Still, Jeff Goldblum's power book hacking into and planting a virus in highly advanced space faring alien architecture has to be my favourite. Don't know if that made the list.
It was actually available Friday, but over 100,000 guests logged into Mektek's servers and crashed their website.
MTX, the distribution software they created that works kind of like a blizzard patcher, mixed with a matchmaking system, had a flaw in its design that required the web servers to be up in order for the patched Free version to work.
I don't know if they've fixed that yet, but the website just came back up today (after being down all weekend).
It's not really over-reacting, things ARE pretty bad. I'm no marine biologist, but the last time I checked, most creatures have some variable level of tolerance when it comes to acidification and warming. That being said, we've still managed to kill a lot of creatures by affecting those changes. Ecosystems still have trouble recovering after a regular oil tanker spill.
And I am not aware of any creature that was able to survive an oil spill without human aid. Now, normally aiding creatures is in the process of cleaning it up, but we haven't even hit that part yet, its still uncontained.
How many creatures would normally migrate through the gulf but won't be able to this year? This is going to unbalance a lot more than just the gulf.
Yeah. Exactly. GP, have you been submitting good thorough bug reports? Sometimes the automated report doesn't give them enough info, perhaps you should be on their forums or whatever helping them out.
If you have, then I'm sure it'll likely be resolved by release date.
I was under the impression that you weren't supposed to wear the American Flag on your clothing or bags or anything, as it was considered a sign of disrespect? Like you put your clothes in a drawer, or on the floor, you sweat. All the nasty stuff that could happen will happen to the flag, and thats frowned upon.
At least, thats what I heard. And I hear Americans make fun of Canadians for putting our flag on just about everything. But you can't believe everything you hear.
I'm all for supporting a cause, but there are few organizations more ridiculous than Greenpeace. (I'll mention PETA to get it out of the way, but lets not derail).
My mother works for a certain Oil and Gas Company here in Canada. A rather Large one. She was actually one of the people who helped start the oilsands projects, which I agree is terrible for the environment but has made Canada a little more self sufficient, so I'm torn on whether its a good or a bad thing. Anyways, the position she happens to hold is the Environmental/Health and Safety Director. So she has quite a few interesting stories regarding GreenPeace. On some matters, she can't even tell me what happened, confidential information. (Since this is the internet I'm trying not to disclose any information I shouldn't).
But I do remember Greenpeace, rather than just protesting or picketting, they went and snuck their way into one of the refineries up there. They wanted to set up a banner or something atop one of the structures. The pathway they chose was along this big conveyor belt, which they had shut down, and started to climb. So, now not only had they commited a break and enter on private company property, but they were also disrupting the clockwork system those kinds of factories set up. Now, just about any incompetant foreman could have turned on the conveyor belt again, and the Greenpeace activists would have been pushed into a big fiery pit, but of course they don't hire morons for foremen, and he caught on right away what was going on. I don't know exactly how it all ended, but some arrests were made.
Anyways, the more I look into Greenpeace and what they do, the more I hate them. However noble their cause might be, the idiocy in their actions strikes me as unbelievable. This is NOT how you bring about change.
Even if you wanted to leave the States - saying "I don't like the government so I want to leave the country" will probably get you put on the Terrorist Watch list, strip searched at the airport, abused and arrested for an indisclosed period of time.
I don't think I'd trust these guys in a security firm more than I'd trust a pickpocket with my wallet.
There are white hats and black hats. But also, there are grey hats, ones who will write malware and then turn around for a pretty penny to build security for it. Let's just say, I wouldn't give someone that opportunity, especially with their history.
That's a scary thought, how quickly you could conceivably go from productive member of society to homeless.
I spent some time 2 years ago in that rut, About August 2008 to January 2009. Being a recent Graduate, I didn't have the experience other laid off people had, so I found it extremely difficult to find a job. Monster.com, Workopolis, newspapers, billboards, anything and everything. I put my heart and soul into finding a job, but everyone wanted 5+ years experience in this or that.
However, I had a few really good breaks that helped me get through it. #1) I got a job at Chapters (Indigo), for 10 bucks an hour recieving and opening boxes of books and putting them on the shelf. It wasn't glorious, or anything I was educated for, pretty much what you could get straight out of high school, or even as a summer job DURING high school. It paid the phone bill and my food, but not a whole lot else.
#2) The hardest part, is trying to tell your landlord "I can not afford next months rent, or the month after, and I don't know when I'll be able to." - I didn't have a whole lot saved up having just gotten out of school. Luckily, she didn't sue me to my bottom penny for breaking the lease early. Basically, we just agreed that the damage deposit would be next months rent and I'd have to be out of there.
#3) Friends. I have had some disagreements with my father, so moving back in with my parents wasn't going to happen. However, I made friends during high school, and we've always kept in touch. More than that, we still hang out, to this day. And during Post secondary, I met a lot of good people, who I wouldn't consider good friends but they help during a pinch. I was quite literally homeless, with nothing but a car full of laundry and a laptop. I rotated through my friends on who's couch I could sleep on, so I didn't become a big burden on anybody. This was when it paid to have lots of friends on Facebook. A status Update "Officially Homeless" basically got me tons of offers to crash for a while. I would probably have been sleeping in my car if it weren't for my friends, and I don't even know where I would have gone to shower.
Thing is, being laid off really does suck. It'd be nice to have yourself financially prepared, but not everyone has that luxury.The trick is that you really have to lower your standards to get by, like a minimum wage job. I had even take up part time at Dairy Queen so that I could save up money even if I wasn't going to find an IT related job quickly. During my Interview for my current job they asked "Where are you working now?" and I told them "I work as a merchandiser for Chapters and a cook at Dairy Queen." That inspired some kind of sympathy, and I was pretty much offered the job on the spot. I think just showing that putting in the effort even at crap jobs impresses an employer more than someone saying "I was laid off from my DBA position a month ago".
With the advent of the internet, you can essentially report earthquakes world-wide rather quickly. I believe there was an XKCD comic that demonstrated if someone posted on twitter about an earthquake as fast as they could as soon as they felt it, people more than 100km out might read the tweet a few moments before it hits them. While not really practical as an alarm system, it shows the efficiency of the net, meaning that international support teams can be notified in minutes as opposed to multiple hours, or even days.
Since people have been shown to be more willing to donate to charities during a crisis, every possible crisis has been reported. Had the Earthquake in Haiti happened a few decades ago, I doubt it would have garnered much of a news report, perhaps a 20 second segment. Now that AID Agencies make enough to push airtime on the news about disasters, you'll be seeing a lot more of them.
But the real issue of the article is that some political figure in the Middle East is blaming Earthquakes on women wearing unflattering clothing. The idea of Boobquake was that women would wear scantily promiscuous clothing on April the 26th (and they did! What an amazing day) - to see if this would cause an Earthquake worth mentioning. Guess what? Nothing happened.
As a kid, we'll say you SHOULD be getting 9 hours of sleep a night. Thats what the health experts say, anyways, especially for teens.
So we're down to 15 hours already. Okay, lets say an hour for each of your 3 meals. Normally breakfast is a bit quicker and dinner is a bit longer, but it should all even out. So 12 hours. Lets say you want 3 hours of some kind of lessons. 9 hours. 3 hours for video games? 6 hours left.
Thats 6 hours left to exercise outside, is that not an incredibly high amount? That's almost as much as a day job. These kids should BE so lucky.
It truly is amazing. Girls who get Pregnant like symptoms when they really want to be pregnant. People who catch an actual cold when they call in sick for work faking it. It's all around us. My girlfriend says that like 6 of the 7 pills she takes are placebos, its only the mondays that are actual birth control. The rest of it is just to get her into the swing of taking a pill each morning, or subconciously help that taking a pill each day has more of an effect.
In fact, I think that since I believe pizza is healthy for me, my body stays healthier when I eat it. I mean, its got your dairy products(cheese), your grain products (dough), some veggies (tomato paste), and meat products (pepperoni!). Thats like, Half the food pyramid right there right?
Before you all point out how much flawed logic there is up in that last section, let me point out that I am still under 130 pounds, and I put most of the blame on the placebo effect of truly believing that fried potatos in any form still constitute a vegitable, contrary to what Jamie Oliver might say.
Honestly, this push for 2-legged robots seems pretty silly, and the only reason it's done is because they look more like us.
Its not just because they LOOK more like us - you basically demonstrated half the reasons in your post. They move like us, they have to handle the same stresses as us. Agreed - the human form is not the most efficient for gathering materials or effective travelling on harsh ground. However, we can learn what traveling on the ground would be like for a human WITHOUT sending a human, and thats why you would send a humanoid robot.
It's job is to be drawing the Japanese Flag on the moon. Which, in case you haven't noticed, looks a lot like a crater, so its not like the moon isn't already covered in Japanese flags. This mission is not going to be so much about efficient robotics as it is about getting people into the idea of space travel.
Game Design and Development does not mean you are going to sit there and dictate to a bunch of programmers what kind of game you want. Rather, you are going to learn how to program a game and how its design will influence your programming.
It just usually happens that because Game development is a field where the leaders are usually in it for the fun of creating games, they aren't going to give up their positions for a better job at another company.
If you started as a level designer in EA or Microsoft, I don't think you will ever get to lead designer, unless the current lead designer decides to create his own startup. He probably gets paid well enough, has a reasonable amount of job stability (because if it doesn't sell, blame the pirates), and enjoys what he is doing.
If he leaves, the borg company will purchase a smaller dev company and make their lead developer the new lead. It's not the first time it has happened.
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Try booting up Windows ME on an old Gateway. If you don't get blue screens and beeps every 3 minutes you've managed more than I ever could.
Still, Jeff Goldblum's power book hacking into and planting a virus in highly advanced space faring alien architecture has to be my favourite. Don't know if that made the list.
It was actually available Friday, but over 100,000 guests logged into Mektek's servers and crashed their website.
MTX, the distribution software they created that works kind of like a blizzard patcher, mixed with a matchmaking system, had a flaw in its design that required the web servers to be up in order for the patched Free version to work.
I don't know if they've fixed that yet, but the website just came back up today (after being down all weekend).
And now its been slashdotted, way to go.
I'd mod this up if I had points.
What are you running on? You've Piqued my interest
It's not really over-reacting, things ARE pretty bad. I'm no marine biologist, but the last time I checked, most creatures have some variable level of tolerance when it comes to acidification and warming. That being said, we've still managed to kill a lot of creatures by affecting those changes. Ecosystems still have trouble recovering after a regular oil tanker spill.
And I am not aware of any creature that was able to survive an oil spill without human aid. Now, normally aiding creatures is in the process of cleaning it up, but we haven't even hit that part yet, its still uncontained.
How many creatures would normally migrate through the gulf but won't be able to this year? This is going to unbalance a lot more than just the gulf.
Yeah. Exactly. GP, have you been submitting good thorough bug reports? Sometimes the automated report doesn't give them enough info, perhaps you should be on their forums or whatever helping them out.
If you have, then I'm sure it'll likely be resolved by release date.
I was under the impression that you weren't supposed to wear the American Flag on your clothing or bags or anything, as it was considered a sign of disrespect? Like you put your clothes in a drawer, or on the floor, you sweat. All the nasty stuff that could happen will happen to the flag, and thats frowned upon.
At least, thats what I heard. And I hear Americans make fun of Canadians for putting our flag on just about everything. But you can't believe everything you hear.
I'm all for supporting a cause, but there are few organizations more ridiculous than Greenpeace. (I'll mention PETA to get it out of the way, but lets not derail).
My mother works for a certain Oil and Gas Company here in Canada. A rather Large one. She was actually one of the people who helped start the oilsands projects, which I agree is terrible for the environment but has made Canada a little more self sufficient, so I'm torn on whether its a good or a bad thing. Anyways, the position she happens to hold is the Environmental/Health and Safety Director. So she has quite a few interesting stories regarding GreenPeace. On some matters, she can't even tell me what happened, confidential information. (Since this is the internet I'm trying not to disclose any information I shouldn't).
But I do remember Greenpeace, rather than just protesting or picketting, they went and snuck their way into one of the refineries up there. They wanted to set up a banner or something atop one of the structures. The pathway they chose was along this big conveyor belt, which they had shut down, and started to climb. So, now not only had they commited a break and enter on private company property, but they were also disrupting the clockwork system those kinds of factories set up. Now, just about any incompetant foreman could have turned on the conveyor belt again, and the Greenpeace activists would have been pushed into a big fiery pit, but of course they don't hire morons for foremen, and he caught on right away what was going on. I don't know exactly how it all ended, but some arrests were made.
Anyways, the more I look into Greenpeace and what they do, the more I hate them. However noble their cause might be, the idiocy in their actions strikes me as unbelievable. This is NOT how you bring about change.
Even if you wanted to leave the States - saying "I don't like the government so I want to leave the country" will probably get you put on the Terrorist Watch list, strip searched at the airport, abused and arrested for an indisclosed period of time.
It's more like Love it or else.
I don't think I'd trust these guys in a security firm more than I'd trust a pickpocket with my wallet.
There are white hats and black hats. But also, there are grey hats, ones who will write malware and then turn around for a pretty penny to build security for it. Let's just say, I wouldn't give someone that opportunity, especially with their history.
That's a scary thought, how quickly you could conceivably go from productive member of society to homeless.
I spent some time 2 years ago in that rut, About August 2008 to January 2009. Being a recent Graduate, I didn't have the experience other laid off people had, so I found it extremely difficult to find a job. Monster.com, Workopolis, newspapers, billboards, anything and everything. I put my heart and soul into finding a job, but everyone wanted 5+ years experience in this or that.
However, I had a few really good breaks that helped me get through it.
#1) I got a job at Chapters (Indigo), for 10 bucks an hour recieving and opening boxes of books and putting them on the shelf. It wasn't glorious, or anything I was educated for, pretty much what you could get straight out of high school, or even as a summer job DURING high school. It paid the phone bill and my food, but not a whole lot else.
#2) The hardest part, is trying to tell your landlord "I can not afford next months rent, or the month after, and I don't know when I'll be able to." - I didn't have a whole lot saved up having just gotten out of school. Luckily, she didn't sue me to my bottom penny for breaking the lease early. Basically, we just agreed that the damage deposit would be next months rent and I'd have to be out of there.
#3) Friends. I have had some disagreements with my father, so moving back in with my parents wasn't going to happen. However, I made friends during high school, and we've always kept in touch. More than that, we still hang out, to this day. And during Post secondary, I met a lot of good people, who I wouldn't consider good friends but they help during a pinch. I was quite literally homeless, with nothing but a car full of laundry and a laptop. I rotated through my friends on who's couch I could sleep on, so I didn't become a big burden on anybody. This was when it paid to have lots of friends on Facebook. A status Update "Officially Homeless" basically got me tons of offers to crash for a while. I would probably have been sleeping in my car if it weren't for my friends, and I don't even know where I would have gone to shower.
Thing is, being laid off really does suck. It'd be nice to have yourself financially prepared, but not everyone has that luxury.The trick is that you really have to lower your standards to get by, like a minimum wage job. I had even take up part time at Dairy Queen so that I could save up money even if I wasn't going to find an IT related job quickly. During my Interview for my current job they asked "Where are you working now?" and I told them "I work as a merchandiser for Chapters and a cook at Dairy Queen." That inspired some kind of sympathy, and I was pretty much offered the job on the spot. I think just showing that putting in the effort even at crap jobs impresses an employer more than someone saying "I was laid off from my DBA position a month ago".
Actually, Google plans to cause rolling blackouts globally, in an energy scheme they are calling "Night and Day".
With the advent of the internet, you can essentially report earthquakes world-wide rather quickly. I believe there was an XKCD comic that demonstrated if someone posted on twitter about an earthquake as fast as they could as soon as they felt it, people more than 100km out might read the tweet a few moments before it hits them. While not really practical as an alarm system, it shows the efficiency of the net, meaning that international support teams can be notified in minutes as opposed to multiple hours, or even days.
Since people have been shown to be more willing to donate to charities during a crisis, every possible crisis has been reported. Had the Earthquake in Haiti happened a few decades ago, I doubt it would have garnered much of a news report, perhaps a 20 second segment. Now that AID Agencies make enough to push airtime on the news about disasters, you'll be seeing a lot more of them.
But the real issue of the article is that some political figure in the Middle East is blaming Earthquakes on women wearing unflattering clothing. The idea of Boobquake was that women would wear scantily promiscuous clothing on April the 26th (and they did! What an amazing day) - to see if this would cause an Earthquake worth mentioning. Guess what? Nothing happened.
Requires more effort on their part.
24 hours in a day.
As a kid, we'll say you SHOULD be getting 9 hours of sleep a night. Thats what the health experts say, anyways, especially for teens.
So we're down to 15 hours already. Okay, lets say an hour for each of your 3 meals. Normally breakfast is a bit quicker and dinner is a bit longer, but it should all even out. So 12 hours. Lets say you want 3 hours of some kind of lessons. 9 hours. 3 hours for video games? 6 hours left.
Thats 6 hours left to exercise outside, is that not an incredibly high amount? That's almost as much as a day job. These kids should BE so lucky.
Just before the animated cartoon series.
It truly is amazing. Girls who get Pregnant like symptoms when they really want to be pregnant. People who catch an actual cold when they call in sick for work faking it. It's all around us. My girlfriend says that like 6 of the 7 pills she takes are placebos, its only the mondays that are actual birth control. The rest of it is just to get her into the swing of taking a pill each morning, or subconciously help that taking a pill each day has more of an effect.
In fact, I think that since I believe pizza is healthy for me, my body stays healthier when I eat it. I mean, its got your dairy products(cheese), your grain products (dough), some veggies (tomato paste), and meat products (pepperoni!). Thats like, Half the food pyramid right there right?
Before you all point out how much flawed logic there is up in that last section, let me point out that I am still under 130 pounds, and I put most of the blame on the placebo effect of truly believing that fried potatos in any form still constitute a vegitable, contrary to what Jamie Oliver might say.
You have nothing to worry about. No one cares that you visit slashdot, and if you get good kharma, you can even turn off the ads.
I can look around the room and find hundreds of pieces of pre-internet history.
Is there any other point you can try and sell me on?
Honestly, this push for 2-legged robots seems pretty silly, and the only reason it's done is because they look more like us.
Its not just because they LOOK more like us - you basically demonstrated half the reasons in your post. They move like us, they have to handle the same stresses as us. Agreed - the human form is not the most efficient for gathering materials or effective travelling on harsh ground. However, we can learn what traveling on the ground would be like for a human WITHOUT sending a human, and thats why you would send a humanoid robot.
It's job is to be drawing the Japanese Flag on the moon. Which, in case you haven't noticed, looks a lot like a crater, so its not like the moon isn't already covered in Japanese flags. This mission is not going to be so much about efficient robotics as it is about getting people into the idea of space travel.
Game Design and Development does not mean you are going to sit there and dictate to a bunch of programmers what kind of game you want. Rather, you are going to learn how to program a game and how its design will influence your programming.
Oh God yes. Mod up for +1 Truthfulness.
Hopefully by the end of July. Gotta move into a place that allows a business line so that my ISP doesn't block port 80.
Hey, MD5 was perfectly fine until your type started investigating it.
See, we've had Quantum Encryption for a while now!
It just usually happens that because Game development is a field where the leaders are usually in it for the fun of creating games, they aren't going to give up their positions for a better job at another company.
If you started as a level designer in EA or Microsoft, I don't think you will ever get to lead designer, unless the current lead designer decides to create his own startup. He probably gets paid well enough, has a reasonable amount of job stability (because if it doesn't sell, blame the pirates), and enjoys what he is doing.
If he leaves, the borg company will purchase a smaller dev company and make their lead developer the new lead. It's not the first time it has happened.