Langley criticizes Grayson on her Web site for his "inappropriate behavior" and "childish approach" toward governing, and claims he "does not represent the values of central Florida." Grayson has pretty much made her case for her with this inappropriate and childish attack on her web site. The term "Streisand Effect" also comes to mind. I hope mycongressmanisnuts.com carries advertising, 'cause this dick move is going to drive a metric shitload of traffic to the site!
Calmly and quietly walk into the room and yank the power plug for the console out of the wall. Continue doing this every time he starts playing the game. Eventually he will get the message -- he can't kill hookers and protect the power source at the same time. (There is also the tactic of pulling out the fuse or flipping the circuit breaker to avoid a direct confrontation.)
"The perfect is the enemy of the good." My bias has always towards getting a product into the hands of customers, not towards academic correctness. Yes, the story of DNF should be taught as a textbook case in bad product management. Rule #1: if you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on third-party tools and then decide not to use them, you should be fired for bad judgment, pure and simple.
From the "last day" photo, 36 employees and not a single one of them is female?!? Even if you live in your mom's basement, at least then you mom cleans up once in a while...
Wait a minute... if this is the word of God himself from 2000 years ago, shouldn't the copyright have expired by now? Man, this copyright extension is getting ridiculous! Unless, of course, you regard the UBS4 as an "original work"! Every time somebody makes an abridged copy of an old work, they get a brand new copyright?!?
1) It hard to "speak with people" who insist that everyone speak perfect French or be subject ridicule, especially when you don't speak French.
2) From what I have heard, the country French are a very hospitable people, warm and willing to share their culture with the world. It is really only the Parisians that have a (deserved) reputation for being arrogant. Unfortunately, Paris is the only part of France that most people ever visit.
3) The Quebecois have earned some degree of disrespect since their insistence on the use of French goes far beyond "bi-lingualism" and may be regarded by some as discriminating against the majority English-speaking Canadians.
In general, France was once a big global superpower; France was once the center for tecnology, and French was the "Lingua Franca" used in diplomacy throughout the world. The French appear more than a little pissed off that this is no longer true. However, this just gives us a preview of the kind of attitude we will be getting from the Americans in a few years when China becomes the economic and technological center of the world. If you thought the French were acting like arrogant assholes before, just wait 'til you see what the Americans act like!
If there going to attempt to verify that the customer actually has the tattoo they claim to have, they are definitely going to be shocked at the, uh, "inventive" body parts people can come up with to have tattoed! 'Yeah, I got your grill cheese sandwich tattoo right HERE!"
Does this mean I won't be able to play as a 36-24-26 blonde woman anymore? If Microsoft starts actually checking players appearance and gender, I predict there will be absolutely no "hot chick" avatars in the Microsoft MMORPGs! Is this "sausage fest" environment really the result they are looking for?
No, somebody moved their car while they were taking the pictures. When you stitch together "picture with car" and "picture with no car", that's what you get.
Doesn't using a building as a camera pretty much limit your choice of subject material? There just might be a reason why portable cameras were invented! (Unless, of course, you can get a large number of people to pose in front of the building.
I remember as a child, the sun shining through a hole in the garage door onto the freezer door created a camera obscura, although it really only displayed a silhoette of the trees. And of course, the image was upside down.
That depends on how many computers you've got at your disposal! This sounds like an embarrasingly parallel problem that would lend itself well to a Beowulf Cluster approach. While a mathematically optimum solution may be prohibitive, I'm sure with enough processing cycles you could come up with a good enough encoding. The point was, it is not something you can do on the fly, and in general of you've got lots of cycles to throw at encoding you can get better quality with lower bit rates. Unless you're encoding random noise, there is always some entropy in the picture that you can take advantage of to compress it.
You actually expect a sports reporter to watch a complete footy game without imbibing copious amounts of Ale? What country are you from? Sure, as they sober up, they correct their mistakes... doesn't everyone?
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Langley criticizes Grayson on her Web site for his "inappropriate behavior" and "childish approach" toward governing, and claims he "does not represent the values of central Florida." Grayson has pretty much made her case for her with this inappropriate and childish attack on her web site. The term "Streisand Effect" also comes to mind. I hope mycongressmanisnuts.com carries advertising, 'cause this dick move is going to drive a metric shitload of traffic to the site!
Calmly and quietly walk into the room and yank the power plug for the console out of the wall. Continue doing this every time he starts playing the game. Eventually he will get the message -- he can't kill hookers and protect the power source at the same time. (There is also the tactic of pulling out the fuse or flipping the circuit breaker to avoid a direct confrontation.)
"The perfect is the enemy of the good." My bias has always towards getting a product into the hands of customers, not towards academic correctness. Yes, the story of DNF should be taught as a textbook case in bad product management. Rule #1: if you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on third-party tools and then decide not to use them, you should be fired for bad judgment, pure and simple.
From the "last day" photo, 36 employees and not a single one of them is female?!? Even if you live in your mom's basement, at least then you mom cleans up once in a while...
No cowbells. Bruce Dickinson, is that you?
Wait a minute... if this is the word of God himself from 2000 years ago, shouldn't the copyright have expired by now? Man, this copyright extension is getting ridiculous! Unless, of course, you regard the UBS4 as an "original work"! Every time somebody makes an abridged copy of an old work, they get a brand new copyright?!?
See him cruising low and slow through the barrio, with Weird Al Yankovich's White and Nerdy blaring through the open windows...
I had a friend who installed a $500 blaupunkt stereo in an old lime green Plymouth Valiant. Yes, thieves left the car, but stole the stereo.
1) It hard to "speak with people" who insist that everyone speak perfect French or be subject ridicule, especially when you don't speak French.
2) From what I have heard, the country French are a very hospitable people, warm and willing to share their culture with the world. It is really only the Parisians that have a (deserved) reputation for being arrogant. Unfortunately, Paris is the only part of France that most people ever visit.
3) The Quebecois have earned some degree of disrespect since their insistence on the use of French goes far beyond "bi-lingualism" and may be regarded by some as discriminating against the majority English-speaking Canadians.
In general, France was once a big global superpower; France was once the center for tecnology, and French was the "Lingua Franca" used in diplomacy throughout the world. The French appear more than a little pissed off that this is no longer true. However, this just gives us a preview of the kind of attitude we will be getting from the Americans in a few years when China becomes the economic and technological center of the world. If you thought the French were acting like arrogant assholes before, just wait 'til you see what the Americans act like!
If there going to attempt to verify that the customer actually has the tattoo they claim to have, they are definitely going to be shocked at the, uh, "inventive" body parts people can come up with to have tattoed! 'Yeah, I got your grill cheese sandwich tattoo right HERE!"
Does this mean I won't be able to play as a 36-24-26 blonde woman anymore? If Microsoft starts actually checking players appearance and gender, I predict there will be absolutely no "hot chick" avatars in the Microsoft MMORPGs! Is this "sausage fest" environment really the result they are looking for?
You're confusing dark matter with antimatter. It's ok; it doesn't really matter.
While your at it, attach the same sensors to your toilet... yes, you too can be a twitter shitter!
they haven't been having sex on that bed the past few days. Really not that awkward.
But, can it really distinguish sex from, say, bed jumping?
Imaging being the guy that has to clean a Beowulf cluster of these!
If the FTC doesn't respond to their complaint, will this be reported in the press as an "EPIC Fail"?
No, somebody moved their car while they were taking the pictures. When you stitch together "picture with car" and "picture with no car", that's what you get.
Doesn't using a building as a camera pretty much limit your choice of subject material? There just might be a reason why portable cameras were invented! (Unless, of course, you can get a large number of people to pose in front of the building.
I remember as a child, the sun shining through a hole in the garage door onto the freezer door created a camera obscura, although it really only displayed a silhoette of the trees. And of course, the image was upside down.
What are the chances that a web server serving up a 26GByte picture would be slashdotted?
That depends on how many computers you've got at your disposal! This sounds like an embarrasingly parallel problem that would lend itself well to a Beowulf Cluster approach. While a mathematically optimum solution may be prohibitive, I'm sure with enough processing cycles you could come up with a good enough encoding. The point was, it is not something you can do on the fly, and in general of you've got lots of cycles to throw at encoding you can get better quality with lower bit rates. Unless you're encoding random noise, there is always some entropy in the picture that you can take advantage of to compress it.
I thought the concept of a music video for 4'33" was priceless... Then I checked -- there actually is a music video! In fact, there are several.
You actually expect a sports reporter to watch a complete footy game without imbibing copious amounts of Ale? What country are you from? Sure, as they sober up, they correct their mistakes... doesn't everyone?
I'll start believing Microsoft when they change the slogan for their new operating system to: Windows 7 -- At least it doesn't suck as much as Vista!
When Steve Balmer says "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." we are not supposed to believe this is an actual threat, but when he says "we won't sue you", we're supposed to believe he's telling the literal truth?