If you want a more complete coverage of the event (not to mention a few more tasty videos) then there is a much better write up at The Sun Today.org which you should take a peek at.
Don't get me wrong, kids do like stories, and Dungeon Siege has a story. but the depth and complexity is no-where near the level that NWN has. My point was that NWN was probably too complex and with too many subplots for a ten year old to comprehend, keep track of - and ultimately enjoy.
Yes, so perhaps better for a ten year old as compared to something with a deeply complex and multi-layered story line rather than a bit of hacking and slashing?
Don't they realize they would gain much more by apologizing for and desisting against GeoHot
What part of "settled out of court" don't you understand?
Yes, but the "settled out of court" agreement was along the lines of: We will stop attacking you in court if you agree to drop what you are doing and never do it again.... I wouldn't really call that a settlement that both sides think is fair or just. It is simply Sony getting what they want - ie, GeoHot stopping development that restricts the control that Sony has on the PS3. GeoHot merely gets to not go to jail or be sued into oblivion.
Sort of like this utter classic example from here in Australia a little while back. Bully keeps picking on some kid (seriously, look at the size difference - what is the bully thinking will eventually happen?!?) and well... I don't want to spoil the outcome thirsty seconds later. But it is UTTER GOLD.
I also thought of Titan Quest (very good game), but then also thought of the Dungeon Siege Series (you can probably pick up one of the older (first two) titles for next to nix) and it is a pretty good game. It has good support for multiplayer as well. The older two games will play VERY well on a lower spec PC and you can play some great co-op on a lan, while the upcoming title seems to have some VERY nice graphics and if she likes the style of one of the others, you might be in for a nice hit.
Syria left the internet, and nothing of value went with it.
Syria came back, and pretty much nothing of value came back with it
Think not of what you do for the internet, but what the internet does for you.
Sure, there might not be smash hit websites hosted in Syria, but considering that many people in Syria use the internet no differently to Europeans or Americans (or Canadians like yourself) and it is part of their daily lives, you should be happy for them that it is back. Rather than trying to work out the value that a person puts into the internet, why don't you try to see what value the internet makes to their lives, their freedoms and their quality of life.
I am not saying that this isn't cool, but even if you had thousands and thousands of these gates, their individual processing power seems miniscule, and given the very lengthy times required to derive a solution to a problem, parallel operations would be limited.
While I think it is very "nifty" for them to have done this, it doesn't appear (and I am happy to be corrected here) to have any direct applications, nor does it appear to be a stepping stone to anything in anything but the very distant future. Again, while I think it is nifty that they did this, and I hope that it leads to some wonderful breakthrough in the future, it seems that they are simply mucking about, making a set of items that are totally adapted for something else - do parlour tricks.
If anything, I am more impressed with how far genetics has come rather than the fact that they got a bunch of DNA to do some arbitary maths puzzle.
Well, yes, while DNA based computing may sound like something from Science fiction, it looks like this is a small step:
The researchers formed 130 different synthetic DNA strands that can be used to compose logic circuits. From this source material, they created one 74-molecule, four-bit circuit that can compute the square root of any number up to 15 and round down the resulting answer to the nearest integer.
then
Reif also pointed out a few downsides. One is the speed of calculation. The execution of a single gate can take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes. Executing a four-bit square root could take up to 10 hours.
So don't be expecting any DNA based mass computing revolution anytime soon.
It's not that there is too much data. That's not a problem at all. From my own experience (I work as a senior analyst for a multinational retailer employing around 200,000 people) it is rather that there isn't a single plan to utilize all the data we have available. Every time we introduce a new system or change the way we do something, the project inevitably drops a new table into our data warehouse. Now, this may seem like an acceptable way to do things, but after this has happened twenty times, it is nigh impossible to run a query that will return data from all these tables in any sort of reasonable time.
Would it cost more time, effort and money to properly introduce the new data to proper fact tables each time? Of course. However, the benefits would be that we could stop pretending that "we have too much data these days..." - because we don't. We just have too much mess with our data and it becomes unusable.
In the example above (different descriptions for green) the base system may need these particular terms, but if the data needs to be aggregated or used in another system, then the jobs that pass this to your data repository need to make those changes to adapt the data to work with the rest of your data warehouse. Having said that, if the new system is being developed inhouse, then during development the question should be asked "Can we store the color information in RGB right off the bat and adapt our own system to mask these values behind pretty descriptions?" rather than having to later do it via an ETL.
Libertarians are not anarchists. Libertarians support having a government in order to keep the corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights. In fact many libertarians, like me, would abolish corporations completely. Instead you would have direct-owned companies, were the CEO and his partners would be directly liable for their acts.
So for example if a car they built blew-up, they could be charged with manslaughter and thrown in jail. NO corporate shield. The corporate license wouldn't even exist. The No-Corporation libertarian world would actually be BETTER than the corporate-dominated world we have now.
As a libertarian, I disagree with some of your post. I don't see what ensuring the rights of all has to do with corporations at all. In my view (perhaps I am further to the far side) but if a company (whether corporation or owner trader) makes a car, what on earth makes the CEO liable for manslaughter? Why does so much of the US think that everything bought or sold has to be PERFECT and FLAWLESS? And what happened to the consumer researching the product they purchase - where is their liability?
Now, if the CEO directly says to "Cut the costs, I don't care if one in a thousand will explode" after reading an email from an engineer who says that one in a thousand will explode, I can agree, but on nothing less. You seem to think that if you buy a garden rake and get a splinter, the company that made it or sold it to you should have to bear the medical fees to get the splinter out. What ever happened to "You bought it as you saw it..." ? Why does utterly everything have to be someone else's fault?
I think this falls under that lovely "espionage" blanket. You know the "other guys" are doing it, they know that you are doing it. But everyone pretends like it isn't going on and no-one bats an eyelid in public. However, behind closed doors, this sort of action is driving yet another wedge into the relationship - but at the same time also driving more funding into your own budgets for doing a similar thing to the "other guys" yet again.
My guess is that the fallout of this will be that there will be a project launched with some funny nondescript name that tries to get similar intel on the Chinese. They will likely get wind of it, but be unable to do anything about it as there will never be undeniable proof of the point of origin.
This sort of thing went on for decades (and still does) with the US/Russians, the middle east and just about every European country. It just (mainly) never sees the light of day. The Chinese seem to be getting caught more of late though - which can mean that either they are pretty poor at it compared to the rest (dubious) or their program is a whole heck of a lot bigger and more ambitious than the other players in the game - which I think is much much more likely.
the problem is they may not have a DECADE OLD RESERVE.
i think for tax purposes they only have to keep like 5 or 7 years worth of records.
The thing is that they don't need a decade of reserve. If they make $20 profit on it, and someone plucks out a ten year old receipt with a $5 deposit, they still come out ahead. It is a pretty cheap way to get good publicity and maybe drag in a few tonfoil hat wearers who keep dockets for ten years.
Word is they were pretty hard to find at first, on account of them vibrating right off the slide.
Hard to find? Don't be silly. I actually think the story is somewhat redundant. These chaps have been vibrating off the slide and finding their way into the IT department for years...
You are going to be in a bad negotiating position. The thing with start-ups is that they generally offer a lot of options early to the first bunch that comes into the fray. If they have decided to go with contracts rather than options, you are in an even worse negotiating position. You see, if options are offered early, then the folks behind it are offering options to potential employees to negate their own risk in the venture. If these chaps have decided to gather enough funding and then simply offer contracting rates, then they have taken the risk totally upon themselves. At this point (where there is good revenue coming in ad the business is in a stable financial postition) they risk associated with the venture is all but gone.
Not to be blunt, but why on earth would they offer you equity in the venture now - especially that they have weathered all the early (and biggest) risk? It seems to me like you want the best of both worlds - contractor rates while the venture is risky, then equity when the venture looks safe and stable. Unless you have something to offer that will be worth equity to them - such as being able to greatly increase their revenue, or bring more clients to the company - or something else that is just as valuable - giving you options at this point would be a poor business act on their part.
I am pretty sure that one of the judges recently made a point in court about the way that the company was set up and how the actual backers of this company were liable and directly in control of the actions - making it less of a shell company than it would seem.
But the most important thing about RSI is the WAY you make those keystrokes and mouse clicks. It's not how many of them you do, it is how your hands/wrists are kept when making them.
No, what it means is that a lot of responsibility that IT managers (and higher) are given, such as ensuring that confidential data is kept confidential, is either too hard for them, takes too much time or they are simply incompetent to fulful that role. I don't mean technically - it isn't just an IT managers role to tick the right boxes in a menu, I mean if THEIR managers are unwilling to spend the time, money and effort on their own, then it falls to the person to convince them of the need to do so.
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If you want a more complete coverage of the event (not to mention a few more tasty videos) then there is a much better write up at The Sun Today .org which you should take a peek at.
Don't get me wrong, kids do like stories, and Dungeon Siege has a story. but the depth and complexity is no-where near the level that NWN has. My point was that NWN was probably too complex and with too many subplots for a ten year old to comprehend, keep track of - and ultimately enjoy.
Dungeon siege is such a hack and slog
Yes, so perhaps better for a ten year old as compared to something with a deeply complex and multi-layered story line rather than a bit of hacking and slashing?
Don't they realize they would gain much more by apologizing for and desisting against GeoHot
What part of "settled out of court" don't you understand?
Yes, but the "settled out of court" agreement was along the lines of: We will stop attacking you in court if you agree to drop what you are doing and never do it again.... I wouldn't really call that a settlement that both sides think is fair or just. It is simply Sony getting what they want - ie, GeoHot stopping development that restricts the control that Sony has on the PS3. GeoHot merely gets to not go to jail or be sued into oblivion.
Sort of like this utter classic example from here in Australia a little while back. Bully keeps picking on some kid (seriously, look at the size difference - what is the bully thinking will eventually happen?!?) and well... I don't want to spoil the outcome thirsty seconds later. But it is UTTER GOLD.
I also thought of Titan Quest (very good game), but then also thought of the Dungeon Siege Series (you can probably pick up one of the older (first two) titles for next to nix) and it is a pretty good game. It has good support for multiplayer as well. The older two games will play VERY well on a lower spec PC and you can play some great co-op on a lan, while the upcoming title seems to have some VERY nice graphics and if she likes the style of one of the others, you might be in for a nice hit.
Syria left the internet, and nothing of value went with it.
Syria came back, and pretty much nothing of value came back with it
Think not of what you do for the internet, but what the internet does for you.
Sure, there might not be smash hit websites hosted in Syria, but considering that many people in Syria use the internet no differently to Europeans or Americans (or Canadians like yourself) and it is part of their daily lives, you should be happy for them that it is back. Rather than trying to work out the value that a person puts into the internet, why don't you try to see what value the internet makes to their lives, their freedoms and their quality of life.
I am not saying that this isn't cool, but even if you had thousands and thousands of these gates, their individual processing power seems miniscule, and given the very lengthy times required to derive a solution to a problem, parallel operations would be limited.
While I think it is very "nifty" for them to have done this, it doesn't appear (and I am happy to be corrected here) to have any direct applications, nor does it appear to be a stepping stone to anything in anything but the very distant future. Again, while I think it is nifty that they did this, and I hope that it leads to some wonderful breakthrough in the future, it seems that they are simply mucking about, making a set of items that are totally adapted for something else - do parlour tricks.
If anything, I am more impressed with how far genetics has come rather than the fact that they got a bunch of DNA to do some arbitary maths puzzle.
Well, yes, while DNA based computing may sound like something from Science fiction, it looks like this is a small step:
The researchers formed 130 different synthetic DNA strands that can be used to compose logic circuits. From this source material, they created one 74-molecule, four-bit circuit that can compute the square root of any number up to 15 and round down the resulting answer to the nearest integer.
then
Reif also pointed out a few downsides. One is the speed of calculation. The execution of a single gate can take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes. Executing a four-bit square root could take up to 10 hours.
So don't be expecting any DNA based mass computing revolution anytime soon.
It's not that there is too much data. That's not a problem at all. From my own experience (I work as a senior analyst for a multinational retailer employing around 200,000 people) it is rather that there isn't a single plan to utilize all the data we have available. Every time we introduce a new system or change the way we do something, the project inevitably drops a new table into our data warehouse. Now, this may seem like an acceptable way to do things, but after this has happened twenty times, it is nigh impossible to run a query that will return data from all these tables in any sort of reasonable time.
Would it cost more time, effort and money to properly introduce the new data to proper fact tables each time? Of course. However, the benefits would be that we could stop pretending that "we have too much data these days..." - because we don't. We just have too much mess with our data and it becomes unusable.
In the example above (different descriptions for green) the base system may need these particular terms, but if the data needs to be aggregated or used in another system, then the jobs that pass this to your data repository need to make those changes to adapt the data to work with the rest of your data warehouse. Having said that, if the new system is being developed inhouse, then during development the question should be asked "Can we store the color information in RGB right off the bat and adapt our own system to mask these values behind pretty descriptions?" rather than having to later do it via an ETL.
Libertarians are not anarchists. Libertarians support having a government in order to keep the corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights. In fact many libertarians, like me, would abolish corporations completely. Instead you would have direct-owned companies, were the CEO and his partners would be directly liable for their acts.
So for example if a car they built blew-up, they could be charged with manslaughter and thrown in jail. NO corporate shield. The corporate license wouldn't even exist. The No-Corporation libertarian world would actually be BETTER than the corporate-dominated world we have now.
As a libertarian, I disagree with some of your post. I don't see what ensuring the rights of all has to do with corporations at all. In my view (perhaps I am further to the far side) but if a company (whether corporation or owner trader) makes a car, what on earth makes the CEO liable for manslaughter? Why does so much of the US think that everything bought or sold has to be PERFECT and FLAWLESS? And what happened to the consumer researching the product they purchase - where is their liability?
Now, if the CEO directly says to "Cut the costs, I don't care if one in a thousand will explode" after reading an email from an engineer who says that one in a thousand will explode, I can agree, but on nothing less. You seem to think that if you buy a garden rake and get a splinter, the company that made it or sold it to you should have to bear the medical fees to get the splinter out. What ever happened to "You bought it as you saw it..." ? Why does utterly everything have to be someone else's fault?
I think this falls under that lovely "espionage" blanket. You know the "other guys" are doing it, they know that you are doing it. But everyone pretends like it isn't going on and no-one bats an eyelid in public. However, behind closed doors, this sort of action is driving yet another wedge into the relationship - but at the same time also driving more funding into your own budgets for doing a similar thing to the "other guys" yet again.
My guess is that the fallout of this will be that there will be a project launched with some funny nondescript name that tries to get similar intel on the Chinese. They will likely get wind of it, but be unable to do anything about it as there will never be undeniable proof of the point of origin.
This sort of thing went on for decades (and still does) with the US/Russians, the middle east and just about every European country. It just (mainly) never sees the light of day. The Chinese seem to be getting caught more of late though - which can mean that either they are pretty poor at it compared to the rest (dubious) or their program is a whole heck of a lot bigger and more ambitious than the other players in the game - which I think is much much more likely.
the problem is they may not have a DECADE OLD RESERVE.
i think for tax purposes they only have to keep like 5 or 7 years worth of records.
The thing is that they don't need a decade of reserve. If they make $20 profit on it, and someone plucks out a ten year old receipt with a $5 deposit, they still come out ahead. It is a pretty cheap way to get good publicity and maybe drag in a few tonfoil hat wearers who keep dockets for ten years.
Yeah, the PDF is dead, as is their site where I was hoping to view some more examples. Maybe in a while...
Word is they were pretty hard to find at first, on account of them vibrating right off the slide.
Hard to find? Don't be silly. I actually think the story is somewhat redundant. These chaps have been vibrating off the slide and finding their way into the IT department for years...
You are going to be in a bad negotiating position. The thing with start-ups is that they generally offer a lot of options early to the first bunch that comes into the fray. If they have decided to go with contracts rather than options, you are in an even worse negotiating position. You see, if options are offered early, then the folks behind it are offering options to potential employees to negate their own risk in the venture. If these chaps have decided to gather enough funding and then simply offer contracting rates, then they have taken the risk totally upon themselves. At this point (where there is good revenue coming in ad the business is in a stable financial postition) they risk associated with the venture is all but gone.
Not to be blunt, but why on earth would they offer you equity in the venture now - especially that they have weathered all the early (and biggest) risk? It seems to me like you want the best of both worlds - contractor rates while the venture is risky, then equity when the venture looks safe and stable. Unless you have something to offer that will be worth equity to them - such as being able to greatly increase their revenue, or bring more clients to the company - or something else that is just as valuable - giving you options at this point would be a poor business act on their part.
You prick! I almost spat water on my screen and keyboard!
Utter GOLD! It's good to see that sense of humor still around :)
Rock and Stick huh? I always preferred hoop and stick. Sad as it is, it is ACTUALLY FUN when it gets competitive heh.
I think you should probably have a read of these two stories to get a better idea of the judge that is starting to crack the shits with Righthaven:
Righthaven Defies Court in Domain Name Ruling
and
Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract.
I am pretty sure that one of the judges recently made a point in court about the way that the company was set up and how the actual backers of this company were liable and directly in control of the actions - making it less of a shell company than it would seem.
But the most important thing about RSI is the WAY you make those keystrokes and mouse clicks. It's not how many of them you do, it is how your hands/wrists are kept when making them.
Wrists off table is BAD. It's that simple.
Ummm, okay, way to go making it weird.
Which doesn't detract from the good itself.
One sides lulz (like busting Gary for example) might well be a laugh, but for me it shows a wonderful insight that many more people need to see.
I don't care what the reason is for a good action with a good outcome. The end result is the same.
Good job sir,
You just gave me a wonderful excuse to end up with a Mozilla plush toy! :)
*glee*
No, what it means is that a lot of responsibility that IT managers (and higher) are given, such as ensuring that confidential data is kept confidential, is either too hard for them, takes too much time or they are simply incompetent to fulful that role. I don't mean technically - it isn't just an IT managers role to tick the right boxes in a menu, I mean if THEIR managers are unwilling to spend the time, money and effort on their own, then it falls to the person to convince them of the need to do so.