Given that I only hear about Neo-Nazis when their freedom of speech is curtailed, censoring them is almost counter-productive. Crackpots love to be censored - it's free publicity, and their flaky ideas are not tested in any public arenas.
Escape velocity is... well know. That Newton guy figured it out, I think. Of course, a lot of physicists in the 1900s said it was nonsense (what will the rocket push against?), or that it wasn't possible with any conceivable technology, but that's another story.
What I want to know is what sort of budget would you need for a thing like this? I wonder if it's cheaper than NASA?
But, where are the objects? Where are the interfaces? Where has all the programming gone? It's like you are just telling the computer what to do, and it's doing it. Where is the skill in that?
No, it's obviously a one time pad encryption. Just XOR out the files you know are there, and you know how to crack it! Try to defend against that, in front of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty...
When they start using tcl (or some other framework that lets gui and event driven apps get stitched together the UNIX way), *then* it will be the year of the Linux desktop.
No, what we need is a Javascript engine that won't run XSS. If a script from one site makes a request to another, the JS engine should ask permission. Your webbrowswer sends referrer tags to the next site, so should Javascript.
(Wait, does Javascript already tag XSS with a from parameter?)
Marketing (including product focus, positioning, and other less tangibles) is still important. Advertising is just a small part. But a leveler playing field is always welcome.
Yeah, but there is a slight difference. Unless your job is just busywork, your "test" skills (a broad knowledge base, and thinking on your feet) are more important than your "homework" skills.
I believe the current dogma is that tests are bad, because they don't teach anything.
I'm predicting a return to testing (occasionally - not every bloody year or so like No Child Left Behind), when they learn that homework doesn't test anything.
Replace "doctor" with "lawyer", "manager", "programmer" or "recruiter", and it still makes sense.
People skills are important, but seeming "nice" is not the only people skill that matters. There are plenty of people who are honest, but a bit rude (all good surgeons, for starters), but it doesn't mean patients would like them.
But games will make a bigger profit with an iPhone app store type platform, so all the programmers will go with that. One click purchasing will make them a lot of money.
The content you could put on a 20GB disk would be truly awesome, but what is in it for the game companies?
I'm just waiting for some self-righteous slashdotter to draw an analogy between the runts of the litter, promotion to management, 12 generations, and their least favorite CEO. If you can breed lapdogs in 12 generations, with nothing but artificial selection, imagine what you can do with specimens who are actively trying to "evolve" themselves.
It's called "The Tragedy of the Anticommons". Unlike "The Tragedy of the Commons" (in which a communal resources is abused), too many transaction fees and economies of scale mean that you simply can't split the system up and let the market sort things out. Regulation, monopolies, or government ownership are the only options, some of which are more evil than others.
Just imagine if your ambulance service, doctor, hospital, drug company and specialist surgeon were all owned / employed by separate owners, all of whom were trying to rip each other (and you) off. Imagine how inefficient things would be! Or just watch Sicko, where Michael Moore uses to the weak US health system to prove why the slightly weaker (but cheaper) Cuban system is superior.
Food and drug labeling laws made companies actually research drugs, instead of just giving mothers laudanum (opium and alcohol) to treat teething infants. Very effective - they behaved like angels. Until the stuff wore off.
They generally say "I did it, and X is legal". Copyright has a reasonably clear legal status. Using a constitutional law to overrule an illegal state law (as in Loving v. Virginia) is different to declaring copyright illegal. On the other hand, claiming that they were not directly responsible (and that millions of normal people were) is a feasible defense.
If you want to change the laws, run for parliament, or support a candidate who supports your views. The court is just there to interpret laws, and activist rulings undermine democracy.
You could get the band to play a "master" track, then make a click track to follow that one. Then the orchestra, special effects, and other tracks follow the master track. This is just a case of human beings modifying their behaviour to make life easier for the computers. Sigh.
Backup your db. Test your db backup. Get someone else to check your backup strategy. That's mission critical, and it merits repeating.
1000 users a day? Windows can start about 10 Python processes a second (and handle a bit of processing within that process), which is probably the slowest way you could possibly do it. OSX or Linux can do 10 times as much.
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Given that I only hear about Neo-Nazis when their freedom of speech is curtailed, censoring them is almost counter-productive. Crackpots love to be censored - it's free publicity, and their flaky ideas are not tested in any public arenas.
Pilots are careful because all their moves are logged on a black box.
Cars could have the same feature. I'm just saying.
Free gun training is a fair analogy. It would promote gun use, but also make the gun use safer, unless the gun user meant to cause harm.
Likewise, sex education will promote (slightly) more sex, and safer sex. It might also be bad business for brothels in the bible belt.
I guess the morality of either plan would depend on your worldview.
Too bad if you live in Australia. :(
Escape velocity is ... well know. That Newton guy figured it out, I think. Of course, a lot of physicists in the 1900s said it was nonsense (what will the rocket push against?), or that it wasn't possible with any conceivable technology, but that's another story.
What I want to know is what sort of budget would you need for a thing like this? I wonder if it's cheaper than NASA?
But, where are the objects? Where are the interfaces? Where has all the programming gone? It's like you are just telling the computer what to do, and it's doing it. Where is the skill in that?
No, it's obviously a one time pad encryption. Just XOR out the files you know are there, and you know how to crack it! Try to defend against that, in front of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty ...
When they start using tcl (or some other framework that lets gui and event driven apps get stitched together the UNIX way), *then* it will be the year of the Linux desktop.
But did it run Vista media player?
No, what we need is a Javascript engine that won't run XSS. If a script from one site makes a request to another, the JS engine should ask permission. Your webbrowswer sends referrer tags to the next site, so should Javascript.
(Wait, does Javascript already tag XSS with a from parameter?)
Marketing (including product focus, positioning, and other less tangibles) is still important. Advertising is just a small part. But a leveler playing field is always welcome.
If the gaming industry was like Hollywood, you would have to sleep with some producer, just to get your foot in the door.
Can you really see Hollywood embracing a distribution system that makes it easy for independent studios to reach consumers?
All the more reason to have a real human being check that they are OK when they enter the school.
Yeah, but there is a slight difference. Unless your job is just busywork, your "test" skills (a broad knowledge base, and thinking on your feet) are more important than your "homework" skills.
I believe the current dogma is that tests are bad, because they don't teach anything.
I'm predicting a return to testing (occasionally - not every bloody year or so like No Child Left Behind), when they learn that homework doesn't test anything.
+5, sad but true.
Replace "doctor" with "lawyer", "manager", "programmer" or "recruiter", and it still makes sense.
People skills are important, but seeming "nice" is not the only people skill that matters. There are plenty of people who are honest, but a bit rude (all good surgeons, for starters), but it doesn't mean patients would like them.
But games will make a bigger profit with an iPhone app store type platform, so all the programmers will go with that. One click purchasing will make them a lot of money.
The content you could put on a 20GB disk would be truly awesome, but what is in it for the game companies?
I'm just waiting for some self-righteous slashdotter to draw an analogy between the runts of the litter, promotion to management, 12 generations, and their least favorite CEO. If you can breed lapdogs in 12 generations, with nothing but artificial selection, imagine what you can do with specimens who are actively trying to "evolve" themselves.
It's called "The Tragedy of the Anticommons". Unlike "The Tragedy of the Commons" (in which a communal resources is abused), too many transaction fees and economies of scale mean that you simply can't split the system up and let the market sort things out. Regulation, monopolies, or government ownership are the only options, some of which are more evil than others.
Just imagine if your ambulance service, doctor, hospital, drug company and specialist surgeon were all owned / employed by separate owners, all of whom were trying to rip each other (and you) off. Imagine how inefficient things would be! Or just watch Sicko, where Michael Moore uses to the weak US health system to prove why the slightly weaker (but cheaper) Cuban system is superior.
Food and drug labeling laws made companies actually research drugs, instead of just giving mothers laudanum (opium and alcohol) to treat teething infants. Very effective - they behaved like angels. Until the stuff wore off.
They generally say "I did it, and X is legal". Copyright has a reasonably clear legal status. Using a constitutional law to overrule an illegal state law (as in Loving v. Virginia) is different to declaring copyright illegal. On the other hand, claiming that they were not directly responsible (and that millions of normal people were) is a feasible defense.
If you want to change the laws, run for parliament, or support a candidate who supports your views. The court is just there to interpret laws, and activist rulings undermine democracy.
You could get the band to play a "master" track, then make a click track to follow that one. Then the orchestra, special effects, and other tracks follow the master track. This is just a case of human beings modifying their behaviour to make life easier for the computers. Sigh.
Backup your db. Test your db backup. Get someone else to check your backup strategy. That's mission critical, and it merits repeating.
1000 users a day? Windows can start about 10 Python processes a second (and handle a bit of processing within that process), which is probably the slowest way you could possibly do it. OSX or Linux can do 10 times as much.
You can make pictures *very* hard to trace. Just spam the server with pictures of your genitals. Hash that, suckers.