The reason it's there is they get 4+ senators (VA, MD, to some extent WV) and local DC interests/lobbyists on their side. It's a smart strategic play by Amazon
It doesn't matter whether technology is involved or not, or what their comedic intent was: stating something about wanting to go ahead with terrorism or murder is going to get the attention of authorities, and they are going to start by doing a full investigation of the threat with no smile or laughter whatsoever.
"Amy Ford, director of communications for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), says that section of highway cannot easily be widened and is too narrow to support the addition of a guardrail. When accidents do occur there, it’s crucial to alert emergency responders as quickly as possible."
In 2005 I was a sysadmin at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. Biggest project I worked on was porting RS 485 serial drivers from a legacy unix system to Linux 2.6 and setting up the HP rack servers which we then shipped down to the pole from New Zealand on a C-130 Hercules. Also, I built a data visualization system in python+django which ran over a 1km-long DSL network between the drilling site and the south pole base. Never got to down there myself (my FTE boss did), but it was a fun project for a student and looks good on the resume and all. Did I mention SSH connections over satellite to Antarctica are pretty slow?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Sure, ads may be inaccurate almost by definition, but that doesn't mean a particular ad or company's series of ads can't be more, less, or roughly equally as inaccurate as some other one(s).
Unfortunately, its greatest strength (dynamic content) is also the reason it cannot be used as a definitive academic resource. In essence, the content that a student or researcher references is not necessarily the content that someone down the line is going to read. So if i reference a synthesis technique or method thats on wiki, someone who tries to duplicate my work might not be following the same recipe that i did. Reproducability is the keystone of research (even incorrect methods/results must be referenceable), and so university people get understandably annoyed by wiki references. Its a great resource, but for academics it can only ever be an interface to static content from somewhere else.
> I, for one, am starting to warm up to this new "NIH"less Microsoft. Didn't we hate IBM once, too?
IBM is a hardware company, Microsoft is a software company. There's really no comparison, MS will never embrace and extend open source a fraction of the way IBM has.
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More like Practically Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, and Chrome
..they just take your money and vereify that you are the first to register and thus would own an invention or process
Until and unless there is a working demo shown or full whitepaper published, roll your eyes people.
The reason it's there is they get 4+ senators (VA, MD, to some extent WV) and local DC interests/lobbyists on their side. It's a smart strategic play by Amazon
It doesn't matter whether technology is involved or not, or what their comedic intent was: stating something about wanting to go ahead with terrorism or murder is going to get the attention of authorities, and they are going to start by doing a full investigation of the threat with no smile or laughter whatsoever.
Kids need to wise up
"Amy Ford, director of communications for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), says that section of highway cannot easily be widened and is too narrow to support the addition of a guardrail. When accidents do occur there, it’s crucial to alert emergency responders as quickly as possible."
Super informative. Don't know what I'd do without you, Slashdot.
is part of a healthy and balanced diet.
In 2005 I was a sysadmin at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. Biggest project I worked on was porting RS 485 serial drivers from a legacy unix system to Linux 2.6 and setting up the HP rack servers which we then shipped down to the pole from New Zealand on a C-130 Hercules. Also, I built a data visualization system in python+django which ran over a 1km-long DSL network between the drilling site and the south pole base. Never got to down there myself (my FTE boss did), but it was a fun project for a student and looks good on the resume and all. Did I mention SSH connections over satellite to Antarctica are pretty slow?
Actually, clearly X0 came first.
You must be new as well.
Brilliant. Damn. It's been 4 years since I signed in to comment here, but I had to give you props for that.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
-- http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
Sure, ads may be inaccurate almost by definition, but that doesn't mean a particular ad or company's series of ads can't be more, less, or roughly equally as inaccurate as some other one(s).
Ok, I'll deny it, because:
:)
Starcraft > Dune II
Counterstrike > Doom
Baldur's Gate 2 or Deus Ex > Zelda
You seem to be listing some top "groundbreaking" games, and that's a little different.
I'm not really into things like Super Street Fighter, so I wouldn't know. My list would have Tetris instead.
At least we agree on Civilization
Do 4x4 cars have 16 wheels?
It's not that IBM doesn't make any software, it's that their revenue comes almost entirely from hardware.
> I, for one, am starting to warm up to this new "NIH"less Microsoft. Didn't we hate IBM once, too?
IBM is a hardware company, Microsoft is a software company. There's really no comparison, MS will never embrace and extend open source a fraction of the way IBM has.
> It's like when AOL jumped to version 9.0
Eh? I don't see no jump
Alas, deltree is gone in XP.
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I wish I knew what the new equivalent was. Right now I just use cygwin's rm -rf
And Germany isn't a part of Europe either?
My goodness, today is full of interesting news.
> People hiring summer interns don't expect 20 years of .NET experience.
.NET experience .....
Darn.. THEN WHO DOES?
I want to put my skills to use, interviewers always look at me funny when I mention my 20 years of
> Could this prize be an attempt to stimulate commercial moon landings alongside commercial spaceflight?
Could such an obvious question be an attempt to stimulate a half-hearted chuckle or is the source more close linked with stupidity?
Q. Which is better, running your own server or letting someone else do it for you?
A. Letting someone else do it for you, and rsyncing daily to your own server.