I read your comment thinking "what a dick", but then I reached the last paragraph, and I just feel sorry for you. By the sounds of it, you're so wrapped up in "being successful", that the fact you think you won't be just makes you miserable. The problem you have is that you directly equate "being successful" to "screwing people over". Its possible to do one without the other. I'm not of course saying you can become a multi-billionaire, but why would you want/need more money than you can possibly ever spend? Its possible to run your own buisness, selling to a small niche of the market without screwing people over. Quite simply put, someone else already is, so its easy to undercut them in price while beating them in quality of service. You won't steal their whole customer base, but you can certainly make a size-able dent and a fair bit of money in the process.
Human beings have no business driving. I know this statement bothers a lot of people, but the statistics bear it out.
What statistics? Its not like we have a huge pool of data on the number of crashes for autonomous cars driving on normal roads to benchmark it against. Personally, I feel that humans will for a long time still be better driving a car than a machine. Computers are good at dealing with expected information very quickly (trains, monorails, undergrounds, etc) with a small number of variables. But driving a car just has so many potential things that can change, that I genuinely feel it would be nearly impossible to create a computer system that can take into account everything that can change on the roads to thee same level as even a bad driver, at least in the foreseeable future.
Clearly you have not used Opera recently. I've personally been using it as my main browser for about 2 years, and the sheer degree of polish in the windows version is just totally unsurpassed by any browser, aside from it being bloody quick. Use it for a week, you won't go back.
(note: That is the windows version I am talking about. The linux version's UI is a bit off and it is a little slow to load)
I've built systems that can handle hundreds of thousands of users, yes thanks.
No. He asked if you've built systems that are actually used by millions of users. The first user system I ever wrote could theoretically handle hundreds of thousands of users, but it was only ever used by 7.
Reading the comments so far, people tend to suggest that the problem is that 3D in a cinema isn't really 3D because you are still only seeing the single viewpoint that the creator gave you, and not simply whichever way you look. This is true, but its also the problem in itself. Films are an art, a craft, in the same way programming, woodwork and painting is. Giving you a virtual reality vision of a scene is not what the art of film is about, its about showing a scene from exactly the point of view the creator intended to evoke a certain feeling or emotion, not giving the viewer a perfect 1:1 view of the actual scene.
The article mentions that the reports were sent from the nearby Rowan Gorilla II rig. Considering I can see the Rowan Gorilla III currently in docks for maintenance from my window, I can safely tell you its nowhere near that deep. The rig is essentially suspended on 3 massive legs which are lowered to the sea floor when in position. Its actually quite a sight to see it full lifted while in shallow water, its a huge steel structure the size of a couple of football pitches and a good 6 stories tall, lifted 400-500 foot into the air.
kimsufi.co.uk (A subsidiary of OVH) offer a server for £14.99/month with 3TB/month bandwidth. The server itself is a low end celeron, but thats still £0.004/GB on bandwidth, not counting the fact you're also paying for a machine connected to this pipe in that price.
How do people actually manage to use that kind of bandwidth? I personally rarely exceed 50GB/month. To be fair I do own a dedicated server which I download torrents on (among a huge range of other things such as websites for friends), and even that rarely exceeds 150GB/month.
Well its either had a hand in causing the deaths of 154 people, and therefore was a mission critical system. Or it wasn't a mission critical system and the entire article is just a load of sensationalist garbage.
This is so true. I live in scotland, and I'll be travelling down to the south of england next week (8hr train journey). Some of the lines that these modern trains i'll be travelling are running on, are actually more than 100 years old.
"A tool", thats quite an interesting way to look at it, never really thought of that before.
However, I do think the problem with your analysis is that you're trying to think of it in terms of black and white, rather than with any sense of scale. Good things come of this, and bad things come of this, its really just a case of deciding whether the outcome is overall net-positive or net-negative.
I tend to feel its net-positive. I know this is going to sound an incredibly cold and disconnected way to look at it, but people are dying, every day, due to a pointless rich-man's war. I do truly fear for the safety of anyone put in-danger by this leak, but if the end result is that the people responsible for every other death (which are orders of magnitude greater than what could possibly be caused by this leak), then I'm sure that's something that those people would willfully put their lives on the line for.
We live in a fucked up world, there's stupid people all over the planet doing stupid things on a daily basis, we are just the people stuck in the middle who are smart enough to recognise and decent enough to not become the puppet masters ourselves, but equally powerless to do anything about it.
But do we really want that? I'm quite a modern thinking person, but I just feel that stops us being human. What is the point in achieving greatness if you no longer have the emotions to feel it? The friends to celebrate it with? The partners to love?
Sorry, but I just feel its wrong and no amount of logical points will sway my opinion on that simply because its not a "logical" debate to begin with.
Not to slate you in any way, but Ayrshire is the arsehole of the earth. Its a sort of semi-somewhere in the middle of no-where. Even if they improved the local infrastructure, I highly doubt the backbone running there would be capable of providing much more.
Hello, Welcome to the year 2010. In the year 2010, most of us play FPS games online, with other real people. Said people do not like to play you if you are using a cheat (we're talking about aimbots, a plugin that actually aims perfectly at heads for you) to give you a massive unfair advantage.
Well I suppose the solution to that is to not cheat in the first place?
If you're willing to pay a fair bit of money for cheats, there's plenty that remain undetected by VAC, however it does a fantastic job of keeping out cheats most of the time, which always ruins the game for other players. Also as its built into Steam and the engine itself, its easily the least intrusive anti-cheat system around. Since VAC works on recognising known cheats and illegally injected DLL files (as was the case in this instance), there is virtually zero chance of false detection, and as you can see here, they deal with it quickly when there is.
What's different about Chile as a nation compared with the "western world"? I mean in the regard that these allegedly "less-successful" countries seem to vote in people who genuinely want to make their country a better place for all its people rather than corrupt half-wits?
I'm typing this from a machine running linux using Firefox. I'm a great fan of OSS. But really, Photoshop is just light years beyond every other competitor (OSS and Proprietary) in virtually every respect.
Heres a solution and it doesn't even require a new technology; don't add your boss on facebook. Quite frankly its none of his business what you do in your free time.
Although then again, I personally only log on to facebook maybe once every couple of weeks as I just don't see the appeal of telling every person with the remotest social connection to me all about the most intimate details of my private life.
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Yup, my laptop running 10.04 with an Nvidia GeForce 8400M has no issues what so ever with fullscreen flash.
I read your comment thinking "what a dick", but then I reached the last paragraph, and I just feel sorry for you. By the sounds of it, you're so wrapped up in "being successful", that the fact you think you won't be just makes you miserable. The problem you have is that you directly equate "being successful" to "screwing people over". Its possible to do one without the other. I'm not of course saying you can become a multi-billionaire, but why would you want/need more money than you can possibly ever spend? Its possible to run your own buisness, selling to a small niche of the market without screwing people over. Quite simply put, someone else already is, so its easy to undercut them in price while beating them in quality of service. You won't steal their whole customer base, but you can certainly make a size-able dent and a fair bit of money in the process.
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Cheer up.
I just happened to listen to that on my pretty much awful Dell Laptop speakers, and I could still hear the difference. That is truly depressing.
What statistics? Its not like we have a huge pool of data on the number of crashes for autonomous cars driving on normal roads to benchmark it against. Personally, I feel that humans will for a long time still be better driving a car than a machine. Computers are good at dealing with expected information very quickly (trains, monorails, undergrounds, etc) with a small number of variables. But driving a car just has so many potential things that can change, that I genuinely feel it would be nearly impossible to create a computer system that can take into account everything that can change on the roads to thee same level as even a bad driver, at least in the foreseeable future.
Clearly you have not used Opera recently. I've personally been using it as my main browser for about 2 years, and the sheer degree of polish in the windows version is just totally unsurpassed by any browser, aside from it being bloody quick. Use it for a week, you won't go back.
(note: That is the windows version I am talking about. The linux version's UI is a bit off and it is a little slow to load)
Same here. My 3 year old Dell Laptop has a broadcom wifi chipset and this has been the single biggest source of hassle i've had with linux on it.
No. He asked if you've built systems that are actually used by millions of users. The first user system I ever wrote could theoretically handle hundreds of thousands of users, but it was only ever used by 7.
The goverment officials dealing with this have absolutely no understanding of how this law will affect the world for generations to come.
We're getting awfully close to needing the 4th box...
Reading the comments so far, people tend to suggest that the problem is that 3D in a cinema isn't really 3D because you are still only seeing the single viewpoint that the creator gave you, and not simply whichever way you look. This is true, but its also the problem in itself. Films are an art, a craft, in the same way programming, woodwork and painting is. Giving you a virtual reality vision of a scene is not what the art of film is about, its about showing a scene from exactly the point of view the creator intended to evoke a certain feeling or emotion, not giving the viewer a perfect 1:1 view of the actual scene.
The article mentions that the reports were sent from the nearby Rowan Gorilla II rig. Considering I can see the Rowan Gorilla III currently in docks for maintenance from my window, I can safely tell you its nowhere near that deep. The rig is essentially suspended on 3 massive legs which are lowered to the sea floor when in position. Its actually quite a sight to see it full lifted while in shallow water, its a huge steel structure the size of a couple of football pitches and a good 6 stories tall, lifted 400-500 foot into the air.
kimsufi.co.uk (A subsidiary of OVH) offer a server for £14.99/month with 3TB/month bandwidth. The server itself is a low end celeron, but thats still £0.004/GB on bandwidth, not counting the fact you're also paying for a machine connected to this pipe in that price.
How do people actually manage to use that kind of bandwidth? I personally rarely exceed 50GB/month. To be fair I do own a dedicated server which I download torrents on (among a huge range of other things such as websites for friends), and even that rarely exceeds 150GB/month.
Well its either had a hand in causing the deaths of 154 people, and therefore was a mission critical system. Or it wasn't a mission critical system and the entire article is just a load of sensationalist garbage.
This is so true. I live in scotland, and I'll be travelling down to the south of england next week (8hr train journey). Some of the lines that these modern trains i'll be travelling are running on, are actually more than 100 years old.
Here in the UK, my HTC Hero seems to be able to run 48hrs without charge and light usage. Its about 10 months old and still going strong.
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"A tool", thats quite an interesting way to look at it, never really thought of that before.
However, I do think the problem with your analysis is that you're trying to think of it in terms of black and white, rather than with any sense of scale. Good things come of this, and bad things come of this, its really just a case of deciding whether the outcome is overall net-positive or net-negative.
I tend to feel its net-positive. I know this is going to sound an incredibly cold and disconnected way to look at it, but people are dying, every day, due to a pointless rich-man's war. I do truly fear for the safety of anyone put in-danger by this leak, but if the end result is that the people responsible for every other death (which are orders of magnitude greater than what could possibly be caused by this leak), then I'm sure that's something that those people would willfully put their lives on the line for.
We live in a fucked up world, there's stupid people all over the planet doing stupid things on a daily basis, we are just the people stuck in the middle who are smart enough to recognise and decent enough to not become the puppet masters ourselves, but equally powerless to do anything about it.
But do we really want that? I'm quite a modern thinking person, but I just feel that stops us being human. What is the point in achieving greatness if you no longer have the emotions to feel it? The friends to celebrate it with? The partners to love?
Sorry, but I just feel its wrong and no amount of logical points will sway my opinion on that simply because its not a "logical" debate to begin with.
Not to slate you in any way, but Ayrshire is the arsehole of the earth. Its a sort of semi-somewhere in the middle of no-where. Even if they improved the local infrastructure, I highly doubt the backbone running there would be capable of providing much more.
Hello, Welcome to the year 2010. In the year 2010, most of us play FPS games online, with other real people. Said people do not like to play you if you are using a cheat (we're talking about aimbots, a plugin that actually aims perfectly at heads for you) to give you a massive unfair advantage.
Well I suppose the solution to that is to not cheat in the first place?
If you're willing to pay a fair bit of money for cheats, there's plenty that remain undetected by VAC, however it does a fantastic job of keeping out cheats most of the time, which always ruins the game for other players. Also as its built into Steam and the engine itself, its easily the least intrusive anti-cheat system around. Since VAC works on recognising known cheats and illegally injected DLL files (as was the case in this instance), there is virtually zero chance of false detection, and as you can see here, they deal with it quickly when there is.
What exactly is the benefit of this over a conventional mouse?
What's different about Chile as a nation compared with the "western world"? I mean in the regard that these allegedly "less-successful" countries seem to vote in people who genuinely want to make their country a better place for all its people rather than corrupt half-wits?
I'm typing this from a machine running linux using Firefox. I'm a great fan of OSS. But really, Photoshop is just light years beyond every other competitor (OSS and Proprietary) in virtually every respect.
Heres a solution and it doesn't even require a new technology; don't add your boss on facebook. Quite frankly its none of his business what you do in your free time.
Although then again, I personally only log on to facebook maybe once every couple of weeks as I just don't see the appeal of telling every person with the remotest social connection to me all about the most intimate details of my private life.