I thought this at first. But its exactly those few people that are putting out 99% of the good stuff anyway. If there were something as simple as an interface to CVS, it would be wonderful. Just being able to check out a module real fast, make a correction and check it back in so all the other developers can get the latest change without as many hoops to jump through would be huge.
There are relatively few things that disqualify you compared to what they ask you. The purpose of most of the questions and polygraph is that they get full disclosure of what you have done. They need to know all the skeletons in your closet, so they can't be used as blackmail against you.
Espionage often starts very simple. One instance I was told about was about a civilian consultant who asked a military person to buy them cigarettes at the Post Exchange (to avoid taxes). They worked together and the soldier didn't see anything wrong with helping the guy out. More purchases were made with the soldier accepting cash kickbacks on the savings.
This was used as leverage to get him to give them some information. The soldier thought the info was harmless and that this would get him out of it but really he was just more involved. From there it can just get worse and worse and he has more to hide.
The NSA doesn't really care that you tried pot 6 years ago as long as you're not trying to hide that fact. Someone that wants that fact hidden is a prime candidate for getting started down that slippery slope. It would probably start with something harmless, "Tell me what time so-and-so gets to work or I'll tell your entire church you smoked dope." If you're a neurotic person that needs to hide your past actions and pretend you were always the law-abiding, church goer that you are now then that may be perceived as a real threat that you'd go for.
What I'm looking for is something that would help me work with multiple people on the same project. I'm accustomed to using CVS or similar all the time, is there anything similar for NWN?
I lost a lot of interest when I was told the solution was basically a design by contract and people essentially worked on zones separate from each other. This gives each person a vertical slice of the world. I'd like a horizontal slice where I could do coding someone else do mapping, someone else do dialog...etc.
This is the one aspect of the development that fell short, and that I'd like to see in some future game. Make the tools assuming that several people will be working on it at once and using source control.
I agree that even with the eccentric spelling seen on slashdot, very few of us have 45,000 word vocabularies.
A quick calculation of 70^8 for the "normal" unix strength password shows 6x10^14 combinations.
Assuming a 2000 word vocabulary that means sentences only need to be 4.47 words long to be of equal strength. This would assume any word could appear in any position.
While some optimizations could be made on a cracking program to calculate that certain words go together, the same could be done when validating passwords. "a lot" could be considered one word, maybe even "a lot of".
Dictionary attacks would be far more difficult than against an 8 letter string.
I know one thing for sure though. I don't want to support users who have to type in a 9 word sentence exactly right.
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My credit is top notch. Everyone that I owe money to gets paid. But I don't pay them just because they say I owe them money.
A good example happened a couple years ago: My wife had a surgery. We met our out of pocket maximum that year. Two years later we get a bill saying that we owe them $3000. They try a couple times to get us to pay and have us deal with the insurance company to get reimbursed. I make it quite clear that its not my problem that they can't fill out my insurer's forms (they had received some payment from this insurer).
I've run into this several times. Their standard tactic is to get money when they can, then make you do the work of figuring out how much you have. I just don't extend credit to doctors or hospitals, the insurance mess is just as much their fault as the insurance companies.
In the end, its the person holding the disputed money that has the leverage to make the other party do paperwork. I certainly don't mean this as a stalling tactic, if I know I owe someone money, I pay them what I know I owe them.
Ebgames has a $30 rebate on it bringing the price down to $149 if you purchase an accessory bundle.
Also, their refurb models are $149. I may be wrong no the refurb price.
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Until you've paid I advise getting involved as little as possible. In fact, I advise against getting involved by paying and trying to get the money back. Its amazing how much harder they'll work to recoup money vs. how hard they work to return your money.
I also have a semi-firm policy of ignoring bills that arrive for the first time more than a year after services. If you wait to bill me until after I've filed away receipts from last year and have a fuzzier memory of the event, you can wait a few years longer.
I'll just say that you don't want to be defended by a non paranoid military. They train hard and prepare for very bad things. History is littered with nations unable to defend themselves after their militaries became headed by political appointees rather than professional soldiers.
That said, the military does not make these policies. They raise concerns and the wise government officials you elected make policies.
Cross platform...ooh. Yea, now I can replace that big Sun box on a whim with something else. In 8 years of doing business programming, I have never (NEVER!) had to change platforms such that a rewrite would occur.
There is a small benefit that you can run your own server on your windows box and that code should (not necessarily will) run on your server. This gives me the luxury of being able to use my IDE, Weblogic, and Lotus Notes all on my own machine. I'm going to tab over to my IDE and back real quick to see if the build is done, I'll be back in 30 minutes.
(30 minutes and 2 alt-tabs later)
Back. Best bang for my buck? I'll take Perl. Lets see now...More stuff than Java on more platforms running more stably divided by zero.
Perl wins.
Oh, and I don't give a damn about objects or patterns. They are for the weak minded who need hand holding. Blah blah blah data encapsulation. Bullshit. If I want to trash the data I damn well ought to have the power.
It may suck to shoot yourself in the foot, but I'm not giving up my power to shoot everyone else in the foot just because I'm afraid.
Exactly, and SCO's issue is with the one bound by the license. If you pirate software, you're not bound by the license but merely by the law which is often much less strict.
Yes, she had material under copyright and shared it.
What doesn't sit right is that they can threaten her with being indebted to them for the rest of her life in order to force a settlement. A settlement which is an admission of guilt and doesn't guarantee she can't be sued further for what she has done.
I don't copy songs because I think it is wrong. That doesn't change my opinion that the penalties are out of whack.
That said, I'm about to start stealing movies since I'm already getting lectured by the MPAA while attending movies I've paid for.
Computers vs Humans in chess is a fun competition. Its been going on for a while as programmers have finally put forth programs competitive at the highest levels.
There is actually quite a bit of room to grow for these competitions. As the programs get better, they could be forced to play by more "fair" rules.
They could be required to play without human tweaks between matches (but will be allowed computer analysis and adjustment).
There could be a requirement to play a normal style tournament where they play multiple people and can't be set up for one specific person's style. Right now they are specifically prepared for certain people. Sure, they should be allowed to prepare for upcoming competitors, but they'll have to do that analysis on their own against their competition's past games.
They *should* be required to produce a history of games made *after* the last human interaction with the program. I'm convinced this would have prevented Deep Blue's win vs Kasparov. Deep Blue was prepared against Kasparov's thousands of available games. There were no previous games published by Deep Blue.
And last, my favorite: Computers should have to develope their own opening book. Right now they are given an opening book decided by humans, telling them what the best moves are. They repeat these human moves back without ever having invested in the analysis of these moves. Same goes for the end game, no end game lookups should be allowed. They should calculate it out like the rest of us (of course if they can generate the end game database in their alloted time, that's fair.)
We're still a little way from a computer playing a whole tournament without human intervention.
Sure, now all their workers can file employment lawsuits for backpay from working 24/7 for the duration of their employment. This would put virtually everyone under minimum wage.
He would be intimidated because he would be compelled to be some place other than he would want to be.
For a lot of people, going to court means (at the minimum) lost wages. If you're compelled to be there as a witness (or juror) you have no recourse to recover that money.
Of course, issuing subpoenas to the major investors is calling the major *owners* of the company to explain why their company is hurling these accusations.
Since nearly everyone has been exposed to this and it's non pathogenic, it would seem beneficial to develope some way to un-innoculate the populate so that everyone is a carrier of it all the time.
Such a thought kind of stands medical research on its ear though. Anyone have any example of (non weapon) research being done to make people catch and carry a beneficial virus?
One reason they are going through this madness is to put on a show that they sincerely believe themselves to be right. They are wrong, everyone knows it, but right now they have to put on a show of believing their wrongness so that it's harder to prove they are guilty of fraud and not just bad decisions.
Then they'll just use the standard "needed to sell the stock to pay for the house(s), the timing was just a fluke" in order to avoid SEC charges.
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I thought this at first. But its exactly those few people that are putting out 99% of the good stuff anyway. If there were something as simple as an interface to CVS, it would be wonderful. Just being able to check out a module real fast, make a correction and check it back in so all the other developers can get the latest change without as many hoops to jump through would be huge.
There are relatively few things that disqualify you compared to what they ask you. The purpose of most of the questions and polygraph is that they get full disclosure of what you have done. They need to know all the skeletons in your closet, so they can't be used as blackmail against you.
Espionage often starts very simple. One instance I was told about was about a civilian consultant who asked a military person to buy them cigarettes at the Post Exchange (to avoid taxes). They worked together and the soldier didn't see anything wrong with helping the guy out. More purchases were made with the soldier accepting cash kickbacks on the savings.
This was used as leverage to get him to give them some information. The soldier thought the info was harmless and that this would get him out of it but really he was just more involved. From there it can just get worse and worse and he has more to hide.
The NSA doesn't really care that you tried pot 6 years ago as long as you're not trying to hide that fact. Someone that wants that fact hidden is a prime candidate for getting started down that slippery slope. It would probably start with something harmless, "Tell me what time so-and-so gets to work or I'll tell your entire church you smoked dope." If you're a neurotic person that needs to hide your past actions and pretend you were always the law-abiding, church goer that you are now then that may be perceived as a real threat that you'd go for.
What I'm looking for is something that would help me work with multiple people on the same project. I'm accustomed to using CVS or similar all the time, is there anything similar for NWN?
I lost a lot of interest when I was told the solution was basically a design by contract and people essentially worked on zones separate from each other. This gives each person a vertical slice of the world. I'd like a horizontal slice where I could do coding someone else do mapping, someone else do dialog...etc.
This is the one aspect of the development that fell short, and that I'd like to see in some future game. Make the tools assuming that several people will be working on it at once and using source control.
I agree that even with the eccentric spelling seen on slashdot, very few of us have 45,000 word vocabularies.
A quick calculation of 70^8 for the "normal" unix strength password shows 6x10^14 combinations.
Assuming a 2000 word vocabulary that means sentences only need to be 4.47 words long to be of equal strength. This would assume any word could appear in any position.
While some optimizations could be made on a cracking program to calculate that certain words go together, the same could be done when validating passwords. "a lot" could be considered one word, maybe even "a lot of".
Dictionary attacks would be far more difficult than against an 8 letter string.
I know one thing for sure though. I don't want to support users who have to type in a 9 word sentence exactly right.
My credit is top notch. Everyone that I owe money to gets paid. But I don't pay them just because they say I owe them money.
A good example happened a couple years ago: My wife had a surgery. We met our out of pocket maximum that year. Two years later we get a bill saying that we owe them $3000. They try a couple times to get us to pay and have us deal with the insurance company to get reimbursed. I make it quite clear that its not my problem that they can't fill out my insurer's forms (they had received some payment from this insurer).
I've run into this several times. Their standard tactic is to get money when they can, then make you do the work of figuring out how much you have. I just don't extend credit to doctors or hospitals, the insurance mess is just as much their fault as the insurance companies.
In the end, its the person holding the disputed money that has the leverage to make the other party do paperwork. I certainly don't mean this as a stalling tactic, if I know I owe someone money, I pay them what I know I owe them.
Demonstrate with a beer.
Upload it to the refrigerator.
Download it from the refrigerator.
Install it.
Uninstall it.
The xbox is $179 from ebgames (and most places).
Ebgames has a $30 rebate on it bringing the price down to $149 if you purchase an accessory bundle.
Also, their refurb models are $149. I may be wrong no the refurb price.
Until you've paid I advise getting involved as little as possible. In fact, I advise against getting involved by paying and trying to get the money back. Its amazing how much harder they'll work to recoup money vs. how hard they work to return your money.
I also have a semi-firm policy of ignoring bills that arrive for the first time more than a year after services. If you wait to bill me until after I've filed away receipts from last year and have a fuzzier memory of the event, you can wait a few years longer.
There just aren't enough dirty songs about accordians.
This won't help you crack a slashdot password-sentence:
Its rediculous how these loosers mispell there words and use more wierd grammer then imaginible.
"foolish paranoia of a few in uniform".
I'll just say that you don't want to be defended by a non paranoid military. They train hard and prepare for very bad things. History is littered with nations unable to defend themselves after their militaries became headed by political appointees rather than professional soldiers.
That said, the military does not make these policies. They raise concerns and the wise government officials you elected make policies.
Cross platform...ooh. Yea, now I can replace that big Sun box on a whim with something else. In 8 years of doing business programming, I have never (NEVER!) had to change platforms such that a rewrite would occur.
There is a small benefit that you can run your own server on your windows box and that code should (not necessarily will) run on your server. This gives me the luxury of being able to use my IDE, Weblogic, and Lotus Notes all on my own machine. I'm going to tab over to my IDE and back real quick to see if the build is done, I'll be back in 30 minutes.
(30 minutes and 2 alt-tabs later)
Back. Best bang for my buck? I'll take Perl. Lets see now...More stuff than Java on more platforms running more stably divided by zero.
Perl wins.
Oh, and I don't give a damn about objects or patterns. They are for the weak minded who need hand holding. Blah blah blah data encapsulation. Bullshit. If I want to trash the data I damn well ought to have the power.
It may suck to shoot yourself in the foot, but I'm not giving up my power to shoot everyone else in the foot just because I'm afraid.
The difference between extending the language in java and LISP is that the LISP extensions are indistinguishable from the language itself.
There are many things that just can't be done in java that require workarounds. Try using the + to add an integer to an Integer.
Try implementing
begin {
} commit {
} rollback {
}
to handle arbitrary code in each of the blocks. I can implement the equivalent in LISP in just a few lines. Java requires quite a bit more.
The most successful thing about java has been its hype.
At least with something like Perl I feel that the language attempts to meet me part way rather than declaring how everything must be done.
Exactly, and SCO's issue is with the one bound by the license. If you pirate software, you're not bound by the license but merely by the law which is often much less strict.
If these patterns are truly recurring, why can't I just do something like:
Factory f = new Factory();
Any good programming language should be extensible to handle frequently recurring constructs. Java does not.
That's right, this is a LISP post. We have macros and a whole host of other things you don't, nyah nyah nyah.
Oh yea..LISP is dead. More like, "LISP is a dead end where programmers go to never return to their original language."
You were a CIS major, but I'd bet you would have tried out the damn thing before letting the assembly lines roll.
Yes, she had material under copyright and shared it.
What doesn't sit right is that they can threaten her with being indebted to them for the rest of her life in order to force a settlement. A settlement which is an admission of guilt and doesn't guarantee she can't be sued further for what she has done.
I don't copy songs because I think it is wrong. That doesn't change my opinion that the penalties are out of whack.
That said, I'm about to start stealing movies since I'm already getting lectured by the MPAA while attending movies I've paid for.
Computers vs Humans in chess is a fun competition. Its been going on for a while as programmers have finally put forth programs competitive at the highest levels.
There is actually quite a bit of room to grow for these competitions. As the programs get better, they could be forced to play by more "fair" rules.
They could be required to play without human tweaks between matches (but will be allowed computer analysis and adjustment).
There could be a requirement to play a normal style tournament where they play multiple people and can't be set up for one specific person's style. Right now they are specifically prepared for certain people. Sure, they should be allowed to prepare for upcoming competitors, but they'll have to do that analysis on their own against their competition's past games.
They *should* be required to produce a history of games made *after* the last human interaction with the program. I'm convinced this would have prevented Deep Blue's win vs Kasparov. Deep Blue was prepared against Kasparov's thousands of available games. There were no previous games published by Deep Blue.
And last, my favorite: Computers should have to develope their own opening book. Right now they are given an opening book decided by humans, telling them what the best moves are. They repeat these human moves back without ever having invested in the analysis of these moves. Same goes for the end game, no end game lookups should be allowed. They should calculate it out like the rest of us (of course if they can generate the end game database in their alloted time, that's fair.)
We're still a little way from a computer playing a whole tournament without human intervention.
BSD might have stolen something from SCO, after all, it is dying.
Sure, now all their workers can file employment lawsuits for backpay from working 24/7 for the duration of their employment. This would put virtually everyone under minimum wage.
California and Utah are as foreign to each other as it gets.
He would be intimidated because he would be compelled to be some place other than he would want to be.
For a lot of people, going to court means (at the minimum) lost wages. If you're compelled to be there as a witness (or juror) you have no recourse to recover that money.
Of course, issuing subpoenas to the major investors is calling the major *owners* of the company to explain why their company is hurling these accusations.
Since nearly everyone has been exposed to this and it's non pathogenic, it would seem beneficial to develope some way to un-innoculate the populate so that everyone is a carrier of it all the time.
Such a thought kind of stands medical research on its ear though. Anyone have any example of (non weapon) research being done to make people catch and carry a beneficial virus?
One reason they are going through this madness is to put on a show that they sincerely believe themselves to be right. They are wrong, everyone knows it, but right now they have to put on a show of believing their wrongness so that it's harder to prove they are guilty of fraud and not just bad decisions.
Then they'll just use the standard "needed to sell the stock to pay for the house(s), the timing was just a fluke" in order to avoid SEC charges.
This plasma discharge has been anticipated for quite some time and has been reflected in the drop of prices for plasma televisions.