That depends on whether or not you're the only [insert race] person in the [insert alternative race] ghetto. For instance, I'm acquaintances with a white couple in a part of Venezuela. They have massive castle like locks (2x4 sized thing you slide over to stop the door opening) on both interior and exterior doors as well as bars on every window. The idea being that the 'bad guys' may break through the first set of barriers before help arrives but are unlikely to get through yet another set of barriers. Insane really...
Video isn't doing too badly either yet in comparison to YouTube it's fairly bad.
Sorrty to pick nits, but Google owns youtube. So, Google is doing quite well in the on-demand video market. I wonder if the next step will be a netflix-esque movies on demand service. For all I know, the Netflix thing could be powered by Google. *shrug*
Having an English website based outside of the United States is not illegal, nor should you be legally responsible for what U.S. citizens do on your English website. If it's illegal for Americans to gamble online, that's their own fault for doing so, not mine. How one can't decipher the difference between this and lobbing rpgs across the border I don't know.
There are thing jobs and people jobs. A thing does what you tell it to. You don't have to coddle it's feelings, and it doesn't care about yours. The thing is perfect in that it always reacts the same given a particular stimuli. Person jobs are quite different in that they require that you deal with the complex inner-worksings of the human psyche. It's no secret that tech people tend to be lacking at least slightly in social skills. IT is a thing job. It is a job which is more suited for people who are thing people. Women, bio-evolutionarily speaking, are very social beings and tend not to be suited for thing jobs. There are exceptions of course just as there are men who excel in very social jobs. This isn't to say that women don't have the same IQ as men, but IQ is measured in many different ways. I believe it is more the personality traits inherent in the sexes which create the disparity here.
Without going off on some religious tangent, I just wanted to say that I am appreciative of this support for the linux community. I'm pretty happy with my windows binary codecs, but if this works well and has a fair price I may pick it up to show my financial support for companies which support linux.
And, name me one thing that Apple has done that involves DRM, besides the iTunes Music Store. You can't, because they haven't done ANYTHING.
Wake me up when I can run OSX on generic x86 hardware. You can't even run OSX in an emulator unless the host system is OSX running on Mac hardware. Geez, fanboy much?
it's because in most non-IT industries the IT people are costs to be minimized rather than part of the profit center of the company. We are overhead and we are treated as such. If you search around long enough you'll find management/owners who respect you (assuing you respect them) and life will be wonderful for both parts of the team. Otherwise, be prepared to be minimized as much as possible.
More importantly if it were government based these researchers would simply provide capital to their 'friends.' In the capitalist system they may still provide money to their friends, but if their friends don't provide a sizable return on investment you soon run out of capital to invest. In the government scenario if your 'friend' fails to provide return on investment you simply pull more funds from the coffer to give to your friend, or another friend.
I agree entirely. The 360 has had a full year of game releases and hardware improvements over the PS3. According to the summary MS sold more 360s in Dec '06 than it did in its release year. I expect Dec '07 to be similar for the PS3. The PS3 will get a year of hefty games, blue ray movies, and maybe a slight price drop. Once that happens Christmas '07 they will sell another million units easy.
No, but you can invest capital in a fledgling bio company who produces a new type of corn that grows 20% more food per acre and with 10% less fertilizer which creates food for MILLIONS of people. A single person on the ground planting and picking corn may produce enough corn to feed a few dozen families. Besides, that farmer would not be able to produce any real amount of corn without the tank sized tractor engineered and manufactured by a company who received capital investments.
Actually, it's more of a big "FUCK YOU" to small business. Big business had solutions in place before these things left beta. It's a major BOON for developers who now get to fix old apps for contractor rates.
Agriculturalism leads to overpopulation, disease, and eventually famine. Technically speaking, we'd be more in balance with nature as hunter/gatherer. I suppose that's too anti-evolution for you though.
Google places a cookie on your browser which indicates you have authenticated to Google. The afflicted website makes the same exact ajax call Gmail does in order to download the contact information. Since your browser holds the appropriate cookie, Google happily obliges and hands your contacts information over to your browser. Google.com has no way of knowing that it was javascript from another site which initiated the request, the request is coming from your browser's xmlhttp object, just like every other ajax request. The exciting part is that this exploit should work for any website, not just Gmail. It's always important to click 'log out' or close your browser when leaving sites you've authenticated to. Especially sites with personal information like webmail, banks, etc.
Yes actually, they will. Any hospital classified as not-for-profit must treat patients without insurance. The biggest hospital in Orlando is not for profit. You'd be surprised how many hospitals are classified as not for profit.
More accurately, when an e-mail or a few thousand e-mails are gone, they aren't going to spend any real effort retrieving that data. It's unlikely that that data is COMPLETELY gone, it just doesn't make business sense to try to dig it up. GMail is not an enterprise solution, it's ad-supported webmail. Seriously folks, get some perspective.
China and Japan will absolutely NOT let the value of the dollar drop 30% if they can help it. They don't want the value of all of that debt they've purchased from us to be completely worthless. Plus, if the dollar drops it will magically become more beneficial to manufacture goods within the U.S. which will hurt their respective economies.
Part of the compensation package is a maximum of 4 weeks salary every March. Basically, come tax season, they need to spend all the profit they've racked up so that they can retain their not for profit status. It's almost like government at end of the fiscal year, spend spend spend! Anyways, it's expected and I don't really look at it as the company doing something nice for me. It's just part of the package. Now the surprise was a $25 Regal gift certificate + $10 Chili's gift certificate. Dinner for one and a movie + snacks for two. Not a bad deal. *shrug*
I disagree. I believe both the totally religious and totally atheist belief systems negate free will. If the deity is said to be omniscient, then you have no free will. You may feel as though you are making a choice, but the fact of the matter is that you are only acting out your part in a play written since the beginning of time. On the other hand, if you completely negate the soul, then you are merely a complex automaton which only reacts to external stimuli. Regardless of whether you may think you are deciding on your own, it was simply a matter of complex physics which ultimately determined the outcome of an event within your mind.
That's like looking at a key eye witness who saw you stab Nicole Brown Simpson and saying "How do I know you weren't on LSD and just imagining me there?" Seriously, independent third party witnesses are key to the judicial process. Get over yourself. Google openly makes money on the fact that they keep track of your browsing habits in order to make their advertising revenue more beneficial to their paying customers. Google could plaster those records for everyone on the planet to see them and your rights still haven't been violated. If you don't like what Google or any other company does, don't use them. With Google it's especially easy to avoid. Being a techy, you could take it a step farther and route google.com to/dev/null.
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That depends on whether or not you're the only [insert race] person in the [insert alternative race] ghetto. For instance, I'm acquaintances with a white couple in a part of Venezuela. They have massive castle like locks (2x4 sized thing you slide over to stop the door opening) on both interior and exterior doors as well as bars on every window. The idea being that the 'bad guys' may break through the first set of barriers before help arrives but are unlikely to get through yet another set of barriers. Insane really...
Yeah, but the cost of oil went down to like $52 a barrel. All of your power consumption woes are from hence forth removed. =)
Sorrty to pick nits, but Google owns youtube. So, Google is doing quite well in the on-demand video market. I wonder if the next step will be a netflix-esque movies on demand service. For all I know, the Netflix thing could be powered by Google. *shrug*
Perhaps it wasn't easily inferred, but the article is talking about voting machines in the United States.
Having an English website based outside of the United States is not illegal, nor should you be legally responsible for what U.S. citizens do on your English website. If it's illegal for Americans to gamble online, that's their own fault for doing so, not mine. How one can't decipher the difference between this and lobbing rpgs across the border I don't know.
There are thing jobs and people jobs. A thing does what you tell it to. You don't have to coddle it's feelings, and it doesn't care about yours. The thing is perfect in that it always reacts the same given a particular stimuli. Person jobs are quite different in that they require that you deal with the complex inner-worksings of the human psyche. It's no secret that tech people tend to be lacking at least slightly in social skills. IT is a thing job. It is a job which is more suited for people who are thing people. Women, bio-evolutionarily speaking, are very social beings and tend not to be suited for thing jobs. There are exceptions of course just as there are men who excel in very social jobs. This isn't to say that women don't have the same IQ as men, but IQ is measured in many different ways. I believe it is more the personality traits inherent in the sexes which create the disparity here.
Without going off on some religious tangent, I just wanted to say that I am appreciative of this support for the linux community. I'm pretty happy with my windows binary codecs, but if this works well and has a fair price I may pick it up to show my financial support for companies which support linux.
Wake me up when I can run OSX on generic x86 hardware. You can't even run OSX in an emulator unless the host system is OSX running on Mac hardware. Geez, fanboy much?
it's because in most non-IT industries the IT people are costs to be minimized rather than part of the profit center of the company. We are overhead and we are treated as such. If you search around long enough you'll find management/owners who respect you (assuing you respect them) and life will be wonderful for both parts of the team. Otherwise, be prepared to be minimized as much as possible.
More importantly if it were government based these researchers would simply provide capital to their 'friends.' In the capitalist system they may still provide money to their friends, but if their friends don't provide a sizable return on investment you soon run out of capital to invest. In the government scenario if your 'friend' fails to provide return on investment you simply pull more funds from the coffer to give to your friend, or another friend.
I agree entirely. The 360 has had a full year of game releases and hardware improvements over the PS3. According to the summary MS sold more 360s in Dec '06 than it did in its release year. I expect Dec '07 to be similar for the PS3. The PS3 will get a year of hefty games, blue ray movies, and maybe a slight price drop. Once that happens Christmas '07 they will sell another million units easy.
No, but you can invest capital in a fledgling bio company who produces a new type of corn that grows 20% more food per acre and with 10% less fertilizer which creates food for MILLIONS of people. A single person on the ground planting and picking corn may produce enough corn to feed a few dozen families. Besides, that farmer would not be able to produce any real amount of corn without the tank sized tractor engineered and manufactured by a company who received capital investments.
Obviously these pirates are simply a victim of their 'axis of evil' government and must be liberated from tyranny.
In other news, there is no east and west but only completely arbitrary directional designations on this imperfect ellipsoid we call Earth.
Actually, it's more of a big "FUCK YOU" to small business. Big business had solutions in place before these things left beta. It's a major BOON for developers who now get to fix old apps for contractor rates.
Guess what folks! Connecting your computer to the internet was unsafe 365 days last year!
Agriculturalism leads to overpopulation, disease, and eventually famine. Technically speaking, we'd be more in balance with nature as hunter/gatherer. I suppose that's too anti-evolution for you though.
I suspect it works like the following:
Google places a cookie on your browser which indicates you have authenticated to Google. The afflicted website makes the same exact ajax call Gmail does in order to download the contact information. Since your browser holds the appropriate cookie, Google happily obliges and hands your contacts information over to your browser. Google.com has no way of knowing that it was javascript from another site which initiated the request, the request is coming from your browser's xmlhttp object, just like every other ajax request. The exciting part is that this exploit should work for any website, not just Gmail. It's always important to click 'log out' or close your browser when leaving sites you've authenticated to. Especially sites with personal information like webmail, banks, etc.
Yes actually, they will. Any hospital classified as not-for-profit must treat patients without insurance. The biggest hospital in Orlando is not for profit. You'd be surprised how many hospitals are classified as not for profit.
More accurately, when an e-mail or a few thousand e-mails are gone, they aren't going to spend any real effort retrieving that data. It's unlikely that that data is COMPLETELY gone, it just doesn't make business sense to try to dig it up. GMail is not an enterprise solution, it's ad-supported webmail. Seriously folks, get some perspective.
I think that's called lightning.
China and Japan will absolutely NOT let the value of the dollar drop 30% if they can help it. They don't want the value of all of that debt they've purchased from us to be completely worthless. Plus, if the dollar drops it will magically become more beneficial to manufacture goods within the U.S. which will hurt their respective economies.
Part of the compensation package is a maximum of 4 weeks salary every March. Basically, come tax season, they need to spend all the profit they've racked up so that they can retain their not for profit status. It's almost like government at end of the fiscal year, spend spend spend! Anyways, it's expected and I don't really look at it as the company doing something nice for me. It's just part of the package. Now the surprise was a $25 Regal gift certificate + $10 Chili's gift certificate. Dinner for one and a movie + snacks for two. Not a bad deal. *shrug*
I disagree. I believe both the totally religious and totally atheist belief systems negate free will. If the deity is said to be omniscient, then you have no free will. You may feel as though you are making a choice, but the fact of the matter is that you are only acting out your part in a play written since the beginning of time. On the other hand, if you completely negate the soul, then you are merely a complex automaton which only reacts to external stimuli. Regardless of whether you may think you are deciding on your own, it was simply a matter of complex physics which ultimately determined the outcome of an event within your mind.
That's like looking at a key eye witness who saw you stab Nicole Brown Simpson and saying "How do I know you weren't on LSD and just imagining me there?" Seriously, independent third party witnesses are key to the judicial process. Get over yourself. Google openly makes money on the fact that they keep track of your browsing habits in order to make their advertising revenue more beneficial to their paying customers. Google could plaster those records for everyone on the planet to see them and your rights still haven't been violated. If you don't like what Google or any other company does, don't use them. With Google it's especially easy to avoid. Being a techy, you could take it a step farther and route google.com to /dev/null.