You're telling me there's an organization that actually checks advertisements for false and misleading information, and has the power to pull blatant lies off the air? When did this happen?
I was going to mod you funny, then I saw your sig. Since there is no '+5 listened to H2G2 Series 2', I had to comment instead:)
That means if anyone registers on MySpace or Slashdot, for that matter, with false information and flames you. And if you later commit suicide, that person who flamed you could be charged with a crime. The precedent is set, these cases will be much easier to prosecute in the future.
No, this was a case in which the defendant and victim were in close proximity in the real world as well. It isn't a case of random badmouthing on the internet.
a troubling precedent for anyone who has ever registered with a website under a pseudonym.
This has nothing to do with registering under a pseudonym. This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.
The take home is, victimizing someone is bad. That it happened via the internet means they've had to fudge things up a bit, but I don't think this means flaming someone on a website means the cops will come-a-calling.
In this instance the woman was clearly a nasty piece of work, so I'm glad they found a way to punish her. I would not expect someone posting nastiness here would get into trouble with anyone except the mods.
I think some people make the mistake of assuming that things done on the internet which would result in fines or punishment in the real world are somehow 'freedoms that need defending' on the web. I'm not one of those people.
I don't mind argument, rudeness, flaming, or anything like that, I mean, that I just accept as background noise, but this incident went way beyond anything like of that nature.
There is considerable obfuscation being performed by UK ISPs on the subject of connection speed.
For example, I have an 8Mb line. I know that this speed isn't theoretical, I can obtain it fairly easily, dependent on the servers I connect to. For instance if the server is on Janet, I'm pretty much assured of 7-8Mb. 5-6Mb is usual, with 2Mb happening some evenings.
However, when talking to several ISPs recently as I was considering changing provider, they all insisted that they had 'tested' my line, and it was incapable of greater that 2Mb. Other people I know have found the same thing.
The thing is, UK ISPs don't want people to think of 8Mb as being a standard speed, they want that to be something they can charge more for. I stopped calling ISPs in the end, because I got tired of the bullshit they were all spouting.
I watched the moon landing with my classmates in Sydney. At the time I thought the moon was somewhere out in the bush.
I find it rather amusing that Parkes, from where the TV signal I was watching was coming, was indeed just a few hundred miles away, in what I would have thought of as the bush at the time.
I love the film, It reminds me of my childhood. Before we lived in Sydney we had a milkman who used a horse and cart too.
It was actually Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra that got the signal, but it was dismantled so Sich and co. based the film around Parkes, then filmed in Forbes. They're also the crew behind the Hollowmen.
Almost right.
Parkes didn't get the initial portion of the signal, but they got the moonwalk, since it was only Parkes that could handle video at the time. Honeysuckle dealt with the initial audio.
That's all the film claims, in fact they make it fairly clear that Parkes was late because of the difficulty with the moon being so low in the sky.
I am sure that after 550.000 lines of code, they have some way of proving that they own the code they were developing for all these years even if that is a log file
Given that after a little experience its possible to work out which of two students submitting the same code for an assignment was the real author, I'd think telling the authorship of a large project would be easy.
One of the simplest ways is asking for a 'guided tour' of the code. Also, picking a random, obviously complex block of code and saying 'what does this do' will catch most bluffers.
DO you really want a nurse who faints at the site of blood?
Nurses do not feint at the sight of blood. However I've known more than one who's had a pretty crap time after playing find the bodypart with a road crash victim...
Honestly, some people have a very odd idea about what professional means. It does not mean 'devoid of emotion', it just means they won't freak while they are on duty.
A professional should not react that way, slaughter or not. If he did so for that reason it bespeaks poor self-mastery and that's not what we need in an AG.
Let me disabuse you of that notion. All professional training and experience gets you is the ability to cope while a crisis is occurring (I speak as a former nurse who used to work in a casualty department, that's ER to Americans). Afterwards you're just normal folk, as likely to get outraged as anyone else. Or puke on the way home as you think about what you saw during your duty hours, that happens too...
Javascript cannot be used to build true in browser applications.
You can build GUIs with it, interact with server side stuff, and you can make pretty games, but not a great deal more.
With Flash you can write whole applications, including pretty complex logic, and Silverlight is even better for application development.
Yes, yes, its a Microsoft product, evil, blah blah.. I get it. Moving on...
If you are being tasked to write applications that run in a browser then Silverlight is a great option. Now you can write one and have it be cross platform as well, that's a god thing. The version number difference between platforms is a problem, but lets not be asking Microsoft to rush anything, you know how badly that goes.
Yes, in real world applications this would likely be frustrating, but in games it would prod serious buttock.
After all, games are designed to entertain, not maximise your productivity.
I've been a programmer for five years now, in physics/graphics/biosciences/allkindsofstuff, and I can't think of a single application beyond display of datasets at conferences where this might be useful.
As a replacement to the traditional PowerPoint/PDF conference presentation, it would likely prove entertaining, or at least make your presentation stand out. Also possibly for demonstrating concepts in lectures *maybe*. For day to day use in a commercial environment, forget it.
Of course the emacs people will all claim they had this decades ago, good old 'C-m C-x spatial' or somesuch.
Given that they have yet to work out how many chromosomes the woolly mammoth had, or which of the DNA features are genuine mutations, and which are artefacts caused by damage since the death of the creatures from whom DNA was extracted, there's a fair distance to go yet.
Still, I don't doubt this is a seriously fun project to be working on. I'd love to get involved.
why retarded? The only reason I wouldn't want to use windows for this kind of thing is their license fees. Since they have their per core license model, it would get really costly.
This just seems like its got so bloated that it will likely be priced beyond the budget of most students.
I don't see why we have to have these all encompassing suites anyway, what's wrong with small tools at low cost which work together? Its most likely that students who want but can't afford this will hit the torrent trackers, which isn't really what we want.
I think the soul is a delusion caused by the brain to make you forget you're a cog in the machine/anthill/whatever.
I think its a concept invented by religions to create something about you that you can't see, which can be saved by some 'divine entity' that by coincidence, you can't see either, and they control. Or at least control access to.
Apparently this process also involves giving them money, I get fuzzy on the details.
The summary used a lot of words to say it doesn't work. Not that they'll stop using it unless they are made to. Honestly, all this 'using a Buick to swat a fly nonsense has to end sometime.
The thing is, if you know your entering a country that starts off on the assumption your probably a terrorist, that doesn't make people relax.
Personally I find airports immensely stressful, seriously so, to the point that I take the train if at all possible. Flying is bearable, but all that waiting around in the airport buying overpriced coffee and getting 'approved as terror free' is a deeply unpleasant experience.
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Why make your own when you can use something like dropbox?.
I prefer to be assured of my privacy. Besides, I like coding new stuff.
My family is distributed across two continents. We've been using skype for comms, particularly my mum and her grandchildren, for the last four years.
All that's left is a private file sharing site for photos and such, which I'm creating next.
video in gmail would be a nice addition I guess.
I don't really think I can drive 60mph on a sheet of ice like I see in BMW commercials all the time
You can, its just the ending that would differ somewhat from the commercial. More crunching sounds for one thing...
You're telling me there's an organization that actually checks advertisements for false and misleading information, and has the power to pull blatant lies off the air? When did this happen?
I was going to mod you funny, then I saw your sig. Since there is no '+5 listened to H2G2 Series 2', I had to comment instead :)
That means if anyone registers on MySpace or Slashdot, for that matter, with false information and flames you. And if you later commit suicide, that person who flamed you could be charged with a crime. The precedent is set, these cases will be much easier to prosecute in the future.
No, this was a case in which the defendant and victim were in close proximity in the real world as well. It isn't a case of random badmouthing on the internet.
Now mod me to oblivion.
Go out and buy Oblivion like everyone else, you cheapskate, its only ten english pounds!!!111one
a troubling precedent for anyone who has ever registered with a website under a pseudonym.
This has nothing to do with registering under a pseudonym. This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.
The take home is, victimizing someone is bad. That it happened via the internet means they've had to fudge things up a bit, but I don't think this means flaming someone on a website means the cops will come-a-calling.
In this instance the woman was clearly a nasty piece of work, so I'm glad they found a way to punish her. I would not expect someone posting nastiness here would get into trouble with anyone except the mods.
I think some people make the mistake of assuming that things done on the internet which would result in fines or punishment in the real world are somehow 'freedoms that need defending' on the web. I'm not one of those people.
I don't mind argument, rudeness, flaming, or anything like that, I mean, that I just accept as background noise, but this incident went way beyond anything like of that nature.
There is considerable obfuscation being performed by UK ISPs on the subject of connection speed.
For example, I have an 8Mb line. I know that this speed isn't theoretical, I can obtain it fairly easily, dependent on the servers I connect to. For instance if the server is on Janet, I'm pretty much assured of 7-8Mb. 5-6Mb is usual, with 2Mb happening some evenings.
However, when talking to several ISPs recently as I was considering changing provider, they all insisted that they had 'tested' my line, and it was incapable of greater that 2Mb. Other people I know have found the same thing.
The thing is, UK ISPs don't want people to think of 8Mb as being a standard speed, they want that to be something they can charge more for. I stopped calling ISPs in the end, because I got tired of the bullshit they were all spouting.
I think that these days you'll find 'Indie' means 'not controlled by one of the big games companies'.
This could easily include small, multi-employee, well funded companies.
Besides, the days of one or two people with next to no money producing a commercially viable game are pretty much gone.
Sounds like a good teacher :)
I watched the moon landing with my classmates in Sydney. At the time I thought the moon was somewhere out in the bush.
I find it rather amusing that Parkes, from where the TV signal I was watching was coming, was indeed just a few hundred miles away, in what I would have thought of as the bush at the time.
I love the film, It reminds me of my childhood. Before we lived in Sydney we had a milkman who used a horse and cart too.
I showed it to my son last year. He looked at it for a moment then asked me where the dvd drive was....
There are, it seems, some things a parent is best not sharing with a child.
It was actually Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra that got the signal, but it was dismantled so Sich and co. based the film around Parkes, then filmed in Forbes. They're also the crew behind the Hollowmen.
Almost right.
Parkes didn't get the initial portion of the signal, but they got the moonwalk, since it was only Parkes that could handle video at the time. Honeysuckle dealt with the initial audio.
That's all the film claims, in fact they make it fairly clear that Parkes was late because of the difficulty with the moon being so low in the sky.
I am sure that after 550.000 lines of code, they have some way of proving that they own the code they were developing for all these years even if that is a log file
Given that after a little experience its possible to work out which of two students submitting the same code for an assignment was the real author, I'd think telling the authorship of a large project would be easy.
One of the simplest ways is asking for a 'guided tour' of the code. Also, picking a random, obviously complex block of code and saying 'what does this do' will catch most bluffers.
DO you really want a nurse who faints at the site of blood?
Nurses do not feint at the sight of blood. However I've known more than one who's had a pretty crap time after playing find the bodypart with a road crash victim...
Honestly, some people have a very odd idea about what professional means. It does not mean 'devoid of emotion', it just means they won't freak while they are on duty.
A professional should not react that way, slaughter or not. If he did so for that reason it bespeaks poor self-mastery and that's not what we need in an AG.
Let me disabuse you of that notion. All professional training and experience gets you is the ability to cope while a crisis is occurring (I speak as a former nurse who used to work in a casualty department, that's ER to Americans).
Afterwards you're just normal folk, as likely to get outraged as anyone else. Or puke on the way home as you think about what you saw during your duty hours, that happens too...
Is it not possible that he was just reacting out of a still far too fresh sense of the horror of those events?
People say all sorts of things after distressing events that they wouldn't say normally, or believe in the long term.
Is there any reason not to think that this linux support will falter if Silverlight becomes widely used?
Yes, yes there is. Browsers are no longer platform dependent, so Microsoft will need to keep Silverlight current on as many platforms as they can.
Javascript cannot be used to build true in browser applications.
You can build GUIs with it, interact with server side stuff, and you can make pretty games, but not a great deal more.
With Flash you can write whole applications, including pretty complex logic, and Silverlight is even better for application development.
Yes, yes, its a Microsoft product, evil, blah blah.. I get it. Moving on...
If you are being tasked to write applications that run in a browser then Silverlight is a great option. Now you can write one and have it be cross platform as well, that's a god thing.
The version number difference between platforms is a problem, but lets not be asking Microsoft to rush anything, you know how badly that goes.
Yes, in real world applications this would likely be frustrating, but in games it would prod serious buttock.
After all, games are designed to entertain, not maximise your productivity.
I've been a programmer for five years now, in physics/graphics/biosciences/allkindsofstuff, and I can't think of a single application beyond display of datasets at conferences where this might be useful.
As a replacement to the traditional PowerPoint/PDF conference presentation, it would likely prove entertaining, or at least make your presentation stand out.
Also possibly for demonstrating concepts in lectures *maybe*. For day to day use in a commercial environment, forget it.
Of course the emacs people will all claim they had this decades ago, good old 'C-m C-x spatial' or somesuch.
Given that they have yet to work out how many chromosomes the woolly mammoth had, or which of the DNA features are genuine mutations, and which are artefacts caused by damage since the death of the creatures from whom DNA was extracted, there's a fair distance to go yet.
Still, I don't doubt this is a seriously fun project to be working on. I'd love to get involved.
why retarded? The only reason I wouldn't want to use windows for this kind of thing is their license fees. Since they have their per core license model, it would get really costly.
This makes me use Linux for such things.
This just seems like its got so bloated that it will likely be priced beyond the budget of most students.
I don't see why we have to have these all encompassing suites anyway, what's wrong with small tools at low cost which work together?
Its most likely that students who want but can't afford this will hit the torrent trackers, which isn't really what we want.
I think the soul is a delusion caused by the brain to make you forget you're a cog in the machine/anthill/whatever.
I think its a concept invented by religions to create something about you that you can't see, which can be saved by some 'divine entity' that by coincidence, you can't see either, and they control. Or at least control access to.
Apparently this process also involves giving them money, I get fuzzy on the details.
The summary used a lot of words to say it doesn't work. Not that they'll stop using it unless they are made to. Honestly, all this 'using a Buick to swat a fly nonsense has to end sometime.
The thing is, if you know your entering a country that starts off on the assumption your probably a terrorist, that doesn't make people relax.
Personally I find airports immensely stressful, seriously so, to the point that I take the train if at all possible. Flying is bearable, but all that waiting around in the airport buying overpriced coffee and getting 'approved as terror free' is a deeply unpleasant experience.