Plus, the worst case scenario assumed that generation intermarried with pure chinese DNA, and if they settled down in a community there might have been a relatively low rate of leakage... perhaps the differences even helped, the only children who could leave the village with no stigma were the "normal" ones... just a passing idea.
Actually, a company called cachelogic already exists that does this - they sell boxes that cache bittorrent blocks, emule blocks, etc. Legally they're fine because the cache doesn't care about the contents, doesn't keep them in order, and there's no obvious way to get files out of it. I'm not sure about the details. Disclaimer, a mate of mine worked there one summer.
Got it in one. I know they do, but they load slower:(. Anyway, point is I'm in the KDE user demo, so I *don't* play toy desktop games very often. I'm usually wine-ing up steam or deus ex or firing up UT2K4, you know?
As a 6 month gnome user and semi-power user who's recently switched to KDE, I can actually say that the desktop games are about the only thing that I feel was superior. Probably reflects the way that gnome is going, I suppose.
I'm not picking sides, it's just that KDE is genuinely better *for me*. I'd of course stick parents, mac converts, etc on gnome in an instant. And I won't recommend what I don't use, so I guess I'll be spending half and half from now on...
It would be amusing if the US government decided that since the RIAA is so fond of charging $150,000 damages, that sales tax on CDs and downloads should use $150,000 as the price and take 1 or 2% of that instead.
Here in the UK, doubling the performance per volume could be a very good thing - given that engines over a certain capacity are taxed more. Though I suppose that'd change.
I can personally attest to the thin-ass screen on a 14" black and white monitor from goodness-knows-how-long-ago being quite resilient.
It came time to dispose of "ol greener", so I did the only sensible thing: put it face-up in a dustbin and dropped bricks on it. Took quite a few, and then the tube just cracked and slowly filled with air. A wiimote? please.
for "support" read "liability when it all breaks". That's what linux support is really all about. Would you want to be a technician personally responsible for downtime and several million of lost sales? Your bosses won't let it happen, because obviously you can't pay it back.
What company on the planet DOESN'T use existing sales dollars to create and subsidize new products?
companies prevented from doing so by anti-monopoly laws? They're grossly undercutting other options in order to tie indie games to thier platform.
The biggest problem with microsoft is that there are no analogies. No other company, process, or idea has the kind of staggering monopoly they do.
Oh, and I checked ribond's history. He says some things which worm into your head, like this one, but I don't think there's enough volume to effectively actually be a paid shill, probably more like a misguided MS employee. And he uses a DS, so he can't be all bad:)
DNRTFA, but I think he means that unless britain takes the planes (without source code), then they have to fill in forms and wait 20 days for some place to be bombed. Hardly a strike force.
That logic assumes that you pick employees by complete random selection from the entire population of a city. If, instead of taking the per capita crime rate, you consider crimes committed by people who can muster a suit and tie and can read/write/file TPS reports (e.g. pass the first 10 seconds of an interview), you'd perhaps find a totally different statistic.
No, if he was a criminal he'd have kept it quiet and sold it. How do we know a criminal's version of this scheme wasn't already running? We don't, but we know that now it won't work. For every security researcher there are 3 self-serving fiscally-motivated elitist assholes and it is the security researcher's moral obligation to practice full disclosure (after giving the company notice and time to fix the hole).
Perhaps part of the google ethos and internal structure is aimed at reducing competition from former employees - the sorts of pressures that drive people to break away are diminished, with the 20% project time and a good chance of whatever you're working on becoming a proper google beta. Of course, people that just have a drive to be the boss of the boss's boss will still form companies, perhaps they are eliminated at interview?
Individual particles in the tevatron have only 980 GeV of energy, giving a total collision energy of only 2TeV, compared to the LHC's 14. That energy is only for the collision of protons, though, and the LHC can take much more massive nuclei, giving a total of 1,150TeV. Scraping the bottom of the terascale range from 1-2 is not the same as exploring it from 1 TeV to just over 1 PeV.
There was supposed to be a certain pressure above which people didn't even need that sort of suit, but I think it's higher than the current mars atmosphere. These pressure suits are just jumped-up spandex.
point is, it's kind of hard to smooth over this and handwave. With, say, 1 vote out on a vote of 40/80, nobody will know for sure. With this guy, we know something's fishy. The voting machine company just got caught balls-deep in apple pie, so to speak.
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Plus, the worst case scenario assumed that generation intermarried with pure chinese DNA, and if they settled down in a community there might have been a relatively low rate of leakage... perhaps the differences even helped, the only children who could leave the village with no stigma were the "normal" ones... just a passing idea.
Actually, a company called cachelogic already exists that does this - they sell boxes that cache bittorrent blocks, emule blocks, etc. Legally they're fine because the cache doesn't care about the contents, doesn't keep them in order, and there's no obvious way to get files out of it. I'm not sure about the details. Disclaimer, a mate of mine worked there one summer.
You'd rather the consoles were bought by people who'd spend the extra $300 on games. Why manufacture more if half of them will never break even?
Well, the game "rogue trooper" handles this pretty well, in that bodies stay indefinitely until you harvest so-called "salvage points" from them.
Got it in one. I know they do, but they load slower :(. Anyway, point is I'm in the KDE user demo, so I *don't* play toy desktop games very often. I'm usually wine-ing up steam or deus ex or firing up UT2K4, you know?
As a 6 month gnome user and semi-power user who's recently switched to KDE, I can actually say that the desktop games are about the only thing that I feel was superior. Probably reflects the way that gnome is going, I suppose.
I'm not picking sides, it's just that KDE is genuinely better *for me*. I'd of course stick parents, mac converts, etc on gnome in an instant. And I won't recommend what I don't use, so I guess I'll be spending half and half from now on...
It would be amusing if the US government decided that since the RIAA is so fond of charging $150,000 damages, that sales tax on CDs and downloads should use $150,000 as the price and take 1 or 2% of that instead.
Here in the UK, doubling the performance per volume could be a very good thing - given that engines over a certain capacity are taxed more. Though I suppose that'd change.
he believes that if you power something, such as a car, with a battery and use said device to recharge the battery, it will run forever
Nitpick: if the car was electric, then yes, that's retarded. However, this is the norm for petrol or diesel powered cars.
A fume hood. Trust me.
If you're paranoid, you might also want a small closable metal closet to keep chemicals in, maybe fireproof.
Of course, in these days of rampant terrorism, any interest in chemistry will get you flagged on a watchlist, so you might just do without
I can personally attest to the thin-ass screen on a 14" black and white monitor from goodness-knows-how-long-ago being quite resilient.
It came time to dispose of "ol greener", so I did the only sensible thing: put it face-up in a dustbin and dropped bricks on it. Took quite a few, and then the tube just cracked and slowly filled with air. A wiimote? please.
for "support" read "liability when it all breaks". That's what linux support is really all about. Would you want to be a technician personally responsible for downtime and several million of lost sales? Your bosses won't let it happen, because obviously you can't pay it back.
Try this explanation
before anyone makes a whooshing noise, I just think the comic is funny and appropriate.
companies prevented from doing so by anti-monopoly laws? They're grossly undercutting other options in order to tie indie games to thier platform.
The biggest problem with microsoft is that there are no analogies. No other company, process, or idea has the kind of staggering monopoly they do.
Oh, and I checked ribond's history. He says some things which worm into your head, like this one, but I don't think there's enough volume to effectively actually be a paid shill, probably more like a misguided MS employee. And he uses a DS, so he can't be all bad :)
DNRTFA, but I think he means that unless britain takes the planes (without source code), then they have to fill in forms and wait 20 days for some place to be bombed. Hardly a strike force.
using it on regular dvds might be like the days of hole-punching 720k floppies.
That logic assumes that you pick employees by complete random selection from the entire population of a city. If, instead of taking the per capita crime rate, you consider crimes committed by people who can muster a suit and tie and can read/write/file TPS reports (e.g. pass the first 10 seconds of an interview), you'd perhaps find a totally different statistic.
No, if he was a criminal he'd have kept it quiet and sold it. How do we know a criminal's version of this scheme wasn't already running? We don't, but we know that now it won't work. For every security researcher there are 3 self-serving fiscally-motivated elitist assholes and it is the security researcher's moral obligation to practice full disclosure (after giving the company notice and time to fix the hole).
Perhaps part of the google ethos and internal structure is aimed at reducing competition from former employees - the sorts of pressures that drive people to break away are diminished, with the 20% project time and a good chance of whatever you're working on becoming a proper google beta. Of course, people that just have a drive to be the boss of the boss's boss will still form companies, perhaps they are eliminated at interview?
The last time something called the rickenbacker got involved in space travel, she got involved.
Individual particles in the tevatron have only 980 GeV of energy, giving a total collision energy of only 2TeV, compared to the LHC's 14. That energy is only for the collision of protons, though, and the LHC can take much more massive nuclei, giving a total of 1,150TeV. Scraping the bottom of the terascale range from 1-2 is not the same as exploring it from 1 TeV to just over 1 PeV.
Judging by Microsoft's recent behaviour in europe, they seem to be aiming for the position of "greatest company" by exploiting integer overflow.
There was supposed to be a certain pressure above which people didn't even need that sort of suit, but I think it's higher than the current mars atmosphere. These pressure suits are just jumped-up spandex.
NTFS? Samba? wmv?
point is, it's kind of hard to smooth over this and handwave. With, say, 1 vote out on a vote of 40/80, nobody will know for sure. With this guy, we know something's fishy. The voting machine company just got caught balls-deep in apple pie, so to speak.