Considering how well the international navy's fight against the Pirates of the Indian Ocean is going, i'm sure Skid Row would be shaking in their boots.
the US taxpayer money is obviously hard at work again. The Taliban must be shaking in their boots when they hear of this... "A jetfighter with a laser?!?! How much rock can it penetrate?".
What this means is my Lunar Real Estate (http://www.lunarregistry.com) is worth loads of money!! Eat your hearts out earthlings, I'll be moving to my big hacienda in the sky!
You could always have swarms and swarms of small, but inexpensive machines with no autonomy over target selection, but preprogrammed attack modes. Things that come to mind are miniature flying darts for anti personnel work. Once a target has been identified and a valid go-ahead has been given by operator, the swarm would detach a portion of it's strength for an suicide attack. If the target remains valid, it could be reattacked or a new validation sought (to prevent dummies from sapping the swarms). For antitank work a slightly heavier flying mine could do the trick, vehicle heat signatures being big enuff, you could not easily mistake one. These are defensive weapons that could substitute mines... probably not useful to the US, as they are always attacking countries, but perhaps very useful against them.
The main idea would ofcourse be cheapness.. a peabrain just big enough to see potential targets, some cheap method of elevating them to attack height (balloons?). That would be an automated defense network I could get behind.. cheap, dumb and effective in saving human lives. Plus there's always the scare factor.. everyone can attack an enemy on order, assuming "You will be given artillery support.. blah blah"... but who wants to attack a swarm of razorblades flying at you?
I remember the same time.. when I was learning the ropes on some new piece of software, I'd call anywhere on the planet and have a fellow IBMer help me. And when people called me for help, I'd drop everything (or if I was real busy, told 'em to call be back a little later) and help out a collegue. People didn't call unless they were really stuck, so you knew you were saving them a lot of trouble and in the end making their customer happier.
IBM also used to have a policy of paying the employees by their "worth" to the company. If you had good skills in hot areas and billed a lot, you'd get a raise or something. But after Palmisano took over (though the old timers say it started during the Gerstner era) that all changed. You were given the "Sorry, but there's a freeze on wages from EMEA" excuse. I left once I realized I'd hit a glass ceiling with wages. But a lot of guys stayed longer.. they were quite pissed off when they told their managers they were leaving and the reply was "Why? Is it the salaries? How much are they paying you? We'll pay the same!". This shows how naively some people trusted IBM to be fair to them, and that trust was earned back in the day during long and painstaking years of non-optimized profit. Now the trust is gone and IBM is no longer the "most desired workplace" it used to be around here.
I'm glad Bush's old government didn't have this back in the day. They could've fabricated much more convincing evidence of "Mobile chemical weapons laboratories" for the UN than the hot-dog vendor van they showed. They might have actually got a war started against Iraq. Oh.. wait....
Why is it that every few years some dildo comes along and takes ages old best practices, gives them snazzy "marketable" names and calls it a great new method. Then everyone has to go to school to "learn" this new method of doing things, because your a-hole of a manager is so completely enthralled by the marketing buzz that he doesn't listen to you when you tell him that "I know this shit already".
If it was up to me, I'd shove each and every method creator downrange of a shooting gallery just to test how Agile they were.
I had my try with UAC and came to the conclusion that it's just a lose/lose situation for Microsoft.
Lose 1. They're basically advertising to users that "The feature you're about to use is buggy as hell and totally insecure, so you'll have to accept the responsibility for using it". Great way to sell a product.
Lose 2. It's so annoying, people just turn it off completely, thus negating any "security" it supposedly provides
The only upside is that they insulate themselves legally by having the user do the "not recommended" thing whenever they use the OS. Then again, they've never been much to accept responsibility for security problems anyways, it's kind of a moot point.
Yours is an ages old argument, so i'll just reply with the ages old answer:
So people selling double tapedecks, VHS, crowbars, assault weapons (for hunting) and cars that go faster than the speed limit, etc are all guilty of a crime?
It all depends on when the interview was done. Maybe the spokesperson just said "we haven't filed any lawsuits in months" and left unsaid the rest, which is "but it's about that time we did".
Besides, it's that time of the year, do you think the RIAA would forget about your christmas presents. Santa may sometimes forget the x-mas presents for the poor and downtrodden, but RIAA-claws wont.
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Considering how well the international navy's fight against the Pirates of the Indian Ocean is going, i'm sure Skid Row would be shaking in their boots.
the US taxpayer money is obviously hard at work again. The Taliban must be shaking in their boots when they hear of this... "A jetfighter with a laser?!?! How much rock can it penetrate?".
..tag the above down, please use "Offtopic", as I know Virus was not made for C64
What exactly do you have against Braben?
What this means is my Lunar Real Estate (http://www.lunarregistry.com) is worth loads of money!! Eat your hearts out earthlings, I'll be moving to my big hacienda in the sky!
You could always have swarms and swarms of small, but inexpensive machines with no autonomy over target selection, but preprogrammed attack modes. Things that come to mind are miniature flying darts for anti personnel work. Once a target has been identified and a valid go-ahead has been given by operator, the swarm would detach a portion of it's strength for an suicide attack. If the target remains valid, it could be reattacked or a new validation sought (to prevent dummies from sapping the swarms). For antitank work a slightly heavier flying mine could do the trick, vehicle heat signatures being big enuff, you could not easily mistake one. These are defensive weapons that could substitute mines... probably not useful to the US, as they are always attacking countries, but perhaps very useful against them. The main idea would ofcourse be cheapness.. a peabrain just big enough to see potential targets, some cheap method of elevating them to attack height (balloons?). That would be an automated defense network I could get behind.. cheap, dumb and effective in saving human lives. Plus there's always the scare factor.. everyone can attack an enemy on order, assuming "You will be given artillery support.. blah blah"... but who wants to attack a swarm of razorblades flying at you?
Because I didn't watch the South Park episode, so I don't know about Chipotlaway.
Mod parent redundant, not offtopic.
I want a .. number .. 14 .. and number .. 27 .. with chipotle sauce ... please add fresh underwear.
Mod parent redundant
Mod parent redundant, not offtopic
and oh yeah.. i almost forgot the mandatory: First post! I have no life!
Means I can create a client to automatically order in chinese.. or maybe a chipotle burrito and some fresh underwear
Linus who? I vote for the dude in the penguin suit.
N-Gage was about as useful lately as a bottle of chipotle sauce without a pile of clean underwear to go with it.
Maybe they had a chipotle burrito, but are using chipotlaway. No more of those nasty bloodstains.
IBM also used to have a policy of paying the employees by their "worth" to the company. If you had good skills in hot areas and billed a lot, you'd get a raise or something. But after Palmisano took over (though the old timers say it started during the Gerstner era) that all changed. You were given the "Sorry, but there's a freeze on wages from EMEA" excuse. I left once I realized I'd hit a glass ceiling with wages. But a lot of guys stayed longer.. they were quite pissed off when they told their managers they were leaving and the reply was "Why? Is it the salaries? How much are they paying you? We'll pay the same!". This shows how naively some people trusted IBM to be fair to them, and that trust was earned back in the day during long and painstaking years of non-optimized profit. Now the trust is gone and IBM is no longer the "most desired workplace" it used to be around here.
I'm glad Bush's old government didn't have this back in the day. They could've fabricated much more convincing evidence of "Mobile chemical weapons laboratories" for the UN than the hot-dog vendor van they showed. They might have actually got a war started against Iraq. Oh.. wait....
Why not just get a phone that let's you install whatever you damn well please.
Why is it that every few years some dildo comes along and takes ages old best practices, gives them snazzy "marketable" names and calls it a great new method. Then everyone has to go to school to "learn" this new method of doing things, because your a-hole of a manager is so completely enthralled by the marketing buzz that he doesn't listen to you when you tell him that "I know this shit already".
If it was up to me, I'd shove each and every method creator downrange of a shooting gallery just to test how Agile they were.
I had my try with UAC and came to the conclusion that it's just a lose/lose situation for Microsoft.
Lose 1. They're basically advertising to users that "The feature you're about to use is buggy as hell and totally insecure, so you'll have to accept the responsibility for using it". Great way to sell a product.
Lose 2. It's so annoying, people just turn it off completely, thus negating any "security" it supposedly provides
The only upside is that they insulate themselves legally by having the user do the "not recommended" thing whenever they use the OS. Then again, they've never been much to accept responsibility for security problems anyways, it's kind of a moot point.
Yours is an ages old argument, so i'll just reply with the ages old answer: So people selling double tapedecks, VHS, crowbars, assault weapons (for hunting) and cars that go faster than the speed limit, etc are all guilty of a crime?
Not to mention that in Finland the big problem is not really cooling, it's keeping warm.
Well spotted, i've been to the page and have not paid attention to the ad, but in this case the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
It all depends on when the interview was done. Maybe the spokesperson just said "we haven't filed any lawsuits in months" and left unsaid the rest, which is "but it's about that time we did". Besides, it's that time of the year, do you think the RIAA would forget about your christmas presents. Santa may sometimes forget the x-mas presents for the poor and downtrodden, but RIAA-claws wont.