Also note that if you keep the laser aimed on one direction (and off when you can't) that you perturb the earths orbit or rotation, bringing us closer to the sun and eventually cooking all the inhabitants of earth.
Parsers are an unnecessary added layer of complexity. What should happen is that the application returns a machine readable responses which is is then output by either a command line display algorithm or a GUI display algorithm.
I question whether the old unix concept of input and output streams has kept up with our user interface standards. I'm not saying they're a bad idea, I just think they could use a little expansion today especially how to set them up. I also think if we should have a packet oriented interface standard layered on top of the stream interface. Unix actually does this, but not for binary streams, only text streams delimited by carriage returns (see AWK). Alas, Unix will continue to be unix long after we mere mortals are all dust.
Add some noise or crank up the gain right before the commercial airs.
That silent staredown would suddenly have a hash of white noise/crickets a tenth of a second before the commercial.
The developers should designate one person for compromise testing. It's his job to try to get compromises to the kernel. He will submit a patch to a random developer every 6 months, the developer submits the patch, and if it is missed and gets included in the main tree it triggers a more widespread code audit. Offer a $1000 reward to anyone finding the offending or more dangerous backdoor.
This should keep the developers on their toes and give us some confidence that the code IS being audited properly.
The logical place would be the library. Too bad most libraries are stuck in the stone age.
Another place would be a kiosk at grocery stores. They already have video rental kiosks, just extend them to connect with DisneySteam to verify rentalship and and purchases.
In Anarchy Online, once you upgrade there is no going back. Good for lock-in I suppose but quite annoying to the players. I think Funcom is actually losing money because of this, for I would upgrade a bunch of my other accounts temporarily just to get them set up a little bit better.
Being able to downgrade back to free is all kinds of awesomeness.
DNA is likewise not self-aware but merely (how did you put it) "essentially the same: they are instructions"
Using your style of logic it follows that you are not self-aware.
I worked on a Kiosk that played clips of videos and recordings (push button, see 30 seconds of Mariah Carey music video). One month they added a button to play the Energizer bunny commercial. Ofc they had statistics on it and it was quite a shock to me that it was the most popular button press.
They would sell you a decryption key for each movie for only $500.
(Assumption being that by the time this is out the dollar would have been inflated about 20x).
There actually is a third option: Steam
From an article on that site:
"As seen from the Table, this is about 60% of the lift of helium and more than twice the lift of hot air."
Hmmm. Let me take a stab at it:
1: Microkernels have fewer bugs. (This relates back to the big Tanenbaum-Linux argument.)
2: Microkernels are efficient. (Some people say they're slow.)
Most of the rest is a technical explanation of why the above are true. You'd need to be a geek to find it interesting though.
His piece is worthy of a 3, maybe 4, informative.
Nope, it's exactly the problem. The economy was cruising right along while people were (over) spending. The entire reason that the auto industry is in tough times is because people have been reducing their spending and putting off their car purchases. The economy was just fine when we were spending money, the problem was the money was from credit based on overvalued assets (such as houses).
This also explains why it takes time to get out of a recession. People need to spend money for companies to have the income to hire more employees, who can then buy other more stuff.
So more spending will get us out of the hole we dug by spending?
Um... No.
What we need is investment, not wanton consumption. It's not how much you have, it's how you use it.
We need more investment in this country (Orbital Solar? Heck yeah, 2 birds 1 stone), not more enticement to spend money wastefully (Cash for Clunkers). Without the increased efficiency afforded by true investment, when the spending slows down again the wheels ARE going to fall off.
470 miles far enough?
Or were you talking cannon->Orbital, followed by a deorbit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon
Look up Light Gas guns, or SHARP or HARP research.
If Gerald Bull hadn't been assassinated those guns could be supplying the space station by now.
Don't believe it? Google for polyphasic sleep or Uberman sleep schedule.
Turns out you can live on 20 minute naps every four hours. Not that I'd want to try it: every four hours you have to stop *right then* and sleep.
I wonder if they did any tests to make sure the women don't have memory loss.
So does this mean they will be able to store our character inventory for more than 90 days before they delete it?
Wake me up when they do. If they would restore the 30 accounts of mine they deleted (yes you read that correctly, 30 accounts full of characters not 30 characters), that would be a good start too. Ok, so that was askin for a pony territory, I'm jus sayin.
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I can guarantee you that NO-one would see the clown in that case.
Also note that if you keep the laser aimed on one direction (and off when you can't) that you perturb the earths orbit or rotation, bringing us closer to the sun and eventually cooking all the inhabitants of earth.
Parsers are an unnecessary added layer of complexity.
What should happen is that the application returns a machine readable responses which is is then output by either a command line display algorithm or a GUI display algorithm.
I question whether the old unix concept of input and output streams has kept up with our user interface standards. I'm not saying they're a bad idea, I just think they could use a little expansion today especially how to set them up. I also think if we should have a packet oriented interface standard layered on top of the stream interface. Unix actually does this, but not for binary streams, only text streams delimited by carriage returns (see AWK).
Alas, Unix will continue to be unix long after we mere mortals are all dust.
Add some noise or crank up the gain right before the commercial airs.
That silent staredown would suddenly have a hash of white noise/crickets a tenth of a second before the commercial.
If they wanted to increase revenue for an FPS the answer is simple:
Costuming gear.
Doesn't affect gameplay and guarantees a significant revenue stream.
Cmon, who wouldn't pay a coupla bucks to look like their favorite movie star.
Heat.
The developers should designate one person for compromise testing. It's his job to try to get compromises to the kernel. He will submit a patch to a random developer every 6 months, the developer submits the patch, and if it is missed and gets included in the main tree it triggers a more widespread code audit. Offer a $1000 reward to anyone finding the offending or more dangerous backdoor.
This should keep the developers on their toes and give us some confidence that the code IS being audited properly.
The logical place would be the library. Too bad most libraries are stuck in the stone age.
Another place would be a kiosk at grocery stores. They already have video rental kiosks, just extend them to connect with DisneySteam to verify rentalship and and purchases.
In Anarchy Online, once you upgrade there is no going back. Good for lock-in I suppose but quite annoying to the players.
I think Funcom is actually losing money because of this, for I would upgrade a bunch of my other accounts temporarily just to get them set up a little bit better.
Being able to downgrade back to free is all kinds of awesomeness.
DNA is likewise not self-aware but merely (how did you put it) "essentially the same: they are instructions"
Using your style of logic it follows that you are not self-aware.
I worked on a Kiosk that played clips of videos and recordings (push button, see 30 seconds of Mariah Carey music video).
One month they added a button to play the Energizer bunny commercial. Ofc they had statistics on it and it was quite a shock to me that it was the most popular button press.
in Anarchy Online, Froobs get the billboards. Paying players have the option to turn them off.
It's called the Ford Exorbitant
well, I wouldn't trust a machine to put my molecules back in the correct places.
What's the fun in that? So long as it can be done twice, I think a nice pair of jugs would be fun to try on for a day...
They would sell you a decryption key for each movie for only $500.
(Assumption being that by the time this is out the dollar would have been inflated about 20x).
Argh Link didn't post: http://www.flyingkettle.com/
There actually is a third option: Steam From an article on that site: "As seen from the Table, this is about 60% of the lift of helium and more than twice the lift of hot air."
Hmmm. Let me take a stab at it:
1: Microkernels have fewer bugs. (This relates back to the big Tanenbaum-Linux argument.)
2: Microkernels are efficient. (Some people say they're slow.)
Most of the rest is a technical explanation of why the above are true. You'd need to be a geek to find it interesting though.
His piece is worthy of a 3, maybe 4, informative.
Nope, it's exactly the problem. The economy was cruising right along while people were (over) spending. The entire reason that the auto industry is in tough times is because people have been reducing their spending and putting off their car purchases. The economy was just fine when we were spending money, the problem was the money was from credit based on overvalued assets (such as houses). This also explains why it takes time to get out of a recession. People need to spend money for companies to have the income to hire more employees, who can then buy other more stuff.
So more spending will get us out of the hole we dug by spending?
Um... No.
What we need is investment, not wanton consumption. It's not how much you have, it's how you use it. We need more investment in this country (Orbital Solar? Heck yeah, 2 birds 1 stone), not more enticement to spend money wastefully (Cash for Clunkers). Without the increased efficiency afforded by true investment, when the spending slows down again the wheels ARE going to fall off.
470 miles far enough?
Or were you talking cannon->Orbital, followed by a deorbit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon
Look up Light Gas guns, or SHARP or HARP research.
If Gerald Bull hadn't been assassinated those guns could be supplying the space station by now.
Why are we bothering with IPV8? I say lets skip right ahead to IPV64.
But seriously folks, why isn't there an Encrypted bit in the IP header by now?
Don't believe it? Google for polyphasic sleep or Uberman sleep schedule.
Turns out you can live on 20 minute naps every four hours. Not that I'd want to try it: every four hours you have to stop *right then* and sleep.
I wonder if they did any tests to make sure the women don't have memory loss.
then I just leave that..site asap and never return.
I do the same, but I wish there was a way to remove google search hits from those sites too so I'm not bothered to go back to them.
So does this mean they will be able to store our character inventory for more than 90 days before they delete it?
Wake me up when they do.
If they would restore the 30 accounts of mine they deleted (yes you read that correctly, 30 accounts full of characters not 30 characters), that would be a good start too. Ok, so that was askin for a pony territory, I'm jus sayin.
The Libertarian party has always been the Pirate Party.