What makes this instrument a "sabre", as opposed to a knife, scalpel, sword, rapier, epee, scimitar, dagger, cutlass or stiletto? Do you really think they chose "sabre" at random from the list of dozens of synonyms? It's pretty obvious to me it was chosen because of the well known Star Wars light sabre.
I'm boggled by their decision to market it as a "games controller"! It could provide a context-sensitive touch-toolbar for any application or OS. Why on earth would they limit their market?
...they are too focused on expanding their customer base than actually maintaining a proper infrastructure.... Another case for DSL, perhaps?
Absolutely not. That "proper infrastructure" is NOT all about the last mile to the home. I think most of the problem is well inside their routing facilities, where their backbones are hopelessly overloaded, and would provide poor bandwidth to users even if they all had private fibre lines. DSL providers are just as likely to have poor central routing and bandwidth as cable providers.
What is the "official" definition of AI?
Get off your high horse lest you become as bad as those pretentious elitist cyber/extropian/digerati/Mondo 2000 wankers.
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We are paid inflated wages because of a tight labor market. Once the market adjusts, 100k java programmers will be a thing of the past.
That is as it should be.
If someone becomes less valuable in a given role, then they must improve or move to a role in which their skills are more useful. Unions are being described in this thread as a mechanism for fixing a wage independently of the value of work. ("I want to be able to stop working hard and learning new stuff and still have a paycheck forever.") I think that's just wrong. I don't want to pay a cut of my paycheck to feed the guy who doesn't give a rats ass about his contribution.
Unless you are a "superstar" who sacrifices his social life to keep completely up-to-date on the hottest tech fads, it is impossible to negotiate a good deal with a large corporation or government agency.
Minus the hyperbole, what you're saying is that unions are great if you have no talent or ambition, are incapable of learning new skills, and are content to merely punch the clock and write another 100 lines of COBOL.
If unions indeed reward the adequate at the expense of the adept, then they are a Bad Thing.
Unlike many professions, it is possible for engineers to have negative productivity...bad engineers can hinder the work...a single bad cog in the machine can slow everyone down.
It is the most extreme irony to see a manager complaining about how engineers can have negative productivity. Good lord. Managers founded the very institution of negative productivity.
A bad engineer can slow some companies down. Bad management sinks entire companies every day.
I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that MOST managers are employed, Peter-pricipal-style, above their level of competence. This is not the case with engineers.
There's a techie in our region here that is the most in-demand guy out here. This is a very large company too (hint: "we're the dot in dot com") He's also the oldest one.
Yeah, but general socio-economic rules start to break down when you're James Gosling.
I've been convinced for a while that this is the way to go in the long run. Find the sweet spot in production display size (maximize the size vs. yield tradeoff to get the cheapest price per cm^2) and let users buy as much as they need or want for a given application.
I'd be willing to put up with a small margin for the benefit of an arbitrarily large, relatively inexpensive display.
just something to stall prying eyes and foil automatic keyword checking. But for that to work, I would need an system that everyone will use.
Compress it. Simple ZIP compression will defeat packet-sniffers looking for keywords or credit card numbers. And the braindead password protection in PK(and Win?)Zip will stop people going the extra step of simply opening attachments. Unzip software is pretty ubiquitous nowadays.
Viewing the algorithm page has a wierd side effect. It makes the text on slashdot green. Honest! Go there, read it for a minute, then come back here...
I've never hidden my opinions in the past, and wouldn't imagine now is the right time to start.
Why would posting a comment be "hiding" your opinion? You could simply post comment #1, and when it's moderated +5 insightful, it'll be right at the top in the same place it is now.
I think adding a little one-liner to the end of a story is different from a detailed attack on the original author in a fashion that doesn't allow him to respond.
It's amazing how many ways the Honda Civic could have been done right, but is still wrong. For instance, the car could have 2 inch steel armour completely encasing the body, bulletproof glass, solid rubber run-flat tires, and a 500 HP engine and high-performance suspension to compensate for the increased weight. Or they could have added a jet-assisted thrust system to allow drivers to escape dangerous situations at 300 MPH. Or they could have outfitted the car with wings, so that it could simply fly away from would-be attackers.
But no, Honda had to make something that "works" but gives people no security.
As a map/level designer, being able to see my maps in-game WITHOUT textures is a HUGE trouble-shooting tool
The driver doesn't do anything that a half-competent programmer couldn't do in 5 minutes with the game code. If you're doing this commercially, why don't you just have those lazy programmers compile the engine in a "debug" mode with features like this?
so cheaters (and map developers like myself who need this) simply wont upgrade (I just wont upgrade my dev machine, but I use BETA dets from nvidia for my gaming rig).
And when games use something like Punkbuster, they won't be able to play online. That's fine.
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Beside the obvious factual problems (starting with DOOM?), the grammar makes my brain hurt.
What makes this instrument a "sabre", as opposed to a knife, scalpel, sword, rapier, epee, scimitar, dagger, cutlass or stiletto? Do you really think they chose "sabre" at random from the list of dozens of synonyms? It's pretty obvious to me it was chosen because of the well known Star Wars light sabre.
There are five ways of attacking with fire.
Have fun at the rally, kids!
I'm boggled by their decision to market it as a "games controller"! It could provide a context-sensitive touch-toolbar for any application or OS. Why on earth would they limit their market?
Absolutely not. That "proper infrastructure" is NOT all about the last mile to the home. I think most of the problem is well inside their routing facilities, where their backbones are hopelessly overloaded, and would provide poor bandwidth to users even if they all had private fibre lines. DSL providers are just as likely to have poor central routing and bandwidth as cable providers.
What is the "official" definition of AI? Get off your high horse lest you become as bad as those pretentious elitist cyber/extropian/digerati/Mondo 2000 wankers.
...but this guy sure ain't no Ripley.
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You mean MySQL. Microsoft SQL Server wasn't mentioned, and it is an ACID database.
In fact IBM or DB/2 weren't mentioned either. What article did you read?
That is as it should be.
If someone becomes less valuable in a given role, then they must improve or move to a role in which their skills are more useful. Unions are being described in this thread as a mechanism for fixing a wage independently of the value of work. ("I want to be able to stop working hard and learning new stuff and still have a paycheck forever.") I think that's just wrong. I don't want to pay a cut of my paycheck to feed the guy who doesn't give a rats ass about his contribution.
Minus the hyperbole, what you're saying is that unions are great if you have no talent or ambition, are incapable of learning new skills, and are content to merely punch the clock and write another 100 lines of COBOL.
If unions indeed reward the adequate at the expense of the adept, then they are a Bad Thing.
Military Air Command Hunter.
I guess this moment is the reason I've had that in my head for almost 20 years.
It is the most extreme irony to see a manager complaining about how engineers can have negative productivity. Good lord. Managers founded the very institution of negative productivity.
A bad engineer can slow some companies down. Bad management sinks entire companies every day.
I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that MOST managers are employed, Peter-pricipal-style, above their level of competence. This is not the case with engineers.
Yeah, but general socio-economic rules start to break down when you're James Gosling.
I'd be willing to put up with a small margin for the benefit of an arbitrarily large, relatively inexpensive display.
That, in a nutshell, is what hacking is all about.
Compress it. Simple ZIP compression will defeat packet-sniffers looking for keywords or credit card numbers. And the braindead password protection in PK(and Win?)Zip will stop people going the extra step of simply opening attachments. Unzip software is pretty ubiquitous nowadays.
Anyone else notice this?
Why would posting a comment be "hiding" your opinion? You could simply post comment #1, and when it's moderated +5 insightful, it'll be right at the top in the same place it is now.
I think adding a little one-liner to the end of a story is different from a detailed attack on the original author in a fashion that doesn't allow him to respond.
I'd have gone with the Rankor for this analogy. I've always pictured the Balrog as something similar.
But no, Honda had to make something that "works" but gives people no security.
The driver doesn't do anything that a half-competent programmer couldn't do in 5 minutes with the game code. If you're doing this commercially, why don't you just have those lazy programmers compile the engine in a "debug" mode with features like this?
so cheaters (and map developers like myself who need this) simply wont upgrade (I just wont upgrade my dev machine, but I use BETA dets from nvidia for my gaming rig).
And when games use something like Punkbuster, they won't be able to play online. That's fine.
If it's used for scrolling, then porn is going to be a dizzying experience.