Publishers don't want the PC games to be successful, so that they can make statements exactly like they did in this post. "oh, piracy is rampant, pc games aren't profitable", even though both the pc hardware and gaming markets are obviously quite successful.
Why do you think they don't want PC games to be successful? They might have bad information or have made bad assumptions, but I can't imagine why a business would say the money isn't there and ignore a potential market unless they really think the money isn't there.
...you want convection (every joule of pump energy from a circulating pump gets transferred into the oil at yet more heat) which means deep tanks which means, to the server environment, goodbye high density.
Really? You could say the same about air moved by a fan (that the fan's energy contributes to the overall heat). I'm no expert in this area, but I've seen liquid cooled PCs and the only big component is the radiator. I would think you could pack liquid cooled components more densely than air cooled, and you could put the radiator in another room.
I really do wonder what the rest of the story is here. My gut feeling is that if there were any exculpatory details for the school, we would have heard them by now, but you never know. What if the child lured them into activating the camera, say by reporting the laptop stolen, just for the opportunity to engage in some "improper" behavior when the camera was turned on. Or what if this particular case is about piracy or hacking or some activity that was monitored/discovered without even using the camera?
... when I read the headline. My first thought was, "I'd like to see a picture of these researchers!" I guess the next study will be to determine how to persuade women to bring this secret attraction "out of the closet".
and the people who resorted in copying someone's code almost never bothered to make any changes at all.
Based on my experience as a T.A. for a programming course, it's probably not that they didn't bother to make any changes, but that they were afraid to make any. If they understood the general syntax, they probably would have made a stab at doing their own work.
Then: "internet addicts are more likely than the general population to be depressed" means "the proportion of DA among A is greater than the proportion of D among T", or "DA/A > D/T", which is mathematically equivalent (since all number are positive) to "DA*T > D*A".
"depressed people could be less likely than the general population to be internet addicts" means "the proportion of DA among D is greater than the proportion of A among T", or "DA/D < A/T", which is equivalent "DA*T < D*A".
Considering the quality of education in North America versus the quality of education in Europe, I consider the Judge's decision to be laughable. I'd take a publicly mandated education from a European country over *anything* provided by the US.
You would, they wouldn't. That's the "freedom" aspect of the whole thing.
How do you address the social aspects of school? A valuable part of being in school was learning how to interact with new people, larger groups, and authority respectfully and responsibly. Its unfortunate, but part of being a productive adult is working with difficult strangers or at least working around them.
I have a friend who home schools his sons and he told me of a unique solution to the socialization problem: At least once a week, he would take them aside, beat them up, and steal their lunch money.
I'm not going to state my party affiliation. I'll just say that when I saw that this pointless study was funded by OUR TAX DOLLARS via an NSF grant, I thought, "God help us!"
Obama hires Indian code-slaves to make a website to help people find jobs.
McBushcain would have given Haliburton $200 billion to maybe hire some more people, if they wanted to.
Ron Paul would have left unemployment for the market to solve and hit the snooze button on his alarm.
1) I would think Obama has already outdone Bush in giving federal money to big companies, and B) Go Ron Paul!
They say you should use the right tool for the job, unfortunately XML has become the only tool to use for every job. XML has its place, but only in a fraction of the places its currently used.
+1 wholeheartedly agree. XML is very flexible, but the flexibility comes at a price. XML is not efficient for "grid" data. Compounding the problem, there are those for whom:
Besides, if one can't watch a single episode of Frontline and immediately recognize the journalistic and artistic superiority it consistently displays compared to ABC/NBC/CBS and most cable outlets, then I suppose we have nothing further to discuss.
Here in Sweden the general consensus seems to be that SVT ("Sveriges Television" lit. "The swedish television") is the most reliable broadcaster while private ones are considered a lot less reliable by most people except for the extreme right who insist on SVT being "communist", "leftist" and "government controlled", they even use these descriptions now even though we currently have a right-wing coalition government.
Well, that's what the government and the left want us to think here, too. And they also label their opponents "the extreme right".
SVT has a lot of advantages over privately funded television networks, such as how they can broadcast shows that only appeal to a fairly small subset of the population while the private networks prefer constantly going for the least common denominator
So wasting taxpayer money on programs that few people watch is an advantage? The phrase "least common denominator" sounds elitist. Are the people who run and watch SVT better than "common" people? Do they deserve to appropriate "common" people's funds to produce this superior programming?
I watch U.S. public television myself, and I like a lot of the programming, but I would still support eliminating it because I don't think it's a good use of public money.
My little oversimplified analysis of unions is that they're fine and a valuable part of the free market, unless they get too powerful. If every plumber in town is in the same union, then you have a monopoly on labor and the union can raise prices (wages) beyond what a competitive market would pay.
What happens when one of the vehicles in the "road train" has a blowout, or something like that?
That's what I'm thinking. Especially if it's the big lead truck that decides to shred a tire. Or if there's a need to stop suddenly, and car #2's brakes are too worn to perform as well as car #1's. Or the lead car (for any reason) crashes - automatic 8 car pile-up!
If the nucleus of a single atom were expanded to the size of the known universe (15 billion light years across--itself an almost unimaginable distance), the Planck length would be about as long as a tall cedar tree.
The height of a cedar tree? You must be thinking of "plank" length.
Well, its also been pointed out that, with the fall in child mortality, the death of a child is considered to be far greater of a tragedy than it ever was in the past. Kids used to die all the time (as did women in child birth).
Really? How on earth do you measure "how much of a tragedy" something is and compare it across generations? If something is more common, it's less shocking, but that doesn't automatically make it less of a tragedy or easier to bear.
When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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Publishers don't want the PC games to be successful, so that they can make statements exactly like they did in this post. "oh, piracy is rampant, pc games aren't profitable", even though both the pc hardware and gaming markets are obviously quite successful.
Why do you think they don't want PC games to be successful? They might have bad information or have made bad assumptions, but I can't imagine why a business would say the money isn't there and ignore a potential market unless they really think the money isn't there.
If anyone working for Bill could actually think for themselves, they wouldn't be working for Bill.
I guess everyone who thinks for themselves thinks the same as you.
Specifically, I find it unforgivable to miss Quake and Starcraft.
You're getting off-topic. The title is *unsung* heroes. Quake and Starcraft have gotten lots of recognition.
...you want convection (every joule of pump energy from a circulating pump gets transferred into the oil at yet more heat) which means deep tanks which means, to the server environment, goodbye high density.
Really? You could say the same about air moved by a fan (that the fan's energy contributes to the overall heat). I'm no expert in this area, but I've seen liquid cooled PCs and the only big component is the radiator. I would think you could pack liquid cooled components more densely than air cooled, and you could put the radiator in another room.
The school never said what the conduct was.
I really do wonder what the rest of the story is here. My gut feeling is that if there were any exculpatory details for the school, we would have heard them by now, but you never know. What if the child lured them into activating the camera, say by reporting the laptop stolen, just for the opportunity to engage in some "improper" behavior when the camera was turned on. Or what if this particular case is about piracy or hacking or some activity that was monitored/discovered without even using the camera?
... when I read the headline. My first thought was, "I'd like to see a picture of these researchers!" I guess the next study will be to determine how to persuade women to bring this secret attraction "out of the closet".
and the people who resorted in copying someone's code almost never bothered to make any changes at all.
Based on my experience as a T.A. for a programming course, it's probably not that they didn't bother to make any changes, but that they were afraid to make any. If they understood the general syntax, they probably would have made a stab at doing their own work.
OK, let's be technical. Let:
Then: "internet addicts are more likely than the general population to be depressed" means "the proportion of DA among A is greater than the proportion of D among T", or "DA/A > D/T", which is mathematically equivalent (since all number are positive) to "DA*T > D*A".
"depressed people could be less likely than the general population to be internet addicts" means "the proportion of DA among D is greater than the proportion of A among T", or "DA/D < A/T", which is equivalent "DA*T < D*A".
OMG, it's full of win
Also a bullet has anywhere from 8-18 inches to accelerate, a vest has to stop it in usually less than 2.
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Considering the quality of education in North America versus the quality of education in Europe, I consider the Judge's decision to be laughable. I'd take a publicly mandated education from a European country over *anything* provided by the US.
You would, they wouldn't. That's the "freedom" aspect of the whole thing.
How do you address the social aspects of school? A valuable part of being in school was learning how to interact with new people, larger groups, and authority respectfully and responsibly. Its unfortunate, but part of being a productive adult is working with difficult strangers or at least working around them.
I have a friend who home schools his sons and he told me of a unique solution to the socialization problem: At least once a week, he would take them aside, beat them up, and steal their lunch money.
I'm not going to state my party affiliation. I'll just say that when I saw that this pointless study was funded by OUR TAX DOLLARS via an NSF grant, I thought, "God help us!"
Obama hires Indian code-slaves to make a website to help people find jobs. McBushcain would have given Haliburton $200 billion to maybe hire some more people, if they wanted to. Ron Paul would have left unemployment for the market to solve and hit the snooze button on his alarm.
1) I would think Obama has already outdone Bush in giving federal money to big companies, and B) Go Ron Paul!
I predict that every 18 months they'll add a dimension.
They say you should use the right tool for the job, unfortunately XML has become the only tool to use for every job. XML has its place, but only in a fraction of the places its currently used.
+1 wholeheartedly agree. XML is very flexible, but the flexibility comes at a price. XML is not efficient for "grid" data. Compounding the problem, there are those for whom:
isn't inefficient enough, so they insist on a format like:
Besides, if one can't watch a single episode of Frontline and immediately recognize the journalistic and artistic superiority it consistently displays compared to ABC/NBC/CBS and most cable outlets, then I suppose we have nothing further to discuss.
I guess we don't, then.
If you only pander to morons, all you'll have left are morons.
Are you implying that moronic TV programs kill smart people? Or make them leave the country?
Here in Sweden the general consensus seems to be that SVT ("Sveriges Television" lit. "The swedish television") is the most reliable broadcaster while private ones are considered a lot less reliable by most people except for the extreme right who insist on SVT being "communist", "leftist" and "government controlled", they even use these descriptions now even though we currently have a right-wing coalition government.
Well, that's what the government and the left want us to think here, too. And they also label their opponents "the extreme right".
SVT has a lot of advantages over privately funded television networks, such as how they can broadcast shows that only appeal to a fairly small subset of the population while the private networks prefer constantly going for the least common denominator
So wasting taxpayer money on programs that few people watch is an advantage? The phrase "least common denominator" sounds elitist. Are the people who run and watch SVT better than "common" people? Do they deserve to appropriate "common" people's funds to produce this superior programming?
I watch U.S. public television myself, and I like a lot of the programming, but I would still support eliminating it because I don't think it's a good use of public money.
My little oversimplified analysis of unions is that they're fine and a valuable part of the free market, unless they get too powerful. If every plumber in town is in the same union, then you have a monopoly on labor and the union can raise prices (wages) beyond what a competitive market would pay.
What happens when one of the vehicles in the "road train" has a blowout, or something like that?
That's what I'm thinking. Especially if it's the big lead truck that decides to shred a tire. Or if there's a need to stop suddenly, and car #2's brakes are too worn to perform as well as car #1's. Or the lead car (for any reason) crashes - automatic 8 car pile-up!
and they do so 24-7 for an 18 month fuel cycle.
What does "an 18 month fuel cycle" mean when you're talking about wind turbines?
If the nucleus of a single atom were expanded to the size of the known universe (15 billion light years across--itself an almost unimaginable distance), the Planck length would be about as long as a tall cedar tree.
The height of a cedar tree? You must be thinking of "plank" length.
Q: Why did Albert Einstein cross the road?
Did Einstein cross the road? Or did the road pass beneath his feet? It depends on your frame of reference.
Well, its also been pointed out that, with the fall in child mortality, the death of a child is considered to be far greater of a tragedy than it ever was in the past. Kids used to die all the time (as did women in child birth).
Really? How on earth do you measure "how much of a tragedy" something is and compare it across generations? If something is more common, it's less shocking, but that doesn't automatically make it less of a tragedy or easier to bear.
It's in Genesis 6:1 (AC was close)
When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.