I look forward to having up to the minute information on my sports scores from ESPN.com while playing Gordon Freeman in Half-Life 5.
Even scientists have time to stop and whip out their trusty iPod touch, right?
So we've gone from a two in 90,000 chance of being whacked upside the head 27 years from now to a one in two hundred-fifty thousand chance.
Great
What is the real use in this? When, within reasonable (I'm not a scientist, but lets use an 85% confidence interval) levels of knowing, would we be able to determine that in fact, yes, this thing is or is not going to hit us? It's certainly not now, 27 years prior. Is it a year prior? six months? A month? A day? And, once we reach that date, do we have the resources/funding to have a defense system or contingency plan set up in time? Knowing chances and all is great, but we're not going to build a bruce willis-mobile 27 years in the future.
The article states that they aren't being given the funding to further fund research centers for adequate testing. Politics aside - is there any funding (and more importantly, scientific viability) for preventative action for any of this, or are we just providing confidence intervals of our ultimate doom?
Then they don't suffer such fascist oppression. Unless, of course, their country happens to have an extradition treaty with the US...
I'm no law expert, maybe someone here is. How exactly does this work when dealing with things like:
Non-US citizen blogging on a US owned server
Non-US citizen blogging within the USA's physical geographical borders
US citizen blogging outside of borders (IE: Canada)
US Citizen blogging outside of borders on a machine that resides on a server outside the US
Basically, what are the virtual and physical borders (if any) of this law? Is this going to end up being something else that just gets taken offshore, like all the internet gambling sites today seem to be doing?
I could have told you this for free. Only study required is you to sit in my car while I'm stuck in traffic and make games about how I can "beat" the guy next to me.
My personal favourite is "Change lanes with him every time he tries to pass me"
This is a terribly dull, and not all that great idea.
The last thing I need is some goofball calling me with a 4-flush on the river because he can't hit the orange button easily enough.
Now, if I can get some sort of KVM-like gonzo so i can switch between rocking out on my plastic guitar and folding J-3 offsuit in another 2 hour session, then I might be interested.
I'm not familiar with websense, or any other software based (presumably) web filtering, but ANY decent piece of hardware configured as your ultimate entry point for all traffic outside the network, can EASILY filter a majority of the porn sites out there (not to mention all the other illicit activities).And that's not something a senior executive can just bypass.
(Again, unfamiliar with websense, which is probably the much cheaper alternative to all of this. Both options are less than $58,000 most likely)
While I found this read interesting, I was a little disappointed to find much of his evidence random strings of numerical data. I'm sure anyone here can infer the cost savings and increased support in moving from an MS office to OpenOffice suite scheme within their enterprise, or transitioning from [Microsoft Product X] to [Opensource Magic Y].
On the other hand though, there's no insight as to how to deal with the seemingly obvious problem of our interdependency on these licensed products. I'm a database developer where I work, so speaking from where this impacts me the most, I can appreciate simple things like leveraging MySQL or other free source apps where appropriate. On the same vein, I don't see how reading this article immediately makes me jump up and go "Oh! Let's transition off of oracle for our company wide HR system."
There's a reason all of these products have kept themselves going over the past 10, 15, etc years - and its more than just marketing and capitalism at work. Saying you can completely replace all or most of your IT resources with open source initiatives is ambitious at best, and completely ignorant at worst.
This seems to be the popular trend throughout the thread - this is all fine and dandy. In fact, for someone like me, they don't even care as the brand of hardware I use isn't compatible with their headphones to begin with.
Point being - if I'm a well known brand like Sony, I don't want to spend all this R&D and marketing towards something new and great, and have my closing line be "Hey go buy something else!".
I'm not complaining about the headphones - like I said I wouldn't ever have the chance to use them. I do however question why if they're going to produce something this necessarily complex they aren't going to offer functionality that seems like it would appease at least a large enough portion of their target audience.
I'm lucky enough to have a policy at work that allows me to both bring my iPod in to work with me, as well as listen to it while working so long as I keep it reasonably quiet. I frequently (always?) use the "one bud in, one bud out" method so that I don't miss important things like actual conversations with co-workers.
For people like me who use this listening style, this would be pointless. Surely they've considered this and have an option to alter the pause mechanics?
From a business standpoint this makes little to zero financial sense - adding developers which come at a cost disadvantage to support what the online community happily does for free?
As long as the LUA backend is in place to support these changes, such as equipment manager, etc, and blizzard isn't losing revenue by "Outsourcing" the work - you've basically got an even cheaper, more competent version of India.
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"At least the Internet's been in office longer than Obama"
I look forward to having up to the minute information on my sports scores from ESPN.com while playing Gordon Freeman in Half-Life 5. Even scientists have time to stop and whip out their trusty iPod touch, right?
So we've gone from a two in 90,000 chance of being whacked upside the head 27 years from now to a one in two hundred-fifty thousand chance.
Great
What is the real use in this? When, within reasonable (I'm not a scientist, but lets use an 85% confidence interval) levels of knowing, would we be able to determine that in fact, yes, this thing is or is not going to hit us? It's certainly not now, 27 years prior. Is it a year prior? six months? A month? A day? And, once we reach that date, do we have the resources/funding to have a defense system or contingency plan set up in time? Knowing chances and all is great, but we're not going to build a bruce willis-mobile 27 years in the future.
The article states that they aren't being given the funding to further fund research centers for adequate testing. Politics aside - is there any funding (and more importantly, scientific viability) for preventative action for any of this, or are we just providing confidence intervals of our ultimate doom?
Because real applications should be measured in characters
Maybe we'll actually see Mark Hamill in a motion picture again, after all these years! He was pretty fantastic in robot chicken, though.
Then they don't suffer such fascist oppression. Unless, of course, their country happens to have an extradition treaty with the US...
I'm no law expert, maybe someone here is. How exactly does this work when dealing with things like:
Basically, what are the virtual and physical borders (if any) of this law? Is this going to end up being something else that just gets taken offshore, like all the internet gambling sites today seem to be doing?
Because 122 characters should be enough for anybody.
I could have told you this for free. Only study required is you to sit in my car while I'm stuck in traffic and make games about how I can "beat" the guy next to me.
My personal favourite is "Change lanes with him every time he tries to pass me"
This is a terribly dull, and not all that great idea. The last thing I need is some goofball calling me with a 4-flush on the river because he can't hit the orange button easily enough. Now, if I can get some sort of KVM-like gonzo so i can switch between rocking out on my plastic guitar and folding J-3 offsuit in another 2 hour session, then I might be interested.
(Again, unfamiliar with websense, which is probably the much cheaper alternative to all of this. Both options are less than $58,000 most likely)
While I found this read interesting, I was a little disappointed to find much of his evidence random strings of numerical data. I'm sure anyone here can infer the cost savings and increased support in moving from an MS office to OpenOffice suite scheme within their enterprise, or transitioning from [Microsoft Product X] to [Opensource Magic Y]. On the other hand though, there's no insight as to how to deal with the seemingly obvious problem of our interdependency on these licensed products. I'm a database developer where I work, so speaking from where this impacts me the most, I can appreciate simple things like leveraging MySQL or other free source apps where appropriate. On the same vein, I don't see how reading this article immediately makes me jump up and go "Oh! Let's transition off of oracle for our company wide HR system." There's a reason all of these products have kept themselves going over the past 10, 15, etc years - and its more than just marketing and capitalism at work. Saying you can completely replace all or most of your IT resources with open source initiatives is ambitious at best, and completely ignorant at worst.
Looks like the dealer... .... [series of long dramatic pauses] .... ...had more than weed up his sleeve.
(Yeeeeeahhhhhh!!)
Looks like its time to start moving assets into http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:JACK
This seems to be the popular trend throughout the thread - this is all fine and dandy. In fact, for someone like me, they don't even care as the brand of hardware I use isn't compatible with their headphones to begin with. Point being - if I'm a well known brand like Sony, I don't want to spend all this R&D and marketing towards something new and great, and have my closing line be "Hey go buy something else!". I'm not complaining about the headphones - like I said I wouldn't ever have the chance to use them. I do however question why if they're going to produce something this necessarily complex they aren't going to offer functionality that seems like it would appease at least a large enough portion of their target audience.
I'm lucky enough to have a policy at work that allows me to both bring my iPod in to work with me, as well as listen to it while working so long as I keep it reasonably quiet. I frequently (always?) use the "one bud in, one bud out" method so that I don't miss important things like actual conversations with co-workers. For people like me who use this listening style, this would be pointless. Surely they've considered this and have an option to alter the pause mechanics?
Don't worry, things labeled nukem have a habit of never getting finished.
From a business standpoint this makes little to zero financial sense - adding developers which come at a cost disadvantage to support what the online community happily does for free? As long as the LUA backend is in place to support these changes, such as equipment manager, etc, and blizzard isn't losing revenue by "Outsourcing" the work - you've basically got an even cheaper, more competent version of India.
You wouldn't be surprised at the number of people who DO try to run application servers underneath their own desk in the corporate world.