The Guyver a young boy stumbles into a symbiotic relationship with living alien battle armor, and uncovers a alien/megacorporation plot to exploit the secrets of-- just rent the tapes, I don't want to give to much away.
Vampire Hunter D girls, vampires, a guy who can warp space and time and uses it in a sword fight, on and a hand with a face on i...don't think to hard about this one.
Aircraft carriers also have aircraft and surface to air missiles. I wouldn't expect to find net access for the masses while at sea (not yet). How many cars have internet access thus far? Not many I would 'spect. I don't know about you, but my car has surface to air missiles. I hate it when people cut me off. ---
the article states that this method would not "... allow anyone to send information faster than c, said Peter W. Milonni, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory." my question is...why not? my understanding of this is that a pulse is detected 300c before the light should get there, and I see no reason that that pulse can't be used to send a binary message into the future from the present, or on the other hand, to recieve a message from the past in the presents. I guess when I state it that way, that is how all messages are sent. including this one. oh, my head hurts.
Similarly, if you write code specifically to destroy data, cost people money, and negatively impact their lives, you are likewise not going to be protected by any free speech rights. is it illegal to write a book saying how to build a bomb? how to cost people money? there is a HUGE difference between explaining how something is done, and actually doing it. in software, that difference may be the diffence between have source code and compiling the source code, but the difference is still there. ---
I think the issues with code being free speech and virii authors being prosecuted could be resolved with the fact that there is a difference between the text file that is source code and a compiled binary (of course, this gets hairy once again with things like VBS scripts...) the source code is just a text file that contains instructions. the compiled binary is a tool (or weapon)
Microsoft should be divided into 3 companies, but not the 3 listed in the articles. there should be 1. OS 2. Apps and the one I have the differs... 3. Media/Publishing
this third one would include things like MSN, MSNBC... maybe then my hotmail account would stop being so gosh darn IE-centric:) ---
I currently am a proto-guro like yourself. Currently I'm enrolled in my school's computer engineering major. I was initial drawn that major because I think the degree opens more doors then just plain old Computer science. I know many CompEng majors who are doing comp sci jobs, but no comp sci majors that are doing any engineering work. That's why I picked that Computer engineering, but recently I've been tempted by the dark side. I'm contemplating taking my school's Information System Technology major. I'm tempted because that is where the majority of my work experience is, and I'm frankly better at doing support work than coding (not that I've had much formal training)
I think we just lean towards our area of expertise. what ever we have a gift for and we enjoy, we will find and end up doing. just keep your eyes open.
What is not really mentioned in Jon's article, is that sticking a pc in each employees home, complete with net connection, also gives the corporation a pipe directly to the employee that is available 24/7. It gives the employer another means of trying to coax more work out of the employee.
What? they aren't allowed to turn off the machines? Such Tyranny!!!
I saw this guy at the geek pride festival and I looked at his book. from the back cover, I couldn't tell if his book was a novel or a very complicated essay on a very confusing conspiracy theory. I guessed it was the latter, and I was scared.:) thankfully it turns out it was the former. Now, I wish I had picked up a copy. Of course at Geek Pride I was in such a state of Ferret Shock, and caffiene overdose that I didn't have the attention span to really figure out what his book was about. (wow those free hyper caffienated coffee beans sure pack a wallop when you eat a handful at a time..woooo) ---
I think it's because Taco is an admitted MySQL junkie, and the fact that the Slashcode is already so embedded in MySQL that a transition would be sorta painful.
I know this is why off topic, but I can't help it.
At first glance of that headline "Microsoft Asks Slashdot..." I was thinking, "Microsoft Ask Slashdot? has Cliff gone loopy? Ask Slashdot about microsoft products. how silly." then I read the rest of the headline. *shudder* ---
has your game company had any other releases after Starship Titania? (a great combination of 3D environment and the text based commands of classics like Space Quest and Police Quest, thanks for creating it)
ow...help...please if there is a god help me... I set the optical illusion to my wallpaper... now it hurts to much to look at it to change it back... ow my eyes, ow my poor poor eyes...
way back in the days of yore, linus started his little experiment and basically said it wasn't going to be "big and professional, like gnu". How did you gnu guys find linux and help make it "big and professional"?
sigh. there goes my dreams of growing up, making a multiplayer computer game that has items that have actual cash value. From there I would establish trading and allow people to buy things for real currency. Then, I would go into the game, give myself millions in game currency, then sell it for real world money, then retire to a non extradition treaty country. it's s simple dream, really.
I don't think he was saying hunting for food is a bad thing. I think he says hunting for the sake of killing an animal is sadistic. I also enjoy deer meat, but I also am appalled at the people I know who don't even eat the meat of the animals they hunt, they just want to see the blood, and have something to hang on their wall.
And I'm not even saying it is wrong to enjoy hunting, but if you kill it, you better eat it.
what?!? how much of a crack habit do you have that 40k isn't enough to live comfortably on???!??!? I'm in school right now and living on my own, paying for everything myself on less than half that sum (signifgantly less than half that sum) and, while I don't have money for all the gadgets I like (P100, pity me.) true I am not living in a large city, which would make my current wages completely unsatisfying, but geez man... 40k a year is more than most teachers get to start... like...15k more...
this is an excellent idea. There have to be some CS teachers / textbook writers out there that use Linux. Maybe experienced users who don't do development work very well, but want to give back to the community. I'm still in college, but I have two older siblings in education, and many people for their master degree have to design a course circiculum. If they could convince the other people they work with to release it under Open Doc. License, I could see this working very well.
Slashdot Mirror
Vampire Hunter D girls, vampires, a guy who can warp space and time and uses it in a sword fight, on and a hand with a face on i...don't think to hard about this one.
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Aircraft carriers also have aircraft and surface to air missiles. I wouldn't expect to find net access for the masses while at sea (not yet). How many cars have internet access thus far? Not many I would 'spect.
I don't know about you, but my car has surface to air missiles. I hate it when people cut me off.
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you don't have that problem if you get rid of pesky things like free will....
the article states that this method would not "... allow anyone to send information faster than c, said Peter W. Milonni, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory." my question is...why not? my understanding of this is that a pulse is detected 300c before the light should get there, and I see no reason that that pulse can't be used to send a binary message into the future from the present, or on the other hand, to recieve a message from the past in the presents. I guess when I state it that way, that is how all messages are sent. including this one. oh, my head hurts.
Similarly, if you write code specifically to destroy data, cost people money, and negatively impact their lives, you are likewise not going to be protected by any free speech rights.
is it illegal to write a book saying how to build a bomb? how to cost people money? there is a HUGE difference between explaining how something is done, and actually doing it. in software, that difference may be the diffence between have source code and compiling the source code, but the difference is still there.
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I think the issues with code being free speech and virii authors being prosecuted could be resolved with the fact that there is a difference between the text file that is source code and a compiled binary (of course, this gets hairy once again with things like VBS scripts...) the source code is just a text file that contains instructions. the compiled binary is a tool (or weapon)
just some thoughts I have on the subject...
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Microsoft should be divided into 3 companies, but not the 3 listed in the articles. there should be
:)
1. OS
2. Apps
and the one I have the differs...
3. Media/Publishing
this third one would include things like MSN, MSNBC... maybe then my hotmail account would stop being so gosh darn IE-centric
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I currently am a proto-guro like yourself. Currently I'm enrolled in my school's computer engineering major. I was initial drawn that major because I think the degree opens more doors then just plain old Computer science. I know many CompEng majors who are doing comp sci jobs, but no comp sci majors that are doing any engineering work. That's why I picked that Computer engineering, but recently I've been tempted by the dark side. I'm contemplating taking my school's Information System Technology major. I'm tempted because that is where the majority of my work experience is, and I'm frankly better at doing support work than coding (not that I've had much formal training)
I think we just lean towards our area of expertise. what ever we have a gift for and we enjoy, we will find and end up doing. just keep your eyes open.
I do...
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What? they aren't allowed to turn off the machines? Such Tyranny!!!
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what I like best was the URL given... www.slashdot.com while, true, it does work and take you to the site-- /. will always be slashdot.org to me.
I saw this guy at the geek pride festival and I looked at his book. from the back cover, I couldn't tell if his book was a novel or a very complicated essay on a very confusing conspiracy theory. I guessed it was the latter, and I was scared. :) thankfully it turns out it was the former. Now, I wish I had picked up a copy. Of course at Geek Pride I was in such a state of Ferret Shock, and caffiene overdose that I didn't have the attention span to really figure out what his book was about. (wow those free hyper caffienated coffee beans sure pack a wallop when you eat a handful at a time..woooo)
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as long as you aren't running attachments from root, how much damage could such a virus do?
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I think it's because Taco is an admitted MySQL junkie, and the fact that the Slashcode is already so embedded in MySQL that a transition would be sorta painful.
I know this is why off topic, but I can't help it.
At first glance of that headline "Microsoft Asks Slashdot..." I was thinking, "Microsoft Ask Slashdot? has Cliff gone loopy? Ask Slashdot about microsoft products. how silly." then I read the rest of the headline. *shudder*
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has your game company had any other releases after Starship Titania? (a great combination of 3D environment and the text based commands of classics like Space Quest and Police Quest, thanks for creating it)
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ow...help...please if there is a god help me... I set the optical illusion to my wallpaper... now it hurts to much to look at it to change it back... ow my eyes, ow my poor poor eyes...
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way back in the days of yore, linus started his little experiment and basically said it wasn't going to be "big and professional, like gnu". How did you gnu guys find linux and help make it "big and professional"?
hehe...yeah...kinda... until the laws of economics kick in and well... in effect...
Rare items just aren't worth what they were in my day.
I guess you would call that the devaluation of the virtual dollar.
sigh. there goes my dreams of growing up, making a multiplayer computer game that has items that have actual cash value. From there I would establish trading and allow people to buy things for real currency. Then, I would go into the game, give myself millions in game currency, then sell it for real world money, then retire to a non extradition treaty country. it's s simple dream, really.
I don't think he was saying hunting for food is a bad thing. I think he says hunting for the sake of killing an animal is sadistic. I also enjoy deer meat, but I also am appalled at the people I know who don't even eat the meat of the animals they hunt, they just want to see the blood, and have something to hang on their wall.
And I'm not even saying it is wrong to enjoy hunting, but if you kill it, you better eat it.
what?!? how much of a crack habit do you have that 40k isn't enough to live comfortably on???!??!? I'm in school right now and living on my own, paying for everything myself on less than half that sum (signifgantly less than half that sum) and, while I don't have money for all the gadgets I like (P100, pity me.) true I am not living in a large city, which would make my current wages completely unsatisfying, but geez man... 40k a year is more than most teachers get to start... like...15k more...
well, Jon, lets just hope you catch your plane. don't want to have you miss it like you did for Geek Pride :)
this is an excellent idea. There have to be some CS teachers / textbook writers out there that use Linux. Maybe experienced users who don't do development work very well, but want to give back to the community. I'm still in college, but I have two older siblings in education, and many people for their master degree have to design a course circiculum. If they could convince the other people they work with to release it under Open Doc. License, I could see this working very well.
I haven't finished reading it yet, but from the first few pages, it looks very interesting. I will finish this once I get home from work.
they go into how to reverse engineer, and use their project as an example. If you wanna learn about (un)secure system design, read this!