The 'single strategy' they should have jumped on was dismissed as a 'fad' by Gates. So does this new strategy mean I can log on to my Outlook server from Halo and check my email from a virtual HUD (within the game) and use hand gestures to navigate the inbox via Kinect?
Cross-group collaboration (while maintaining secrecy on big projects) and 'holistic' sound like buzz-words that are supposed to generate confidence for shareholders. While their value is nearly half that of 2000, the dividends have continually risen, so I don't see a shareholder revolt. If the reorganization isn't well-thought, it could spell disaster, possibly forcing a split of the company to several, specialized units. Personally, I think that's how they should have organized from the start.
Budget? Ha! You must have never worked for a multinational gaming company... the kind that we all joke about breaking youthful spirit to encode their corporate culture over. They exist for the sole purpose of extending bureaucracy (while, simultaneously, creating value to the shareholder; which makes no logical sense). All those top to mid-level managers are desperately overtasking their shmoozing capacity in a vain attempt to avoid the pink slip.
Large gaming companies are a dinosaur and dying under the weight of their administrative overload... those TPS reports should be printed on real TP so they can actually be reused! Viva Indie Gaming!
I completely support small developers/studios with random acts of giving (and gracious receiving) with Humble Bundle and feel no guilt.. but, I really feel good because I don't feel like I was ripped off --time or money..same difference.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me, either. I have a feeling that M$ will simply become the publisher for indie titles. By publishing the titles, they could exert a bit more control over content, possibly.
Exactly, we would never be knee-deep in horse crap. That is, if we never had synthetic nitrogen, the population of the planet couldn't be sustained on animal dung for crop needs only, period.
Obvious Guy says, 'Art'. And I say, BRING IT ON! It's about damn time that the public realizes that the brain (whether child or adult) needs a little downtime from all the rote memorization most schools force unto their students. Art, whether it's drawing/painting, acting, music or otherwise, is a necessary outlet for the human condition. Too many children don't have access to music or theater programs at their school due to budget cuts. The thing is that the wrong programs were cut and we're starting to realize how important the arts are to all other subjects. I feel really sad for the kids in K-6 schools that cut recess time, too. The thing is, I don't think most parents realize how fundamentally different the schools of today are relative to their days.
Regarding the four words in STEM, I always thought that 'Science and Technology' and 'Technology and Engineering' are too close, semantically, to be used in that acronym. But I agree that Art should have been in it from the start!
I think you mangled a quote from a movie called "Colors".
Bob Hodges: [to his new partner] There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: 'Hey pop, let's say we run down there and fuck one of them cows'. The older one says: 'No son. Lets walk down and fuck 'em all'.
I block google-analytics and haven't noticed any problems whether it be http or https traffic. No problems whether it's on a blog or a shopping cart. Blocking Google APIs or GStatic can break functionality, however.
All water can be cleaned using energy. Nobody drinks from a lake river or stream anymore.
No, no it can't. And cleaning it will not be cheap. Ethyl glycol ethers often dissolve the separation membranes on reverse osmosis systems. Many other chemicals are costly to remove. The disposal of the chemicals they were able to retrieve is an added expense. Most companies do not disclose the 'cocktail' of chemicals they're using, therefore testing for contaminants is an added cost. Most wells require a minimum of 500,000 gallons of water to frack and can consume up to 16 times that over a well's lifetime. How can that be useful for people that need water in western states like California, New Mexico, and Colorado? What about the slurry waste that is often pumped back into an unused well? No cleaning of the slurry is preformed. It's just pumped back into the ground. Many farmers and ranchers have been selling their water rights for fracking instead of making food. I see an unsettling pattern towards scarcity. This is manufactured and we don't have to settle for it, but I have a feeling that we're gonna be drinking someone's tainted Kool-Aid at the rate we're 'progressing'.
From the Dec. 17, 2012 edition of The Nation:
"No one doubts that fracking fluids have the potential to do serious harm. Theo Colborn, an environmental health analyst and former director of the World Wildlife Fund’s wildlife and contaminants program, identified 632 chemicals used in natural-gas production. More than 75 percent of them, she said, could affect sensory organs and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems; 40 to 50 percent have potential impacts on the kidneys and on the nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems; 37 percent act on the hormone system; and 25 percent are linked with cancer or mutations.
"Fracking a single well requires...400,000 gallons of additives, including lubricants, biocides, scale and rust inhibitors, solvents, foaming and defoaming agents, emulsifiers and de-emulsifiers, stabilizers and breakers. About 70 percent of the liquid that goes down a borehole eventually comes up—now further tainted with such deep-earth compounds as sodium, chloride, bromide, arsenic, barium, uranium, radium and radon."
Exactly, which is why microwave and other manmade RF transmissions simply can't be ignored. Their general ubiquity and 'need' by society are major hurdles to turning one possible factor off to see if the problem gets better. Yes, it is now known that pesticide residue was contaminating the corn syrup used to feed the bees; that was one factor identified. Other factors were/are are a fungal infection that bees in Australia spread; they were sold all over the world to beekeepers who would distribute them and the fungus they were carrying.
The 'FUD' is still up for dispute, and it seems that the communications industry would want their (possible) part to be buried; microwave and other RF transmissions apparently scramble a bee's sense of direction and/or cause enzymatic disruptions. There seems to be more science behind this than the wireless carriers want the public to know about. This video changed the way I look at the entire wireless industry - http://vimeo.com/54189727 --And for those of you that have no problem plastering a cellphone right up to your head, would you feel as safe putting your head right up to your microwave oven? Probably not.
I'll take that as sarcasm, as most 14-yo's don't seem to care about privacy, much less understand what it's about. Most 20-30somethings don't seem to care about it. Look to Facebook as example. If you're in your 40s or later, there's a good chance you understand more things than just personal privacy were considered sacrosanct.
I don't know one 'stoner' that even owns a gun. Words like 'crazy' and 'paranoid' mixed with 'stoner' in reference to gun-wielding makes me think you have some sort of agenda that I do not like. I'd definitely mod you down if I had points.
The real question I have is, "What happens when a real raptor sees this drone and doesn't take kindly to it?" Would this type of camouflaged drone have to be equipped with countermeasures to hurt/stop real birds from attacking it? Would that be permissible in light of endangered species status of certain raptors?
I'm killing my mod point because I gave you the wrong one, accidentally.. it's late and I'm tired, but you're definitely underrated with a 5.
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/08/obamas-regressive-record-mak.html
I can't believe I believed in this guy (back on 2008). I'm beginning to believe that you really can't trust the system, at any level.
I wonder where this falls in the copyright infringement / fair use spectrum.
It doesn't. The artist is not selling his work as maps, or as advertising, or as a way to synergize advertising and mapping. He's not giving directions.
It has to fall in-between one or the other... and I'd say it's probably on the fair-use side.
I hope Google tries to crush this artist, just so we can hasten the public's perception that any corporation that big is a toxic influence on society and the economy and the culture.
I don't think that will happen as they've been on the other end of the stick scolding companies for abusing the DMCA tools on YouTube. I think they realize how frivolous lawsuits not only taint profits, but public perception. And no, I'm not talking about patents, even though I disagree with software patents.
This is coming from the guy that boasted on Twitter how much money he received from lobbyists that support CISPA... A truly devoted corporate **ahem** civil servant. It's no surprise that 2 out of 3 people would rather have a colonoscopy than the current congress.
Yet another reason I don't give a single red cent to Disney or the like. Vote with your dollars, folks. As cool as it would be to attend Dapper Day at Disneyland, I'd rather not till they do the right thing and release that mouse back into the wild where he should have been over two decades ago.
Jefferson tried that by creating the Democratic Party when the Federalist Party was inundated with corporate interests. That party is long-gone. Did that do the trick? No, the 'special interests' just jumped ship to another party. I'd say the correct solution is to remove greed from the equation... While I like to remain fairly optimistic, I'd have to say that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
That is cheap. AT&T wants $200 for a 16GB iPhone5. And, if AT&T's monthly costs come to ~$100-150, I'd hate to see Rogers' monthly bill to compensate for the customer's perceived cost differential.
I'd reconsider if I were you. Microsoft is only taking a cue from Apple with Win8. Apple's been trying, unsuccessfully, to mix the iOS interface with the OS X GUI and it's not working out. In fact, you can't even downgrade the OS, easily, on their new hardware. 10.8 took away the 'tap and drag' trackpad feature with that update. As a former Apple evangelist, I have nothing good to say about them, anymore. That's why I'm really thinking that this will be the Year of the Linux Desktop. I've already started messing with Mint, CentOS, and Ubuntu. No, I've never installed Linux on any hardware before this year, ever.
You think politicians actually draft legislation? I don't think that's been done since the late 1800s. Corporate shills (foundations) and their lawyers draft almost all the laws, now. I'm not surprised at this type of legislative crap and will do all the things that I did to help kill SOPA. I hope all the people that worked to shoot down SOPA are still just as perturbed, now, as they were then.
And I forgot to add the relevant comment to the story, but it's more like an annoyance with the movie's title... Isn't it, "Star Trek Into Darkness" ? No hyphen..? Man, that's an awful title. I wonder if they printed the posters with a typo and said, "Frack it... let's just change the title."
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The 'single strategy' they should have jumped on was dismissed as a 'fad' by Gates. So does this new strategy mean I can log on to my Outlook server from Halo and check my email from a virtual HUD (within the game) and use hand gestures to navigate the inbox via Kinect? Cross-group collaboration (while maintaining secrecy on big projects) and 'holistic' sound like buzz-words that are supposed to generate confidence for shareholders. While their value is nearly half that of 2000, the dividends have continually risen, so I don't see a shareholder revolt. If the reorganization isn't well-thought, it could spell disaster, possibly forcing a split of the company to several, specialized units. Personally, I think that's how they should have organized from the start.
Budget? Ha! You must have never worked for a multinational gaming company... the kind that we all joke about breaking youthful spirit to encode their corporate culture over. They exist for the sole purpose of extending bureaucracy (while, simultaneously, creating value to the shareholder; which makes no logical sense). All those top to mid-level managers are desperately overtasking their shmoozing capacity in a vain attempt to avoid the pink slip.
Large gaming companies are a dinosaur and dying under the weight of their administrative overload... those TPS reports should be printed on real TP so they can actually be reused! Viva Indie Gaming!
I completely support small developers/studios with random acts of giving (and gracious receiving) with Humble Bundle and feel no guilt.. but, I really feel good because I don't feel like I was ripped off --time or money..same difference.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me, either. I have a feeling that M$ will simply become the publisher for indie titles. By publishing the titles, they could exert a bit more control over content, possibly.
Exactly, we would never be knee-deep in horse crap. That is, if we never had synthetic nitrogen, the population of the planet couldn't be sustained on animal dung for crop needs only, period.
Obvious Guy says, 'Art'. And I say, BRING IT ON! It's about damn time that the public realizes that the brain (whether child or adult) needs a little downtime from all the rote memorization most schools force unto their students. Art, whether it's drawing/painting, acting, music or otherwise, is a necessary outlet for the human condition. Too many children don't have access to music or theater programs at their school due to budget cuts. The thing is that the wrong programs were cut and we're starting to realize how important the arts are to all other subjects. I feel really sad for the kids in K-6 schools that cut recess time, too. The thing is, I don't think most parents realize how fundamentally different the schools of today are relative to their days.
Regarding the four words in STEM, I always thought that 'Science and Technology' and 'Technology and Engineering' are too close, semantically, to be used in that acronym. But I agree that Art should have been in it from the start!
I think you mangled a quote from a movie called "Colors".
Bob Hodges: [to his new partner] There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: 'Hey pop, let's say we run down there and fuck one of them cows'. The older one says: 'No son. Lets walk down and fuck 'em all'.
I block google-analytics and haven't noticed any problems whether it be http or https traffic. No problems whether it's on a blog or a shopping cart. Blocking Google APIs or GStatic can break functionality, however.
All water can be cleaned using energy. Nobody drinks from a lake river or stream anymore.
No, no it can't. And cleaning it will not be cheap. Ethyl glycol ethers often dissolve the separation membranes on reverse osmosis systems. Many other chemicals are costly to remove. The disposal of the chemicals they were able to retrieve is an added expense. Most companies do not disclose the 'cocktail' of chemicals they're using, therefore testing for contaminants is an added cost. Most wells require a minimum of 500,000 gallons of water to frack and can consume up to 16 times that over a well's lifetime. How can that be useful for people that need water in western states like California, New Mexico, and Colorado? What about the slurry waste that is often pumped back into an unused well? No cleaning of the slurry is preformed. It's just pumped back into the ground. Many farmers and ranchers have been selling their water rights for fracking instead of making food. I see an unsettling pattern towards scarcity. This is manufactured and we don't have to settle for it, but I have a feeling that we're gonna be drinking someone's tainted Kool-Aid at the rate we're 'progressing'.
From the Dec. 17, 2012 edition of The Nation:
"No one doubts that fracking fluids have the potential to do serious harm. Theo Colborn, an environmental health analyst and former director of the World Wildlife Fund’s wildlife and contaminants program, identified 632 chemicals used in natural-gas production. More than 75 percent of them, she said, could affect sensory organs and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems; 40 to 50 percent have potential impacts on the kidneys and on the nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems; 37 percent act on the hormone system; and 25 percent are linked with cancer or mutations.
"Fracking a single well requires...400,000 gallons of additives, including lubricants, biocides, scale and rust inhibitors, solvents, foaming and defoaming agents, emulsifiers and de-emulsifiers, stabilizers and breakers. About 70 percent of the liquid that goes down a borehole eventually comes up—now further tainted with such deep-earth compounds as sodium, chloride, bromide, arsenic, barium, uranium, radium and radon."
Exactly, which is why microwave and other manmade RF transmissions simply can't be ignored. Their general ubiquity and 'need' by society are major hurdles to turning one possible factor off to see if the problem gets better. Yes, it is now known that pesticide residue was contaminating the corn syrup used to feed the bees; that was one factor identified. Other factors were/are are a fungal infection that bees in Australia spread; they were sold all over the world to beekeepers who would distribute them and the fungus they were carrying.
The 'FUD' is still up for dispute, and it seems that the communications industry would want their (possible) part to be buried; microwave and other RF transmissions apparently scramble a bee's sense of direction and/or cause enzymatic disruptions. There seems to be more science behind this than the wireless carriers want the public to know about. This video changed the way I look at the entire wireless industry - http://vimeo.com/54189727 --And for those of you that have no problem plastering a cellphone right up to your head, would you feel as safe putting your head right up to your microwave oven? Probably not.
Separating an egg using the shell is not terribly difficult but for the novice will be a bit of a challenge and using a vessel will make it easier.
A vessel... like, I dunno, an egg shell?
Or, you could use something deceptively simple like a water bottle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AirVOuTN_M
I'll take that as sarcasm, as most 14-yo's don't seem to care about privacy, much less understand what it's about. Most 20-30somethings don't seem to care about it. Look to Facebook as example. If you're in your 40s or later, there's a good chance you understand more things than just personal privacy were considered sacrosanct.
If you could shoot a drone out of the sky with a shotgun, color me impressed. I'd think it's not impossible, but highly improbable.
I don't know one 'stoner' that even owns a gun. Words like 'crazy' and 'paranoid' mixed with 'stoner' in reference to gun-wielding makes me think you have some sort of agenda that I do not like. I'd definitely mod you down if I had points.
The real question I have is, "What happens when a real raptor sees this drone and doesn't take kindly to it?" Would this type of camouflaged drone have to be equipped with countermeasures to hurt/stop real birds from attacking it? Would that be permissible in light of endangered species status of certain raptors?
You should not use plugins to regulate login attempts, at this time. Check the post, below and link to his blog with the reasons why. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3643255&cid=43436363
I'd also recommend that people reset their Secret Keys to resalt users' cookies. https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Security_Keys
I'm killing my mod point because I gave you the wrong one, accidentally.. it's late and I'm tired, but you're definitely underrated with a 5. http://boingboing.net/2013/04/08/obamas-regressive-record-mak.html I can't believe I believed in this guy (back on 2008). I'm beginning to believe that you really can't trust the system, at any level.
It doesn't. The artist is not selling his work as maps, or as advertising, or as a way to synergize advertising and mapping. He's not giving directions.
It has to fall in-between one or the other... and I'd say it's probably on the fair-use side.
I hope Google tries to crush this artist, just so we can hasten the public's perception that any corporation that big is a toxic influence on society and the economy and the culture.
I don't think that will happen as they've been on the other end of the stick scolding companies for abusing the DMCA tools on YouTube. I think they realize how frivolous lawsuits not only taint profits, but public perception. And no, I'm not talking about patents, even though I disagree with software patents.
This is coming from the guy that boasted on Twitter how much money he received from lobbyists that support CISPA... A truly devoted corporate **ahem** civil servant. It's no surprise that 2 out of 3 people would rather have a colonoscopy than the current congress.
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/23/congressman-boasts-on-twitter.html
As much as /. readers would like to know who the leak came from, I bet those who were outed in this leak would like to find them, more.
Yet another reason I don't give a single red cent to Disney or the like. Vote with your dollars, folks. As cool as it would be to attend Dapper Day at Disneyland, I'd rather not till they do the right thing and release that mouse back into the wild where he should have been over two decades ago.
Jefferson tried that by creating the Democratic Party when the Federalist Party was inundated with corporate interests. That party is long-gone. Did that do the trick? No, the 'special interests' just jumped ship to another party. I'd say the correct solution is to remove greed from the equation... While I like to remain fairly optimistic, I'd have to say that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
No, Backup Day would make more sense if it falls on Easter... Easter was when Jesus went Backup to heaven!
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That is cheap. AT&T wants $200 for a 16GB iPhone5. And, if AT&T's monthly costs come to ~$100-150, I'd hate to see Rogers' monthly bill to compensate for the customer's perceived cost differential.
I'd reconsider if I were you. Microsoft is only taking a cue from Apple with Win8. Apple's been trying, unsuccessfully, to mix the iOS interface with the OS X GUI and it's not working out. In fact, you can't even downgrade the OS, easily, on their new hardware. 10.8 took away the 'tap and drag' trackpad feature with that update. As a former Apple evangelist, I have nothing good to say about them, anymore. That's why I'm really thinking that this will be the Year of the Linux Desktop. I've already started messing with Mint, CentOS, and Ubuntu. No, I've never installed Linux on any hardware before this year, ever.
You think politicians actually draft legislation? I don't think that's been done since the late 1800s. Corporate shills (foundations) and their lawyers draft almost all the laws, now. I'm not surprised at this type of legislative crap and will do all the things that I did to help kill SOPA. I hope all the people that worked to shoot down SOPA are still just as perturbed, now, as they were then.
And I forgot to add the relevant comment to the story, but it's more like an annoyance with the movie's title... Isn't it, "Star Trek Into Darkness" ? No hyphen..? Man, that's an awful title. I wonder if they printed the posters with a typo and said, "Frack it... let's just change the title."