Um, multiple accounts as in more than one MMO game at a time. I don't know many people who play AC and EQ at the same time. Usually they drop one to take up another. So his 180k means people who, by and large, aren't still playing DAoC, they either quit (but then, other games didn't lose players) or are new to the genre.
It's a publicity stunt, mostly. Also, it does provide an objective check on our theoretical analysis of the difficulty of the attack, but mostly it's so the company can turn around and say "Our encryption takes 1200 years to crack!" or "Our encryption takes $5000000 to crack!"
Well, two-party is used sometimes to mean something like "all-party consent for two-party media." Since phones and IM programs are most often used in two-party mode, it's a reasonable synonym.
I know I've thought about hitting a bookstore and getting a cheap copy of whatever, and decided not to because it was on PG. Then again, I've also bought books I could get on PG because I wanted on my shelf. So it goes both ways, I think. But when I just want to read the damn thing, PG wins.
They're competition for the Dover Thrift Editions. Then again, I don't think Dover makes much if anything off the Thrift Editions, not at their prices. I think they publish them just barely above cost as a public service/name recognition thing.
But I'm guessing at all this. Publishing insiders? Anyone?
Which gets at another problem: When do you say that someone is very intelligent but has poor social skills, and when do you say they're autistic?
Personally, I have no trouble imagining that children of highly technical parents tend to be very intelligent (as we measure intelligence these days) and to have in more than the average number of cases poor social skills. I also suspect that gets diagnosed as Asperger's a lot. As far as I'm concerned, until you have either a severe case, or some sort of functional explanation, you don't have a syndrome, you have a kid with poor social skills.
Perhaps you confuse "statistical correlation" with "ironclad guarantee." You give two data points, yourself and the friend you were helping. That's not enough to do anything with.
All you've shown is that now all Asperger's people have technical parents, which we already knew, and that not all autistic people are good with computers, which we also knew. Or at least, I knew. The surprising thing is that many technical couples DO have children with Asperger's. Note the "many." This research doesn't address the other side AT ALL, which is how many Asperger's kids have technical parents. It may not be many at all, but it's still significant from the perspective of a possible parent. To put it another way, being stabbed by a mugger is not a leading cause of death among the population at large, but it may be a serious consideration when a shady character is eyeing you and reaching for his pocket.
but you know what? If no one can prove you haven't, and you claim that you have, it's hard for me to work up a lot of sympathy for you when people treat you like you have. If they were claiming they hadn't, it would be a different matter.
Claiming to have a gun while committing a crime is legally the same as actually having one, after all.
Sure. And that's what I'd do if he wouldn't explain. It just seemed like you might be assuming that the drug company's public information (read: advertising) was right and he was wrong, and there are reasons doctors don't usually explain things. I've found it's best to meet them halfway. The less you can make it seem like you're questioning their judgment, the easier it'll be to get the explanations you need to question their judgment.
Sure, but if you come off like a stable and curious person you'll get a MUCH better response. Likewise, imagine yourself as a security type talking to a customer. If they come off stable and curious, won't you want to help them more than if they're looking like they might go of screaming "OMG HACKERS ARE GOING TO STEAL MY CREDIT CARD!!!!"
I had an experience with vitality testing at the dentist's like this. I wanted to know how the apparatus worked, and they were stonewalling until I made it clear that I trusted them (that far, at least. It was a noninvasive test and was pretty obviously safe, I just wanted a straight answer), at which point they told me that it used an electric current, but a lot of people were scared of that so they don't like to say it.
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If you ask your mechanic flat out 'is this part better than the one you were going to use' and he says 'no,' and then you look it up and it is, what the hell are you doing on/.? That's what the Better Business Bureau is for. Call them up. On the other hand, I'll bet if you do that the BBB will tell you that while the part he put in isn't made to the tolerances of the other, it costs half as much, so he was absolutely right to put it in your Toyota. Remember also that (at least around here) you get a bill with an itemized listing of parts and prices. If you want the best, trust me when I say that it'll show up on the bill. What it probably won't do is line your mechanic's pockets.
It's like this. A Lian Li is a fine case. Much better than the POS I'm using for my teacher's niece's computer. But she won't be opening the case or showing it off, so it's very likely that she also wouldn't appreciate my spending a third of the cost of the machine on a fancy case.
As to your doctor, many drugs have uses they haven't actually been tested for, and so the drug company doesn't officially mention them, but most doctors know about them. A bad example would be Prozac for kids: It seems to work, and we don't see immediately why it'd be a problem, but I for one don't think it's safe. A good example would be the use of birth control to supress the menstrual cycle, which was recently approved, buthad often been done prior to that. Your doctor may know more than you do. It's hard to believe, but he did spend years and years studying. Rather than telling him his dosage is wrong, just ask him about it.
I'm like you. I'm curious, and I don't like the way medical folk don't tell you what's going on, but I've found that with an application of curiousity and a demonstration that I can keep an even keel, they'll tell me. What they're worried about mostly is that when I find out they're giving an electric shock(!~!!!!1) or prescribing a drug that hasn't been tested exactly like this, I'll freak out and call security or whatever. Most likely, your doctor saw a lawsuit in the making when you start acting like you've trapped him, so he stonewalled.
Next time, try just asking. 'Doctor, I read that the usual dosage for this is higher, so I was curious. Can you tell me a little about it?'
I have, actually, but you'll notice that I didn't describe ANY specific reactions at all. You'll also note that I said they only generally go as far as carbon, and that if you know your periodic table as well as you seem to know your astrophysics, you'll recall that carbon is farther along than helium.
Furthermore, stars at 10 solar masses would fit the 'very hot stars' caveat I put in my original post.
My point was not that stars followed a neat sequence linearly up the table until carbon, then stopped. It was that formation of elements heavier than carbon in non-nova stars is very rare.
Well, that's actually a myth. They won't fuse all the way to iron normally... Mostly just to carbon, a little higher in some very hot or very unusual stars, but generally the limit is carbon. Yes, theoretically fusing higher elements produces a bit of energy, but for reasons I don't entirely understand it doesn't actually happen. Most everything higher than carbon comes from supernovas. Novas and near-nova stars produce carbon and I think lithium. Regular stars produce pretty much just helium.
If you want more, ask a real physicist. I ain't one.
50 light years is the distance that light (the stuff we use to see, you know?) travels in 50 years. The early reptiles were born too early to see it. Your parents were not. Ask them about it.
Furthermore, you can set it up with enough extra fuel so that if it starts to overheat, the control systems will automatically start slamming more fuel through so that even if it does eventually blow up or crack or the larva come out or whatever, it'll do so at a high enough velocity to not fal back to Earth, but rather go into orbit, or hit escape velocity.
Eh, on the other hand, a company engaged in this sort of practice is likely to go over their stuff with a fine-toothed legal comb. It's probably all couched in terms of '54% of senior network security personnel at some point blah blah, and therefore hiring outside consultants from such firms as blah, blah, or oh, yeah, us, is safer, and blah, blah' rather than 'How could you possibly trust a commie pinko faggot like X? Fire him immediately so you can hire us!'
Unfortunately, libel laws are fairly specific, so although he can clearly prove damages (usually the hard part) next he's going to have to show that they said something deliberately and provably false about him, which it's not likely they did.
There's a difference between knowing that your kid has a girlfriend and knowing what they're saying or that they're having a conversation right now. You probably have a wife. I'll bet you have sex with your wife. You probably have embarassing pet names for each other.
I don't need to know the details of any of that, and neither do your parents. I say this as someone who just moved out and is beginning to appreciate the merits of some of the things my parents did (and realize jsut how moronic some of the other things were).
But there are many other possible reasons for that besides the UN. Martin van Creveld of the National War College and (IIRC) the Univeristy of Tel Aviv argues that that shift has nothing to do with the UN and everything to do with nuclear weapons and with the increasing efficacy and incidence of so-called 'Low-Intensity' conflicts.
Actually, they're both paying homage to a much older bit of propaganda: One God, One Church, One Bishop. Meaning that in light of the unity of both of those bodies, the Church should be ruled by the Bishop of Rome as the Western Church wanted it and not by a council of equal bishops as the Eastern church would have it.
The 'middle' ages are commonly considered to have been the time between (in the middle of) the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and the Renaissance (dates varying depending on what part of Europe we're talking about). So Beowulf, in the 8th century, falls in the low middle ages.
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Um, multiple accounts as in more than one MMO game at a time. I don't know many people who play AC and EQ at the same time. Usually they drop one to take up another. So his 180k means people who, by and large, aren't still playing DAoC, they either quit (but then, other games didn't lose players) or are new to the genre.
Who do you think they're bribing here, the Pope? The check wasn't blank. Hell, it didn't even stretch the boundaries of four figures.
It's a publicity stunt, mostly. Also, it does provide an objective check on our theoretical analysis of the difficulty of the attack, but mostly it's so the company can turn around and say "Our encryption takes 1200 years to crack!" or "Our encryption takes $5000000 to crack!"
Well, two-party is used sometimes to mean something like "all-party consent for two-party media." Since phones and IM programs are most often used in two-party mode, it's a reasonable synonym.
I know I've thought about hitting a bookstore and getting a cheap copy of whatever, and decided not to because it was on PG. Then again, I've also bought books I could get on PG because I wanted on my shelf. So it goes both ways, I think. But when I just want to read the damn thing, PG wins.
They're competition for the Dover Thrift Editions. Then again, I don't think Dover makes much if anything off the Thrift Editions, not at their prices. I think they publish them just barely above cost as a public service/name recognition thing.
But I'm guessing at all this. Publishing insiders? Anyone?
Which gets at another problem: When do you say that someone is very intelligent but has poor social skills, and when do you say they're autistic? Personally, I have no trouble imagining that children of highly technical parents tend to be very intelligent (as we measure intelligence these days) and to have in more than the average number of cases poor social skills. I also suspect that gets diagnosed as Asperger's a lot. As far as I'm concerned, until you have either a severe case, or some sort of functional explanation, you don't have a syndrome, you have a kid with poor social skills.
Perhaps you confuse "statistical correlation" with "ironclad guarantee." You give two data points, yourself and the friend you were helping. That's not enough to do anything with. All you've shown is that now all Asperger's people have technical parents, which we already knew, and that not all autistic people are good with computers, which we also knew. Or at least, I knew. The surprising thing is that many technical couples DO have children with Asperger's. Note the "many." This research doesn't address the other side AT ALL, which is how many Asperger's kids have technical parents. It may not be many at all, but it's still significant from the perspective of a possible parent. To put it another way, being stabbed by a mugger is not a leading cause of death among the population at large, but it may be a serious consideration when a shady character is eyeing you and reaching for his pocket.
but you know what? If no one can prove you haven't, and you claim that you have, it's hard for me to work up a lot of sympathy for you when people treat you like you have. If they were claiming they hadn't, it would be a different matter. Claiming to have a gun while committing a crime is legally the same as actually having one, after all.
Sure. And that's what I'd do if he wouldn't explain. It just seemed like you might be assuming that the drug company's public information (read: advertising) was right and he was wrong, and there are reasons doctors don't usually explain things. I've found it's best to meet them halfway. The less you can make it seem like you're questioning their judgment, the easier it'll be to get the explanations you need to question their judgment.
This dentist also has a rice cooker next to the chair. Evidently they like to warm towels in it. Puzzled the hell out of me until I asked.
Sure, but if you come off like a stable and curious person you'll get a MUCH better response. Likewise, imagine yourself as a security type talking to a customer. If they come off stable and curious, won't you want to help them more than if they're looking like they might go of screaming "OMG HACKERS ARE GOING TO STEAL MY CREDIT CARD!!!!"
I had an experience with vitality testing at the dentist's like this. I wanted to know how the apparatus worked, and they were stonewalling until I made it clear that I trusted them (that far, at least. It was a noninvasive test and was pretty obviously safe, I just wanted a straight answer), at which point they told me that it used an electric current, but a lot of people were scared of that so they don't like to say it.
If you ask your mechanic flat out 'is this part better than the one you were going to use' and he says 'no,' and then you look it up and it is, what the hell are you doing on /.? That's what the Better Business Bureau is for. Call them up. On the other hand, I'll bet if you do that the BBB will tell you that while the part he put in isn't made to the tolerances of the other, it costs half as much, so he was absolutely right to put it in your Toyota. Remember also that (at least around here) you get a bill with an itemized listing of parts and prices. If you want the best, trust me when I say that it'll show up on the bill. What it probably won't do is line your mechanic's pockets.
It's like this. A Lian Li is a fine case. Much better than the POS I'm using for my teacher's niece's computer. But she won't be opening the case or showing it off, so it's very likely that she also wouldn't appreciate my spending a third of the cost of the machine on a fancy case.
As to your doctor, many drugs have uses they haven't actually been tested for, and so the drug company doesn't officially mention them, but most doctors know about them. A bad example would be Prozac for kids: It seems to work, and we don't see immediately why it'd be a problem, but I for one don't think it's safe. A good example would be the use of birth control to supress the menstrual cycle, which was recently approved, buthad often been done prior to that. Your doctor may know more than you do. It's hard to believe, but he did spend years and years studying. Rather than telling him his dosage is wrong, just ask him about it.
I'm like you. I'm curious, and I don't like the way medical folk don't tell you what's going on, but I've found that with an application of curiousity and a demonstration that I can keep an even keel, they'll tell me. What they're worried about mostly is that when I find out they're giving an electric shock(!~!!!!1) or prescribing a drug that hasn't been tested exactly like this, I'll freak out and call security or whatever. Most likely, your doctor saw a lawsuit in the making when you start acting like you've trapped him, so he stonewalled.
Next time, try just asking. 'Doctor, I read that the usual dosage for this is higher, so I was curious. Can you tell me a little about it?'
I have, actually, but you'll notice that I didn't describe ANY specific reactions at all. You'll also note that I said they only generally go as far as carbon, and that if you know your periodic table as well as you seem to know your astrophysics, you'll recall that carbon is farther along than helium. Furthermore, stars at 10 solar masses would fit the 'very hot stars' caveat I put in my original post. My point was not that stars followed a neat sequence linearly up the table until carbon, then stopped. It was that formation of elements heavier than carbon in non-nova stars is very rare.
Well, that's actually a myth. They won't fuse all the way to iron normally... Mostly just to carbon, a little higher in some very hot or very unusual stars, but generally the limit is carbon. Yes, theoretically fusing higher elements produces a bit of energy, but for reasons I don't entirely understand it doesn't actually happen. Most everything higher than carbon comes from supernovas. Novas and near-nova stars produce carbon and I think lithium. Regular stars produce pretty much just helium. If you want more, ask a real physicist. I ain't one.
50 light years is the distance that light (the stuff we use to see, you know?) travels in 50 years. The early reptiles were born too early to see it. Your parents were not. Ask them about it.
Sadly, every PIRG does this, so far as I know. Maybe not all, but I don't know of any that don't.
Furthermore, you can set it up with enough extra fuel so that if it starts to overheat, the control systems will automatically start slamming more fuel through so that even if it does eventually blow up or crack or the larva come out or whatever, it'll do so at a high enough velocity to not fal back to Earth, but rather go into orbit, or hit escape velocity.
Eh, on the other hand, a company engaged in this sort of practice is likely to go over their stuff with a fine-toothed legal comb. It's probably all couched in terms of '54% of senior network security personnel at some point blah blah, and therefore hiring outside consultants from such firms as blah, blah, or oh, yeah, us, is safer, and blah, blah' rather than 'How could you possibly trust a commie pinko faggot like X? Fire him immediately so you can hire us!' Unfortunately, libel laws are fairly specific, so although he can clearly prove damages (usually the hard part) next he's going to have to show that they said something deliberately and provably false about him, which it's not likely they did.
Or else Beren, even more clearly (wounded, with the loss of his arm, and then killed, and brought back from the dead).
There's a difference between knowing that your kid has a girlfriend and knowing what they're saying or that they're having a conversation right now. You probably have a wife. I'll bet you have sex with your wife. You probably have embarassing pet names for each other.
I don't need to know the details of any of that, and neither do your parents. I say this as someone who just moved out and is beginning to appreciate the merits of some of the things my parents did (and realize jsut how moronic some of the other things were).
On the other hand, since you don't enter card details, you also wouldn't be able to tell these apart from other spam.
But there are many other possible reasons for that besides the UN. Martin van Creveld of the National War College and (IIRC) the Univeristy of Tel Aviv argues that that shift has nothing to do with the UN and everything to do with nuclear weapons and with the increasing efficacy and incidence of so-called 'Low-Intensity' conflicts.
Actually, they're both paying homage to a much older bit of propaganda: One God, One Church, One Bishop. Meaning that in light of the unity of both of those bodies, the Church should be ruled by the Bishop of Rome as the Western Church wanted it and not by a council of equal bishops as the Eastern church would have it.
The 'middle' ages are commonly considered to have been the time between (in the middle of) the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and the Renaissance (dates varying depending on what part of Europe we're talking about). So Beowulf, in the 8th century, falls in the low middle ages.