This process is legitimate to the extent that the actions were approved by the corporate board of directors. That Canopy/Yarro held the majority ownership during that time and was able to control the vote means is just a point.
There are other examples within SCO and Canopy of questionable actions. Such as buying up another Canopy subsidiary for a lot of cash from SCO then realizing little value to SCO.
Its just corporate business as usual. Investor should have really abandoned this ship a long time ago.
I am currently downloading Mass-Effect 2 onto my Ubuntu system. Used Steam to download the demo. It worked. So I bought the game.
Anything I am going to buy from Steam I am going to want to run the demo of first to check for compatibility. Silly thing is the Steam store only works from windows. I have a really old system that gets the job done. My main system is pure Linux.
Getting way off track here but Steam+demo is the best way to sell the windows games into the Linux market. Try it first, then buy. It lets you know it will work. STO should work according to the Wine forums. The demo did not for me. So it's out.
I would worry a lot about the statement 'Through our systems and analytics, we focus on the greatest and most active threats in an effort to avoid negatively impacting customer experience.'
That would seem to indicate they have much worse problems than the pre-authorized debit cards in the mail that must require a lot of resources and planning to take control of.
Definitely a bank to avoid as both a customer and investor.
The predictions by various teams would have had a chance of happening. Like Argentina will beat Germany 67% of the time. There is still the possibility that Germany will win a game. One thing that makes the world cup very unpredictable is that only a single game decides winner/loser. Anything can happen in a single game. Someone can be a little off. The ball can bounce just so. A ref can blow a call. If they played best of 5 or 7 games the predictions would have a better chance of happening.
Still we can't predict the future 100% and the world is still interesting.
To the stock market. There are to many outside influences. Could anyone have predicted the well blow out in the Gulf and its affect on the Gulf fishing industry or 911 ? Sure they would have been outside possibilities but no one could have predicted exactly when based on just looking at the stock market. As much as the economists like to assume that economics is a measurable science the ideas of perfect knowledge and perfect actors are laughable given the way we know people operate. The basic foundation of the economic theory is very broken.
> and has either studied it or learned from trial and error somewhere along the line.
It is explained in the FAQ which is linked from the slashdot summary that he uses the youtube time profile of the videos to refine the process.
Also doing an Masters in EE/CS will usually get you a fair amount of time in front of a class doing the problem solving sessions if not actually lecturing for the undergrads. That is a lot of practical trial and error in the teaching process.
"The new regulations explicitly 'forbid content advocating pornography, cults, superstitions, gambling, and violence in all online games.' "
No guns, swords, knives, portals..... No minesweeper. No Solitaire (you can gamble on that in some casino's) No bubble popping. No reversi (Go is basic strategic battle simulation) No chess No Mahjongg
The bigger the rental release the more copies the rental places need to have to meet the surge. If the surge is dampened because of earlier sales and less hype because of the mixed release dates then the rental places have to buy less to meet the peak opening demand.
So releasing into both markets at the same time is likely to lead to more sales into the rental market.
In 2002 HP claimed $2B in Linux revenue and IBM claimed $1.5B. I would expect that has ramped up considerably since then. I can't seem to find recent numbers perhaps they are embarrassed by the riches.
On the server hardware side, sales are booming. You have to think there are service contracts with those. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984010.html
Cory is a writer. He publishes under a CC type license. He manages to make money.
He also admits that, like all of use, he pretty much has to copy stuff to work. If it is as small as copy and pasting URL's or bigger still like printing articles and pictures off the web. Research requires copying.
It's the last few questions so 99% of you won't have read it.
There is a major conflict between a science based approach which is evidence based and constantly tests and revises hypothesis and a religious approach based on a total lack of evidence which cannot be tested and resists heavily attempts at revision.
At a basic level there is a conflict between the scientific approach and $deity based religion. Confucianism and Taoism and other non-$deity based religions seem to generally avoid the science conflict.
Some will react to my "lack of evidence" phrase above. Please provide a testable process for evaluating the existence or influence of your religion on the world. Note numerous double blind studies have failed to provide any actual affect of prayer. Although those that were religious and though people were praying for them (whether there were or not) did do better than those who were told no one was praying for them. The hope or positive thinking affect is well known.
From a scientific point of view, by a strict definition of the terms, anyone in a $deity based religion is delusional as their belief has no basis in reality. Organized religions based on $deity are a mass delusional meme.
Christians may cite Deuteronomy 6:16 "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test".
A game in one line. Clear the screen go to the bottom, type RUN. Use shift to move your ship left and right and avoid the rocks scrolling up from the bottom.
Actual constants and statements may be slightly off, it is years since I went into stores and typed this and and quickly played games on the sterile display model. It was practically the same code on TRS-80s as well.
Another good short one is the animal guessing game. But a C64 emulator and box of old Commodore or Computes magazines should keep them busy for a while.
Use of any software consumes power and requires hardware. The creation of the power or the hardware for the creation of the power or the system hardware itself required the destruction of some component of the environment.
Also the consumption of power emits waste heat which contributes to global warming.
The plain simple fact is software in general is bad for animals.
I would like to add a line amendment that anyone running for any government elected position also be required to submit DNA to the database. What is good for the goose.
Your honor it is clear the defendant rejected the BSD license. They must therefore have accepted the alternate D&R licenses. In recognition of this we demand the death of the defendant as fulfillment of the terms of the license.
People are saying send up a tug boat to run around and fetch all the stuff.
A) geo-stationary at +23k miles above the surface. It is almost comparable to getting to the moon in terms of energy required. B) consider the surface area of of the earth+23k miles radius C) give it a hundred miles thick D) give it many different orbits requiring acceleration and deceleration to match any given object
We don't have the tech to make anything to get up there and run around. Just hitting a single spot is hard enough, we usually miss by 100 miles or more when launching but it is close enough to do the work. The energy required to run around is ridiculous. Do we have a car/plane that can drive all over the planet? (not just 1 lap, but visit every 100m2 patch)
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This process is legitimate to the extent that the actions were approved by the corporate board of directors. That Canopy/Yarro held the majority ownership during that time and was able to control the vote means is just a point.
There are other examples within SCO and Canopy of questionable actions. Such as buying up another Canopy subsidiary for a lot of cash from SCO then realizing little value to SCO.
Its just corporate business as usual. Investor should have really abandoned this ship a long time ago.
It depends on the game Engine.
I am currently downloading Mass-Effect 2 onto my Ubuntu system. Used Steam to download the demo. It worked. So I bought the game.
Anything I am going to buy from Steam I am going to want to run the demo of first to check for compatibility. Silly thing is the Steam store only works from windows. I have a really old system that gets the job done. My main system is pure Linux.
Getting way off track here but
Steam+demo is the best way to sell the windows games into the Linux market. Try it first, then buy. It lets you know it will work.
STO should work according to the Wine forums. The demo did not for me. So it's out.
8 second lag is pretty bad, but this can be viewed as a precursor to jobs of the future where basement dwellers driver loaders on the moon.
I would worry a lot about the statement 'Through our systems and analytics, we focus on the greatest and most active threats in an effort to avoid negatively impacting customer experience.'
That would seem to indicate they have much worse problems than the pre-authorized debit cards in the mail that must require a lot of resources and planning to take control of.
Definitely a bank to avoid as both a customer and investor.
The predictions by various teams would have had a chance of happening.
Like Argentina will beat Germany 67% of the time. There is still the possibility that Germany will win a game.
One thing that makes the world cup very unpredictable is that only a single game decides winner/loser. Anything can happen in a single game. Someone can be a little off. The ball can bounce just so. A ref can blow a call. If they played best of 5 or 7 games the predictions would have a better chance of happening.
Still we can't predict the future 100% and the world is still interesting.
To the stock market. There are to many outside influences.
Could anyone have predicted the well blow out in the Gulf and its affect on the Gulf fishing industry or 911 ? Sure they would have been outside possibilities but no one could have predicted exactly when based on just looking at the stock market.
As much as the economists like to assume that economics is a measurable science the ideas of perfect knowledge and perfect actors are laughable given the way we know people operate. The basic foundation of the economic theory is very broken.
"1) P = NP?"
Solution number 1: N==1, any P
Solution number 2: P==0. any N
> and has either studied it or learned from trial and error somewhere along the line.
It is explained in the FAQ which is linked from the slashdot summary that he uses the youtube time profile of the videos to refine the process.
Also doing an Masters in EE/CS will usually get you a fair amount of time in front of a class doing the problem solving sessions if not actually lecturing for the undergrads. That is a lot of practical trial and error in the teaching process.
"The new regulations explicitly 'forbid content advocating pornography, cults, superstitions, gambling, and violence in all online games.' "
No guns, swords, knives, portals .....
No minesweeper.
No Solitaire (you can gamble on that in some casino's)
No bubble popping.
No reversi (Go is basic strategic battle simulation)
No chess
No Mahjongg
Donny Crane. Sure it was an acting gig, but there are a lot of "screen moments" that can be extracted.
What is politics but a PR play and Canada's current prime minister is way to image conscious to go anywhere near a Donny Crane.
Infidelity. Check.
Gay Marriage. Check.
Insensitivity. Check.
Politically Incorrect. Check.
The bigger the rental release the more copies the rental places need to have to meet the surge. If the surge is dampened because of earlier sales and less hype because of the mixed release dates then the rental places have to buy less to meet the peak opening demand.
So releasing into both markets at the same time is likely to lead to more sales into the rental market.
It appears the statement that the precursor data did not indicate a following quake was taken to mean that there would be no following quake.
This appears to be a science to english translation problem on the nature of causality and dependency.
http://www.cioupdate.com/news/article.php/1574431/Can-You-Make-Money-Selling-Linux--Try-35-Billion.htm
In 2002 HP claimed $2B in Linux revenue and IBM claimed $1.5B. I would expect that has ramped up considerably since then. I can't seem to find recent numbers perhaps they are embarrassed by the riches.
On the server hardware side, sales are booming. You have to think there are service contracts with those.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984010.html
So does anyone know the exact string the browser identifies as?
I am thinking I should set my browser to match this.
Cory is a writer. He publishes under a CC type license. He manages to make money.
He also admits that, like all of use, he pretty much has to copy stuff to work. If it is as small as copy and pasting URL's or bigger still like printing articles and pictures off the web. Research requires copying.
It's the last few questions so 99% of you won't have read it.
- ok lets talk -
There is a major conflict between a science based approach which is evidence based and constantly tests and revises hypothesis and a religious approach based on a total lack of evidence which cannot be tested and resists heavily attempts at revision.
At a basic level there is a conflict between the scientific approach and $deity based religion. Confucianism and Taoism and other non-$deity based religions seem to generally avoid the science conflict.
Some will react to my "lack of evidence" phrase above. Please provide a testable process for evaluating the existence or influence of your religion on the world. Note numerous double blind studies have failed to provide any actual affect of prayer. Although those that were religious and though people were praying for them (whether there were or not) did do better than those who were told no one was praying for them. The hope or positive thinking affect is well known.
From a scientific point of view, by a strict definition of the terms, anyone in a $deity based religion is delusional as their belief has no basis in reality. Organized religions based on $deity are a mass delusional meme.
Christians may cite Deuteronomy 6:16 "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test".
A game in one line. Clear the screen go to the bottom, type RUN. Use shift to move your ship left and right and avoid the rocks scrolling up from the bottom.
0 poke 32788+pos,65; pos=pos+2*(peek(151)&1)-1; print tab(rand(36)),"XXX"; if peek(32788+pos) ==32 goto 0
Actual constants and statements may be slightly off, it is years since I went into stores and typed this and and quickly played games on the sterile display model. It was practically the same code on TRS-80s as well.
Another good short one is the animal guessing game. But a C64 emulator and box of old Commodore or Computes magazines should keep them busy for a while.
The problem with missing coding skills is you also miss the dependent skills
a) debugging
b) refactoring
and the one they never get to
c) reuse/rework/repurpose
which leads to a greater appreciation of
d) documentation
Use of any software consumes power and requires hardware. The creation of the power or the hardware for the creation of the power or the system hardware itself required the destruction of some component of the environment.
Also the consumption of power emits waste heat which contributes to global warming.
The plain simple fact is software in general is bad for animals.
So how long before dropping a rock in the ocean is offered as a technological solution to Global Warming ?
Read the article. The crater is 10x the size of the rock.
I would like to add a line amendment that anyone running for any government elected position also be required to submit DNA to the database.
What is good for the goose.
Your honor it is clear the defendant rejected the BSD license. They must therefore have accepted the alternate D&R licenses. In recognition of this we demand the death of the defendant as fulfillment of the terms of the license.
are forced to reinvent it.
I presume that explains the existence of Clojure.
But hey, on top of Java. This now means your browser can run Lisp.
The spandex inventor gets recognition.
The guy who invented the parking meter not so much.
People are saying send up a tug boat to run around and fetch all the stuff.
A) geo-stationary at +23k miles above the surface. It is almost comparable to getting to the moon in terms of energy required.
B) consider the surface area of of the earth+23k miles radius
C) give it a hundred miles thick
D) give it many different orbits requiring acceleration and deceleration to match any given object
We don't have the tech to make anything to get up there and run around. Just hitting a single spot is hard enough, we usually miss by 100 miles or more when launching but it is close enough to do the work. The energy required to run around is ridiculous. Do we have a car/plane that can drive all over the planet? (not just 1 lap, but visit every 100m2 patch)