He didn't build it because he "likes building things". He built it because he wanted to make money. Facebook is designed from the ground up to do just that - violate your privacy and make the company money in the process.
To be fair, his initial motivation wasn't money but to make something that let him share all the nude pictures of the girls at college.
Where did I say christian? I'd say it's condescending and unjustified to think christians are the only people that believe in god [sic].
You're right, you didn't. I assumed you ment Christians because you said "the" instead of "a" (as Christianity is the main religion in the west). I might have done better to specify monotheists or something along those lines.
You can argue it's arrogance or narrowmindedness (I put it down to it being late and I'm tired); but I don't see how it's condescending. Unless your point is to be taken as "No YOU ARE!", in which case it's no use discussing imo.
There are people that still believe in the big, invisible man.
That's a lame jab, in my opinion. You're of course entitled to your own opinion, but to place Christians among people who believe Obama is a terrorist and racists I think is condescending and unjustified.
If Google had a more efficient means of finding what you're looking for, they'd incorporate it into their search engine. If you're looking for copyrighted information, just google it.
Paper-scissor-rocks has an infinite amount of possible games, ie 1 draw followed by a win, 2 draws... inf draws.
With that logic, any game has an infinite amount of possible outcomes. What OP meant is the number of possible ways an individual game can go, not the possible outcome of infinite games.
The number of possible ways a single RPS game can go is 9 (or 10^0,954): RR - RP - RS - PR - PP - PS - SR - SP - SS.
Why does the mainland Chinese government get better treatment from the "free world" than any other petty dictatorship? They've repeatedly shown that they aren't prepared to act in a respectable manner, so why should they get respect?
What is surprising is that they were running some sort of database process that maxxed out at 2 billion records, and that it just stopped once it hit that limit rather than failing over to a backup process. But then, this is a government IT contract, so maybe it's not too surprising.
TFA didn't say at 2 billion, just that it stopped at some point when it had over 2 billion entries.
I'm thinking it's reasonable to assume it stopped at 2,147,483,647 records.
Did you inquire what a movie ticket would cost for a showing without ads or trailers? Probably more than $10.
"It's odd that only a few years ago, the movie/theatre business made a nice profit without having these commercials, yet now they cannot live without them."
Nothing ever changes, never. Costs never go up. Revenue never goes down. There are no alternative to a movie theater and never will be.
Costs do go up, and have gone up considerably. Everything has to be bigger and better than what has been before.
I wouldn't mind some fewer special effects and cheaper, lesser known (but just as capable) actors in exchange for fewer to no adverts.
I find them not just greedy - also offensive. I'm more and more frequently offended by advertising and the arrogant belief of advertisers they can do whatever they want because it might make them money.
My experience with captcha is they are too focused on being the perfect system, to the point where it goes from a simple annoyance to almost impossible to access whatever it's protecting.
Then it's getting further away from being perfect. A perfect captcha would be unnoticed.
Even more reason to believe it is totally artistic and not a meaningful translation of anything though, as coat of arms and crests tend to do that sort of thing over the entire imagery, typically only exception for items added in later, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Still, it's amusing to think how many people will spend their Monday trying to decode this heh
Yea, and while I agree with you that it's most likely a random number, I can't help but keep wondering. That it's a prime number doesn't help much either.
If you were the designer, what would you encode? It's hardly big enough to fit a four letter word in. I think I would probably go with the boring ol' date of birth.
We've given Australia plague after plague after plague. From rabbits to buffalo and from camels to toads. And they didn't even keep any captive Jewish slaves. Introducing new species as a way of killing a current one is rarely a good idea.
What is much, much more effective is introducing large numbers of sterile animals of the same group into the wild though.
"real" beer like the Germans or Ale that the Bristish make...
You mention German and British beer, and fail to mention Belgian beer? Those people really know how to make good beer. Best beers in the world.
Absolutely. Oh, except the Dutch beers of course. Heineken is the biggest beer supplier in the world! (unless you count Budweiser as being beer as well =( ).
Firefox is, I think, one of the most used products in companies around the world and I am sure almost none of the companies contribute back to that project.
That's probably the worst example you could have picked:P. Firefox is one of the products of which almost all users contribute back to it. If you use the search bar at the right top, you're contributing to Firefox. They make millions from this.
I agree with you about tipping though. I think it's outdated and unnecessary. Either include it in the bill or don't expect it.
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That's nice and all, but can it build an exact copy of itself? That would be awesome.
No, it can only assemble stuff out of 4x2 blocks, and nothing over half its own size.
I was somewhat sarcastic; I don't think the ''share nudies without girls' consent'' is any better a motivation.
I had to read your sentence four or five times before I could understand it.
I really feel for these poor misunderstood billionaires.
We should set up some form of charity fund for them.
He didn't build it because he "likes building things". He built it because he wanted to make money. Facebook is designed from the ground up to do just that - violate your privacy and make the company money in the process.
To be fair, his initial motivation wasn't money but to make something that let him share all the nude pictures of the girls at college.
Where did I say christian? I'd say it's condescending and unjustified to think christians are the only people that believe in god [sic].
You're right, you didn't. I assumed you ment Christians because you said "the" instead of "a" (as Christianity is the main religion in the west). I might have done better to specify monotheists or something along those lines.
You can argue it's arrogance or narrowmindedness (I put it down to it being late and I'm tired); but I don't see how it's condescending. Unless your point is to be taken as "No YOU ARE!", in which case it's no use discussing imo.
There are people that still believe in the big, invisible man.
That's a lame jab, in my opinion. You're of course entitled to your own opinion, but to place Christians among people who believe Obama is a terrorist and racists I think is condescending and unjustified.
If Google had a more efficient means of finding what you're looking for, they'd incorporate it into their search engine. If you're looking for copyrighted information, just google it.
Also, James Pond?
I was thinking more along the lines of: James Pond?
Paper-scissor-rocks has an infinite amount of possible games, ie 1 draw followed by a win, 2 draws ... inf draws.
With that logic, any game has an infinite amount of possible outcomes. What OP meant is the number of possible ways an individual game can go, not the possible outcome of infinite games.
The number of possible ways a single RPS game can go is 9 (or 10^0,954): RR - RP - RS - PR - PP - PS - SR - SP - SS.
Why does the mainland Chinese government get better treatment from the "free world" than any other petty dictatorship? They've repeatedly shown that they aren't prepared to act in a respectable manner, so why should they get respect?
Because money and greed causes blind eyes.
What is surprising is that they were running some sort of database process that maxxed out at 2 billion records, and that it just stopped once it hit that limit rather than failing over to a backup process. But then, this is a government IT contract, so maybe it's not too surprising.
TFA didn't say at 2 billion, just that it stopped at some point when it had over 2 billion entries.
I'm thinking it's reasonable to assume it stopped at 2,147,483,647 records.
Did you inquire what a movie ticket would cost for a showing without ads or trailers? Probably more than $10.
"It's odd that only a few years ago, the movie/theatre business made a nice profit without having these commercials, yet now they cannot live without them."
Nothing ever changes, never. Costs never go up. Revenue never goes down. There are no alternative to a movie theater and never will be.
Costs do go up, and have gone up considerably. Everything has to be bigger and better than what has been before.
I wouldn't mind some fewer special effects and cheaper, lesser known (but just as capable) actors in exchange for fewer to no adverts.
To me, at this point, commercials are greed.
I find them not just greedy - also offensive. I'm more and more frequently offended by advertising and the arrogant belief of advertisers they can do whatever they want because it might make them money.
My experience with captcha is they are too focused on being the perfect system, to the point where it goes from a simple annoyance to almost impossible to access whatever it's protecting.
Then it's getting further away from being perfect. A perfect captcha would be unnoticed.
Even more reason to believe it is totally artistic and not a meaningful translation of anything though, as coat of arms and crests tend to do that sort of thing over the entire imagery, typically only exception for items added in later, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Still, it's amusing to think how many people will spend their Monday trying to decode this heh
Yea, and while I agree with you that it's most likely a random number, I can't help but keep wondering. That it's a prime number doesn't help much either.
If you were the designer, what would you encode? It's hardly big enough to fit a four letter word in. I think I would probably go with the boring ol' date of birth.
The first thing I notice is the binary string is a palindrome, the same forwards or backwards.
From the summary:
"One modern detail has attracted particular attention: a 33-digit palindromic binary stream at the base."
As far as I am concerned, whoever wrote that virus is guilty of endangerment on a scale unimaginable by most people.
Which makes it possible to even be a terrorist attack by pro Iranian groups. Or Hamas.
It already has. Here in Holland loud commercials have been illegal for many years.
Have we not learned from Australia?
We've given Australia plague after plague after plague. From rabbits to buffalo and from camels to toads. And they didn't even keep any captive Jewish slaves. Introducing new species as a way of killing a current one is rarely a good idea.
What is much, much more effective is introducing large numbers of sterile animals of the same group into the wild though.
Steam is a master of painless and organized installation and management -- especially important with older games.
I would have bought stuff from GOG but I got the feeling I was going to have navigate a bunch of installs and manage a bunch of loose zip files.
You should have tried some of their free games. Installing is just downloading the executable and running it. No need for a steam like client.
I've never seen a seizure go diagonally before. Is it contageous? f(O_o)f
Great, thank you. I tried to find a better link but failed.
I'm an American but why the fuck is our govt telling Sweden "what they're allowed to do."
Listen up US Military: you're the ones who fucked up, you're supposed to keep this shit secret and you failed it.
It's rather common for the American government to do so (or for any sufficiently large country that can get away with it). United Fruit for example; the US government violently removed the democratic regime from Guatemala because they were forced to pay tax. Something that baffles and scares me. China, Russia and Japan all do it as well, of course, and I'm sure my country would too if it was really big.
But how would the domain registrar know what a domain will be used for?
"real" beer like the Germans or Ale that the Bristish make...
You mention German and British beer, and fail to mention Belgian beer? Those people really know how to make good beer. Best beers in the world.
Absolutely. Oh, except the Dutch beers of course. Heineken is the biggest beer supplier in the world! (unless you count Budweiser as being beer as well =( ).
Firefox is, I think, one of the most used products in companies around the world and I am sure almost none of the companies contribute back to that project.
That's probably the worst example you could have picked :P. Firefox is one of the products of which almost all users contribute back to it. If you use the search bar at the right top, you're contributing to Firefox. They make millions from this.
I agree with you about tipping though. I think it's outdated and unnecessary. Either include it in the bill or don't expect it.