The best part is that now Linux fanboys are using the same "arguments" that were used against their baby to attack BSD. "But why should I use BSD if Linux is almost as good", or "but my graphics card!". I'm glad my Android phone is my only point of exposure to Linux, wish it could be moved to NetBSD or something though.
I'm fairly sure that if the Taliban had disavowed OBL and allowed us to fly drones and send seal teams there to kill him, we would not have invaded Afghanistan.
It's good that you didn't end up invading Afghanistan then, isn't it? Oh wait.
To be fair they didn't exactly offer you to straight up murder their resident, but a trial was offered, and after 9/11, OBL was asked to GTFO, which he most likely did to Pakistan, making the whole thing a huge useless clusterfuck.
What's retarded about the whole thing is that "slide to unlock" is hardly an innovation worth protecting by granting the "inventor" an artificial monopoly on its usage. Car analogy: should whoever first came up with a circular steering wheel be getting royalties from anyone having the same model of steering input?
On a personal note, I hope Apple does go after anyone using slide to unlock on a capacitative screen, it's a very annoying and pointless step. It was necessary for keypad phones since by default they could be activated by any key, but that's not the case with touchscreens.
What we do know is that he banned Apple from donating anything on the pretense that the company wasn't profitable, and never reversed that decision despite raking in record amounts of cash. As far as I know, Apple doesn't have any non-profit discounts or anything like that either. Apple also, under his guidance, maintained a policy that discouraged iphone users from easily asking or giving donations.
I think Tim Cook finally changed the stance on the very first point, not sure about the rest.
Hey there Miata buddy! I think we really need an extra gear and better aerodynamics:(
Looks like the Tesla Roadster also tops out at 125 MPH, though wikipedia claims it's limited to that speed. Whether it's limited "just because" like BMWs and MBs are, or because it would explode if it goes any faster, I don't know. I suspect though it could be the gearing - if there's just one gear (like in the Roadster) and you redline the engine at 125, well, there's nowhere to go even if it still has enough power.
Not only is the condition not life threatening at the moment, the rescue wouldn't achieve much since by the time the victim could be transported out of there, any damage would've been done already. Not to mention that putting her into an unpressurized plane (if it's too cold for the C130) could be dangerous by itself.
You do recall how the shoes work in the movie, don't you? They aren't actually tying any knots, just tightening what look like straps. I think microprocessor-controlled sneakers shouldn't have any problem tightening them just right every single time, unlike our sausage-fingered hands.
I wouldn't disagree with the publicity stunt portion though, such a system is likely to be too expensive for now for due to equipment and BTTF licensing costs for regular use. Still, I'd get myself some if they aren't going to be too ridiculously expensive, my current shoes are falling apart anyway.
Well yes, that's what Samsung will be offering now. But if you can put 2 and 2 together, it's pretty clear that the next step would be having 2 (or more) different operating systems. Even if we stick to corporate environment justification, it's entirely possible that the IT department will only support WF7, but not Android, which the employee wants to use personally, or vice versa.
Yeah I don't really give a shit about having hair from the aesthetic point of view, but the two points you mention are exactly right. Also, driving a convertible suffers for the same reasons, plus you're missing out on the "wind in your hair" experience.
One other thing that I discovered is that shaving the head or even just keeping it very short is an additional pain in the ass over a simple, zero maintenance haircut. And some people just look better with some hair, myself included, I think. For some, shaved heads make them resemble chemotherapy patients, while others look like gangsters, neither of which is a desired look most of the time.
On the other hand, he already has an engineering degree, and some business skills could go a long way in making him more desirable/employable. We have a very smart comp-sci PhD type on our team, and his complete lack of business acumen constantly causes issues and gets in the way.
I studies business and always had computers as a hobby, and I'm the one management goes to to get stuff done. Example: someone lost the source data that was available on the web, and needed to get it back in a spreadsheet. His suggestion was some kind of AI bot that would take a week to develop, and since this was probably a one-off thing, he spend about half an hour convincing me that we should tell them to copy-paste the data manually (huge pain in the ass actually because of how the data were presented in the browser). Thirty minutes after that I had a perl script that did the job, and a bit later I had an email in my inbox from a manger several layers above thanking for the data.
I do wish that I had some better technical background, but don't regret studying business at all. This is easily fixable though, and I'm planning to start studying computer science preferably with some kind of stats focus soon.
I'm still using a Nomad, you insensitive clod! Well it's a Zen Xtra, to be precise, and it required nothing than a user-serviceable battery replacement to keep rocking.
Because it makes no sense to spend many years and millions of dollars on developing the game just to convince your own company to use it. If they wanted just an internal tech demo, they had it finished and ready years ago, skipping the 70% of the effort that is actually making a fun game.
Actually there were some legal issues surrounding the project apparently, and that was enough to screw up the relationship between them. John talks about it at some point in this Q&A, though I couldn't find the exact moment just by jumping around. It's definitely worth watching the whole thing anyway.
If we're lucky, maybe John will reply here in person to clear this up:)
>...Change the extension, the associated icon, don't allow macro execution in what is presented as a document (rename it first), give the usual warnings when opening email attachments. And make it possible to open the the "executable" as a document without macro capability.
Good thing that Microsoft already did that with the Office 2007 document formats, then!
Maybe HTML would be used to create some kind of fancy user forms? I dunno, it seems like a weird decision to go with JS at all, instead of, say, VB.NET or C#.
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I don't see why you trust Steam then, seeing as how you couldn't throw their fattest CEO very far either.
The best part is that now Linux fanboys are using the same "arguments" that were used against their baby to attack BSD. "But why should I use BSD if Linux is almost as good", or "but my graphics card!". I'm glad my Android phone is my only point of exposure to Linux, wish it could be moved to NetBSD or something though.
I'm fairly sure that if the Taliban had disavowed OBL and allowed us to fly drones and send seal teams there to kill him, we would not have invaded Afghanistan.
It's good that you didn't end up invading Afghanistan then, isn't it? Oh wait.
To be fair they didn't exactly offer you to straight up murder their resident, but a trial was offered, and after 9/11, OBL was asked to GTFO, which he most likely did to Pakistan, making the whole thing a huge useless clusterfuck.
Carrier has arrived.
Counterpoint: the police. And I don't mean the band. Also the armed forces.
What's retarded about the whole thing is that "slide to unlock" is hardly an innovation worth protecting by granting the "inventor" an artificial monopoly on its usage. Car analogy: should whoever first came up with a circular steering wheel be getting royalties from anyone having the same model of steering input?
On a personal note, I hope Apple does go after anyone using slide to unlock on a capacitative screen, it's a very annoying and pointless step. It was necessary for keypad phones since by default they could be activated by any key, but that's not the case with touchscreens.
What we do know is that he banned Apple from donating anything on the pretense that the company wasn't profitable, and never reversed that decision despite raking in record amounts of cash. As far as I know, Apple doesn't have any non-profit discounts or anything like that either. Apple also, under his guidance, maintained a policy that discouraged iphone users from easily asking or giving donations.
I think Tim Cook finally changed the stance on the very first point, not sure about the rest.
Hey there Miata buddy! I think we really need an extra gear and better aerodynamics :(
Looks like the Tesla Roadster also tops out at 125 MPH, though wikipedia claims it's limited to that speed. Whether it's limited "just because" like BMWs and MBs are, or because it would explode if it goes any faster, I don't know. I suspect though it could be the gearing - if there's just one gear (like in the Roadster) and you redline the engine at 125, well, there's nowhere to go even if it still has enough power.
More like, "I don't give a fuck about your phone you smug asshole"
We don't need to do it directly from the brain.
Shuddup, of course we do!
Not only is the condition not life threatening at the moment, the rescue wouldn't achieve much since by the time the victim could be transported out of there, any damage would've been done already. Not to mention that putting her into an unpressurized plane (if it's too cold for the C130) could be dangerous by itself.
The same argument can be said about racing games. You can crash into walls going 100MPH and just bounce off.
Only if you're playing the wrong games.
You do recall how the shoes work in the movie, don't you? They aren't actually tying any knots, just tightening what look like straps. I think microprocessor-controlled sneakers shouldn't have any problem tightening them just right every single time, unlike our sausage-fingered hands.
I wouldn't disagree with the publicity stunt portion though, such a system is likely to be too expensive for now for due to equipment and BTTF licensing costs for regular use. Still, I'd get myself some if they aren't going to be too ridiculously expensive, my current shoes are falling apart anyway.
It certainly would, but then it wouldn't be BTTF-cool, would it?
Well yes, that's what Samsung will be offering now. But if you can put 2 and 2 together, it's pretty clear that the next step would be having 2 (or more) different operating systems. Even if we stick to corporate environment justification, it's entirely possible that the IT department will only support WF7, but not Android, which the employee wants to use personally, or vice versa.
Yeah I don't really give a shit about having hair from the aesthetic point of view, but the two points you mention are exactly right. Also, driving a convertible suffers for the same reasons, plus you're missing out on the "wind in your hair" experience.
One other thing that I discovered is that shaving the head or even just keeping it very short is an additional pain in the ass over a simple, zero maintenance haircut. And some people just look better with some hair, myself included, I think. For some, shaved heads make them resemble chemotherapy patients, while others look like gangsters, neither of which is a desired look most of the time.
On the other hand, he already has an engineering degree, and some business skills could go a long way in making him more desirable/employable. We have a very smart comp-sci PhD type on our team, and his complete lack of business acumen constantly causes issues and gets in the way.
I studies business and always had computers as a hobby, and I'm the one management goes to to get stuff done. Example: someone lost the source data that was available on the web, and needed to get it back in a spreadsheet. His suggestion was some kind of AI bot that would take a week to develop, and since this was probably a one-off thing, he spend about half an hour convincing me that we should tell them to copy-paste the data manually (huge pain in the ass actually because of how the data were presented in the browser). Thirty minutes after that I had a perl script that did the job, and a bit later I had an email in my inbox from a manger several layers above thanking for the data.
I do wish that I had some better technical background, but don't regret studying business at all. This is easily fixable though, and I'm planning to start studying computer science preferably with some kind of stats focus soon.
I'm still using a Nomad, you insensitive clod! Well it's a Zen Xtra, to be precise, and it required nothing than a user-serviceable battery replacement to keep rocking.
Because it makes no sense to spend many years and millions of dollars on developing the game just to convince your own company to use it. If they wanted just an internal tech demo, they had it finished and ready years ago, skipping the 70% of the effort that is actually making a fun game.
Actually there were some legal issues surrounding the project apparently, and that was enough to screw up the relationship between them. John talks about it at some point in this Q&A, though I couldn't find the exact moment just by jumping around. It's definitely worth watching the whole thing anyway.
If we're lucky, maybe John will reply here in person to clear this up :)
>This is a Tech Demo for the engine.
Oh, then it makes perfect sense that they aren't going to be licensing the engine to anyone!
Do you have a tiny car with a tiny fuel tank? It costs me almost 100 EUR to fill up my Opel Omega with petrol.
>...Change the extension, the associated icon, don't allow macro execution in what is presented as a document (rename it first), give the usual warnings when opening email attachments. And make it possible to open the the "executable" as a document without macro capability.
Good thing that Microsoft already did that with the Office 2007 document formats, then!
Maybe HTML would be used to create some kind of fancy user forms? I dunno, it seems like a weird decision to go with JS at all, instead of, say, VB.NET or C#.
I think you're missing the point of that title. Have a look at it again:
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