Honor killings as you have read recently about in the media, did not happen in the same country. But then by the same logic and generalization, I guess you dont have a clue.
Hey back at you, I do know what I'm talking about actually, you are by way of being wrong.
Anyone who stores local copies of these on their own computer and then get arrested/checked at customs can expect to be answering some very unpleasant questions.
No really, western security services are getting far too paranoid.
Evolution is not taught as a religion. Its just that religious people are so blinkered that they can only see it that way. Its taught as an established fact, with a great deal of corroborating evidence.
Look, if you could prove to me that some bearded dude came along with a bag'o'miracles(tm) and created the world and all the little creatures in one day, I'd accept it. I wouldn't 'believe' it, in the same way I don't 'believe' in rivers or tree's. They exist, I see them, end of problem.
You can't prove it though, because the very basis of religion is the concept of belief without requiring proof.
I didn't actually mean to be mean, it does look like I came over that way.
I got in the same position back when I was a nurse. After months unemployed my best friend said more or less what I said above, only with more expletives..
The advice made me stop trying to get a critical care position, and instead got me into Alzheimer's care. Less pay, less glamor, but enough to get me back in the market, and I ended up in management.
Nursings long in the past for me, and I'm now, as a new minted CS Ph.D, taking any and all work I can get, not just 'suitable' roles. I've done more than my share of 'oh, yeah, I can do that', followed by serious amazon book buying and web searches.
This is a real kick in the nuts to someone like me, who as a certified Linux administrator with more than 6 years of real working experience, can't find work because I'm too expensive or not such a good bullshit artist as yourself. I'm an honest guy who gets the job done and always has professional behavior in the workplace.
I know so many people who got into jobs not knowing what they were doing by a little judicious bluffing. In fact I know two who went from just such a state to running a successful web design and hosting company, even though neither have any 'proper' qualifications in anything related to computing.
It happens a lot, and for the most part the people who do it do rather well. There's nothing quite a heavy dose of fear for ones job to get someone stuck into doing their homework.
Quite whining and be more aggressive in getting yourself a job (I was given this advice myself once, it worked too).
If you've priced yourself out of the market, drop your price, or move to another location and try again. It has to be said that if you try and play nice, people will breeze past you on their way to wholly deserved success, whether they know more than you or not.
Unless they can find sufficient clueless morons to buy into this, it'll flop.
For myself, any device or service that restricts my ability to play purchased media in any way I want doesn't have any appeal at all.
Note I said purchased. I *do* purchase my media, all of it, in fact I spend a fair bit of cash on audio purchased online and dvds.
I only buy products which are free of DRM or trivially easy to rip into other, more portable formats. If these guys think my cash will flow endlessly into their restrictive DRM caged products that make it harder for me to get value for my money, they're mistaken.
This sends the wrong messages. Especially considering we want talented individuals in the IT field.
Actually, this shows that apparently that is not what is wanted. What they apparently want nice bland conformists, preconditioned not to rock the boat.
This is, of course, exactly what they'll get, because people likely to get up to those sorts of things will just steer clear of them and find new, more relevent places to study.
Sorry, I would wait 5 years for a mod if it is that good.
Some mods take some game worlds by storm, and become The definitive Expansion pack, i.e. Ledgends of Arana, started as a mod, now its the Definitive expansion pack, and... IT IS STIL PLAYED.
Agreed, I play Dungeon Siege II and Broken world myself, I yet might get legends of Arrana again (lost my copy a couple of years ago)
Dear god Space Siege is a bitter disappointment
AGREE EMPHATICALLY!!!
Seriously, wtf IS that game? Because whatever it is, it isn't an RPG.
They even stick the few (what is it, ten?) items there are that you can pick up on your map so you can't help but find them.
As for the upgrade material that everything drops, well, what a crock. I don't think that the reward for dropping a boss should be a pile of junk you can make into a few grenades. WHERE ARE MY EPIC DROPS!!!!!!
As for how I felt when I realised the game was finished, rather then it just being the end of the first chapter, well, Slashdot probably has an excess profanity filter..
Quake 3 has a LOT of good mods.
That's my point, its modded up so much there's barely any room for new mods to gain a wide audience. After five years work you'd want more then a few players.
As for Quake 1, I have a server running ezquake which is on 24/7. I AM a retro gamer type. I'm also a software developer, and I know whereof I speak, 5 years on a project without any result seeing the light of day isn't good, even for a part time effort. Code should be released even if only to help the author gauge peoples opinions of their work.
If you check my sig you'll see that getting my website back up is somewhere near the top.
To be honest, 5 years is too long for a free mod to be in development. You really need to face up to the fact that your mod is a failure in its present form, and start working on something for a newer game. Or do something smaller that you could have finished in weeks to a few months.
So far as picking quake 3 goes, people who still play that will have their favorite mods by now. At most you'll get a few people trying yours out for a bit. Your chance a of a decent userbase are severely limited, and that's only going to get worse.
I would suggest moving your code over to be a mod for a game like counterstrike, that's pretty popular, and likely to stay so for a long while yet.
Science doesn't help, that's for sure, but you can't shake a true believer with science.
You can. Put a lightning rod on your roof and none of the roof of the church.
Except Churches were the first building to use lightening rods..
There's nothing like having the spires of loads of churches exploded off to make people think a little technology can be a good thing.
Actually, thats not quite fair. The church was never against technology as such, just idea's that challenged their version of the world. Technology usually led to richer states, and therefore a richer church. It was things like 'Earth isn't the centre of the universe' and 'God didn't create the world in 7 days' that gets them twitchy.
Heck, they even reverted back to a strict Aristotelian world view just to avoid the problems posed by Zero. Not because they were afraid of accounting, but because if such a thing as 'nothing' existed, then God couldn't be there, but he was meant to be everywhere. This caused an even wider rift, because of course, businessmen *did* like zero, it made accounts easier to keep.
As far as I'm concerned the same thing can be said of religion. Thousands of years ago, before we scientifically understood everything, we had religion to give us an inaccurate but constructive understanding of our world and our existence. However now religion has become obsolete and more accurate and scientific things are taking its place. This is obvious to me. I don't understand why all the Republicans don't get it.
Religion wasn't obsoleted by science so much as by disease, at least in the west. Religion had a firm grip until the Black Plague hit Europe in the Middle Ages.
During that time people felt, with good reason, that the church should be doing its job and getting God to sort it all out. This didn't happen, so there was a trend towards being less included to obey the church, and the first recorded attack on a monk by members of the public (an unbelievable event at the time).
It didn't help the church that the survivors felt, rightly, that they were entitled to make a lot more decisions on their own about work, pay, housing and such. No longer were they satisfied with doing what they were told and being content with what they had.
Following the plague, whilst religion regained some of its influence, especially in rural area's, its hold was never again universal, and has been in decline since.
Science doesn't help, that's for sure, but you can't shake a true believer with science. The only thing likely to turn them is the belief that God has let them down somehow.
What's more likely is that she was mentally ill, and this was just the trigger that set her off.
Undiagnosed mental illness, or the beginnings of clinical depression kill more then a few people, they just flip, and kill themselves without any explanation, and often with no note or anything.
Harry Potter lifts material shamelessly from Enders Game, but she seems to have not noticed this..
Orson Scott Card has, but unlike her, he doesn't feel the need to take issue with it.
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That particular claim was made by an english crackpot, and given time on the BBC evening news.
That's not a nice name to call Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Heh.
It was some middle aged woman, a new age type, all flowing clothes and crystals.
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That particular claim was made by an english crackpot, and given time on the BBC evening news.
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Remember when Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 hit Jupiter? There were people saying (and being interviewed on the BBC no less) that pieces of Jupiter would break off and collide with Earth...
The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels. I don't know about you, but I've had several people with non scientific backgrounds who've been scared by this 'news' turn to me for some real world information/reassurance.
When you are dealing with the level of brain dead reasoning that produces such spurious and inaccurate statements about things like the LHC, you can't hope to succeed. Honestly, even if you come up with good reasons, it automatically becomes a cover up to those people, thus excusing even wilder claims.
So...16 satellites in LEO, meaning intermittent coverage, plus they will need spares and steerable ground antennas. I'd like to see an article with all the technical details, but it doesn't sound practical for providing continuous high bandwidth links...and it seems pretty expensive for covering only a belt around the equator.
There's been a fair amount of progress in planning the positions of constellations of LEO satellites to provide continuous coverage, or at least very close to continuous, see the following paper:
Williams, Edwin, William Crossley and Thomas Lang, "Average and maximum revisit time trade studies for satellite constellations using a multiobjective genetic algorithm", Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 49, 3, 385-400, 2001
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Not sure, I guess you could write a nsis script for it.
Hey Jackass,
Honor killings as you have read recently about in the media, did not happen in the same country. But then by the same logic and generalization, I guess you dont have a clue.
Hey back at you, I do know what I'm talking about actually, you are by way of being wrong.
Not American, but I AM someone whose worked voluntarily helping set up a shelter for battered Indian/Pakistani wives in the UK.
So, a male centric and predominantly misogynistic country used this new and entirely untested technique to find a woman guilty of murder.
Gosh, what a surprise.
We are talking about a country where women regularly get murdered by the men in their own family, and no-one is punished, after all.
The British Computing Society?
They have a seriously strict code of conduct and minimum qualification standard, but its pretty good.
Anyone who stores local copies of these on their own computer and then get arrested/checked at customs can expect to be answering some very unpleasant questions.
No really, western security services are getting far too paranoid.
Evolution is not taught as a religion. Its just that religious people are so blinkered that they can only see it that way. Its taught as an established fact, with a great deal of corroborating evidence.
Look, if you could prove to me that some bearded dude came along with a bag'o'miracles(tm) and created the world and all the little creatures in one day, I'd accept it. I wouldn't 'believe' it, in the same way I don't 'believe' in rivers or tree's. They exist, I see them, end of problem.
You can't prove it though, because the very basis of religion is the concept of belief without requiring proof.
I didn't actually mean to be mean, it does look like I came over that way.
I got in the same position back when I was a nurse. After months unemployed my best friend said more or less what I said above, only with more expletives..
The advice made me stop trying to get a critical care position, and instead got me into Alzheimer's care. Less pay, less glamor, but enough to get me back in the market, and I ended up in management.
Nursings long in the past for me, and I'm now, as a new minted CS Ph.D, taking any and all work I can get, not just 'suitable' roles. I've done more than my share of 'oh, yeah, I can do that', followed by serious amazon book buying and web searches.
This is a real kick in the nuts to someone like me, who as a certified Linux administrator with more than 6 years of real working experience, can't find work because I'm too expensive or not such a good bullshit artist as yourself. I'm an honest guy who gets the job done and always has professional behavior in the workplace.
I know so many people who got into jobs not knowing what they were doing by a little judicious bluffing. In fact I know two who went from just such a state to running a successful web design and hosting company, even though neither have any 'proper' qualifications in anything related to computing.
It happens a lot, and for the most part the people who do it do rather well. There's nothing quite a heavy dose of fear for ones job to get someone stuck into doing their homework.
Quite whining and be more aggressive in getting yourself a job (I was given this advice myself once, it worked too).
If you've priced yourself out of the market, drop your price, or move to another location and try again. It has to be said that if you try and play nice, people will breeze past you on their way to wholly deserved success, whether they know more than you or not.
Unless they can find sufficient clueless morons to buy into this, it'll flop.
For myself, any device or service that restricts my ability to play purchased media in any way I want doesn't have any appeal at all.
Note I said purchased. I *do* purchase my media, all of it, in fact I spend a fair bit of cash on audio purchased online and dvds.
I only buy products which are free of DRM or trivially easy to rip into other, more portable formats. If these guys think my cash will flow endlessly into their restrictive DRM caged products that make it harder for me to get value for my money, they're mistaken.
This sends the wrong messages. Especially considering we want talented individuals in the IT field.
Actually, this shows that apparently that is not what is wanted. What they apparently want nice bland conformists, preconditioned not to rock the boat.
This is, of course, exactly what they'll get, because people likely to get up to those sorts of things will just steer clear of them and find new, more relevent places to study.
I can think of LOTS of other uses. For instance..
um...
ah, no wait, I've almost got it....
um........
Ok, I'll get back to you on this one.
Cheeky Bstard!
Yup
Sorry, I would wait 5 years for a mod if it is that good.
Some mods take some game worlds by storm, and become The definitive Expansion pack, i.e. Ledgends of Arana, started as a mod, now its the Definitive expansion pack, and ... IT IS STIL PLAYED.
Agreed, I play Dungeon Siege II and Broken world myself, I yet might get legends of Arrana again (lost my copy a couple of years ago)
Dear god Space Siege is a bitter disappointment
AGREE EMPHATICALLY!!!
Seriously, wtf IS that game? Because whatever it is, it isn't an RPG.
They even stick the few (what is it, ten?) items there are that you can pick up on your map so you can't help but find them.
As for the upgrade material that everything drops, well, what a crock. I don't think that the reward for dropping a boss should be a pile of junk you can make into a few grenades. WHERE ARE MY EPIC DROPS!!!!!!
As for how I felt when I realised the game was finished, rather then it just being the end of the first chapter, well, Slashdot probably has an excess profanity filter..
Quake 3 has a LOT of good mods.
That's my point, its modded up so much there's barely any room for new mods to gain a wide audience. After five years work you'd want more then a few players.
As for Quake 1, I have a server running ezquake which is on 24/7. I AM a retro gamer type. I'm also a software developer, and I know whereof I speak, 5 years on a project without any result seeing the light of day isn't good, even for a part time effort. Code should be released even if only to help the author gauge peoples opinions of their work.
If you check my sig you'll see that getting my website back up is somewhere near the top.
To be honest, 5 years is too long for a free mod to be in development. You really need to face up to the fact that your mod is a failure in its present form, and start working on something for a newer game. Or do something smaller that you could have finished in weeks to a few months.
So far as picking quake 3 goes, people who still play that will have their favorite mods by now. At most you'll get a few people trying yours out for a bit. Your chance a of a decent userbase are severely limited, and that's only going to get worse.
I would suggest moving your code over to be a mod for a game like counterstrike, that's pretty popular, and likely to stay so for a long while yet.
I don't think I want to be liable for the data that someone puts on my PC should the encryption ever be broken.
Yeah, but I assume that you would be anonymous to others who are storing their data on your disk. Unless of course the DOJ sends them summons.
Anyway, from my understanding not all the information gets stored in one disk. You'll at max get a sixth.
And you think that'll help? No way. If they catch you with even a suspicion of child porn on your pc, you are absolutely screwed.
Science doesn't help, that's for sure, but you can't shake a true believer with science.
You can. Put a lightning rod on your roof and none of the roof of the church.
Except Churches were the first building to use lightening rods..
There's nothing like having the spires of loads of churches exploded off to make people think a little technology can be a good thing.
Actually, thats not quite fair. The church was never against technology as such, just idea's that challenged their version of the world. Technology usually led to richer states, and therefore a richer church. It was things like 'Earth isn't the centre of the universe' and 'God didn't create the world in 7 days' that gets them twitchy.
Heck, they even reverted back to a strict Aristotelian world view just to avoid the problems posed by Zero. Not because they were afraid of accounting, but because if such a thing as 'nothing' existed, then God couldn't be there, but he was meant to be everywhere. This caused an even wider rift, because of course, businessmen *did* like zero, it made accounts easier to keep.
As far as I'm concerned the same thing can be said of religion. Thousands of years ago, before we scientifically understood everything, we had religion to give us an inaccurate but constructive understanding of our world and our existence. However now religion has become obsolete and more accurate and scientific things are taking its place. This is obvious to me. I don't understand why all the Republicans don't get it.
Religion wasn't obsoleted by science so much as by disease, at least in the west.
Religion had a firm grip until the Black Plague hit Europe in the Middle Ages.
During that time people felt, with good reason, that the church should be doing its job and getting God to sort it all out.
This didn't happen, so there was a trend towards being less included to obey the church, and the first recorded attack on a monk by members of the public (an unbelievable event at the time).
It didn't help the church that the survivors felt, rightly, that they were entitled to make a lot more decisions on their own about work, pay, housing and such. No longer were they satisfied with doing what they were told and being content with what they had.
Following the plague, whilst religion regained some of its influence, especially in rural area's, its hold was never again universal, and has been in decline since.
Science doesn't help, that's for sure, but you can't shake a true believer with science. The only thing likely to turn them is the belief that God has let them down somehow.
I've read at least four posts that "ID supporters are going to go crazy about this". And I've read zero posts from ID supporters going crazy.
That's because they're all hiding in their cellars waiting for the LHC to end the world/bring on the Apocalypse/incur the wrath of god or something.
Well, a girl offed her self some time back in India, the theory is she did it cause of the doomsday predictions shown on "news" channels
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Fearing_end_of_world_girl_kills_self/articleshow/3467519.cms
What's more likely is that she was mentally ill, and this was just the trigger that set her off.
Undiagnosed mental illness, or the beginnings of clinical depression kill more then a few people, they just flip, and kill themselves without any explanation, and often with no note or anything.
Harry Potter lifts material shamelessly from Enders Game, but she seems to have not noticed this..
Orson Scott Card has, but unlike her, he doesn't feel the need to take issue with it.
That particular claim was made by an english crackpot, and given time on the BBC evening news.
That's not a nice name to call Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Heh.
It was some middle aged woman, a new age type, all flowing clothes and crystals.
That particular claim was made by an english crackpot, and given time on the BBC evening news.
Remember when Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 hit Jupiter? There were people saying (and being interviewed on the BBC no less) that pieces of Jupiter would break off and collide with Earth...
The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels. I don't know about you, but I've had several people with non scientific backgrounds who've been scared by this 'news' turn to me for some real world information/reassurance.
When you are dealing with the level of brain dead reasoning that produces such spurious and inaccurate statements about things like the LHC, you can't hope to succeed. Honestly, even if you come up with good reasons, it automatically becomes a cover up to those people, thus excusing even wilder claims.
My 26.4 kbps (that's right, not quite 28.8 modem speeds) connection is right here in the good old USA.
Then why not protest and try to have this improved? If all you do is pay your bill and mutter on slashdot, they'll keep you on your current rate.
So...16 satellites in LEO, meaning intermittent coverage, plus they will need spares and steerable ground antennas. I'd like to see an article with all the technical details, but it doesn't sound practical for providing continuous high bandwidth links...and it seems pretty expensive for covering only a belt around the equator.
There's been a fair amount of progress in planning the positions of constellations of LEO satellites to provide continuous coverage, or at least very close to continuous, see the following paper:
Williams, Edwin, William Crossley and Thomas Lang, "Average and maximum revisit time trade studies for satellite constellations using a multiobjective genetic algorithm", Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 49, 3, 385-400, 2001