That's when my son started. He's sixteen now and seems to have suffered no permanaent side effects. In fact he's very discerning in his game tastes these days. He doesn't waste his time unless it's great.
AT&T has actively discouraged third-party developers for all phones since way back in the old Cingular days. Have you ever seen how locked-down the J2ME model is on Cingular/AT&T phones? One cannot connect to bluetooth (at all) unless the app is signed by a Cingular Preferred certificate. Guess how many third-party developers have a pre-existing relationship and/or can get one, to get their app signed? If you guessed that even Google doesn't sign their apps and pays the price in user functionality, you guessed correctly.
well, the data could have been worth $38 billion. What you are saying is that if it had cost only $12 to run Norton and recover it, then it was worth $12. The data is the data, worth what it is worth. The fact that they had to go to the hardcopy backup to recover it doesn't change its value. Value is determined by what someone will pay for it.
There's an old saw that triple-redundant systems are useless, because once the first and second system fails, the third will fail and for the same reason. I guess this story proves that wrong, because it was the third (hardcopy) that saved their bacon.
The point is, technology then was not like it is now. Once the mines in India ran out of the ore that had the specific vanadium taint to it, the "art" was "lost". They didn't know themselves how they were making that wootz.
Looking back in retrospect, it is interesting to see what he thought of as important at the time. It was, in fact, largely the problems that were considered politically important at the time. Now, not so much. He talked about mad cow, the 2000 elections and the partisanship they caused (leading to a civil war), and Waco. None of these are issues even today, never mind in 30 years or whatever. If I were to write something today about how important 9/11 will be in 30 years, I think I will look foolish within 5 years. I doubt we'll care much about 9/11 after... oh wait, I've said too much.
I disagree wholeheartedly. If you assume that humans behave rationally, and make perfect decisions about the information they already know, they would be impossible to beat with AI for now. Since they do not, current computer-based stock-management is working quite well. The parameters are set by humans, and then the computers mindlessly make decisions based on those parameters. This, it turns out, is easier for the computer to do than the actual manager, because he tends to violate his own rules quite often, and suffer for it. There are numerous algorithmic funds already, and more coming every day as they prove to be successful.
Wow. Now I feel like I need to change jobs. I've been at the same one for almost nine years and still have the same 15 days vacation I did when I started. And if I used it all at once, I'd probably be laid off.
I use firefox with it regularly, but I'm not sure how to generate an error message to test the case you are describing. Oh, another benefit is the brick-and-mortar coupons you get with the membership (2 per month). My son uses those to rent games, which almost pays for the service by itself. Also, we only have to watch 3 movies a month to pay for the service, so our paradox of abundance doesn't really exist as long as we make 2 turnarounds.
I too use Blockbuster (thank you for coming out of the closet on that, it made it easier for me), and I am not sure that they don't throttle. Whenever I've been quick to return DVD's, I seem to get the new ones back at about the same time as if I sent them in later. I can never seem to get more than three a week throughput. Also, I used to get a lot of split DVD's. I haven't had this happen in a while, but there is definitely a bigger "unwashed masses" factor with Blockbuster. Also, I've had Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca on the top of my queue since the day I joined perhaps two years ago. Still listed as Very Long Wait. I'll say. Buy another damn copy.
Er, um... radio waves. Not visible to the human eye or any other 4 senses, yet someone with the proper abilities can transmit information to someone across the world!
Yes, and as far as I can tell, all that hooey about buffers describes the current situation. And it is not referring to the consumers but to the distributors. In other words, it is not clear right now that the distributors don't have to license separate copies of the content to provide in their buffers, on separate servers, etc. This law wants to clear that up by giving a blanket license to distrubte (presuming the royalties are paid).
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YEA! student's can't install games on linux! .....
because there aren't any :'(
That's when my son started. He's sixteen now and seems to have suffered no permanaent side effects. In fact he's very discerning in his game tastes these days. He doesn't waste his time unless it's great.
I'm in favor of damaging CS students. More for me.
We have done turnaround in 48 hours before, for stupid mistakes that are clearly more horrible than the fix.
AT&T has actively discouraged third-party developers for all phones since way back in the old Cingular days. Have you ever seen how locked-down the J2ME model is on Cingular/AT&T phones? One cannot connect to bluetooth (at all) unless the app is signed by a Cingular Preferred certificate. Guess how many third-party developers have a pre-existing relationship and/or can get one, to get their app signed? If you guessed that even Google doesn't sign their apps and pays the price in user functionality, you guessed correctly.
Jesus, so they send him to an alternative school, where he can map that one too!
/sarcasm
well, the data could have been worth $38 billion. What you are saying is that if it had cost only $12 to run Norton and recover it, then it was worth $12. The data is the data, worth what it is worth. The fact that they had to go to the hardcopy backup to recover it doesn't change its value. Value is determined by what someone will pay for it.
There's an old saw that triple-redundant systems are useless, because once the first and second system fails, the third will fail and for the same reason. I guess this story proves that wrong, because it was the third (hardcopy) that saved their bacon.
by only having about ten hours of gameplay. And it's all monster-killing and password- and secret-finding goodness.
The point is, technology then was not like it is now. Once the mines in India ran out of the ore that had the specific vanadium taint to it, the "art" was "lost". They didn't know themselves how they were making that wootz.
That's hilarious. You rool. Between this and the Master Chief costume, I'm inspired to do something really wacky next year.
...spelling-naziism, but this is a scrabble thread. Quixotry, not Quixtory.
D'oh. Hadn't thought of my I'm-a-time-traveler joke as an I'm-a-terrorist joke. Now I'm going to get visited by the men with round patches.
Semantics nazi.
Looking back in retrospect, it is interesting to see what he thought of as important at the time. It was, in fact, largely the problems that were considered politically important at the time. Now, not so much. He talked about mad cow, the 2000 elections and the partisanship they caused (leading to a civil war), and Waco. None of these are issues even today, never mind in 30 years or whatever. If I were to write something today about how important 9/11 will be in 30 years, I think I will look foolish within 5 years. I doubt we'll care much about 9/11 after... oh wait, I've said too much.
I disagree wholeheartedly. If you assume that humans behave rationally, and make perfect decisions about the information they already know, they would be impossible to beat with AI for now. Since they do not, current computer-based stock-management is working quite well. The parameters are set by humans, and then the computers mindlessly make decisions based on those parameters. This, it turns out, is easier for the computer to do than the actual manager, because he tends to violate his own rules quite often, and suffer for it. There are numerous algorithmic funds already, and more coming every day as they prove to be successful.
Wow. Now I feel like I need to change jobs. I've been at the same one for almost nine years and still have the same 15 days vacation I did when I started. And if I used it all at once, I'd probably be laid off.
I use firefox with it regularly, but I'm not sure how to generate an error message to test the case you are describing. Oh, another benefit is the brick-and-mortar coupons you get with the membership (2 per month). My son uses those to rent games, which almost pays for the service by itself. Also, we only have to watch 3 movies a month to pay for the service, so our paradox of abundance doesn't really exist as long as we make 2 turnarounds.
I too use Blockbuster (thank you for coming out of the closet on that, it made it easier for me), and I am not sure that they don't throttle. Whenever I've been quick to return DVD's, I seem to get the new ones back at about the same time as if I sent them in later. I can never seem to get more than three a week throughput. Also, I used to get a lot of split DVD's. I haven't had this happen in a while, but there is definitely a bigger "unwashed masses" factor with Blockbuster. Also, I've had Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca on the top of my queue since the day I joined perhaps two years ago. Still listed as Very Long Wait. I'll say. Buy another damn copy.
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There he goes again. Oh, oops, I meant to say that over the telepathic channel. Sorry guys.
Er, um... radio waves. Not visible to the human eye or any other 4 senses, yet someone with the proper abilities can transmit information to someone across the world!
don't go to Wikipeida to get your news. Google News is probably the least biased way to go for now. Unless it's for a story against Google!
Yes, and as far as I can tell, all that hooey about buffers describes the current situation. And it is not referring to the consumers but to the distributors. In other words, it is not clear right now that the distributors don't have to license separate copies of the content to provide in their buffers, on separate servers, etc. This law wants to clear that up by giving a blanket license to distrubte (presuming the royalties are paid).