Wireless! I wirelessly wirelessed her wireless wireless, wireless thats how I got herpes.(Ok I couldn't figure out how to make wireless a preposition:P)
Russia has actually repeatedly try to mediate the standoff by promising to do all the uranium enrichment necessary for nuclear power in Russia and then send the enriched uranium to Iran, all at a cost of course. The argument was that Iran could use the uranium to generate nuclear power,which is their projects ostensible goal, without Iran getting any of the technology necessary to make a bomb. It never really made any progress.
But what are the relative ages of the people killed by colds and flus? And what was their health status BEFORE they got the cold or flu? For the most part, not very good, if the cold or flu didn't get them it's pretty likely that something else would have really soon. However if an SUV plows into a family in a sedan, chances are that if the asshat compensating for his microscopic penis wasn't being an asshat compensating for such a tiny tadger the family would have gone on living for quite a while more. Nice abuse of statistics, enjoy those pills, I hear they really work fixing your tiny little wang.
Americans seem to ignore the most important stat about terrorism that there is, you are almost infinitely more likely to be killed by an SUV than you are by a terrorist. And yet Americans are uber paranoid about terrorism and yet go apeshit for their shitty ass, ugly, poorly performing, insanely dangerous SUVs. Wake the fuck up people.
But how will they be able to find "bugs" in their program when the program is all bugs?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the fish, the bacteria in it all programmed in Sea.... Oh I did it again!
I apologize profusely for whatever pain the above might have caused.
The article talks a lot about botnets, but how many botnets are actually involved in the wikileaks attacks? I haven't read about any and my bet is that there probably aren't a lot. Why? Simple, the purpose of most botnets has turned from fun into profit. 10 years ago most of the botnets were designed just to screw with people, delete files, open ports, ddos ebay etc. However over the past 10 years a lot of the creators of botnets have found that they can use the botnets to generate lots of cash by moving spam, selling information etc. I doubt that very many of them would want to risk subjecting their botnets to discovery and removal by getting involved in in such a high profile attack.
This is already the case in PA. When you show ID to buy alcohol, technically the employee you showed it to is required to run the magnetic strip on the id through a scanner to "verify" that it's a real ID and not fake. This has been the case since I was last in PA around 2003. Have since moved out of the country fortunately, and every time I go back I simply show my passport to the employee(if I even remember it). They don't bother scanning it or doing anything else besides looking at it.
Yeah, I couldn't believe how expensive booze in Norway was. I was actually kicking myself for not buying the stuff at the duty free shop in the airport when I arrived. Usually it's a rip off, but it was probably less than half the price of the stuff you can buy in the store. I bought some Norwegian vodka when I was leaving, but alas they didn't have any "Heavy Water". Wanted to try that stuff just because of the name, but I wasn't about to shell out $50 US for a tiny bit of good, but probably not great, vodka. The stuff I had in a bar in Oslo was pretty good too, but not $20 US good:P
Sun succumbed to the same thing that felled SGI, namely the boom in commodity computing. Sun made some really great products, the problem was that they also that made products that were really expensive. Back in the day when the difference between the high end and commodity was significant enough that a lot of companies were willing to shell out the money for the primo shit. However so called "commodity" computing(both hardware and software) has eventually caught up and a lot of companies could no longer rationalize the difference between Sun's stuff and the much cheaper products.
For instance 2 years ago we were looking for a new RAID and were considering Sun's ZFS storage appliance but the $10k for 2 tb was just waaaay to much money for the tiny extra bit of redundancy we could get. It was cheaper to just buy a much bigger raid, split it in 2, and do an rsync. Not the greatest situation in the world, but ultimately it saves a lot of money. Sun just could not compete for anything but a relatively tiny niche market while having massive amounts of capital tied up in labor and facilities.
But think of all we accomplished. I mean we helped a man-child resolve his daddy issues! Isn't that worth thousands of US lives, 10s if not 100s of thousands of Iraqi lives and over a trillion dollars?
There's a huge difference between motorcycles and SUVs though. Motorcycle drivers are for the most part, only a threat to themselves. If they want to risk it, it's their choice, the upside of motorcycles is that they are very fuel efficent. SUVs on the other hand are a threat to not only themselves but everyone else on the road and use fuel like it was going out of style. I'm all with you on the SUV ban, but not the motorcycle one.
He gives "regular" journalists too much credit
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One of the main(if not the main) problem with games journalism is the fact that now everyone is rushing to be first. How many times have you seen reporters rush to break some "big story" only to have them sheepishly, if at all, admit a couple of days later that the story wasn't real or at the very least was greatly exaggerated? Games journalists are no different, everyone wants to be the first one to break a story, review a game etc to the point that they barely spend any time with the product that they are reviewing. How long does it take to complete a single player game nowadays? Usually 40 hours at least, and then if you consider online and how long it takes to really evaluate a game(balance issues, matching algorithms, stability etc) then you are looking at least a week, probably more for anyone just to slog through the thing, let alone arrange their thoughts into a coherent review.
So either a) the reviews are rushed to get something out the door as soon as possible after release or b) the journalists are given review copies but basically told that they better not give the game a bad review or else the gravy train is going to be derailed.
It's obviously a very difficult place most game journalists are in and the internet isn't making it any easier. Maybe someone should start a "slow cooked game review" site where they spend at least a week reviewing each game. Even if it means that you won't get the reviews until a week after launch.....
Remember that raw meat is instinctualy repugnant; it's only with the technologies of fire and weaponry that we began eating meat at all - environmental conditions positioning it as a good source of protein. All these years later, we have better, and more future proof means of satisifying our caloric and protein needs.
Tell that to the Japanese(sushi), or the Italians(carpacio) or the other multitude of groups that eat raw meat even to this day. We only find eating raw meat repugnant nowadays because we know there is a slightly elevated risk of contracting certain illnesses when consuming raw meat.
It was over 7 years between the famicom and the super famicom, the gap is shorter in the US because Nintendo waited 2 years to start selling the famicom(NES) in the US.
Depends on what you want to do. The classes are pretty much a joke, you have to try to do poorly in them(75% of students who even bother to show up to class sleep during the classes). Research at the better universities is probably on par with your above average state school in the US, which is to say good, not necessarily great, but good. However keep in mind that unlike in the states receiving funding is pretty rare. However on the flip side, if you go to a public school yearly tuition is about $6k us, private roughly twice that. You are allowed to work part time which can help if you can find a job teaching English.
Overall, I would suggest sticking to the states unless there is a professor whose research matches your interests so well that you really want to work with him.
Reminds me of one of the futurama commentaries when they were talking about the proof that there are no uninteresting numbers. Suppose there were a set of uninteresting numbers, then there would have to be a minimum in that set, but since the minimum uninteresting number is interesting, there cannot be any uninteresting numbers.
For instance, if Apple really was acting like a startup and willing to "cannibalize its own products" as it were, we would have seen a CDMA iPhone a while ago. However, if Apple released one of those they may lose their choice revenue sharing with some of the exclusive iPhone carriers. So instead they stuck with GSM which means thats in two of the most important markets on the planet, US and Japan, the iPhone is relegated to the shittiest carrier. When Apple was pretty much the only major player in the all-touch smart-phone market that may have been ok, but if Apple made a huge mistake not taking Android seriously and releasing a CDMA compatible iPhone. Instead it allowed Android to get a huge foothold in the market because while many people wanted an iPhone they were unwilling to switch to the shittiest carrier to do so. So now there are people standing in line just to play with Androids that will run on the AU(the second biggest carrier in Japan) network. I'm an Apple fanboy and even I wish I hadn't bought the iPhone when I moved to Japan. I had no idea just how horrendous the Softbank network really was, and they obviously show no interest in improving it.
iOS will eventually lose to Android, and really Apple will have nobody to blame but themselves.
Wow, statistics fail! You do realize that government employees are not in fact representative of the general population right? That they are more likely to hire college graduates etc. Also the numbers in question are not mean incomes but median incomes. If the federal government were to follow the trend in corporate pay the president and senate would be earning $100 million a year and doing absolutely nothing useful(ok, they got the later half right).
But that would actually require some thought, something that conservatives have shown they are quite incapable of over and over again(Social medicine is evil! Ignore the fact that the rest of the world pays a lot less money for a lot better healthcare, it's evil! Don't think, just say evil!) Yeah, let me know when you actually have graduated high school, then we can have a grown up talk.
Its interesting to see how this affects various states' policies. For instance PA which exempts food, which is rarely bought online, from sales tax is probably losing a bigger percentage of its potential sales tax income than are states like Maryland who have a flat sales tax. I wonder if PA will eventually just give in and start taxing food as well.
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Wireless! I wirelessly wirelessed her wireless wireless, wireless thats how I got herpes.(Ok I couldn't figure out how to make wireless a preposition :P)
Russia has actually repeatedly try to mediate the standoff by promising to do all the uranium enrichment necessary for nuclear power in Russia and then send the enriched uranium to Iran, all at a cost of course. The argument was that Iran could use the uranium to generate nuclear power ,which is their projects ostensible goal, without Iran getting any of the technology necessary to make a bomb. It never really made any progress.
How else am I supposed to get the latest issues of Family Talk while living overseas? Come on Amazon!
But what are the relative ages of the people killed by colds and flus? And what was their health status BEFORE they got the cold or flu? For the most part, not very good, if the cold or flu didn't get them it's pretty likely that something else would have really soon. However if an SUV plows into a family in a sedan, chances are that if the asshat compensating for his microscopic penis wasn't being an asshat compensating for such a tiny tadger the family would have gone on living for quite a while more. Nice abuse of statistics, enjoy those pills, I hear they really work fixing your tiny little wang.
It's not a botnet if you voluntarily install and execute the attack code.
Americans seem to ignore the most important stat about terrorism that there is, you are almost infinitely more likely to be killed by an SUV than you are by a terrorist. And yet Americans are uber paranoid about terrorism and yet go apeshit for their shitty ass, ugly, poorly performing, insanely dangerous SUVs. Wake the fuck up people.
Oh wow, more porn! Google, how did you know?
But how will they be able to find "bugs" in their program when the program is all bugs? Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the fish, the bacteria in it all programmed in Sea.... Oh I did it again!
I apologize profusely for whatever pain the above might have caused.
The article talks a lot about botnets, but how many botnets are actually involved in the wikileaks attacks? I haven't read about any and my bet is that there probably aren't a lot. Why? Simple, the purpose of most botnets has turned from fun into profit. 10 years ago most of the botnets were designed just to screw with people, delete files, open ports, ddos ebay etc. However over the past 10 years a lot of the creators of botnets have found that they can use the botnets to generate lots of cash by moving spam, selling information etc. I doubt that very many of them would want to risk subjecting their botnets to discovery and removal by getting involved in in such a high profile attack.
Proto Proto Indo European? AKA P-PIE.....thats....pretty nasty :P
This is already the case in PA. When you show ID to buy alcohol, technically the employee you showed it to is required to run the magnetic strip on the id through a scanner to "verify" that it's a real ID and not fake. This has been the case since I was last in PA around 2003. Have since moved out of the country fortunately, and every time I go back I simply show my passport to the employee(if I even remember it). They don't bother scanning it or doing anything else besides looking at it.
Yeah, I couldn't believe how expensive booze in Norway was. I was actually kicking myself for not buying the stuff at the duty free shop in the airport when I arrived. Usually it's a rip off, but it was probably less than half the price of the stuff you can buy in the store. I bought some Norwegian vodka when I was leaving, but alas they didn't have any "Heavy Water". Wanted to try that stuff just because of the name, but I wasn't about to shell out $50 US for a tiny bit of good, but probably not great, vodka. The stuff I had in a bar in Oslo was pretty good too, but not $20 US good :P
Sun succumbed to the same thing that felled SGI, namely the boom in commodity computing. Sun made some really great products, the problem was that they also that made products that were really expensive. Back in the day when the difference between the high end and commodity was significant enough that a lot of companies were willing to shell out the money for the primo shit. However so called "commodity" computing(both hardware and software) has eventually caught up and a lot of companies could no longer rationalize the difference between Sun's stuff and the much cheaper products.
For instance 2 years ago we were looking for a new RAID and were considering Sun's ZFS storage appliance but the $10k for 2 tb was just waaaay to much money for the tiny extra bit of redundancy we could get. It was cheaper to just buy a much bigger raid, split it in 2, and do an rsync. Not the greatest situation in the world, but ultimately it saves a lot of money. Sun just could not compete for anything but a relatively tiny niche market while having massive amounts of capital tied up in labor and facilities.
You can only die once, and I have been dead, so I will live forever now....
You say that, but we all know that Vicious kills you in the end, even if you can stagger down the hallway and shoot a finger gun at the camera.
But think of all we accomplished. I mean we helped a man-child resolve his daddy issues! Isn't that worth thousands of US lives, 10s if not 100s of thousands of Iraqi lives and over a trillion dollars?
There's a huge difference between motorcycles and SUVs though. Motorcycle drivers are for the most part, only a threat to themselves. If they want to risk it, it's their choice, the upside of motorcycles is that they are very fuel efficent. SUVs on the other hand are a threat to not only themselves but everyone else on the road and use fuel like it was going out of style. I'm all with you on the SUV ban, but not the motorcycle one.
One of the main(if not the main) problem with games journalism is the fact that now everyone is rushing to be first. How many times have you seen reporters rush to break some "big story" only to have them sheepishly, if at all, admit a couple of days later that the story wasn't real or at the very least was greatly exaggerated? Games journalists are no different, everyone wants to be the first one to break a story, review a game etc to the point that they barely spend any time with the product that they are reviewing. How long does it take to complete a single player game nowadays? Usually 40 hours at least, and then if you consider online and how long it takes to really evaluate a game(balance issues, matching algorithms, stability etc) then you are looking at least a week, probably more for anyone just to slog through the thing, let alone arrange their thoughts into a coherent review.
So either a) the reviews are rushed to get something out the door as soon as possible after release or b) the journalists are given review copies but basically told that they better not give the game a bad review or else the gravy train is going to be derailed.
It's obviously a very difficult place most game journalists are in and the internet isn't making it any easier. Maybe someone should start a "slow cooked game review" site where they spend at least a week reviewing each game. Even if it means that you won't get the reviews until a week after launch.....
Slashdot really needs to add a spam moderation that gives 2x the negative karma of normal downmods.
Remember that raw meat is instinctualy repugnant; it's only with the technologies of fire and weaponry that we began eating meat at all - environmental conditions positioning it as a good source of protein. All these years later, we have better, and more future proof means of satisifying our caloric and protein needs.
Tell that to the Japanese(sushi), or the Italians(carpacio) or the other multitude of groups that eat raw meat even to this day. We only find eating raw meat repugnant nowadays because we know there is a slightly elevated risk of contracting certain illnesses when consuming raw meat.
It was over 7 years between the famicom and the super famicom, the gap is shorter in the US because Nintendo waited 2 years to start selling the famicom(NES) in the US.
Depends on what you want to do. The classes are pretty much a joke, you have to try to do poorly in them(75% of students who even bother to show up to class sleep during the classes). Research at the better universities is probably on par with your above average state school in the US, which is to say good, not necessarily great, but good. However keep in mind that unlike in the states receiving funding is pretty rare. However on the flip side, if you go to a public school yearly tuition is about $6k us, private roughly twice that. You are allowed to work part time which can help if you can find a job teaching English.
Overall, I would suggest sticking to the states unless there is a professor whose research matches your interests so well that you really want to work with him.
Reminds me of one of the futurama commentaries when they were talking about the proof that there are no uninteresting numbers. Suppose there were a set of uninteresting numbers, then there would have to be a minimum in that set, but since the minimum uninteresting number is interesting, there cannot be any uninteresting numbers.
For instance, if Apple really was acting like a startup and willing to "cannibalize its own products" as it were, we would have seen a CDMA iPhone a while ago. However, if Apple released one of those they may lose their choice revenue sharing with some of the exclusive iPhone carriers. So instead they stuck with GSM which means thats in two of the most important markets on the planet, US and Japan, the iPhone is relegated to the shittiest carrier. When Apple was pretty much the only major player in the all-touch smart-phone market that may have been ok, but if Apple made a huge mistake not taking Android seriously and releasing a CDMA compatible iPhone. Instead it allowed Android to get a huge foothold in the market because while many people wanted an iPhone they were unwilling to switch to the shittiest carrier to do so. So now there are people standing in line just to play with Androids that will run on the AU(the second biggest carrier in Japan) network. I'm an Apple fanboy and even I wish I hadn't bought the iPhone when I moved to Japan. I had no idea just how horrendous the Softbank network really was, and they obviously show no interest in improving it.
iOS will eventually lose to Android, and really Apple will have nobody to blame but themselves.
Wow, statistics fail! You do realize that government employees are not in fact representative of the general population right? That they are more likely to hire college graduates etc. Also the numbers in question are not mean incomes but median incomes. If the federal government were to follow the trend in corporate pay the president and senate would be earning $100 million a year and doing absolutely nothing useful(ok, they got the later half right).
But that would actually require some thought, something that conservatives have shown they are quite incapable of over and over again(Social medicine is evil! Ignore the fact that the rest of the world pays a lot less money for a lot better healthcare, it's evil! Don't think, just say evil!) Yeah, let me know when you actually have graduated high school, then we can have a grown up talk.
Its interesting to see how this affects various states' policies. For instance PA which exempts food, which is rarely bought online, from sales tax is probably losing a bigger percentage of its potential sales tax income than are states like Maryland who have a flat sales tax. I wonder if PA will eventually just give in and start taxing food as well.