The truth is that every little nation from the former Soviet Union wants their piece from big fat (still) Russia. As Georgia in Caucasus, Ukraine in Sebastopol so is Estonia. But... well no one wants anything with Estonia! It is a small weak country. So they try all kinds of provocations, some successful some not. The last one I remember is the fuss over the Bronze Soldier. Now they accusing Russia of cyberwar. Why am I not surprised at all?
I may sound like a troll, but seriously. If you don't like how a country treats you, you don't go to that country. The USA seems to be too desirable a country to let itself to treat all visitors like shit. First that fingerprinting stuff and now full search. No, thank you. I possess my dignity. I'll stay out of the States.
It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies In other news, prostitution industry claims they lose $100 billion annually due to marriage sex.
I don't get you sarcasm. If I ever got my paws on a gigawatt laser I'd firts shoot some stuff with it just to see what happens. Remember what science is? It's bating one's curiosity for someone else's money.
Sorry, but this works only if two very important conditions are met:
1) You have many, many users. 2) You download popular stuff
And if those are not there, you're stuck. One man have an interesting thing you need, you download it off him, and that's it. Your rating not gonna grow ever. So you can't download new stuff. And i think you don't want to keep your rating up by seeding Britney Spears mp3, do you? And even if you want, you can't because of your already mediocre rating. Sounds much like Dead Sea Effect to me.
Well, this Microsoft system is better than nothing. At least I've seen on some forum awhile ago (read: not true) that some user got promt like "Are you sure you want to run trojan.exe?" and so the malware was eventually caught and disabled.
It's "cool" to have computers with blinkenlichten everywhere, but wait, some day it would be cool to not have a computer. See "Diamond Age..." by Neal Stephenson
And there are different people. While America is a democracy (yet) M$ and such should lay low and look out for people's opinions. In Africa there are mostly corrupt autocracies and corpotations may do whatever they please. I'm much surprised, really, that Microsoft answered so politely. Heck, even in Russia we have a number of court rulings against M$. They just ignore them outright! What could you say about Africa then?
Yep, while there are many sorts of alcoholic beverages, beer is the most social drink at least in western culture. So yes, it's more like beer lovers just more social and have more fun than other people. And yes, some workaholic can be an alcoholic too (pun intended) he just drinks alone and more heavy stuff like vodka.
I don't know why but I laughed so hard after reading this article. It should go to "It's funny, laugh" section. Anyway, Pajitnov makes a living by selling ideas, what else can he say? So I think his opinion just irrelevant here.
Modern carriers are effective against backwards countries like Iraq who has no considerable air defence and navy. Some Patriots or S-300 anti air missiles render a carrier useless. Just shoot down those pesky planes and the carrier is a sitting duck.
Summing it all up, carriers are like Star Wars' walkers: scary and mencaing but not that dangerous at all.
So, classical sci-fi cyborgs become a reality. I mean, yeah, we had implants and prosthetics for some time now, but those people was considered disabled. And this is the first time I hear about prosthetics being better than the real thing. I'm already waiting for Johnny Mnemonic and Motoko Kusanagi to appear.
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Strange, my first thought was about military uses.
"Never attribute to malice that can be attributed to stupidity", heh, I don't remember who said that but it's just Dell's case :-)
Yeah, and get free windows for games! Yay!
The truth is that every little nation from the former Soviet Union wants their piece from big fat (still) Russia. As Georgia in Caucasus, Ukraine in Sebastopol so is Estonia. But... well no one wants anything with Estonia! It is a small weak country. So they try all kinds of provocations, some successful some not. The last one I remember is the fuss over the Bronze Soldier. Now they accusing Russia of cyberwar. Why am I not surprised at all?
Are you sure you don't need any permission from the authorities to dig?
I may sound like a troll, but seriously. If you don't like how a country treats you, you don't go to that country. The USA seems to be too desirable a country to let itself to treat all visitors like shit. First that fingerprinting stuff and now full search. No, thank you. I possess my dignity. I'll stay out of the States.
UAC... sounds familiar... It is from that Doom game, right?
You can't make comics about stupid people and stay out of it, I guess.
Are you trying to say that RIAA is some twisted charity?
Well people, I've always said Iron Mad is kinda wimpy.
I don't get you sarcasm. If I ever got my paws on a gigawatt laser I'd firts shoot some stuff with it just to see what happens. Remember what science is? It's bating one's curiosity for someone else's money.
Sorry, but this works only if two very important conditions are met:
1) You have many, many users.
2) You download popular stuff
And if those are not there, you're stuck. One man have an interesting thing you need, you download it off him, and that's it. Your rating not gonna grow ever. So you can't download new stuff. And i think you don't want to keep your rating up by seeding Britney Spears mp3, do you? And even if you want, you can't because of your already mediocre rating. Sounds much like Dead Sea Effect to me.
How about shooting other robots? Like if the USA were going to war with the EU so that nobody got hurt?
Well, this Microsoft system is better than nothing. At least I've seen on some forum awhile ago (read: not true) that some user got promt like "Are you sure you want to run trojan.exe?" and so the malware was eventually caught and disabled.
It's "cool" to have computers with blinkenlichten everywhere, but wait, some day it would be cool to not have a computer. See "Diamond Age..." by Neal Stephenson
Black on black is better, you racist!
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And there are different people. While America is a democracy (yet) M$ and such should lay low and look out for people's opinions. In Africa there are mostly corrupt autocracies and corpotations may do whatever they please. I'm much surprised, really, that Microsoft answered so politely. Heck, even in Russia we have a number of court rulings against M$. They just ignore them outright! What could you say about Africa then?
Yep, while there are many sorts of alcoholic beverages, beer is the most social drink at least in western culture. So yes, it's more like beer lovers just more social and have more fun than other people. And yes, some workaholic can be an alcoholic too (pun intended) he just drinks alone and more heavy stuff like vodka.
I don't know why but I laughed so hard after reading this article. It should go to "It's funny, laugh" section. Anyway, Pajitnov makes a living by selling ideas, what else can he say? So I think his opinion just irrelevant here.
Well, essentially they are right. You should just understand the word "matter" in the sense "affair" not "stuff".
Modern carriers are effective against backwards countries like Iraq who has no considerable air defence and navy. Some Patriots or S-300 anti air missiles render a carrier useless. Just shoot down those pesky planes and the carrier is a sitting duck.
Summing it all up, carriers are like Star Wars' walkers: scary and mencaing but not that dangerous at all.
So, classical sci-fi cyborgs become a reality. I mean, yeah, we had implants and prosthetics for some time now, but those people was considered disabled. And this is the first time I hear about prosthetics being better than the real thing. I'm already waiting for Johnny Mnemonic and Motoko Kusanagi to appear.