Russia is playing a game with the US and is granting Snowden asylum just so they can thumb their collective nose at the US.
"We know you want to arrest Snowden and parade him around as a traitor in front of the press SO badly *BUT* guess what, we will let him stay here just so you can't get him. HAHA bitches!"
And if you bothered to actually do what you ask of your readers..... From Wikipedia (the very first sentence):
A rainbow party is a supposed group sex event featured in an urban legend spread since the early 2000s.
Besides many kids learn at a very young age what sex is before their parents even think about telling their children. How many here knew that kid in grade school with parents who kept porn in their bedroom for little johnny to find and show his friends (before the internet)? Or that other kid who stole pron mags from the bodega?
Also, what makes you think that because little johnny sees some dude shove a fist up a girls (or dudes) ass, that it will make him think its normal? Does little johnny live in a bubble with no friends? Kids talk about sex, its natural. And the majority of people know that fetish porn is just that, a fetish and not normally practised by the majority. Little johnny will learn that through his peers.
Depends on where you live. If you live in a high crime area (a thought that evades many posters as they live in comfy, safe communities) lighting around your home is a necessity. Though, most break ins that occur tend to be during the day time when people are at work, there are still some that occur at night. If you live in a community where break ins are rare or a non-issue then you don't need a blinding spotlight or use a properly tuned motion detector for when you arrive home at night.
obligatory A few years ago my brother and I were bringing home a computer setup to my mother who lives in south Ozone Park, Queens, NY, a neighborhood that has gone downhill over the past 15 years. I was getting the last box from the car when I heard a commotion and my brother yelling. I ran and this guy was nervously explaining to my brother he entered our driveway gate to relieve himself when my brother walked in on him. I took my phone out to call the cops and they guy bolted. The problem, the alleyway light burnt out and it was pitch black. The guy did have a bag on him could have been cloths or burglar tools (hammer and screwdriver), who knows. Maybe he was just trying to take a leak, maybe he was trying to break in. Who knows but its scary to suddenly walk in on some strange person on your poorly lit property. Especially since most of these clowns carry guns and don't hesitate to use them. Point is light is a good deterrent at night in bad areas. People can't hide in the light. Its an unfortunate necessity. And to add to that this past weekend my mother tells me the neighbors house was broken into at night. The neighbor came home and surprised the guy who bolted out the back door which he broke into. Thankfully my mother presently has a big dog who makes a lot of noise.
If you are concerned about security in a bad neighborhood then get a dog (larger breeds) or better yet two. Crack heads (the usual suspects, drug addicts) will immediately ignore a home with vicious sounding dogs barking up a storm. Well lit homes with barking dogs will be skipped. Even security cameras don't deter criminals.
I am wrong. Please disregard, I haven't paid attention to Win 8/RT in quite a while.
I thought I read that non Metro apps were completely unsupported and would not run and classic win32 API's. Looks like I misunderstood and there is support but only for their office applications until they port them to Metro as a transitional phase.
What they mean by "desktop apps are not properly optimized" is the fact that RT is for tablets and is a poor interface for using desktop apps used with a mouse and keyboard. Then add to the fact that there would be mass confusion about what libraries and apps are compatible with RT/ARM and which aren't. Still though, it would have been cool to be able to port desktop applications strait to RT.
My guess is MS will eventually remove win32, winforms and the desktop from RT once office is ported to Metro. If they ever make it that far. And not having Metro office apps at launch makes you wonder if they were/are even willing to risk spending money or resources on the port.
For the second issue, lack of compatibility, there is basically none. This ties in a bit to the third point, but the thing looks identical to normal Win8, so people expect it to run the same stuff. It doesn't. As has been pointed out, the architectural differences would not have prevented.NET apps from running at full speed on the RT (Microsoft just doesn't support it), and emulation of x86 code would have worked well for many apps, since any call to an OS function via Win32 would have resulted in native code execution anyhow. Depending on the application, that means that large parts of an x86 application would be running natively anyhow.
The idea behind Windows 8 and RT was to provide a common API and UI for tablets. Windows 8 is pretty much windows 7.1 with the Metro UI tacked on. Windows RT is the metro only version which eschews legacy application support by eliminating the desktop libraries and runtimes.
That is not what the problem is/was. Classic win32 apps, desktop.net apps and Metro apps have completely different libraries. And to make things worse, applications written in.net for desktop use (windows forms) are not able to be simply recompiled for metro/RT. You have to make significant changes to your code and redo the UI. In order to make existing.net winforms code compile for an RT/ARM system they would need to port all of the win32 libraries, the entire.net stack as well as the windows UI itself. At that point you might as well run windows 8 on x86. Another problem is what about 3rd party COM and.net libraries which are called by classic applications which were compiled for 32/64 bit x86? That is too difficult to implement. They might be able to make an Arm version of windows 8 that could run x86 applications on top of an emulator but that is a very niche market and expensive to develop.
However, on Windows 8 you can call classic.net API's and legacy win32 libraries but you break compatibility with the Windows RT.
In their defence, Microsoft entered the console market where the likes of Sega, Sony and Nintendo were already established and had huge software libraries. And they were successful at penetrating the market to the point where they are now one of the biggest players. Nintendo OTOH has been on a steady decline since the N64 and hasn't been one of the top console makers for the past decade. Just because a company holds dominance for a decade or two does not mean they can or will keep going forever.
The tablet market is still new and there is a lot of room for improvement. MS thought it had some good ideas, and it did. But RT felt rushed and didn't offer a big enough improvement over iOs and Android for people and developers to switch. The enemy of a better solution is an existing solution that works good enough.
So when a drunk driver takes out the electric or a backhoe chops your internet cable your company is still in the dark for those same 8 hours. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if your servers are onsite or offsite, your employees can't work. If you move all of your data and services to the web you could have your employees work from home but if your workflow includes locally installed software then forget it. And lets not forget we have an ongoing scandal of big web companies happily handing over our data to the NSA.
With any business you need a disaster recovery plan. Basically, imagine the worst scenario that can happen (building burns to the ground) and figure out how to recover from that. Its not easy and although the cloud does make it look like you will have better uptime, the reality is it really doesn't. The only thing it can provide is lower IT costs. You still have physical employees in front of computers and a lot can go wrong.
This made me laugh.
My company, Open Software Integrators, is like many small to midsize consulting firms. We do high-end projects that, among other things, provide reliability, disaster recovery, and scalability. But like the shoeless cobbler's kids, we were a bit lacking in our own infrastructure until a few months back.
The cobblers kid is not crucial to the cobbler making money, his hammer is. IT infrastructure is a tool just like the cobblers hammer, without it you are dead in the water. You are too busy devoting your resources to your customers to make money. You look at your internal infrastructure as an expense rather than as assets and tools which provide you the means to make money so you neglect it. What else did you expect?
And lastly, hosting your website on-site is old hat. Even with NSA spying you should not have any sensitive data on your website to begin with (unless you're stupid). So no worries there. Email hosting is a double edge sword. You are guaranteed excellent uptimes, round the clock support and no hardware to worry about. Though, on the other hand you have the NSA spying problem and potential hackers. If you are a small business then use hosted email, the benefits outweigh the other problems. If anything is super sensitive and you are scared the NSA will see it then maybe send it snail mail on CD or thumb drive. Where I work we deal with parts from all sorts of companies, many who are government/military contractors and they still email prints. The paranoid ones who have locked down workstations fax us the prints. Only companies who deal with very sensitive data need to worry.
Lets get this straight. I am not uncomfortable with the fact that they are gay. It feels as if they put the characters in there to appease the gay community and not as a genuine acceptance. As if there was a board meeting where someone was looking at a marketing report and said "The gays love the show. Lets throw and obviously gay couple into the story to make them happy." And it was only in one of the most recent episodes that it felt phoney. Can't remember because I wasn't that crazy about the latest season, kinda forgettable.
With a lot of PC related things in general, yes. I feel that we are in a period where the media presents a phony, forced acceptance of sensitive issues. As if media has to say "LOOK WE LOVE %s", where %s is gay, racial tensions, feminism etc. It does not feel sincere and comes off feeling like some writer thought "Lets throw a flamboyant gay character or couple into the script to make the queers happy and show everyone that we are progressive and gain a larger audience" then proceed to pat themselves on the back.
During the beginning of the zimmerman/martin incident I was driving and flipping through the AM dial. The thing that caught my attention was randy rhoads on air america radio blathering about how she loves black people. She sounded like she was not in a radio booth but on the streets telling black people she loves them to their faces. Seriously? You have to announce you love black people as if by default being white makes you a racist and you have to force the point that you aren't. Why would you ever need to say that? WHY!?
I went to a community college, had two black lab partners, one who was a very lovely girl from jamaica. I could tell she liked me and I thought why not ask her out? I did and I never once had to say well you're black and i'm white so how does this work? I never had to tell her that I am not a racist or that my family isn't in the KKK, that I love black people or how jamaica is so great. I didn't have to kiss ass or apologize because there was no fucking reason to. We were just two horney young adults. Though, I did come away from that relationship with a better understanding of why african hair is a pain in the ass to take care of when she took her hair off and it turned out to be a wig.
Same with my friend from Sri Lanka who married a white girl. I never had to tell him that I accept his marriage, in fact I was his best man. I even dated one of his cousins.
Point is people who go around and have to vocally proclaim they accept something constantly feel fake. Same for any other form of media including TV, movies, games etc. Its awkward and it's not going to suddenly boost acceptance of sensitive issues with hateful assholes.
My problem is it feels like the writers shoehorned the characters in to appeal to the gay community. It is said that Dr. Who is very popular among the gay population as the character of the Dr is indifferent to things like religion, race, sex, etc. He is always on the side of good, he fights for everyones rights. So they jumped on that train and awkwardly shoved gay characters into the story.
Its so in your face that it feels fake which ruins the story.
Family friend is a retired truck driver who frequently picked up and delivered containers out of the new jersey ports. One story he told me was he had to pick up a 40 footer and was sent in a single axle tractor. They have scales and you weigh out when you leave the port. He scaled out at almost 90,000 pounds (40,823kg)! For a tractor trailer in the USA, that is 10,000 pounds (4,536kg) overweight. The kicker? The container was supposed to weigh only 40,000 pounds, nearly half of what it weighed. He said they were frequently overweight and it wasn't uncommon for containers to be thousands of pounds over what the paperwork listed.
EE's are more hardware oriented. They tend to understand the physical systems they are controlling. This means they are familiar with not only what is "inside" the computer but also what is outside (I/O). Software developers are only concerned with what is happening inside the computer.
I once worked with a software guy who had majored in CS and minored in EE. He was the in-house automation specialist where he worked and let me tell you, he was terrible. His code was horrendous, giant blocks and whole functions commented out along with sparse and cryptic comments (imagine a clump of 50 globals with half of them randomly commented out). And his physical work with wiring was anateur hour stuff. I once replaced a cabinet full of spaghetti that controlled a critical machine with DIN rail and wire duct. Numerous failures proved difficult to repair because of almost non existent schematics and documentation with pencil corrections all over. He squeaked by at his job but finally gave up and left for a software job. I replaced him and did a better job but they didn't want to raise my pay to his level when he quit (he was family and nepotism afforded him a nice salary) so I left.
Software geeks belong in a job where interacting with hardware outside the machine is not part of the job.
Lumpy, your parent poster is correct. You are a troll. Plain and simple. I have you on my foes list a.k.a. my slashdot shit list. Everytime I see your little red dot as I scroll down, I give you post a glance and see that you have little of value to say.
How did you get on my shit list? You replied to a post of mine in a very nasty and condescending manner possible. In real life you wouldnt have the balls to speak like that to anyone so you vent your frustrations here on slashdot to make you feel better about yourself.
You wouldn't need a notch, you simply move the screw holes around so they aren't square. The best method is a trapezoid pattern. Two screw holes are set closer together. Impossible to mount upside down or sideways. Or simply shift one screw hole like the ATX power supplies do.
The lunar landing sites are historically significant. At the very least there should be a policy in place that all space agencies, private and public, should recognize these sites and possibly protect them. At least make it so the lander base, flags, experiments and vehicles must not be disturbed, moved or vandalized. In the future if there are regular commercial visits people will try to take artifacts back for collection.
As for a national park: NO. The USA nor any other country or agency owns the moon.
Ultimately this can be traced to a lack of a rigorous definition of what makes a particular piece of software "malicious", other than "I know it when I see it". If you can cite such a definition, I'd be glad to discuss it.
No need to argue this point. I have cleaned out PC's belonging to friends, family and co-workers that were full of trojans. Today it has gotten a lot better, thanks to email back-end scanning. But the virus days of XP have really left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
A few seconds, or ten minutes of watching a Kurt Russell wannabe smoke a cigarette?
Okay so a few seconds was an exaggeration. Mostly it takes a minute or two. Your 10 minute example is not even valid as the smoking scene was about 1.5 minutes, though it is absurd. The rest was loading screens and lasted less than 10 minutes, more like 7 though still long.
But say there's a PC game that can be played with a keyboard, a USB HID gamepad, or an Xbox 360 Controller. If it can't be played with a mouse, why should the menu support a mouse?
You obviously don't game on a PC. The mouse is the *primary* input device on a PC. Since the days of windows 3.1 and DOS, PC Games had menus that used the mouse. And you don't play solely using a keyboard, you use the mouse AND keyboard (they don't list mouse because its use is implied). So imagine you're using the mouse to aim constantly you hit escape to save or whatever and now your mouse can't navigate the screen. You have to hit arrow keys multiple times. That is lazy.
DNF was management incompetence. How many times did they change engines? Three or four? modified Quake -> Unreal -> inhouse ->? Then lets not forget the numerous videos they released at all of the E3's which made it look like they had a working game. But truth be told they were stuck in development hell which was caused by a lot of feature creep. They kept looking at other games and saying "oh shit that looks awesome! lets put that in our game." Then add to that they kept trying to add in all sorts of interactions and vehicles which stalled their story and gameplay for the sake of glitz and glitter.
Oddly enough after 3d realms folded, Apogee was brought back from the ashes to do a remake of Rise of the Triad. I actually played that game and it wasn't as good as Doom but the gameplay was fast paced and the sound effects were loud and made you feel like you were in a war zone.
Learn to budget? Seriously, you don't just "lose" $200M by accident. Lavish parties, trade show booths, silly office perks like video game machines, over specked custom gaming PC's for workstations and other high tech toys to "foster creativity". Lets not forget bonuses for the boss and other higher ups. Basically pure waste.
Try bringing PC gaming back? There's a lot of emphasis on consoles, mobile gaming and social gaming today, but PCs have more flexibility than all of the rest put together, and even if the new generation of consoles is competitive in raw power at launch it won't be for long. And yet many modern high-profile PC titles are nasty console knock-offs that justifiably get criticised for weak gameplay mechanics and poor controls/user interfaces. With PC's supposedly reaching saturation and as powerful as ever, it would make sense that PC games could reach a wider audience and thus negate the need for consoles. But the reality is that PC's for most people are too difficult to maintain. I have seen tons of people, young and old, who only know how to turn a PC on, get to the internet and email who have malware infected machines. Usually because they wanted to see naked pictures of Rihanna, get the weather or play a crappy game. The console developers know this and the general masses are happy with crap overpriced console hardware that simply work. Press power, put the disc in and start playing in a few seconds. Same with tablets, much simpler to operate. So now we are stuck with a market who panders to the console players because they don't know any better and don't care for better. So PC users get stuck with shitty console ports. Anyone play borderlands on the PC? Where the developer was so fucking lazy they didn't even include mouse support in their menus, you have to use the keyboard. Fucking pathetic.
I somehow feel we are headed for another video game crash. Basically the same shit will be regurgitated so many times that people will lose interest, sales will drop and companies will fold. but that is a good thing because that opens doors for more Markus "Notch" Persson types to come in and make truly innovative and fun as shit games to play.
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Russia is playing a game with the US and is granting Snowden asylum just so they can thumb their collective nose at the US.
"We know you want to arrest Snowden and parade him around as a traitor in front of the press SO badly *BUT* guess what, we will let him stay here just so you can't get him. HAHA bitches!"
And if you bothered to actually do what you ask of your readers.....
From Wikipedia (the very first sentence):
Besides many kids learn at a very young age what sex is before their parents even think about telling their children. How many here knew that kid in grade school with parents who kept porn in their bedroom for little johnny to find and show his friends (before the internet)? Or that other kid who stole pron mags from the bodega?
Also, what makes you think that because little johnny sees some dude shove a fist up a girls (or dudes) ass, that it will make him think its normal? Does little johnny live in a bubble with no friends? Kids talk about sex, its natural. And the majority of people know that fetish porn is just that, a fetish and not normally practised by the majority. Little johnny will learn that through his peers.
Depends on where you live. If you live in a high crime area (a thought that evades many posters as they live in comfy, safe communities) lighting around your home is a necessity. Though, most break ins that occur tend to be during the day time when people are at work, there are still some that occur at night. If you live in a community where break ins are rare or a non-issue then you don't need a blinding spotlight or use a properly tuned motion detector for when you arrive home at night.
obligatory
A few years ago my brother and I were bringing home a computer setup to my mother who lives in south Ozone Park, Queens, NY, a neighborhood that has gone downhill over the past 15 years. I was getting the last box from the car when I heard a commotion and my brother yelling. I ran and this guy was nervously explaining to my brother he entered our driveway gate to relieve himself when my brother walked in on him. I took my phone out to call the cops and they guy bolted. The problem, the alleyway light burnt out and it was pitch black. The guy did have a bag on him could have been cloths or burglar tools (hammer and screwdriver), who knows. Maybe he was just trying to take a leak, maybe he was trying to break in. Who knows but its scary to suddenly walk in on some strange person on your poorly lit property. Especially since most of these clowns carry guns and don't hesitate to use them. Point is light is a good deterrent at night in bad areas. People can't hide in the light. Its an unfortunate necessity. And to add to that this past weekend my mother tells me the neighbors house was broken into at night. The neighbor came home and surprised the guy who bolted out the back door which he broke into. Thankfully my mother presently has a big dog who makes a lot of noise.
If you are concerned about security in a bad neighborhood then get a dog (larger breeds) or better yet two. Crack heads (the usual suspects, drug addicts) will immediately ignore a home with vicious sounding dogs barking up a storm. Well lit homes with barking dogs will be skipped. Even security cameras don't deter criminals.
I am wrong. Please disregard, I haven't paid attention to Win 8/RT in quite a while.
I thought I read that non Metro apps were completely unsupported and would not run and classic win32 API's. Looks like I misunderstood and there is support but only for their office applications until they port them to Metro as a transitional phase.
What they mean by "desktop apps are not properly optimized" is the fact that RT is for tablets and is a poor interface for using desktop apps used with a mouse and keyboard. Then add to the fact that there would be mass confusion about what libraries and apps are compatible with RT/ARM and which aren't. Still though, it would have been cool to be able to port desktop applications strait to RT.
My guess is MS will eventually remove win32, winforms and the desktop from RT once office is ported to Metro. If they ever make it that far. And not having Metro office apps at launch makes you wonder if they were/are even willing to risk spending money or resources on the port.
The idea behind Windows 8 and RT was to provide a common API and UI for tablets. Windows 8 is pretty much windows 7.1 with the Metro UI tacked on. Windows RT is the metro only version which eschews legacy application support by eliminating the desktop libraries and runtimes.
That is not what the problem is/was. Classic win32 apps, desktop .net apps and Metro apps have completely different libraries. And to make things worse, applications written in .net for desktop use (windows forms) are not able to be simply recompiled for metro/RT. You have to make significant changes to your code and redo the UI. In order to make existing .net winforms code compile for an RT/ARM system they would need to port all of the win32 libraries, the entire .net stack as well as the windows UI itself. At that point you might as well run windows 8 on x86. Another problem is what about 3rd party COM and .net libraries which are called by classic applications which were compiled for 32/64 bit x86? That is too difficult to implement. They might be able to make an Arm version of windows 8 that could run x86 applications on top of an emulator but that is a very niche market and expensive to develop.
However, on Windows 8 you can call classic .net API's and legacy win32 libraries but you break compatibility with the Windows RT.
In their defence, Microsoft entered the console market where the likes of Sega, Sony and Nintendo were already established and had huge software libraries. And they were successful at penetrating the market to the point where they are now one of the biggest players. Nintendo OTOH has been on a steady decline since the N64 and hasn't been one of the top console makers for the past decade. Just because a company holds dominance for a decade or two does not mean they can or will keep going forever.
The tablet market is still new and there is a lot of room for improvement. MS thought it had some good ideas, and it did. But RT felt rushed and didn't offer a big enough improvement over iOs and Android for people and developers to switch. The enemy of a better solution is an existing solution that works good enough.
So when a drunk driver takes out the electric or a backhoe chops your internet cable your company is still in the dark for those same 8 hours. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if your servers are onsite or offsite, your employees can't work. If you move all of your data and services to the web you could have your employees work from home but if your workflow includes locally installed software then forget it. And lets not forget we have an ongoing scandal of big web companies happily handing over our data to the NSA.
With any business you need a disaster recovery plan. Basically, imagine the worst scenario that can happen (building burns to the ground) and figure out how to recover from that. Its not easy and although the cloud does make it look like you will have better uptime, the reality is it really doesn't. The only thing it can provide is lower IT costs. You still have physical employees in front of computers and a lot can go wrong.
This made me laugh.
The cobblers kid is not crucial to the cobbler making money, his hammer is. IT infrastructure is a tool just like the cobblers hammer, without it you are dead in the water. You are too busy devoting your resources to your customers to make money. You look at your internal infrastructure as an expense rather than as assets and tools which provide you the means to make money so you neglect it. What else did you expect?
And lastly, hosting your website on-site is old hat. Even with NSA spying you should not have any sensitive data on your website to begin with (unless you're stupid). So no worries there. Email hosting is a double edge sword. You are guaranteed excellent uptimes, round the clock support and no hardware to worry about. Though, on the other hand you have the NSA spying problem and potential hackers. If you are a small business then use hosted email, the benefits outweigh the other problems. If anything is super sensitive and you are scared the NSA will see it then maybe send it snail mail on CD or thumb drive. Where I work we deal with parts from all sorts of companies, many who are government/military contractors and they still email prints. The paranoid ones who have locked down workstations fax us the prints. Only companies who deal with very sensitive data need to worry.
Get off your high horse. Arresting someone because it may hurt the feelings of a few people is nonsense.
Safes are proven technology. Electronic gun locks aren't. Big difference.
OSE is always behind the commercial version. I stopped using OSE for precisely the same reason you did.
If oracle ever decides to drop virtualbox then I hope they release the commercial code so it can be merged into OSE.
Lets get this straight. I am not uncomfortable with the fact that they are gay. It feels as if they put the characters in there to appease the gay community and not as a genuine acceptance. As if there was a board meeting where someone was looking at a marketing report and said "The gays love the show. Lets throw and obviously gay couple into the story to make them happy." And it was only in one of the most recent episodes that it felt phoney. Can't remember because I wasn't that crazy about the latest season, kinda forgettable.
With a lot of PC related things in general, yes. I feel that we are in a period where the media presents a phony, forced acceptance of sensitive issues. As if media has to say "LOOK WE LOVE %s", where %s is gay, racial tensions, feminism etc. It does not feel sincere and comes off feeling like some writer thought "Lets throw a flamboyant gay character or couple into the script to make the queers happy and show everyone that we are progressive and gain a larger audience" then proceed to pat themselves on the back.
During the beginning of the zimmerman/martin incident I was driving and flipping through the AM dial. The thing that caught my attention was randy rhoads on air america radio blathering about how she loves black people. She sounded like she was not in a radio booth but on the streets telling black people she loves them to their faces. Seriously? You have to announce you love black people as if by default being white makes you a racist and you have to force the point that you aren't. Why would you ever need to say that? WHY!?
I went to a community college, had two black lab partners, one who was a very lovely girl from jamaica. I could tell she liked me and I thought why not ask her out? I did and I never once had to say well you're black and i'm white so how does this work? I never had to tell her that I am not a racist or that my family isn't in the KKK, that I love black people or how jamaica is so great. I didn't have to kiss ass or apologize because there was no fucking reason to. We were just two horney young adults. Though, I did come away from that relationship with a better understanding of why african hair is a pain in the ass to take care of when she took her hair off and it turned out to be a wig.
Same with my friend from Sri Lanka who married a white girl. I never had to tell him that I accept his marriage, in fact I was his best man. I even dated one of his cousins.
Point is people who go around and have to vocally proclaim they accept something constantly feel fake. Same for any other form of media including TV, movies, games etc. Its awkward and it's not going to suddenly boost acceptance of sensitive issues with hateful assholes.
My problem is it feels like the writers shoehorned the characters in to appeal to the gay community. It is said that Dr. Who is very popular among the gay population as the character of the Dr is indifferent to things like religion, race, sex, etc. He is always on the side of good, he fights for everyones rights. So they jumped on that train and awkwardly shoved gay characters into the story.
Its so in your face that it feels fake which ruins the story.
Pneumatic tube railways were built in the mid 1800's. Thought, mostly a curiosity or proof of concept rather than an actual transportation system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_pneumatic_railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
Family friend is a retired truck driver who frequently picked up and delivered containers out of the new jersey ports. One story he told me was he had to pick up a 40 footer and was sent in a single axle tractor. They have scales and you weigh out when you leave the port. He scaled out at almost 90,000 pounds (40,823kg)! For a tractor trailer in the USA, that is 10,000 pounds (4,536kg) overweight. The kicker? The container was supposed to weigh only 40,000 pounds, nearly half of what it weighed. He said they were frequently overweight and it wasn't uncommon for containers to be thousands of pounds over what the paperwork listed.
EE's are more hardware oriented. They tend to understand the physical systems they are controlling. This means they are familiar with not only what is "inside" the computer but also what is outside (I/O). Software developers are only concerned with what is happening inside the computer.
I once worked with a software guy who had majored in CS and minored in EE. He was the in-house automation specialist where he worked and let me tell you, he was terrible. His code was horrendous, giant blocks and whole functions commented out along with sparse and cryptic comments (imagine a clump of 50 globals with half of them randomly commented out). And his physical work with wiring was anateur hour stuff. I once replaced a cabinet full of spaghetti that controlled a critical machine with DIN rail and wire duct. Numerous failures proved difficult to repair because of almost non existent schematics and documentation with pencil corrections all over. He squeaked by at his job but finally gave up and left for a software job. I replaced him and did a better job but they didn't want to raise my pay to his level when he quit (he was family and nepotism afforded him a nice salary) so I left.
Software geeks belong in a job where interacting with hardware outside the machine is not part of the job.
They do have documentation though. Kids are also forced to RTFM while in school. It kinda helps.
Hamburg is about the surface area of 7,648,706,558.13 Chicago style pizzas. Or 4,598,807,355.66 New York style pizzas (which is better :-p).
Lumpy, your parent poster is correct. You are a troll. Plain and simple. I have you on my foes list a.k.a. my slashdot shit list. Everytime I see your little red dot as I scroll down, I give you post a glance and see that you have little of value to say.
How did you get on my shit list? You replied to a post of mine in a very nasty and condescending manner possible. In real life you wouldnt have the balls to speak like that to anyone so you vent your frustrations here on slashdot to make you feel better about yourself.
You wouldn't need a notch, you simply move the screw holes around so they aren't square. The best method is a trapezoid pattern. Two screw holes are set closer together. Impossible to mount upside down or sideways. Or simply shift one screw hole like the ATX power supplies do.
The lunar landing sites are historically significant. At the very least there should be a policy in place that all space agencies, private and public, should recognize these sites and possibly protect them. At least make it so the lander base, flags, experiments and vehicles must not be disturbed, moved or vandalized. In the future if there are regular commercial visits people will try to take artifacts back for collection.
As for a national park: NO. The USA nor any other country or agency owns the moon.
Ultimately this can be traced to a lack of a rigorous definition of what makes a particular piece of software "malicious", other than "I know it when I see it". If you can cite such a definition, I'd be glad to discuss it.
No need to argue this point. I have cleaned out PC's belonging to friends, family and co-workers that were full of trojans. Today it has gotten a lot better, thanks to email back-end scanning. But the virus days of XP have really left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
A few seconds, or ten minutes of watching a Kurt Russell wannabe smoke a cigarette?
Okay so a few seconds was an exaggeration. Mostly it takes a minute or two. Your 10 minute example is not even valid as the smoking scene was about 1.5 minutes, though it is absurd. The rest was loading screens and lasted less than 10 minutes, more like 7 though still long.
But say there's a PC game that can be played with a keyboard, a USB HID gamepad, or an Xbox 360 Controller. If it can't be played with a mouse, why should the menu support a mouse?
You obviously don't game on a PC. The mouse is the *primary* input device on a PC. Since the days of windows 3.1 and DOS, PC Games had menus that used the mouse. And you don't play solely using a keyboard, you use the mouse AND keyboard (they don't list mouse because its use is implied). So imagine you're using the mouse to aim constantly you hit escape to save or whatever and now your mouse can't navigate the screen. You have to hit arrow keys multiple times. That is lazy.
Are you sure anon was from the USA or is that your knee jerk reaction to people stereotyping the French? Anonymous Coward indeed.
DNF was management incompetence. How many times did they change engines? Three or four? modified Quake -> Unreal -> inhouse ->? Then lets not forget the numerous videos they released at all of the E3's which made it look like they had a working game. But truth be told they were stuck in development hell which was caused by a lot of feature creep. They kept looking at other games and saying "oh shit that looks awesome! lets put that in our game." Then add to that they kept trying to add in all sorts of interactions and vehicles which stalled their story and gameplay for the sake of glitz and glitter.
Oddly enough after 3d realms folded, Apogee was brought back from the ashes to do a remake of Rise of the Triad. I actually played that game and it wasn't as good as Doom but the gameplay was fast paced and the sound effects were loud and made you feel like you were in a war zone.
Learn to budget? Seriously, you don't just "lose" $200M by accident.
Lavish parties, trade show booths, silly office perks like video game machines, over specked custom gaming PC's for workstations and other high tech toys to "foster creativity". Lets not forget bonuses for the boss and other higher ups. Basically pure waste.
Try bringing PC gaming back? There's a lot of emphasis on consoles, mobile gaming and social gaming today, but PCs have more flexibility than all of the rest put together, and even if the new generation of consoles is competitive in raw power at launch it won't be for long. And yet many modern high-profile PC titles are nasty console knock-offs that justifiably get criticised for weak gameplay mechanics and poor controls/user interfaces.
With PC's supposedly reaching saturation and as powerful as ever, it would make sense that PC games could reach a wider audience and thus negate the need for consoles. But the reality is that PC's for most people are too difficult to maintain. I have seen tons of people, young and old, who only know how to turn a PC on, get to the internet and email who have malware infected machines. Usually because they wanted to see naked pictures of Rihanna, get the weather or play a crappy game. The console developers know this and the general masses are happy with crap overpriced console hardware that simply work. Press power, put the disc in and start playing in a few seconds. Same with tablets, much simpler to operate. So now we are stuck with a market who panders to the console players because they don't know any better and don't care for better. So PC users get stuck with shitty console ports. Anyone play borderlands on the PC? Where the developer was so fucking lazy they didn't even include mouse support in their menus, you have to use the keyboard. Fucking pathetic.
I somehow feel we are headed for another video game crash. Basically the same shit will be regurgitated so many times that people will lose interest, sales will drop and companies will fold. but that is a good thing because that opens doors for more Markus "Notch" Persson types to come in and make truly innovative and fun as shit games to play.