But Wikipedia definitely wants to be a news outlet, even if they say the contrary. If not, why do they mark certain articles as current events while hundreds of editors behind the scenes fight to get their edit up? Why not just wait until the event is over and state the facts encyclopedia-like? Why is there a news column on their front page? Why are some articles very closely tied to Wikinews?
Oh please, if the guy had a Wikipedia page and worked for the New York Times, I'm sure the Taliban could put 2 and 2 together. If the Taliban really wanted exposure, they would have just released a video of him pleading for his life holding a newspaper. The NYT can't censor every news outlet. No, a media storm wouldn't have mattered, and I can't believe you pulled out that "terrorists would have won" line, pathetic.
Well, if Firefox users find it effective, then other companies will follow suit. It's just a standard Mozilla is adopting, though it seems to have been defined in house, that won't stop anyone else from using it.
Years ago I read about this girl who was 19 and had never entered puberty (she had developed normally otherwise). Turns out there was a tumor blocking her pituitary gland. I'm sure they've done hundreds of tests so it can't be something like that but I was just reminded of that story.
Exactly! This kind of crap has been going on forever and then Obama makes some promises on more transparency and then breaks it almost immediately. Washington sure got to him fast.
This bill is so huge, Congress jokingly hired a speed reader to read through the bill after Republicans asked for it to be read aloud (giant waste of time to do in session). But honestly, if our Congressmen and women won't even read the bills they pass why the hell are they signing their names on them in the first place? There's undoubtedly so much pork in this bill it will cause problems above and beyond the things its addressing in the first place.
I can't for the life of me find the image right now, but there's a classic photoshop of a Gamecube controller with all the buttons on the right side replaced with a giant, green WIN button. This reminds me of that.
He's complaining about two different things. The first is that AMD and Intel supposedly lie about their performance gains from one generation to the next. The second is that server vendors don't offer solutions to companies like Facebook that needs tons and tons of processing power for cheap and with low power consumption. In the first case he's more concerned about the lack of performance they're getting and in the second he's concerned about the lack of variety or customization the vendors are providing.
Thomas has had a lot of history with the 4th amendment, usually siding with the enforcement side, so maybe his decision isn't too surprising.
See: Samson v. California, or Board of Education v. Earls. However, in Kyllo v. United States he agreed with the defendant that thermal imaging without a warrant violates the 4th.
My dad has spent thousands of dollars on both the Strat-O-Matic cards and in the last few years, the electronic versions of the cards. We sold some of his classic stat cards to fund him buying the electronic versions. However, he's had tons of problems with them. Whenever you buy cards, you have to authorize them with your Strat-O-Matic software. Each card can only be authorized to one machine at a time. If your computer unexpectedly crashes (which his seems to do often), you have to call Strat-O-Matic up and ask them to de-authorize so you can authorize them again to the exact same machine.
It's pretty evil DRM that has made it more difficult for my dad to enjoy his hobbies.
I don't know about that, the AMD X4 955 is on par performance and price wise with the Intel Q9550. Of course, the i7 line is probably what you mean by high end, but you're paying at least $200 - $900 more for a 25-75% performance gain.
If I have the option, I'll never buy downloadable content as opposed to physical media. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been selling old Super Nintendo and N64 games complete with their boxes and instruction manuals, easily recouping what I spent on the game in the first place over 10 years ago. If Nintendo had instead let me download those, they would be completely worthless to both me and anyone else in the market at this point. A couple of months ago I was looking to purchase World of Goo, and while I could get the game off Steam or even download directly from 2D Boy, I decided to pay a little extra for the boxed copy from Amazon. At least I have the disc now and can install it whenever I feel the need to play again.
Their previous DS game, Drawn to Life also had a great premise, you can draw your main character and then draw platforms, and ships, etc. basically you're the game's main artist. That was okay, but the actual gameplay was simply awful and the story was directed at three year olds and bogged the entire game down incredibly.
The series was already nearly ruined with Escape from Monkey Island. Man, that game just pales in comparison to the others. I forced myself to beat it just so I had beaten them all.
I also rather like the image results, I can't speak for the actual images themselves, but the way they're presented is so much nicer than Google with a convenient dynamic load as you continue scrolling down the page. Live search did this too.
Plus they find 1500 images for my site, five times as many as Google.
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But Wikipedia definitely wants to be a news outlet, even if they say the contrary. If not, why do they mark certain articles as current events while hundreds of editors behind the scenes fight to get their edit up? Why not just wait until the event is over and state the facts encyclopedia-like? Why is there a news column on their front page? Why are some articles very closely tied to Wikinews?
Oh please, if the guy had a Wikipedia page and worked for the New York Times, I'm sure the Taliban could put 2 and 2 together. If the Taliban really wanted exposure, they would have just released a video of him pleading for his life holding a newspaper. The NYT can't censor every news outlet. No, a media storm wouldn't have mattered, and I can't believe you pulled out that "terrorists would have won" line, pathetic.
Well, if Firefox users find it effective, then other companies will follow suit. It's just a standard Mozilla is adopting, though it seems to have been defined in house, that won't stop anyone else from using it.
So you buy the accessory once (for dirt cheap because every cable manufacturer will be making them) and you're set.
Years ago I read about this girl who was 19 and had never entered puberty (she had developed normally otherwise). Turns out there was a tumor blocking her pituitary gland. I'm sure they've done hundreds of tests so it can't be something like that but I was just reminded of that story.
Exactly! This kind of crap has been going on forever and then Obama makes some promises on more transparency and then breaks it almost immediately. Washington sure got to him fast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_the_Bills_Act
That thing is a really good idea.
This bill is so huge, Congress jokingly hired a speed reader to read through the bill after Republicans asked for it to be read aloud (giant waste of time to do in session). But honestly, if our Congressmen and women won't even read the bills they pass why the hell are they signing their names on them in the first place? There's undoubtedly so much pork in this bill it will cause problems above and beyond the things its addressing in the first place.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/05/speed_reader_brings_levity_to.html
I can't for the life of me find the image right now, but there's a classic photoshop of a Gamecube controller with all the buttons on the right side replaced with a giant, green WIN button. This reminds me of that.
He's complaining about two different things. The first is that AMD and Intel supposedly lie about their performance gains from one generation to the next. The second is that server vendors don't offer solutions to companies like Facebook that needs tons and tons of processing power for cheap and with low power consumption. In the first case he's more concerned about the lack of performance they're getting and in the second he's concerned about the lack of variety or customization the vendors are providing.
By defendant in the Kyllo case I mean Kyllo, the side defending their 4th amendment rights.
Thomas has had a lot of history with the 4th amendment, usually siding with the enforcement side, so maybe his decision isn't too surprising.
See: Samson v. California, or Board of Education v. Earls. However, in Kyllo v. United States he agreed with the defendant that thermal imaging without a warrant violates the 4th.
Microsoft figured out BigTable, heck, they open sourced their implementation of it.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/09/201210
Not that I'm against dupes that invoke a good discussion, but here's the last one:
http://news.slashdot.org/news/09/02/06/1444258.shtml
Similar Final Destination moment:
Woman who missed the downed Air France flight dies in a car crash
I went to Nintnedo headquarters in Kyoto... but they wouldn't let me in. Yeah, my story sucks compared to yours.
My dad has spent thousands of dollars on both the Strat-O-Matic cards and in the last few years, the electronic versions of the cards. We sold some of his classic stat cards to fund him buying the electronic versions. However, he's had tons of problems with them. Whenever you buy cards, you have to authorize them with your Strat-O-Matic software. Each card can only be authorized to one machine at a time. If your computer unexpectedly crashes (which his seems to do often), you have to call Strat-O-Matic up and ask them to de-authorize so you can authorize them again to the exact same machine.
It's pretty evil DRM that has made it more difficult for my dad to enjoy his hobbies.
Well, I don't know all the legality around this, but I can imagine rebranded binaries of OOo or Firefox.
a threesome with Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson.
Wait, and who else?
I don't know about that, the AMD X4 955 is on par performance and price wise with the Intel Q9550. Of course, the i7 line is probably what you mean by high end, but you're paying at least $200 - $900 more for a 25-75% performance gain.
If I have the option, I'll never buy downloadable content as opposed to physical media. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been selling old Super Nintendo and N64 games complete with their boxes and instruction manuals, easily recouping what I spent on the game in the first place over 10 years ago. If Nintendo had instead let me download those, they would be completely worthless to both me and anyone else in the market at this point. A couple of months ago I was looking to purchase World of Goo, and while I could get the game off Steam or even download directly from 2D Boy, I decided to pay a little extra for the boxed copy from Amazon. At least I have the disc now and can install it whenever I feel the need to play again.
Their previous DS game, Drawn to Life also had a great premise, you can draw your main character and then draw platforms, and ships, etc. basically you're the game's main artist. That was okay, but the actual gameplay was simply awful and the story was directed at three year olds and bogged the entire game down incredibly.
My full review if you're interested.
http://firsthour.net/beyond-the-first-hour-review/drawn-to-life
Anyways, not to be a downer but I hope this game doesn't have a story. Let me just go crazy with summoning items and give me puzzle after puzzle.
Sometimes I like tossing up softballs like that to make it easy for others to get the +5 Funnies.
Well, she was a concubine of Xerxes (of 300 fame) and later his wife chosen because of her extraordinary beauty (and intelligence, but whatever).
The series was already nearly ruined with Escape from Monkey Island. Man, that game just pales in comparison to the others. I forced myself to beat it just so I had beaten them all.
I also rather like the image results, I can't speak for the actual images themselves, but the way they're presented is so much nicer than Google with a convenient dynamic load as you continue scrolling down the page. Live search did this too.
Plus they find 1500 images for my site, five times as many as Google.