I wouldn't rely on Mythbusters to confirm is something is possible or impossible, but rather if they were able to repeat the event in their own, unscientific and often imprecise manner. They have 'busted' myths of actual and verified events. Mythbusters isn't the end-all be-all of what is possible.
PROTECTING THE PUBLIC. That goal is NOT punitive, and yet it is a reason for prisons. Get back to me when you've considered this subject as seriously as you pretended to.
Caps and insults aren't a rebuttal to an arguement. As for your reference to pathetic excuses, I've processed cases where individuals who didn't commit a single crime were caught up in similar databases. They lost their jobs, and in some cases their property without reimbursement. And these were the innocent.
If you can respond without namecalling and personal attacks, I will address your other points.
I like how it's "vengeance" and not "removing a proven criminal from society to minimize his ability to hurt someone else".
And if that is your intent with lengthy prison sentences, then it is doomed to fail.
Tell me, what are the options for a person who spent the last 2 years in institutionalized hell. They get out after dealing with the true scum of society and have no real employment opportunities and are expected to.... what exactly?
If the goal isn't reform, then there is no point to prison except as a punitive measure. It will not protect society from the people we send there because... surprise surprise if they don't get reformed, they get released. Unreformed and crushed by society.
I would have a harder time believing that Deckard is a replicant that 'escaped' was reprogrammed to think that he was an assassin, somehow became weaker than the other batch that escaped.
In the end, I prefer the idea that there was no unaccounted for replicant in that batch, and that Deckard maybe doubts his own origins
Why, our networks are also completely open to the NSA as well.
AT&T followed up the statement with:
We enjoy so much freedom it's almost sickening. We're free to choose which hand our sex-monitoring chip is implanted in. And if we don't want to pay our taxes, why, we're free to spend a weekend with the Pain Monster.
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Of course you aren't going to convince him...
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Likely aren't going to convince them either. Contact your own reps.
Someone will likely bring out a study that concludes that your brain interprets one-sided conversations differently than if you hear both sides of the conversation.
Personally, I think that some people just wouldn't like the person next to them at all. Cell phone or not.
I think the Vonnegut quote was more attributed to reviewers who act like the author punched them in the face.
I've seen some reviews where the writer expresses almost hatred and contempt for the work and/or author they are critiquing. It isn't necessary in a review.
If I could review, reviews... I'd rather read "In general, this is a poor novel because of this, this, and this." rather than come across a critic trying to act as a poet in bashing the work.
You would also have had to track down the issue to determine that it was the game that caused the issue in the first place.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the first time you noticed this bug be the next time you turned your machine off and not when it overwrote the boot.ini file?
There could definately be a long time between when the patch is installed, and when the problem arises.
I can almost hear the English professors foaming at the mouth.
Oh without a doubt. The best man at my wedding was one, and we have the most interesting conversations.
It is true that 'brick' is definately not the best word to use here. Same as hacking and cracking are always misused. It just seems that we can tighten the definition down to the point where almost nothing fits into the definition. Kind of like 'Irony'.
Would using the phrase 'XP unbootable' be the best in this situation?
Though I do thank you for replying to my comment that you disagreed with rather than some others who would simply mod me down due to a disagreement over semantics.
You understand the difference, I understand the difference, but who the hell cares? If you have 100 words or less to get your point across, use the term that your audience would understand, and with a hint of thought could realize the intention.
People with one machine and w/o a Linux live CD (probably 90% of windows users) would have a bricked machine barring any outside assistance.
Just like a dead battery in your car doesn't 'brick' your car, but if you can't find anyone willing to give you a jumpstart you aren't going to be doing much driving with it.
I wonder if this is going to cause any unpleasant and potentially expensive legal repercussions for CCP, from users who have lost data while trying to fix the issue?
At the very least, it will give us a better indication of just how binding those EULAs are.
With respect to the bug, I'm an ex-tech. I've spent so long away from tinkering with my OS that it would probably take me a good long time to realize just what was wrong. I could probably repair the machine once I did find out that it was a boot.ini issue, but it could take a while.
I would imagine that a lot of these people, even if they are 'techy', don't have more than one machine. Without the ability to check the tech support pages, or another machine on which to test/repair the HD, it would be pretty damned annoying at a minimum.
If CS grads are supposed to start out at $50-70k I am either retarded or grossly underpaid. Highest offer I got fresh out of college last year with almost 2 years of relevant internship experience was $45K.
When adjusted for reality your bio people are living below the poverty line in most areas.
Depends on the area where you first get the job offer. I started out in a wealthy area, with moderate housing costs and after a few years moved to an area with a low cost of living. I got a higher (well higher than 50k) starting salary whereas people who started in my area were starting at below 50.
Typically the difference between the maximum and minimum penalties is how much lawyer you can afford.
I don't care if the penalty is there, but rarely used. If it is only intended for commercial violators, then it needs to be written that way and you should never rely on what 'typically' would occur.
15% was the polite minimum years ago, 20% in expensive cities. But the cost of living has gone up a lot since the early 90s, and wages at the bottom rung haven't. And since we don't have a society that can run without bottom-tier jobs, it's good civics to update custom.
Except that a % doesn't have to increase to match cost of living increases. The fact that it is a percentage automatically adjusts it for cost of living.
$10 meal in 1950 at 20%?.....$2 $100 meal in 2007 at 20%.....$20
So no, tip %'s don't have to increase with the 'times'.
While I love the landscape/cityscapes in Europe, in any city that hasn't shut down their growth an elevated platform is probably the simplest/cheapest solution for growing the mass transit. Certainly there are obstacles (power lines, obstructed views, etc) but they are many orders of magnitude less than the obstacles faced by an underground system.
I just have this image of a subway being built under an old European city, them discovering another city buried underneath the 'modern' one and it holding up construction for years while it is excavated.
What do you mean by non-existent threat? Were the bomb attacks on the Madrid and London transport systems non-existent? Were they only credible after they'd happened?
The key word being or. He said rare or non-existant.
The fact that you can mention the bombings with a location, and we know of the SINGLE instance that you are referring to suggests that it is pretty damned rare.
Want an example of something that isn't rare?
Remember that time on I-95 there was that multi-death car crash?
unless you're in a car crash and passed out just after you dialed 112. yeah, way better system.
Would you care if your phone made a loud beep, or sent you a text message if you were unconscious?
If you pass out after dialing, it wouldn't matter what sort of notification your phone gives. It could vibrate, set off a siren, and flash lights... and you would still be passed out.
It wouldn't be much benefit for some searching for you either, I would imagine the tire tracks and smoking wreckage would be a bit more obvious than a beeping cell phone.
It does provide a bit of a controlled environment that can be used to test economic theories. Ignoring for a moment that these economies deal in imaginary goods, they still provide the human/corporate reaction to stimuli.
You also end up with a pseudo real-life model in which factors cannot be hidden from the person conducting the study. Since all the information is stored and can't be hidden from the system you have fewer limitations.
That's why real economists get paid big bucks to process the figures and turn out reports that reflect the variables that each quarter holds.
However, though EVE's timeline is accelerated and thus requires special attention in that aspect, it is much less subject to the seasons and holidays than a real world economy. Of course, if you wanted to try to be really accurate you could try to consider how the habits of the players would affect the economy based on regional holidays.
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I wouldn't rely on Mythbusters to confirm is something is possible or impossible, but rather if they were able to repeat the event in their own, unscientific and often imprecise manner. They have 'busted' myths of actual and verified events. Mythbusters isn't the end-all be-all of what is possible.
PROTECTING THE PUBLIC. That goal is NOT punitive, and yet it is a reason for prisons. Get back to me when you've considered this subject as seriously as you pretended to.
Caps and insults aren't a rebuttal to an arguement. As for your reference to pathetic excuses, I've processed cases where individuals who didn't commit a single crime were caught up in similar databases. They lost their jobs, and in some cases their property without reimbursement. And these were the innocent.
If you can respond without namecalling and personal attacks, I will address your other points.
I like how it's "vengeance" and not "removing a proven criminal from society to minimize his ability to hurt someone else".
And if that is your intent with lengthy prison sentences, then it is doomed to fail.
Tell me, what are the options for a person who spent the last 2 years in institutionalized hell. They get out after dealing with the true scum of society and have no real employment opportunities and are expected to.... what exactly?
If the goal isn't reform, then there is no point to prison except as a punitive measure. It will not protect society from the people we send there because... surprise surprise if they don't get reformed, they get released. Unreformed and crushed by society.
I would have a harder time believing that Deckard is a replicant that 'escaped' was reprogrammed to think that he was an assassin, somehow became weaker than the other batch that escaped.
In the end, I prefer the idea that there was no unaccounted for replicant in that batch, and that Deckard maybe doubts his own origins
Why, our networks are also completely open to the NSA as well.
AT&T followed up the statement with:
We enjoy so much freedom it's almost sickening. We're free to choose which hand our sex-monitoring chip is implanted in. And if we don't want to pay our taxes, why, we're free to spend a weekend with the Pain Monster.
The bill's sponsor:
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Of course you aren't going to convince him...
Cosponsors:
Berman, Howard L. [CA-28]
Chabot, Steve [OH-1]
Cohen, Steve [TN-9]
Feeney, Tom [FL-24]
Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6]
Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]
Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18]
Keller, Ric [FL-8]
Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29]
Smith, Lamar [TX-21]
Wexler, Robert [FL-19]
Likely aren't going to convince them either.
Contact your own reps.
Someone will likely bring out a study that concludes that your brain interprets one-sided conversations differently than if you hear both sides of the conversation.
Personally, I think that some people just wouldn't like the person next to them at all. Cell phone or not.
If given the choice between hot steel inside my rib cage and Parkinson's disease?
I think the Vonnegut quote was more attributed to reviewers who act like the author punched them in the face.
I've seen some reviews where the writer expresses almost hatred and contempt for the work and/or author they are critiquing. It isn't necessary in a review.
If I could review, reviews... I'd rather read "In general, this is a poor novel because of this, this, and this." rather than come across a critic trying to act as a poet in bashing the work.
You would also have had to track down the issue to determine that it was the game that caused the issue in the first place.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the first time you noticed this bug be the next time you turned your machine off and not when it overwrote the boot.ini file?
There could definately be a long time between when the patch is installed, and when the problem arises.
I can almost hear the English professors foaming at the mouth.
Oh without a doubt. The best man at my wedding was one, and we have the most interesting conversations.
It is true that 'brick' is definately not the best word to use here. Same as hacking and cracking are always misused. It just seems that we can tighten the definition down to the point where almost nothing fits into the definition. Kind of like 'Irony'.
Would using the phrase 'XP unbootable' be the best in this situation?
Though I do thank you for replying to my comment that you disagreed with rather than some others who would simply mod me down due to a disagreement over semantics.
You understand the difference, I understand the difference, but who the hell cares? If you have 100 words or less to get your point across, use the term that your audience would understand, and with a hint of thought could realize the intention.
As I mentioned in my previous post:
People with one machine and w/o a Linux live CD (probably 90% of windows users) would have a bricked machine barring any outside assistance.
Just like a dead battery in your car doesn't 'brick' your car, but if you can't find anyone willing to give you a jumpstart you aren't going to be doing much driving with it.
I wonder if this is going to cause any unpleasant and potentially expensive legal repercussions for CCP, from users who have lost data while trying to fix the issue?
At the very least, it will give us a better indication of just how binding those EULAs are.
With respect to the bug, I'm an ex-tech. I've spent so long away from tinkering with my OS that it would probably take me a good long time to realize just what was wrong. I could probably repair the machine once I did find out that it was a boot.ini issue, but it could take a while.
I would imagine that a lot of these people, even if they are 'techy', don't have more than one machine. Without the ability to check the tech support pages, or another machine on which to test/repair the HD, it would be pretty damned annoying at a minimum.
If CS grads are supposed to start out at $50-70k I am either retarded or grossly underpaid. Highest offer I got fresh out of college last year with almost 2 years of relevant internship experience was $45K.
When adjusted for reality your bio people are living below the poverty line in most areas.
Depends on the area where you first get the job offer. I started out in a wealthy area, with moderate housing costs and after a few years moved to an area with a low cost of living. I got a higher (well higher than 50k) starting salary whereas people who started in my area were starting at below 50.
Typically the difference between the maximum and minimum penalties is how much lawyer you can afford.
I don't care if the penalty is there, but rarely used. If it is only intended for commercial violators, then it needs to be written that way and you should never rely on what 'typically' would occur.
15% was the polite minimum years ago, 20% in expensive cities. But the cost of living has gone up a lot since the early 90s, and wages at the bottom rung haven't. And since we don't have a society that can run without bottom-tier jobs, it's good civics to update custom.
Except that a % doesn't have to increase to match cost of living increases. The fact that it is a percentage automatically adjusts it for cost of living.
$10 meal in 1950 at 20%?.....$2
$100 meal in 2007 at 20%.....$20
So no, tip %'s don't have to increase with the 'times'.
100 years to evolve... and stop.
While I love the landscape/cityscapes in Europe, in any city that hasn't shut down their growth an elevated platform is probably the simplest/cheapest solution for growing the mass transit. Certainly there are obstacles (power lines, obstructed views, etc) but they are many orders of magnitude less than the obstacles faced by an underground system.
I just have this image of a subway being built under an old European city, them discovering another city buried underneath the 'modern' one and it holding up construction for years while it is excavated.
What do you mean by non-existent threat? Were the bomb attacks on the Madrid and London transport systems non-existent? Were they only credible after they'd happened?
The key word being or. He said rare or non-existant.
The fact that you can mention the bombings with a location, and we know of the SINGLE instance that you are referring to suggests that it is pretty damned rare.
Want an example of something that isn't rare?
Remember that time on I-95 there was that multi-death car crash?
unless you're in a car crash and passed out just after you dialed 112. yeah, way better system.
Would you care if your phone made a loud beep, or sent you a text message if you were unconscious?
If you pass out after dialing, it wouldn't matter what sort of notification your phone gives. It could vibrate, set off a siren, and flash lights... and you would still be passed out.
It wouldn't be much benefit for some searching for you either, I would imagine the tire tracks and smoking wreckage would be a bit more obvious than a beeping cell phone.
You have a kid... this implies you have had sex.
;)
Speaking for a large portion of the slashdot population...
What's it like?
Actually it just implies that his wife had sex.
I've never played EVE so I'm going to assume that 'Isk' is something like ore or gold?
It does provide a bit of a controlled environment that can be used to test economic theories. Ignoring for a moment that these economies deal in imaginary goods, they still provide the human/corporate reaction to stimuli.
You also end up with a pseudo real-life model in which factors cannot be hidden from the person conducting the study. Since all the information is stored and can't be hidden from the system you have fewer limitations.
That's why real economists get paid big bucks to process the figures and turn out reports that reflect the variables that each quarter holds.
However, though EVE's timeline is accelerated and thus requires special attention in that aspect, it is much less subject to the seasons and holidays than a real world economy. Of course, if you wanted to try to be really accurate you could try to consider how the habits of the players would affect the economy based on regional holidays.