Sorry for the confusion guys! The skeleton found is actually my grandmother who died while hiding in the washer. I tried to dry her out in the dryer, but it only shrank her. Then I tried the microwave...
Maybe. Sort of. It could be something as simple as encrypting your character save with the CRC of the binary that crated it (or something similar). Even if you connect to battle.net, using the legit binary, the save won't decrypt and you are stuck. Sure, this isn't fool proof, but it puts a LOT of worker on the crackers.
The nasty trick in this game is that they offer a free sample... all you do is pay like $1.95 for shipping, which MUST be paid for by credit card. "Not bad" they think. "The worst that could happen is it doesn't work and I'm out a couple of dollars" they say. Sure. It sounds reasonable. By that time, you are already screwed. See, when you open your package of wonder, it comes with an "informational" booklet that is actually more like an advertisement for their other products. Almost everyone just throws it out. But in the middle of the 13th page, between two paragraphs that have nothing to do with it, is a statement saying "By ordering this sample, you agree to become part of an automatic plan in which we send you a new supply every month and charge your credit card. If you do not agree to this, you must cancel this agreement by calling 1-800-Screwed-U"
A lot of this seems like a dramatic embellishment. It isn't. Obviously the quotes aren't exact and the phone number isn't really what I listed (explanation for the humor impaired), this is how it works. By the time you realize that you are on some automatic plan to get crap that didn't do as advertised in the first place, they have already charged you for two months supply. And you can not return it under any circumstances.
Disclaimer: I worked with a guy that sued Berkeley Nutraceuticals.
They might have refused because they didn't want the person on whom they were serving a warrant to call up their lawyer and have him hover over the officers' shoulder to make sure they didn't overstep the bounds of the warrant.
Regardless if the claims hold merit, there is only one direction the shit will flow. People will quit reserving booths for these shows. Manufacturers will go outside of Germany. Then... what are you left with? Nothing being made in Germany, and no one wanting to exhibit their wares there either.
It happens at times that real loonies come to believe they have done things that they really haven't done. Sometimes very convincingly. The deal was there because for a sure conviction, they needed him to roll on himself. 15 is better than nothing for someone of this caliber.
What complete nonsense. You claim science isn't impartial... show me something... ANYTHING. Show it to me. And to make your point to be more than a troll, show me how said example is encompassing of the bias of science.
Because evolution teaches what science has concluded with all of the current evidence that they have. Creationism is a one sides, faith based approach to explaining the universes origin. You have to throw logic out the window. You have to believe that there is a God. And not just any god. It has to be an all knowing, all powerful God who looks out for human beings because he is a good god.
So not only is it an attempt at religious brainwashing, they are targeting a very specific religious belief system too.
Yes and no. I think it is entirely more likely that life inside our solar system shared a common past at some point, than it is for life to just so happened to form completely independent of one another.
If life happened to form in two different places, independently, within our solar system, either we hit the cosmic jackpot, or life is much easier to form than we ever thought possible. And if that is the case, then through the vast amounts of universe that there is, we would have seen SOMETHING SOMEWHERE from a more intelligent race. After all, we can't be the only beings that would be sending/looking for extraterrestrial signals, could we?
It just seems to me, that it is more probable that if life isn't plentiful and easy to form, that finding life somewhere else in our own back yard means that we came from the same origin.
It gives you the munchies, makes you paranoid, and makes you giggle every time someone says "420" but it doesn't make you better at HaloDo you know what you are saying here? That black people love fried chicken and will steal my TV, that Mexicans will steal my job and eat lots of tacos, and that all Gays use Macs.
It is a sweeping blanket statement that comes from uninformed bigotry. I've never had the munchies, I've never gotten paranoid, and I certainly don't giggle. Neither has anyone else that I have had a smoking experience with. These are horribly inaccurate stereotypes thrown out there to make it seem like Marijuana being illegal is less ridiculous than it really is.
Sure, it has its undesirable side effects. So does drinking too much coffee. And to say that there can't possibly be any good effects from pot are only spoken by the sheep. The problem ultimately is, only the people who smoke will know what they are... because people like you have your mind made up, and nothing in the world can change it.
This is one of those cases where, people writing the articles on "The effects of Cannabis", probably have no real experience with it. This isn't a troll, or some crazy delusion. Just follow me for a second.
Cannabis can certainly be beneficial in not only "gaming", but anything where there is undo pressure on you. The calming effect on your nerves, on your racing mind, on your anxiety can potentially be much more of a positive than the "bad side effects" are negative.
You know what is funny. You assume because I am aware of the gross amount of unnatural additives to my meal that I am of the obese category. Sorry pal. I'm not speaking up because I am part of that team. I am speaking up because it is ridiculous, regardless who you are or how big you are.
While I generally agree with you, there is something that needs to be added:
Have you ever looked at the food at the disposal of the average american? Let's eliminate junk food from this discussion. First, let's focus on... Apple Juice. Looking at my 16oz bottle (two servings by the way), it has 44g of SUGARS per serving. That is 88g of SUGARS for the whole bottle. That is 1/3 of my days sugar that I am supposed to be having. Also, how much fluid do you think I am going to drink today? Now lets take a look at the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich I brought in today. Assuming that I can actually spread one service of Jelly onto my bread without needing special engineering tools, that is another 37g of sugars.
So for my snack (a sandwich and a bottle of apple juice is nowhere near a whole meal), I have consumed 125g of sugars, or almost HALF of what I should have for the day. This doesn't even address the fat content I have consumed.
It isn't JUST overeating anymore. It has gotten to the point where even the good things for you are bad for you. Your only recourse is to eat polystyrene and drink water, or join Walmart America.
C++? Isn't that dead and buried? Bjorne created one interesting thing in his life and he is hell bent on keeping it alive--after Java and C# have buried it. Anyone ever tried to get a C++ job? They are few and far between.
Maybe if you are the kind of programmer/developer that endlessly creates one-off database front end applications, this is true. C/C++ jobs are not hard to find at all. They just have a different target than you are apparently willing to work with. Try analytics. Try custom driver development.
I was talking to some friends about this recently... there is an expectation (at least in the USoA culture) that when you love someone, you marry them and you stay married and live happily ever after. The problem is, most people don't actually want that. They think they do because they have been told that is how it is. Everyone wants the happily ever after, but when it comes to marriage/monogamy, it isn't everyones way to get there.
The fact of the matter is, IPv6 is a solution looking for a problem. With IP shortages and the ease of NAT/PAT, most entities realized they don't need a whole block of IP addresses. Most of the time, one suffices. Else, a block of 8 almost always fits everyones needs. It is like trying to solve Y3K problems 992 years before we need to actually worry about it.
Also, most of the world is using Windows XP. Can you show me where in my TCP/IP settings panel I am supposed to enter my IPv6 information? Exactly.
What I don't really understand, is by default for the NT line of Windows (as far back as I can remember it) was to dump a log and reboot on such an exception. And even if this wasn't the case, surely you would rather the computer be in an endless reboot cycle (remove the loading screen too) rather than have a projected blue screen for everyone to see you are having problems. That way it looks like the "machine is on the fritz" which people can accept more than "Look, they used Windows and look where it got them... fools!"
Yes and No. WINE has a very nice implementation of DirectX 9 that seems to run my games very bloody well. And no, I am not using real windows binaries.
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Sorry for the confusion guys! The skeleton found is actually my grandmother who died while hiding in the washer. I tried to dry her out in the dryer, but it only shrank her. Then I tried the microwave...
Maybe. Sort of. It could be something as simple as encrypting your character save with the CRC of the binary that crated it (or something similar). Even if you connect to battle.net, using the legit binary, the save won't decrypt and you are stuck. Sure, this isn't fool proof, but it puts a LOT of worker on the crackers.
I think we could use more of those today - law enforcement devoted to tracking down leads on swindlers for the public interest
Sorry man. Those resource are gone... to fight the war on drugs.
Because things like these aren't drugs. They are "Vitamins" which claims of effects have not been "evaluated by the FDA".
The nasty trick in this game is that they offer a free sample... all you do is pay like $1.95 for shipping, which MUST be paid for by credit card. "Not bad" they think. "The worst that could happen is it doesn't work and I'm out a couple of dollars" they say. Sure. It sounds reasonable. By that time, you are already screwed. See, when you open your package of wonder, it comes with an "informational" booklet that is actually more like an advertisement for their other products. Almost everyone just throws it out. But in the middle of the 13th page, between two paragraphs that have nothing to do with it, is a statement saying "By ordering this sample, you agree to become part of an automatic plan in which we send you a new supply every month and charge your credit card. If you do not agree to this, you must cancel this agreement by calling 1-800-Screwed-U"
A lot of this seems like a dramatic embellishment. It isn't. Obviously the quotes aren't exact and the phone number isn't really what I listed (explanation for the humor impaired), this is how it works. By the time you realize that you are on some automatic plan to get crap that didn't do as advertised in the first place, they have already charged you for two months supply. And you can not return it under any circumstances.
Disclaimer: I worked with a guy that sued Berkeley Nutraceuticals.
They might have refused because they didn't want the person on whom they were serving a warrant to call up their lawyer and have him hover over the officers' shoulder to make sure they didn't overstep the bounds of the warrant.
TOUGH SHIT.
Regardless if the claims hold merit, there is only one direction the shit will flow. People will quit reserving booths for these shows. Manufacturers will go outside of Germany. Then... what are you left with? Nothing being made in Germany, and no one wanting to exhibit their wares there either.
But the thing is, we're still a bunch of waring bald monkeys that has to have our territory and that includes space.
We're hairless apes, not monkeys
Nothing to see here. Gumstix has been around for quite a while, and their stuff is cheaper... and more useful.
It happens at times that real loonies come to believe they have done things that they really haven't done. Sometimes very convincingly. The deal was there because for a sure conviction, they needed him to roll on himself. 15 is better than nothing for someone of this caliber.
Worst. Retort. Ever.
You pretty much lumped Science as a whole with Philosophy because they both start out as ideas. Way to go. Ice Cream is the same as Sorbet too.
What complete nonsense. You claim science isn't impartial... show me something... ANYTHING. Show it to me. And to make your point to be more than a troll, show me how said example is encompassing of the bias of science.
Because evolution teaches what science has concluded with all of the current evidence that they have. Creationism is a one sides, faith based approach to explaining the universes origin. You have to throw logic out the window. You have to believe that there is a God. And not just any god. It has to be an all knowing, all powerful God who looks out for human beings because he is a good god.
So not only is it an attempt at religious brainwashing, they are targeting a very specific religious belief system too.
Yes and no. I think it is entirely more likely that life inside our solar system shared a common past at some point, than it is for life to just so happened to form completely independent of one another.
If life happened to form in two different places, independently, within our solar system, either we hit the cosmic jackpot, or life is much easier to form than we ever thought possible. And if that is the case, then through the vast amounts of universe that there is, we would have seen SOMETHING SOMEWHERE from a more intelligent race. After all, we can't be the only beings that would be sending/looking for extraterrestrial signals, could we?
It just seems to me, that it is more probable that if life isn't plentiful and easy to form, that finding life somewhere else in our own back yard means that we came from the same origin.
It gives you the munchies, makes you paranoid, and makes you giggle every time someone says "420" but it doesn't make you better at HaloDo you know what you are saying here? That black people love fried chicken and will steal my TV, that Mexicans will steal my job and eat lots of tacos, and that all Gays use Macs.
It is a sweeping blanket statement that comes from uninformed bigotry. I've never had the munchies, I've never gotten paranoid, and I certainly don't giggle. Neither has anyone else that I have had a smoking experience with. These are horribly inaccurate stereotypes thrown out there to make it seem like Marijuana being illegal is less ridiculous than it really is.
Sure, it has its undesirable side effects. So does drinking too much coffee. And to say that there can't possibly be any good effects from pot are only spoken by the sheep. The problem ultimately is, only the people who smoke will know what they are... because people like you have your mind made up, and nothing in the world can change it.
This is one of those cases where, people writing the articles on "The effects of Cannabis", probably have no real experience with it. This isn't a troll, or some crazy delusion. Just follow me for a second.
Cannabis can certainly be beneficial in not only "gaming", but anything where there is undo pressure on you. The calming effect on your nerves, on your racing mind, on your anxiety can potentially be much more of a positive than the "bad side effects" are negative.
Don't believe the propaganda.
You know what is funny. You assume because I am aware of the gross amount of unnatural additives to my meal that I am of the obese category. Sorry pal. I'm not speaking up because I am part of that team. I am speaking up because it is ridiculous, regardless who you are or how big you are.
While I generally agree with you, there is something that needs to be added:
Have you ever looked at the food at the disposal of the average american? Let's eliminate junk food from this discussion. First, let's focus on... Apple Juice. Looking at my 16oz bottle (two servings by the way), it has 44g of SUGARS per serving. That is 88g of SUGARS for the whole bottle. That is 1/3 of my days sugar that I am supposed to be having. Also, how much fluid do you think I am going to drink today? Now lets take a look at the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich I brought in today. Assuming that I can actually spread one service of Jelly onto my bread without needing special engineering tools, that is another 37g of sugars.
So for my snack (a sandwich and a bottle of apple juice is nowhere near a whole meal), I have consumed 125g of sugars, or almost HALF of what I should have for the day. This doesn't even address the fat content I have consumed.
It isn't JUST overeating anymore. It has gotten to the point where even the good things for you are bad for you. Your only recourse is to eat polystyrene and drink water, or join Walmart America.
I am a jerk, you insensitive clod!
C++? Isn't that dead and buried? Bjorne created one interesting thing in his life and he is hell bent on keeping it alive--after Java and C# have buried it. Anyone ever tried to get a C++ job? They are few and far between.
Maybe if you are the kind of programmer/developer that endlessly creates one-off database front end applications, this is true. C/C++ jobs are not hard to find at all. They just have a different target than you are apparently willing to work with. Try analytics. Try custom driver development.
I was talking to some friends about this recently... there is an expectation (at least in the USoA culture) that when you love someone, you marry them and you stay married and live happily ever after. The problem is, most people don't actually want that. They think they do because they have been told that is how it is. Everyone wants the happily ever after, but when it comes to marriage/monogamy, it isn't everyones way to get there.
The fact of the matter is, IPv6 is a solution looking for a problem. With IP shortages and the ease of NAT/PAT, most entities realized they don't need a whole block of IP addresses. Most of the time, one suffices. Else, a block of 8 almost always fits everyones needs. It is like trying to solve Y3K problems 992 years before we need to actually worry about it.
Also, most of the world is using Windows XP. Can you show me where in my TCP/IP settings panel I am supposed to enter my IPv6 information? Exactly.
The United States is not going to be doing shit in this area, any more than the British, the French, the Spanish or the Romans are.
I have a gweat fwiend in WOME named.... Biggus................... DICKUS.
What I don't really understand, is by default for the NT line of Windows (as far back as I can remember it) was to dump a log and reboot on such an exception. And even if this wasn't the case, surely you would rather the computer be in an endless reboot cycle (remove the loading screen too) rather than have a projected blue screen for everyone to see you are having problems. That way it looks like the "machine is on the fritz" which people can accept more than "Look, they used Windows and look where it got them... fools!"
Yes and No. WINE has a very nice implementation of DirectX 9 that seems to run my games very bloody well. And no, I am not using real windows binaries.