On an iphone, the 30% cut goes directly to Apple. On an android, the 30% cut goes to the carrier. This bribe from Google was obviously a component in the widespread adoption of android by the carriers - although I've no idea how large of a component. I wonder how much that affects marketing issues like this. I don't see why they wouldn't be throwing a few more advertising dollars in favor of the phone that nets them a higher income.
Is this just a way to get extra money to buddies through the revolving door or is there some rational reason for using ex-military/contractors instead of current military/national guard?
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- John von Neumann
Reply to Felix T. Smith who had said "I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics." -- as quoted in The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1984) by Gary Zukav footnote in page 208.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
This is great to further spread the idea of direct distribution, but I'm still more impressed with Pioneer One which is accomplishing more with much less and using a creative commons license.
http://www.pioneerone.tv/
You used to be able to apply a personal -2 penalty for Funny mods. It worked great for me for the past decade read at a threshold of 2 or 3 and not have Funny comments dominate. But apparently they took away they ability to fine tune so well with the new system since I can't find the option any more to direct you to.
"Mr. Ryan, would you characterize this as a first-strike weapon?"
"Uh, that is a possibility, sir. It is designed to approach by stealth and to shower its target with multiple independent warheads with little or no warning before impact."
I figured someone would do this. I just used my last mod point, but thanks. (ah, non-mouse device is a "stylus", I was wondering if linux's shift-numlock numpad mouse violated it, too)
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian W. Kernighan
oops, was just being silly anyway, but lost the > due to html and shouldn't override q//;) "for my $supernova ( @supernovae ) { alarm if measure_q($supernova) > 0 }"
AJ, BBC and other members of the "forth estate"
That explains the lack of type checking.
As we age, each year represents a smaller percentage of our total life so far. :)
Don't make a big deal about gender, just matter of factly show that there are women out there doing interesting jobs like this: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?all_videos&id=960#fragment-5
Related: exciting video, "Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqdoXwLBT8
On an iphone, the 30% cut goes directly to Apple. On an android, the 30% cut goes to the carrier. This bribe from Google was obviously a component in the widespread adoption of android by the carriers - although I've no idea how large of a component. I wonder how much that affects marketing issues like this. I don't see why they wouldn't be throwing a few more advertising dollars in favor of the phone that nets them a higher income.
Coincidentally, FSU has degrees in Computational Science: http://www.sc.fsu.edu/education
http://www.deus-consortium.org/a-propos/dark-energy-universe-simulation-full-universe-run/ says each particle has the mass of the Milky Way.
That was Gallagher, not Carlin. But it is indeed a great idea.
http://slashdot.org/~St.Creed ? :)
Based on a google search for site:slashdot.org "anonimity" "Bonus points"
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2467532&cid=37655486
Is this just a way to get extra money to buddies through the revolving door or is there some rational reason for using ex-military/contractors instead of current military/national guard?
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- John von Neumann
Reply to Felix T. Smith who had said "I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics." -- as quoted in The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1984) by Gary Zukav footnote in page 208. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
Incidentally, there was a pretty decent movie with Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland about the hunt for Chikatilo called Citizen X.
"Round numbers are always false." -- Samuel Johnson
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
This is great to further spread the idea of direct distribution, but I'm still more impressed with Pioneer One which is accomplishing more with much less and using a creative commons license. http://www.pioneerone.tv/
"The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -- George Carlin
You used to be able to apply a personal -2 penalty for Funny mods. It worked great for me for the past decade read at a threshold of 2 or 3 and not have Funny comments dominate. But apparently they took away they ability to fine tune so well with the new system since I can't find the option any more to direct you to.
I'm surprised I didn't see anyone also point out that they got the range of valid scores wrong, also. It's obviously not "1 to 5" as quoted.
I figured someone would do this. I just used my last mod point, but thanks. (ah, non-mouse device is a "stylus", I was wondering if linux's shift-numlock numpad mouse violated it, too)
They both answered, "Europa". We humans really love forbidden things. :)
This semantic debate is quite pointless to rehash for the millionth time. Read this rather than make up your own terminology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_atheism
Because the government is a start-up without an HR department to handle that paperwork?
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian W. Kernighan
oops, was just being silly anyway, but lost the > due to html and shouldn't override q// ;)
"for my $supernova ( @supernovae ) { alarm if measure_q($supernova) > 0 }"
Saul was heard to mutter "for my $supernova ( @supernovae ) { alarm if q($supernova) 0 }"