....but I thought the continual vulnerabilities in IE and the better interface (tabs, etc) were what pulled folks from IE. Isn't Firefox itself the "killer app"?
Erm.
Ok - look - the idea is that if you were to be holding a camera it'd be shakey, not that YOU would see shakeyness. For example, in a combat scene it's highly unlikely that if you were attempting to film it you'd be dead on immediatly, or be rock-steady.
I appreciate you don't like it, but don't criticize something based on a false understanding.
Oh come on.
Firstly, how do you know I'm FROM the USA? You make a rather blatent assumption yourself, sir. Perhaps it's because you think I -sound- like an American based on a generalization you have about Americans? How....interesting
Then again, perhaps you're just trying to show your wider worldview by assigning all racisim to the US.
That, of course, is because all WoW players live in the US (naturally), thereby confining the problem to that country. How easy and simple for you.
I hate to break it to you, but by all accounts Chineese population is just as racist per capita as the US or any other country. Noone has the high ground on morality in that area. I doubt even you do, based on your post.
Furthermore, trying to obfusciate the issue by discussing racisim in a contry that accounts for only a fraction of the world is at best spreading FUD. People are people everywhere - belive it or not, I'm sure there are a lot of white folks who actually don't have stupid stereotypes stuck in their head.
Furthermore, the author is trying to tie this particular instance of what he calls "racisim" to something like the laundry lynchings of an earlier time. The difference here is that in THAT time, they hated them because they were Chineese and doing well in making money. In this case, people dislike them because Gold Farmers tend to cause problems and have a perception of causing economic problems (true or not), NOT because they're Chineese. The irritation had nothing to do with their race originally - assuming that most gold farmers come out of China may be ignorant, but don't do the cause of racial equality a disservice by trying to say that anger over gold farmers in any significant way correlates to the more ugly sin of hating because of differences in skin color or eye shape. Most people hate the farmers, not the Chineese specifically.
Having read the article, all I'm getting at is this - his parallel to Xenophobia against Chineese people is interesting, but ultimately off-target. Anyone can go out on the internet and find trolls posting garbage, but I seriously doubt those examples are stastically valid samples - I could go out on the web and find 10 articles that are unfair to a particluar group and make the claim that there is a serious problem on the web with it too.
Unlike the lynch mobs that happened with the Chineese laundry services, gold-farm haters aren't angry about success, a different race, or anything else. They're mad about the farmers spamming them and/or ruining the ingame economy. I have read posts about people trashing farmers from ALL different races, so perhaps I have my head in the proverbial sand, but I suspect that this is just one group using the race card when it's happening to everyone.
Last thought: It dosen't take too much of an idiot 15 year old to insult someone on anything they can think of - I've seen plenty of, say, French people abused online too.
In what, "camp" factor? Yeah, it's a good show (I've watched it since season #1), but recently it's gotten 100% more campy... it just dosen't draw me in like it used to (perhaps there's the whole "how many brushes with death can our intrepid heros survive" factor that made star-trek so.... amusing:) )
ONLY just that??
C'mon now - Grandma and Grandpa user aren't going to be able to READ what you just wrote, much less do it.
That post is just a good example of why some computer techs are out of touch with the general userbase.
Furthermore, never underestimate the stupidity of users.
Bah
From TFA.....
No buyer was actually able to pick up the phantom shares for 1 yen due to market rules designed to limit price fluctuations, but the shares may have gone as cheaply as 572,000 yen ($4,750) each, a more than 9 percent discount to the intended sale price.....
Mizuho's error has so far cost the broker some 27 billion yen ($224 million), Fukuda estimated.
It appears that, in fact, they didn't lose BILLIONS but a few millions. Still large, but the post is misleading.
....something truly cooperative? Like crewing the aformentioned spaceship, etc, etc?
Sure, the ship needs a pilot(space sim/combat)... but being responsible for keeping it running/upgrading(sim) it could be just as interesting. Not to mention having combat teams(FPS), planners (strategy (think civ), etc. Something for every genre player to fill a role;)
Of course, RTFA before you do. Not that he'll probably be able to tell;)
However, I'm unsure of how/why this is news for us exactly. Great discussion question, perhaps, but do we really want a guy by the name of Bonhomie Snoutintroff to be the one creating ripples in the tech community;) .
the day Linux desktops start spreading is the day all the big projects decide they need to focus less on eye candy and more on making the system as simple, consistent, and reliable as possible. Kind of like OS X.
Do you seriously think that Mac isn't BUILT on eye-candy? OSX has the most glitzy window manager out there.... fortunatly for Macintosh it also works.
Trying to say that Linux will be sucessful if they don't focus on the "cool" factor is simply uninformed - the truth is they need to do both, focusing on only eye-candy or stability is myopic.
I'm amazed you were modded up for that. Wait. Nevermind.
Who said anything about a magnetic card? Cards with encrypted algorithm rotating pins are used in industry everywhere - RFID is coming (magnetic stripes are the stone age anyway), those handy "smart chips", you name it. Truth is you and I probably have no idea what the fruition of this path would be, but dismissing the idea out of hand simply because you percieve it to be difficult with yesterday's technology does not mean that it's not relevant with up and coming things.
Doubly so, when you consider the benefits - but who would want their identity, bank account, etc, secure?
Wrong - if you use a bank, 99% chances are you -already- have an atm card. Nothing new at all. Comparing token auths that are built into a card to your local grocer's attempt to monitor what you buy is more than a little ignorant.
Isn't that like, say, carrying around an ATM card like we do right now? Sure, a "sooped-up" ATM card if it had a rotating pin, but still an ATM card nonetheless - how is this -more- difficult than what we do now? I usually have my wallet handy somewhere, so is it really that big a deal?
Answer:
* The intermediate period where famine and human suffering are caused by difficulty in both regions due to growing human population and temp. shinking food supply
* Massive flooding along costal areas
* Increased weather event strength due to warmer tropic waters
* (and this is sure to get me modded +1 True) The poor Canadians when Texas gets the US to invade due to Texas becoming a desert... "YEE HA"
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....but I thought the continual vulnerabilities in IE and the better interface (tabs, etc) were what pulled folks from IE. Isn't Firefox itself the "killer app"?
Erm. Ok - look - the idea is that if you were to be holding a camera it'd be shakey, not that YOU would see shakeyness. For example, in a combat scene it's highly unlikely that if you were attempting to film it you'd be dead on immediatly, or be rock-steady. I appreciate you don't like it, but don't criticize something based on a false understanding.
Oh come on. Firstly, how do you know I'm FROM the USA? You make a rather blatent assumption yourself, sir. Perhaps it's because you think I -sound- like an American based on a generalization you have about Americans? How....interesting
Then again, perhaps you're just trying to show your wider worldview by assigning all racisim to the US.
That, of course, is because all WoW players live in the US (naturally), thereby confining the problem to that country. How easy and simple for you.
I hate to break it to you, but by all accounts Chineese population is just as racist per capita as the US or any other country. Noone has the high ground on morality in that area. I doubt even you do, based on your post.
Furthermore, trying to obfusciate the issue by discussing racisim in a contry that accounts for only a fraction of the world is at best spreading FUD. People are people everywhere - belive it or not, I'm sure there are a lot of white folks who actually don't have stupid stereotypes stuck in their head .
Furthermore, the author is trying to tie this particular instance of what he calls "racisim" to something like the laundry lynchings of an earlier time. The difference here is that in THAT time, they hated them because they were Chineese and doing well in making money. In this case, people dislike them because Gold Farmers tend to cause problems and have a perception of causing economic problems (true or not), NOT because they're Chineese. The irritation had nothing to do with their race originally - assuming that most gold farmers come out of China may be ignorant, but don't do the cause of racial equality a disservice by trying to say that anger over gold farmers in any significant way correlates to the more ugly sin of hating because of differences in skin color or eye shape. Most people hate the farmers, not the Chineese specifically.
Mod Parent Funny! Oi, if only there were an "ironic" tag.
Having read the article, all I'm getting at is this - his parallel to Xenophobia against Chineese people is interesting, but ultimately off-target. Anyone can go out on the internet and find trolls posting garbage, but I seriously doubt those examples are stastically valid samples - I could go out on the web and find 10 articles that are unfair to a particluar group and make the claim that there is a serious problem on the web with it too. Unlike the lynch mobs that happened with the Chineese laundry services, gold-farm haters aren't angry about success, a different race, or anything else. They're mad about the farmers spamming them and/or ruining the ingame economy. I have read posts about people trashing farmers from ALL different races, so perhaps I have my head in the proverbial sand, but I suspect that this is just one group using the race card when it's happening to everyone. Last thought: It dosen't take too much of an idiot 15 year old to insult someone on anything they can think of - I've seen plenty of, say, French people abused online too.
...but I really don't like them wherever they're from - throwing race in as an issue in this seems cheap to me.
In what, "camp" factor? Yeah, it's a good show (I've watched it since season #1), but recently it's gotten 100% more campy... it just dosen't draw me in like it used to (perhaps there's the whole "how many brushes with death can our intrepid heros survive" factor that made star-trek so .... amusing :) )
Shakey-cam is because the show is supposed to be done in a pseudo-documentary style, not because the cameramen are stuipd ;)
You forgot "fsck"! (and who can forget "nail").
And why, pray tell, did you not like 4?
I'm betting the article writer was referring to engineers per capita
;).
A drop in a bucket seems much larger than a drop in an ocean
ONLY just that?? C'mon now - Grandma and Grandpa user aren't going to be able to READ what you just wrote, much less do it.
That post is just a good example of why some computer techs are out of touch with the general userbase.
Furthermore, never underestimate the stupidity of users. Bah
From TFA..... No buyer was actually able to pick up the phantom shares for 1 yen due to market rules designed to limit price fluctuations, but the shares may have gone as cheaply as 572,000 yen ($4,750) each, a more than 9 percent discount to the intended sale price. ....
Mizuho's error has so far cost the broker some 27 billion yen ($224 million), Fukuda estimated.
It appears that, in fact, they didn't lose BILLIONS but a few millions. Still large, but the post is misleading.
Wow - are you a troll or what.
He's protecting his family by not publishing his information. That is inarguably true.
He's protecting his -wallet-, if you can call it that from spending $10 rather than pay someone to prevent harassment.
How is that wrong?
If someone really needs to contact him, don't you think they'll simply use some method of contact on his webpage?
... that had "Hot Coffee + Minerva" pop into my head? C'mon admit it ;)
....something truly cooperative? Like crewing the aformentioned spaceship, etc, etc? Sure, the ship needs a pilot(space sim/combat)... but being responsible for keeping it running/upgrading(sim) it could be just as interesting. Not to mention having combat teams(FPS), planners (strategy (think civ), etc. Something for every genre player to fill a role ;)
.... Tell Him So
;)
;) .
Of course, RTFA before you do. Not that he'll probably be able to tell
However, I'm unsure of how/why this is news for us exactly. Great discussion question, perhaps, but do we really want a guy by the name of Bonhomie Snoutintroff to be the one creating ripples in the tech community
Wait, what?
the day Linux desktops start spreading is the day all the big projects decide they need to focus less on eye candy and more on making the system as simple, consistent, and reliable as possible. Kind of like OS X.
Do you seriously think that Mac isn't BUILT on eye-candy? OSX has the most glitzy window manager out there.... fortunatly for Macintosh it also works.
Trying to say that Linux will be sucessful if they don't focus on the "cool" factor is simply uninformed - the truth is they need to do both, focusing on only eye-candy or stability is myopic.
I'm amazed you were modded up for that. Wait. Nevermind. Who said anything about a magnetic card? Cards with encrypted algorithm rotating pins are used in industry everywhere - RFID is coming (magnetic stripes are the stone age anyway), those handy "smart chips", you name it. Truth is you and I probably have no idea what the fruition of this path would be, but dismissing the idea out of hand simply because you percieve it to be difficult with yesterday's technology does not mean that it's not relevant with up and coming things. Doubly so, when you consider the benefits - but who would want their identity, bank account, etc, secure?
Wrong - if you use a bank, 99% chances are you -already- have an atm card. Nothing new at all. Comparing token auths that are built into a card to your local grocer's attempt to monitor what you buy is more than a little ignorant.
Isn't that like, say, carrying around an ATM card like we do right now? Sure, a "sooped-up" ATM card if it had a rotating pin, but still an ATM card nonetheless - how is this -more- difficult than what we do now? I usually have my wallet handy somewhere, so is it really that big a deal?
Perhaps it's because they have HIGHER TAXES.
I know a certain fallen angel who'd love to give you legal advice....FOR YOUR SOUL!!
Muwaa haah aaaaahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaa
Answer:
* The intermediate period where famine and human suffering are caused by difficulty in both regions due to growing human population and temp. shinking food supply
* Massive flooding along costal areas
* Increased weather event strength due to warmer tropic waters
* (and this is sure to get me modded +1 True) The poor Canadians when Texas gets the US to invade due to Texas becoming a desert... "YEE HA"