(The Wii-U and iPad 4th gen are pretty highly compelling game platforms; I don't believe the same could be said about the iPod Touch).
The iPhone/iPod Touch is a better platform for smaller kids insofar as the ones around me are anything to go by. The games are not as eye popping as what you'd get on a legacy console, but at a younger age kids prefer to play Cut the Rope, Angry Birds or Need For Speed rather than RTS or TBS games. The smaller form factor (compared to the iPad in particular) is a bonus too, in the sense that most kids can't hold an iPad for extended durations of time. I've yet to try an iPad mini, that said, and I expect the latter will tilt things towards iPad gaming in the coming years. (Wii-U looks nice too, but I don't own any so I can't vouch for that one.)
I think it's about a thousand times more likely that the average Slashdot reader will have watched the Mythbusters episode where they showed what happens when you do this, while his mom is cooking the turkey.
The idea that, "there's a lot more to dieting than simply reducing your calorific intake and exercising regularly", is garbage. That's all that controlling your weight boils down to. You could stick me in a room full of ice cream and pizza, as long as I don't eat excess calories I won't gain weight.
Anons everywhere are now thinking to themselves, "challenge accepted."
According to TFA, they tried already -- they're strongly suspected to have to anyway. But you wouldn't know from TFS, where anonymous only appears in the title.
Else yeah, agreed. They might might as well draw a target on their IT infrastructure's forehead.
Regulators don't have the same skin in the game that company executives have with their own company.
If hundreds of billions in taxpayer-funded bailouts, not to mention trillions in FED-related balance sheet tricks, is not having skin in the game, I'm not sure what can possibly be...
Oversight committees and regulators will never have the same level of motivation to ferret out every little detail because frankly there's no financial incentive to do so.
You might hold a very different opinion if a tax inspector ever gives more than a cursory look into your or your company's returns. They ruthlessly request explanations and justifications for even the most trivial-looking details, and they're absolutely merciless if they find anything worth their time. They're commissioned on what they find, and I'd be very surprised if financial regulators are any different.
I find it hard to believe that the management of HP failed to uncover fraud of this magnitude during their evaluation in the purchase of Autonomy.
Really? In an era where regulators can't tell when a company's books are cooked, let a former Nasdaq chairman can run the largest Ponzi ever, and let insider traders and naked (aka illegal) short sellers cripple businesses and lives (mostly) unworried, I fail to see what makes you think that HP's staff and lawyers might do a better job at identifying cooked books.
Only a century... The years leading to the Zionist movement were occasionally tense, but shit really hit the fan at the end of WWI. By then, the British had made untenable commitments to just about every group with an interest in Palestine.
I'm not getting the impression that the Mac Mini is so much more expensive. On the contrary...
- Core i3 vs core i5/i7. - No RAM (2 * DDR slots) vs 4GB RAM - No HD vs 500GB/1TB HD - HDMI, Thunderbolt (or GigE and an extra HDMI), 3 * USB2 vs GigE, Thunderbolt, HDMI, WireWire, 4 * USB3, SD Card, Speaker In, Speaker Out - No OS vs OS X
I've little sympathy for men who think women are such fragile little things that they cannot be expected to make their own decisions about who they do or do not sleep with without some patriarchal overlord second guessing them.
You seem oblivious to how easy it is to impress young women.
Also note, Otellini was the first Intel CEO who came up through marketing. That was an important transition for the company in many ways, and the company is much better off for it.
I'm confused... How is leaving the lion's share of the market in mobile computing devices to ARM making Intel better off?
Same. I hope some quantum physicist will chime to mention how one can observe time going "backwards" and how this extremely high level of statistical significance isn't another way of saying that they can't.
The grass is always greener next door... Here are two proverbs FYI. One Japanese; the other Chinese:
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
The bird who sticks his head out gets shot.
In all seriousness, you cannot rub away thousands of cultural standards that puts the collective over the individual. Not over a generation anyway. They stem from geography. Like in other regions where civilizations developed in river valleys, you couldn't chop down the nearby forest and grow crop like you could in Europe. Instead, you needed large-scale organized labor to maintain irrigation channels, rice terraces, etc.
China's cultural imprint is even more entrenched than the rest of the area, btw: Confucianism stops at nothing short of praising bureaucratic submissiveness to the ruler. So much so that the Maoists ultimately embraced its key ideas.
Oh, sure, you'll naturally find the odd exception here and there in highhly westernized and elitist schools, and the odd political activist. Blah blah. There are over a billion Chinese.
Then again, per a separate comment I replied to, he insisted on getting an excuse from the prime minister, and went on to become a staunch critic of the latter. If you live in a third world country, especially one as corrupt as Belize, the first rule of thumb is to keep a low profile and not arm-wrestle with local authorities, no matter who you are or think you are. He evidently didn't get that memo.
Moreover, there's writing all over the wall on his blog that he wasn't keeping a low profile prior to that. If anything, I'd wager from his couple of posts that he behaved like what the locals scornfully call Gringos. They think they own the place and can do as they please, because they're from the US and immensely richer than the next guy. Belize locals, as most other Latin Americans, loath them with a passion.
Yeah, there's no mention of her in follow up posts for some reason.
What rubbed me the wrong way, personally, was that he insisted on getting an excuse and blah blah from the prime minister, and then went on to become a staunch critic of the latter. I was like, seriously? If you live in a third world country, especially one as corrupt as Belize, the first rule of thumb is to keep a low profile and not arm-wrestle with local authorities, no matter who you are or think you are. He evidently didn't get that memo.
Moreover, there's writing all over the wall that he wasn't keeping a low profile before that. Researching an antibacterial spray has nothing to do with researching antibiotics (for which a permit seems needed)? Really? A private security firm? Getting into disputes with his neighbours? Wtf? If anything, I'd wager from his couple of posts that he behaved like what the locals call Gringos. They think they own the place and can do as they please, because they're from the US and immensely richer than the next guy. Belize locals, as most other Latin Americans, loath them with a passion. I've little sympathy for him.
I've little sympathy for the old man living with barely legal chicks, but I also suspect you've absolutely no idea what a court might be like in a country with rampant corruption and cronyism.
Why would this reduce piracy more than it would reduce legitimate uses?
It probably won't make the slightest difference to either group. Legitimate users are likely to pay anyway. And savvier kids have been streaming video and music, or using peer to peer, for a long time. Not all do, as evidenced by megaupload's downfall, but they're quick learners when it comes to downloading stuff on the web.
Does this stand for "follow the [expletive] yen"? The idea is that payment requires handing over personally identifying information that could incriminate a habitual infringer.
Or, it'll merely lead to hapless citizens whose ID and credit card details were stolen.
Then again, web developers wouldn't be writing -WebKit-radius-border, or anything else prefixed -WebKit/-Moz for that matter, if the bloody attributes had been supported by Microsoft for any material amount of time... Adding insult to injury, the fact of the matter is that mobile users will almost always be browsing using something built on top of WebKit. In light of that, the developers' laziness is understandable -- though arguably not excusable.
Also, WebKit is not doing exactly what everyone hated IE doing years ago. Back then, IE was hated because, in addition to interesting stuff like -ms-behavior, it was active used to promote technologies -- ActiveX in particular -- that could only ever work on Windows. Webkit, in contrast, is only pushing new attributes such as border-radius, or things such as local (sqlite-based) databases and location services. The only credible argument to be made against WebKit was related to the video tag, which was loaded with codec- and patent-related problems. And that horse died long before Mozilla woke up to the fact that h.264 hardware was all over the place in the mobile space.
The issue I don't understand: this galaxy must have been some 13.3 bln light years away from us, as the light took that long to reach us. Anything closer we'd see "nearer in time". This means the galaxy must have been at least that big already at that time.
Or more simply, space time expanded throughout the entire process. Take two points A and B on the aforementioned balloon. Blow the balloon fast enough (space time expands), and they will see each other as they were shortly after the big bang; or never, for that matter, if you blow it even faster.
Which leads to another question- are there objects theorised to exist beyond such a point (i.e., which we will never see)?
To the best of my knowledge, we can observe objects in the sky whose distance from us increases faster than light travels due to space time expansion. At some point they'll dim and eventually go dark. And there's absolutely no reason to imagine that similar areas of the skies have already become invisible for us.
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(The Wii-U and iPad 4th gen are pretty highly compelling game platforms; I don't believe the same could be said about the iPod Touch).
The iPhone/iPod Touch is a better platform for smaller kids insofar as the ones around me are anything to go by. The games are not as eye popping as what you'd get on a legacy console, but at a younger age kids prefer to play Cut the Rope, Angry Birds or Need For Speed rather than RTS or TBS games. The smaller form factor (compared to the iPad in particular) is a bonus too, in the sense that most kids can't hold an iPad for extended durations of time. I've yet to try an iPad mini, that said, and I expect the latter will tilt things towards iPad gaming in the coming years. (Wii-U looks nice too, but I don't own any so I can't vouch for that one.)
Did you know that kids are easily influenced?
And you know this because you have kids, right? Oh, my bad. You live in a basement.
Your kids probably want an iPad, a WII-U or an iPod Touch if surveys are anything to go by:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/u-s-kids-continue-to-look-forward-to-iholiday/
I think it's about a thousand times more likely that the average Slashdot reader will have watched the Mythbusters episode where they showed what happens when you do this, while his mom is cooking the turkey.
FTFY
The idea that, "there's a lot more to dieting than simply reducing your calorific intake and exercising regularly", is garbage. That's all that controlling your weight boils down to. You could stick me in a room full of ice cream and pizza, as long as I don't eat excess calories I won't gain weight.
You are wrong on many levels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity/
Anons everywhere are now thinking to themselves, "challenge accepted."
According to TFA, they tried already -- they're strongly suspected to have to anyway. But you wouldn't know from TFS, where anonymous only appears in the title.
Else yeah, agreed. They might might as well draw a target on their IT infrastructure's forehead.
The latter. The best way to rob a bank is to own one
Regulators don't have the same skin in the game that company executives have with their own company.
If hundreds of billions in taxpayer-funded bailouts, not to mention trillions in FED-related balance sheet tricks, is not having skin in the game, I'm not sure what can possibly be...
Oversight committees and regulators will never have the same level of motivation to ferret out every little detail because frankly there's no financial incentive to do so.
You might hold a very different opinion if a tax inspector ever gives more than a cursory look into your or your company's returns. They ruthlessly request explanations and justifications for even the most trivial-looking details, and they're absolutely merciless if they find anything worth their time. They're commissioned on what they find, and I'd be very surprised if financial regulators are any different.
I find it hard to believe that the management of HP failed to uncover fraud of this magnitude during their evaluation in the purchase of Autonomy.
Really? In an era where regulators can't tell when a company's books are cooked, let a former Nasdaq chairman can run the largest Ponzi ever, and let insider traders and naked (aka illegal) short sellers cripple businesses and lives (mostly) unworried, I fail to see what makes you think that HP's staff and lawyers might do a better job at identifying cooked books.
Only a century... The years leading to the Zionist movement were occasionally tense, but shit really hit the fan at the end of WWI. By then, the British had made untenable commitments to just about every group with an interest in Palestine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
I'm not getting the impression that the Mac Mini is so much more expensive. On the contrary...
- Core i3 vs core i5/i7.
- No RAM (2 * DDR slots) vs 4GB RAM
- No HD vs 500GB/1TB HD
- HDMI, Thunderbolt (or GigE and an extra HDMI), 3 * USB2 vs GigE, Thunderbolt, HDMI, WireWire, 4 * USB3, SD Card, Speaker In, Speaker Out
- No OS vs OS X
After pushing PC makers into going after the MacBook Air, Intel wants them to also go after the Mac Mini. News at ten...
Seems a bit too pricey to succeed, though.
I've little sympathy for men who think women are such fragile little things that they cannot be expected to make their own decisions about who they do or do not sleep with without some patriarchal overlord second guessing them.
You seem oblivious to how easy it is to impress young women.
Also note, Otellini was the first Intel CEO who came up through marketing. That was an important transition for the company in many ways, and the company is much better off for it.
I'm confused... How is leaving the lion's share of the market in mobile computing devices to ARM making Intel better off?
Same. I hope some quantum physicist will chime to mention how one can observe time going "backwards" and how this extremely high level of statistical significance isn't another way of saying that they can't.
The grass is always greener next door... Here are two proverbs FYI. One Japanese; the other Chinese:
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
The bird who sticks his head out gets shot.
In all seriousness, you cannot rub away thousands of cultural standards that puts the collective over the individual. Not over a generation anyway. They stem from geography. Like in other regions where civilizations developed in river valleys, you couldn't chop down the nearby forest and grow crop like you could in Europe. Instead, you needed large-scale organized labor to maintain irrigation channels, rice terraces, etc.
China's cultural imprint is even more entrenched than the rest of the area, btw: Confucianism stops at nothing short of praising bureaucratic submissiveness to the ruler. So much so that the Maoists ultimately embraced its key ideas.
Oh, sure, you'll naturally find the odd exception here and there in highhly westernized and elitist schools, and the odd political activist. Blah blah. There are over a billion Chinese.
The girls mentionned are actually a third (20) and a fourth (17) of his age (67).
Then again, per a separate comment I replied to, he insisted on getting an excuse from the prime minister, and went on to become a staunch critic of the latter. If you live in a third world country, especially one as corrupt as Belize, the first rule of thumb is to keep a low profile and not arm-wrestle with local authorities, no matter who you are or think you are. He evidently didn't get that memo.
Moreover, there's writing all over the wall on his blog that he wasn't keeping a low profile prior to that. If anything, I'd wager from his couple of posts that he behaved like what the locals scornfully call Gringos. They think they own the place and can do as they please, because they're from the US and immensely richer than the next guy. Belize locals, as most other Latin Americans, loath them with a passion.
Yeah, there's no mention of her in follow up posts for some reason.
What rubbed me the wrong way, personally, was that he insisted on getting an excuse and blah blah from the prime minister, and then went on to become a staunch critic of the latter. I was like, seriously? If you live in a third world country, especially one as corrupt as Belize, the first rule of thumb is to keep a low profile and not arm-wrestle with local authorities, no matter who you are or think you are. He evidently didn't get that memo.
Moreover, there's writing all over the wall that he wasn't keeping a low profile before that. Researching an antibacterial spray has nothing to do with researching antibiotics (for which a permit seems needed)? Really? A private security firm? Getting into disputes with his neighbours? Wtf? If anything, I'd wager from his couple of posts that he behaved like what the locals call Gringos. They think they own the place and can do as they please, because they're from the US and immensely richer than the next guy. Belize locals, as most other Latin Americans, loath them with a passion. I've little sympathy for him.
He should defend himself in court.
I've little sympathy for the old man living with barely legal chicks, but I also suspect you've absolutely no idea what a court might be like in a country with rampant corruption and cronyism.
Why would this reduce piracy more than it would reduce legitimate uses?
It probably won't make the slightest difference to either group. Legitimate users are likely to pay anyway. And savvier kids have been streaming video and music, or using peer to peer, for a long time. Not all do, as evidenced by megaupload's downfall, but they're quick learners when it comes to downloading stuff on the web.
FTFY.
Does this stand for "follow the [expletive] yen"? The idea is that payment requires handing over personally identifying information that could incriminate a habitual infringer.
Or, it'll merely lead to hapless citizens whose ID and credit card details were stolen.
Especially with governments who have traditionally viewed keeping this kind of know-how a matter of national security.
Then again, web developers wouldn't be writing -WebKit-radius-border, or anything else prefixed -WebKit/-Moz for that matter, if the bloody attributes had been supported by Microsoft for any material amount of time... Adding insult to injury, the fact of the matter is that mobile users will almost always be browsing using something built on top of WebKit. In light of that, the developers' laziness is understandable -- though arguably not excusable.
Also, WebKit is not doing exactly what everyone hated IE doing years ago. Back then, IE was hated because, in addition to interesting stuff like -ms-behavior, it was active used to promote technologies -- ActiveX in particular -- that could only ever work on Windows. Webkit, in contrast, is only pushing new attributes such as border-radius, or things such as local (sqlite-based) databases and location services. The only credible argument to be made against WebKit was related to the video tag, which was loaded with codec- and patent-related problems. And that horse died long before Mozilla woke up to the fact that h.264 hardware was all over the place in the mobile space.
The issue I don't understand: this galaxy must have been some 13.3 bln light years away from us, as the light took that long to reach us. Anything closer we'd see "nearer in time". This means the galaxy must have been at least that big already at that time.
Or more simply, space time expanded throughout the entire process. Take two points A and B on the aforementioned balloon. Blow the balloon fast enough (space time expands), and they will see each other as they were shortly after the big bang; or never, for that matter, if you blow it even faster.
Which leads to another question- are there objects theorised to exist beyond such a point (i.e., which we will never see)?
To the best of my knowledge, we can observe objects in the sky whose distance from us increases faster than light travels due to space time expansion. At some point they'll dim and eventually go dark. And there's absolutely no reason to imagine that similar areas of the skies have already become invisible for us.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=575
Assuming the big bang occurred at space point (0, 0, 0)...
And therein lies the subsequent confusion: the big bang isn't so much an explosion in space than it is an explosion of space.