Oh my god - EverQuest had the bazaar model figured out like 12 years ago! Central list where you look up who has what and at what prices then worst case you have to hunt around a little to find the exact trader. I heard that they started allowing offline traders over there a year or two back (finally). To see such a regression is..troubling. I mean surely some people on staff played a few other MMO's out there to see what worked well and what didn't?
Is this from the same group that gets all up in arms when Christians try to shove their beliefs down other people's throats? How is trying to change the beliefs and mores of the gaming community any different? You're still trying to change who they are to better suit you.
Okay, generally insightful and well put. But I need to point out that the Hague Convention prohibits hollow point bullets in warfare and as such they are certainly not military rounds. Also, vastly more rounds of ammo are expended in practice, training, and re-certification exams than will ever be shot at live targets. I would be surprised if DHS and all its agents used less than a billion rounds of ammo a year - 99+% of which would be shot at paper targets.
Don't use your work laptop for personal things at work. Simple, problem solved. Use your phone, tablet, personal computer+hotspot, whatever, just don't use company resources on company time to deal with personal things. Or if you do accept any possible consequences.
Exactly. This is how you do a transparent proxy with SSL. It doesn't mean that data is being stored somewhere, it just means you're taking reasonable precautions to protect against malware/spam/internet threats. Yes, you theoretically *could* use this to sniff passwords and stuff, I guess, but that would just open up all kinds of liabilities. The easiest and cheapest thing is to discard the data once it's passed inspection. That's what most of these devices do.
Look, I support vaccinations and all, but you really have to give people the right to raise their kids as they see fit. There can be no regulation or rule that will apply to 100% of the population with success. Especially when it comes to such a widely unique spread as you find with children. Even among siblings what worked for raising one of them is utterly destructive when you attempt to apply it to the other. Parenting is a highly individualized activity, and beyond certain basic guidelines, you really want to leave it up to the parents.
I agree, bucket sort is the easiest for me to implement. Especially if there's a large amount of items. Once it gets down to a smaller collection I typically implement a variation on bubblesort on the vastly smaller piles. Unless I know it's already nearly sorted (as with stacked bills, oldest on the bottom), then I do an insertion sort to get the small handful of out of order items into the right places.
People may forget, but originally GMail was invitation only and the tech world was clamoring for invite codes. All kinds of message board threads where people would throw them out there and others would scramble to use it before someone else grabbed it.
This whole thing with Glass reminds me of that. Whip up a furor over Google Glass being "exclusive" but this time around charge $1500 for the privilege. I would be surprised if very many people were being turned down. By now it's feeling more like a marketing campaign.
Hrmm. Two acre-feet of water is about 660,000 gallons. Also, conveniently, right around the volume of an Olympic sized swimming pool. Either your backyard is *enormous* or you've miscalculated the conversion from gallons to acre-feet.
It's actually wrapped back around to advertising. See, they're just trying to camouflage it as "humorous" to get one or two people to think it's funny, haha, cute joke while getting their name out there. The problem is that it's still just advertising. It just requires an extra layer of cynicism to see it for what it is.
Except that if just one byte of any given block is unrecoverable the entire block is unrecoverable. Even 95% would be insufficient to have much statistical chance of recovering a single block of real data. And that is assuming the encryption is 100% trivial to reverse for the NSA or whoever is trying to break into it.
Islam. Though technically they allow peace with another religion as long as the people practicing it wholly submit to their Muslim overlords and pay a tax for the privilege of existing.
I've been trying to tell people this for years (no, not in a serious crackpot physicist way, just a vague pet idea). Should've tried it with a voice synthesizer...
And, oh I don't know, maybe with the backing of an advanced system of mathematics proving the viability of your theory?
Oh that's nice. All a man has to do is sign away his rights/claims and he is no longer responsible. That would be convenient for all the deadbeats out there.
There is no contract without a meeting of the minds and mutual consent. The key here is that the man wanted to sign away all of his parental rights but also (and this is the key point) the lesbian couple wished to assume those rights. Such a contract is not a "get out of jail free" card for deadbeat dads. It would be similar to a mother and father signing away their parental rights in order for a child to be adopted. At that point the state no longer legally considers them parents of the child but the rights and responsibilities of parenthood and assumed by another couple. I think this decision is silly.
Well if you're trying to be 100% equal then you're going to have to subsidize surrogacy for men in same-sex partnerships who want to raise a child. Because having a woman carry your child to term is going to run into the 10's of thousand at least. Because otherwise the state is just trying to prevent same-sex couples from having kids, right? Or we could be rational about this and realize that it's really biology working against them and not some massive conspiracy to outlaw same-sex couples.
It's harder for same-sex couple because they absolutely require outside assistance to have kids. We don't complain about how expensive it is for otherwise infertile heterosexual couples to have kids with medical help because it's a choice the couple makes. Same deal here. Sucks for the guy in this case though. I'd have thought such a contract would be valid and enforceable.
I don't know man at a fever of 101-102F my dreams would make Alice in Wonderland look tame and boring. Around 104F I start tripping major balls in the waking world too (only happened twice, but whoo boy what a trip). I understand that around about 108 is getting into lethal territory, and your immune system can definitely up the thermostat that high trying to fight a major infection. Ice baths aren't just there for the doctors to have fun torturing patients yo.
See, your personal brand of crazy has hijacked the original way GP used it and has taken it to mean people who are clinically insane (or at least having dominant personality defects that prohibit operation in normal society). What GP was talking about was things like quirks, personal outlook/philosophy, and driving motivation. To successfully partner up with someone you need to have strongly similar or complimentary types of that definition of "crazy". Computer geeks tend to pair well with either other computer geeks or else the intelligent extrovert who brings them out of their shell.
We faced the same issue at my workplace. Users were installing it to access their computers from home, oblivious to the fact that this meant anyone with their password could now access their computer from anywhere in the world and shoot right past our firewall. We ended up blocking the IP ranges used by logmein at the firewall. Now we have the fairly serious issue that Microsoft is exclusively using logmein for their remote tech support calls. Switching it to paid might be enough to let us unblock the service again since a lot of users won't bother to pay for it.
Hell, I would just be impressed at the building of an actually accurate progress bar. If it worked like most of them in real life it would run super fast to about 25%, basically stop for 10-15 minutes, progress steadily for about an hour until inexplicably spinning at 70% for another hour and then instantly jump to 100% complete.
Or just do some kind of bog simple test to see how many elements you're sorting. 100 or less? Insertion Sort. More than 100 but still small enough to fit in L1 cache? Heapsort. Bigger than cache allows for? Quicksort time. And conveniently this hybrid algorithm still guarantees O(n*log(n)) run time (assuming you don't frig up your implementation of quicksort by allowing it to pick bad pivots) because Insertion Sort for a fixed number of elements is technically O(1) time.
I recall in Idaho a few years back the federal government was trying to crack down on hunting of gray wolves (which had been thriving a bit *too* well in Idaho) and said that gray wolf hunting would be illegal in Idaho. Idaho's governor basically told the feds to get bent and declined to use any state resources to prosecute wolf hunting. Result? No prosecutions for wolf hunting. It requires a fantastic amount of effort - like deploying the National Guard to enforce desegregation in the south - to enforce the federal government's will on an uncooperative state. It simply isn't done without fairly strong national support. That support is not there for things like wolf hunting and legalized pot.
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Oh my god - EverQuest had the bazaar model figured out like 12 years ago! Central list where you look up who has what and at what prices then worst case you have to hunt around a little to find the exact trader. I heard that they started allowing offline traders over there a year or two back (finally). To see such a regression is..troubling. I mean surely some people on staff played a few other MMO's out there to see what worked well and what didn't?
Is this from the same group that gets all up in arms when Christians try to shove their beliefs down other people's throats? How is trying to change the beliefs and mores of the gaming community any different? You're still trying to change who they are to better suit you.
To neurosurgeons? A fair few I should imagine.
Okay, generally insightful and well put. But I need to point out that the Hague Convention prohibits hollow point bullets in warfare and as such they are certainly not military rounds. Also, vastly more rounds of ammo are expended in practice, training, and re-certification exams than will ever be shot at live targets. I would be surprised if DHS and all its agents used less than a billion rounds of ammo a year - 99+% of which would be shot at paper targets.
Don't use your work laptop for personal things at work. Simple, problem solved. Use your phone, tablet, personal computer+hotspot, whatever, just don't use company resources on company time to deal with personal things. Or if you do accept any possible consequences.
Exactly. This is how you do a transparent proxy with SSL. It doesn't mean that data is being stored somewhere, it just means you're taking reasonable precautions to protect against malware/spam/internet threats. Yes, you theoretically *could* use this to sniff passwords and stuff, I guess, but that would just open up all kinds of liabilities. The easiest and cheapest thing is to discard the data once it's passed inspection. That's what most of these devices do.
Look, I support vaccinations and all, but you really have to give people the right to raise their kids as they see fit. There can be no regulation or rule that will apply to 100% of the population with success. Especially when it comes to such a widely unique spread as you find with children. Even among siblings what worked for raising one of them is utterly destructive when you attempt to apply it to the other. Parenting is a highly individualized activity, and beyond certain basic guidelines, you really want to leave it up to the parents.
I agree, bucket sort is the easiest for me to implement. Especially if there's a large amount of items. Once it gets down to a smaller collection I typically implement a variation on bubblesort on the vastly smaller piles. Unless I know it's already nearly sorted (as with stacked bills, oldest on the bottom), then I do an insertion sort to get the small handful of out of order items into the right places.
People may forget, but originally GMail was invitation only and the tech world was clamoring for invite codes. All kinds of message board threads where people would throw them out there and others would scramble to use it before someone else grabbed it.
This whole thing with Glass reminds me of that. Whip up a furor over Google Glass being "exclusive" but this time around charge $1500 for the privilege. I would be surprised if very many people were being turned down. By now it's feeling more like a marketing campaign.
Hrmm. Two acre-feet of water is about 660,000 gallons. Also, conveniently, right around the volume of an Olympic sized swimming pool. Either your backyard is *enormous* or you've miscalculated the conversion from gallons to acre-feet.
Wasn't Newton all into alchemy in his later years?
It's actually wrapped back around to advertising. See, they're just trying to camouflage it as "humorous" to get one or two people to think it's funny, haha, cute joke while getting their name out there. The problem is that it's still just advertising. It just requires an extra layer of cynicism to see it for what it is.
Except for the environmental toxins that would release, I would agree with you.
What we really need is a local black hole to chuck unwanted devices into. Guaranteed information destruction baby!
Except that if just one byte of any given block is unrecoverable the entire block is unrecoverable. Even 95% would be insufficient to have much statistical chance of recovering a single block of real data. And that is assuming the encryption is 100% trivial to reverse for the NSA or whoever is trying to break into it.
Islam. Though technically they allow peace with another religion as long as the people practicing it wholly submit to their Muslim overlords and pay a tax for the privilege of existing.
I've been trying to tell people this for years (no, not in a serious crackpot physicist way, just a vague pet idea). Should've tried it with a voice synthesizer...
And, oh I don't know, maybe with the backing of an advanced system of mathematics proving the viability of your theory?
Oh that's nice. All a man has to do is sign away his rights/claims and he is no longer responsible. That would be convenient for all the deadbeats out there.
There is no contract without a meeting of the minds and mutual consent. The key here is that the man wanted to sign away all of his parental rights but also (and this is the key point) the lesbian couple wished to assume those rights. Such a contract is not a "get out of jail free" card for deadbeat dads. It would be similar to a mother and father signing away their parental rights in order for a child to be adopted. At that point the state no longer legally considers them parents of the child but the rights and responsibilities of parenthood and assumed by another couple. I think this decision is silly.
Well if you're trying to be 100% equal then you're going to have to subsidize surrogacy for men in same-sex partnerships who want to raise a child. Because having a woman carry your child to term is going to run into the 10's of thousand at least. Because otherwise the state is just trying to prevent same-sex couples from having kids, right? Or we could be rational about this and realize that it's really biology working against them and not some massive conspiracy to outlaw same-sex couples.
It's harder for same-sex couple because they absolutely require outside assistance to have kids. We don't complain about how expensive it is for otherwise infertile heterosexual couples to have kids with medical help because it's a choice the couple makes. Same deal here. Sucks for the guy in this case though. I'd have thought such a contract would be valid and enforceable.
I don't know man at a fever of 101-102F my dreams would make Alice in Wonderland look tame and boring. Around 104F I start tripping major balls in the waking world too (only happened twice, but whoo boy what a trip). I understand that around about 108 is getting into lethal territory, and your immune system can definitely up the thermostat that high trying to fight a major infection. Ice baths aren't just there for the doctors to have fun torturing patients yo.
See, your personal brand of crazy has hijacked the original way GP used it and has taken it to mean people who are clinically insane (or at least having dominant personality defects that prohibit operation in normal society). What GP was talking about was things like quirks, personal outlook/philosophy, and driving motivation. To successfully partner up with someone you need to have strongly similar or complimentary types of that definition of "crazy". Computer geeks tend to pair well with either other computer geeks or else the intelligent extrovert who brings them out of their shell.
We faced the same issue at my workplace. Users were installing it to access their computers from home, oblivious to the fact that this meant anyone with their password could now access their computer from anywhere in the world and shoot right past our firewall. We ended up blocking the IP ranges used by logmein at the firewall. Now we have the fairly serious issue that Microsoft is exclusively using logmein for their remote tech support calls. Switching it to paid might be enough to let us unblock the service again since a lot of users won't bother to pay for it.
Cheap Mexican food causes shitstorms.
Hell, I would just be impressed at the building of an actually accurate progress bar. If it worked like most of them in real life it would run super fast to about 25%, basically stop for 10-15 minutes, progress steadily for about an hour until inexplicably spinning at 70% for another hour and then instantly jump to 100% complete.
Or just do some kind of bog simple test to see how many elements you're sorting. 100 or less? Insertion Sort. More than 100 but still small enough to fit in L1 cache? Heapsort. Bigger than cache allows for? Quicksort time. And conveniently this hybrid algorithm still guarantees O(n*log(n)) run time (assuming you don't frig up your implementation of quicksort by allowing it to pick bad pivots) because Insertion Sort for a fixed number of elements is technically O(1) time.
I recall in Idaho a few years back the federal government was trying to crack down on hunting of gray wolves (which had been thriving a bit *too* well in Idaho) and said that gray wolf hunting would be illegal in Idaho. Idaho's governor basically told the feds to get bent and declined to use any state resources to prosecute wolf hunting. Result? No prosecutions for wolf hunting. It requires a fantastic amount of effort - like deploying the National Guard to enforce desegregation in the south - to enforce the federal government's will on an uncooperative state. It simply isn't done without fairly strong national support. That support is not there for things like wolf hunting and legalized pot.