Also, I don't understand why they link memory to intelligence.
As you know, there are a lot of different memory types, like visual, auditory or abstract memory (we can observe the specialized memories in autistic people).
Disabling the gene might increase the visual memory, to the detriment of the other ones, like having autistic mice. In other words, the mice might be able to exit a maze, but not be able to locate their natural enemies by their ears or whatever sense they use.
In fact, Paypal tends to block sites that host games or contests.
In my case, I maintained a programming contest where I asked for donations, and hosted a peg solitaire. Paypal blocked my account when they discovered that I had a game on my site (which is totally unrelated to the contest). Luckily, they unblocked it a few days after that.
You also seem to forget that it's real people who release these documents. So, if you hope for a disclosure, it will probably comes from a secretary or someone near the leaders, and this means that he/she will never be able to work again after that. Taking such a risk demands an insane amount of courage, stupidity or revenge.
I had one of my co-workers, who openly bragged about having sex with prostitutes or engaging in relations with south-american women, and I was always asking myself why he did that.
My wife simply told me that he was very ugly (which I didn't mind, since I'm not interested in men).
So, yes, there are people that have problems finding women, and prostitution is probably their only way to have sex.
You forgot to mention that it's very important that the children have physical activities so that they'll tire themselves. If they are not tired physically, they tend to resist sleep, and as a parent, you'll never get a rest either. For young children (I'd say below 10), it's very important that they sleep their complete nights. As they'll age, sleep will reduce.
Using electronic devices reduces a lot the amount of sleep, because it keeps your brain awake.
When a program crashes and you cannot work for the next 7 hours, I bet that you'll be VERY pissed (especially when these 7 hours cost a lot more than choosing a better solution). The development was done by Accenture and Microsoft, so it's difficult to find better developers for this kind software on.NET. And Accenture is ex-Arthur Andersen, does Enron ring a bell ?
If you want to get an intimate feel for writing programs without being able to waste resources, try embedded systems programming. The microchip 10F series has only a few dozen bytes of ram, and a couple hundred words of flash. And no hardware multiply. Making it do useful things is an art. Oh, and unlike some relic from the 70's, you can actually get a job programming for tiny microcontrollers.
This microship doesn't sound so different from 6502 or Z80. I'm curious to know where you can find job for programming these things ? A google search returned nothing...
If you made ten $5m games out of that money, you could try out some more interesting things
Hint: I worked in the game industry when games cost less than 1/100 of $5m, and I coded games during 20 years, so I saw the progression about games being more and more expensive.
The problem is that nobody is willing to invest $5m for a "small" game, because they don't earn enough money in the end. There is a big delusion about videogames: videogames earn more money than movies. It's probably true, but I dare to say that only a few games are earning a lot of money, and these are only big titles, or big companies like Nintendo. For one successful game or company, there are 10 or more that fail miserably.
I worked for companies that did nice products, but badly publicized, so in the end, they had to close. When you have a large budget for creating a videogame, say $20 millions, you need to invest as much in publicity ($20 m).
I also worked for companies on games that only relied on their license (one movie and 2 commercial products), and the games were so shitty that they had to close. I don't think it's a good idea to invest a lot of money in a licensed game, so that explains why licensed games are so shitty.
What irritates me is that people working in videogames do not earn a lot of money, so I really don't understand why writing a game costs these insane amounts of money. I noticed that a lot of game companies never wanted to do games, but instead movies, that's why they put tons of CGI and cinematic scenes, and this adds nothing to the game. Writing a good videogame needs at most 10 developers, 20 graphists and 5 testers, and such a team is pretty cheap, even with comfortable wages.
Often, managers believe that increasing the number of people in the team will allow to release the game in time (as in the Mythical Man-Month). They fail because they try to pack as much features as possible, instead of trying to reduce the features as most as possible. I remember games I worked on where we had to scrap 2 or 3 levels entirely designed, because there was no time to finish the game.
A game is not about having the largest possible universe, but instead by having the funnier possible, and that's where Nintendo wins.
Finally, I got bored about the dumb managers I worked for. Very few managers are able to release games and motivate their team. I was disappointed about the low wages I got even after 20 years of games and the games were becoming more and more boring, so I finally quit making games.
it's very hard to steer a ship the size of the current AAA dev teams
That's called the Titanic. It's one of the visible symptoms of a failing game.
I'm extremely happy that most of the real talent comes from a random dude in a basement with a homemade vocal booth
And this is why the music companies fail: they try to control everything
30 years ago, it was possible, because music was broadcast on radio and television, and there were not a lot of ways to listen to free music.
Now, we have probably 20 times more TV channels, and Internet is here, providing 10^6 more ways to listen to music. RIAA still struggles to keep everything locked, but it's not possible anymore. If they want to control music, they should pay all the new media for their collaboration, instead of fighting them.
Also, asking nicely to Youtube and Rapidshare to regulate music hosting is stupid, since it will cost a lot of money to these companies to monitor, identify and remove the offending files, and these companies have everything to lose in this. They could lose their fragile market-share by doing that. Their concurrents will be more than happy to take their place. Just about file hosting, I can give you a list of more than 20 providers better than rapidshare.
However, it does not address the problem that the votes can be tampered, and there is no physical trace except the EVM's memory, which is not really a physical proof.
BTW, I'm from France, and here, we use paper ballots. Of course, there are ways to cheat the paper system, but it's easier to catch the cheaters than with electronic devices, and electronic devices are easier to hack massively (for example, by providing hacked systems before the vote).
For me, electronic voting is no better than a slot machine, where the chances are 'regulated'.
Wouldn't it be easier just to make a better voting machine?
Why would they need a voting machine ?
There are several major problems with voting machines in India:
1) you cannot double-check the vote, thus cheating is easy, even if you have secure machines.
2) a lot of people in India don't know how to read, and simple tasks like voting with a computer is impossible for them.
3) machines need electricity. In India, there can be an outage at any time of the day.
Before using expensive voting machines, India's governement should concentrate on improving the infrastructures, like water, electricity and roads.
In fact if we were to have a Slashdot survey on this site and the question was "would you turn in Julian Assange for $5 million dollars in cash" I'd bet that 25% of Slashdot would be willing.
Seriously, has anyone personal or enterprise had good experiences with their products?
Yes, I do.
I complained during a long time about having an antivirus installed on my computer. After an update of our antivirus server, my computer would become unusable every monday at noon exactly, with the antivirus taking 100% of CPU on my computer (probably a faulty update, nobody was able to explain what happened).
I went to the IT, and they were forced to remove this piece of junk on my computer.
People in the US and Europe who genuinely believe that hurricanes are caused by god's hatred of gay people, or that 9-11 was a conservative conspiracy to kill liberals, is our problem.
Correction: there is no hurricane in Europe, so we don't care about that. And there is a lot less bigotry here, and much less hatred towards gays (but more racism).
Slashdot Mirror
It's because their server is written in Javascript.
I'm pretty sure they put pictures bigger than 1K !
I still can't figure out why people pay for shit that they don't want, and then complain about it.
Because it's easier to speak than to act.
What makes me grin is that some people never stop complaining about their problems, but keep being victims.
Stockholm Syndrome ?
Hopefully, there will be a class action, and everything will be solved at this moment (in a few years).
Also, I don't understand why they link memory to intelligence.
As you know, there are a lot of different memory types, like visual, auditory or abstract memory (we can observe the specialized memories in autistic people).
Disabling the gene might increase the visual memory, to the detriment of the other ones, like having autistic mice.
In other words, the mice might be able to exit a maze, but not be able to locate their natural enemies by their ears or whatever sense they use.
Wasn't that "Anti Pirate Bureau" ?
Just kidding...
No:
https://opencuro.com/signups/register
Please note that registration is currently open to United States residents only.
It's useless for us, europeans.
In fact, Paypal tends to block sites that host games or contests.
In my case, I maintained a programming contest where I asked for donations, and hosted a peg solitaire.
Paypal blocked my account when they discovered that I had a game on my site (which is totally unrelated to the contest).
Luckily, they unblocked it a few days after that.
<AnnoyingFlashPopup>GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Flash can now port applications to the iphone!</AnnoyingFlashPopup>
Fixed for you.
Now if wikileaks could disclose documents between congressional leaders and these contractors, then I would be very impressed.
Guess what ? There are no written documents, because most of the arrangements are done orally.
Don't worry, such companies are very generous with their political friends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton#1990s
You also seem to forget that it's real people who release these documents.
So, if you hope for a disclosure, it will probably comes from a secretary or someone near the leaders, and this means that he/she will never be able to work again after that.
Taking such a risk demands an insane amount of courage, stupidity or revenge.
... and you would have missed the joke !
No, because you have to return your console several times before getting one that works.
This provides some physical exercize !
I had one of my co-workers, who openly bragged about having sex with prostitutes or engaging in relations with south-american women, and I was always asking myself why he did that.
My wife simply told me that he was very ugly (which I didn't mind, since I'm not interested in men).
So, yes, there are people that have problems finding women, and prostitution is probably their only way to have sex.
You forgot to mention that it's very important that the children have physical activities so that they'll tire themselves.
If they are not tired physically, they tend to resist sleep, and as a parent, you'll never get a rest either.
For young children (I'd say below 10), it's very important that they sleep their complete nights.
As they'll age, sleep will reduce.
Using electronic devices reduces a lot the amount of sleep, because it keeps your brain awake.
What people don't understand is that you are more likely to die in your car or hit by lightning than in an airliner crash.
Probably, but I would be pretty pissed to die in an air crash.
How can you compare desktop or UI software to stock exchange software ?
Ok, I suppose you are new here, so here is the whole story:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/did-microsoft-tech-play-a-part-in-london-stock-exchange-meltdown/1578
http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform
When a program crashes and you cannot work for the next 7 hours, I bet that you'll be VERY pissed (especially when these 7 hours cost a lot more than choosing a better solution). .NET.
The development was done by Accenture and Microsoft, so it's difficult to find better developers for this kind software on
And Accenture is ex-Arthur Andersen, does Enron ring a bell ?
Hell, it's legal to film sex and sell it here!
Probably, but it's forbidden to show a nipple on TV or to take photographs of your naked children.
If you want to get an intimate feel for writing programs without being able to waste resources, try embedded systems programming. The microchip 10F series has only a few dozen bytes of ram, and a couple hundred words of flash. And no hardware multiply. Making it do useful things is an art. Oh, and unlike some relic from the 70's, you can actually get a job programming for tiny microcontrollers.
This microship doesn't sound so different from 6502 or Z80.
I'm curious to know where you can find job for programming these things ?
A google search returned nothing...
Because you are idling 99% of your time ?
If you made ten $5m games out of that money, you could try out some more interesting things
Hint: I worked in the game industry when games cost less than 1/100 of $5m, and I coded games during 20 years, so I saw the progression about games being more and more expensive.
The problem is that nobody is willing to invest $5m for a "small" game, because they don't earn enough money in the end.
There is a big delusion about videogames: videogames earn more money than movies.
It's probably true, but I dare to say that only a few games are earning a lot of money, and these are only big titles, or big companies like Nintendo.
For one successful game or company, there are 10 or more that fail miserably.
I worked for companies that did nice products, but badly publicized, so in the end, they had to close.
When you have a large budget for creating a videogame, say $20 millions, you need to invest as much in publicity ($20 m).
I also worked for companies on games that only relied on their license (one movie and 2 commercial products), and the games were so shitty that they had to close.
I don't think it's a good idea to invest a lot of money in a licensed game, so that explains why licensed games are so shitty.
What irritates me is that people working in videogames do not earn a lot of money, so I really don't understand why writing a game costs these insane amounts of money.
I noticed that a lot of game companies never wanted to do games, but instead movies, that's why they put tons of CGI and cinematic scenes, and this adds nothing to the game.
Writing a good videogame needs at most 10 developers, 20 graphists and 5 testers, and such a team is pretty cheap, even with comfortable wages.
Often, managers believe that increasing the number of people in the team will allow to release the game in time (as in the Mythical Man-Month).
They fail because they try to pack as much features as possible, instead of trying to reduce the features as most as possible.
I remember games I worked on where we had to scrap 2 or 3 levels entirely designed, because there was no time to finish the game.
A game is not about having the largest possible universe, but instead by having the funnier possible, and that's where Nintendo wins.
Finally, I got bored about the dumb managers I worked for. Very few managers are able to release games and motivate their team.
I was disappointed about the low wages I got even after 20 years of games and the games were becoming more and more boring, so I finally quit making games.
it's very hard to steer a ship the size of the current AAA dev teams
That's called the Titanic.
It's one of the visible symptoms of a failing game.
I'm extremely happy that most of the real talent comes from a random dude in a basement with a homemade vocal booth
And this is why the music companies fail:
they try to control everything
30 years ago, it was possible, because music was broadcast on radio and television, and there were not a lot of ways to listen to free music.
Now, we have probably 20 times more TV channels, and Internet is here, providing 10^6 more ways to listen to music.
RIAA still struggles to keep everything locked, but it's not possible anymore.
If they want to control music, they should pay all the new media for their collaboration, instead of fighting them.
Also, asking nicely to Youtube and Rapidshare to regulate music hosting is stupid, since it will cost a lot of money to these companies to monitor, identify and remove the offending files, and these companies have everything to lose in this. They could lose their fragile market-share by doing that. Their concurrents will be more than happy to take their place. Just about file hosting, I can give you a list of more than 20 providers better than rapidshare.
Thank you !
This is a very interesting link.
However, it does not address the problem that the votes can be tampered, and there is no physical trace except the EVM's memory, which is not really a physical proof.
BTW, I'm from France, and here, we use paper ballots.
Of course, there are ways to cheat the paper system, but it's easier to catch the cheaters than with electronic devices, and electronic devices are easier to hack massively (for example, by providing hacked systems before the vote).
For me, electronic voting is no better than a slot machine, where the chances are 'regulated'.
Wouldn't it be easier just to make a better voting machine?
Why would they need a voting machine ?
There are several major problems with voting machines in India:
1) you cannot double-check the vote, thus cheating is easy, even if you have secure machines.
2) a lot of people in India don't know how to read, and simple tasks like voting with a computer is impossible for them.
3) machines need electricity. In India, there can be an outage at any time of the day.
Before using expensive voting machines, India's governement should concentrate on improving the infrastructures, like water, electricity and roads.
In fact if we were to have a Slashdot survey on this site and the question was "would you turn in Julian Assange for $5 million dollars in cash" I'd bet that 25% of Slashdot would be willing.
Where do I sign ?
Nah, just joking...
I have a similar dumbing experience here.
At my job, we use a SilverLight component to display (allegedly) nice graphs.
The only problem is that the component needs that UAC is disabled on Vista, or it won't work !
Seriously, has anyone personal or enterprise had good experiences with their products?
Yes, I do.
I complained during a long time about having an antivirus installed on my computer.
After an update of our antivirus server, my computer would become unusable every monday at noon exactly, with the antivirus taking 100% of CPU on my computer (probably a faulty update, nobody was able to explain what happened).
I went to the IT, and they were forced to remove this piece of junk on my computer.
Yay !
People in the US and Europe who genuinely believe that hurricanes are caused by god's hatred of gay people, or that 9-11 was a conservative conspiracy to kill liberals, is our problem.
Correction: there is no hurricane in Europe, so we don't care about that.
And there is a lot less bigotry here, and much less hatred towards gays (but more racism).