Successful Hijackings? I guess people are more cowardly than I thought, these days no weapon would keep me in my seat if someone tried to hijack a plane I was a passenger in, I'd rather die fighting than strapped in my seat.
Great so when something like this happens on a commercial airliner instead of a fighter jet and there is no pilot what do we do? Or when the landing gear gets stuck? Or when one of the many gauges stops working properly mid-flight? Automating many tasks is great, but seriously when my life is on the line I want to know there is someone with the knowledge to get me safely on the ground without the aid of a damn computer.
I agree, I honestly don't see any airliner being hijacked again after Sept 11th. Waving box cutters in the air isn't going to scare a damn person when the first thing they believe is that they are going to die no matter if the comply or not. This idea while pretty cool is just a huge waste of $$ passengers will police airliners way more effectively.
I purchased the game the day it came out and I just got around to playing it this weekend. 3/5 stars is a little low I'd personally give it 4/5. The game has no real plot, this is true but it is insanely fun to play and the main characters abilities are like Blade meets Chuck Norris (Jumping rooftop to rooftop and roundhouses a plenty). I love the targeting system it is especially fun when you aim at a character while hopping from rooftop to rooftop taking out an enemies legs mid-air then landing on top of them (Super Mario style) and giving the few other enemies around you roundhouses that knock them into midair. If you want a game that will allow you to zone out for a few minutes during breaks and have fun this is definitely it. If you want a game with detailed plots and a complex storyline you'll be bored to death.
Yes I get the joke and the point, but this is federal prisons this guy is facing the "pound me in the ass prisons" that you refer to are state prisons which are criminally negligent in terms of preventing prison rape.
Federal prison is no walk in the park but even criminals know fed prisons are a cakewalk compared to what they will see at a state prison. Many times if they are on the run from the police for a crime that will get them 10+ years they will go to multiple states and commit a similar offense in each state to increase the likelihood that they will land in a much cushier federal prison.
but wouldn't wiping out 90%+ of the world population pretty much solve the problem the CDC should ask Branson for the 25 mill I'm sure they have multiple virus that could do exactly what he his asking for.
more than the failure of Zune and Xbox.....
whoa you had me until the xbox part I don't know where you've been lately but xbox360 has been a HUGE success partly due to Sony shooting themselves in the foot by trying to push a $600 console and having production issues with the PS3 but still calling xbox360 a failure is really pushing it.
Maybe this is why Huxley envisaged Happy Drugs; this would be the ultimate test of our ability to medicate ourselves to contentment in the face of adversity in our environment. I'm wondering what the rotation cycles are for remote assignments on Earth, e.g. Antarctic and Arctic exploration stations? While functionally the Antarctic Winter and the Lunar environment have the same effect - no going outside except in serious gear, or you die - I think that there is a psychological oppression that goes along with being on the moon. Comments?
I'd imagine the -40 degree temperatures in Antarctica would be a pretty good method of curing any depression. Everytime someone starts feeling a bit depressed about how warm and relatively cozy it is inside shove them outside butt naked for a few seconds. The weather will remind them exactly why they should love the indoors so much. The added bonus being that everyone else gets a good laugh.
Wake me when there is a demo of this miracle battery if I could actually produce something this fantastic and I wanted investors overnight I'd demo it on video put the demo on youtube and sit around waiting for cash. I need to start a vaporware company so I can get some VC.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up I meant to say without permission of the artists as the parent had mentioned and you are very correct. But this begs the question are the record labels and the RIAA now obligated to arrest the artists themselves for giving their music for illegal distribution?
Ok since this is slashdot home of people who know nothing about hiphop but love to comment on it, let me explain to you how this works. Mixtape DJs as popular and DJ Drama get FLOODED with demos from artists popular and unpopular mainstream and underground; they also get flooded with demos and samplers from record labels. Most mixtape DJs take the best of that material they do get to listen to and distribute it on whatever mixtape series they are putting out at the moment. VERY rarely does a mixtape DJ as popular as DJ Drama put out an album with material they didn't receive from the artist directly in fact a DJ as popular as he is probably has artists pyaing him to put them on his mixtape just so they can have a little "Street Cred".
How do I know this? I was a low level DJ in NY during college created a few of my own mixtapes, mixed in a few clubs, and met a few A&Rs in the process. I was a nobody in the mixtape scene and after only a year I started receiving so many albums from record labels and artists that the post office refused to deliver them to my home address and I had to get a PO Box. When I moved from my apt half of my moving truck was filled with albums.
Anyone who knows anything about hiphop knows a guy like DJ Drama didn't use any material without permission.
I cannot emphasize how important it is to not be a dick. True story (all company names will be left out for the obvious reasons but this was a well known software companies) my cousin came out of college in '94 with a very low gpa not because he was not bright but because he was lazy. His very first interview whoever was filtering the resumes did not check his gpa and he made it to be interviewed. He aced the interview questions but then the question of gpa came up and when the interviewer heard his gpa he asked my cousin why he had even bothered to apply and ended the interview on the spot.
After many failed interviews my cousin realized that he was going to take a a very non-glamours job and work his way up to make up for the hard work he didn't do in college. He worked his way up through several startups and 10 years later earned a position at another very well known company where he serves as both a project manager and software engineer. A senior level position opened up on their team and guess who showed up to be interviewed by my cousin? Yup, the exact same guy who had conducted his very first job interview and had been a complete dick.
Lesson of the story? Don't ever believe the person you are interviewing won't be interviewing you one day or be your boss.
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I have been a KDE user since 2000 and you do have some good points but the KDE team can very easily solve this problem by having a novice/advanced toggle button in kcontrol.
Don't want to be flooded with every option available? stay in novice mode. Want to tweak every part of kde till you are blue in the face toggle advanced mode?
What would be even better would be if this novice/advanced option could be made global and not just local to kcontrol so that if you were in global novice mode all kde apps from konqueror to kmail would only show novice options if you were in global advanced mode options all options would be shown in every kde app you have installed.
The beautiful part of this is that coding it would be easy. The ugly part would be choosing which options should be novice in each and every single application and which options should be advanced.
The funny part is I haven't used windows since win98 and the suit is a little snug around the shoulders but it fits well. Also how old are you 50? I don't even know anyone who goes to singles bars and I didn't even know they existed these days if you want some young ass hit up the local club on a weekend or hit up facebook.
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Successful Hijackings? I guess people are more cowardly than I thought, these days no weapon would keep me in my seat if someone tried to hijack a plane I was a passenger in, I'd rather die fighting than strapped in my seat.
Great so when something like this happens on a commercial airliner instead of a fighter jet and there is no pilot what do we do? Or when the landing gear gets stuck? Or when one of the many gauges stops working properly mid-flight? Automating many tasks is great, but seriously when my life is on the line I want to know there is someone with the knowledge to get me safely on the ground without the aid of a damn computer.
I agree, I honestly don't see any airliner being hijacked again after Sept 11th. Waving box cutters in the air isn't going to scare a damn person when the first thing they believe is that they are going to die no matter if the comply or not. This idea while pretty cool is just a huge waste of $$ passengers will police airliners way more effectively.
I purchased the game the day it came out and I just got around to playing it this weekend. 3/5 stars is a little low I'd personally give it 4/5. The game has no real plot, this is true but it is insanely fun to play and the main characters abilities are like Blade meets Chuck Norris (Jumping rooftop to rooftop and roundhouses a plenty). I love the targeting system it is especially fun when you aim at a character while hopping from rooftop to rooftop taking out an enemies legs mid-air then landing on top of them (Super Mario style) and giving the few other enemies around you roundhouses that knock them into midair. If you want a game that will allow you to zone out for a few minutes during breaks and have fun this is definitely it. If you want a game with detailed plots and a complex storyline you'll be bored to death.
Yes I get the joke and the point, but this is federal prisons this guy is facing the "pound me in the ass prisons" that you refer to are state prisons which are criminally negligent in terms of preventing prison rape.
Federal prison is no walk in the park but even criminals know fed prisons are a cakewalk compared to what they will see at a state prison. Many times if they are on the run from the police for a crime that will get them 10+ years they will go to multiple states and commit a similar offense in each state to increase the likelihood that they will land in a much cushier federal prison.
Yes, it's called the Donald Rumsfeld School of Management.
for the next few releases I suggest nibbling nymphs, fighting phallus, and nasty necrophiliac.
but wouldn't wiping out 90%+ of the world population pretty much solve the problem the CDC should ask Branson for the 25 mill I'm sure they have multiple virus that could do exactly what he his asking for.
more than the failure of Zune and Xbox..... whoa you had me until the xbox part I don't know where you've been lately but xbox360 has been a HUGE success partly due to Sony shooting themselves in the foot by trying to push a $600 console and having production issues with the PS3 but still calling xbox360 a failure is really pushing it.
Maybe this is why Huxley envisaged Happy Drugs; this would be the ultimate test of our ability to medicate ourselves to contentment in the face of adversity in our environment. I'm wondering what the rotation cycles are for remote assignments on Earth, e.g. Antarctic and Arctic exploration stations? While functionally the Antarctic Winter and the Lunar environment have the same effect - no going outside except in serious gear, or you die - I think that there is a psychological oppression that goes along with being on the moon. Comments?
I'd imagine the -40 degree temperatures in Antarctica would be a pretty good method of curing any depression. Everytime someone starts feeling a bit depressed about how warm and relatively cozy it is inside shove them outside butt naked for a few seconds. The weather will remind them exactly why they should love the indoors so much. The added bonus being that everyone else gets a good laugh.
I apologize for being a grammar Nazi but I just could not help myself.
......With their beedy little eyes makes them always look surprised Blame Canada Blame Canada their responsible for piracy anyway....
Wake me when there is a demo of this miracle battery if I could actually produce something this fantastic and I wanted investors overnight I'd demo it on video put the demo on youtube and sit around waiting for cash. I need to start a vaporware company so I can get some VC.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up I meant to say without permission of the artists as the parent had mentioned and you are very correct. But this begs the question are the record labels and the RIAA now obligated to arrest the artists themselves for giving their music for illegal distribution?
Ok since this is slashdot home of people who know nothing about hiphop but love to comment on it, let me explain to you how this works. Mixtape DJs as popular and DJ Drama get FLOODED with demos from artists popular and unpopular mainstream and underground; they also get flooded with demos and samplers from record labels. Most mixtape DJs take the best of that material they do get to listen to and distribute it on whatever mixtape series they are putting out at the moment. VERY rarely does a mixtape DJ as popular as DJ Drama put out an album with material they didn't receive from the artist directly in fact a DJ as popular as he is probably has artists pyaing him to put them on his mixtape just so they can have a little "Street Cred".
How do I know this? I was a low level DJ in NY during college created a few of my own mixtapes, mixed in a few clubs, and met a few A&Rs in the process. I was a nobody in the mixtape scene and after only a year I started receiving so many albums from record labels and artists that the post office refused to deliver them to my home address and I had to get a PO Box. When I moved from my apt half of my moving truck was filled with albums.
Anyone who knows anything about hiphop knows a guy like DJ Drama didn't use any material without permission.
You run OSX?
I cannot emphasize how important it is to not be a dick. True story (all company names will be left out for the obvious reasons but this was a well known software companies) my cousin came out of college in '94 with a very low gpa not because he was not bright but because he was lazy. His very first interview whoever was filtering the resumes did not check his gpa and he made it to be interviewed. He aced the interview questions but then the question of gpa came up and when the interviewer heard his gpa he asked my cousin why he had even bothered to apply and ended the interview on the spot.
After many failed interviews my cousin realized that he was going to take a a very non-glamours job and work his way up to make up for the hard work he didn't do in college. He worked his way up through several startups and 10 years later earned a position at another very well known company where he serves as both a project manager and software engineer. A senior level position opened up on their team and guess who showed up to be interviewed by my cousin? Yup, the exact same guy who had conducted his very first job interview and had been a complete dick.
Lesson of the story? Don't ever believe the person you are interviewing won't be interviewing you one day or be your boss.
Viagara, Cialis, red bull, two brazilian hookers and a swiss midget.
A Worm that lives in the very fabric of Web 2.0 and could kill the Web as we know it lurks is the deep dark recesses of the javascript
Who is this masked man known as the worm?
Why does he hate Web 2.0 so much?
Will this worm try to make us revert to Web 1.0?
And does this worm have anything to do with disappearances of Web 1.1 through Web 1.9?
This and much much more on the next epside of Days of our Web 2.0 Lives
I have been a KDE user since 2000 and you do have some good points but the KDE team can very easily solve this problem by having a novice/advanced toggle button in kcontrol.
Don't want to be flooded with every option available? stay in novice mode. Want to tweak every part of kde till you are blue in the face toggle advanced mode? What would be even better would be if this novice/advanced option could be made global and not just local to kcontrol so that if you were in global novice mode all kde apps from konqueror to kmail would only show novice options if you were in global advanced mode options all options would be shown in every kde app you have installed. The beautiful part of this is that coding it would be easy. The ugly part would be choosing which options should be novice in each and every single application and which options should be advanced.
Why don't I have mod points when I need them to mod posts like yours up and posts like the parents down
In a coffin
Great I can see the headlines now Google Earth Based Flight Simulator Helps Train Terrorists News At 11
The funny part is I haven't used windows since win98 and the suit is a little snug around the shoulders but it fits well. Also how old are you 50? I don't even know anyone who goes to singles bars and I didn't even know they existed these days if you want some young ass hit up the local club on a weekend or hit up facebook.
Cue the Microsoft in league with the government conspiracy theories.