Thank you for posting that link. This is fascinating but they left out the most important question: does the Lattice run on ESX or Hyper-V? We already know it can't be VMware workstation because the product won't let one install an hypervisor inside a VM (I tried).
Kristen Bell is not the young beautiful nymph she was when the series came out. After seeing her playing a corporate whore vomiting during drunken sex with a Wesley Snipes wannabe in House of Lies it's difficult to picture her as Veronica Mars, fresh and bubbly college girl. She does not look the part anymore.
When the Batman movie came out nobody was surprised that Adam West was not playing the hero. Even for the remake of Get Carter they took a younger guy (but at least gave a role to the old one). Why the double standard with women?
The movie is not about Kristen Bell. She's just an actress, and years did not do her any favor. I'm sure she can star in many movies where they need an older woman and she will do a great job, but there are plenty of talented younger girls available for playing younger girls characters.
Example; if someone said a watermelon is blue on the inside, but turns red when you cut it open, how could you prove them wrong? How could they prove they're right?
You couldn't and they can't. There is no method available to confirm or disprove what was said about the watermelon.
WHY does it turn red when you cut it open? Because it's exposed to oxygen in the air? Then cut one open in a vacuum. Or in an oxygen-free atmosphere. or maybe it turns red because of an interaction with the steel of the knife. So use a plastic knife. And so on. These are all testable.
Same with evolution. Point out a fossil that doesn't fit, and win a prize. except you can't, so you don't.
You can spend a lifetime making up WHYs and figuring out ways to prove or disprove them. That does not even come close to answering the fundamental question about the color of the watermelon.
The only solution to this problem is to have faith and live your life according to what the inside color of the watermelon means to you. You can even believe that there is no watermelon - that's a type of faith as well.
Now can we go back to being insulted that big companies found a way to minize risk in their commercial ventures by using a bait & switch approach so fans are the ones taking the risk?
healtchcare.gov was no worse then any other website as complex as it.. oh wait, there has never been a launch of anything the complex on the web.
Clearly you have no idea how complex the world of airplane tickets and hotel bookings can be. Just like in health care there are a few big networks (SABRE, Apollo) and a few spinoffs (Galileo, Shares), none of which is compatible with the others, plus there are plenty of small providers who do things in their own way. Yet companies like Kayak or Orbitz managed to build decent platforms dealing with this chaotic industry without pouring billions of dollars in a half-baked implementation.
There are systems like Morningstar who manage to keep track of data provided by various incompatible and antiquated financial services systems. There are online home/life insurance quotes providers. There is Equifax that does a decent job of merging nightmarish data sources.
I could go on and keep talking about websites that are more complex than a simple healthcare marketplace, but one thing I know is that with Obamaniacs nothing even remotely linked to His Administration will ever be considered less than perfect, be it a botched healthcare program or spying on American citizens and getting caught by a bunch of army transvestites and Autralian rapists.
With big data, when you actively look for patterns you always find them; this is how hedge funds have been operating for years. The purpose of the technology is not to make predictions, but rather to confirm existing trends and possibly identify new ones.
Proper way to utilize big data in this case would be:
1) to assist the CDC in confirming or refuting trends observed in the field
2) to offer additional correlations (such as: are people living closer to highways more sensitive fo specific strains of flu)
3) to provide long-term indicators facilitating the assessment of medication and other flu containment factors
Big data is not a magic eight ball but it's not a piece of shit either.
Everyone wants to provide the presidential vehicles. Does Tesla provide as many jobs as GM?
The votes those employees provide are probably the most important factor when deciding who gets to provide the presidential ride.
How many members of the electoral college actually work in car factories? And for that matter, how many GM plants are located in states that are likely to switch side because they lose this symbolic business?
After the healthcare.gov fiasco, the Obama administration should learn from their mistake, stop pouring money in legacy businesses and embrace the brave new world. This means Tesla: a technology that does not require to bomb arab countries to keep oil prices low and that does not open the door to polluting the beautiful gulf of Mexico.
If they do so, there will be an interesting question: do they have to pay the $1.43-a-mile EV tax when they drive on roads in other countries? Or maybe "not polluting" is worth a fine only in America?
It takes a long time for kids to understand the value of money, especially when it's all virtual. Expecting a kid to restrain from ordering stuff in his videogame while it could give him an edge against some dragon or other players is different from expecting that a kid won't steal money or jewelry from his mom.
The game makers prey on that blurry line and on the short term gains for the players when they buy in-game goods. This is why that lawsuit is not about bad parenting, but about taking advantage of kids; the system is designed to facilitate abuse and this has to stop.
An Anonymous Coward talking about trust issues... interesting.
This being said, if you were able to order PPV or use Amazon 1 Click at 12 years old, then you are still a kid and obviously have only a theoretical understanding of parenting. Let's wait a few years and see when you get kids of your own if you still think that things are that easy for parents.
Ain't nothing swimming around down there.
That's what she said
It is local address. He just trolled you.
Oh now I understand why for the last few minutes I had no internet access but found printouts of domain names on the floor nearby my inkjet printer!
I know I am an AC, but I really did type this and since the purchasers of my immortal soul are likely to be a deity, or semi-deity or have the powers of such, they too know who I am, and that I really did write this.
So basically you decide what are the abilities of an entity you do not believe into, then you use those alleged abilities to justify hiding behind an anonymous account. Obviously this is just in case the said entity actually exists and would enforce a covenant in which you would have entered by not using a fake name.
Either you are a lawyer or you work in the claims department of an HMO.
I never stated that I was not afraid of that.
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
I hereby sell my soul to Satan for a family size bag of Cheetos. I include the souls of everyone in my family.
People think that they can get away with selling their soul because the dudes in Supernatural always find a workaround. Can't you tell that a tv show is FICTION? In real life you can't break a satanic covenant. Duh.
The Supernatural series is like ARV treatment: it makes people careless by letting them believe that there is no consequence for risky behaviors.
Congratulations. You are the only one so far who replied without injecting some kind of loophole in the deal.
Since you enjoy Cheetos, here is your reward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
