Admitedly terrorists are morons, thankfully, or we'd be in a lot more trouble. The point is say if I were trying to hurt a lot of people I wouldn't hide the weapon I'd want it to draw attention. Lets say you pull a trailer up and park it on a busy street and have a large sign that says to advertise your new mobile coffee francise you were giving away iPod Nanos to the first hundred customers that buy coffee. You're guaranteed a hundred people will be waiting at the mentioned opening time and probably a whole lot more. The Russians used the technique in Afganistan and went so far as to make explosives shaped like toys trageting kids. If you want to be sure to harm people you want to draw attention but the right type of attention so it seems perfectly normal. A trailer where you seemed to be selling coffee or ice cream wouldn't attract the attention of the police unless they wanted to check your permits but they wouldn't do that until you opened for business. Hiding a bomb in a display that is designed to draw attention does make sense. If they ignored them and they did blow up then people would be screaming. The police were doing their jobs being careful but they came down hard on them afterwards out of annoyance and the fact they felt foolish but what option did they have? Yes they shouldn't have tried to throw the book at them because it's an overreaction. They meant it as kind of a gorilla advertisement and gorilla actions like placing displays without permission or permits has some risk. The police handled the aftermath poorly but they had to know there was some potential for trouble. I'm sure they were expecting a possible fine not the third degree and a possible vacation at Gitmo.
It was her choice to stop writing Harry Potter books and she had planned this for a decade so it has nothing to do with running out of ideas.
A lot of people seem to feel the situation is different because she made a billion or so off the Potter series. Why legally has her situation changed since she was an out of work single mother handwriting a novel? She worked for more than a decade creating the characters so why shouldn't she have the right to control her work? If she allows people to freely expand on her work then she looses control and it becomes something she never intended. It happened with Robert E Howard's work after his death. Many other authors added to his mythologies but none of them equaled the original and most were just trying to make a buck off something popular. Nothing is stopping any of these people from creating original works but they know it's easier to get noticed if you lift from something popular. This is more about taking the easy road to success than creating something. She didn't take the easy road so why should others be allowed to ride her coat tails? Rowlings got lucky with the success of the series but I'm thrilled for her. She's not part of the evil empire she's a little person that made good and crossed over. She should be an axample to everyone not some one to villify when she tries to protect her creation.
How about requiring 30% to be good programming and limiting utter crap to 30%. Obviously it'd be best a 100% good programming but that appears to be unrealistic.
The real truth is all the other inner planets suck as terraforming cannidates. Mars is realitively benign compared to Venus. Its the high content of sulfuric acid that would hamper terraforming. Shifting the orbit to Earth orbit might help with the greenhousing and it might be possible to blast away part of the atmosphere but removing large amounts of sulfuric acid is going to be trickier. The concentrations are high enough to erode mountains on Venus. Mars may lack a dense atmosphere and has low gravity but we can keep humans alive with current technology. Itd take thousands and perhaps millions of years of hard work to get Venus to a level where even with a space suit humans could survive on it. Were definitely talking in the millions or tens of millions of years to terraform it. Itd almost be easier to start from scratch with asteroids and comets or collide enough of them with Mars to add more mass. The real problem with Mars is the lack of an iron core so solar radiation will be an issue even with an atmosphere. No shirt sleeve weather on Mars no matter how much terraforming you do, the sun tan will kill you. The truth is Earth is unique in this solar system and any colonizing for the next 10,000+ years will require domes or similar survival structures. Other than a few things like the dust problems, its a bigger issue than you think, the Moon is probably the best cannidate for colonizing. Gravity is the biggest problem with long term stays but most of the other problems can be solved with current technology. Water is a problem but mostly for fuel for ships since most of it would be recycled for human use. Energy would be far less of an issue with the strong sun exposure. Artificial planets, a Dysan sphere without a sun at the middle would be an option but even then rings like in Ringworld are superior since spinning them can reproduce the effects of gravity. Make one the diameter of the Earth and add a wall the height of our atmosphere and spin it and you effectively have a planet. Angle it to the sun and you can reproduce day and night. Youd have to cannibalize the asteroid belt and possibly part of the ort cloud for raw materials but it is possible. There are plenty of resources on the moons of the outer planets you just need to mine them and orbit the materials. Its far more practical than terraforming a known planet.
This reminds me of a running argument I have with my retired father. He complains about NASA being a waste of his tax dollars while he sits in front of a satelite TV. Refuses to see the irony.
It reminds me of a classic The Onion story about evidence of a race of a skeletons found all over the world. I'm sure creationist would see evidence of a race of skeletons being proof that evolution was false since there is no way a race of skeletons could evolve.
62% were dead beats and only 12% paid a price competitive with download services. Pretty abysmal numbers. You can't look at the total you have to look at the percentages and they weren't good. I have to believe they would also drop over time as more epople decided why should they pay when most aren't? I remember when the speed limit went from 55 to 65 or better. For months few people exceeded 65 and most actaully drove 55 or 60. Now they drive 75 in 65 zones. Take away restrictions and the standards of behavior change. A few groups will make money in the early days but eventually most won't bother to pay anything.
What concerns me as some one that lives and works on PCs, Mac, Linux, PC, is what future availability will be like. Development and production are like fast moving trains right now and they'll take a while to slow down but they almost have to slow down. I see desktop advances slowing in the next three years due to reduced demand. I have a feeling the market will go the way of american society where there will be the rich and the poor and little in between. By that I mean lower powered home PCs that are mostly a motherboard with built in audio and video and possibly many of those features hardwired into the CPU. They'll be smaller and lower power consumption and probably go largely blue tooth cordless so they take little installation. Then you'll have the expensive pro level machine for doing high end business use and graphics. Due to less demand and the expense of development they will likely increase in price and we might eventually go back to the back ole days when workstations cost 20K to 40K each, I hope we don't go back to 200K. There may be a middle ground where gamers and budget minded professional and business users live but gamers may be driven into the consol world and most businesses can live on home level machines. It'll take three to five years to see major changes and probably ten years for new sales models to completely take over but the gold rush of PC develpment is slowing. Without applications that demand speed the consumers won't demand faster machines. Video editing and gaming were the last things driving the market. Now most machines can do basic editing and gaming is shifting to consoles. Middle level graphics people like me will be the ones feeling the pinch. On the brightside machines will be fast enough that instead of half a dozen machines I'll be able to get by on one or two systems but due to expense most may have to go to leasing like many have with cars.
I don't think they included on going experiments. The study to see how crappy an OS has to be to get large numbers to switch will take a few more years and a few more service packs to reach it's conclusion.
Joss read "All My Sins Remembered". If you havent read it its a Joe Haldemen book about an operative that is programmed with personalities for extreme missions who has his memory wiped after each one. The memories slowly coming back leaving him devatated. He may have forgotten he read the book but theres little doubt he read it.
Well, admittedly it had only been a week and a half after he announced his intent to run that his numbers were there. Imagine if he'd had over a year like all the other guys. He'd be at like 120-125% by now.
Suffering a little Mac envy? This trojan requires some serious effort to install. Yes you have to install it. The Mac OS is doing exactly what its supposed to do, requiring you to authorize the installation of a piece of software, its software not a codec you are installing. Its easier to install Vista on a PC than this trojan is on a Mac. It depends more on ignorance of users not Mac security short comings. If this is the best theyve been able to do after all these years I feel better about OSX not worse.
prefer our Diebold Overlords. It takes all the guesswork out of the voting process. There's something comforting knowing the outcome of an election months before the day.
Going to the manufacturer doesn't always work either. I just went through hell with Shuttle. I had an NG Barebones. I had a local repair shop check it out and confirmed it was motherboard trouble. I shipped it back and a week or so later they returned it claiming it checked out fine. I once again assembled it and sure enough exactly the same problem, to do diligence I swapped all components it still wouldn't load Windows. I called and argued with them for an hour. I pointed out I had built five systems using their cases for myself and family in the last year and if I didn't get satisfaction I'd never buy from them again. They simply offered to check it out again and refused to replace it. It ended with me tossing the case and ordering a new system from Alienware. From here on out I buy only Boxx and Alienware systems. I lost several days to this last mess and never got the system replaced. Just not worth my time to keep building my own systems when manufactuers won't stand behind their hardware.
I'd be curious how many could pass a basic science test? Something you'd expect a science 101 student to answer. Everything from what is an element to the speed of light. I wouldn't bother to ask them to name the natural elements, I'd be shocked if most could name half. I couldn't name all the natural elements these days but I could probably name a 100 of them or close to. There's always a few rarer elements I forget. The real point is how can they make descisions about science subjects that affect us all if they can't even pass a science 101 test? It's a legimate question and far more important than their stance on abortion or gay marriage.
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Admitedly terrorists are morons, thankfully, or we'd be in a lot more trouble. The point is say if I were trying to hurt a lot of people I wouldn't hide the weapon I'd want it to draw attention. Lets say you pull a trailer up and park it on a busy street and have a large sign that says to advertise your new mobile coffee francise you were giving away iPod Nanos to the first hundred customers that buy coffee. You're guaranteed a hundred people will be waiting at the mentioned opening time and probably a whole lot more. The Russians used the technique in Afganistan and went so far as to make explosives shaped like toys trageting kids. If you want to be sure to harm people you want to draw attention but the right type of attention so it seems perfectly normal. A trailer where you seemed to be selling coffee or ice cream wouldn't attract the attention of the police unless they wanted to check your permits but they wouldn't do that until you opened for business. Hiding a bomb in a display that is designed to draw attention does make sense. If they ignored them and they did blow up then people would be screaming. The police were doing their jobs being careful but they came down hard on them afterwards out of annoyance and the fact they felt foolish but what option did they have? Yes they shouldn't have tried to throw the book at them because it's an overreaction. They meant it as kind of a gorilla advertisement and gorilla actions like placing displays without permission or permits has some risk. The police handled the aftermath poorly but they had to know there was some potential for trouble. I'm sure they were expecting a possible fine not the third degree and a possible vacation at Gitmo.
Do they still qualify as Overlords if I can squish them under my foot like their cockroach cousins?
So it's not 42?
A lot of people seem to feel the situation is different because she made a billion or so off the Potter series. Why legally has her situation changed since she was an out of work single mother handwriting a novel? She worked for more than a decade creating the characters so why shouldn't she have the right to control her work? If she allows people to freely expand on her work then she looses control and it becomes something she never intended. It happened with Robert E Howard's work after his death. Many other authors added to his mythologies but none of them equaled the original and most were just trying to make a buck off something popular. Nothing is stopping any of these people from creating original works but they know it's easier to get noticed if you lift from something popular. This is more about taking the easy road to success than creating something. She didn't take the easy road so why should others be allowed to ride her coat tails? Rowlings got lucky with the success of the series but I'm thrilled for her. She's not part of the evil empire she's a little person that made good and crossed over. She should be an axample to everyone not some one to villify when she tries to protect her creation.
What does Born to Be Wild sound like in Japanese?
Just change the version number and ship the patch. Then you can take all the time you need to fix it right.
How about requiring 30% to be good programming and limiting utter crap to 30%. Obviously it'd be best a 100% good programming but that appears to be unrealistic.
Given the amount of lead they use I'm amazed it could float.
The real truth is all the other inner planets suck as terraforming cannidates. Mars is realitively benign compared to Venus. Its the high content of sulfuric acid that would hamper terraforming. Shifting the orbit to Earth orbit might help with the greenhousing and it might be possible to blast away part of the atmosphere but removing large amounts of sulfuric acid is going to be trickier. The concentrations are high enough to erode mountains on Venus. Mars may lack a dense atmosphere and has low gravity but we can keep humans alive with current technology. Itd take thousands and perhaps millions of years of hard work to get Venus to a level where even with a space suit humans could survive on it. Were definitely talking in the millions or tens of millions of years to terraform it. Itd almost be easier to start from scratch with asteroids and comets or collide enough of them with Mars to add more mass. The real problem with Mars is the lack of an iron core so solar radiation will be an issue even with an atmosphere. No shirt sleeve weather on Mars no matter how much terraforming you do, the sun tan will kill you. The truth is Earth is unique in this solar system and any colonizing for the next 10,000+ years will require domes or similar survival structures. Other than a few things like the dust problems, its a bigger issue than you think, the Moon is probably the best cannidate for colonizing. Gravity is the biggest problem with long term stays but most of the other problems can be solved with current technology. Water is a problem but mostly for fuel for ships since most of it would be recycled for human use. Energy would be far less of an issue with the strong sun exposure. Artificial planets, a Dysan sphere without a sun at the middle would be an option but even then rings like in Ringworld are superior since spinning them can reproduce the effects of gravity. Make one the diameter of the Earth and add a wall the height of our atmosphere and spin it and you effectively have a planet. Angle it to the sun and you can reproduce day and night. Youd have to cannibalize the asteroid belt and possibly part of the ort cloud for raw materials but it is possible. There are plenty of resources on the moons of the outer planets you just need to mine them and orbit the materials. Its far more practical than terraforming a known planet.
They figured it was a time saving feature that would save bandwidth for the buyer having the Trojans preinstalled.
This reminds me of a running argument I have with my retired father. He complains about NASA being a waste of his tax dollars while he sits in front of a satelite TV. Refuses to see the irony.
It reminds me of a classic The Onion story about evidence of a race of a skeletons found all over the world. I'm sure creationist would see evidence of a race of skeletons being proof that evolution was false since there is no way a race of skeletons could evolve.
That IS a sport in some countries. Ever watch Sumo wrestling?
Hey most of my overweight friends are still alive. Maybe they have something there?
It involved a goat, a shower and a bar of soap.....I've said too much already.
62% were dead beats and only 12% paid a price competitive with download services. Pretty abysmal numbers. You can't look at the total you have to look at the percentages and they weren't good. I have to believe they would also drop over time as more epople decided why should they pay when most aren't? I remember when the speed limit went from 55 to 65 or better. For months few people exceeded 65 and most actaully drove 55 or 60. Now they drive 75 in 65 zones. Take away restrictions and the standards of behavior change. A few groups will make money in the early days but eventually most won't bother to pay anything.
From the size of the thing I wonder where the beer goes? It'd take a lot of ice given how toasty I'm guessing it gets.
What concerns me as some one that lives and works on PCs, Mac, Linux, PC, is what future availability will be like. Development and production are like fast moving trains right now and they'll take a while to slow down but they almost have to slow down. I see desktop advances slowing in the next three years due to reduced demand. I have a feeling the market will go the way of american society where there will be the rich and the poor and little in between. By that I mean lower powered home PCs that are mostly a motherboard with built in audio and video and possibly many of those features hardwired into the CPU. They'll be smaller and lower power consumption and probably go largely blue tooth cordless so they take little installation. Then you'll have the expensive pro level machine for doing high end business use and graphics. Due to less demand and the expense of development they will likely increase in price and we might eventually go back to the back ole days when workstations cost 20K to 40K each, I hope we don't go back to 200K. There may be a middle ground where gamers and budget minded professional and business users live but gamers may be driven into the consol world and most businesses can live on home level machines. It'll take three to five years to see major changes and probably ten years for new sales models to completely take over but the gold rush of PC develpment is slowing. Without applications that demand speed the consumers won't demand faster machines. Video editing and gaming were the last things driving the market. Now most machines can do basic editing and gaming is shifting to consoles. Middle level graphics people like me will be the ones feeling the pinch. On the brightside machines will be fast enough that instead of half a dozen machines I'll be able to get by on one or two systems but due to expense most may have to go to leasing like many have with cars.
I don't think they included on going experiments. The study to see how crappy an OS has to be to get large numbers to switch will take a few more years and a few more service packs to reach it's conclusion.
Joss read "All My Sins Remembered". If you havent read it its a Joe Haldemen book about an operative that is programmed with personalities for extreme missions who has his memory wiped after each one. The memories slowly coming back leaving him devatated. He may have forgotten he read the book but theres little doubt he read it.
If not higher!
Suffering a little Mac envy? This trojan requires some serious effort to install. Yes you have to install it. The Mac OS is doing exactly what its supposed to do, requiring you to authorize the installation of a piece of software, its software not a codec you are installing. Its easier to install Vista on a PC than this trojan is on a Mac. It depends more on ignorance of users not Mac security short comings. If this is the best theyve been able to do after all these years I feel better about OSX not worse.
prefer our Diebold Overlords. It takes all the guesswork out of the voting process. There's something comforting knowing the outcome of an election months before the day.
Going to the manufacturer doesn't always work either. I just went through hell with Shuttle. I had an NG Barebones. I had a local repair shop check it out and confirmed it was motherboard trouble. I shipped it back and a week or so later they returned it claiming it checked out fine. I once again assembled it and sure enough exactly the same problem, to do diligence I swapped all components it still wouldn't load Windows. I called and argued with them for an hour. I pointed out I had built five systems using their cases for myself and family in the last year and if I didn't get satisfaction I'd never buy from them again. They simply offered to check it out again and refused to replace it. It ended with me tossing the case and ordering a new system from Alienware. From here on out I buy only Boxx and Alienware systems. I lost several days to this last mess and never got the system replaced. Just not worth my time to keep building my own systems when manufactuers won't stand behind their hardware.
I'd be curious how many could pass a basic science test? Something you'd expect a science 101 student to answer. Everything from what is an element to the speed of light. I wouldn't bother to ask them to name the natural elements, I'd be shocked if most could name half. I couldn't name all the natural elements these days but I could probably name a 100 of them or close to. There's always a few rarer elements I forget. The real point is how can they make descisions about science subjects that affect us all if they can't even pass a science 101 test? It's a legimate question and far more important than their stance on abortion or gay marriage.