I don't think it's fair to look at the market share of Android versus the share of iOS devices, due to the fact that Google doesn't manufacture the majority of Android devices. Apple is the sole provider of iOS, so their 25% or whatever it is now of market share is entirely theirs. Whatever share Android controls is divided among every other smartphone manufacturer, and when you do that Apple is very far ahead of Google's Nexus phones.
US citizen A joins enemy army. US citizen A takes action against US while in enemy army. Is Citizen A guilty of treason?
Yes, he's guilty of treason. Given sufficient evidence for action against the US, Citizen A may even be convicted of treason without a trial.
Traitors are killed. Treason is the only law in the US Constitution that defines its punishment. Technically, they should be hanged, but somehow I don't think it really makes a difference.
So wait.. are you saying that because I don't know if the person I'm talking to is genuinely in distress that gives me the right to make fun of them? There are laws against cyberbullying precisely because of things like this. People are complete assholes on the internet when they think they are safe and anonymous, and they say or do things they would never consider doing in person. I doubt the Reddit posters would stand outside a building and tell a jumper to jump... but when it's just an internet post it's perfectly alright? I disagree, and I hope they lose this case.
I think including the delivery method of the pesticide is sort of important for the summary. It's pretty obvious that pesticide kills bugs; what is not obvious is that HFCS contains trace amounts of pesticides.
I remember reading Lord of the Flies at 14 in school... There are a few very graphic scenes of violence in there, particularly when they first slaughter and kill the boar (which my teacher specifically described the scene as sexual in nature) and later when one of the kids dies.
And we read To Kill a Mockingbird at 13, with all its barely veiled racism and mention of rape...
And Fahrenheit 451 at 12...
Well educated children should have no problems with these concepts. I have a cousin who is 13 and reading The Hunger Games in class, which is another dark story involving significant violence.
I dealt with these guys once, and I definitely understand what they mean by 'aggressive tactics.' I bought a new Linksys router several months back and was having trouble getting the wi-fi working, so I looked on Google for the Linksys support and the iYogi site was the first thing to pop up. Since I couldn't find a support number to call at Linksys's website I didn't really have any choice but to call the one number I could find. So I describe the problem to the guy and he has me download some java program to screen-share with me, then has me run through the various troubleshooting steps... So far no real problems. But when he couldn't find a solvable issue (ie: hardware problem) he asked me to open regedit and open a couple random keys, then told me my registry was corrupt but they could sell me their service which would fix my registry so the router would work. I'm decent enough at fixing computers myself to know that was a load of crap, but Average Joe Consumer would be pretty far in the dark. Not only was my registry fine, but the router was defective, so their service would have been completely worthless.
I'm completely against teaching creationism in schools, but I think this court ruling is way off base. A teacher shouldn't be obligated to teach any kind of dogma based heavily on religion, but that doesn't mean they have the right to belittle others' beliefs. If a student wants to make a big deal about creationism or religion in general, they can take it up with the teacher outside of the classroom environment. There is a clear difference between expressing disagreement with one's beliefs and attacking them, and I actually hope this gets turned around on appeal. It's basically saying a teacher can enforce their religious beliefs on their students...
If I were a terrorist/rival nation/supervillain testing a killer super fungus, I would test it in an area where the impact would be noticeable but the reaction would be slow. Once preliminary tests are finished you can adjust for larger/more effective deployment. Just saying.
So either China gets big money from increased prices on rare earth exports, or they get big money manufacturing more expensive SSDs... win/win for China?
Don't forget that trees can grow, too. To make a bigger standard solar array you need to use more ground space. To make a taller solar tree, you just add to the top. Granted, you probably can't get TOO tall or the thing will fall over at the slightest breeze, but it's a workable solution. The next appropriate question will be if the shadowed space produced by the solar tree would generate more electricity if it was used by a standard array, since the tree takes less ground space but produces a larger shadow.
I don't see much distinction between the union saying "Send lots of protest emails to X" and any given person asking a group to "Write your congress critter." The clear intent is to voice an opposing opinion to whatever X did, and show that there are large numbers of people who care deeply about the issue in question.
Regarding most of the emails coming from the union servers, that could be the union maliciously attacking the company... or it could be the union providing the use of their server for employees to protest anonymously. Who's to say without further discovery?
I do agree that spam mailing/calling their sales lines was a pretty shitty thing to do, though.
It's one thing to point out the inherent discrimination in the system, and another thing entirely to excuse criminal behavior as a result. I will never make an argument that racism doesn't exist or that everyone truly has an equal opportunity for success, but we do all have an equal opportunity to choose right from wrong. You don't need to be a middle class white kid to know that assaulting someone is wrong, and when you get arrested for doing so you can't blame the fact that your skin is a different color.
The obvious assumption is that maybe console and handheld games sell 7x more products because there's more consoles and handhelds to sell products on? A better comparison may be 'console-exclusive' game sales versus 'PC exclusive' sales. Willing to bet PC exclusives are largely in the lead in this category.
The original vision, according to the article, isn't that players realize any particular singular accomplishment. The idea is that over many players, the world becomes changed in ways that are meant to intrigue the next player. For example, I could start building a pyramid but die after just setting up the base, then the next player will see it and go "Oh cool, someone put a lot of effort into making this thing" and they might finish the pyramid or build something else on top of it, or just ignore it completely and start some other project. After generations of players, the landscape will be covered with cool creations (that are probably only half finished) and each piece will have a unique and interesting story behind them that can only really be guessed at. It's a very interesting concept if the players are actually of the mind to think of things in that manner... how it actually ends up is, as this article tells us, completely up in the air.
You seem informed enough on this subject for me to get a good answer here... Assume I've been living under a rock and have no clue what a bitcoin is. Wikipedia tells me that it's a crowd-sourced cryptography experiment that somehow turns into money because a few websites will pay you for them. Computers do crypto stuff and solve problems.. problems go into blocks.. blocks go into chains.. 2016 blocks equals 50 bitcoins.. every 2016 blocks it gets harder to make more blocks.. and there's something about transaction fees that pay bitcoins to whatever crowdsourced computer is lucky enough to handle the transaction.
That's nice and I mostly understand it, but where you lose me is the part about turning bitcoins into useful money. If I let my computer number crunch for a few weeks and get X bitcoins (which I presume would be based on the number of blocks I have finished) I can just go to a website and say "Give me [exchange rate] for X coins" and it becomes actual folding dollars? Who decides what it is worth? What happens when it becomes so difficult to make a bitcoin that it just can't be done anymore (say NASA put some supercomputers on coin mining duty) and everyone who doesn't have a supercomputer can't make them anymore? OR when there are 21 million coins and production stops completely? I'm not trying to challenge the validity of bitcoins, I'm just genuinely uninformed slash curious.
You could feasibly ask the same question for -any- valuable object. "Why would I accept gold bullion instead of cash?" As near as I can tell, the idea of bitcoins is almost exactly the same as any other commodity; There is a finite quantity of X, therefore X is worth Y actual cash based on some crazy economagics. Comparing Bitcoins to gold is actually somewhat apt. Consider the early phases of Bitcoin mining when it was simple and people made thousands of them quickly and now there is an explosion of bitcoin miners but it's becoming more and more difficult to create them, and eventually mining will have to stop completely because there simply won't be any left. It's like a gold rush happened, and eventually the mines run dry but gold is still worth money because it's rare. The main difference between gold and bitcoins is that you can actually DO things with gold, like make gold stuff. What will probably determine the cash value of bitcoins in the long term will be what happens when mining becomes prohibitively expensive or the 21 million coin limit is reached.
I'm a student right now and this topic is obviously pretty important to me. I'm really afraid that I'm not learning the skills I need from my classes and I understand that I need to do some independent work, but I'm really not sure where to start. I can do some simpler work in C++ but I don't have any experience yet with creating GUIs or really anything that's being suggested here like android apps or websites. I still have some more dedicated programming courses, but I want to get a portfolio started quickly. Where should I start looking?
I believe Splinter Cell had a multiplayer mode where one player was the infiltrator and everyone else played guards trying to catch him.. that would be perfectly fitting for Thief 4.
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I don't think it's fair to look at the market share of Android versus the share of iOS devices, due to the fact that Google doesn't manufacture the majority of Android devices. Apple is the sole provider of iOS, so their 25% or whatever it is now of market share is entirely theirs. Whatever share Android controls is divided among every other smartphone manufacturer, and when you do that Apple is very far ahead of Google's Nexus phones.
There's a show on CW called Supernatural that's pretty awesome, if you're into monster hunter fiction at least...
Hypothetical:
US citizen A joins enemy army.
US citizen A takes action against US while in enemy army.
Is Citizen A guilty of treason?
Yes, he's guilty of treason. Given sufficient evidence for action against the US, Citizen A may even be convicted of treason without a trial.
Traitors are killed. Treason is the only law in the US Constitution that defines its punishment. Technically, they should be hanged, but somehow I don't think it really makes a difference.
Sounds like a win-win?
You can be sued for Mental Anguish or Pain and Suffering for severe emotional distress.
So wait.. are you saying that because I don't know if the person I'm talking to is genuinely in distress that gives me the right to make fun of them? There are laws against cyberbullying precisely because of things like this. People are complete assholes on the internet when they think they are safe and anonymous, and they say or do things they would never consider doing in person. I doubt the Reddit posters would stand outside a building and tell a jumper to jump... but when it's just an internet post it's perfectly alright? I disagree, and I hope they lose this case.
I think including the delivery method of the pesticide is sort of important for the summary. It's pretty obvious that pesticide kills bugs; what is not obvious is that HFCS contains trace amounts of pesticides.
It doesn't go to 111 :(
I remember reading Lord of the Flies at 14 in school... There are a few very graphic scenes of violence in there, particularly when they first slaughter and kill the boar (which my teacher specifically described the scene as sexual in nature) and later when one of the kids dies.
And we read To Kill a Mockingbird at 13, with all its barely veiled racism and mention of rape...
And Fahrenheit 451 at 12...
Well educated children should have no problems with these concepts. I have a cousin who is 13 and reading The Hunger Games in class, which is another dark story involving significant violence.
I dealt with these guys once, and I definitely understand what they mean by 'aggressive tactics.' I bought a new Linksys router several months back and was having trouble getting the wi-fi working, so I looked on Google for the Linksys support and the iYogi site was the first thing to pop up. Since I couldn't find a support number to call at Linksys's website I didn't really have any choice but to call the one number I could find.
So I describe the problem to the guy and he has me download some java program to screen-share with me, then has me run through the various troubleshooting steps... So far no real problems. But when he couldn't find a solvable issue (ie: hardware problem) he asked me to open regedit and open a couple random keys, then told me my registry was corrupt but they could sell me their service which would fix my registry so the router would work.
I'm decent enough at fixing computers myself to know that was a load of crap, but Average Joe Consumer would be pretty far in the dark. Not only was my registry fine, but the router was defective, so their service would have been completely worthless.
Viacom and all its networks block GTV.
I hadn't heard of the first Tokai Mura incident, so I consulted Wikipedia. For the curious, here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident
I'm completely against teaching creationism in schools, but I think this court ruling is way off base. A teacher shouldn't be obligated to teach any kind of dogma based heavily on religion, but that doesn't mean they have the right to belittle others' beliefs. If a student wants to make a big deal about creationism or religion in general, they can take it up with the teacher outside of the classroom environment. There is a clear difference between expressing disagreement with one's beliefs and attacking them, and I actually hope this gets turned around on appeal. It's basically saying a teacher can enforce their religious beliefs on their students...
If I were a terrorist/rival nation/supervillain testing a killer super fungus, I would test it in an area where the impact would be noticeable but the reaction would be slow. Once preliminary tests are finished you can adjust for larger/more effective deployment. Just saying.
So either China gets big money from increased prices on rare earth exports, or they get big money manufacturing more expensive SSDs... win/win for China?
Don't forget that trees can grow, too. To make a bigger standard solar array you need to use more ground space. To make a taller solar tree, you just add to the top. Granted, you probably can't get TOO tall or the thing will fall over at the slightest breeze, but it's a workable solution. The next appropriate question will be if the shadowed space produced by the solar tree would generate more electricity if it was used by a standard array, since the tree takes less ground space but produces a larger shadow.
1) Add *@union.com to blacklist.
2) Never see 90%+ of the spam email you're getting thanks to blacklist.
3) Continue business.
???
I don't see much distinction between the union saying "Send lots of protest emails to X" and any given person asking a group to "Write your congress critter." The clear intent is to voice an opposing opinion to whatever X did, and show that there are large numbers of people who care deeply about the issue in question.
Regarding most of the emails coming from the union servers, that could be the union maliciously attacking the company... or it could be the union providing the use of their server for employees to protest anonymously. Who's to say without further discovery?
I do agree that spam mailing/calling their sales lines was a pretty shitty thing to do, though.
It's one thing to point out the inherent discrimination in the system, and another thing entirely to excuse criminal behavior as a result. I will never make an argument that racism doesn't exist or that everyone truly has an equal opportunity for success, but we do all have an equal opportunity to choose right from wrong. You don't need to be a middle class white kid to know that assaulting someone is wrong, and when you get arrested for doing so you can't blame the fact that your skin is a different color.
Consoles: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii .... PCs.
Handhelds: PSP/Vita, DS/3DS, Phones (sometimes)
PCs:
The obvious assumption is that maybe console and handheld games sell 7x more products because there's more consoles and handhelds to sell products on? A better comparison may be 'console-exclusive' game sales versus 'PC exclusive' sales. Willing to bet PC exclusives are largely in the lead in this category.
The original vision, according to the article, isn't that players realize any particular singular accomplishment. The idea is that over many players, the world becomes changed in ways that are meant to intrigue the next player. For example, I could start building a pyramid but die after just setting up the base, then the next player will see it and go "Oh cool, someone put a lot of effort into making this thing" and they might finish the pyramid or build something else on top of it, or just ignore it completely and start some other project. After generations of players, the landscape will be covered with cool creations (that are probably only half finished) and each piece will have a unique and interesting story behind them that can only really be guessed at. It's a very interesting concept if the players are actually of the mind to think of things in that manner... how it actually ends up is, as this article tells us, completely up in the air.
You seem informed enough on this subject for me to get a good answer here... Assume I've been living under a rock and have no clue what a bitcoin is. Wikipedia tells me that it's a crowd-sourced cryptography experiment that somehow turns into money because a few websites will pay you for them. Computers do crypto stuff and solve problems.. problems go into blocks.. blocks go into chains.. 2016 blocks equals 50 bitcoins.. every 2016 blocks it gets harder to make more blocks.. and there's something about transaction fees that pay bitcoins to whatever crowdsourced computer is lucky enough to handle the transaction.
That's nice and I mostly understand it, but where you lose me is the part about turning bitcoins into useful money. If I let my computer number crunch for a few weeks and get X bitcoins (which I presume would be based on the number of blocks I have finished) I can just go to a website and say "Give me [exchange rate] for X coins" and it becomes actual folding dollars? Who decides what it is worth? What happens when it becomes so difficult to make a bitcoin that it just can't be done anymore (say NASA put some supercomputers on coin mining duty) and everyone who doesn't have a supercomputer can't make them anymore? OR when there are 21 million coins and production stops completely? I'm not trying to challenge the validity of bitcoins, I'm just genuinely uninformed slash curious.
You could feasibly ask the same question for -any- valuable object. "Why would I accept gold bullion instead of cash?" As near as I can tell, the idea of bitcoins is almost exactly the same as any other commodity; There is a finite quantity of X, therefore X is worth Y actual cash based on some crazy economagics. Comparing Bitcoins to gold is actually somewhat apt. Consider the early phases of Bitcoin mining when it was simple and people made thousands of them quickly and now there is an explosion of bitcoin miners but it's becoming more and more difficult to create them, and eventually mining will have to stop completely because there simply won't be any left. It's like a gold rush happened, and eventually the mines run dry but gold is still worth money because it's rare. The main difference between gold and bitcoins is that you can actually DO things with gold, like make gold stuff. What will probably determine the cash value of bitcoins in the long term will be what happens when mining becomes prohibitively expensive or the 21 million coin limit is reached.
I'm a student right now and this topic is obviously pretty important to me. I'm really afraid that I'm not learning the skills I need from my classes and I understand that I need to do some independent work, but I'm really not sure where to start. I can do some simpler work in C++ but I don't have any experience yet with creating GUIs or really anything that's being suggested here like android apps or websites. I still have some more dedicated programming courses, but I want to get a portfolio started quickly. Where should I start looking?
I believe Splinter Cell had a multiplayer mode where one player was the infiltrator and everyone else played guards trying to catch him.. that would be perfectly fitting for Thief 4.