You won't have to face disgustingly powerful neighbors until you are almost equal in power.
I know thats the way the game is suppose to work but I think it would be more fun if you actually had to evade vastly more powerful creatures. If it is created with reality in mind if you are a larger more powerful creature you won't have enough energy to chase after smaller creatures for the hell of it because if you don't catch a significantly large enough prey you will starve yourself. It's the same reason you don't see lions hunting the savannahs for field mice. Maybe I am missing the point of the game what happened to survival of the fittest?
This is a good time to justifiably bash a company without being modded a troll I'll take it. ATI drivers under linux are pure crap and thats putting it nicely they don't release drivers often and when they do they are always missing many features or the features or broken so they were probably better off being missing in the first place. I've been told that the reason for the difference in quality of the ati and nvidia linux drivers all boils down to corporate customers. Nvidia has a significantly large number of companies who require linux drivers and ATI doesn't and so the little guys who buy their top of the line ATI card to play doom 3 in linux suffer.
During the summers as a college job I used to work at an insurance company mailroom which housed a lot of paperwork with very personal information SSN's Medical Info you name it, it was there. My fellow mailroom employees and I used to use CVS shopper cards to gain access to every room in the building when we had forgotten our ID cards at home.
Also if you happen to have a shopper card for one grocery store it almost always works at a competing grocery store.
This only half correct it depends on the operating frequency of the rfid tag and reader. High frequency rfid tags operate at longer ranges and lower frequency rfid tags operate at shorter ranges nothing new there.
But you are correct provided that if you use a passive rfid tag that operates in the 200-250MHz range you are going to be relatively safe from having your tag read unless someone brushes up against your wallet with an rfid reader.
"Quotas and scholarships for minorities are really just punishing the student who does not have the "advantage" of being a minority as well as putting the school or workplace at a disadvantage by requiring them to hire/accept based on race and not qualifications (If you are required to hire 10% minorities, what of only 5% of your qualified applicants are minority?) Race should be IGNORED in the application process, not corrected for."
1.) The supreme outlawed quotas based on affirative action a very long time ago, there are NO quotas to let a certain number of black/latino/asian/women in a particular school or corporation. This is a myth that people continue to propagate and I have yet to figure out why, if an educational institution or corporation decides that they want a certain percentage of diversity it is their OWN INTERNAL POLICY it is NOT instituted in any way by the law. Anyone who tells you otherwise does't know what they are talking about.
2.) Also affirmitive action is far less damaging than the legacy system in educational institution, yet when people cry about how they have been screwed over because they didn't get into that really great college they've dreamed of since they were 5 the first people they blame are minorties because there is some sort of magic quota that screwed them out of their "rightful" position. Most universities accept around 15% legacy applications by default yes thats right 15% and in the more prestigious universities its much higher than that usually around 25%. Guess what the typical enrollment of minority students in most universities is?? around 4%.
Yet most people STILL want to complain about affirmative action. I guess minorities are easier to pick on than the children of the obscenely wealthy (who just might be your boss one day even though they don't deserve it) who only got into XYZ University because their daddy, grand daddy and great grand daddy went to XYZ University. How about this if a measly 4% of a particular student population kept you from getting into a college or if less than.05% of the minority population who happened to have a college degree and also happened to be competing for the same job as you kept you from getting a particular job you wanted then it is very possible you didn't deserve the job or the acceptance into XYZ university in the first place.
Oh yes and before I start a flame war #2 wasn't directed at the parent it is just a minor annoyance I had to vent.
Bill O'reilly is exercising his trademark on "O'Reilly" all O'Reilly's including Tim may soon have to take on the Prince-like title of "The Tim formerly known as O'Reilly".
I understand that this is News For Nerds and all that stuff but MacSaber? Sounds like a good way to advertise to the world that you have never been laid and you never will be.
"He showed that every continuous function (one with a connected graph) is equal to the sum of its Fourier series except perhaps at some negligible points."
Someone correct me if I am wrong but hasn't this been common knowledge?? I was under the impression this was taught in every sytems, signals analysis course?? It would have been interesting to determine the fourier transform of many blackbox circuits without running under this assumption. Or is there more to what he solved??
svelte? you must be kidding me I've got 3 tabs open no flash installed no adobe installed or running and the caching "feature" turned off and firefox is still consuming 400MB of RAM and increasing albeit more slowly. When I had the caching "feature" turned on firefox would regualrly bloat up to 3GB and completely consume all of my main memory and then kill my VM. How about they just continue on with the 1.X line and fix these memory issues before going onto 2.X? Just a thought.
Can someone please explain to me what is so superior about BLU-RAY that we just have to switch away from dvd. There were really obvious arguements to switch from VHS to DVD, but from dvd to blu-ray I just don't see a really compelling arguement to switch, unless they start selling writeable media, then the obvious selling point would be storage capacity. Mod me a troll if you must but is this more creating a market for a product that isn't needed or is there a legitimate reason for this shift in media???
Please explain how a congressional staffer whose employment and future success absolutely depends on a particular party staying in power will ever get bored and just leave??
While we are on the topic does anyone know if there is a way to access a directory via sftp in windows the same way you would in kde with fish://?
Or at a bare minimum be able mount a remote directory via sftp and access it as a local drive??
1.) Tell your students to bring tape recorders to your next lecture 2.) Read Marx to them making long asides with inflammatory remarks about the Bush Administration being the new Nazi party 3.) Tell them you will tell them were they can sell their tapes for $100 if they split it with you. 4.) Watch the media go on a senseless crusade to force your resignation 5.) Force the board of directors to give you a nice compensation package to make you go away 6.) Profit!
I know its not maglev but hey....
Kyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail!
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!
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You won't have to face disgustingly powerful neighbors until you are almost equal in power. I know thats the way the game is suppose to work but I think it would be more fun if you actually had to evade vastly more powerful creatures. If it is created with reality in mind if you are a larger more powerful creature you won't have enough energy to chase after smaller creatures for the hell of it because if you don't catch a significantly large enough prey you will starve yourself. It's the same reason you don't see lions hunting the savannahs for field mice. Maybe I am missing the point of the game what happened to survival of the fittest?
This is a good time to justifiably bash a company without being modded a troll I'll take it. ATI drivers under linux are pure crap and thats putting it nicely they don't release drivers often and when they do they are always missing many features or the features or broken so they were probably better off being missing in the first place. I've been told that the reason for the difference in quality of the ati and nvidia linux drivers all boils down to corporate customers. Nvidia has a significantly large number of companies who require linux drivers and ATI doesn't and so the little guys who buy their top of the line ATI card to play doom 3 in linux suffer.
As the first order of business the robots were taught how to wave a white flag.
During the summers as a college job I used to work at an insurance company mailroom which housed a lot of paperwork with very personal information SSN's Medical Info you name it, it was there. My fellow mailroom employees and I used to use CVS shopper cards to gain access to every room in the building when we had forgotten our ID cards at home. Also if you happen to have a shopper card for one grocery store it almost always works at a competing grocery store.
wow 3 dupes of the same story in a 2 week span whats the record for dupes of the same story here?
This only half correct it depends on the operating frequency of the rfid tag and reader. High frequency rfid tags operate at longer ranges and lower frequency rfid tags operate at shorter ranges nothing new there. But you are correct provided that if you use a passive rfid tag that operates in the 200-250MHz range you are going to be relatively safe from having your tag read unless someone brushes up against your wallet with an rfid reader.
"Quotas and scholarships for minorities are really just punishing the student who does not have the "advantage" of being a minority as well as putting the school or workplace at a disadvantage by requiring them to hire/accept based on race and not qualifications (If you are required to hire 10% minorities, what of only 5% of your qualified applicants are minority?) Race should be IGNORED in the application process, not corrected for."
.05% of the minority population who happened to have a college degree and also happened to be competing for the same job as you kept you from getting a particular job you wanted then it is very possible you didn't deserve the job or the acceptance into XYZ university in the first place.
1.) The supreme outlawed quotas based on affirative action a very long time ago, there are NO quotas to let a certain number of black/latino/asian/women in a particular school or corporation. This is a myth that people continue to propagate and I have yet to figure out why, if an educational institution or corporation decides that they want a certain percentage of diversity it is their OWN INTERNAL POLICY it is NOT instituted in any way by the law. Anyone who tells you otherwise does't know what they are talking about.
2.) Also affirmitive action is far less damaging than the legacy system in educational institution, yet when people cry about how they have been screwed over because they didn't get into that really great college they've dreamed of since they were 5 the first people they blame are minorties because there is some sort of magic quota that screwed them out of their "rightful" position. Most universities accept around 15% legacy applications by default yes thats right 15% and in the more prestigious universities its much higher than that usually around 25%. Guess what the typical enrollment of minority students in most universities is?? around 4%.
Yet most people STILL want to complain about affirmative action. I guess minorities are easier to pick on than the children of the obscenely wealthy (who just might be your boss one day even though they don't deserve it) who only got into XYZ University because their daddy, grand daddy and great grand daddy went to XYZ University. How about this if a measly 4% of a particular student population kept you from getting into a college or if less than
Oh yes and before I start a flame war #2 wasn't directed at the parent it is just a minor annoyance I had to vent.
That's easily the funniest comment I've ever read on slashdot thanks for the laugh I needed that.
Bill O'reilly is exercising his trademark on "O'Reilly" all O'Reilly's including Tim may soon have to take on the Prince-like title of "The Tim formerly known as O'Reilly".
No he has it right it is internets both of them the one Al Gore invented and the one the rest of us use.
I understand that this is News For Nerds and all that stuff but MacSaber? Sounds like a good way to advertise to the world that you have never been laid and you never will be.
DLL Hell has closed its doors and is now reopening as the all new GAC Hell Emporium and Warehouse....
"He showed that every continuous function (one with a connected graph) is equal to the sum of its Fourier series except perhaps at some negligible points."
Someone correct me if I am wrong but hasn't this been common knowledge?? I was under the impression this was taught in every sytems, signals analysis course?? It would have been interesting to determine the fourier transform of many blackbox circuits without running under this assumption. Or is there more to what he solved??
svelte? you must be kidding me I've got 3 tabs open no flash installed no adobe installed or running and the caching "feature" turned off and firefox is still consuming 400MB of RAM and increasing albeit more slowly. When I had the caching "feature" turned on firefox would regualrly bloat up to 3GB and completely consume all of my main memory and then kill my VM. How about they just continue on with the 1.X line and fix these memory issues before going onto 2.X? Just a thought.
Superfetch is already implemented in winxp how is this a new feature??
Are we talking about prostitution or video games?
Short answer NO
Can someone please explain to me what is so superior about BLU-RAY that we just have to switch away from dvd. There were really obvious arguements to switch from VHS to DVD, but from dvd to blu-ray I just don't see a really compelling arguement to switch, unless they start selling writeable media, then the obvious selling point would be storage capacity. Mod me a troll if you must but is this more creating a market for a product that isn't needed or is there a legitimate reason for this shift in media???
Please explain how a congressional staffer whose employment and future success absolutely depends on a particular party staying in power will ever get bored and just leave??
While we are on the topic does anyone know if there is a way to access a directory via sftp in windows the same way you would in kde with fish://? Or at a bare minimum be able mount a remote directory via sftp and access it as a local drive??
....more like this
The Tenured Professor's Secret Plan To Wealth
1.) Tell your students to bring tape recorders to your next lecture
2.) Read Marx to them making long asides with inflammatory remarks about the Bush Administration being the new Nazi party
3.) Tell them you will tell them were they can sell their tapes for $100 if they split it with you.
4.) Watch the media go on a senseless crusade to force your resignation
5.) Force the board of directors to give you a nice compensation package to make you go away
6.) Profit!
--MarkusQ
I thought that said Rumors of a Teri Hatcher Film for a second.
Sure if it's your keyboard you know if its been cleaned or freshly splattered. With someone elses keyboard you are taking a large risk.
Given most slashdotters lack girlfriends and like heavy amounts of porn I wouldn't be licking a keyboard that isn't yours.
I know its not maglev but hey.... Kyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail! What'd I say? Ned Flanders: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? Patty+Selma: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail! [crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically] Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud... Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud. Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend? Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend. Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs? Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs. Abe: Were you sent here by the devil? Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level. Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can. Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man. I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice! All: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? All: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: Once again... All: Monorail! Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken... Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken! All: Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! [big finish] Monorail! Homer: Mono... D'oh!