i haven't read the original (have plenty of friends that have, but never got around to it), and i thought the movie was pretty lame. the whole time i kept thinking how awfully clever the screenwriter must think he is. i'm not sure if i'd like the book, but after the movie i don't think i'll bother finding out.
it wasn't as bad as some Sci-Fi trash (e.g. "Event Horizon"), but it wasn't enjoyable and the humor kept missing the mark.
that's pretty unethical to purchase something that you know won't work with your system in order to be able to return it for not working (it's also questionable if you'd be punishing the movie producer or the brick-and-mortar store). there has to be a way to protest a company that is selling out their customers without selling out yourself. just don't buy stuff that doesn't meet your standards
Hi, my name is consumer. a lot of my population is already illegally downloading stuff for free over the internet rather than paying the current price. i'm predicting that the main inflation that you'll see is the inflated numbers of people that will illegally download this new content rather than paying the new, higher price.
part of the reason that science "works" is because it sticks to using terms and language that are clear and consistent, so if it's a theory than we should try to call it a theory when referring to it. it may not win points in the war for public approval, but part of the reason that a lot of people are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to science in a field that is filled with uncertainties is because science is at least willing to admit when things aren't certain.
i heard that they may start a licensing program for exploits. not to make money or anything, they just want to lock out hobbyists they don't have time for
Individual investors have the luxury of being their own boss. They can hold on to any stock they want for as long they want. In the past I've bought stocks in steel and forestry that I knew were in a depressed industries. I knew I might have to wait 5 years of more before they turned around. I also knew that when they did they would double or more (thank you, IPSCO).
Institutional investors, on the other hand, are constantly having their decisions questioned. They know that even one bad year can mean the end of their job. Thus they can not afford to be too patient or too rational. They have to ride the trend.
while we're doing off-the-cuff analysis, remember that individual investors are gambling with their own retirement fund, so they're more likely to get emotional about price changes because there is more potential for personal disaster. just because individuals *can* be more patient, doesn't mean that they are more patient
we wrapped your ordinary news inside a layer of credit card data. then we wrap it in the carbon paper used to xerox your Social Security numbers. but we're not done yet! first we add another layer built out of investigative photographs of the inside of subscribers' homes, then we add on a layer of DNA samples from each household, and finally wrap all that in a 5-year credit history of the highest profile household from each neighborhood. you can't get news this good without using Lexis-Nexis, and it's all delivered fresh to your door each morning.
what should be newsworthy is that they had enough evidence to get a warrant, but didn't bother to do so until they were forced to. wasn't the extremely shakey justification for the PATRIOT Act provisions that they needed to be able to do investigations in cases where they didn't quite have probable cause for a warrant? getting a warrant is a check-and-balance on the executive branch intruding on our lives, requiring one shouldn't be seen as the exception but as the rule.
if everyone is a criminal, then you're living in a police state. maintaining a status quo where everyone can be arrested for something they've done if the authorities feel that you're interesting is a great way to keep people under your thumb. the only sense of that i've had in the U.S. is the speed limit situation (where it's basically understood that lots and lots of people are going to be driving above the "limit"), and i'm not sure that is extreme enough to warrant a police state label.
clearly the term beta means something different to them. in the same announcement that says that they're no longer beta, they announce a new feature :
So today we're adding a way to automatically recommend stories for users with Personalized Search.
it seems like this new feature should have hit a beta version, if beta is a designation for a testing area. under most people's definition of beta a product shouldn't change as it moves from beta to production, beta is where you're making sure that the changes made previously work. was there some other non-public beta in parallel to the previous beta? is alpha testing enough? if either of those is true, than google news beta wasn't a beta at all. i'm sure that idea is not going to be a revelation to anybody, but certainly if a company has an definition of the term beta that would seem to have more to do with marketing than actual product quality or readiness than you're not going to be able to apply any information about this beta lifecycle to another product.
Once I accidentally put an EEPROM back in the wrong way around (unforgivable with my electronics background) and the little plastic sticker which normally would cover the window (which was not actually there on this chip) blistered from the heat almost instantly. I switched it off real quick, the chip was unbearably hot to touch, but once it cooled down and I placed it the correct way around, it worked fine to my complete astonishment!
anyone with an electronics background should know that a chip will work just fine after an overheat as long as the magic smoke hasn't been allowed to escape from it. once the magic smoke comes out of a chip, it's never quite the same
unfortunate, but it looks like it wasn't the event code. "Highrollr" posted the reason elsewhere in this thread :
I was pretty confident that I knew what was going on until I read that terrible, terrible article summary. The reason the submitter brought up server stability is that players from all the 100+ servers started creating characters on the "Medivh" server in order to watch the in-game event that opens the dungeon, because Medivh finished the quest before all the other servers. Blizzard suspended new character creation on the server though, so I'm not sure if stability is still an issue or not.
i can't think of an EQ problem quite like that, except maybe Project M where they let people control monsters on one of the PVP servers and had a flood of outsiders coming to grief the regular residents. they never did turn that feature back on
the Sleeper was one guild working together to block content from everyone else, this is the whole server working together to open up content to everyone else.
the company buys their stats from a third-party company that gathers such data (and not by scraping websites, plenty of companies have reporters at all the games). MLB refused to give them a license to use player names and data in their game, even though they had the data from that separate source.
the article is pretty vague about the MLB's argument, but my understanding is that they are claiming that the use of MLB player names constitutes a promotional usage and therefore requires the consent of the players (who licensed their promotional rights to MLB). it's a really sketchy argument, IMO
The Newton died due to the naivity of the users who didn't train it the way they were supposed to, and all the bad press that the people who didn't know (let's call them the agnostics) the proper way to use such an advanced tool.
no, i imagine that the Newton died because you couldn't take the time to train it in the store, so it looked to any prospective buyer as though the handwriting recognition was always going to be bad. i remember spending 5 minutes trying to write my name to no avail, because it always interpretted an m as rn no matter how i wrote it.
that's odd. i had trouble watching all of the first episode of Threshhold because it was a carnival of cliche, yet i've enjoyed Invasion. i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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i haven't read the original (have plenty of friends that have, but never got around to it), and i thought the movie was pretty lame. the whole time i kept thinking how awfully clever the screenwriter must think he is. i'm not sure if i'd like the book, but after the movie i don't think i'll bother finding out.
it wasn't as bad as some Sci-Fi trash (e.g. "Event Horizon"), but it wasn't enjoyable and the humor kept missing the mark.
that's pretty unethical to purchase something that you know won't work with your system in order to be able to return it for not working (it's also questionable if you'd be punishing the movie producer or the brick-and-mortar store). there has to be a way to protest a company that is selling out their customers without selling out yourself. just don't buy stuff that doesn't meet your standards
Hi, my name is consumer. a lot of my population is already illegally downloading stuff for free over the internet rather than paying the current price. i'm predicting that the main inflation that you'll see is the inflated numbers of people that will illegally download this new content rather than paying the new, higher price.
part of the reason that science "works" is because it sticks to using terms and language that are clear and consistent, so if it's a theory than we should try to call it a theory when referring to it. it may not win points in the war for public approval, but part of the reason that a lot of people are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to science in a field that is filled with uncertainties is because science is at least willing to admit when things aren't certain.
that's too much work, you can fly under the raid much easier than that. you think Echelon is going to pick up a conversation about "ihad-Jay"?
i heard that they may start a licensing program for exploits. not to make money or anything, they just want to lock out hobbyists they don't have time for
right, it's like that SNL skit Taco Town :
we wrapped your ordinary news inside a layer of credit card data. then we wrap it in the carbon paper used to xerox your Social Security numbers. but we're not done yet! first we add another layer built out of investigative photographs of the inside of subscribers' homes, then we add on a layer of DNA samples from each household, and finally wrap all that in a 5-year credit history of the highest profile household from each neighborhood. you can't get news this good without using Lexis-Nexis, and it's all delivered fresh to your door each morning.
what should be newsworthy is that they had enough evidence to get a warrant, but didn't bother to do so until they were forced to. wasn't the extremely shakey justification for the PATRIOT Act provisions that they needed to be able to do investigations in cases where they didn't quite have probable cause for a warrant? getting a warrant is a check-and-balance on the executive branch intruding on our lives, requiring one shouldn't be seen as the exception but as the rule.
if everyone is a criminal, then you're living in a police state. maintaining a status quo where everyone can be arrested for something they've done if the authorities feel that you're interesting is a great way to keep people under your thumb. the only sense of that i've had in the U.S. is the speed limit situation (where it's basically understood that lots and lots of people are going to be driving above the "limit"), and i'm not sure that is extreme enough to warrant a police state label.
you left out the part where it warbled "It's a trap!" as the seemingly defenseless rover went on the offensive
yet another mangled submission that can be chalked up to typing with one hand
the Sleeper was one guild working together to block content from everyone else, this is the whole server working together to open up content to everyone else.
did he lift the part where the term "open federation" was used in the definition for the term "open federation"?
you want to see viral marketing? wait til they get rolling with the commercials for Quaero starring the Taco Bell chihuahua
you should have RTFA :)
the company buys their stats from a third-party company that gathers such data (and not by scraping websites, plenty of companies have reporters at all the games). MLB refused to give them a license to use player names and data in their game, even though they had the data from that separate source.
the article is pretty vague about the MLB's argument, but my understanding is that they are claiming that the use of MLB player names constitutes a promotional usage and therefore requires the consent of the players (who licensed their promotional rights to MLB). it's a really sketchy argument, IMO
that's odd. i had trouble watching all of the first episode of Threshhold because it was a carnival of cliche, yet i've enjoyed Invasion. i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
maybe the new Intel Mac has a 100,000,000 to 99,000,000 floating point error