He didn't say there was no nuclear decay, he said that the nuclear decay isn't the source of operating power for the unit. The nuclear decay is used in the smoke detection system. The operational power is provided by batteries, or by plugging it in.
Antimatter might make an excellent method for storing and transporting energy someday, but it is not itself an energy source. It's just like hydrogen in this sense. You can do lots of interesting things with it, but it is not a fuel source because you have to make it and that process takes more energy than you get out of it.
Phase 1: Build Antimatter generating plants in the Antartic, using abundant winds, and being happy in the fact that there's not very many people or animals around.
Phase 2: ???????
Phase 3: Profit!
How is this becomming 'blurred?' If you want guarenteed uptime, you pay for guarenteed uptime. You don't start whining and begging for it after the fact.
If you're telecommuting, then it's your responsibility and your company's responsibility to sit down beforehand, and work out policies about this sort of thing, and other such issues. Do they supply you with a company machine? What do you do in the event of hardware failure? How do you handle software updates? Who pays for connectivity? What do you do if it fails? Do you have redundant connections?
Just sell low UIDs. That'll raise you lots of money.
Seriously, though, go nuts. Just don't be surprised when every signature links to instructions on using webwasher/adbuster/and so on to block out each and every comment. Or when somebody writes a perl script to grab slashdot every hour, parse out all the ads, and post it somewhere else, like freeslashdot.org or something.
In other news today, a man was awarded an OBSCENE amount of money when he WAS NOT given a recommendation by his former employer.
"I applied for this new job, you see, and they wanted references," says Joe Nutfuck, "but my old company has a 'no reference' policy. They say it's to avoid potential litigation. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
A jury aggreed with Mr. Nutfuck that by not giving a reference, they were unfairly limiting his future career options, and putting a chilling effect onto the economy. Mr. Nutfuck was awarded 50 million dollars in potential future lost wages.
A senior HR person at Mr. Nutfuck's former company said, in response to the ruiling, "Jesus H Christ! Damned if you do, damned if you don't, and damned for being damned. I'm moving to Canada."
True. But IN THIS CASE, Microsoft doesn't seem to be abusing their monopoly power to force game developers not to develop for Linux. Game developers simply choose not to, mainly because they don't make back what they expend.
I just bought a copy of Star Control 2 yesterday, from Accolade's online store; instant download. Check out http://www.star-control.com.
Works great on my Toshiba laptop; it's wonderful to see a game designed for a 286 able to run on a P3 500. And the soundblaster emulation on the sound card works perfectly!
Only if it's clearly labeled as such. That's like saying if I sneak into your house, and rewire your kitchen light switch so that when you turn it on, and it electrocutes your wife, children, and kitty cat, you share part of the blame, because you willfully activated the death machine.
You can't equate harboring with discussing.
The point is, explaing HOW to do something is different from DOING it, or telling somebody TO do it. Or protecting them after they've done it.
However, when millions upon millions of people open suspect attachments, then suddenly everybody agrees that the only person to blame is the virus writer.
Which nation is the US holding responsible for 9/11? I was under the impression that they were holding the Taliban government, and the Al-Queda terrorist organization, responsible, and were specifically going out of their way to demonstrate, via things like dropping of food and other supplies, that their conflict was NOT with the Afghan people?
They might not have a monopoly on operating systems, period, but they certainly have a monopoly on desktop OSs that will run the latest and greatest games and other junk like that. Just try to get me a copy of Jedi Knight II for Linux. I'd really love to have it.
I'm sorry, but how is that Microsoft's fault? Isn't that like Sega suing Sony for having a 'monopoly' on the console market? "All the game manufactuers wanted to write for the PS2, leaving our poor DreamCast bereft of all the latest and greatest games!"
Hell, games/DirectX is a great example of Microsoft being open, forthright, and listenting to the needs of the users; observe the leap from DirectX 3 to 7, or 8.
Because according to your legal system, there's a big big difference between saying 'You know, America would be really really put out if somebody were to hijack some air planes full of fuel and crash them into some local monuments; say, the WTC.' and saying 'You eight, go to America, hijack some air planes full of fuel, and crash them into some local monuments, say, the WTC.'
Discussion of a crime is never, in and of itself, a crime. Solicitation of a crime, however, is.
I think it is clear that in this situation at least 2 people are to blame, because the situation could have been prevented by either burning the book or by incarcerating the madman. Still the freedom to write a book is one we take for granted. Even to write malicious books.
You know, the other day, I was reading the Criminal Code for Justice, and they have this crime called 'murder.' You know, it wouldn't have occured to me to kill somebody I really don't like, had I not read it there. Curse the Department of Justice! They're partially to blame too!
OSS is a bit different. It's public domain. Everyone owns it - therefore if you choose to use it, and if it breaks you yourself are responsible for damages.
Dangerously wrong. OSS is NOT public domain. It is owned by the copyright holder, who grants extra rights in exchange for certain requirements. If it was public domain, anybody could do anything they wanted with it.
even if the damage is caused because of missing patches.
No, because this is user fault. The car company isn't at fault if a user ignores a recall or manufacturer-reccomended maintenance, and gets horribly killed.
Publicly released software is maintained by the public and released by the public, meaning any kind of legal responsability should be avoided. Thus encouraging the Open Source movement
Open Source (i.e. GPL, NPL, MPL, Apache License, Artistic License, BSD, etc etc) is not publicly released. Source code released into the public domain is publicly released. OSS is owned by the copyright owner, who has generously decided to grant certain rights to any who wish it, in exchange for certain requirements upon the recipient.
So subscribing to your statements, one would only be left to say that their just ordinary programmers that did a bad thing that the company should just punish them rather than seek out ways of possibly turning this into something more benficial, for itself, or both party's mentioned?
No, what I'm saying is the fact that they built this doesn't automatically mean they have anything to offer to Blizzard.
The Knowledge, Experience, and Skill of employees are always essential to the foundation of a company.
Agreed.
And to simply sit back and say 'They shouldn't concider hiring them because they lack the experience.' is kind of a shallow way to look at it.
But to simply sit back and say 'Just because these guys took a packet sniffer, watched the traffic back and forth, and made a program that generated the correct responses, doesn't mean they're equipped to improve a global networked system that deals with all sorts of issues' is both accurate and reasonable. I'm not saying they don't; I'm refuting the original statement which seemed to take it as a given.
They wrote a program (Skill/Knowledge)
Agreed, but not necessarily the correct skill/knolwedge.
is a clone of battle.net's abilities (Creativity if not Imaginative as well),
How, exactly, is cloning something as closely as possible creative or imaginative?
that they released to the public and maintained it (Knowledge/Experience/Ability).
And how does posting it to a website increase their knolwedge, experience, or ability? Maintaining and improving, of course, would.
So, hopefully you see, my arguement isn't in defense of offering 'simpletons' a chance, cause even though they may have wrote a program that lets upto eight people on a LAN have a game against each other, not many people that I know would not be imaginative or creative enough to develop that simple program for the purpose bnetd serve(s/d).
Yes, of course. Eight people, as opposed to four, is much closer to the twenty thousand mark. Why, they're twice as advanced!
I never said, or intended to imply, that they're simpletons. I simply said that what they've done, and published, in no way would seem to qualify them to automatically be able to improve Battle.net. They may very well be so qualified, but bnetd doesn't demonstrate that.
I'm sorry, but that's kind of like saying that somebody who writes a very simple 'insert/read/delete fixed lines into a text file and oh look it's a basic database' has 'ideas and skills, as well as knowledge' that Oracle should take note of before writing them off.
It's not their programming skills, or creativity I'm impunging, but experience. And writing a program that lets four people on a LAN have a game is far different from writing a program that allows twenty thousand do the same.
Actually, I just think that y'all need to remove the concept of being a politician; it wasn't supposed to be a career.
Something like, one can spend eight years in public office. Period.
You know, I still recall an article I read in one of the PC rags several years back. They took a bunch of laptops and 'real world' stressed them; threw them in the oven, freezer, dropped them from a desk, that sort of thing. Did before and after benchmarks for each, then took one of each laptop, and did everything to it, just to see if it would still run.
The thing I recall is that one of the tests was spilling a set amount of coffee on the keyboard, waiting for it to dry, then trying it out. One of the laptops actually ran 11 percent faster after this was done to it.
Freezing a laptop won't harm the electronics, unless you power it up cold, where the shock might start cracking the silicon or blowing the conduits. Letting it return to room temps before you turn it on will prevent damage from happening. Not sure if the LCD will survive, though.
I just put my money where my mouth is again, and purchased a copy of Star Control 2 from Accolade. Check out the awesome fan site http://www.star-control.com.
I'll also take the opportunity to point out that I personally love games where you can download the manuals in PDF (not scans of the manuals) and think it should be standard practice.
But he's right. If you want to do anything beyond streaming static text and binary files, you need an add-on; something that forces state information and persistance onto a stateless and transient protocol. ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, Tango, whatever.
Almost makes you wonder if we'll move away from the 'big CPU, big whack of RAM' model to the 'bunch of little bitty CPUs, each with their own whack of RAM, and they do their own thing' model.
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He didn't say there was no nuclear decay, he said that the nuclear decay isn't the source of operating power for the unit. The nuclear decay is used in the smoke detection system. The operational power is provided by batteries, or by plugging it in.
How is this becomming 'blurred?' If you want guarenteed uptime, you pay for guarenteed uptime. You don't start whining and begging for it after the fact. If you're telecommuting, then it's your responsibility and your company's responsibility to sit down beforehand, and work out policies about this sort of thing, and other such issues. Do they supply you with a company machine? What do you do in the event of hardware failure? How do you handle software updates? Who pays for connectivity? What do you do if it fails? Do you have redundant connections?
Just sell low UIDs. That'll raise you lots of money. Seriously, though, go nuts. Just don't be surprised when every signature links to instructions on using webwasher/adbuster/and so on to block out each and every comment. Or when somebody writes a perl script to grab slashdot every hour, parse out all the ads, and post it somewhere else, like freeslashdot.org or something.
In other news today, a man was awarded an OBSCENE amount of money when he WAS NOT given a recommendation by his former employer. "I applied for this new job, you see, and they wanted references," says Joe Nutfuck, "but my old company has a 'no reference' policy. They say it's to avoid potential litigation. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." A jury aggreed with Mr. Nutfuck that by not giving a reference, they were unfairly limiting his future career options, and putting a chilling effect onto the economy. Mr. Nutfuck was awarded 50 million dollars in potential future lost wages. A senior HR person at Mr. Nutfuck's former company said, in response to the ruiling, "Jesus H Christ! Damned if you do, damned if you don't, and damned for being damned. I'm moving to Canada."
True. But IN THIS CASE, Microsoft doesn't seem to be abusing their monopoly power to force game developers not to develop for Linux. Game developers simply choose not to, mainly because they don't make back what they expend.
No, no frenzy. I like being able to see the sprites.
I just bought a copy of Star Control 2 yesterday, from Accolade's online store; instant download. Check out http://www.star-control.com. Works great on my Toshiba laptop; it's wonderful to see a game designed for a 286 able to run on a P3 500. And the soundblaster emulation on the sound card works perfectly!
Only if it's clearly labeled as such. That's like saying if I sneak into your house, and rewire your kitchen light switch so that when you turn it on, and it electrocutes your wife, children, and kitty cat, you share part of the blame, because you willfully activated the death machine.
You can't equate harboring with discussing. The point is, explaing HOW to do something is different from DOING it, or telling somebody TO do it. Or protecting them after they've done it.
Because according to your legal system, there's a big big difference between saying 'You know, America would be really really put out if somebody were to hijack some air planes full of fuel and crash them into some local monuments; say, the WTC.' and saying 'You eight, go to America, hijack some air planes full of fuel, and crash them into some local monuments, say, the WTC.' Discussion of a crime is never, in and of itself, a crime. Solicitation of a crime, however, is.
I'm sorry, but that's kind of like saying that somebody who writes a very simple 'insert/read/delete fixed lines into a text file and oh look it's a basic database' has 'ideas and skills, as well as knowledge' that Oracle should take note of before writing them off. It's not their programming skills, or creativity I'm impunging, but experience. And writing a program that lets four people on a LAN have a game is far different from writing a program that allows twenty thousand do the same.
Out of curiosity, what makes you think bnetd would be any better than battle.net at handling tens of thousands of users?
Actually, I just think that y'all need to remove the concept of being a politician; it wasn't supposed to be a career. Something like, one can spend eight years in public office. Period.
You know, I still recall an article I read in one of the PC rags several years back. They took a bunch of laptops and 'real world' stressed them; threw them in the oven, freezer, dropped them from a desk, that sort of thing. Did before and after benchmarks for each, then took one of each laptop, and did everything to it, just to see if it would still run. The thing I recall is that one of the tests was spilling a set amount of coffee on the keyboard, waiting for it to dry, then trying it out. One of the laptops actually ran 11 percent faster after this was done to it. Freezing a laptop won't harm the electronics, unless you power it up cold, where the shock might start cracking the silicon or blowing the conduits. Letting it return to room temps before you turn it on will prevent damage from happening. Not sure if the LCD will survive, though.
Hell, the Sega Dreamcast is liquid-cooled, as I recall.
I just put my money where my mouth is again, and purchased a copy of Star Control 2 from Accolade. Check out the awesome fan site http://www.star-control.com. I'll also take the opportunity to point out that I personally love games where you can download the manuals in PDF (not scans of the manuals) and think it should be standard practice.
But he's right. If you want to do anything beyond streaming static text and binary files, you need an add-on; something that forces state information and persistance onto a stateless and transient protocol. ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, Tango, whatever.
Almost makes you wonder if we'll move away from the 'big CPU, big whack of RAM' model to the 'bunch of little bitty CPUs, each with their own whack of RAM, and they do their own thing' model.