Anyone who reads this site knows that this site is (probably) the reason 95% of IT Projects not being delivered on time. My PM just lost 2 minutes to this post when I could have been writing Rose models like I'm suppose to!
To me it looks like Sony is trying to get rid of their discman shells and decided why not let's make a compact flash player. And really 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB seems timid compared to the amount that could be in there. Heck, my mini practical fits in the biggest one.
And I'm holding the companies responible for training me to eat yellow orbs, stack falling bricks, and jump on King Kupa's head. Those bastards have wrecked my morals.
I'm sure the parents did plenty of training too.
There's gotta be some emoticon for rolling your eyes.
I have mixed feelings about this. I mean every new adaptation of DNA's work is open to interpretation but....
when did Ford's thumb become a magic hitchhiking device?!?
Beyond that, It's not as bad as I feared although not as good as I hoped. I think Marvin looks kinda neat, different from the comic book version. Arthur looks about right although Zaphod I think is gonna kill me. I think they're also gonna play up a Arthur, Trillian romance more which I think will hurt it.
My bum will definitly be in a theater seat the moment this hits theaters though.
While I agree the punishment seems harsh in contrast to petty crime (stealing), I think the biggest difference is the ability to do that makes the difference.
It takes a different type of motivation to go into a store and steal a DVD. It's much more offical physically stealing something. We've been taught that this is a crime and there are reprecussions.
Whereas with access to a computer, the only person to guilt you is uh...no one? With no one else in your room, no shop keeper, a vague moral lesson going around, it's a lot easier to justify.
A lawmakers response is the only one they know. To ratchet up the punishment and cross their fingers it'll solve the problem.
I understand BioForge is a place for scientists to collaborate but is it also a place for funding? Did the scientists who put together this article do so with funds from a University or (less likely) a corporation?
If more of these papers are to come out, and I hope they do, the proper funding channels should be lined up since those who fund a research project tend to be very possessive about the results.
I'm sure there will be a lot of jokes about WMDs etc but this is a clear and present danger. North Korea, as displayed by their current actions, is unpredictable. While many will say it's common knowledge that North Korea had nuclear weapons, this is a big deal in that they admitted it.
What's even more frightening is that they're not willing to talk about it. The 6 party talks only resumed a few weeks ago I believe. This can't be a good thing that they've stop talks.
My nervous level has moved up to Red (sorry had to end with a joke).
After eight months of intensive computer simulations and technical investigations
if people are wondering why the decision took so long, besides commanding something on Mars, would be the loss or impairment of the antenna boom. Of course they have safeguards and workarounds but if that fails MARSIS is dead in the water. Good luck ESA.
the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years.
I wouldn't say that. Sure, applications have become heavier and more resource intense but I'm still able to do new things (almost) everyday that I was never able to do a year/month/week/day/nanosecond ago.
It's not how many CPU cycles you have, it's what you do with them when you've got them.
Applications today do far more interesting things than the days of old when computer resources were less.
Example: I know except from 5pm when I get home till 2am when I go to sleep all those CPU cycles are just dust in the wind. That's why I like BOINC because it uses those cycles which wouldn't otherwise get there day in the sun.
Of course, I frown on applications that are ridiculous resource hogs and have no respect for my 1GB of RAM.:)
Sounds like a great idea. I'll also throw away the keys to my house and just install video cameras that track the movements of people approaching my home. If those movements are consistent with my routine behavior (come home from work, slam car door, pick up mail, etc etc) the door unlocks. Otherwise, my house becomes tighter than Fort Knox.
Those keys were starting to be a bother in my pocket.
Of course passwords and keys can be bypassed, just as a locked door can be. But it's the fact that there's a locked door there that keeps a good percentage of casual villians out of your life.
Is the jump from 1,25GHz to 1,42GHz that great an improvement. Yes I know how many operations are done in every Megahertz but in my mind, the point of the mini was not speed but rather using less power for simple things. My e-mail, browser, Word, soltaire, etc is not going to open that much noticably faster with this bump.
I like more speed as much as the next guy but the next guy didn't buy the Mac Mini for speed.
Would management be pleased that their employees were using the Rio's or any of the other mp3 products out there? Is this because Microsoft has some displeasure of it's employees using a product that were not made by Microsoft? If that's so is the MS I-Pod killer that far around the corner?
Seriously, it's an I-pod. Get over it. If it was effecting their productivity that would be one thing but I doubt it's the case. And get over the fact that MS employees are using I-Pods. They're as much a consumer as you are.
"Already, Brazil spends more in licensing fees on proprietary software than it spends on hunger"."
A point most modern countries should take note of. When licensing fees make up such a large part of your operating budget, it seems foolish to simply accept it and continue with business and not look for other options.
I'd prefer my country spending a little bit less on licensing fees and a little more on it's people.
Of course, without the newest version of Office, I suppose they couldn't make neato graphs to justify the latest software licenses expenditures.
If a parent is not active enough in their child's life or like my parents, not technical enough to understand what files are what, this tool does very little.
Parent Not Active - The parent either doesn't care what their child does on the computer/internet or at least does not monitor it. Indeed, that parent might not see this as doing something wrong and in fact do it themselves.
Non-technical Parent - My parents know about movie pirating and that it can be be done on the computer. However, I could also leave a new copy of a main stream movie on the desktop with little worry.
Personally, I think this is a sneaky (abeit overt) way of allowing the MPAA's software to take a peak in your drawers. Parents, if you feel like this is information you can't optain by talking to your kids, than them having some movies on their computer really isn't the problem.
Clippy: I see that you're making a XSTL style sheet to a Writer document. You can't do that with Word. Would you like to: -> Learn about XSTL? -> Learn about OpenOffice Writer (boo hiss)? -> Learn about macros? -> What is style by Trading Spaces?
Blurring the lines between cut scenes and gaming.
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Maybe I'm getting old and all but I find with better graphics I end up forgetting about the game and just watching the game. For Halo I'd walk around for awhile just admiring different things while getting shot at by Convenant ships.
Well not really. But I'd feel like I missed something whipping around on the warthog.
This can only be more true with movie like games.
Blurring the lines between cut scenes and gaming. Can't wait! Although I'll probably be too distracted to actually finish my objective;)
I think this is one of the steps in Intel's strategy to curb anymore inroads that AMD might be making into it's market share. AMD has had several good months at Intel's expense and it wouldn't be suprising if Intel was rolling out an aggressive plan to take it back.
One of those ideas might be aquiring the linux laptop market. As a person with a laptop with a centrino let me tell you it's a great chip, with it's best feature being the fan control and power consumption. To have chip the draws both the MS and Linux crowd would be a business oppurtunity to big to miss.
It's about time too. Been waiting to get rid of XP off this latop:)
I think this endrun to sign exclusive deals is detrimental to the sports electronic gaming industry (admittely not my favorite but I enjoy the occasional game of EA curling as much as the next person). Exclusive deals lead to single lines of games. Exclusive deals curtail the inventive process and remove competition. It's not that this hurts EA, it's how this hurts consumers.
Perhaps every sports game that comes out of this will be great but my money is on the fact that they will become stagnant and boring.
While it has become easier for phishers (and now apparently nonphishers) to prey upon mom and pop internet surfer, it still comes down to personal security. Mom and pop internet surfer won't give their ATM pin or their credit card number to a guy on the street but for some reason, the authority of the Internet removes those safeguards.
Next time you see your parents or someone who is a likely phishing canidate, please, don't roll your eyes. Warn them and try to explain the difference.
The one feature I have enjoyed the most in any multiplayer game has been the ability to ignore other players. A simple/ignore #playerID and all the n00b, j00 suX, ph33r m3, 1337 bs get's flushed down the toilet.
any closed list (or even just anybody sending a message to me personally) just increases the risk of the thing getting lost and delayed for the wrong reasons.'"
I think he really hit the nail on the head with that comment. I can't tell you the number of times CRs or issues have been sent to me through e-mail which have either been lost or forgotten about on my part (sorry). However, using tracking programs which the entire group has access to (we use Mantis) not only are the problems kept on fresh but people will remind me of them or if they are feeling particularly bold, fix them themselves.
From a position of a tax payer this frustrates me.
However, as a programmer I can understand them wanting to scrap the program. If the design has been shot to hell, if their using technology several years past its prime, it's time to start fresh.
And as a tax payer, I'd prefer the FBI to use a system that works, rather than a system that doesn't.
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Anyone who reads this site knows that this site is (probably) the reason 95% of IT Projects not being delivered on time. My PM just lost 2 minutes to this post when I could have been writing Rose models like I'm suppose to!
To me it looks like Sony is trying to get rid of their discman shells and decided why not let's make a compact flash player. And really 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB seems timid compared to the amount that could be in there. Heck, my mini practical fits in the biggest one.
'I don't think the public ought to lose a lot of sleep over the issue,' says nuclear physicist Tom Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "
Sleep! No time for that now after that article. Thanks a fucking bunch Popsci. As if my dreams weren't f'd up enough.
And I'm holding the companies responible for training me to eat yellow orbs, stack falling bricks, and jump on King Kupa's head. Those bastards have wrecked my morals.
I'm sure the parents did plenty of training too.
There's gotta be some emoticon for rolling your eyes.
I have mixed feelings about this. I mean every new adaptation of DNA's work is open to interpretation but....
when did Ford's thumb become a magic hitchhiking device?!?
Beyond that, It's not as bad as I feared although not as good as I hoped. I think Marvin looks kinda neat, different from the comic book version. Arthur looks about right although Zaphod I think is gonna kill me. I think they're also gonna play up a Arthur, Trillian romance more which I think will hurt it.
My bum will definitly be in a theater seat the moment this hits theaters though.
While I agree the punishment seems harsh in contrast to petty crime (stealing), I think the biggest difference is the ability to do that makes the difference.
It takes a different type of motivation to go into a store and steal a DVD. It's much more offical physically stealing something. We've been taught that this is a crime and there are reprecussions.
Whereas with access to a computer, the only person to guilt you is uh...no one? With no one else in your room, no shop keeper, a vague moral lesson going around, it's a lot easier to justify.
A lawmakers response is the only one they know. To ratchet up the punishment and cross their fingers it'll solve the problem.
I understand BioForge is a place for scientists to collaborate but is it also a place for funding? Did the scientists who put together this article do so with funds from a University or (less likely) a corporation?
If more of these papers are to come out, and I hope they do, the proper funding channels should be lined up since those who fund a research project tend to be very possessive about the results.
I'm sure there will be a lot of jokes about WMDs etc but this is a clear and present danger. North Korea, as displayed by their current actions, is unpredictable. While many will say it's common knowledge that North Korea had nuclear weapons, this is a big deal in that they admitted it.
What's even more frightening is that they're not willing to talk about it. The 6 party talks only resumed a few weeks ago I believe. This can't be a good thing that they've stop talks.
My nervous level has moved up to Red (sorry had to end with a joke).
it also gives intruders/managers/employees/anyone with something to hide the ability to search and remove incriminating logs. Thanks EFF!
After eight months of intensive computer simulations and technical investigations
if people are wondering why the decision took so long, besides commanding something on Mars, would be the loss or impairment of the antenna boom. Of course they have safeguards and workarounds but if that fails MARSIS is dead in the water. Good luck ESA.
the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years.
:)
I wouldn't say that. Sure, applications have become heavier and more resource intense but I'm still able to do new things (almost) everyday that I was never able to do a year/month/week/day/nanosecond ago.
It's not how many CPU cycles you have, it's what you do with them when you've got them.
Applications today do far more interesting things than the days of old when computer resources were less.
Example: I know except from 5pm when I get home till 2am when I go to sleep all those CPU cycles are just dust in the wind. That's why I like BOINC because it uses those cycles which wouldn't otherwise get there day in the sun.
Of course, I frown on applications that are ridiculous resource hogs and have no respect for my 1GB of RAM.
Sounds like a great idea. I'll also throw away the keys to my house and just install video cameras that track the movements of people approaching my home. If those movements are consistent with my routine behavior (come home from work, slam car door, pick up mail, etc etc) the door unlocks. Otherwise, my house becomes tighter than Fort Knox.
Those keys were starting to be a bother in my pocket.
Of course passwords and keys can be bypassed, just as a locked door can be. But it's the fact that there's a locked door there that keeps a good percentage of casual villians out of your life.
Is the jump from 1,25GHz to 1,42GHz that great an improvement. Yes I know how many operations are done in every Megahertz but in my mind, the point of the mini was not speed but rather using less power for simple things. My e-mail, browser, Word, soltaire, etc is not going to open that much noticably faster with this bump.
I like more speed as much as the next guy but the next guy didn't buy the Mac Mini for speed.
Would management be pleased that their employees were using the Rio's or any of the other mp3 products out there? Is this because Microsoft has some displeasure of it's employees using a product that were not made by Microsoft? If that's so is the MS I-Pod killer that far around the corner?
Seriously, it's an I-pod. Get over it. If it was effecting their productivity that would be one thing but I doubt it's the case. And get over the fact that MS employees are using I-Pods. They're as much a consumer as you are.
"Already, Brazil spends more in licensing fees on proprietary software than it spends on hunger"."
A point most modern countries should take note of. When licensing fees make up such a large part of your operating budget, it seems foolish to simply accept it and continue with business and not look for other options.
I'd prefer my country spending a little bit less on licensing fees and a little more on it's people.
Of course, without the newest version of Office, I suppose they couldn't make neato graphs to justify the latest software licenses expenditures.
$15,900 fine / 170 songs = $93.52~
That's one expensive song. Almost makes iTunes seem worthwhile.
If a parent is not active enough in their child's life or like my parents, not technical enough to understand what files are what, this tool does very little.
Parent Not Active - The parent either doesn't care what their child does on the computer/internet or at least does not monitor it. Indeed, that parent might not see this as doing something wrong and in fact do it themselves.
Non-technical Parent - My parents know about movie pirating and that it can be be done on the computer. However, I could also leave a new copy of a main stream movie on the desktop with little worry.
Personally, I think this is a sneaky (abeit overt) way of allowing the MPAA's software to take a peak in your drawers. Parents, if you feel like this is information you can't optain by talking to your kids, than them having some movies on their computer really isn't the problem.
Clippy: I see that you're making a XSTL style sheet to a Writer document. You can't do that with Word. Would you like to:
-> Learn about XSTL?
-> Learn about OpenOffice Writer (boo hiss)?
-> Learn about macros?
-> What is style by Trading Spaces?
Maybe I'm getting old and all but I find with better graphics I end up forgetting about the game and just watching the game. For Halo I'd walk around for awhile just admiring different things while getting shot at by Convenant ships.
;)
Well not really. But I'd feel like I missed something whipping around on the warthog.
This can only be more true with movie like games.
Blurring the lines between cut scenes and gaming. Can't wait! Although I'll probably be too distracted to actually finish my objective
I think this is one of the steps in Intel's strategy to curb anymore inroads that AMD might be making into it's market share. AMD has had several good months at Intel's expense and it wouldn't be suprising if Intel was rolling out an aggressive plan to take it back.
:)
One of those ideas might be aquiring the linux laptop market. As a person with a laptop with a centrino let me tell you it's a great chip, with it's best feature being the fan control and power consumption. To have chip the draws both the MS and Linux crowd would be a business oppurtunity to big to miss.
It's about time too. Been waiting to get rid of XP off this latop
I think this endrun to sign exclusive deals is detrimental to the sports electronic gaming industry (admittely not my favorite but I enjoy the occasional game of EA curling as much as the next person). Exclusive deals lead to single lines of games. Exclusive deals curtail the inventive process and remove competition. It's not that this hurts EA, it's how this hurts consumers.
Perhaps every sports game that comes out of this will be great but my money is on the fact that they will become stagnant and boring.
While it has become easier for phishers (and now apparently nonphishers) to prey upon mom and pop internet surfer, it still comes down to personal security. Mom and pop internet surfer won't give their ATM pin or their credit card number to a guy on the street but for some reason, the authority of the Internet removes those safeguards.
Next time you see your parents or someone who is a likely phishing canidate, please, don't roll your eyes. Warn them and try to explain the difference.
The one feature I have enjoyed the most in any multiplayer game has been the ability to ignore other players. A simple /ignore #playerID and all the n00b, j00 suX, ph33r m3, 1337 bs get's flushed down the toilet.
That's in the white paper, right?
RIGHT!
any closed list (or even just anybody sending a message to me personally) just increases the risk of the thing getting lost and delayed for the wrong reasons.'"
I think he really hit the nail on the head with that comment. I can't tell you the number of times CRs or issues have been sent to me through e-mail which have either been lost or forgotten about on my part (sorry). However, using tracking programs which the entire group has access to (we use Mantis) not only are the problems kept on fresh but people will remind me of them or if they are feeling particularly bold, fix them themselves.
From a position of a tax payer this frustrates me.
However, as a programmer I can understand them wanting to scrap the program. If the design has been shot to hell, if their using technology several years past its prime, it's time to start fresh.
And as a tax payer, I'd prefer the FBI to use a system that works, rather than a system that doesn't.