seriously... why'd u let the cat out of the bag? there should've been an agreement amongst all nerds and geeks not to have told anybody about these blacked out pdf's... so when the NSA does release their pdf's about jfk and the roswell aliens, we would've been able to read it all in plain text
that's not the role of government. the role of government is to take power away from the masses, and put it in the hands of a few... this is simply because mobs are actually less efficient than beauraucracy and red tape.
if analysts were running the show, they'd run them into the ground. industry analyst is analogous to movie critic. full of opinions, but unfortunately, none of them right
i just wonder how much that "Mission Accomplished" sign cost to make.... and then when you really get down to it, how long does it actually TAKE to make. a couple days maybe? and then another few days to get it on the boat, and then to hang it... so you'd say about a week.
this stupid banner took a week to make, ship, and hang.
the second iraq war lasted what, like 3 or 4 weeks?
so do you think Bush ordered the banner before the war actually ended?
$50-$100 a month, which is the typical wage for these girls, is well and above what they used to be living on working from dawn til dusk in the countryside. In beijing, you can buy a huge 6 course meal for 20 yuan. 20! the conversaion between US dollars and chinese yuan is something like 8.3:1. that was enough to feed 3 grown men, and we were paying tourist prices, i might add.
look at us in the US, for example. a secretary working in Los Angeles making $30,000 a year would be paying about $1000 a month in rent. That's $12,000 a year just for housing. If u take into account the secretary is in the 25% tax bracket, then her net spendable is $22,500 a year. that means she's paying more than half her net spendable income just for housing. Then there's gas, food, social life.... all said and done, if she's good, she may end up saving a hundred bucks a month.
i think that americans crying foul all over the world is akin to an indirect form of elitism
u haven't factored in the value of working on something. i don't think many people would mind so much about getting prepackaged computers if that's all that was there... but there's always something about doing the research, buying your own parts, and putting it all together
it's a geek's way of working on a car or building a treehouse.
all we need now is some geek beer and a geeky bbq where we can all geek around trying to figure out the most entertaining, and therefore the most stupid and irresponsible, ways to light fireworks
But Yahoo!, along with Google and MSN, are business, first and foremost. None of these are meant to be champions of the people.
except that they all market by saying they're there for the people.... i.e. Google's don't be evil credo.
and what was teh error rate in spereadsheets back when they were done by hand?
and did this study take into account the error in their very own spreadsheets?
and how about error on the error?
and lastly, who cares? get over it. If whatever you're designing, whatever economic model, or budget can't sustain a 1% hit due to error, then you need to really rethink your design and ideas.
a researcher, who had planned to do exhaustive research for his thesis, procrastinated, played starcraft, and in the end just did a google search, and then concluded that a gazillion people have been killed due to their reading the bible.
let's apply these rules to real life, i.e. youth sports and the like...
(1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor's morbid interest in violence.
little league, youth football, soccer.... take a look around those
(2) The game depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors.
the news, the newspaper, many many books you'll find in n elementary school library... these include the chronicles of narnia, the hobbit, the bible. Hell, you don't see jack thompson protesting and calling the child protection police on the parents who decided it'd be a good idea to take their 6 yr old kid to see Passion of the Christ.
(3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors."
basic seseme street exercise here: one of these things does not belong here, one of these things just isn't the same.... one of these things is not like the other ones, which one is it? *hint*political*hint*
so what about all the companies sued by Forgent? do they get their money back? how about companies that went under due to Forgent suing for patent infringement? do they get restitution?
a slight clarification.... big honchos can only be held accountable if all the following apply:
1) the media unilaterally turns against said big honcho
2) a plurality of US legislators turns their back on aforementioned big cheese
3) if el queso grande isn't the current president of the US
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seriously... why'd u let the cat out of the bag? there should've been an agreement amongst all nerds and geeks not to have told anybody about these blacked out pdf's... so when the NSA does release their pdf's about jfk and the roswell aliens, we would've been able to read it all in plain text
that's not the role of government. the role of government is to take power away from the masses, and put it in the hands of a few... this is simply because mobs are actually less efficient than beauraucracy and red tape.
to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out
.... for a price
1. create vault of all food crops in world
2. incide thermonuclear war
3. PROFIT!
if analysts were running the show, they'd run them into the ground. industry analyst is analogous to movie critic. full of opinions, but unfortunately, none of them right
i just wonder how much that "Mission Accomplished" sign cost to make.... and then when you really get down to it, how long does it actually TAKE to make. a couple days maybe? and then another few days to get it on the boat, and then to hang it... so you'd say about a week.
this stupid banner took a week to make, ship, and hang.
the second iraq war lasted what, like 3 or 4 weeks?
so do you think Bush ordered the banner before the war actually ended?
$50-$100 a month, which is the typical wage for these girls, is well and above what they used to be living on working from dawn til dusk in the countryside. In beijing, you can buy a huge 6 course meal for 20 yuan. 20! the conversaion between US dollars and chinese yuan is something like 8.3:1. that was enough to feed 3 grown men, and we were paying tourist prices, i might add.
look at us in the US, for example. a secretary working in Los Angeles making $30,000 a year would be paying about $1000 a month in rent. That's $12,000 a year just for housing. If u take into account the secretary is in the 25% tax bracket, then her net spendable is $22,500 a year. that means she's paying more than half her net spendable income just for housing. Then there's gas, food, social life.... all said and done, if she's good, she may end up saving a hundred bucks a month.
i think that americans crying foul all over the world is akin to an indirect form of elitism
poor flarticus... why must you always pick on him?
the fun part is that this was probably something some kid made in shop class and got a D for because it didn't do anything
u haven't factored in the value of working on something. i don't think many people would mind so much about getting prepackaged computers if that's all that was there... but there's always something about doing the research, buying your own parts, and putting it all together
it's a geek's way of working on a car or building a treehouse.
all we need now is some geek beer and a geeky bbq where we can all geek around trying to figure out the most entertaining, and therefore the most stupid and irresponsible, ways to light fireworks
my guess:
1000 women play WoW
29% of this measn 290 of them have dated
3625 men play WoW
290 men to date the 290 men = 8%
it's probably the huge sausage party atmosphere that keeps this statistic so seemingly off balance.
But Yahoo!, along with Google and MSN, are business, first and foremost. None of these are meant to be champions of the people. except that they all market by saying they're there for the people.... i.e. Google's don't be evil credo.
and what was teh error rate in spereadsheets back when they were done by hand?
and did this study take into account the error in their very own spreadsheets?
and how about error on the error?
and lastly, who cares? get over it. If whatever you're designing, whatever economic model, or budget can't sustain a 1% hit due to error, then you need to really rethink your design and ideas.
in that case, the figure would go up to a bajillion plus infinity
a researcher, who had planned to do exhaustive research for his thesis, procrastinated, played starcraft, and in the end just did a google search, and then concluded that a gazillion people have been killed due to their reading the bible.
let's apply these rules to real life, i.e. youth sports and the like... (1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor's morbid interest in violence.
little league, youth football, soccer.... take a look around those
(2) The game depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors.
the news, the newspaper, many many books you'll find in n elementary school library... these include the chronicles of narnia, the hobbit, the bible. Hell, you don't see jack thompson protesting and calling the child protection police on the parents who decided it'd be a good idea to take their 6 yr old kid to see Passion of the Christ.
(3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors."
basic seseme street exercise here: one of these things does not belong here, one of these things just isn't the same.... one of these things is not like the other ones, which one is it? *hint*political*hint*
geeze... if that happens, just pull the plug on your computer, take out the hard drive, mount it in linux or something, and backup your files...
oh... reminds me of hte good 'ol days when fixing the tv was more an art than science.... he who could slap the side of the tv best was god
when developing code, having saved precompiled scripts automatically done is the most annoying thing in the world....
wah wah wah... and how's your genre changing, mind blowing, world peace creating first person shooter coming along?
why are all of tom's articles always like 50 page mini-novels? the guys to take a class in editing
good god, too many nerds.... need booze and some tig bitties to bring me back from the twilight zone
Halo is Microsoft's new mythical moneymaker.
and strangely enough (or as history repeats itself), halo's made by a company that started publishing games for the mac.
so what about all the companies sued by Forgent? do they get their money back? how about companies that went under due to Forgent suing for patent infringement? do they get restitution?
a slight clarification.... big honchos can only be held accountable if all the following apply:
1) the media unilaterally turns against said big honcho
2) a plurality of US legislators turns their back on aforementioned big cheese
3) if el queso grande isn't the current president of the US
i think what bothers me most is that nowhere at anytime, even in this notice, does Sony say sorry, we f'd up. the hubris of these guys...