... I can say it's pretty short sighted of them. What do they plan to tell the people who buy Chrome OS Netbooks in the near future? Sorry, you can't use our bank? I'm sure both Google and various hardware vendors who offer such devices will have a few words to say to Chase Bank.
Your fingerprint, like most biometrics data, is not what I would call "Private information". You leave it lying around all of the place, all the time. Your face isn't private, in fact it's probably the most public thing about you. Your DNA is very much the same: your drop it everywhere. The only thing that makes it pseudo-private is that it's generally a bit hard to obtain- but not really.
If I were a kid at that school, I'd start signing out a lot of books under a teacher's fingerprint. I'm sure a lot of them have seen the mythbusters episode where they do that sort of thing. It's not difficult.
This supports my larger theory of "People are idiots". Look, lemme explain this one in great detail for you: We live in a culture that has become so self-absorbed, we are unable to consider the idea that we may actually be wrong. We are unwilling to consider that our own belief may be mistaken. And at the current rate we're going, that's not going to change any time soon.
There's a still-growing oil leak destroyed the gulf. The UK Government is in a major changeover, the likes of which haven't been seen in decades. There's even Jon Stewart's fight about what kind of tie a CNN reported wears- all things that BBC America could be talking about that would matter more to the world than this story. I love xkcd, but seriously, this is not news.
Look, if you're an STD, this is like finding out you get 3 Christmases this year. No more need for condoms, hurray for HIV.
But at the same time, as a man who is paranoid about accidentally reproducing, having extra reassurances like this is a nice benefit, to say the least. Women can reassure themselves by going on birth control, but for men, we have the condom, and trusting that she's actually taking whatever BC she says she is.
Also, a school has to have SOME standards, as the degree that they issue signifies to others some meaning about that person. Without that degree stating that the person has met some level of standards, the value of the degree for everyone holding it is diminished. Now whether or not those standards should extend to attendance is debatable, but there's plenty of justification for the university dictating terms which persons pursuing a degree must meet.
A good friend of mine has an A+ average. She rarely attends classes, because most of our professors are useless, and just reads the books, spends her time studying, and does better than me. She works harder than most of the students who show up, and spend the lecture chatting on facebook and watching movies on their laptop (yes, this does happen).
The possibilities go beyond just downloading things from the Internet. Intel are hoping to make this the connector for *everything*- your devices, your video, your printer. Frankly, I don't care how or why the do it, but a single cable type for everything, in my eyes, is a dream come true- no more having that box of every different type of wire and connector.
Texas understands a simple principle: oil isn't forever. They have the money now, and can invest in wind, and other alternatives, so that when it runs out, they have another source of income, and a backup energy supply. Dubai is trying for a similar move, building what they hope is the Middle East's Singapore, but may have overdone it a tad.
Living in the UK for the last year, I've seen a lots of investment in wind here. On the horizon here in Edinburgh, there's a pretty substantial wind farm. Flying back home I noticed there's another large one in the waters between Ireland and Wales.
The girl was seriously ill. Anyone who's dealt with depression has been there, myself very much included. The difference is that when I was there, and I talked with people online, they encouraged me to get help, told me that life was worth living. I was on an edge, and they helped me back off of it. If I had been chatting with him instead, while he pretended to be a medical professional, well then I truly do believe I'd be dead today.
He was trying to encourage her to hang herself on webcam so that he could watch her die- like he had others before her. That's psychotic, and downright wrong.
... then EA will gladly pick them up.
Both are mega corporations who've forgotten what 'fun' and 'creative' mean, and both are busy trying to scrape every last penny out of consumers that they can. That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD, then I'm all for that. In 3 years, we may see something pretty amazing, or we may find out the Infinity Ward consisted of more than just two guys.
... is based on the book they (GameDev) wrote and recommend on their website, "Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition". What a waste of my money. It doesn't teach you anything unless you already knew it. The code given on paper is in snippets, never full programs, and never fully explained. It was like they never actually had a beginner to OpenGL read the book before they published it.
But don't worry, the full source is on the CD. Of course, it's only for visual studios, and even if you get it running on that, it has to be in a specific hard-coded directory called "D:/book/code/examples" or something.
I worked as an intern at MS last summer. First, I can say that while there, I never once heard anyone say that MS didn't like us having iPhones. It just never came up. Secondly, I heard a rather interesting story (maybe true, maybe false) about the head of Windows Mobile development being an open iPhone user. When asked why, he replied "Because it's a better phone- but I'm working to fix that".
Microsoft employees, for the most part, are just geeks, and don't hate some passionate loyalty to the company. The management know this, and know not to dare get in the way of geek gadget-love.
As long as life is not understood (and it isn't, unless we'll have succeeded in building living cells from scratch), it is not unreasonable to be cautious.
Your brain waves make me feel ill. At all times. What? You can't prove me wrong, because life is not understood yet, so, to be cautious, please move to the other side of the ocean, so that I can feel better. It's the only way.
What's that? You think this argument makes no sense? That it's unreasonable for everyone else around me to have to change their lives to suit my personal form of insanity?
Let's say I buy the software, the end product. It's bits. It's ones and zeros. Do I own them? Am I allowed to tamper with them? It isn't the source code, and I lay no claim to owning that. But do I have a right to be able to manipulate the bits as I see fit? Can I share the bits?
These are the truly thorny questions, and they're the ones that are changing our society.
This, for sure. I took a 3-year diploma (non-degree) at a Canadian college in programming. I can code in many languages, learn new ones quickly, and grok someone else's code base fast. But until I got into my 2nd and 3rd year of my University Degree in Computer Science, I really didn't *get* algorithms the way I do now.
If you want to see if someone is a Coder or a Computer Scientist, hand them the Facebook Careers Puzzles page. I started into it the other day, and as I read through them was able to simply say "Optimal sub-structure- use dynamic programming... that one is a variation of the stable marriage problem... this one is finding cliques in a graph, need an approximation algorithm... ". Showing the problems to my coder friends, they start trying naive approaches to the problems.
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... I can say it's pretty short sighted of them. What do they plan to tell the people who buy Chrome OS Netbooks in the near future? Sorry, you can't use our bank? I'm sure both Google and various hardware vendors who offer such devices will have a few words to say to Chase Bank.
If I were a kid at that school, I'd start signing out a lot of books under a teacher's fingerprint. I'm sure a lot of them have seen the mythbusters episode where they do that sort of thing. It's not difficult.
This supports my larger theory of "People are idiots". Look, lemme explain this one in great detail for you: We live in a culture that has become so self-absorbed, we are unable to consider the idea that we may actually be wrong. We are unwilling to consider that our own belief may be mistaken. And at the current rate we're going, that's not going to change any time soon.
There's a still-growing oil leak destroyed the gulf. The UK Government is in a major changeover, the likes of which haven't been seen in decades. There's even Jon Stewart's fight about what kind of tie a CNN reported wears- all things that BBC America could be talking about that would matter more to the world than this story. I love xkcd, but seriously, this is not news.
But at the same time, as a man who is paranoid about accidentally reproducing, having extra reassurances like this is a nice benefit, to say the least. Women can reassure themselves by going on birth control, but for men, we have the condom, and trusting that she's actually taking whatever BC she says she is.
I'm going to do some extensive testing to confirm this theory...
Processing the data takes a while- today. In the 80's, MP3 compression was good, but took too long to process for consumer products.
I think I just found a time machine to 1997.
Also, a school has to have SOME standards, as the degree that they issue signifies to others some meaning about that person. Without that degree stating that the person has met some level of standards, the value of the degree for everyone holding it is diminished. Now whether or not those standards should extend to attendance is debatable, but there's plenty of justification for the university dictating terms which persons pursuing a degree must meet.
A good friend of mine has an A+ average. She rarely attends classes, because most of our professors are useless, and just reads the books, spends her time studying, and does better than me. She works harder than most of the students who show up, and spend the lecture chatting on facebook and watching movies on their laptop (yes, this does happen).
The possibilities go beyond just downloading things from the Internet. Intel are hoping to make this the connector for *everything*- your devices, your video, your printer. Frankly, I don't care how or why the do it, but a single cable type for everything, in my eyes, is a dream come true- no more having that box of every different type of wire and connector.
Living in the UK for the last year, I've seen a lots of investment in wind here. On the horizon here in Edinburgh, there's a pretty substantial wind farm. Flying back home I noticed there's another large one in the waters between Ireland and Wales.
The girl was seriously ill. Anyone who's dealt with depression has been there, myself very much included. The difference is that when I was there, and I talked with people online, they encouraged me to get help, told me that life was worth living. I was on an edge, and they helped me back off of it. If I had been chatting with him instead, while he pretended to be a medical professional, well then I truly do believe I'd be dead today. He was trying to encourage her to hang herself on webcam so that he could watch her die- like he had others before her. That's psychotic, and downright wrong.
FBI Special Agent Sean Archer now has a new weapon against you.
... then EA will gladly pick them up. Both are mega corporations who've forgotten what 'fun' and 'creative' mean, and both are busy trying to scrape every last penny out of consumers that they can. That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD, then I'm all for that. In 3 years, we may see something pretty amazing, or we may find out the Infinity Ward consisted of more than just two guys.
27 data points is not enough to draw a strong conclusion.
So why then should the court of public opinion concluded that it's Toyota's fault?
"Sir, there's something wrong with our servers, or else the reporting service. Look here, at the pageviews count. It's stuck at zero."
But don't worry, the full source is on the CD. Of course, it's only for visual studios, and even if you get it running on that, it has to be in a specific hard-coded directory called "D:/book/code/examples" or something.
Microsoft employees, for the most part, are just geeks, and don't hate some passionate loyalty to the company. The management know this, and know not to dare get in the way of geek gadget-love.
As long as life is not understood (and it isn't, unless we'll have succeeded in building living cells from scratch), it is not unreasonable to be cautious.
Your brain waves make me feel ill. At all times. What? You can't prove me wrong, because life is not understood yet, so, to be cautious, please move to the other side of the ocean, so that I can feel better. It's the only way. What's that? You think this argument makes no sense? That it's unreasonable for everyone else around me to have to change their lives to suit my personal form of insanity?
Let's say I buy the software, the end product. It's bits. It's ones and zeros. Do I own them? Am I allowed to tamper with them? It isn't the source code, and I lay no claim to owning that. But do I have a right to be able to manipulate the bits as I see fit? Can I share the bits? These are the truly thorny questions, and they're the ones that are changing our society.
if you can't compete with that, instead of whining maybe you should go bankrupt.
Well, now I know what my wildest dreams look like.
This, for sure. I took a 3-year diploma (non-degree) at a Canadian college in programming. I can code in many languages, learn new ones quickly, and grok someone else's code base fast. But until I got into my 2nd and 3rd year of my University Degree in Computer Science, I really didn't *get* algorithms the way I do now. If you want to see if someone is a Coder or a Computer Scientist, hand them the Facebook Careers Puzzles page. I started into it the other day, and as I read through them was able to simply say "Optimal sub-structure- use dynamic programming... that one is a variation of the stable marriage problem... this one is finding cliques in a graph, need an approximation algorithm... ". Showing the problems to my coder friends, they start trying naive approaches to the problems.