Just to support this A/C.. it's true, many Dutch persons speak English, especially with the younger generations, and a company of that type will DEFINITELY have someone that speaks fluent English working for them.
I was always under the impression that Big Brother was a repressive Government.. and didn't have anything to do with corporations anyway.. and I believe the US Governmenthas alreadyembracedsocialmedia.
You don't think that the Fed's couldn't do that in the US now? The only good part is there are more then a few ISPs out there, and most of the big ones would ensure they have lawyers involved. I'm sure the situation can, and has, come up where a smaller ISP shuts themselves down because some Federal agent has showed up with some paperwork. I know it's happening to web-hosting companies now...
Anyone that thinks the 'kill switch' would be some jolly-red button like in the end of 'Land of Confusion' button is just silly.
Vinyl is apparently very common still in places like Jamaica.. they press some local artist, he gets his play from the record, then they melt them down and repress a different artist.
It's not just for snooty DJs and Audiophiles like you think
I happened to dabble in video game level design, and wholly support the idea of irreparable harm coming from just simply dumb player choices.. and alot of the older (circa 2000 and before) games let you fsck over yourself like that.... so you just reload from your last save and call it good.. Also I know alot of gamers now that have to have everything -perfect-.. when I was playing FO3, if I locked out a computer or broke a lock, I moved on... rarely was there anything game-breaking behind those barriers anyway, but I know several people that quick-save/load every 30s just to make sure they did it just perfect.. Perfect is no fun, at least to me.:/
Somewhere after Y2K, the industry started focusing more on 'what players wanted' and making sure their games only were 'difficult' by giving the bad guys more hit-points. The good: larger then ever video game sales and number of 'gamers'.. the bad.. most of the games are cranked out white-washed sequels and (this has been since the dawn of time) many companies are just simply too afraid to try something new.. and I think this is where the rise of the smaller/indie game developer will come about.. I'm not saying Tripwire or Introversion will end up sinking EA or Nintendo, but rather, many gamers that are true gamers will end up latching on to the niche that each is developing and enjoy their titles.
If we all switched to ATM, I'd find you in your sleep and murder you.
TBH though.. MPLS sorta tries to split the difference in the 'good' ways. Especially if you drink the Kool Aid (tm) and have the budget to spend on rolling it out.
UT3 wasn't very good, and you would be disappointed by it compared to the first 3 UT titles ('99', 2003, 2004). The bad part is you missed out on some OK mods, but many of those have either gone UDK or to their own released title anyway.. unfortunately it looks like there is no intention on porting UDK to *nix either.. which considering they have/will/should port it to BSD^H^H^HMacOSX, it's only a hop-skip-and-jump away... and that makes me sad.
So the FCC changes the definition they use, and all the sudden not everyone is in compliance again?!?!?! SHOCKING I TELL YOU!
How about we go by what DarkOx said, call it 'High Speed' or something.. and use the term 'broadband' by what the Wire Tappers consider (basically anything NOT over POTS/ISDN which is sorta how T1.IAS CALEA defines it..)..
I dunno, there's plenty I can do when I don't have internet access.. usually the priority is getting the internet access working again, but there's still programming that can be done, documents that can be tidied up, etc.
Being a scientist means doing original scientific research i.e. something that nobody has done before, otherwise it is called history.
Isn't one of the big things about science is that it's repeatable? That is.. it's actually encouraged someone do what you did in order to repeat your results.. I think that's classified as 'good science', at least in my book..
I think the point of the of Skal's post was rather to indicate you don't need to spend years in a University studying how to be a scientist, but rather, just a natural curiosity can (and often has) been sufficient. What the schooling is good for is things like how to standardize and analyze your results, how to manipulate various equipment you might not have access to just as a hobbist, and of course how the 'science institution' wants you do do things.
One of the problems though is alot of the casual-accessible science has already been done, which sorta of raises a bar to entry unless you stumble across something interesting that no one noticed before [The exceptions to this are under-observed fields, like Astronomy, where amateurs are still making notable strides, mostly because it's difficult for the professionals to observe the entire sky at the same time].
Depends how buggy the game is.. if the bugs are to the point of making gameplay overly frustrating (or impossible) to play/complete.. then that's not good either (you'll never know the end of the story.. or even more likely, backup the game to disk, then toss the disk out of the window in protest of what an incomplete title it is.. while you ask Steam to Delete Local Content for the game, and hope someone makes a patch down the line to make it playable..)
Actually you'd get the whole Battlefield Call of Honor franchises instead depicting the now-historical day-to-day life of a mandate person in a society full of cell phones and face book.
The crappy part is there likely won't be enough infrastructure active and functional to populate many MP servers.
I actually keep an external track ball for my laptop with me. It has the added benefit of not needing alot of space to move the mouse in, and it'll work on those expanded-steel type outdoor tables and everything.
Oh.. plus if you're using a mouse at home or your desk, you avoid the R part of RSI..
Honestly, and I'm wide-shouldered and big-handed, every laptop I've operated has way to small of a keyboard, and I found I could quickly get pains in my wrists from my natural inclination to have them severally bend while operating a laptop. As such, I made a lifestyle choice to make sure I take small periodic breaks, utilize a trackball about half my day (at work), and a mouse the other half (at home), and try to avoid as much 'propping the laptop up in a cramped closet and trying to type' as possible [part of my job on occasion]
Frankly if I was the OP, and this was an elective 'getting back into mobile computing' , I'd reconsider. If it's for work, and you have an employeer, most decent sized companies have a ergonomics guy (so ask them).
The article isn't worth reading IMO, not unless you're curious as to how much electricity some of the FB datacenters use. Otherwise it's light on the tech details.
The worst part I found was I've had my PASSWORD for the system rejected because apparently a sub string of it was offensive in a different language (Russian, I believe, but hey, now I know a new cuss word in Russian.. Thanks LEGOUniverse!).
I have to agree that attempting to 'chat' in game is annoying and difficult to say the least. I realize they want to create an 'all ages' environment, and I guess any in-game 'guilds' will just use a VoIP-like service anyway.
They sure do. but at least you can send out untrained crews across the area and ID where your breaks are exactly, so the next available trained repair crew and come out and attend to it.. repairing utilities in a vault or in a trench isn't as easy.
I was surprised when/. didn't already have this story tagged as 'duh' or 'obvious'.. as it just sort of seemed it to me.. I know people that refuse to use Friend Face (myself included after giving it a go), people that only occasionally use it (which seem better adjusted), and people that simply -live- on Friend Face (and, although they are some of my closest friends, do seem to feed on the near constant attention it can provide).
This was true, but in a less-as-instantly-gratifying effect, as Live Journal or other 'social blogging' mechanisms before it. I never used MySpace at all, but I imagine it was on the same scale of bad.
I would be interested in actual statistical data of Friend Face usage patterns, coupled with basic personality testing or some other similar head-shrinkage metric to see where crossovers and outliers exist in the two.
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All the WoW players out there will know what it is like when a bunch of people are all trying to talk over Ventrilo/Teamspeak.
Some of us stick to FPSes.. you insensitive clod..
Just to support this A/C.. it's true, many Dutch persons speak English, especially with the younger generations, and a company of that type will DEFINITELY have someone that speaks fluent English working for them.
I was always under the impression that Big Brother was a repressive Government.. and didn't have anything to do with corporations anyway.. and I believe the US Government has already embraced social media.
You don't think that the Fed's couldn't do that in the US now?
The only good part is there are more then a few ISPs out there, and most of the big ones would ensure they have lawyers involved. I'm sure the situation can, and has, come up where a smaller ISP shuts themselves down because some Federal agent has showed up with some paperwork. I know it's happening to web-hosting companies now...
Anyone that thinks the 'kill switch' would be some jolly-red button like in the end of 'Land of Confusion' button is just silly.
Vinyl is apparently very common still in places like Jamaica.. they press some local artist, he gets his play from the record, then they melt them down and repress a different artist.
It's not just for snooty DJs and Audiophiles like you think
I happened to dabble in video game level design, and wholly support the idea of irreparable harm coming from just simply dumb player choices.. and alot of the older (circa 2000 and before) games let you fsck over yourself like that.... so you just reload from your last save and call it good.. Also I know alot of gamers now that have to have everything -perfect-.. when I was playing FO3, if I locked out a computer or broke a lock, I moved on... rarely was there anything game-breaking behind those barriers anyway, but I know several people that quick-save/load every 30s just to make sure they did it just perfect.. Perfect is no fun, at least to me. :/
Somewhere after Y2K, the industry started focusing more on 'what players wanted' and making sure their games only were 'difficult' by giving the bad guys more hit-points. The good: larger then ever video game sales and number of 'gamers'.. the bad.. most of the games are cranked out white-washed sequels and (this has been since the dawn of time) many companies are just simply too afraid to try something new.. and I think this is where the rise of the smaller/indie game developer will come about.. I'm not saying Tripwire or Introversion will end up sinking EA or Nintendo, but rather, many gamers that are true gamers will end up latching on to the niche that each is developing and enjoy their titles.
If we all switched to ATM, I'd find you in your sleep and murder you.
TBH though.. MPLS sorta tries to split the difference in the 'good' ways. Especially if you drink the Kool Aid (tm) and have the budget to spend on rolling it out.
UT3 wasn't very good, and you would be disappointed by it compared to the first 3 UT titles ('99', 2003, 2004).
The bad part is you missed out on some OK mods, but many of those have either gone UDK or to their own released title anyway.. unfortunately it looks like there is no intention on porting UDK to *nix either.. which considering they have/will/should port it to BSD^H^H^HMacOSX, it's only a hop-skip-and-jump away... and that makes me sad.
So the FCC changes the definition they use, and all the sudden not everyone is in compliance again?!?!?! SHOCKING I TELL YOU!
How about we go by what DarkOx said, call it 'High Speed' or something.. and use the term 'broadband' by what the Wire Tappers consider (basically anything NOT over POTS/ISDN which is sorta how T1.IAS CALEA defines it..)..
I dunno, there's plenty I can do when I don't have internet access.. usually the priority is getting the internet access working again, but there's still programming that can be done, documents that can be tidied up, etc.
It all depends on what you actual job/company is.
Being a scientist means doing original scientific research i.e. something that nobody has done before, otherwise it is called history.
Isn't one of the big things about science is that it's repeatable? That is.. it's actually encouraged someone do what you did in order to repeat your results.. I think that's classified as 'good science', at least in my book..
I think the point of the of Skal's post was rather to indicate you don't need to spend years in a University studying how to be a scientist, but rather, just a natural curiosity can (and often has) been sufficient. What the schooling is good for is things like how to standardize and analyze your results, how to manipulate various equipment you might not have access to just as a hobbist, and of course how the 'science institution' wants you do do things.
One of the problems though is alot of the casual-accessible science has already been done, which sorta of raises a bar to entry unless you stumble across something interesting that no one noticed before [The exceptions to this are under-observed fields, like Astronomy, where amateurs are still making notable strides, mostly because it's difficult for the professionals to observe the entire sky at the same time].
Isn't that why they have the whole meta-moderate in the firehose thing?
Depends how buggy the game is.. if the bugs are to the point of making gameplay overly frustrating (or impossible) to play/complete.. then that's not good either (you'll never know the end of the story.. or even more likely, backup the game to disk, then toss the disk out of the window in protest of what an incomplete title it is.. while you ask Steam to Delete Local Content for the game, and hope someone makes a patch down the line to make it playable..)
Actually you'd get the whole Battlefield Call of Honor franchises instead depicting the now-historical day-to-day life of a mandate person in a society full of cell phones and face book.
The crappy part is there likely won't be enough infrastructure active and functional to populate many MP servers.
Probably.. I've only ever played a few hours (combined of each).. not my cup of tea.
No more Counter Strike? I'm failing to see how this is a bad thing?
Ice Pirates!
well.. put it on a comet...
I actually keep an external track ball for my laptop with me. It has the added benefit of not needing alot of space to move the mouse in, and it'll work on those expanded-steel type outdoor tables and everything.
Oh.. plus if you're using a mouse at home or your desk, you avoid the R part of RSI..
Honestly, and I'm wide-shouldered and big-handed, every laptop I've operated has way to small of a keyboard, and I found I could quickly get pains in my wrists from my natural inclination to have them severally bend while operating a laptop. As such, I made a lifestyle choice to make sure I take small periodic breaks, utilize a trackball about half my day (at work), and a mouse the other half (at home), and try to avoid as much 'propping the laptop up in a cramped closet and trying to type' as possible [part of my job on occasion]
Frankly if I was the OP, and this was an elective 'getting back into mobile computing' , I'd reconsider. If it's for work, and you have an employeer, most decent sized companies have a ergonomics guy (so ask them).
The article isn't worth reading IMO, not unless you're curious as to how much electricity some of the FB datacenters use. Otherwise it's light on the tech details.
The worst part I found was I've had my PASSWORD for the system rejected because apparently a sub string of it was offensive in a different language (Russian, I believe, but hey, now I know a new cuss word in Russian.. Thanks LEGOUniverse!).
I have to agree that attempting to 'chat' in game is annoying and difficult to say the least. I realize they want to create an 'all ages' environment, and I guess any in-game 'guilds' will just use a VoIP-like service anyway.
You say this like it's a bad thing
They sure do. but at least you can send out untrained crews across the area and ID where your breaks are exactly, so the next available trained repair crew and come out and attend to it.. repairing utilities in a vault or in a trench isn't as easy.
That Apollo-like capsule -is- the CST-100.
Here's a concept computer animation for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_gXEK5XmQ
Wiki sez that it can sit on top of a Atlas V, Delta IV, or Falcon 9 rocket.
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I was surprised when /. didn't already have this story tagged as 'duh' or 'obvious'.. as it just sort of seemed it to me.. I know people that refuse to use Friend Face (myself included after giving it a go), people that only occasionally use it (which seem better adjusted), and people that simply -live- on Friend Face (and, although they are some of my closest friends, do seem to feed on the near constant attention it can provide).
This was true, but in a less-as-instantly-gratifying effect, as Live Journal or other 'social blogging' mechanisms before it. I never used MySpace at all, but I imagine it was on the same scale of bad.
I would be interested in actual statistical data of Friend Face usage patterns, coupled with basic personality testing or some other similar head-shrinkage metric to see where crossovers and outliers exist in the two.
ping
Protocol [ip]:
Target IP address: 8.8.8.8
Repeat count [5]:
Datagram size [100]:
Timeout in seconds [2]:
Extended commands [n]:
Sweep range of sizes [n]:
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 8.8.8.8, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 12/14/16 ms
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I think Steve Jobs had a chip on his shoulder about the networking world.. and he's trying his best to win a name space war.