Comment Re:Fuck you America ... (Score 4, Informative) 457
Japan already fingerprints and photographs all foreigners when they enter the country.
In EVE Online we had a female Fleet Commander for a while. Great tactical thinker and, ooh boy, could she chew someone out when they fucked things up. Strangely enough there was very little of the "hitting on the only girl" going on, probably because she would blow the crap out of them if they even thought about it.
Plenty of competent female gamers out there, but I can imagine it's hard for them to find a guild/corp/group where they can just hang out and be themselves without getting hit on all the time
No, Google deserves to be slammed. They're supposed to be a search engine and they're outsourcing the queries to Target's search engine? Cheap ass network engineers trying to save a few bucks on servers by outsourcing queries, and bad programmers that can't filter results from external search engines for "We can find no matches..." are Google's problem, not Target's.
Isn't it something like "Yo dawg, I heard you like to package Perl so I put a Perl packager in your Perl package so you can package Perl while you're packaging Perl packages" ?
Your GSM phone was probably locked to the original provider. That is why it is important to buy an _unlocked_ phone.
All operators in Europe are basically on the same frequencies. I can go to any country in Europe and my phone "just works". If I don't want to pay roaming fees then I can stick in a local SIM and it "just works".
The problem in the US is that your stupid providers choose/got assigned different bands to operate on. So phones physically have to be capable of working on those frequency bands. In most cases Nokia will make them work on one or the other (so AT&T or TMobile), but not both.
If you want to find what frequencies each network supports you can check them all out at GSM World. They also cover UMTS 3G networks. http://gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml
I agree. There are many potential players in the market that will get involved once the licensing issues are removed.
The internet has become so important to the the world daily lives, and yet a huge percentage of it is dependent on a platforms that is monopolized. Thats very dangerous.
Stirring up this pot, will have huge unknown ramifications in the world of computing in general.
For example, ARM dual core CPUS are getting to the point of competing with Intel Atoms. This will put pressure on the ARM platform then if many more intel CPU and chipset producers exist.
Another aspect is the environment. More competition will allow many players to enter the market to build cpus and chipsets that use much less amps and volts. This is really so important now as electricity prices go up and up.
I remember reading that the high use of electricity is not in intels chips, but more in their chipset.
If something needs to be found, it will be searched for, most likely using google
Not always. Many people don't know that they need something. E.g. size does matter. No idea about whether products so advertized work or not, but this is not something a common person can imagine to be possible. So there is no way they will search for it.
Another example is adblocker itself. Most common people have no idea that obnoxious advertisements can be blocked. Even my somewhat technically inclined friends did not know about it till I told them about Adblock. Why & how will they search for something they don't/can't even imagine? And I knew about Adblock by browsing each and every add-on on mozilla.com.
In general, any new revolutionary product/service will not be known to people fast until advertisement. Now that LCD screens are common, if a new company comes up to make better LCD screens, they will be found by, as you rightly point out, by searching on Google. An unimaginable product/service cannot be found in a similar manner.
Attractive frontends - this will probably start yet another flamewar, but many of the java frontends are HIDEOUS
Haha!...no kidding.
Performance when doing large dataset manipulations - for example, determining which server had the least free space, or which one had the most obsolete users. These are fairly trivial sorting tasks, but the java version took probably twice as long and more memory (in my implementation, which may well have sucked to be frank).
This is strange. I recall reading a lengthy article about how Java got list sorting to use roughly the same number of cycles as C. My guess is either you used the wrong algorithm, used a poorly optimized JVM, or had some other setting set wrong. If Java was consuming more memory, you could be losing all your performance to garbage collection. But my experience with Java, sorting lists several hundred thousand items long, was that it worked perfectly fine and was very quick.
Support for dumping data into Excel and Word - this was a killer feature. I was able to generate SOX and sizing reports on the fly with C#. Java? No such luck. I never did get it working quickly and properly.
I just dump the data into XML files. There's lots of viewers for those. You could even whip up an AJAX frontend to prettify it.
It's subjective whether this is more difficult. I started out a web developer - my first language was javascript - so to me it's pretty easy. The kind of thing I'd spend an afternoon or two on.
threatening to kill someone publicly is never a good idea.
Absolutely. However, she didn't threaten to kill anyone. She merely said that she'd LIKE to stab them. Big difference actually. One implies that you WILL do it (a threat), the other is simply an expression of anger.
And let me guess... your password is hunter2, right?
It's a shame. What she needed was to be forced to attend counseling, not have her entire college career ruined. But maybe people will learn from her mistake.
Learn what? Last time I checked, saying "I want to stab someone in the throat" is different from:
a. Stabbing someone in the throat
b. Threatening to stab someone in the throat
c. Planning to stab someone in the throat
d. Having any intentions of stabbing someone in the throat, at all
e. Being capable of stabbing someone in the throat
I really want to take all your mod points. Quick, ban me for hacking!
Unless this computer was retired and moved out of the Whitehouse before the emails were deleted.
The emails accumulated over *years*, and then they all disappeared. Well, I am sure they ended up on several, if not dozens of computers. Even if they were deleted on purpose, there may be computer eye-witnesses that weren't "eliminated". Maybe a hope PC that was used for work - connecting to a VPN, downloading your email, but not really understanding there is a local copy. Then you donate your PC to some charity, and suddenly George, Dick, and the rest of the criminals have sweaty palms.
Regardless, the US political system is dominated by the corporation. I don't have much faith that anything they do is for the common good. See Empire of Illusion, specifically the last chapter.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
