But consider this; in most conflicts, surprise wins the first engagement. The first one to draw a gun, or a knife or whatever has a clear advantage. A gun could make sense if you are always prepared for trouble, but by arming everyone you have also armed the bad guys. And they have the advantage.
I think maybe I *like* living in a shithole-society where madmen have to resort to fists or knives. They still have the advantage, and they can still do a lot of damage, but not at the range or speed you get with a gun.
For some reason, D&D Heroes worked well for me and my wife.
She'd pick a sword wielding warrior type and charge anything that moved and I'd pick a mage to do support. Both had fun. The warrior has lots of action and doesn't require fine tuned 'aim the arrow' motor skills like that of a ranger.
I've been looking for a modern variant for PS3 of this ever since, but the games with multiplayer seems to use the second player more as a sidekick and less as a companion.
Imagine there are no miners. This is the practical endgame result when the chance of solving a block drops so low there is no point for ordinary users to be a miner.
Why would I run a Bitcoin client then? What are my incentives?
The health of the bit coin network or maybe society? There will always be some that do this. But most people value short gain profit over anything else.. Ref 'tragedy of the commons' or for that matter 'environment problem X'.
Perhaps I will run it because I use Bitcoin myself? I would certainly use it in the moments I need access to Bitcoins. But in the 'idle' periods? I have no incentive, this would just be another bandwidth user and potential entrance into my system.
Give me incentive. Give me a chance of 'earning' something running my client and I would probably run it. But in my scenario, remember that there is no practical chance of getting a payment for a new block, so I would be interested in earning the transaction fee instead.
But once you have incentive for doing something, you run into the Sybil problem the Microsoft researchers try to defeat with their hybrid model. Assume zombie networks with lots of machines running for this purpose, and they might be able to at least push their odds in their favor.
The Microsoft analysis seems to be a sound analysis, given some assumptions. I believe that we, as technical people, should do less posturing and more scientific method. If you disagree, see if you can disprove that their assumptions were correct or try to prove a different model. I happen to agree.
It sounds like you mix up 'not treating you' with 'treating you any way they please'.
By that I mean that what you see as 'poor treatment' could as well be seen as 'no capacity to respond'.
I was going to write something here on how 'real' game companies treat forums and tasks spawned from forums, but really. There is no point. If a "quit your whining"-post was enough to prevent you from rejoining FoldIt, then I don't believe it was really ever an option. Maybe you were in it because of the social hooks and the achievements, not because it was fun? That would certainly explain why bad customer support killed it for you.
Anyway, you don't find it worth your time. And that's fair enough, it's your time.
You can find some master/slave power strips that only gives power to the slave outputs if the master output is drawing more than a certain amount of power. Put your computer on the master output and the monitor/printer/whatever on the slave outputs. When you then suspend or turn off the computer, the peripherals power down.
Google had flagged supicious activity on my e-mail account as well, but I had used a unique password generated with "Keypass Password Safe", my new best friend. (Seriously, with ~100 passwords, this is a good way to keep them unique).
This may be the first time I know my paranoia has been useful, but I'm feeling pretty good about paranoia today.
I can't see how you read the article, connect that with the changes in the Hopi Indians, mention causes as changes in diet and exercise... And *still* come down on "Active kids will be less fat."
For one, the findings mentioned in the article claim that the kids have about the same overall activity during a day. The group that did sports didn't do much when they came home, whilst the group that did not do sports was a lot more active when they came home. Resulting in about the same overall amount of activity. If you missed this, you didn't read the FA.
Given this claim, and assuming the scientists know more about it than me, it seems reasonable that the remaining factor is the main factor. Which means DIET. Personally, I'm blaming the sugar industry. At least here in Europe, yogurt contains as much sugar as Coca Cola, about 10%. You will be hard pressed to find food without added sugar. And sugar wasn't really introduced like this into our food until 'recently', historically speaking.
The interesting thing is how studies find that in most cases, people prefer the taste of the food without added sugar. Problem is that those ingredients are more expensive than sugar.. Perhaps some of you with better bookmarks can dig those studies up again.
So, with this finding that *kids* have about the same activity level and *still* get obese, I claim bullshit on the whole "active kids will be less fat" theory.
Now, go spend some energy on opposing the sugar industry. And good luck with that.
So what happens when the air condition does go down? Do the network guys get notified in time to fix it, or do you just rely on the thermal breakers? It sounds like you don't have much time to react.
And when the shot does not kill, but only maim?
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A quite likely scenario is that the shooter does not manage to actually KILL the animal, but simply wound it gravely.
What happens when a wounded animal runs off? With normal hunters, you would continue to hunt it to put it out of its pain. It's more or less a moral obligation to make the animals death as painless as possible.
With this 'remote shooting gallery' idea, things are going to go very wrong the moment they shoot with live ammunition on animals.
Modify the system to 'shoot' a photo instead, pinpointing where you would have hit. Perhaps even estimating if it would have been a kill.
Just avoid a system where it is more or less guaranteed that animals will suffer more than any hunter would accept.
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You know, this is just childish, in addition to plain 'wrong'. Stop it. There has got to be better ways to get your point across.
If you think big brother is bad, just wait until you see what little brother will do with the same information.
Suddenly that little woman on the third floor will grin knowingly when she meets you in the stairs. Your potential employer will of course have access to the same information and might not like people with your shopping habits.
"Freedom should always trump Privacy".. I don't get your point. Those two aspects are related. If someone was watching your every move, would you still have freedom? I think not.
When you give up privacy, you give it up for good. It is not going to be returned. After all, the information can be used for *anything* and has a huge potential value.
I'll just add some words from my grandmother: "The road to hell is built with good intentions". Enjoy the ride, I just hope we manage to stop it before rock bottom.
The intent the author had when he wrote the story does not really change the classification from SF to anything else.
Remember that a lot of SF is written with a political motive. The author will often try to foretell where society will move if certain trends are allowed to continue. I believe this SF subset is called 'utopia', and it is often quite dark. The element of 'technology' does not even need to appear at all. Typical examples of 'utopian' SF would be 1984 and Brave New World.
I like it when the reader suddenly see the parallells between the stupid society he is reading about and the stupid society he is living in. It makes for a very powerful message.
Besides that it looks to be two-handed, 50 wpm is not exactly impressive when using two hands. Not for normal 'typing' anyway. 150 would be more impressive. I took a test once and came out above 200, I bet a *lot* of people here do the same. --
Before you do any work on the program, make a deal with your company. Make sure that you have it in writing that the work you do on this program does not belong to the company. And let them know they can still use it. If you write a lot of open source stuff, you should probably try to get stuff like that into your job description or whatever the proper document is called. Just to deflect future conflicts of the same kind. And calling FSF seems not a bad idea at all. --
Well.. I bought me a then-expensive Motorola CD930 (gsm).
And I have learnt the following;
"vibrate, then ring" is a must-have feature. Once you have tried it, you question the sanity of those that don't. The CD930 has this feature.
TEST the address book features (phone book). They SUCK for the phone mentioned. You want ease of copy between an old sim card and a new one. You want an easy to use interface for finding and modifying adresses. The CD930 have crippled versions of both of these.
TEST sending and receiving of SMS-messages. A phone that just shows you the phone number of the sender, even when you have the adress in your addressbook, well.. it sucks. And so do the CD930.
A useful feature with a cellphone is a builtin clock. But only if the clock is accurate, and worthy as a feature only if it is used for anything. You will want 'last received calls' to be timestamped. The CD930 does not, even though it has a clock builtin.
I never believed this would be an issue, but test the response times for menues. When you browse SMS messages and press the down button, wait a bit and then select the ok button; what message do you get? The one shown or the one next? Ahem.. I replied to the wrong people some times before I got that this was the problem.
I am very concerned with the user interface for gadgets like this that you use every day. For the Motorola CD930, I can only uphold it as 'flunked'. Even my other phone from autumn 1994 has a better user interface.
And now that I'm finished ranting, I'll read the other posts and hopefully find my next phone. Only it will not be a Motorola. (Ps: If someone from Motorola reads this, can you please restaff your quality assurance department? And send me a upgraded phone?)
"The target market of those filters are parents who can not be bothered to keep an eye on there kids"
In many families, both parents have to work. So, when school quits for the day, the kids get home before their parents. And there is the computer.
Nothing can totally prevent a kid from looking at 'indecent' material, but I can sympathize with the parents that doesn't want it to happen in their own home.
Heh.. perhaps a better solution would be a timer on the computer; "This machine can only be used when your parents are home, and they are still working".. I know kids will circumvent that as well, so perhaps the most important thing is to let them know you have a policy on the issue. --
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You seem a bit upset.
But consider this; in most conflicts, surprise wins the first engagement.
The first one to draw a gun, or a knife or whatever has a clear advantage.
A gun could make sense if you are always prepared for trouble, but by arming everyone you have also armed the bad guys. And they have the advantage.
I think maybe I *like* living in a shithole-society where madmen have to resort to fists or knives.
They still have the advantage, and they can still do a lot of damage, but not at the range or speed you get with a gun.
For some reason, D&D Heroes worked well for me and my wife.
She'd pick a sword wielding warrior type and charge anything that moved and I'd pick a mage to do support.
Both had fun. The warrior has lots of action and doesn't require fine tuned 'aim the arrow' motor skills like that of a ranger.
I've been looking for a modern variant for PS3 of this ever since, but the games with multiplayer seems to use
the second player more as a sidekick and less as a companion.
Imagine there are no miners. This is the practical endgame result when the chance of solving a block drops so low there is no point for ordinary users to be a miner.
Why would I run a Bitcoin client then? What are my incentives?
The health of the bit coin network or maybe society? There will always be some that do this. But most people value short gain profit over anything else.. Ref 'tragedy of the commons' or for that matter 'environment problem X'.
Perhaps I will run it because I use Bitcoin myself? I would certainly use it in the moments I need access to Bitcoins.
But in the 'idle' periods? I have no incentive, this would just be another bandwidth user and potential entrance into my system.
Give me incentive. Give me a chance of 'earning' something running my client and I would probably run it. But in my scenario, remember that there is no practical chance of getting a payment for a new block, so I would be interested in earning the transaction fee instead.
But once you have incentive for doing something, you run into the Sybil problem the Microsoft researchers try to defeat with their hybrid model. Assume zombie networks with lots of machines running for this purpose, and they might be able to at least push their odds in their favor.
The Microsoft analysis seems to be a sound analysis, given some assumptions. I believe that we, as technical people, should do less posturing and more scientific method. If you disagree, see if you can disprove that their assumptions were correct or try to prove a different model. I happen to agree.
It sounds like you mix up 'not treating you' with 'treating you any way they please'.
By that I mean that what you see as 'poor treatment' could as well be seen as 'no capacity to respond'.
I was going to write something here on how 'real' game companies treat forums and tasks spawned from forums, but really. There is no point.
If a "quit your whining"-post was enough to prevent you from rejoining FoldIt, then I don't believe it was really ever an option. Maybe you were in it because of the social hooks and the achievements, not because it was fun? That would certainly explain why bad customer support killed it for you.
Anyway, you don't find it worth your time. And that's fair enough, it's your time.
You can find some master/slave power strips that only gives power to the slave outputs if the master output is drawing more than a certain amount of power.
Put your computer on the master output and the monitor/printer/whatever on the slave outputs.
When you then suspend or turn off the computer, the peripherals power down.
Google had flagged supicious activity on my e-mail account as well, but I had used a unique password generated with "Keypass Password Safe", my new best friend. (Seriously, with ~100 passwords, this is a good way to keep them unique).
This may be the first time I know my paranoia has been useful, but I'm feeling pretty good about paranoia today.
I can't see how you read the article, connect that with the changes in the Hopi Indians, mention causes as changes in diet and exercise... And *still* come down on "Active kids will be less fat."
For one, the findings mentioned in the article claim that the kids have about the same overall activity during a day. The group that did sports didn't do much when they came home, whilst the group that did not do sports was a lot more active when they came home. Resulting in about the same overall amount of activity. If you missed this, you didn't read the FA.
Given this claim, and assuming the scientists know more about it than me, it seems reasonable that the remaining factor is the main factor. Which means DIET. Personally, I'm blaming the sugar industry. At least here in Europe, yogurt contains as much sugar as Coca Cola, about 10%. You will be hard pressed to find food without added sugar. And sugar wasn't really introduced like this into our food until 'recently', historically speaking.
The interesting thing is how studies find that in most cases, people prefer the taste of the food without added sugar. Problem is that those ingredients are more expensive than sugar.. Perhaps some of you with better bookmarks can dig those studies up again.
So, with this finding that *kids* have about the same activity level and *still* get obese, I claim bullshit on the whole "active kids will be less fat" theory.
Now, go spend some energy on opposing the sugar industry. And good luck with that.
So what happens when the air condition does go down?
Do the network guys get notified in time to fix it, or do you just rely on the thermal breakers?
It sounds like you don't have much time to react.
A quite likely scenario is that the shooter does not manage to actually KILL the animal, but simply wound it gravely.
What happens when a wounded animal runs off? With normal hunters, you would continue to hunt it to put it out of its pain. It's more or less a moral obligation to make the animals death as painless as possible.
With this 'remote shooting gallery' idea, things are going to go very wrong the moment they shoot with live ammunition on animals.
Modify the system to 'shoot' a photo instead, pinpointing where you would have hit. Perhaps even estimating if it would have been a kill.
Just avoid a system where it is more or less guaranteed that animals will suffer more than any hunter would accept.
You know, this is just childish, in addition to plain 'wrong'. Stop it. There has got to be better ways to get your point across.
If you think big brother is bad, just wait until you see what little brother will do with the same information.
Suddenly that little woman on the third floor will grin knowingly when she meets you in the stairs. Your potential employer will of course have access to the same information and might not like people with your shopping habits.
"Freedom should always trump Privacy".. I don't get your point. Those two aspects are related. If someone was watching your every move, would you still have freedom? I think not.
When you give up privacy, you give it up for good. It is not going to be returned. After all, the information can be used for *anything* and has a huge potential value.
I'll just add some words from my grandmother: "The road to hell is built with good intentions". Enjoy the ride, I just hope we manage to stop it before rock bottom.
The intent the author had when he wrote the story does not really change the classification from SF to anything else.
Remember that a lot of SF is written with a political motive. The author will often try to foretell where society will move if certain trends are allowed to continue. I believe this SF subset is called 'utopia', and it is often quite dark. The element of 'technology' does not even need to appear at all.
Typical examples of 'utopian' SF would be 1984 and Brave New World.
I like it when the reader suddenly see the parallells between the stupid society he is reading about and the stupid society he is living in. It makes for a very powerful message.
Besides that it looks to be two-handed, 50 wpm is not exactly impressive when using two hands. Not for normal 'typing' anyway. 150 would be more impressive. I took a test once and came out above 200, I bet a *lot* of people here do the same.
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One problem could be to show that the work was actually done in own free time, on own computers. Any lawyers care to say something about this?
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Before you do any work on the program, make a deal with your company. Make sure that you have it in writing that the work you do on this program does not belong to the company. And let them know they can still use it. If you write a lot of open source stuff, you should probably try to get stuff like that into your job description or whatever the proper document is called. Just to deflect future conflicts of the same kind. And calling FSF seems not a bad idea at all.
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And I have learnt the following;
I am very concerned with the user interface for gadgets like this that you use every day. For the Motorola CD930, I can only uphold it as 'flunked'. Even my other phone from autumn 1994 has a better user interface.
And now that I'm finished ranting, I'll read the other posts and hopefully find my next phone. Only it will not be a Motorola. (Ps: If someone from Motorola reads this, can you please restaff your quality assurance department? And send me a upgraded phone?)
Regards, Jørn Jensen. Slightly pissed.
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In many families, both parents have to work. So, when school quits for the day, the kids get home before their parents. And there is the computer.
Nothing can totally prevent a kid from looking at 'indecent' material, but I can sympathize with the parents that doesn't want it to happen in their own home.
Heh.. perhaps a better solution would be a timer on the computer; "This machine can only be used when your parents are home, and they are still working".. I know kids will circumvent that as well, so perhaps the most important thing is to let them know you have a policy on the issue.
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"Personally, I'll defer to one of the commandments: "Thou shall not kill". There are no qualifiers."
Well.. if you really are to follow this, you should instantly become a vegetarian. No more hamburgers for you.
Do you see the problem? I would say that there *are* qualifiers for anything, if only implicit.
//jornj
Man, I just read through the Programme 3
That looks like a real cool/interesting show. A pity we don't have it in Norway. (Or do we?)
Thanks for the link, I'll read the rest later..
I welcome this change in French policy regarding crypto. Now, I'll just cross my fingers and hope for a 'french wave' to other countries in the EU.