1 - Right to broadband. 2 - Human right to broadband. 3 - Human right to porn. 4 - Human right to 3D multi-sensorial porn. 5 - Ascension of mankind to a new state of consciousness and peace with the universe.
A minor setback, really--- clearly he's now just in need of a fourth person willing to commit three murders for hire...
That's an example of the classic "putting fires off" mentality.
A good manager would have sent two assassins for the first target and two more for the assassins themselves. He'd then hire a fifth assassin, of greater skill, to kill whoever was alive at the end of the deals.
To hire such number of assassins, he'd have probaly created a small HR department. And to recoup from this initial investment, he'd capitalize the already prepared team by subcontracting it to other businesses.
Valkovich will face a statutory maximum of 50 years in prison: 20 years for the murder-for-hire and 30 years for the bank fraud
On further investigation, a new fact has been discovered. When Valkovich was hiring the assassin, he was simultaneously copying his cds to a usb player. The sentence has been changed to death penalty of him, his entire family, and everybody in the same neighborhood with a name starting with a V, or a W.
A rock is a computer 10 billion times more powerful than all of our computers on the planet combined. The hard problem is putting that power to good use,
Their error messages might as well say, "Our program fucked up, we're dipshits, we don't know what the fuck is going on. In fact, we couldn't have put together a crappier piece of software if we were drunk, or high."
It would be funnier to get messages like: "Our program fucked up. -- Error code: ss324. Help me. I've been in a cage for the last two years. They feed me the corpses of the programmers who didn't make it through the big flood. I don't want to die. Please help!... HH/991.DDF. For more information, contact your system administrator."
Actually this is and will always be a major problem with open source online games. You don't even need to debug assembly and create a hack for it, you just need to edit the source code and build your own client.
Not always.
It can be solved by not sending to your client any information you shouldn't know as player or character.
The most interesting part is where does one get the magma in Iron Mountain they use to kill off thier nobles^H^H^H^H^H^Hmanagers?
"And so we reach Experimental Room 49. Dr. John Hammerer, you may get inside. Would you please press the red button with the big red 'DON'T TOUCH' text. Thank you."
"And now, dear team, as carp infested water fills the chamber I suggest you to think about the consecuences of nobility and promotion."
Very cool stuff, but the rest of us who don't own mines don't really benefit from this solution. TFA says the mine layout and the underground lake are an "anomaly" of nature to begin with. We need solutions for "normal" data centers.
Ah, the classic Dwarven Fortress "Your build only works with an underground lake, a magma river and a giant spider inhabited chasm" problem.
I suggest the classic Dwarven Fortress solution: "Select your site based on the natural elements and build the artificial ones." Oh and also "Don't let workers bring cats to the data center."
Or simply release a skeleton of the game, and then demand payment for the rest.
And you could even release that starting representative little part of the game for free. After all, it's going to be pirated you'll be getting most of your revenue with the DLC, right?
And you could even call that representative little part "demo", and then say that the first DLC is the "full game".
Brilliant!...
If they start releasing a significative part of the game as DLC, DLC will be cracked as full games are now, anyway.
This is just one more way to use "OMGPIRATES!" as an excuse to get more money for the same game from the paying customers.
"Choose your breast size" could've been seen as some impossibly expensive operation in the past; right now there are girls getting tits as their 16th birthday present in non-rich countries.
Your answer leads to the answer to the post I was answering (which was my intention).
Changing the software quality paradigm isn't a responsibity of the producers, it's the buyers who must start asking for quality and paying for it, as they are who create the market in the first place.
Let's imagine you're a car builder capable of building cars with the current expected quality.
Let's now imagine your competition builds and sells defective cars for half your costs. For whatever reason, the buyer will buy the half cost faulty car and then repair it until it finally works, rather than buying your "perfect on release" car.
As a child's environment is controlled, you can choose to artificially make it whatever you want. For example, you can decide to educate your child in an environment similar to yours, removing all advances in communications beyond what existed when you were two years old.
Or, you could choose to remove all electric equipment. Or central heating. Or current water. It's an experiment bet.
You're betting your child will be better (happier?) if it grows up in an environment similar to what children in the early nineties had.
I'm betting mine will be happier being a member of his own generation, thus growing up with a direct connection to all information, good and bad; exactly as he'll have when he reaches an age when I'm not there to keep the artificial environment around him.
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photo's to a PC that only has a keyboard to type them pixel by pixel.. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try typing down 3GB.
expectations of the promotion and tenure committee in terms of papers, research funding and teaching requires 50-60 hours a week of work minimum most week
If you mean "I have to work 50-60h/w if I expect to ever ascend", I don't think there are many corporations where it isn't exactly so. At least in my environment.
"Half for you, half for us" (as in "12h between entry and exit") is a quite common philosophy.
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A step in the right direction.
1 - Right to broadband.
2 - Human right to broadband.
3 - Human right to porn.
4 - Human right to 3D multi-sensorial porn.
5 - Ascension of mankind to a new state of consciousness and peace with the universe.
A minor setback, really--- clearly he's now just in need of a fourth person willing to commit three murders for hire...
That's an example of the classic "putting fires off" mentality.
A good manager would have sent two assassins for the first target and two more for the assassins themselves. He'd then hire a fifth assassin, of greater skill, to kill whoever was alive at the end of the deals.
To hire such number of assassins, he'd have probaly created a small HR department. And to recoup from this initial investment, he'd capitalize the already prepared team by subcontracting it to other businesses.
Valkovich will face a statutory maximum of 50 years in prison: 20 years for the murder-for-hire and 30 years for the bank fraud
On further investigation, a new fact has been discovered. When Valkovich was hiring the assassin, he was simultaneously copying his cds to a usb player. The sentence has been changed to death penalty of him, his entire family, and everybody in the same neighborhood with a name starting with a V, or a W.
A rock is a computer 10 billion times more powerful than all of our computers on the planet combined. The hard problem is putting that power to good use,
I think you forgot to turn the computer on.
Their error messages might as well say, "Our program fucked up, we're dipshits, we don't know what the fuck is going on. In fact, we couldn't have put together a crappier piece of software if we were drunk, or high."
It would be funnier to get messages like: "Our program fucked up. -- Error code: ss324. Help me. I've been in a cage for the last two years. They feed me the corpses of the programmers who didn't make it through the big flood. I don't want to die. Please help! ... HH/991.DDF. For more information, contact your system administrator."
Actually this is and will always be a major problem with open source online games. You don't even need to debug assembly and create a hack for it, you just need to edit the source code and build your own client.
Not always.
It can be solved by not sending to your client any information you shouldn't know as player or character.
It's fricking hard, but not impossible.
The most interesting part is where does one get the magma in Iron Mountain they use to kill off thier nobles^H^H^H^H^H^Hmanagers?
"And so we reach Experimental Room 49. Dr. John Hammerer, you may get inside. Would you please press the red button with the big red 'DON'T TOUCH' text. Thank you."
"And now, dear team, as carp infested water fills the chamber I suggest you to think about the consecuences of nobility and promotion."
Very cool stuff, but the rest of us who don't own mines don't really benefit from this solution. TFA says the mine layout and the underground lake are an "anomaly" of nature to begin with. We need solutions for "normal" data centers.
Ah, the classic Dwarven Fortress "Your build only works with an underground lake, a magma river and a giant spider inhabited chasm" problem.
I suggest the classic Dwarven Fortress solution: "Select your site based on the natural elements and build the artificial ones." Oh and also "Don't let workers bring cats to the data center."
You're wrong.
It's the Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport. Not bad, they missed two letters and simply removed the fourth.
By that algorithm, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration could be the NLC.
Or simply release a skeleton of the game, and then demand payment for the rest.
And you could even release that starting representative little part of the game for free. After all, it's going to be pirated you'll be getting most of your revenue with the DLC, right?
And you could even call that representative little part "demo", and then say that the first DLC is the "full game".
Brilliant! ...
If they start releasing a significative part of the game as DLC, DLC will be cracked as full games are now, anyway.
This is just one more way to use "OMGPIRATES!" as an excuse to get more money for the same game from the paying customers.
It's only a matter of time.
"Choose your breast size" could've been seen as some impossibly expensive operation in the past; right now there are girls getting tits as their 16th birthday present in non-rich countries.
First time I really miss not having some mod points.
Insightfullify that post please.
Spell check is not a luxury, its a necessity
For those who can't spell.
Hyper-competitive former fighter jocks + confined space + roids. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong
The most possible option for that to go wrong is:
Hyper-competitive fighter jocks on roids whose minds are being controlled by intellectually superior microworms - confined space.
"They", at IBM, aren't people anymore.
And yes, They laugh. In a monotone, metallic voice.
Your answer leads to the answer to the post I was answering (which was my intention).
Changing the software quality paradigm isn't a responsibity of the producers, it's the buyers who must start asking for quality and paying for it, as they are who create the market in the first place.
you think you car is simple?
Car analogy to the rescue!
Let's imagine you're a car builder capable of building cars with the current expected quality.
Let's now imagine your competition builds and sells defective cars for half your costs. For whatever reason, the buyer will buy the half cost faulty car and then repair it until it finally works, rather than buying your "perfect on release" car.
What do you do?
Everything sucked in is already on Earth. About thirty years ago. Saving the whales, or somesuch.
I doubt every scientist working on the project is also desiring to commit suicide/genocide/planetacide/whatever.
I just imagined a collective mad laughter, chorused by the entire LHC staff.
On freakishly perfect synchrony.
Like machines.
Or robots!
Oh my god!
As a child's environment is controlled, you can choose to artificially make it whatever you want. For example, you can decide to educate your child in an environment similar to yours, removing all advances in communications beyond what existed when you were two years old.
Or, you could choose to remove all electric equipment. Or central heating. Or current water. It's an experiment bet.
You're betting your child will be better (happier?) if it grows up in an environment similar to what children in the early nineties had.
I'm betting mine will be happier being a member of his own generation, thus growing up with a direct connection to all information, good and bad; exactly as he'll have when he reaches an age when I'm not there to keep the artificial environment around him.
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photo's to a PC that only has a keyboard to type them pixel by pixel.. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try typing down 3GB.
Seven fricking lines of analogy and not a single car?
Hmm...
Mutations, cancer, and eventually, death.
On the other hand. Being sued by Disney for eighteen billion dollars in damages, ruining your entire family, city and, possibly, state.
expectations of the promotion and tenure committee in terms of papers, research funding and teaching requires 50-60 hours a week of work minimum most week
If you mean "I have to work 50-60h/w if I expect to ever ascend", I don't think there are many corporations where it isn't exactly so. At least in my environment.
"Half for you, half for us" (as in "12h between entry and exit") is a quite common philosophy.
"And here you can see our last, and best, version of the Praxix Multipurpose Armored Vehicle (tm).
Using the last advances in aluminum reinforcing, in this version we replaced the back doors' steel for much lighter mithril"