Quoting the summary: most scientists don't seem to know or care where they come from
Doesn't it make sense to worry about figuring out what the laws are before we worry about where they came from?
Truman: How long would it take to build an atomic bomb?
Scientist: Nobody knows how to do that. But I can tell you why the laws of nature made it possible.
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Facebook then filed a terse countersuit in California federal court, accusing ConnectU of tort violations and unfair business practices.
Facebook went a step beyond just that, they are also suing the programmers that worked for ConnectU at the time. I am now looking at having to pay a potential $25,000 if Facebook wins because I coded for ConnectU, simply because of this countersuit. Talk about unethical lawsuits...
Article Headline: Virtual Console Reaches 100th Game Milestone; 4.7 Million Sold
From Article Subheadline: "more than 4.7 million Virtual Console titles have been downloaded so far"
From Article text: "more than 4.7 million games have been downloaded by Wii owners".
So, unless you consider your web browser and Everybody Votes channels to be Virtual Console games, then yes, they have sold 4.7 million games. For money.
I started reading the article, and got through XBox360, PS2, and then N64 at 3rd place. That's when I stopped reading it. There's a general concensus among my friends that the N64 controller is among the worst ever designed, and possibly is the worst. Whose idea was it to make a controller that you needed 3 hands to properly use?
Apparently accessing the copy of the game client in RAM using another program infringes upon their rights. Under that logic, users do not even have the right to use anti-virus software in the event that the game becomes infected.
This logic is only correct if your anti-virus software is loading the game into RAM, then modifying the copied version. I'd think that any decent anti-virus software would modify the copy of the binary that's on your hard drive.
I know of no game development companies from Boston (and I live next to it!)
Among some of the more noteworthy game development companies in the greater Boston area are Irrational Games (System Shock), Harmonix (Guitar Hero), and Stainless Steel Studios (Empire Earth).
Unfortunately Stainless Steel shut down a few months ago... maybe all those laid off employees were the ones who made the games in the article.:)
Just give me a decent salary, TYVM. If I want a massage, I can go to a masseur after hours. If I'm working in a city, I can pretty much order whatever I want to (and can afford) for lunch.
If they give you income, and then you spend that income on massages and food, then you're paying income tax on it. If they give you the massages and food directly and cut your salary a little less than the cost of the massages and food, you both come out ahead. In addition, since your income is lower, you'll be paying slightly less income tax on the rest of your income. Of course, this is only beneficial if you'd be spending your money on massages and food anyway. Food I can see, massages maybe not so much.
The quote is vague but I can only assume they're referring to the sRGB color space which is what TVs today will display. So yes, it's very possible that this new TV can actually display over twice as many colors as common ones (actual hues, not just intensities). Unfortunately, from what I understand, if this TV used a different standard, then it wouldn't be backward compatible (e.g. if you plugged your cable into a laser TV the colors would be very distorted, because the signal provider expects the display to show it in sRGB).
It really irritates me how people in america impose their values on people in other countries. Believe it or not, our system may not be best for China. Just as there is no best parenting style there is no best method of government. I have been to China and they all seemed really happy living in the society THEY have created for THEMSELVES. Do you really think that China would be happier in a society WE create for them?
This isn't an issue of people in America imposing their beliefs on China. If the Chinese government had their way, Wikipedia would allow itself to be censored -- essentially China wants to impose their values on Wikipedia. Naturally Jimmy Wales didn't comply, and why should he? It's his site, in his country, founded on his values. China can take it or leave it, and they've chosen to leave it.
And if the price has risen recently, sell it short. It's gonna go back down to its true value eventually (probably after the spammers sell their shares).
For initial versions, yeah it might make more sense to model things in software first. I think the whole point of this though is to build a computer where you could, for example, take a hammer to a part of it and the rest of it would keep on computing, although probably not nearly as well. More realistically I think they're concerned with individual hardware components dying. You can build a neural network in software all you like; if the power supply dies, so does your software.
Say the website in question allows you to pick from several different stylesheets, and this selection gets stored as a cookie on the user's machine. Whenever the user goes back to that page, it shows up in the style they've chosen. Then there's no way for the phisher to simulate that, because cookies can't be shared between domains. The user would go to the phishing site and hopefully realize something's wrong when everything looks different.
Professors should just make all their lectures available online. It means students don't have to worry about all separately copying down what the professor is saying. Many of my professors did this at my university and it helped a ton.
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It promises 3D without glasses! That sounds way bigger to me than a slightly better smartphone.
Whenever someone disagrees with you, it must be because they are badly misinformed.
Quoting the summary:
most scientists don't seem to know or care where they come from
Doesn't it make sense to worry about figuring out what the laws are before we worry about where they came from?
Truman: How long would it take to build an atomic bomb?
Scientist: Nobody knows how to do that. But I can tell you why the laws of nature made it possible.
You fail to take into account that Sony and Microsoft take a loss on each console sold, whereas Nintendo actually makes a profit on them.
How long till you can get this in a Java applet?
The energy has to come from somewhere.
Facebook then filed a terse countersuit in California federal court, accusing ConnectU of tort violations and unfair business practices.
Facebook went a step beyond just that, they are also suing the programmers that worked for ConnectU at the time. I am now looking at having to pay a potential $25,000 if Facebook wins because I coded for ConnectU, simply because of this countersuit. Talk about unethical lawsuits...
Oh, you use IE? That's okay, we didn't want your money anyway.
... Yeah, we didn't want 80% of everybody else's money either.
Wait, what's that?
Article Headline: Virtual Console Reaches 100th Game Milestone; 4.7 Million Sold
From Article Subheadline: "more than 4.7 million Virtual Console titles have been downloaded so far"
From Article text: "more than 4.7 million games have been downloaded by Wii owners".
So, unless you consider your web browser and Everybody Votes channels to be Virtual Console games, then yes, they have sold 4.7 million games. For money.
I started reading the article, and got through XBox360, PS2, and then N64 at 3rd place. That's when I stopped reading it. There's a general concensus among my friends that the N64 controller is among the worst ever designed, and possibly is the worst. Whose idea was it to make a controller that you needed 3 hands to properly use?
This approach is nearly identical to the Slow Start algorithm used in TCP congestion control.
The Double Platinum Age of CRPGs?
Apparently accessing the copy of the game client in RAM using another program infringes upon their rights. Under that logic, users do not even have the right to use anti-virus software in the event that the game becomes infected.
This logic is only correct if your anti-virus software is loading the game into RAM, then modifying the copied version. I'd think that any decent anti-virus software would modify the copy of the binary that's on your hard drive.
I know of no game development companies from Boston (and I live next to it!)
:)
Among some of the more noteworthy game development companies in the greater Boston area are Irrational Games (System Shock), Harmonix (Guitar Hero), and Stainless Steel Studios (Empire Earth).
Unfortunately Stainless Steel shut down a few months ago... maybe all those laid off employees were the ones who made the games in the article.
Just give me a decent salary, TYVM. If I want a massage, I can go to a masseur after hours. If I'm working in a city, I can pretty much order whatever I want to (and can afford) for lunch.
If they give you income, and then you spend that income on massages and food, then you're paying income tax on it. If they give you the massages and food directly and cut your salary a little less than the cost of the massages and food, you both come out ahead. In addition, since your income is lower, you'll be paying slightly less income tax on the rest of your income. Of course, this is only beneficial if you'd be spending your money on massages and food anyway. Food I can see, massages maybe not so much.
But the latency is terrible.
The quote is vague but I can only assume they're referring to the sRGB color space which is what TVs today will display. So yes, it's very possible that this new TV can actually display over twice as many colors as common ones (actual hues, not just intensities). Unfortunately, from what I understand, if this TV used a different standard, then it wouldn't be backward compatible (e.g. if you plugged your cable into a laser TV the colors would be very distorted, because the signal provider expects the display to show it in sRGB).
Which is strange, because from most of the benchmarks I looked at, the nForce4 mobo did better than the P965.
It really irritates me how people in america impose their values on people in other countries. Believe it or not, our system may not be best for China. Just as there is no best parenting style there is no best method of government. I have been to China and they all seemed really happy living in the society THEY have created for THEMSELVES. Do you really think that China would be happier in a society WE create for them?
This isn't an issue of people in America imposing their beliefs on China. If the Chinese government had their way, Wikipedia would allow itself to be censored -- essentially China wants to impose their values on Wikipedia. Naturally Jimmy Wales didn't comply, and why should he? It's his site, in his country, founded on his values. China can take it or leave it, and they've chosen to leave it.
And if the price has risen recently, sell it short. It's gonna go back down to its true value eventually (probably after the spammers sell their shares).
For initial versions, yeah it might make more sense to model things in software first. I think the whole point of this though is to build a computer where you could, for example, take a hammer to a part of it and the rest of it would keep on computing, although probably not nearly as well. More realistically I think they're concerned with individual hardware components dying. You can build a neural network in software all you like; if the power supply dies, so does your software.
Say the website in question allows you to pick from several different stylesheets, and this selection gets stored as a cookie on the user's machine. Whenever the user goes back to that page, it shows up in the style they've chosen. Then there's no way for the phisher to simulate that, because cookies can't be shared between domains. The user would go to the phishing site and hopefully realize something's wrong when everything looks different.
Of course light has mass. This is why black holes are able to suck all the light in, making them black.
I'm just waiting for the time when a bug in IE gets reported on Slashdot and 0 people post on its forum.
Professors should just make all their lectures available online. It means students don't have to worry about all separately copying down what the professor is saying. Many of my professors did this at my university and it helped a ton.