You don't need to give anyone a raise to have a higher average salary. You just lay off all of the lower-paid employees, replacing them with contracted offshore labor, and let your higher-paid managers keep their jobs.
It's just like lowering the unemployment rate by waiting for people to give up looking for jobs instead of actually creating new jobs. Lying with statistics is fun!
I'm a Mac user, so I'm only familiar with web-based games. Granted, they use java and most likely aren't grabbing the images of your cards off a server each time they're dealt, but it's certainly not as difficult as the grandparent poster suggested. And it's not like they're using really big, high-resolution images.
You assume that Bush and Rumsfeld will still be in power when this thing is built. That seems unlikely without the repeal of the 22nd amendment and some serious life extension technology for Rummy.
What exactly do you see as the point of a space elevator? Is this something people would spend billions of dollars to build just to prove that they can?
Here's a hint: if you're using it to move cargo into space, there are going to be people around it to load that cargo onto it. And lots of expensive cargo on the ground waiting to go up.
And I don't think you understand the minds of terrorists very well if you think that the WTC and Pentagon were chosen because there were a lot of people in them. The symbolism is important. Crashing a plane into a football stadium would have had more potential for killing lots of people than the WTC or the Pentagon. But a football stadium isn't exactly the gigantic symbol of American economic or political power.
Oh and it is realplayer so it works fine under linux.
Why would anyone want to listen to something like this if they're going to use a proprietary format? My friend recorded a sci-fi comedy show that's distributed in Ogg Vorbis format, any everyone should listen to that instead! Plus, that capitalist pig Douglas Adams copyrighted everything he wrote. I can just download some Free sci-fi comedy books instead of reading HHGG books that cost $5.
I think being a good programmer is a lot more important in this case than being a good poker player. 95% of the top players probably couldn't write a "Hello, world" program, much less a program that could beat something the worst software engineer who'd never touched a poker chip could come up with.
Not necessarily. You can have the strongest math skills in the world and be able to calculate odds perfectly on every hand, and still lose because of the emotional aspect of gambling. Computer programs don't make poor decisions under pressure.
It's easy to imagine a fairly competent computer programmer managing to lose a game of tic-tac-toe if he's not concentrating and thinking algorithmically. That doesn't mean he can't write a program that will never lose.
Umm, no. It's fairly simple to make "card1-1.jpg" the first card in player 1's hand every single time, but sending different image data. You're assuming "paris_hilton.jpg" has to be a static image file.
I don't think the Chiefs are letting people score so they can get the ball back. Why would they want to give Trent Green more opportunities to look bad?
No, no, no. You're confused. Killing people from a great distance is very brave. Cowards are people who sacrifice their own lives for their cause. You know, like terrorists who blow themselves up with a plane full of people, or, by extension, infantrymen who fight against superior numbers of enemy soldiers.
So you're saying that Brits are much more easily confused than everyone else in Europe, who don't appear to have any major problems understanding their new currency?
I'm sure in 1971 there were people arguing that making 100 pence=1 pound would just be too confusing. I mean, if you knew something cost a shilling and 3 farthings, you'd just be lost trying to figure out if getting the same thing for 6p was a good deal or not after the changeover.
And when you get rid of the IRS, these incredibly complicated calculations will be done for 300 million people by the Secretary of the Treasury by himself?
There's also the question of whether it's legal for the federal government to levy a sales tax on non-interstate commerce. Hint: the Constitution doesn't give them that authority.
Shh... you're not supposed to point out to people that they have no grasp of statistics whatsoever.
Like when Brit Hume claimed that you're more likely to be murdered in California than to be killed in action in Iraq, and just gave the numbers of CA murders and soldiers killed in Iraq in the same time period, without considering the total population of California and the total number of soldiers in Iraq.
By this sort of use of "statistics", I can easily prove that it's MUCH more dangerous to walk down a sidewalk than it is to fall from a plane at 10,000 feet with no parachute.
That's ridiculous. The Senate does not have a "duty" to confirm the president's appointments. The Senate has a duty to advise the President on appointments, and may consent to them if it sees fit. Nowhere in the Constitution is the Senate told to ignore its own decision-making procedures when deciding whether to give consent. The Senate is set up to make wise decisions by following a procedure that doesn't allow one party with a tiny majority to ignore the general will of the body. To suggest that naming judges to posts that they hold for life is less serious than the normal business of the Senate is dangerous.
Yeah, and the media should be forbidden from publishing polling results before the election, or discussing the election in any way, too.
And it should definitely be illegal for the media to suggest that John Kerry is supported by more than 1% of the people in Ohio, because that would just create confusion when Diebold's machines correctly report that 99% of the state voted for Bush.
Wait, so the sentiment around here, as you see it, is that sharing copyrighted materials is only ok if they're older than 28 years old, and I can develop a closed-source version of GNU emacs in 2012?
Well since RIAA doesn't want you to believe that downloading music, at all, is illegal, it follows that either your reading comprehension of the article's point is wrong, or the article is lying.
Or did RIAA just start telling people not to buy music from iTunes, et al, because they suddenly decided that they don't want the profits they're getting from downloaded music?
Umm, only if you're hosting the files in the first place. If you don't let anyone download a particular file from your computer either as part of a torrent or by itself, you're using zero bandwidth to share that file. If you're hosting it in any way, you're using more than zero.
I know, math is hard. But spreading out everyone else's bandwidth usage doesn't help me in any way.
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It's just like lowering the unemployment rate by waiting for people to give up looking for jobs instead of actually creating new jobs. Lying with statistics is fun!
I'm a Mac user, so I'm only familiar with web-based games. Granted, they use java and most likely aren't grabbing the images of your cards off a server each time they're dealt, but it's certainly not as difficult as the grandparent poster suggested. And it's not like they're using really big, high-resolution images.
You assume that Bush and Rumsfeld will still be in power when this thing is built. That seems unlikely without the repeal of the 22nd amendment and some serious life extension technology for Rummy.
Here's a hint: if you're using it to move cargo into space, there are going to be people around it to load that cargo onto it. And lots of expensive cargo on the ground waiting to go up.
And I don't think you understand the minds of terrorists very well if you think that the WTC and Pentagon were chosen because there were a lot of people in them. The symbolism is important. Crashing a plane into a football stadium would have had more potential for killing lots of people than the WTC or the Pentagon. But a football stadium isn't exactly the gigantic symbol of American economic or political power.
Why would anyone want to listen to something like this if they're going to use a proprietary format? My friend recorded a sci-fi comedy show that's distributed in Ogg Vorbis format, any everyone should listen to that instead! Plus, that capitalist pig Douglas Adams copyrighted everything he wrote. I can just download some Free sci-fi comedy books instead of reading HHGG books that cost $5.
I think being a good programmer is a lot more important in this case than being a good poker player. 95% of the top players probably couldn't write a "Hello, world" program, much less a program that could beat something the worst software engineer who'd never touched a poker chip could come up with.
It's easy to imagine a fairly competent computer programmer managing to lose a game of tic-tac-toe if he's not concentrating and thinking algorithmically. That doesn't mean he can't write a program that will never lose.
Umm, no. It's fairly simple to make "card1-1.jpg" the first card in player 1's hand every single time, but sending different image data. You're assuming "paris_hilton.jpg" has to be a static image file.
I don't think the Chiefs are letting people score so they can get the ball back. Why would they want to give Trent Green more opportunities to look bad?
I thought it said "erection". Damn you, spam!
No, no, no. You're confused. Killing people from a great distance is very brave. Cowards are people who sacrifice their own lives for their cause. You know, like terrorists who blow themselves up with a plane full of people, or, by extension, infantrymen who fight against superior numbers of enemy soldiers.
On the other hand, if you think procmail is a replacement for sendmail, you'd probably do more harm than good.
Perhaps you should have tested your comment's funniness before releasing it to slashdot.
If you think the exercise you're getting from moving a mouse around is keeping you in shape, you're probably a hopeless case anyway.
I'm sure in 1971 there were people arguing that making 100 pence=1 pound would just be too confusing. I mean, if you knew something cost a shilling and 3 farthings, you'd just be lost trying to figure out if getting the same thing for 6p was a good deal or not after the changeover.
Maybe?
There's also the question of whether it's legal for the federal government to levy a sales tax on non-interstate commerce. Hint: the Constitution doesn't give them that authority.
Like when Brit Hume claimed that you're more likely to be murdered in California than to be killed in action in Iraq, and just gave the numbers of CA murders and soldiers killed in Iraq in the same time period, without considering the total population of California and the total number of soldiers in Iraq.
By this sort of use of "statistics", I can easily prove that it's MUCH more dangerous to walk down a sidewalk than it is to fall from a plane at 10,000 feet with no parachute.
Adium integrates with the Address Book too, and supports all of the major services via libgaim.
That's ridiculous. The Senate does not have a "duty" to confirm the president's appointments. The Senate has a duty to advise the President on appointments, and may consent to them if it sees fit. Nowhere in the Constitution is the Senate told to ignore its own decision-making procedures when deciding whether to give consent. The Senate is set up to make wise decisions by following a procedure that doesn't allow one party with a tiny majority to ignore the general will of the body. To suggest that naming judges to posts that they hold for life is less serious than the normal business of the Senate is dangerous.
And it should definitely be illegal for the media to suggest that John Kerry is supported by more than 1% of the people in Ohio, because that would just create confusion when Diebold's machines correctly report that 99% of the state voted for Bush.
There's nothing to see here, Citizen.
What's your point?
Wait, so the sentiment around here, as you see it, is that sharing copyrighted materials is only ok if they're older than 28 years old, and I can develop a closed-source version of GNU emacs in 2012?
Or did RIAA just start telling people not to buy music from iTunes, et al, because they suddenly decided that they don't want the profits they're getting from downloaded music?
I know, math is hard. But spreading out everyone else's bandwidth usage doesn't help me in any way.