Techies have always been strange - for example, consider the average/. reader. Or Richard Stallman.
Another great example of an outlier is the so-called "Spam King", Dale Begg-Smith, who, when not making millions off spam and malware, won two Olympic medals and three World Cup championships in mogul skiing, starting in 2006. If that isn't a bizarre combination of pursuits, I don't know what is.
Not to defend this bozo, but the $10 million "raise" was undoubtedly due to appreciation in his stock options, since AOL stock increased from $5 to $45 in 2013.
Because they hate the EPA and are using this as a pretense to neuter it. There's no way they can provide "reproducible" results to back up many of their rulings - what are they going to do, run a study with one polluted river and one clean one? This is clearly just a smokescreen by the know-nothings on the right, since they have no regard for science otherwise. Fortunately the House can't unilaterally pass legislation - sorry, guys, maybe next week you can repeal the ACA for the fiftieth time instead.
Back around 1980, there were a zillion magazine and newspaper articles around about the shortage of programmers, and about how computer science was the highest-paying thing to go into. The result was a boom in CS enrollment, followed by a glut of incompetent entry-level programmers who really wanted to be rafting guides or something. Once the dust settled there was still somewhat of a shortage, and salaries remained high despite all the telephone-sanitizers who tried to become programmers.
This all has a familiar feel to it.... What the big companies really want right now is cheap programmers, not more programmers. They're clearly hoping that increasing supply will lower their labor costs, whether it's by pushing the "year of code" or by increasing HB-1 visas.
I suspect the passion/dream/obsession/whatever stuff is just another subtle way of accomplishing age discrimination. After all, most people calm down sometime in their 20's or 30's - you know, about the time they start getting expensive to employ.
I won against a number of people with exactly the same (move by move) game
No, you didn't - Carlsen didn't just play e5 Nf6 Ng4 Qh4 and Qxh2 (the basic Scholar's Mate from the black side). This game was nine move pairs, and included Gates playing Bd3 with his queen pawn still on d2 (a seriously weak move). I suspect that when Carlsen saw that move he knew he could just march his knight and queen over and checkmate Gates with no particular effort required. I think Carlsen only used about 10 seconds on his clock (of the 30 seconds he got - Gates got two minutes).
Which is completely different than "POS malware" - note he said the access point. I'm still betting this is an inside job, and one of their central billing computers had a little extra code in it that was sending the info across the net to some holding site.
But with nothing to do behind the wheel 99% of the time your not going to be alert. Your going to be super bored. So when your supposed to take over you won't be prepared to do so.
One way or another these changes will effect PEOPLE, and sitting in Arizona hiding behind your AC is only going to last so long before RESOURCES have to be reallocated for another 50-100 years DIFFERENTLY than they are now.
Or, as Zippy would put it:
Boys, you have ALL been selected to LEAVE th' PLANET in 15 minutes!!
Well, since you can't be troubled to read TFA, here's the second paragraph. tl;dr: Volcanoes.
Research examining the causes of climate change in the northern hemisphere over the past 1000 years has shown that until the year 1800, the key driver of periodic changes in climate was volcanic eruptions.
the taxes can go up even if your property stayed exactly the same just because a bunch of people around you overpaid.
California's state constitution sharply limits increases, the result of the 1978 Proposition 13, or as I've always thought of it, the "make the new guys pay for everything" amendment.
James Howells mined the virtual currency on his laptop in 2009 when it was trading for pennies, but today, one Bitcoin is valued at more than $1000. The hard drive containing this sizeable fortune has been tracked to a landfill in Newport, where it lies buried under four feet of rubbish. However, according to experts, the storage device is pretty much impossible to retrieve.
Perhaps difficult, but not impossible, if somebody is determined. How many people would be willing to sift through garbage for a year looking for a few million bucks?
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Techies have always been strange - for example, consider the average /. reader. Or Richard Stallman.
Another great example of an outlier is the so-called "Spam King", Dale Begg-Smith, who, when not making millions off spam and malware, won two Olympic medals and three World Cup championships in mogul skiing, starting in 2006. If that isn't a bizarre combination of pursuits, I don't know what is.
Because you could upgrade your phone without interrupting the current call?
Not to defend this bozo, but the $10 million "raise" was undoubtedly due to appreciation in his stock options, since AOL stock increased from $5 to $45 in 2013.
Because they hate the EPA and are using this as a pretense to neuter it. There's no way they can provide "reproducible" results to back up many of their rulings - what are they going to do, run a study with one polluted river and one clean one? This is clearly just a smokescreen by the know-nothings on the right, since they have no regard for science otherwise. Fortunately the House can't unilaterally pass legislation - sorry, guys, maybe next week you can repeal the ACA for the fiftieth time instead.
This all has a familiar feel to it.... What the big companies really want right now is cheap programmers, not more programmers. They're clearly hoping that increasing supply will lower their labor costs, whether it's by pushing the "year of code" or by increasing HB-1 visas.
I suspect the passion/dream/obsession/whatever stuff is just another subtle way of accomplishing age discrimination. After all, most people calm down sometime in their 20's or 30's - you know, about the time they start getting expensive to employ.
Well, Clovis, don't keep us hanging - what did happen 11,000 years ago?
I won against a number of people with exactly the same (move by move) game
No, you didn't - Carlsen didn't just play e5 Nf6 Ng4 Qh4 and Qxh2 (the basic Scholar's Mate from the black side). This game was nine move pairs, and included Gates playing Bd3 with his queen pawn still on d2 (a seriously weak move). I suspect that when Carlsen saw that move he knew he could just march his knight and queen over and checkmate Gates with no particular effort required. I think Carlsen only used about 10 seconds on his clock (of the 30 seconds he got - Gates got two minutes).
that really means you are at least +1SD above average IQ, and quite likely +2SD or +3SD.
What's that in Mean Deviations?
VISA just sent us new cards and cancelled our old ones. They didn't specify exactly why, but I shop at Target.
That email "from Target" might be a phish. Careful...
We eliminated the malware in the access point
Which is completely different than "POS malware" - note he said the access point. I'm still betting this is an inside job, and one of their central billing computers had a little extra code in it that was sending the info across the net to some holding site.
Also the length and area of a football field.
But with nothing to do behind the wheel 99% of the time your not going to be alert. Your going to be super bored. So when your supposed to take over you won't be prepared to do so.
You misspelled "wont".
As for who's responsible when a driverless car crashes it will probably be the same as when a dog kills someone, the owner of the dog is responsible.
Except the victims will also sue the manufacturer of the car, and everybody involved in its creation.
One way or another these changes will effect PEOPLE, and sitting in Arizona hiding behind your AC is only going to last so long before RESOURCES have to be reallocated for another 50-100 years DIFFERENTLY than they are now.
Or, as Zippy would put it:
Boys, you have ALL been selected to LEAVE th' PLANET in 15 minutes!!
The means do not always justify the ends.
Or vice-versa.
Any dumbass can do stuff in a GUI, but real BAMFs rock a terminal.
I've always thought of it as the difference between watching TV and reading a book. Try doing this with a GUI:
less `find . -type f -exec grep -il "useful information" {} \;`
They can call it the "Endurance Centennial Reenactment".
Perhaps you should convert to kerosene lanterns. Proven technology, cheap, and less troublesome than those darn electricical thingys.
Research examining the causes of climate change in the northern hemisphere over the past 1000 years has shown that until the year 1800, the key driver of periodic changes in climate was volcanic eruptions.
the taxes can go up even if your property stayed exactly the same just because a bunch of people around you overpaid.
California's state constitution sharply limits increases, the result of the 1978 Proposition 13, or as I've always thought of it, the "make the new guys pay for everything" amendment.
The bad news is that 2 million passwords have been compromised.
The good news is that they're all "123456".
There's also the fear of prison. These things will be transmitting live video feeds back to home base. If they actually existed, that is.
What value is there in having a low limit on password lengths?
When they store it in clear text on a laptop, it takes up less disk space.
James Howells mined the virtual currency on his laptop in 2009 when it was trading for pennies, but today, one Bitcoin is valued at more than $1000. The hard drive containing this sizeable fortune has been tracked to a landfill in Newport, where it lies buried under four feet of rubbish. However, according to experts, the storage device is pretty much impossible to retrieve.
Perhaps difficult, but not impossible, if somebody is determined. How many people would be willing to sift through garbage for a year looking for a few million bucks?