels for their rusty '82 Mercury, there are just as many good, sensible people who are just trapped in a bad situation that would act in the way the grandparent post described. It sounds right: Smart, decent, hardworking people should always be successful in the US. But it dosen't always turn out that way. One bad decision, medical emergency, or death in the family can trap someone who's already only just getting by into a terrible, almost inescapable spiral of debt. I'm not just talking about owing some money on your credit cards. With the person the grandparent described, he or she already has no credit. They're trying to get by purely on a week to week basis, so there is no chance to break free; all of their effort is going towards immediate survival. You wouldn't believe the gap that exists between people that have and people that don't have credit. In this nation it's an entirely different existance.
My Dad works at the Fry's Electronics in Downers Grove, IL, and there was a line around the building when we got there at 7am this morning. I thought there was some kind of early Black Friday thing going on until I remembered the XBox launch date.
So a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel and an active LRAD device on his crotch. The bartender says: "There's a steering wheel and an LRAD device on your crotch!" The pirate says: "Yar, I know! They're both driving me nuts!"
Scientist: "Mr. President, we have a number of new designs for our next Mars probe. Utilizing various state of the art metallurgy processes and the most advanced..."
Bush: "Can the scientologist mumbo jumbo, Doc."
Scientist: "::sigh:: This one looks like a penguin."
Bush: "Ooh, a penguin? Heh heh, I like penguins. Approved!"
What you're actually doing is depriving the rods and cones in your eyes of blood. Similar to the nerves in your leg sending 'static' signals back your your brain when your leg falling alseep, your eye's start doing the same.
Fry's Electronics owns Outpost, and I know someone who works at Fry's... At the penalty of losing their job, they're not allowed to say ANYTHING negative about any product whatsoever. They can't specifically say one product is better than another either. I wonder if this policy will change now as well?
From TFA: Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust. They would live in two cramped modules about three metres across and eat biscuits and food in tubes.
So to answer your question: Compared to most major airlines, you'd be going first class!
Security in Windows itself had definately improved over the last few years. But almost all of the current and recent vulnerabilities have somehow been related to IE.
Not using IE and using Firefox instead almost completely secures an up-to-date Windows box. Get rid of IE, get rid of 90% of Windows' security problems.
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We're taking speculation from Butterfly Labs now? The company that delivers their products 6-8 months behind schedule? ...Actually nevermind... Their products are pure speculation so I guess that's what they're good at. ;)
I've played Thief 1, 2, and 3, and each game has a 'shelf' point for me about 3/4ths through. I love the concept of the game to death, but I've never been able to muster the effort to push through these sticking points... I hate to admit that I've never beat any of the three games. :P
I'm sure WOW will take long to fade to the point where it has to close down because subscriptions don't pay for maintenance anymore. Some time after 2010, I guess. That's only 3 years away. WoW will most likely still be the king of the MMO market in just 3 years time. If I had to guess a year that they'll have to shut down because it's not profitable anymore, I'd say 10 years, or 2014 at the very earliest. 10 years is not a long time in MMO time, there are many that have been around even longer. 2020 or so is probably a closer estimation.
They can use the voices, but they can't be seen doing the voices. If they're off stage or their faces are covered up, they're ok.
It's as flattering an analogy as saying a DVD is like a child, and someone who wants to play that DVD on a computer running linux is like a pedophile who wants to have sex with that child.
You just gave the MPAA a new analogy to use.
Really? You mean political opponents and vocal critics being killed and imprisoned in eastern Europe during the cold war doesn't quite measure up to tapping a telephone line? I think you need to have your scales of justice recalibrated.
ANY attack on a people's freedoms are equal. Whether it be free speech, privacy, or life. These values should all be held equally; any attack on one should be defended as vehemently as an attack on any other.
I think it's you who needs their scales adjusted.
That's just it. There are no warrants involved here. They want every citizen, every person and business in the entire nation, regardless of who you are or what you have done, to hand their keys over.
They are violating their oaths of secrecy.
I for one don't believe that an oath to secrecy trumps the constitution, or the risk of the destruction of our nation from corruption. Obviously the people releasing this information agree. They believe that our rights and freedoms are more important than keeping damaging secrets. They of all people would know that the goings on that we're not aware of are more damaging to our nation than they are helping. They wouldn't release it otherwise.
Interesting ... but just wondering, whatever happened to the idea of backup power being stored in giant underground flywheels; the energy would be stored by bringing these up to speed, and released by slowing them down.
This idea is already in use: Even as we speak, dead physicists the world over are spinning in their graves from the posting of this Slashdot article. We simply need to harness this energy to solve the worlds energy problems!
I think right now we're in an anti-intellectual period in the United States, but I think the pendulum will swing back in the other direction again.
Anti-intellectual? The US is more pro-intellectual than it has been in a very long time. It's finally cool to be smart, to an extent. If anything, the pendulum is only just beginning to swing back in our favor. It may not look like it now, but we just need to give the pendulum more time.
Mod this up please, this is exactly right.
There's more functionality than I have access to, but it's basically a database system for processing and tracking purchase orders, invoices, and the like. Invoices from purchases and services incurred by our department can be directly paid for and tracked through SAP, straight from our own budget to the supplier.
Can it possibly be that Java -- once the hippest of hip software -- has become a legacy technology, as old and out of style as IBM's (IBM) mainframe computers and SAP's corporate applications?
:P
I work for a major telecom company and we just UPGRADED to SAP software.
You haven't known many people without money, have you?
And apparantly you haven't, either. While I agree that there are a number of people who would in fact just buy a plasma TV and some 20" wheels for their rusty '82 Mercury, there are just as many good, sensible people who are just trapped in a bad situation that would act in the way the grandparent post described. It sounds right: Smart, decent, hardworking people should always be successful in the US. But it dosen't always turn out that way. One bad decision, medical emergency, or death in the family can trap someone who's already only just getting by into a terrible, almost inescapable spiral of debt. I'm not just talking about owing some money on your credit cards. With the person the grandparent described, he or she already has no credit. They're trying to get by purely on a week to week basis, so there is no chance to break free; all of their effort is going towards immediate survival. You wouldn't believe the gap that exists between people that have and people that don't have credit. In this nation it's an entirely different existance.
My Dad works at the Fry's Electronics in Downers Grove, IL, and there was a line around the building when we got there at 7am this morning. I thought there was some kind of early Black Friday thing going on until I remembered the XBox launch date.
So a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel and an active LRAD device on his crotch. The bartender says: "There's a steering wheel and an LRAD device on your crotch!" The pirate says: "Yar, I know! They're both driving me nuts!"
In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day
But alcohol and drugs don't expose you to the concept of freedom and independance. What they're really trying to stop is the influx of such ideas.
I can see how it went down:
Scientist: "Mr. President, we have a number of new designs for our next Mars probe. Utilizing various state of the art metallurgy processes and the most advanced..."
Bush: "Can the scientologist mumbo jumbo, Doc."
Scientist: "::sigh:: This one looks like a penguin."
Bush: "Ooh, a penguin? Heh heh, I like penguins. Approved!"
John Titor, is that you?
Wow, I think there was some static in the grammar center of my brain when I wrote that. :P Ignore the grammar and take in the raw info please! :)
What you're actually doing is depriving the rods and cones in your eyes of blood. Similar to the nerves in your leg sending 'static' signals back your your brain when your leg falling alseep, your eye's start doing the same.
The universal foolproof 2-step legal attack: 1. Yell 'DMCA! DMCA! DMCA!' at the person you want to stop doing whatever it is they're doing. 2. Profit!
Fry's Electronics owns Outpost, and I know someone who works at Fry's... At the penalty of losing their job, they're not allowed to say ANYTHING negative about any product whatsoever. They can't specifically say one product is better than another either. I wonder if this policy will change now as well?
$100 Million - is that first class or economy?
From TFA:
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust. They would live in two cramped modules about three metres across and eat biscuits and food in tubes.
So to answer your question: Compared to most major airlines, you'd be going first class!
Security in Windows itself had definately improved over the last few years. But almost all of the current and recent vulnerabilities have somehow been related to IE.
Not using IE and using Firefox instead almost completely secures an up-to-date Windows box. Get rid of IE, get rid of 90% of Windows' security problems.