I'll agree with you on the dotcom bubble. AOL may be a bad example. AOL managed to rack up enough money to buy Time Warner before being spun back off as a stand alone company again years later so stock value doesn't tell the whole story. Smart move to take the hyped stock value to buy real assets. Sure even Time Warner said it was a bad idea but they're still around. It wasn't a crash and burn the likes of webvan or PETS.com or all the other huge chunks of money thrown away.
Nerds shouldn't have groupthink.. that'd be a boring way to solve interesting problems.
I mean besides the obvious ones including Natalie Portman and Han Shot First, etc.
Although I'm sure someone has already written a dissertation somewhere on how Han shooting first is a nice allegory of Star Wars having a libertarian basis to the right to bear arms. In fact the whole story could be seen as the evil government's fight to keep a simple lightsaber out of the hands of the common folk. Of course there were many ways to cause violence - blasters, death stars, AT-AT stomping on people into the ice, AT-STs destroying indigenous species - but the outlawing of a lightsaber was the last straw before the people rebelled against too much authoritarian power.
Only 10X the cost? The latest Time magazine was devoted to Health Care in the US. Most of it was bringing to light the huge overbillings done for nearly everything. We'd probably see a 25x or 50x cost to this.
I'm an Android user. I prefer the faster tech enhancements and the being able to do lower level things as a programmer without worrying that if it's not an officially supposed IOS call it may not be usable in the future. With that said I will say Apple forcing their system on the phone companies is impressive.
NFC would be great on Android for payments but we're stuck with cell phone providers deciding what is best. Verizon disabled Google Wallet because they jumped on their own NFC payment scheme ISIS. What pisses me off is I have an Android Nexus - supposedly the flagship smartphone - and a feature was disabled on it. So much for flagships. As far as I know Sprint is the only one still allowing Google Wallet. If Apple ever gets around to supporting NFC I'm sure they won't allow cell providers to disable an Apple payment with NFC.
I think it matters how long term the outage is. The Northeast cascade power failure in 2003 was partly due to a software bugand would have been devastating if it was below freezing. 55 million people without heat is a huge number. Even if there weren't many deaths the economic damage would be tremendous from just the water pipes freezing and bursting. Yeah we're used to small scale outages with heavy snows or ice but not anything on that scale. If an entire region could be shut down for say a week things would take a long time to be back to normal.
/. discussed this back in Nov.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/23/2312205/anonymous-file-sharing-darknet-ruled-illegal-by-german-court
"A court in Hamburg, Germany, has granted an injunction against a user of the anonymous and encrypted file-sharing network RetroShare. RetroShare users exchange data through encrypted transfers and the network setup ensures that the true sender of the file is always obfuscated. The court, however, has now ruled that RetroShare users who act as an exit node are liable for the encrypted traffic that's sent by others."
We'll never know. The network that made Stargates decided to stop making Science Fiction and instead just shows wrestling and whatever else constitutes sy fy.
I saw an article that a Google founder's mother has Parkinsons and that he carries a mutated gene that gives him a higher chance to get it. If anyone is going to use their fortunes to find a way to reprogram the human body to cure diseases I'd bet on him.
I was surprised to see wakanda exists. At first the thought of all client and server side being in javascript struck me as loony. But they do have some interesting demos. Honestly haven't dug into it extensively and it may not be applicable in the real world. The trials I did with it made the typical AJAX things surprisingly easy. Anyone on/. happen to use it in the real world?
Now that you mention it and seeing the wiki I vaguely recall it. I think those years of South Park being overly preachy just made me lose whatever memory I had of most South Park. Oddly enough the prequels didn't make me lose stars wars trivia. Those formed at a younger age and are deeply embedded.
I'm in Michigan and well over a decade ago a push was put in for a high speed rail between Chicago and Detroit. The local city had small streets with rail crossings closed, nice fencing was put along the rails in the city. It was part of the push to be one of the possible stops along the way. Still no fast trains. I mean sure who would want to go to detroit.. maybe leaving it fast makes sense. But plenty of reasons to go to Chicago. Still way slower than driving. Also very pricey.
The south shore line goes from Chicago and ends at the South Bend airport with a few stops along the way. That is also a very slow ride, is packed, and is no more than a slow people mover. The last time I rode it was for a nephew to get a boy scout thing for riding a train. That will be the last time I ride it since driving would have been cheaper, and faster.
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I'll agree with you on the dotcom bubble. AOL may be a bad example. AOL managed to rack up enough money to buy Time Warner before being spun back off as a stand alone company again years later so stock value doesn't tell the whole story. Smart move to take the hyped stock value to buy real assets. Sure even Time Warner said it was a bad idea but they're still around. It wasn't a crash and burn the likes of webvan or PETS.com or all the other huge chunks of money thrown away.
A Doc who deliberately exposed himself to a bug for acute gastic illness earned himself a Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Nerds shouldn't have groupthink.. that'd be a boring way to solve interesting problems.
I mean besides the obvious ones including Natalie Portman and Han Shot First, etc.
Although I'm sure someone has already written a dissertation somewhere on how Han shooting first is a nice allegory of Star Wars having a libertarian basis to the right to bear arms. In fact the whole story could be seen as the evil government's fight to keep a simple lightsaber out of the hands of the common folk. Of course there were many ways to cause violence - blasters, death stars, AT-AT stomping on people into the ice, AT-STs destroying indigenous species - but the outlawing of a lightsaber was the last straw before the people rebelled against too much authoritarian power.
So we go from a 1.7 trillion additional deficit to only a 1.6 trillion deficit over the next decade. Ooh ahh.
Only 10X the cost? The latest Time magazine was devoted to Health Care in the US. Most of it was bringing to light the huge overbillings done for nearly everything. We'd probably see a 25x or 50x cost to this.
Sneaky, devious, and techy. Out of all the answers I've seen I think yours is the best geek answer.
The sandpeople sniping pod racers was the best part of the whole movie. At least that's the scene I remember from watching it once.
Silly robots must not have known : " The slow blade penetrates the shield"
I'm an Android user. I prefer the faster tech enhancements and the being able to do lower level things as a programmer without worrying that if it's not an officially supposed IOS call it may not be usable in the future. With that said I will say Apple forcing their system on the phone companies is impressive.
NFC would be great on Android for payments but we're stuck with cell phone providers deciding what is best. Verizon disabled Google Wallet because they jumped on their own NFC payment scheme ISIS. What pisses me off is I have an Android Nexus - supposedly the flagship smartphone - and a feature was disabled on it. So much for flagships. As far as I know Sprint is the only one still allowing Google Wallet. If Apple ever gets around to supporting NFC I'm sure they won't allow cell providers to disable an Apple payment with NFC.
Mixing up Trek with Kardashians? Although alien mind control would explain how they're famous.
Already been done. It's called gnome 3
Someone at MS is going to read that and want to revive Clippy and put it into their enterprise products.
I think it matters how long term the outage is. The Northeast cascade power failure in 2003 was partly due to a software bugand would have been devastating if it was below freezing. 55 million people without heat is a huge number. Even if there weren't many deaths the economic damage would be tremendous from just the water pipes freezing and bursting. Yeah we're used to small scale outages with heavy snows or ice but not anything on that scale. If an entire region could be shut down for say a week things would take a long time to be back to normal.
/. discussed this back in Nov. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/23/2312205/anonymous-file-sharing-darknet-ruled-illegal-by-german-court "A court in Hamburg, Germany, has granted an injunction against a user of the anonymous and encrypted file-sharing network RetroShare. RetroShare users exchange data through encrypted transfers and the network setup ensures that the true sender of the file is always obfuscated. The court, however, has now ruled that RetroShare users who act as an exit node are liable for the encrypted traffic that's sent by others."
You're absolutely right on your suggestions. I have crossfire Radeon 6970s and I'm CPU bound on Planetside 2 with my phenom II x4 AMD chip.
We'll never know. The network that made Stargates decided to stop making Science Fiction and instead just shows wrestling and whatever else constitutes sy fy.
I saw an article that a Google founder's mother has Parkinsons and that he carries a mutated gene that gives him a higher chance to get it. If anyone is going to use their fortunes to find a way to reprogram the human body to cure diseases I'd bet on him.
I don't see anything on intrade concerning Dell.
The golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules.
I was surprised to see wakanda exists. At first the thought of all client and server side being in javascript struck me as loony. But they do have some interesting demos. Honestly haven't dug into it extensively and it may not be applicable in the real world. The trials I did with it made the typical AJAX things surprisingly easy. Anyone on /. happen to use it in the real world?
Now that you mention it and seeing the wiki I vaguely recall it. I think those years of South Park being overly preachy just made me lose whatever memory I had of most South Park. Oddly enough the prequels didn't make me lose stars wars trivia. Those formed at a younger age and are deeply embedded.
Maybe it's an old geek with memory probs? After all originally there were going to be Wookies on Endor but after rewrites the Ewoks showed up.
I'm in Michigan and well over a decade ago a push was put in for a high speed rail between Chicago and Detroit. The local city had small streets with rail crossings closed, nice fencing was put along the rails in the city. It was part of the push to be one of the possible stops along the way. Still no fast trains. I mean sure who would want to go to detroit.. maybe leaving it fast makes sense. But plenty of reasons to go to Chicago. Still way slower than driving. Also very pricey.
The south shore line goes from Chicago and ends at the South Bend airport with a few stops along the way. That is also a very slow ride, is packed, and is no more than a slow people mover. The last time I rode it was for a nephew to get a boy scout thing for riding a train. That will be the last time I ride it since driving would have been cheaper, and faster.
Don't porn movies have to list actors on file? Where's the interactive map for this?
As a kid toilet cleaner and aluminum foil in a bottle was an instant hit after a certain MacGyver episode.
The brief article doesn't say if a warrant was issues. Did the police just bully the mom into opening up the door and letting them search?