Re:Of course there's VR movies as well.
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I realize that but it would be incredible to watch a "movie" where you're in the middle of the scene. (Kind what I hear they were trying to achieve with Avatar with 3d glasses and IMAX.) I mean could you imagine how much better the experience of pretty much any movie (especially horror) if you felt like you were right in the middle?
Of course there's VR movies as well.
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I missed out on seeing Avatar in 3D in one of those IMAX theaters. (With the screen that covers your peripheral version.) I didn't bother to watch it on cable since apparently the part that made it impressive is in that environment it's like you're in the movie. With these VR glasses it seems there's now finally a setup that can display that movie(and other) properly.
You know, where when you're on the highway you pull your energy from the road itself which would have power cables in it. Unfortunately I think I've read that would be really expensive. (Plus I think doing an induced current is less efficient. Been awhile since I've looked up anything on that though.)
I mean when I read his bio on Wikipedia nothing came out to me that said he was some sort of uber hacker so it seemed weird just how much stuff he managed to get. Oh well, hopefully since there's at least 3 other people at the NSA that have some sort of moral compass there are more in there as well. (But knowing how these things go they'll probably just fire everybody that hasn't drunk the kool-ade.)
I mean it's not new that the max you can expect out of people is 40 hours.(One of the big reasons we switched to 40 hour weeks in the 20th century, it was pointless to have people work longer than that you don't actually get any more production.)
(sarcasm on)
Oh wait, we're talking about IT. The rules don't apply to us. You know, we don't need a business plan. Lets just wing things, it'll work out and sure 60+ hour weeks make sense.
Ok this is a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when people say they're graded on a curve because 60 is an A. The mechanism that converts a raw score into a grade is the scale. If that scale is determined by how the class did as a whole then your grade is curved. (IE I got in the top 10% of scores therefore I got an A) If the scale is not based on how the class did then your grade is simply scaled. (IE I got an A because I got above 60 which the professor defined to be the cut off for an A. If everybody in the class gets above 60 they all get A)
Seriously, it's as though since through out elementary/high school the whole "90+ is an A, 80+ is a B,..." that people think that somebody, Einstein, Socrates, Jesus, or Mohammed decreed these scores or something. (Just as telling me that the temperature is 20 is meaningless without units telling me you scored X on a test is meaningless without having a meter that tells me what that score actually means.)
I ask because about 10 years ago I took organic chemistry. The professor basically said that she had been teaching this class for 10 years, she set up the tests so 65 was "average". So every time she gives the class and given the size(150~ students) she always gets a bell curve with the average right where she expected. She'd love it if everybody did well but she also said that statistically the likelihood that would happen is basically 0.
The way I looked at it when I thought about it was that the more different people you'd face in Jeopardy the more likely you'd come across someone that could absolutely clean your clock. Given that I had thought it was in your best interest to face a few different people as possible, and you could do that by getting tie and facing the same guy a second time. (Versus facing a new person that might be much better.)
Because of course slogans are where it's at. Not a decent laptop to replace my old one which stops every 30 seconds because it can't handle the antivirus and other bloatware that corporate has dumped on my current laptop.(In all seriousness there's no reason to not give the developers decent machines since giving them shit machines only frustrates us and makes us develop more slowly with more mistakes.)
Since I saw one of his fan boys basically claim Boyd invented the flanking maneuver. (For those that wonder I've heard that Boyd came up with the plan for the first Gulf war, instead of "hey diddle diddle, straight up the middle." because generals are too stupid to know the right thing. It was described as revolutionary but it was really a basic flanking maneuver. I didn't believe it since a flanking move like they did was kind of the obvious best move that even I predicted it before the ground war started so why would Schwarzkopf do the straight up the middle? Real answer, because originally he didn't have the troops to do a flank. When asked what the best move would be if you had enough troops it was do the flank. So they gave him enough troops and they did the flank. Of course since I'm not a general I didn't understand how the lack of troops would screw up a flank so before I read all of that I didn't appreciate what the general needed to consider to pull that one off and most likely Boyd didn't either.)
extremely left wing, pro big government. (Really I say that because I knew a fellow student in college who said they were an anarchist. Oddly enough there was no big government policy that they weren't totally for. For those that don't know anarchy literally means no rulers so this was a case of them not quite understanding what anarchy is supposed to be about.)
follows the "Hollywood Blockbuster" management style. You know where the guys in the trenches try to tell the higher ups what's going wrong and are ignored.(And if they were listened too there would be no problems and the movie would be over in the first 15 minutes.) Only through heroic efforts by the grunts do things work out and only in the last 15 minutes of the film, err I mean the last 10% of development time. I would bitch about that but then I'm reminded I work for a company that isn't part of the government and they do the same shit, they think it's a peachy idea.
Well if we're going to be technical MIT and Harvard aren't in Boston, they're in Cambridge. But to be fair it's probably would have been better if I had written "BU is a research institute the runs an undergrad school on the side."
BC, aka Boston College, is the catholic college that's not actually in Boston. BU is the research institute in Boston that runs an undergrad school on the side.
an SSD in my work computer since the thing is so damn slow. (Yes I've asked for one and no they haven't gotten me one.) If they're not willing to buy me one of those I can't see them actually be willing to spend, oh my god $500, on a new monitor. (But of course the next time anything goes wrong upper management comes running to dev without a first or second thought.)
for an example. So if you broke your leg because you fell off a ladder I'd expect the over all treatment to be a bit different than if you broke your leg because you have Osteoporosis. Come to think of it you could also break your leg because you have a tumor in the leg, that would be a VERY different treatment.
Then there's a chance, admittedly very small, that congress might actually do the right thing and put some restraints on them. (More likely, they just make it illegal to spy on congress but everybody else is ok.)
I mean the younger people here might not have heard of this one but John Fogerty effectively got sued in the 80's because he sounded too much like himself. (No, I'm not making that up.)
If somebody actually reroutes shipments and tampers with your product in transit it's kind of hard to 'fix' that. What would you like Apple to do? Have every iPhone they sell escorted by armed guards?
I was wondering when somebody would point that out. Anyway like you point out, their "cracking" of apple products consists of getting to it before the end user gets to it. Any system is vulnerable if they can do that.(Yes, even Linux.)
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I realize that but it would be incredible to watch a "movie" where you're in the middle of the scene. (Kind what I hear they were trying to achieve with Avatar with 3d glasses and IMAX.) I mean could you imagine how much better the experience of pretty much any movie (especially horror) if you felt like you were right in the middle?
I missed out on seeing Avatar in 3D in one of those IMAX theaters. (With the screen that covers your peripheral version.) I didn't bother to watch it on cable since apparently the part that made it impressive is in that environment it's like you're in the movie. With these VR glasses it seems there's now finally a setup that can display that movie(and other) properly.
You know, where when you're on the highway you pull your energy from the road itself which would have power cables in it. Unfortunately I think I've read that would be really expensive. (Plus I think doing an induced current is less efficient. Been awhile since I've looked up anything on that though.)
I mean when I read his bio on Wikipedia nothing came out to me that said he was some sort of uber hacker so it seemed weird just how much stuff he managed to get. Oh well, hopefully since there's at least 3 other people at the NSA that have some sort of moral compass there are more in there as well. (But knowing how these things go they'll probably just fire everybody that hasn't drunk the kool-ade.)
Heh, you mean managers. The other developers here know exactly how tiring a job that consists of thinking all day truly is.
(sarcasm on)
Oh wait, we're talking about IT. The rules don't apply to us. You know, we don't need a business plan. Lets just wing things, it'll work out and sure 60+ hour weeks make sense.
(sarcasm off)
Fuck them like Catherine fucking a horse.
Ok this is a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when people say they're graded on a curve because 60 is an A. The mechanism that converts a raw score into a grade is the scale. If that scale is determined by how the class did as a whole then your grade is curved. (IE I got in the top 10% of scores therefore I got an A) If the scale is not based on how the class did then your grade is simply scaled. (IE I got an A because I got above 60 which the professor defined to be the cut off for an A. If everybody in the class gets above 60 they all get A) Seriously, it's as though since through out elementary/high school the whole "90+ is an A, 80+ is a B, ..." that people think that somebody, Einstein, Socrates, Jesus, or Mohammed decreed these scores or something. (Just as telling me that the temperature is 20 is meaningless without units telling me you scored X on a test is meaningless without having a meter that tells me what that score actually means.)
I ask because about 10 years ago I took organic chemistry. The professor basically said that she had been teaching this class for 10 years, she set up the tests so 65 was "average". So every time she gives the class and given the size(150~ students) she always gets a bell curve with the average right where she expected. She'd love it if everybody did well but she also said that statistically the likelihood that would happen is basically 0.
The way I looked at it when I thought about it was that the more different people you'd face in Jeopardy the more likely you'd come across someone that could absolutely clean your clock. Given that I had thought it was in your best interest to face a few different people as possible, and you could do that by getting tie and facing the same guy a second time. (Versus facing a new person that might be much better.)
Because of course slogans are where it's at. Not a decent laptop to replace my old one which stops every 30 seconds because it can't handle the antivirus and other bloatware that corporate has dumped on my current laptop.(In all seriousness there's no reason to not give the developers decent machines since giving them shit machines only frustrates us and makes us develop more slowly with more mistakes.)
I totally forgot about that part but you're right. Schwarzkopf was definitely knew his business.
Which amongst other things pretty much says the best way to nail another plane? Shoot him in the fucking back before he even knows you're there.
Since I saw one of his fan boys basically claim Boyd invented the flanking maneuver. (For those that wonder I've heard that Boyd came up with the plan for the first Gulf war, instead of "hey diddle diddle, straight up the middle." because generals are too stupid to know the right thing. It was described as revolutionary but it was really a basic flanking maneuver. I didn't believe it since a flanking move like they did was kind of the obvious best move that even I predicted it before the ground war started so why would Schwarzkopf do the straight up the middle? Real answer, because originally he didn't have the troops to do a flank. When asked what the best move would be if you had enough troops it was do the flank. So they gave him enough troops and they did the flank. Of course since I'm not a general I didn't understand how the lack of troops would screw up a flank so before I read all of that I didn't appreciate what the general needed to consider to pull that one off and most likely Boyd didn't either.)
extremely left wing, pro big government. (Really I say that because I knew a fellow student in college who said they were an anarchist. Oddly enough there was no big government policy that they weren't totally for. For those that don't know anarchy literally means no rulers so this was a case of them not quite understanding what anarchy is supposed to be about.)
Because if you did and then the FBI downloaded everything(with your permission like the guy in the story) you might have some stuff to explain.
follows the "Hollywood Blockbuster" management style. You know where the guys in the trenches try to tell the higher ups what's going wrong and are ignored.(And if they were listened too there would be no problems and the movie would be over in the first 15 minutes.) Only through heroic efforts by the grunts do things work out and only in the last 15 minutes of the film, err I mean the last 10% of development time. I would bitch about that but then I'm reminded I work for a company that isn't part of the government and they do the same shit, they think it's a peachy idea.
That's hot air, the place is full of it
Well if we're going to be technical MIT and Harvard aren't in Boston, they're in Cambridge. But to be fair it's probably would have been better if I had written "BU is a research institute the runs an undergrad school on the side."
BC, aka Boston College, is the catholic college that's not actually in Boston. BU is the research institute in Boston that runs an undergrad school on the side.
an SSD in my work computer since the thing is so damn slow. (Yes I've asked for one and no they haven't gotten me one.) If they're not willing to buy me one of those I can't see them actually be willing to spend, oh my god $500, on a new monitor. (But of course the next time anything goes wrong upper management comes running to dev without a first or second thought.)
for an example. So if you broke your leg because you fell off a ladder I'd expect the over all treatment to be a bit different than if you broke your leg because you have Osteoporosis. Come to think of it you could also break your leg because you have a tumor in the leg, that would be a VERY different treatment.
Then there's a chance, admittedly very small, that congress might actually do the right thing and put some restraints on them. (More likely, they just make it illegal to spy on congress but everybody else is ok.)
I mean the younger people here might not have heard of this one but John Fogerty effectively got sued in the 80's because he sounded too much like himself. (No, I'm not making that up.)
If somebody actually reroutes shipments and tampers with your product in transit it's kind of hard to 'fix' that. What would you like Apple to do? Have every iPhone they sell escorted by armed guards?
I was wondering when somebody would point that out. Anyway like you point out, their "cracking" of apple products consists of getting to it before the end user gets to it. Any system is vulnerable if they can do that.(Yes, even Linux.)