A: Training.
I suppose you didn't even Stop being an ass blister. Your vocabulary is like to a schoolgirl bully. The character is common in classic American movies about adolescence: tall, red hair, pigtails, freckled, tomboyish, loudmouthed, aggressive, usually with a drunk for a father, and always chasing down the main character (often a boy just a year or so younger) with snotty remarks.
making creative use of lag while engaged in a large-scale battle in Eve. creative ways to use the network in order to create lag in games of Red Alert so that the winner can "prove" he's more intelligent to a group of judges, what?
I guess I overreacted How many people did you tell?
Maybe I have missed some details this one
Where's the problem? this one
while still a game It's the only game
Why would they want to To win. To have a good time together. Because it's fun.
on their own train set? because it's theirs. Nobody else can have it. It's not about the code. It's about owning the game.
Can someone explain what the actual scandal was? Someone figured out what the scam was, exposed it, and the mods (company employees abusing in-game advantage) smacked them down for it:
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Total Score: 1 I've seen this happen so many times I could script it in more than one language.
I've never played any online MMORPG. I'm noting absolute similarities. I could have written the whole situation (at least five years worth) verbatim, in a different scenario, including this interview, the moment I read the first release about EVE. I've already seen it inside, outside, and inbetween.
I'm just guessing here The point is that "why were people leaking info, what was being leaked, and what impact did it have on a multibillion dollar international company" is the most obvious question for the whole situation. The very fact that it's being carefully avoided in the media releases points to "as bad as it can be".
If Dunn really was defrauding shareholders In today's world the question is no longer "if"--it's inherent. The question is "how much", "who do we bust today", and, if we're busting someone today, "who takes the fall" (eg. Martha Stewart, Lay and Skilling).
Eight minutes left... I wonder how far I'll make it.
The transcript here has been edited to eliminate repeated words and 'umms' McDonald's has a great program for this. A speaker stands in front of an audience. Each audience member is holding a handbuzzer. Every time the speaker uses "ah" or "um" or a similar spacer the members of the audience ring the buzzer.
Magnus: I don't get angry. I've prepared all the proper doublespeak.
Magnus: Ahh... people need to know when the issue with this one developer happened, which was last summer, all of the management team was actually on a summer vacation. What a rough life--a whole summer of vacation.
they just made a really bad decision the way they managed that whole thing Understatement of the year so far.
this goes so much against the CCP mentality, and the corporate culture Actually this kind of backstabbery is par for the course in corporate culture.
we never really thought that anything like that could actually happen He's really acknowledging that they never thought that anyone would ever be able to infiltrate the ranks and bust the ruse.
We have an internal affairs department that does nothing but monitor our employees The EVE corporate gestapo.
to ensure that nothing like that will ever happen again To ensure that we cover our behinds more effectively next time.
it's so ridiculous for anyone to think that. Why would anyone at CCP want to do something like that? Quick! Look over there!
we'd never dealt with something like this before Now we have experience, and we won't let you users figure out the scam again.
we have a passion for the game, we will be playing the game And we'll still be making use of every advantage we have at our disposal--only now we know how we need to better cover our tracks.
And those people would never allow somebody to be working against their alliance No. Shock and awe. Never.
people know that if you were to do something like that you'd basically get fired He forgot "to do something and get caught like that".
That case, from our end, is closed We don't want to expose our secrets anymore.
we know it was only one person One minute left... so I'll close with raucous laughter.
I've never seen details on what the leaks were or whether they were good or bad for the company and whether they were good or bad for the shareholders. Without that information, it's hard to understand how the defrauding took place and how extensive it was When you ask someone,"How bad is it?" and they just give you that look and shake their head while keeping their lips closed, do you need to be told any more? Part of growing up is learning that "as bad as it can possibly be" has no limit.
Feynman has. In his _Lectures on Computing_, he talks about the ramifications of bidirectional gates (reversible computing, but with a cost in complexity) Reading that was better than shooting a troll which was climbing out of The Pit with a double-barrel shotgun over the shoulder backwards.
Reversible computing. Now there's something I'd like to write an OS for.:) Is there an academic descendent of his looking for grad students anywhere? I can relocate for the cost of a bus ticket.
Lip service is infinitely cheap. As long as we're living in a nation which is d0minated by artificially created taxpayer debt you'll never see a significant victory over the organizations which help to maintain that debt.
In the long term the common consumer and investor must approach this technology cautiously. We must remember the cycle that we went through with electronics. That cycle will be repeated with photonics. First they will create an AND gate, then an OR gate, then higher order functions, then the functions will be arranged on a die to make a processor, then the processors will begin to differentiate and will inherit different functions, then the processors will begin to aggregate and some processors will assimilate others. Eventually the architecture of processors will stabilize and they will begin to accelerate.
Except that, since we've been through the logical darwinian evolution of electronics once already, we should be able to refine most of these steps. Don't be caught upgrading your photonic computer once a year for every 100 MHz (or comparable measure of units) increase in the main processor. Don't be roped into investing in every half-ass component chip maker.
It will be highly enlightening to see how the photonics industry develops after the electronics industry already cut the path once.
Personally I'm waiting to see them develop bidirectional logic gates. Electrons are localized enough that current computer technology relies on logic gates functioning, for the most part, in one direction. There isn't much feedback. With photonics I fully expect to see logical functions whose inputs and results are codependent.
Has anyone studied the possibilities of programming using bidirectional logic?
Were any other restrictions were placed on those found guilty in the case of Enron or is it still ongoing, or even just dropped? 283 were named, 5 made it to the courtroom, Skilling and Lay were the only ones to see any formal judiciary penalty (afaik). The rest are still able to continue working the Wall Street/DC money pyramid to bilk the common investors/taxpayers for their own profit.
It's not about revenge, it's about protecting society I'm still waiting to be financially protected from the 278 Enron executives who never saw the inside of a courtroom--and who still know how to use priveleged positions to milk profit from 401(k) and other pension plans and leave the rest of us in debt. How are we being protected from executives like Hurd and Dunn from continuing to abuse their position within major corporations?
It's not really possible for me to feel sorry for a multimillionaire. I really don't care what the ailment is. If they're a multimillionaire they should've known better than to become caught up in illegal activities. If they're dumb enough to be caught, when they had the financial ability to step out and say "I can't agree to this", then they deserve every last hour of punishment we can give them. It's not like she would've become homeless for staying out of the mess to begin with.
Submarine One got to be the most popular submarine by giving people what they wanted Editorial suggestion: "Submarine One became the most popular submarine by advertising that everyone should want a submarine at a time when most people didn't know what a submarine was. The advertising was paid for using taxpayer money which was allocated in the form of research grants, business subsidies, and government backed low interest technology sector loans."
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A: Training. I suppose you didn't even Stop being an ass blister. Your vocabulary is like to a schoolgirl bully. The character is common in classic American movies about adolescence: tall, red hair, pigtails, freckled, tomboyish, loudmouthed, aggressive, usually with a drunk for a father, and always chasing down the main character (often a boy just a year or so younger) with snotty remarks.
at McDonald's or join a monastery.
I have plenty of free time today to finally try RedHat. Please contact me to negotiate an appropriate laptop.
Hemos say what?
'nuff said.
The crowd loves it.
Someone has noticed. Now what happens?
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I love quantum theory.
Hey look! You missed me!
I've never played any online MMORPG. I'm noting absolute similarities. I could have written the whole situation (at least five years worth) verbatim, in a different scenario, including this interview, the moment I read the first release about EVE. I've already seen it inside, outside, and inbetween.
People just like them--running the exact same type of scam and making the exact same bullsh*t apologies, excuses, and coverups--did.
Reversible computing. Now there's something I'd like to write an OS for.
Lip service is infinitely cheap. As long as we're living in a nation which is d0minated by artificially created taxpayer debt you'll never see a significant victory over the organizations which help to maintain that debt.
In the long term the common consumer and investor must approach this technology cautiously. We must remember the cycle that we went through with electronics. That cycle will be repeated with photonics. First they will create an AND gate, then an OR gate, then higher order functions, then the functions will be arranged on a die to make a processor, then the processors will begin to differentiate and will inherit different functions, then the processors will begin to aggregate and some processors will assimilate others. Eventually the architecture of processors will stabilize and they will begin to accelerate.
Except that, since we've been through the logical darwinian evolution of electronics once already, we should be able to refine most of these steps. Don't be caught upgrading your photonic computer once a year for every 100 MHz (or comparable measure of units) increase in the main processor. Don't be roped into investing in every half-ass component chip maker.
It will be highly enlightening to see how the photonics industry develops after the electronics industry already cut the path once.
Personally I'm waiting to see them develop bidirectional logic gates. Electrons are localized enough that current computer technology relies on logic gates functioning, for the most part, in one direction. There isn't much feedback. With photonics I fully expect to see logical functions whose inputs and results are codependent.
Has anyone studied the possibilities of programming using bidirectional logic?
It's not really possible for me to feel sorry for a multimillionaire. I really don't care what the ailment is. If they're a multimillionaire they should've known better than to become caught up in illegal activities. If they're dumb enough to be caught, when they had the financial ability to step out and say "I can't agree to this", then they deserve every last hour of punishment we can give them. It's not like she would've become homeless for staying out of the mess to begin with.
In short... a scam.