Depo Provera is one of those drugs that doctors tend to suggest that does more harm than good. It's a birth control shot but it has some very nasty side effects (which range from person to person of course). However, regardless if a doctor would recommend it, I would not simply because I knew someone who used it and that person ended up gaining 15lbs (from 110 to 135), and ended up being on her period 24/7 (very light) for MONTHS.
Doctors should research their stuff as well, and not just trust a pharmaceutical company that shoves money down their throats.
"On the other hand, it is conceivable that people may die as a result of a virus in hospitals, for example."
If this were the case, the hospital in question should be held accountable for Running an OS (i.e. Windows) that specifically claims not to be used for mission-critical systems.
So it's not conceivable, and if it is, you shouldn't (just) be going after the virus writer.
In Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, gamers can play basketball, play pool, dance, grab some fast food, buy clothes, work out at the gym, base jump, have girlfriends, and race remote-controlled cars--all completely legal activities in the real world. However, the game's main character can also shoot innocent bystanders, stomp the heads of prostitutes into a bloody pulp, and launch rocket-propelled grenades at police helicopters--all decidedly illegal outside the realm of gaming
There are crimes being committed inside a video game!!! Well gee, who would have thought that crimes could possibly be committed in a video game, why can't we think of the children!?
I will agree, the actual sex stuff is really unecessary and I don't personally think it adds any real value to the game, but that's as far as they should go. They shouldn't yell about being able to kill prostitutes, or shoot police helicopters with grenade launchers (where's this grenade launcher anyway?). You can do that to pedestrians and villians as well, and it's the open ended gameplay that people love and not the sex mod that gets them hooked on the game.
of when games are too short, regardless of the replayability.
I was able to run through that game in 2 hours in-game time, and I've heard of people doing it in practically half that time. Playing the game *really* casually, exploring every corner to the point where replaying it would be almost pointless, and the game still came in only at like 10 hours. (Note: Deus Ex the original is in my top 5 favourite games list)
Games that are only 10 hours long should have at least a multiplayer element that makes them practically infinite in game play fun (i.e. Quake 3, Half Life with CS, et al).
That was a quick trial. Took only 3 days. It was just a confession and the fact that he was a minor was probably a no brainer for the judge and lawyers.
Kids do screw up, even ones as old as him, so I think the jail term is okay. However his employment makes it seem only that much more sensational to be a virus writer, as opposed to something that should be completely frowned upon and not rewarded in any shape or form.
Florida passes increased legislation against men stealing wifi, caused by repeated sensationalistic stories on popular news sites such as slashdot.org.
"My son has this site as our homepage on the home computer, and I kept noticing how Florida men like to steal wifi bandwidth, so being someone in a position to do something, I decided to do something!" - anonymous Florida politician.
Microsoft has an anti-spyware program? (First time for hearing about it for I)
Seriously though. I don't trust their built in firewall or really any "built in" functions that need to be very reliable (read: IE).
Windows is just the platform for which I base all of my decent applications, which consists primarily of OOS projects with many eyes on them that pass my paranoid threshold. (Why don't I just use linux you say? "Games" is the only reason from making the switch, although I'll most likely end up dual booting sooner than later)
Manufacturing is getting pretty automated, however there's still plenty of room for more automation, such as the design.
Say you want to manufacture a plastic or metal non-mechanical part. If you could scan it very accurately, and then have that object's dimensions and characteristics imported into a CAD program, you can then use the CAM side (Computer Aided Manufacturing) to generate code that can run in a machine.
The implementation of this is most important, and of course your scanner would have to be extremely accurate for this to work (i.e. 0.001+- thousandth tolerance? Not sure)
I would fire the retard who didn't have appropriate measures in place that would have a limit on how much one could trade (i.e. expenses of that amount would require to be triple checked by two superiors).
"the right social architecture for distributed software"
Would linux have developed as much as it has if it didn't have the GPL? Would it become just like BSD then? Don't both OS' have a place in the computing world?...And yet if linux didn't have the GPL in the beginning then you would only have more or less "LinuxBSD" along with OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.
I believe it's only now that things like this are being said, because GNU/Linux is so successful. Whatever anyone thinks of RMS, the GPL is a wonderfully written piece of work and has allowed the average hacker to be able to mess around with his programs If he really wanted to.
"NetBSD is a worthy project, but, let's face it, the fan base for it simply is not large enough to justify spending marketing effort to recruit them."
Would linux become like this? Would the same programmers with the same ideals (i.e. keep it open and mandatory for source code included otherwise I don't want to help out etc) end up not spending their spare time adding to linux?
Just like people think that proprietory software has a place in the world, free software has a place in this world as well.
Also if you bought her that ipod, don't buy her another one. Let her learn the lesson of keeping an eye on stuff all the time (Unless it was pried from her hands by a ruthless thug).
With trillions of dollars you can create more than enough amount of solar power panels all around the world and you can feed this energy to what we power our cars with and so on. This would do more than just minimize our green house gases:
- Give us cleaner air
- Reduce premature deaths caused pollution (in Toronto Canada, there are something like 5000 premature deaths each year due to pollution).
- Give us an energy source that's not affecting something else (i.e. we could use wind power, but with trillions of dollars, why not just go for something like solar?).
etc.
Shouldn't the people behind these open source products demand a licensing fee (say..$699 per copy) for SCO using their products? Because SCO does not believe in the GPL, but some of these products (like MySQL) have other licenses.
It seems only fair that SCO should fork over the cash, I'm sure their lawyers and accountants would understand.
Slashdot Mirror
As do I. And yet, when I clicked on the link and looked at the image, I was somehow drawn to its ...force. Force of advertising! Bah! Damn you /.
Yeah but Depo seemed so severe. Moreso than just the pill.
Depo Provera is one of those drugs that doctors tend to suggest that does more harm than good. It's a birth control shot but it has some very nasty side effects (which range from person to person of course). However, regardless if a doctor would recommend it, I would not simply because I knew someone who used it and that person ended up gaining 15lbs (from 110 to 135), and ended up being on her period 24/7 (very light) for MONTHS. Doctors should research their stuff as well, and not just trust a pharmaceutical company that shoves money down their throats.
"On the other hand, it is conceivable that people may die as a result of a virus in hospitals, for example."
If this were the case, the hospital in question should be held accountable for Running an OS (i.e. Windows) that specifically claims not to be used for mission-critical systems.
So it's not conceivable, and if it is, you shouldn't (just) be going after the virus writer.
The National Institute on Media and the Family should wake up and smell the (hot) coffee. :P
In Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, gamers can play basketball, play pool, dance, grab some fast food, buy clothes, work out at the gym, base jump, have girlfriends, and race remote-controlled cars--all completely legal activities in the real world. However, the game's main character can also shoot innocent bystanders, stomp the heads of prostitutes into a bloody pulp, and launch rocket-propelled grenades at police helicopters--all decidedly illegal outside the realm of gaming
There are crimes being committed inside a video game!!! Well gee, who would have thought that crimes could possibly be committed in a video game, why can't we think of the children!?
I will agree, the actual sex stuff is really unecessary and I don't personally think it adds any real value to the game, but that's as far as they should go. They shouldn't yell about being able to kill prostitutes, or shoot police helicopters with grenade launchers (where's this grenade launcher anyway?). You can do that to pedestrians and villians as well, and it's the open ended gameplay that people love and not the sex mod that gets them hooked on the game.
ABBYY FineReader is great OCR software. However it's not free, and is for Windows only I believe.
of when games are too short, regardless of the replayability.
I was able to run through that game in 2 hours in-game time, and I've heard of people doing it in practically half that time. Playing the game *really* casually, exploring every corner to the point where replaying it would be almost pointless, and the game still came in only at like 10 hours. (Note: Deus Ex the original is in my top 5 favourite games list)
Games that are only 10 hours long should have at least a multiplayer element that makes them practically infinite in game play fun (i.e. Quake 3, Half Life with CS, et al).
That was a quick trial. Took only 3 days. It was just a confession and the fact that he was a minor was probably a no brainer for the judge and lawyers.
Kids do screw up, even ones as old as him, so I think the jail term is okay. However his employment makes it seem only that much more sensational to be a virus writer, as opposed to something that should be completely frowned upon and not rewarded in any shape or form.
With CRT's that would just bring on neck injury lawsuits.
LCDs however, imagine getting a 15" LCD with a wallpaper of Flavor Flav wearing his clock, all of that hanging from your neck!
Can you tell me what time it is? YEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIII!
Because that's what contoso.com goes to. Hmmm...
For some reason this reminds me of Mark Walberg and a whole lotta pepto bismol.
Florida passes increased legislation against men stealing wifi, caused by repeated sensationalistic stories on popular news sites such as slashdot.org. "My son has this site as our homepage on the home computer, and I kept noticing how Florida men like to steal wifi bandwidth, so being someone in a position to do something, I decided to do something!" - anonymous Florida politician.
Microsoft has an anti-spyware program? (First time for hearing about it for I)
Seriously though. I don't trust their built in firewall or really any "built in" functions that need to be very reliable (read: IE).
Windows is just the platform for which I base all of my decent applications, which consists primarily of OOS projects with many eyes on them that pass my paranoid threshold. (Why don't I just use linux you say? "Games" is the only reason from making the switch, although I'll most likely end up dual booting sooner than later)
Yeah I want to know too, let me just download Opera 8.02 so I can use it's new bittor...er.
Manufacturing is getting pretty automated, however there's still plenty of room for more automation, such as the design.
Say you want to manufacture a plastic or metal non-mechanical part. If you could scan it very accurately, and then have that object's dimensions and characteristics imported into a CAD program, you can then use the CAM side (Computer Aided Manufacturing) to generate code that can run in a machine.
The implementation of this is most important, and of course your scanner would have to be extremely accurate for this to work (i.e. 0.001+- thousandth tolerance? Not sure)
"Windows infected in 12 minutes."
I would fire the retard who didn't have appropriate measures in place that would have a limit on how much one could trade (i.e. expenses of that amount would require to be triple checked by two superiors).
er... So long, and thanks for all the fish?
"the right social architecture for distributed software"
Would linux have developed as much as it has if it didn't have the GPL? Would it become just like BSD then? Don't both OS' have a place in the computing world? ...And yet if linux didn't have the GPL in the beginning then you would only have more or less "LinuxBSD" along with OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.
I believe it's only now that things like this are being said, because GNU/Linux is so successful. Whatever anyone thinks of RMS, the GPL is a wonderfully written piece of work and has allowed the average hacker to be able to mess around with his programs If he really wanted to.
"NetBSD is a worthy project, but, let's face it, the fan base for it simply is not large enough to justify spending marketing effort to recruit them."
Would linux become like this? Would the same programmers with the same ideals (i.e. keep it open and mandatory for source code included otherwise I don't want to help out etc) end up not spending their spare time adding to linux?
Just like people think that proprietory software has a place in the world, free software has a place in this world as well.
Also if you bought her that ipod, don't buy her another one. Let her learn the lesson of keeping an eye on stuff all the time (Unless it was pried from her hands by a ruthless thug).
Sheesh, don't you know anything? :P
Off topic. Ironically I'm reading this book right now.
With trillions of dollars you can create more than enough amount of solar power panels all around the world and you can feed this energy to what we power our cars with and so on. This would do more than just minimize our green house gases: - Give us cleaner air - Reduce premature deaths caused pollution (in Toronto Canada, there are something like 5000 premature deaths each year due to pollution). - Give us an energy source that's not affecting something else (i.e. we could use wind power, but with trillions of dollars, why not just go for something like solar?). etc.
Shouldn't the people behind these open source products demand a licensing fee (say..$699 per copy) for SCO using their products? Because SCO does not believe in the GPL, but some of these products (like MySQL) have other licenses.
It seems only fair that SCO should fork over the cash, I'm sure their lawyers and accountants would understand.