I agree with you except on Kudos vs. Sims. The basic premise is you control an avatar in a social setting. Seems to be the same idea in both cases. Everything else is just details.
1. He thinks people like Steam for convenience. Maybe. Me, I am just afraid of giving my CC number to an unknown vendor. Sell your game through Steam or Walmart or Amazon or don't get my money.
2. He needs to explain to people how his games are original. What sets Kudos apart from the Sims? In fact his games seem like cheap ripoffs of well known franchises ("Rock Legend", "Starship tycoon" the names alone are enough to make you wonder if these are "Guitar hero" and "[...] tycoon" ripoffs). I may be wrong and they are all original games, I am just talking about the vibe I get from his website.
In short, every aspect of his marketing and distribution needs work.
I had enough empathy not to suggest killing them off outright. Given our overpopulation right now we really should think about genetic cleansing seriously (until the population drops below 1 billion). So I think I showed plenty of empathy.
I just googled for Gantris VI and it seems it is something out of some Starcraft, which may be either a book or a game. But either way, reading http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/United_Powers_League it seems that in this universe "over 400 million people were eradicated". Now here in this reality, we are dealing with 30% of people, so ~1.8 billion. Just so you realize that reality has a way of outdoing imagination.
We should implement this test for all citizens and immediately revoke all civil rights for everyone with this abnormality. This is the first case where people can be accurately defined as sub-human despite looking like one and being able to breed with one. Once we revoke their human rights we should have a popular vote on whether to sterilize them.
A typical electromagnetic pump (IIRC) does have moving parts so the "no moving parts" business suggests it is something to do with E&M and pumping but a bit more exotic. My guess is that the "liquid metal" is a ferrofluid and the cooling mechanism is thermomagnetic convection.
The military is hurting from oil prices pretty badly. I would bet they will be the ones to give real funding to alternative energy projects. A sure sign they have finally pulled their heads out of their asses will be when DoE (or even DoD directly) underwrites all the needed investment in ITER. As for nuclear plants, well, in the short term we will clearly run on coal. Once people realize they are choking then we will go to nuclear. BTW, we should build breeders because they use the fuel to the max. We should be prepared for accidents and such as the cost of maintaining our civilization. Lastly, I think you underestimate the scale of underinvestment in alternative energy research over the years and the scale of investment that is needed now. A trillion dollars has a nice ring to it but it is a pittance compared to what is needed. It is maybe hard to accept but science is expensive and slow. For the next fifty years we are playing a nearly zero-sum game.
Sorry. We are in the era of peak oil. Those who have more guns and stick together win. Most lose. I am an American and I will stick with my fellow Americans. Period. Realpolitik is a team sport.
I assume this interview had as its main goal to help their recruitment efforts. However the guy failed badly. He tried to do two contradictory things at once: define his own language for his work and use common language to relate to us. So the interview sounds nothing short of psychotic. One minute he is spending a paragraph of gibberish to say "we have presence on the net and we have goals to accomplish", the next he speaks like a normal person e.g. about the Patton anecdote. I am a researcher in biology so I am not quite his target audience but I am curious about our military and the opportunities of working with it in a more general sense and such split personality approach is a complete turn-off. The question I have for the guy after this interview is: "Why is it so hard to cut the crap and talk straight? Do they brainwash you or something?"
Do you know how to split the back and forward buttons? I cannot believe I have spent close to a day restoring FF3 to usable state and I am still futzing around with it.
But it could mean that if I were an author of some GPL software and I were to suspect the product from some manufacturer to use my GPL software without giving away source code then it would be OK for me to hack into their systems, "self help" myself to the code and start distributing it. Now there are lots of rumor there that Windows uses GPL code without compliance though no evidence as yet. But that could be enough for someone to legally hack Microsoft and if any small violation were found then to release full Windows source to the public. This could get very interesting very fast.
This can be further upped to 165 K or so with pressure. I got out of superconductivity research a couple of years ago and, regrettably, the record seems to have stayed the same since I last checked way back when.
Noone makes a decent ultraportable yet. I am waiting for 10" 1024x768 (not 1024x600) screen, slate tablet, under 2 lbs, 6 hours or better battery. The Wind sounds quite close actually. A slightly bigger screen and a slate tablet form factor would do it (they already seem to have 7 hours in idle mode).
Somebody above posted that exherbo means to weed in latin. I can believe that, seeing as "ex-" is a prefix with one typical meaning being to remove and "-herbo" shares a root with the English word herb. Still not sure what is so apt about this name, other than it reveals a liking for cryptic crap and a "if you can't figure it out you are dumb so go away" attitude. So in that sense, it is an apt name I guess. In summary, I would hate to see their variable naming conventions.
Has anyone tried recovering data by putting the platter under an AFM and using a magnetic tip? I did surface probe microscopy for a living for many years and to me it seems trivial. You can rent time at a university on a decent AFM and you should be in business though it might be slow going. Has anyone tried it?
I would not trust encryption in this case. You are dealing with an agency or agencies capable of gaining physical access to your computer so the only security worth a lick is guarding yourself against planted mics and the like and keeping it all in your brain. Sounds like the lawyers are doing their job properly.
I think the assumption of iReboot folks was that UAC would insist on asking you anytime the installed software did anything requiring privilege elevation. I think this is a testament to how intrusive the UAC currently is that people assume this as the intended behavior.
Side note: if you do assume that any privileged transaction should require a user prompt then surely allowing services to do admin stuff without prompting the user every time is a flaw.
Sounds like their system is perfect for you. They pull beans from the bottom so they should be full of flavor. The only problem would be if demand for some beans is low and the beans sit waiting for too long.
1. Ban all mailing lists (make them switch to something other than SMTP). Only send emails which go to a few addresses (e.g. less than 10).
2. Allow one email per five minutes per sending address, and ten emails per day.
3. Make contract with e.g. Post Office (USPS in the USA) and only allow new account creation by personally visiting the local post office, paying a fee, and having them create the account for you.
4. Record how many outgoing emails bounce. If more than a few per year then ban the account.
5. Run span filtering on outgoing email. If catch any, ban the account.
6. Most importantly, pass the bill that makes spam not only illegal but punishable by long prison term and do not hesitate to use military force to extract spammers from any nation whether via invasion, covert ops or direct assassination if extraction is impossible. I am serious BTW, if some moron decides to label this funny. Brute force is key here.
I am a scientist so I need this to run data analysis. I also need to be able to play several videos at once during presentations. This would be a machine I would take to conferences. It needs to be small and light so I can lug it around for 12 hours straight, fast as hell so I can work on it. But it can be expensive and need not have an optical drive or even a built-in keyboard.
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You need to get a (better) girlfriend.
Horrible site. Poorly organized, old content, just terrible.
BTW, Fark already has a geek section. Just link to that.
I agree with you except on Kudos vs. Sims. The basic premise is you control an avatar in a social setting. Seems to be the same idea in both cases. Everything else is just details.
1. He thinks people like Steam for convenience. Maybe. Me, I am just afraid of giving my CC number to an unknown vendor. Sell your game through Steam or Walmart or Amazon or don't get my money.
2. He needs to explain to people how his games are original. What sets Kudos apart from the Sims? In fact his games seem like cheap ripoffs of well known franchises ("Rock Legend", "Starship tycoon" the names alone are enough to make you wonder if these are "Guitar hero" and "[...] tycoon" ripoffs). I may be wrong and they are all original games, I am just talking about the vibe I get from his website.
In short, every aspect of his marketing and distribution needs work.
I had enough empathy not to suggest killing them off outright. Given our overpopulation right now we really should think about genetic cleansing seriously (until the population drops below 1 billion). So I think I showed plenty of empathy.
I just googled for Gantris VI and it seems it is something out of some Starcraft, which may be either a book or a game. But either way, reading
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/United_Powers_League
it seems that in this universe "over 400 million people were eradicated".
Now here in this reality, we are dealing with 30% of people, so ~1.8 billion. Just so you realize that reality has a way of outdoing imagination.
We should implement this test for all citizens and immediately revoke all civil rights for everyone with this abnormality. This is the first case where people can be accurately defined as sub-human despite looking like one and being able to breed with one.
Once we revoke their human rights we should have a popular vote on whether to sterilize them.
Somebody mode parent up. I am not a troll. I asked a serious reasonable question and thankfully, I got a meaningful answer now.
Can someone post an example I could possibly listen to for more than one second?
A typical electromagnetic pump (IIRC) does have moving parts so the "no moving parts" business suggests it is something to do with E&M and pumping but a bit more exotic. My guess is that the "liquid metal" is a ferrofluid and the cooling mechanism is thermomagnetic convection.
The military is hurting from oil prices pretty badly. I would bet they will be the ones to give real funding to alternative energy projects. A sure sign they have finally pulled their heads out of their asses will be when DoE (or even DoD directly) underwrites all the needed investment in ITER.
As for nuclear plants, well, in the short term we will clearly run on coal. Once people realize they are choking then we will go to nuclear. BTW, we should build breeders because they use the fuel to the max. We should be prepared for accidents and such as the cost of maintaining our civilization.
Lastly, I think you underestimate the scale of underinvestment in alternative energy research over the years and the scale of investment that is needed now. A trillion dollars has a nice ring to it but it is a pittance compared to what is needed. It is maybe hard to accept but science is expensive and slow. For the next fifty years we are playing a nearly zero-sum game.
Sorry. We are in the era of peak oil. Those who have more guns and stick together win. Most lose. I am an American and I will stick with my fellow Americans. Period. Realpolitik is a team sport.
I assume this interview had as its main goal to help their recruitment efforts. However the guy failed badly. He tried to do two contradictory things at once: define his own language for his work and use common language to relate to us. So the interview sounds nothing short of psychotic. One minute he is spending a paragraph of gibberish to say "we have presence on the net and we have goals to accomplish", the next he speaks like a normal person e.g. about the Patton anecdote.
I am a researcher in biology so I am not quite his target audience but I am curious about our military and the opportunities of working with it in a more general sense and such split personality approach is a complete turn-off.
The question I have for the guy after this interview is: "Why is it so hard to cut the crap and talk straight? Do they brainwash you or something?"
Do you know how to split the back and forward buttons? I cannot believe I have spent close to a day restoring FF3 to usable state and I am still futzing around with it.
But it could mean that if I were an author of some GPL software and I were to suspect the product from some manufacturer to use my GPL software without giving away source code then it would be OK for me to hack into their systems, "self help" myself to the code and start distributing it. Now there are lots of rumor there that Windows uses GPL code without compliance though no evidence as yet. But that could be enough for someone to legally hack Microsoft and if any small violation were found then to release full Windows source to the public. This could get very interesting very fast.
Jobs went with ATT because they were the biggest carrier. Would not surpirse me if iphone were now exclusively for Verizon.
This can be further upped to 165 K or so with pressure. I got out of superconductivity research a couple of years ago and, regrettably, the record seems to have stayed the same since I last checked way back when.
Noone makes a decent ultraportable yet. I am waiting for 10" 1024x768 (not 1024x600) screen, slate tablet, under 2 lbs, 6 hours or better battery. The Wind sounds quite close actually. A slightly bigger screen and a slate tablet form factor would do it (they already seem to have 7 hours in idle mode).
Somebody above posted that exherbo means to weed in latin. I can believe that, seeing as "ex-" is a prefix with one typical meaning being to remove and "-herbo" shares a root with the English word herb. Still not sure what is so apt about this name, other than it reveals a liking for cryptic crap and a "if you can't figure it out you are dumb so go away" attitude. So in that sense, it is an apt name I guess. In summary, I would hate to see their variable naming conventions.
Has anyone tried recovering data by putting the platter under an AFM and using a magnetic tip?
I did surface probe microscopy for a living for many years and to me it seems trivial. You can rent time at a university on a decent AFM and you should be in business though it might be slow going.
Has anyone tried it?
I would not trust encryption in this case. You are dealing with an agency or agencies capable of gaining physical access to your computer so the only security worth a lick is guarding yourself against planted mics and the like and keeping it all in your brain. Sounds like the lawyers are doing their job properly.
I think the assumption of iReboot folks was that UAC would insist on asking you anytime the installed software did anything requiring privilege elevation. I think this is a testament to how intrusive the UAC currently is that people assume this as the intended behavior.
Side note: if you do assume that any privileged transaction should require a user prompt then surely allowing services to do admin stuff without prompting the user every time is a flaw.
Sounds like their system is perfect for you. They pull beans from the bottom so they should be full of flavor. The only problem would be if demand for some beans is low and the beans sit waiting for too long.
1. Ban all mailing lists (make them switch to something other than SMTP). Only send emails which go to a few addresses (e.g. less than 10).
2. Allow one email per five minutes per sending address, and ten emails per day.
3. Make contract with e.g. Post Office (USPS in the USA) and only allow new account creation by personally visiting the local post office, paying a fee, and having them create the account for you.
4. Record how many outgoing emails bounce. If more than a few per year then ban the account.
5. Run span filtering on outgoing email. If catch any, ban the account.
6. Most importantly, pass the bill that makes spam not only illegal but punishable by long prison term and do not hesitate to use military force to extract spammers from any nation whether via invasion, covert ops or direct assassination if extraction is impossible. I am serious BTW, if some moron decides to label this funny. Brute force is key here.
>>solve instances of NP-Complete problems
I am a scientist so I need this to run data analysis. I also need to be able to play several videos at once during presentations. This would be a machine I would take to conferences. It needs to be small and light so I can lug it around for 12 hours straight, fast as hell so I can work on it. But it can be expensive and need not have an optical drive or even a built-in keyboard.