..and I took a basic assembler course in my last year. Though I can safely say I will never program in assembler, the insight into how data is stored in memory (little endian, for example) is important. Also, programming in such small steps allows you to appreciate system resources. It has made me a more efficient C-language programmer. I do not regret my choice, and as long as computers still operate on the same foundations they always have, assembler will always have it's place.
Unbelievable. Windows has 12x the severe vulnerabilities of OSX, and only 20% less total vulnerabilities, but Apple manages to patch 3x as many fixes in a day. Windows is more secure by those numbers??
Honestly, who is dumb enough to trust the opinion of a supposed "third-party vendor" who's only viable market consists entirely of Windows users? Seems a wee bit biased to me..
INAL, but I'm pretty sure Google is obeying the law here. Hourly workers are governed by a lot of employment laws that salary workers are not. The above-mentioned compulsory lunch breaks, as an example.
Is this poster complaining about Google, or are they praising? A news story is no place for excessive sarcasm.
Supposed "remote viewer" Major Ed Dames has not-so-accurately predicted such a solar flare. He calls it the "Killshot" and says it will end most life on the planet.
And naturally he is selling the secrets of how to survive this solar flare on DVD for the low low price of $24.99. Still, it's interesting to see a psychic's claim being backed by scientific observations.
..that the only feasible organization that has the ability to spot and prevent such disasters is based in the US. Maybe it's time NASA started looking for serious, private funding? Imagine how much they could do if the government contracted NASA with billions of dollars instead of spending all the tax dollars on new tanks..
Reality is, unfortunately, that war is expensive, especially when the current president thinks that money is just a bunch of numbers he gives to other people for things that go "boom". I'm afraid the longer this war goes on, the more government-funded organizations we're going to see having problems like this.
"So we worked with Games Workshop, broadened our license, extended it out, and are announcing that we're putting the MMO into development down in Austin, TX."
His actual use of the word "announcing" seems to conflict with your.. interpretation.
One thing that people seem to forget time and again is that you can not judge tomorrow's prices on yesterday's prices. Inflation [unanimocracy.com] has destroyed the US dollar (down 50% in 5 years), so prices double of what we paid 5 years ago can be considered "par" with the fall in value of the dollar. I think $500 is a reasonable price..
This doesn't make any sense. New, comparable items being (in your opinion) reasonably priced at "double of what we paid 5 years ago" is ridiculous. Your reasoning is flawed insomuch that you assume people are being paid double what they were 5 years ago, which is simply not the case. Maybe the inflation vs. price increase debate would be worth here had anyone been talking about global economics, but when referring to products in a strictly domestic sense, inflation doesn't matter. Consumers don't want to pay double what they did last year for something that's just as good in comparison.
However, don't misunderstand my point. I'm merely arguing semantics here. The iPhone may or may not be worth $500. My point is that you have no right to claim an increase in costs should be proportionate to the rate of inflation.
I'm of the small minority of players that purchased the expansion with great intent, and then realized what a small amount of content was added for a year of development. The game is still the same, the only difference is that it takes up more space on my drive. The customer service is atrocious, and I've now sworn off of it for good.
$15 a month may not mean a lot to a company that pulls in billions a year, but it means a lot to me, and it's my $15. They have to earn it by doing more than making me cough up an extra $40 every year. Their community is in horrible shape, and their employees are offensive and unhelpful.
I say "good riddance" as I remove this horrible and horribly supported product from my computer.
I'm not surprised to see OpenOffice and FireFox missing from that list. MS should be doing the work to get all these apps to run on their OS, but I can clearly see why they don't care about those two pieces. But Adobe Photoshop?? What's wrong with them? Are they purposefully trying to herd the remaining Windows-artists to Macs? What a stupid move.
I wouldn't exactly imply that the Moon would be safer for certain experiments. The last thing we would want to do, would be to alter it in any way. Tidal forces are very important to our planet's ecosystems. Also, the Moon may not be as "structurally sound" as the Earth. We don't know nearly as much about it as we do the Earth. It would be a bad idea to make those kinds of assumptions.
This is the same reason I don't trust those prime-time magicians like David Blane and Chris Angel. I'm not a straight-up unbeliever, but I don't get how some people can watch their TV shows and start believing it's 100% real. With today's technology, there are too many signal hops between the camera in Florida and my TV in Canada. There are so many things that people can do before that signal reaches my TV, especially when the footage is not live.
Nintendo did an excellent job speeding out a few good, solid games when the Wii launched. IMO, these games weren't intended to have an incredible lifetime, indeed, they served their purpose; to create enough hype so that the Wii would still sell in the face of other systems during the holidays. Now, as with most of the other systems, we must wait for what I'm sure will be a solid game base to flourish.
You have to think about it - developers have just been exposed to a massively, paradigm-breaking gaming concept. Give them time. Just because the hype has settled down, doesn't mean the magic's gone.
..until this kind of gene therapy is available on the black market or to the general public? Maybe the Olympics will have to start doing genetic tests for enhanced performance genes. Kinda weird to think of it that way.
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The EU certainly seem to have a hate-on for a lot of corporations these days.
More people should read this response.
..and I took a basic assembler course in my last year. Though I can safely say I will never program in assembler, the insight into how data is stored in memory (little endian, for example) is important. Also, programming in such small steps allows you to appreciate system resources. It has made me a more efficient C-language programmer. I do not regret my choice, and as long as computers still operate on the same foundations they always have, assembler will always have it's place.
Unbelievable. Windows has 12x the severe vulnerabilities of OSX, and only 20% less total vulnerabilities, but Apple manages to patch 3x as many fixes in a day. Windows is more secure by those numbers??
Honestly, who is dumb enough to trust the opinion of a supposed "third-party vendor" who's only viable market consists entirely of Windows users? Seems a wee bit biased to me..
INAL, but I'm pretty sure Google is obeying the law here. Hourly workers are governed by a lot of employment laws that salary workers are not. The above-mentioned compulsory lunch breaks, as an example.
Is this poster complaining about Google, or are they praising? A news story is no place for excessive sarcasm.
No, I would still say it's interesting, but I would, however, definitely agree with you if you were to say it's not at all realistic.
Supposed "remote viewer" Major Ed Dames has not-so-accurately predicted such a solar flare. He calls it the "Killshot" and says it will end most life on the planet.
And naturally he is selling the secrets of how to survive this solar flare on DVD for the low low price of $24.99. Still, it's interesting to see a psychic's claim being backed by scientific observations.
However, Nick Of Time did an excellent and successful job of following this rule.
..that the only feasible organization that has the ability to spot and prevent such disasters is based in the US. Maybe it's time NASA started looking for serious, private funding? Imagine how much they could do if the government contracted NASA with billions of dollars instead of spending all the tax dollars on new tanks..
Reality is, unfortunately, that war is expensive, especially when the current president thinks that money is just a bunch of numbers he gives to other people for things that go "boom". I'm afraid the longer this war goes on, the more government-funded organizations we're going to see having problems like this.
Maybe they just didn't feel like playing video games?
His actual use of the word "announcing" seems to conflict with your.. interpretation.
How would global warming, if it even exists as people say it does, affect the temperature of water on the ocean floor?
This doesn't make any sense. New, comparable items being (in your opinion) reasonably priced at "double of what we paid 5 years ago" is ridiculous. Your reasoning is flawed insomuch that you assume people are being paid double what they were 5 years ago, which is simply not the case. Maybe the inflation vs. price increase debate would be worth here had anyone been talking about global economics, but when referring to products in a strictly domestic sense, inflation doesn't matter. Consumers don't want to pay double what they did last year for something that's just as good in comparison.
However, don't misunderstand my point. I'm merely arguing semantics here. The iPhone may or may not be worth $500. My point is that you have no right to claim an increase in costs should be proportionate to the rate of inflation.
It's not a straight equation for the cost. The monthly fee goes down the more months you buy at a time.
I'm of the small minority of players that purchased the expansion with great intent, and then realized what a small amount of content was added for a year of development. The game is still the same, the only difference is that it takes up more space on my drive. The customer service is atrocious, and I've now sworn off of it for good.
$15 a month may not mean a lot to a company that pulls in billions a year, but it means a lot to me, and it's my $15. They have to earn it by doing more than making me cough up an extra $40 every year. Their community is in horrible shape, and their employees are offensive and unhelpful.
I say "good riddance" as I remove this horrible and horribly supported product from my computer.
I'm not surprised to see OpenOffice and FireFox missing from that list. MS should be doing the work to get all these apps to run on their OS, but I can clearly see why they don't care about those two pieces. But Adobe Photoshop?? What's wrong with them? Are they purposefully trying to herd the remaining Windows-artists to Macs? What a stupid move.
I wouldn't exactly imply that the Moon would be safer for certain experiments. The last thing we would want to do, would be to alter it in any way. Tidal forces are very important to our planet's ecosystems. Also, the Moon may not be as "structurally sound" as the Earth. We don't know nearly as much about it as we do the Earth. It would be a bad idea to make those kinds of assumptions.
It's a joke. Laugh.
Next thing we know, the whole station will be held together with duct tape.
This is the same reason I don't trust those prime-time magicians like David Blane and Chris Angel. I'm not a straight-up unbeliever, but I don't get how some people can watch their TV shows and start believing it's 100% real. With today's technology, there are too many signal hops between the camera in Florida and my TV in Canada. There are so many things that people can do before that signal reaches my TV, especially when the footage is not live.
I think your train of thought derailed.
Nintendo did an excellent job speeding out a few good, solid games when the Wii launched. IMO, these games weren't intended to have an incredible lifetime, indeed, they served their purpose; to create enough hype so that the Wii would still sell in the face of other systems during the holidays. Now, as with most of the other systems, we must wait for what I'm sure will be a solid game base to flourish.
You have to think about it - developers have just been exposed to a massively, paradigm-breaking gaming concept. Give them time. Just because the hype has settled down, doesn't mean the magic's gone.
..until this kind of gene therapy is available on the black market or to the general public? Maybe the Olympics will have to start doing genetic tests for enhanced performance genes. Kinda weird to think of it that way.
You could always wrap yourself in tinfoil.. but then again, you would stick out a bit more than usual.