I tend to watch CNN because it's in my channel surfing path. The funny thing is, I actually switch channels when they start to fawn over Obama, mostly because it turns into speculation and over-analysis that doesn't lead anywhere. Overall, I think Obama is a decent person who, despite lack of experience, handles himself more maturely than most. I would like McCain if he was a little less of a war hawk and his policies didn't mirror Bush so much; As of now, his stance on many things kinda scares me :/. Anyways, I don't think the news really says anything interesting when following the presidential candidates and often gloss over interesting but unrelated news in the process.
I kinda wish they spent more time on the content rather than developing CG flare and gargantuan LCD displays (in an attempt to mimic or surpass the Daily Show).
Perhaps this is the only way to get young people interested in Politics - to make the stupidity that goes on at capitol hill equally accessible to everyone... through satire.
The reason I watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report (as someone from the younger generation) is that underneath their hyperbolic lies, they seem more honest. The current state of American news seems to be geared towards irrationally demonizing liberalism or leftist view to such an extent that it makes the bile rise. I can understand being fiercely against raising taxes for social projects (hey I hate taxes too), but when the foundation of an argument boils down to they're liberal, it loses all sense of weight and content. At least on those comedy shows, they back up their absurdity with a logical chain of examples to show that their comments have some grain of truth. For instance, they might show a series of clips of newscasters copying one another as a comment on the laziness of news in general. I like those shows because they're a bit more honest and because my faith in the quality of other (American) news channels has been degrading. (Though, I've found CNN and BBC news ok from time-to-time.)
The summary makes it sound like a bad thing when it could simply be about protecting their intellectual property. Miyamoto has a pretty high batting average when it comes to producing highly successful off-beat games to such an extent, that if he even mentioned it, developers might implement the idea before he can.
Well it depends on the organism you're dealing with. If it's something that has a short breeding and life-span like mice, you might be able to setup an extended experiment just feeding them cooked food and testing them on a series of tasks. It would be difficult to verify in higher level organisms like monkeys, dogs, or cats. But, you could at least test the hypothesis to some degree to see if cooked food has some impact and what the degree of that impact might be.
This is why many experiments are done on bacteria actually (including ethical reasons). It's really easy to produce a couple generations in the billions to do some tests.
I actually thought it was completely relevant to the war in that an information network can be crucial for organizing troops (or spying on troops) and spreading propaganda. Those, in turn, could have a huge factor with how a military, or even civilian force, responds to attacks. It's sorta like if I cut off all the nerves connecting you hand to your brain, you wouldn't be able to use it very well beyond swinging it like a floppy cudgel. Given that, this story might be a learning point for any group undertaking a military campaign, that IT is important and these are the types of attacks you can expect.
So, would that imply that if we fed animals, regularly for a couple of generations, cooked food, they would get smarter? Any slashdot Biologists, feel free to chime in here.
NPR seems to indicate that both sides have actually been fighting. Basically fighting broke out along the border and Russia sent in an air strike. I'm sure the cyber-war is just part of the battle.
That picture looks more like an anti-China pr piece, than anything else. If you look closely at the image, the wall isn't very long, tall or comprehensive as the photographer is able to get a picture of the disparity on foot. Sure, it's conveniently placed to hide the more impoverished parts of the town, but I don't think it's unreasonable that they want to present their best face to the world. If they were super totalitarian, they might have just relocated that person, preventing said image from being created.
Here are some of the reasons I used to pirate games.
1. The game is abandon-ware or really friggen hard to find.
2. At the time, I was a poor student that didn't have any money (you weren't missing out on my money).
3. To try out the game.
4. Obsessive-compulsive desire to collect games and archive them. A few times, I got in the process of collecting games, just because I could. I never ended up playing those games.
5. Too many competing products in the mediocre games sections to actually buy them all.
Here are the reasons why I have stopped/don't pirate.
1. Too annoying to camp out a torrent/download.
2. Too busy with work.
3. Many games just aren't that good/innovative/have replay value, to be worth my time, i.e. I wouldn't get them if they were free.
4. Online key codes. Gotta admit, this feature of registration for online play made me buy a few games.
To be honest, it was a combination of aquireability and availability. If the game was easier to get through other means
I would. Nowadays, my interest in games has lessened and I have the ability to buy the few games I want, so it's more convenient to purchase the game over downloading it. I had some friends who were more efficient at and the games they downloaded (versus payed for) were usually obscure titles of questionable quality.
The same reasons could apply to music really. Does the customer have the ability to pay for the media and is paying the most convenient way of acquiring the media. When most people act in an illegal manner, it is not out of malicious spite to the creator of the media, but rather because it is convenient, easy to do, and the product is not excellent such that the user wants to own a physical artifact. I'm willing to bet that the major demographics of 'pirates' are adolescents who want everything but don't have the means to pay for anything. It kinda sucks that that's your target audience. They're kinda like zombies: they are legion and serve as a nifty buying force, but they will eat your brains given the opportunity.
So, back to the main question: are you losing a significant amount of money because of pirates. I'm inclined to say no because 'pirates' don't have the means or desire to purchase your product when it comes down to paying money.
Next, is your girlfriend... I mean mom or sister... allowed to leave the house "uncovered" and without male (relative or husband) escort?
I believe this was done for historical reasons to ensure women were safe and not raped. Though, I'm also pretty sure their law, historically, is somewhat asymmetrical as to whose at fault for the rape.
How about vote?
Women's suffrage in the US came at about 1893. ~100 years is not a particularly long time to have that right. And I'm pretty sure we still have some disparities between sexes and races here too.
Overall, though, I agree with you that the Bush regime is not the Taliban as there is still some measure of accountability. Both, however, have done their part in eroding away our existing freedoms by making us more inclined to accept a police state over terrorism, no matter how (un)likely.
The sad thing is, many US maintenance projects cannot or should not be outsourced but they are for the shortsighted goal of saving money now. The problem with outsourcing a job that usually requires some level of education is that the pool of knowledge and skills tends to follow. Who wants to train in a job that's going away anyways, right? The consequences occur further down the line when managers realize 'o shit, I need someone to update legacy system X to keep us viable but they've all been outsourced'. This is probably applies to software systems than hardware systems because fluid business needs impose convenient, but poorly thought-out, changes to a very complex system. As a consequence, we are selling our ability to work with a certain technology away.
Now, this may not be a bad thing, as other developing nations get a chance to play with some technologies and realize they need better education systems. They may develop new technologies, they may develop a thriving business capitol. In other words, job aren't going away permanently, they're just learning a new language. It's up to the individual if they want to acquire/keep a job in a particular field as large layoffs and outsourcing is becoming an inconvenient fact for some of us.
I for one hope that all DHS employees investigate these potential terrorist threats with full body cavity searches, preferably starting with the mouth.
But then how else will HR fulfill their asinine and unreasonable quota of resume skills. If I didn't know better, I'd say you're trying to put them out of a job.
Maybe that depends on where you put the concrete? Also, I'm sure you could place the road and keep your catalytic converters. That way you have cleaner air in particularly busy city environments like, say LA or New York.
Yes, but doesn't that assume that they'll follow due process to prosecute whomever their after? What if they just use it to target someone as a suspected terrorist and ship them off to where the laws are somewhat bent to serve their purposes? It seems like nowadays, so much is done to safeguard freedom that it actually jeopardizes it.
Well we can't pull out of Mars just yet you see. It's a quagmire out there and if we leave, the aliens will win. We need a troop surge so we can secure our way of life and liberate the shit out of them.
Slashdot Mirror
So will this turn out like 4chan /b/?
I demand moar pr0n source ftw! Rick-roll = sage!
I tend to watch CNN because it's in my channel surfing path. The funny thing is, I actually switch channels when they start to fawn over Obama, mostly because it turns into speculation and over-analysis that doesn't lead anywhere. Overall, I think Obama is a decent person who, despite lack of experience, handles himself more maturely than most. I would like McCain if he was a little less of a war hawk and his policies didn't mirror Bush so much; As of now, his stance on many things kinda scares me : /. Anyways, I don't think the news really says anything interesting when following the presidential candidates and often gloss over interesting but unrelated news in the process.
I kinda wish they spent more time on the content rather than developing CG flare and gargantuan LCD displays (in an attempt to mimic or surpass the Daily Show).
Perhaps this is the only way to get young people interested in Politics - to make the stupidity that goes on at capitol hill equally accessible to everyone... through satire.
The reason I watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report (as someone from the younger generation) is that underneath their hyperbolic lies, they seem more honest. The current state of American news seems to be geared towards irrationally demonizing liberalism or leftist view to such an extent that it makes the bile rise. I can understand being fiercely against raising taxes for social projects (hey I hate taxes too), but when the foundation of an argument boils down to they're liberal, it loses all sense of weight and content. At least on those comedy shows, they back up their absurdity with a logical chain of examples to show that their comments have some grain of truth. For instance, they might show a series of clips of newscasters copying one another as a comment on the laziness of news in general. I like those shows because they're a bit more honest and because my faith in the quality of other (American) news channels has been degrading. (Though, I've found CNN and BBC news ok from time-to-time.)
The summary makes it sound like a bad thing when it could simply be about protecting their intellectual property. Miyamoto has a pretty high batting average when it comes to producing highly successful off-beat games to such an extent, that if he even mentioned it, developers might implement the idea before he can.
Well it depends on the organism you're dealing with. If it's something that has a short breeding and life-span like mice, you might be able to setup an extended experiment just feeding them cooked food and testing them on a series of tasks. It would be difficult to verify in higher level organisms like monkeys, dogs, or cats. But, you could at least test the hypothesis to some degree to see if cooked food has some impact and what the degree of that impact might be. This is why many experiments are done on bacteria actually (including ethical reasons). It's really easy to produce a couple generations in the billions to do some tests.
I actually thought it was completely relevant to the war in that an information network can be crucial for organizing troops (or spying on troops) and spreading propaganda. Those, in turn, could have a huge factor with how a military, or even civilian force, responds to attacks. It's sorta like if I cut off all the nerves connecting you hand to your brain, you wouldn't be able to use it very well beyond swinging it like a floppy cudgel. Given that, this story might be a learning point for any group undertaking a military campaign, that IT is important and these are the types of attacks you can expect.
So, would that imply that if we fed animals, regularly for a couple of generations, cooked food, they would get smarter? Any slashdot Biologists, feel free to chime in here.
I guess so. If it was a joke, it seemed like a very weak one. But I guess modders think otherwise :P.
NPR seems to indicate that both sides have actually been fighting. Basically fighting broke out along the border and Russia sent in an air strike. I'm sure the cyber-war is just part of the battle.
That picture looks more like an anti-China pr piece, than anything else. If you look closely at the image, the wall isn't very long, tall or comprehensive as the photographer is able to get a picture of the disparity on foot. Sure, it's conveniently placed to hide the more impoverished parts of the town, but I don't think it's unreasonable that they want to present their best face to the world. If they were super totalitarian, they might have just relocated that person, preventing said image from being created.
Here are some of the reasons I used to pirate games.
1. The game is abandon-ware or really friggen hard to find.
2. At the time, I was a poor student that didn't have any money (you weren't missing out on my money).
3. To try out the game.
4. Obsessive-compulsive desire to collect games and archive them. A few times, I got in the process of collecting games, just because I could. I never ended up playing those games.
5. Too many competing products in the mediocre games sections to actually buy them all.
Here are the reasons why I have stopped/don't pirate.
1. Too annoying to camp out a torrent/download.
2. Too busy with work.
3. Many games just aren't that good/innovative/have replay value, to be worth my time, i.e. I wouldn't get them if they were free.
4. Online key codes. Gotta admit, this feature of registration for online play made me buy a few games.
To be honest, it was a combination of aquireability and availability. If the game was easier to get through other means I would. Nowadays, my interest in games has lessened and I have the ability to buy the few games I want, so it's more convenient to purchase the game over downloading it. I had some friends who were more efficient at and the games they downloaded (versus payed for) were usually obscure titles of questionable quality.
The same reasons could apply to music really. Does the customer have the ability to pay for the media and is paying the most convenient way of acquiring the media. When most people act in an illegal manner, it is not out of malicious spite to the creator of the media, but rather because it is convenient, easy to do, and the product is not excellent such that the user wants to own a physical artifact. I'm willing to bet that the major demographics of 'pirates' are adolescents who want everything but don't have the means to pay for anything. It kinda sucks that that's your target audience. They're kinda like zombies: they are legion and serve as a nifty buying force, but they will eat your brains given the opportunity.
So, back to the main question: are you losing a significant amount of money because of pirates. I'm inclined to say no because 'pirates' don't have the means or desire to purchase your product when it comes down to paying money.
... it must be duck tape! Sounds like the bastard child of a mating between a duck and duct tape
1 to 100 square micrometers in area and 250 nanometers to 3 micrometers deep
I'm sure it'll be perfect for you.
Next, is your girlfriend... I mean mom or sister... allowed to leave the house "uncovered" and without male (relative or husband) escort?
I believe this was done for historical reasons to ensure women were safe and not raped. Though, I'm also pretty sure their law, historically, is somewhat asymmetrical as to whose at fault for the rape.
How about vote?
Women's suffrage in the US came at about 1893. ~100 years is not a particularly long time to have that right. And I'm pretty sure we still have some disparities between sexes and races here too.
Overall, though, I agree with you that the Bush regime is not the Taliban as there is still some measure of accountability. Both, however, have done their part in eroding away our existing freedoms by making us more inclined to accept a police state over terrorism, no matter how (un)likely.
The sad thing is, many US maintenance projects cannot or should not be outsourced but they are for the shortsighted goal of saving money now. The problem with outsourcing a job that usually requires some level of education is that the pool of knowledge and skills tends to follow. Who wants to train in a job that's going away anyways, right? The consequences occur further down the line when managers realize 'o shit, I need someone to update legacy system X to keep us viable but they've all been outsourced'. This is probably applies to software systems than hardware systems because fluid business needs impose convenient, but poorly thought-out, changes to a very complex system. As a consequence, we are selling our ability to work with a certain technology away.
Now, this may not be a bad thing, as other developing nations get a chance to play with some technologies and realize they need better education systems. They may develop new technologies, they may develop a thriving business capitol. In other words, job aren't going away permanently, they're just learning a new language. It's up to the individual if they want to acquire/keep a job in a particular field as large layoffs and outsourcing is becoming an inconvenient fact for some of us.
I for one hope that all DHS employees investigate these potential terrorist threats with full body cavity searches, preferably starting with the mouth.
But then how else will HR fulfill their asinine and unreasonable quota of resume skills. If I didn't know better, I'd say you're trying to put them out of a job.
Doctor Who?
Maybe that depends on where you put the concrete? Also, I'm sure you could place the road and keep your catalytic converters. That way you have cleaner air in particularly busy city environments like, say LA or New York.
Ah further proof that obfuscated code ensures job security. Even past when you actually want the job back. :)
Yes, but doesn't that assume that they'll follow due process to prosecute whomever their after? What if they just use it to target someone as a suspected terrorist and ship them off to where the laws are somewhat bent to serve their purposes? It seems like nowadays, so much is done to safeguard freedom that it actually jeopardizes it.
Now just think about all the duct tape they used.
Well we can't pull out of Mars just yet you see. It's a quagmire out there and if we leave, the aliens will win. We need a troop surge so we can secure our way of life and liberate the shit out of them.
Ya, and what happens if you run out? Does that mean you have to get out and push?
:)
I'm just hoping it doesn't brick while driving it. It certainly gives new meaning to: "My system crashed".