The use of rice flour in building chinese constructions is so well known that my old man (who is a bit of a greenie) has been playing with it for years! Yes, that's right, Rice Flour + Cement. It seems to be basically a lime replacement, which is a common additive to Portland Cement anyhow.
40 ain't hard at all. I used to work 11hr days 6.5 days a week writing games. Of course I burnt out after a few months doing it, but coming back to 40 is an absolute breeze and have been doing that for years now.
I think you misunderstood quite a deal when you visited us. As a whole we are a multicultural country, however, the Aborigines have a history markedly different from our 'modern' cultures. In short, they were semi-nomadic, very tribal and had absolutely no concept of ownership.
Enter the white man. We see these people living without clothes. So we give them clothes. We see them without shelter. We give them shelter. Unfortunately, we failed to understand that these concepts don't mean much to a people who live, literally, for the land itself. From an Aboriginal's point of view, we white people live off the land by harvesting and digging and, basically pillaging the earth, but are completely disconnected from it. They simply don't want to live like us, and yet we force them to (mainly because we don't understand). Tragically, we have forced them to live in sheltered areas, wearing western clothes and even worse, they (somewhat like the american indians, from what I understand) also have alcohol issues as a result.
There is no easy answer for the Aboriginal issue, since there doesn't seem to be a culture anywhere else in the world similar to them. Unfortunately, we seemed doomed to make mistake after mistake trying to interact with their long lived heritage and culture. It has nothing to do with Immigration policies.
Note further, that there are Aboriginals who (while still acknowledging their heritage) now live in a 'western' manner: clothes, house and job. Many many are very highly educated too. We white people see them as a success, whilst many Aboriginals see them as brothers who have lost the way.
Being up in the clouds is a wonderful happy place that I go to whenever I'm feeling down. Shame on you for speaking in a less than blissfully unaware state.
I wouldn't have a bias per-se. I'd assume that you'd be able to prove that your time there increased your abilities in statistical analysis, understanding human traits (and how they affect statistics) and pseudo random number generation.
In fact, if you failed to 'wow' me on those three points, then your time at a gambling location was seriously wasted because they're all good topics to be getting your teeth into.
If you could prove yourself in those areas, you'd obviously have no problem doing any other job IMHO.
Call me kooky, call me a greenie. I can't see how this can even be regarded as a 'scientific' experiment. I'd put it under the same banner as: "Lets fire a bullet at someone's head to see if there's a brain in there". Surely a little lunar robot with drilling capabilities is less drastic than "Let's blow this fucker up and see what we can see"?
I invoke the chewbacca defence: It just doesn't make sense...
Although a security hole would exist, it would exist inside the application itself, meaning that in order to gain access to the system, one needs to then attack that program first. Furthermore, the application may not even use the feature of that is part of the library.
Many security holes can 'disappear' when statically linked, simply because the linker removes unused code, unlike a dll. Also the application may have some extra checks in their code that ensures that 'bad things' don't necessarily occur when a call is made to an 'unsafe' function (eg strcpy()).
In short, statically linking: ~ forces attackers to attack a particular program (and not a suite of programs that use a dll) ~ may reduce the attack footprint because the linker removes unused code
If you know about computers, you're a geek. If you know about operating systems other than a Mac or PC, then you're a super geek. If you don't know what the words "operating system" mean, you're not a geek and don't care about Linux at all (because it's not a Mac or a PC). Even then, people don't care.
Actually, I can't wait to see how these can be used in a factory where back breaking lifting/stacking/sorting is the norm. This should prove a boon to some segments of the blue collar arena where automation isn't a viable option due to expense.
Like, I get that the Harwell has a bit of history and that it was a one-of-a-kind, but is that really a reason to keep it hanging around? Should Apple keep the first iPhone 3Gs developed and save it away for officianados of dust covered relics to revive it in 50 years time? Should Linus keep a machine running the first ever stable release of Linux?
To me, I'm sorry to say, this is just daft. I certainly wouldn't presume that using tax payer dollars to fire up a relic is worthwhile. If I want to feel nostalgic, I'll look at some photos.
The thing with I.T is that it's a progression. It's not as if it's a steam train, nor a hydrogen filled blimp, or the library of alexandria. It was a tool and it got superceeded.
It's only when computers are no more that the Harwell will become interesting.
I remember that back in the '90's, when the company I was working for were trying to ship a war game to germany, we were forced to change the blood to green to satisfy censorship rules. It was actually a small and easy change implement, neatly turning nazi looking soldiers into non-specific zombie/aliens.
Perhaps new games could offer a 'zombie safe' mode, where there is no red blood, just hues of greens and/or blues. Would that be enough to disarm the realism issue, I wonder?
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The use of rice flour in building chinese constructions is so well known that my old man (who is a bit of a greenie) has been playing with it for years!
Yes, that's right, Rice Flour + Cement. It seems to be basically a lime replacement, which is a common additive to Portland Cement anyhow.
Is this a bad thing? Or that we will be lamenting the loss of curiosity?
"Then there is CHARLI H (for Heavy). ... He also will be able to run, jump, kick, open doors, pick up objects..."
Luckily, there's a comma between "kick" and "open doors". We certainly don't need robots who can do that!
40 ain't hard at all. I used to work 11hr days 6.5 days a week writing games. Of course I burnt out after a few months doing it, but coming back to 40 is an absolute breeze and have been doing that for years now.
You should toughen up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y
Perhaps purchasing this (therapeutic?) wristband can help: http://store.ronniejohns.com/?show_product=HTFU
Perhaps this is our fault?
We wrote the damn accountant their packages in the first place! Perhaps we should have also added a way to hide all IT spending and costs....
I think you misunderstood quite a deal when you visited us. As a whole we are a multicultural country, however, the Aborigines have a history markedly different from our 'modern' cultures. In short, they were semi-nomadic, very tribal and had absolutely no concept of ownership.
Enter the white man. We see these people living without clothes. So we give them clothes. We see them without shelter. We give them shelter. Unfortunately, we failed to understand that these concepts don't mean much to a people who live, literally, for the land itself.
From an Aboriginal's point of view, we white people live off the land by harvesting and digging and, basically pillaging the earth, but are completely disconnected from it. They simply don't want to live like us, and yet we force them to (mainly because we don't understand).
Tragically, we have forced them to live in sheltered areas, wearing western clothes and even worse, they (somewhat like the american indians, from what I understand) also have alcohol issues as a result.
There is no easy answer for the Aboriginal issue, since there doesn't seem to be a culture anywhere else in the world similar to them. Unfortunately, we seemed doomed to make mistake after mistake trying to interact with their long lived heritage and culture. It has nothing to do with Immigration policies.
Note further, that there are Aboriginals who (while still acknowledging their heritage) now live in a 'western' manner: clothes, house and job. Many many are very highly educated too. We white people see them as a success, whilst many Aboriginals see them as brothers who have lost the way.
I hope this helps.
Being up in the clouds is a wonderful happy place that I go to whenever I'm feeling down. Shame on you for speaking in a less than blissfully unaware state.
It's my understanding that for each and every vaccination, one egg must be used. Hence, 30 million vaccinations mean 30 million eggs.
Perhaps you should take your hand off that bacon and egg McMuffin. :)
...and I thought this might have been proof that astrology is actually real. Alas, I keep waiting.
I wouldn't have a bias per-se. I'd assume that you'd be able to prove that your time there increased your abilities in statistical analysis, understanding human traits (and how they affect statistics) and pseudo random number generation.
In fact, if you failed to 'wow' me on those three points, then your time at a gambling location was seriously wasted because they're all good topics to be getting your teeth into.
If you could prove yourself in those areas, you'd obviously have no problem doing any other job IMHO.
You make it sound like becoming a gigolo could be a really bad thing
Apparently I can't be called kooky or a greenie, but just a troll looking to start a flame war.
Obviously, this means that I am alone in thinking that smashing shit into our moon is a good idea.
Call me kooky, call me a greenie. I can't see how this can even be regarded as a 'scientific' experiment. I'd put it under the same banner as: "Lets fire a bullet at someone's head to see if there's a brain in there".
Surely a little lunar robot with drilling capabilities is less drastic than "Let's blow this fucker up and see what we can see"?
I invoke the chewbacca defence: It just doesn't make sense...
the ring divisions are labelled (from the closest to furthest) : D, C, B, A then F, G and finally E as the outermost ring.
Wonder what they will name this one, anyone good with sequence puzzles?
Thinking in musical terms, it would be B-flat or as some euro countries call it: H.
C2 would be the next ring after that to complete the cadence.
Is there such a thing as privacy down under?
Yes, but I still choose to go to the toilet with the door open.
Although a security hole would exist, it would exist inside the application itself, meaning that in order to gain access to the system, one needs to then attack that program first. Furthermore, the application may not even use the feature of that is part of the library.
Many security holes can 'disappear' when statically linked, simply because the linker removes unused code, unlike a dll. Also the application may have some extra checks in their code that ensures that 'bad things' don't necessarily occur when a call is made to an 'unsafe' function (eg strcpy()).
In short, statically linking:
~ forces attackers to attack a particular program (and not a suite of programs that use a dll)
~ may reduce the attack footprint because the linker removes unused code
Linux = Super Geek.
If you know about computers, you're a geek. If you know about operating systems other than a Mac or PC, then you're a super geek. If you don't know what the words "operating system" mean, you're not a geek and don't care about Linux at all (because it's not a Mac or a PC). Even then, people don't care.
and are your friends.
Actually, I can't wait to see how these can be used in a factory where back breaking lifting/stacking/sorting is the norm. This should prove a boon to some segments of the blue collar arena where automation isn't a viable option due to expense.
The correct road to business success lies in collecting underpants first.
Like, I get that the Harwell has a bit of history and that it was a one-of-a-kind, but is that really a reason to keep it hanging around?
Should Apple keep the first iPhone 3Gs developed and save it away for officianados of dust covered relics to revive it in 50 years time?
Should Linus keep a machine running the first ever stable release of Linux?
To me, I'm sorry to say, this is just daft. I certainly wouldn't presume that using tax payer dollars to fire up a relic is worthwhile. If I want to feel nostalgic, I'll look at some photos.
The thing with I.T is that it's a progression. It's not as if it's a steam train, nor a hydrogen filled blimp, or the library of alexandria. It was a tool and it got superceeded.
It's only when computers are no more that the Harwell will become interesting.
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Agreed, I for one would prefer a focus on start up time in Firefox. IE and chrome have that nailed, whereas FF is annoyingly slow by comparison
minion1, minion2, minion3 ...because that's all they are.
I remember that back in the '90's, when the company I was working for were trying to ship a war game to germany, we were forced to change the blood to green to satisfy censorship rules. It was actually a small and easy change implement, neatly turning nazi looking soldiers into non-specific zombie/aliens.
Perhaps new games could offer a 'zombie safe' mode, where there is no red blood, just hues of greens and/or blues. Would that be enough to disarm the realism issue, I wonder?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAM5lSPCwk
Scroll forward to 1:10 or so and watch pong in action!