It still remains unclear as to exactly why this bill was proposed and what its objectives are.
The objective is to make money for the company which paid into Ben Hueso's campaign fund and which, shocker!!, just happens to make exactly this sort of item or has "key patents" on it. Whenever something smells fishy, follow the money. Just ask yourself, "Who stands to benefit financially from this?" and you'll have your answer.
Without known-secure hardware and and OS to run it, all the fucking encryption in the world don't mean squat. And before the fanbois scream, "Lunix is Teh Shiznit Seckyoor!" remember that you have to know the compiler is safe as well (*cough*Ken*Thompson*cough*).
So no resale at all rather than the shitty 3% return most campus bookstores pay. No holding onto for future reference. Little ability to gloss notes. And with the money they "save", students will be able to cover almost half of the "general fee" increase this year.
This shit isn't worthy of the label "news" or "current events" or even "docu-romcom-tainment-dramedy". The stupidity isn't even worthy of a mention on Something Awful let alone anyone getting involved.enough to respond with a "Bite me" picture of a hot dog.
> Giving him the prize would also 'save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute
>incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama'
What saved them from the disrepute of giving it to Kissinger & Arafat? Forgetfulness?
Icelandic still has them. If they were really important we'd return to using them. They're not and we don't. I'm all for them (and eth, Ð/ð) but there's no need. There's a much better case to be made for a glyph to represent and/or but even the one offered doesn't flow; it's hard to distinguish from the ampersand and not easily written without multiple strokes which themselves lead to more confusion than clarification.
Sorry? Because you doubt the T&Cs right there on the site? As for the last line, you're not terribly imaginative, are you? The free access means anyone who wants to learn how to use any of Oracle's products to, say, get a job, can do so for free.
Any company considering systems (Oracle sells hardware, OS, database, back end, middleware and front end) doesn't have to pay first and hope later. Developers can and do build full turnkey solutions at zero speculation cost. Try that with DB2 or MS Foxbase Pro. Try it with SAP (for that manner, try getting SAP to run on Flash.free Apple). Can you imagine it now? This is the same thing as Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk and the rest giving freebies to schools and deep-discounting for students.
It's free for personal use (edelivery.oracle.com) just like all Oracle software. You only need paid licenses and support for commercial use. For that you need a lot of money.
Simply turning off the fucking floodlights wouldn't just save DB a fortune on juice, it makes vandal highly visible. You can't tag if you can't see; any light is a give-away. But since DB can count on continued tax money and political support -- and because no bureaucrat or middle manager ever got ahead by reducing waste or head count -- they'll spearhead the use of drones. The justice ministry and police will follow.
1) The games that had stood the test of time for. gameplay.
2) Terrible gimmicks are Nintendo's fault? I like DDR (because I can beat my wife at it). I like Mario Kart (my kid likes to play with me). I like LfD and the old arcade-style quick games that Sports and similar offer. My wife likes the yoga shit. NfS sucks because it tries to force non-native controls on the Wii controller, just like the shitty port of Bully to the PC did.
3) Again, how is this Nintendo's fault? Fucking FIFA 2013 is nothing but a goddamned rebadge of FIFA2012. How is that you blame anyone but the publisher?
4) Games don't have to implement motion control anymore than PacMan had to find a use for the fire button that all home 8-bit consoles had at the time. Again, whose fault is this?
I live in Germany; we ain't got no Netflix (but we do have USB sticks and a Samsung TV capable of playing damned near anything in an AVI wrapper).
The Wii was/is far behind its competitors when it came to graphics becaue that wasn't the point. The gameplay and experience was. The game Bully only really makes sense with a Wiimote. And they're doing it again.
All those "classic" 8-bit games -- Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Archon -- became classics not because of the awesome graphics they packed into a ROM space too small for a fucking To Do list for your mother these days but because of the gameplay. Compare and contrast with Clickfest Diablo 3.
Tanking? Nintendo are out there not resting on their laurels and working on the one thing that leads to long-term success. Or do you play Minecraft for the incredible graphics experience only achievable with a €3,000 rack of graphics cards?
Limits and caps at 75GB unless you pay a lot more. "Former" monopoly Telekom owns a hell of a lot more than just that last mile of copper.
The article is a puff piece which ignores the massive amount of data lost through connection drops, forced restarts & reloads YouTube and many other sites cause/require, as well as the ever-increasing bandwidth necessary due to "cloud" services, software-as-a-service, growing page programming/scripting and third-party & indirect loads (predictive actions, agents, ads, iFrames, etc.).
The first thing that will happen is that the golden parachutes of the execs who okayed this will be repacked once they can no longer influence it, and their money will most likely be tied in corporate paper which will become worthless because...
The buyers will pay themselves huge "consulting" fees and borrow at least three times the company's value/worth, spending none of it on growth and everything on themselves and their premier shareholders. The hollowed out shell will be saddled with impossible debt as jobs are wiped out, shipped away, and a fragile shell of a company will pretend as long as it can that it's still viable, scrrewing everyone and everything in its past.
You can watch their m.o. in the histories of Kay-Bee Toys, Dunkin Donuts, and Continental Bakeries just to name a few off the top of my head.
Video games: two fit in the same amount of space as one pin. That golf game earns $1-3 for just 3-5 minutes, with a general spend of $3-5. The most people are willing to pay for a game of pinball is generally 50Â, and that game better last 2-3 minutes, and can last a lot longer.
Service: unskilled labour can pull and replace a control in most video games; few other problems exist these days. Pinball machines break. A lot. Fixing them requires lots of parts and lots of skill. There is only one person in the world able to reliably repair major problems on boards which haven't been made for the past 15-30 years (he bought the equipment from Williams when they shut down).
Machines: There is only one manufacturer now: Stern. New machines run around $5500 plus shipping.
Parts: There are hundreds of standard parts (though half of them differ by manufacturer) and a shitton of specialised pieces. All of them are expensive, as is the time of the guy who can reliably repair/replace them.
Personal: I restore pins as a hobby. General parts come from only a couple of suppliers and specialised/unique pieces mainly from old stock from eBay. There are some modern replacement items such as redesigned power driver boards and LED replacements for lighting (bulbs always burn out) but it's a niche resurgence which won't bring around a renaissance because...
Economics: a 50-50 split with the location on the 50-75Â per game max, on a machine which costs $5500 plus at least $100 in time and delivery costs and can be expected to require skilled service at least once a month, on-call and available within 48 hours with at least 300 parts on-hand. After 6-9 months the machine will have to be rotated out and after a couple of years, you can sell it for around $1000 to a collector if it's not lame and completely blown, in which case you might get $500 from a salvager. The no-service $4000 golf game will have turned a profit within a year.
Nostalgia is nifty but we have two fully intact Saturn 5s (in Canaveral & Houston). We also have the designs and could rebuild Apollo which is something we realistically need to do before considering going out elsewhere. Repeating the Mercury and Gemini mission series is unnecessary as everything we learned from them we still use now. But we're 40 years' worth of rusty when it comes to leaving a comfortable Earth orbit.
Yes, we can modernise the systems, but should only do so where necessary, such as computers, cameras, lighting (LED vs. 24V bulbs), certain flight instruments, food, etc. Leave everything else alone: the original design was good enough to recover from XIII.
Do this first and then we can talk seriously about useful manned missions further out. And it would only cost a few billion.
Anyone who spent more than five pre-1999 minutes on the Internetties knew that the idea of a free-for-all of generic TLDs was more useless than the pope's nutsack. We watched the bubble burst before October, 2000 and saw what happened with otherwise-untrademark-able generic words was getting us into, and that was still with dotcom, dotorg, and doznet.
Jesus fucking Christ on a crackery cross, do any of you code monkeys have any idea just how many possible years today is? No, I know you don't. You know how I know this? Because you myopic fucktards have been the reason my phone has been ringing and my mail client actually crashed from overload today. So fuck you, and thank you, because I get to look super-smart and that pays the bills here in the DogPound.
Even in the fucking "Western World" we live with the Mexican stand-off of Gregorian vs. Julian calendar, and that's just the start. Entire chunks of software -- enterprise software, the shit that has to actually pass all sorts of testing -- had to be rewritten because Catholic Spain feels all butthurt if the calendar starts on Sunday. And since you're at it, well, nearly atheist yet officially religious Iceland kinda likes to have the week start on Mondays, too, and the Icelandic name for Tuesday starts with a non-ASCII character.
Today is one of around 100 different, official dates depending where you are and who you're asking.
"I am looking for a site where we can register an account under our group's name, then spawn multiple projects to solicit programmer help for our organization."
I want you to choke on a big bag of dicks. Not just any random dicks but the really cheezy, rotting ones you have to hear about in HealthEd classes when they tell you why you have to wash your nutsack.
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The objective is to make money for the company which paid into Ben Hueso's campaign fund and which, shocker!!, just happens to make exactly this sort of item or has "key patents" on it. Whenever something smells fishy, follow the money. Just ask yourself, "Who stands to benefit financially from this?" and you'll have your answer.
Dunning-Kruger is becoming the new Godwin.
Without known-secure hardware and and OS to run it, all the fucking encryption in the world don't mean squat. And before the fanbois scream, "Lunix is Teh Shiznit Seckyoor!" remember that you have to know the compiler is safe as well (*cough*Ken*Thompson*cough*).
So no resale at all rather than the shitty 3% return most campus bookstores pay. No holding onto for future reference. Little ability to gloss notes. And with the money they "save", students will be able to cover almost half of the "general fee" increase this year.
This shit isn't worthy of the label "news" or "current events" or even "docu-romcom-tainment-dramedy". The stupidity isn't even worthy of a mention on Something Awful let alone anyone getting involved.enough to respond with a "Bite me" picture of a hot dog.
Until the next one. And then the one after that. And the next one. And in 10 years comes the next story about constant-dollar successes.
All the while, the actual story is (less spectacularly) "After 25 days Ubuntu Edge only has one-third of $32M goal pledged with five days left."
>incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama'
What saved them from the disrepute of giving it to Kissinger & Arafat? Forgetfulness?
I expect someone will come up with a collection/extraction script to list all the names of these shill and paid "Vine Reviewers".
An "ing" or "tion" key would be 1000× times more productive and useful... says the guy who reprogrammed his keyboard to include: ½¼¾€®±øØ¥æÆð÷©
Icelandic still has them. If they were really important we'd return to using them. They're not and we don't. I'm all for them (and eth, Ð/ð) but there's no need. There's a much better case to be made for a glyph to represent and/or but even the one offered doesn't flow; it's hard to distinguish from the ampersand and not easily written without multiple strokes which themselves lead to more confusion than clarification.
Any company considering systems (Oracle sells hardware, OS, database, back end, middleware and front end) doesn't have to pay first and hope later. Developers can and do build full turnkey solutions at zero speculation cost. Try that with DB2 or MS Foxbase Pro. Try it with SAP (for that manner, try getting SAP to run on Flash.free Apple). Can you imagine it now? This is the same thing as Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk and the rest giving freebies to schools and deep-discounting for students.
It's free for personal use (edelivery.oracle.com) just like all Oracle software. You only need paid licenses and support for commercial use. For that you need a lot of money.
<sigh>
Simply turning off the fucking floodlights wouldn't just save DB a fortune on juice, it makes vandal highly visible. You can't tag if you can't see; any light is a give-away. But since DB can count on continued tax money and political support -- and because no bureaucrat or middle manager ever got ahead by reducing waste or head count -- they'll spearhead the use of drones. The justice ministry and police will follow.
2) Terrible gimmicks are Nintendo's fault? I like DDR (because I can beat my wife at it). I like Mario Kart (my kid likes to play with me). I like LfD and the old arcade-style quick games that Sports and similar offer. My wife likes the yoga shit. NfS sucks because it tries to force non-native controls on the Wii controller, just like the shitty port of Bully to the PC did.
3) Again, how is this Nintendo's fault? Fucking FIFA 2013 is nothing but a goddamned rebadge of FIFA2012. How is that you blame anyone but the publisher?
4) Games don't have to implement motion control anymore than PacMan had to find a use for the fire button that all home 8-bit consoles had at the time. Again, whose fault is this?
I live in Germany; we ain't got no Netflix (but we do have USB sticks and a Samsung TV capable of playing damned near anything in an AVI wrapper).
All those "classic" 8-bit games -- Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Archon -- became classics not because of the awesome graphics they packed into a ROM space too small for a fucking To Do list for your mother these days but because of the gameplay. Compare and contrast with Clickfest Diablo 3.
Tanking? Nintendo are out there not resting on their laurels and working on the one thing that leads to long-term success. Or do you play Minecraft for the incredible graphics experience only achievable with a €3,000 rack of graphics cards?
The article is a puff piece which ignores the massive amount of data lost through connection drops, forced restarts & reloads YouTube and many other sites cause/require, as well as the ever-increasing bandwidth necessary due to "cloud" services, software-as-a-service, growing page programming/scripting and third-party & indirect loads (predictive actions, agents, ads, iFrames, etc.).
The buyers will pay themselves huge "consulting" fees and borrow at least three times the company's value/worth, spending none of it on growth and everything on themselves and their premier shareholders. The hollowed out shell will be saddled with impossible debt as jobs are wiped out, shipped away, and a fragile shell of a company will pretend as long as it can that it's still viable, scrrewing everyone and everything in its past.
You can watch their m.o. in the histories of Kay-Bee Toys, Dunkin Donuts, and Continental Bakeries just to name a few off the top of my head.
Service: unskilled labour can pull and replace a control in most video games; few other problems exist these days. Pinball machines break. A lot. Fixing them requires lots of parts and lots of skill. There is only one person in the world able to reliably repair major problems on boards which haven't been made for the past 15-30 years (he bought the equipment from Williams when they shut down).
Machines: There is only one manufacturer now: Stern. New machines run around $5500 plus shipping.
Parts: There are hundreds of standard parts (though half of them differ by manufacturer) and a shitton of specialised pieces. All of them are expensive, as is the time of the guy who can reliably repair/replace them.
Personal: I restore pins as a hobby. General parts come from only a couple of suppliers and specialised/unique pieces mainly from old stock from eBay. There are some modern replacement items such as redesigned power driver boards and LED replacements for lighting (bulbs always burn out) but it's a niche resurgence which won't bring around a renaissance because...
Economics: a 50-50 split with the location on the 50-75Â per game max, on a machine which costs $5500 plus at least $100 in time and delivery costs and can be expected to require skilled service at least once a month, on-call and available within 48 hours with at least 300 parts on-hand. After 6-9 months the machine will have to be rotated out and after a couple of years, you can sell it for around $1000 to a collector if it's not lame and completely blown, in which case you might get $500 from a salvager. The no-service $4000 golf game will have turned a profit within a year.
Israel doesn't have pizza delivery.
Fifteen fucking years and Slashdot still doesn't get how April Fools works: ONE joke, buried, subtle and polished so it looks real. Fuckwits.
Yes, we can modernise the systems, but should only do so where necessary, such as computers, cameras, lighting (LED vs. 24V bulbs), certain flight instruments, food, etc. Leave everything else alone: the original design was good enough to recover from XIII.
Do this first and then we can talk seriously about useful manned missions further out. And it would only cost a few billion.
Anyone who spent more than five pre-1999 minutes on the Internetties knew that the idea of a free-for-all of generic TLDs was more useless than the pope's nutsack. We watched the bubble burst before October, 2000 and saw what happened with otherwise-untrademark-able generic words was getting us into, and that was still with dotcom, dotorg, and doznet.
Jesus fucking Christ on a crackery cross, do any of you code monkeys have any idea just how many possible years today is? No, I know you don't. You know how I know this? Because you myopic fucktards have been the reason my phone has been ringing and my mail client actually crashed from overload today. So fuck you, and thank you, because I get to look super-smart and that pays the bills here in the DogPound.
Even in the fucking "Western World" we live with the Mexican stand-off of Gregorian vs. Julian calendar, and that's just the start. Entire chunks of software -- enterprise software, the shit that has to actually pass all sorts of testing -- had to be rewritten because Catholic Spain feels all butthurt if the calendar starts on Sunday. And since you're at it, well, nearly atheist yet officially religious Iceland kinda likes to have the week start on Mondays, too, and the Icelandic name for Tuesday starts with a non-ASCII character.
Today is one of around 100 different, official dates depending where you are and who you're asking.
"I am looking for a site where we can register an account under our group's name, then spawn multiple projects to solicit programmer help for our organization." I want you to choke on a big bag of dicks. Not just any random dicks but the really cheezy, rotting ones you have to hear about in HealthEd classes when they tell you why you have to wash your nutsack.