I know I might be playing devil's advocate here, but:
The HR rep began the meeting by asking me if I had noticed that *I* was the common theme in all of the reports I had been making, and that if I had ever considered that I might be the problem.
This worries me. What if HR are onto something? Can we fully trust her account of what happened here?
The football players have flushed your chess pieces and stuffed you in your locker, yet you still hope that if you just stick it out you will (a) magically become one of the popular kids or (b) wait a year and hope that Principal Trump will see fit to take your side.
Funny, but totally wrong. And I very much doubt you're going to find many Trump supporters in the astronomy community...
Before joining the TMT, China was developing its own similar design and was scouting its own locations on the Tibetan Plateau above 5000m.
Oh, they still are. But that site is pretty remote, and higher altitude doesn't automatically mean better seeing.
Astronomer here, I live and work on the Big Island. You are completely wrong to assume this means the end of TMT in Hawaii, it was pretty much what was expected to happen after the state supreme court vacated the permit last December. While the new permitting process is going to take more time (months or years, nobody knows for sure), TMT seem to be taking their time deciding on their next step and are still hoping to continue as planned. I have heard nothing that would suggest otherwise. Please understand a big project like that doesn't just up and leave after having so much invested. Supporters of the TMT here (of which there are plenty) are still hoping a new, watertight permit will come out of all this. Frankly, we're more shocked by the recent news about another batch of anti-TMT protesters being acquitted because they claimed to have "prevented a greater harm from occurring". But then again, this is Hawaii, and that's how things work here.
This submission text is tainted by the poster's personal opinions - opinions which are, to say the very least, not unanimously shared. If you read the article it is striking how Lamo seems completely bereft of any sympathy for Manning, how he might have possibly fooled him into confessing by promising to treat it in confidence - and how he likes to hide behind complex (made up?) words and phrases instead of answering the interviewer's questions directly. One for the psychologists...
While there have been some massive steps forward in terms of what games can and are willing to do story-wise though, plot is actually the aspect of game design which has come on the least in the last twenty years.
Graham Linehan recently said on Charlie Brooker’s GamesWipe that he thinks a lot of that is because game designers don’t read enough books and that modern games are made by people who watch more films than they read stories. He’s probably onto something there, we reckon – especially when you consider the rambling nonsense which is the Metal Gear Solid series.
Stop sounding like an idiot and jumping to conclusions. I don't even own a Mac. But the OP's assertion that an "11 button" mouse is somehow more ergonomical than one with a few buttons is simply not true. And I don't care who makes this supposedly more ergonomical mouse, but this thread is about *Apple*'s new mouse, is it not?
You're being sarcastic, right? Why the hell would anyone want to have an 11-button monster pointing device on their desk? More than a few buttons is just silly on a mouse IMHO and in this case "less is more" really does apply.
No, it's not mineral oil he's submerged his computer in, it is in fact vegetable oil! Had you accepted my submission, oh CmdrTaco, this little typo would never have crept in....
This whole SACD stuff is just a sneaky way of trying to replace the CD with something the RIAA and their minions have more control over. The audio CD's acoustic format is sufficient even for the finest ear. I challenge anyone to be able to distinguish CD from SACD in a blind listening test. See something like this thread on Hydrogen Audio if you don't believe me...
Well, they were saying it will be the German robots versus the beautiful Brazilians, but that was all wrong! Germany came out with guns blazing and dare I say, in the first half they even dominated the Brazilians. Unfortunately though, they were unable so score any goals (something which tends to be vital in football) whereas Ronaldo showed once again he is the world's best striker. That was the difference between the two teams tonight! Hats off to Germany, congratulations Brazil. And see you in 2006... will I really have to wait another 4 years?!:(
As some of you might already have noticed, the author of yEnc responds to several of the points raised in his FAQ (scroll down to near the end of the page). His replies (to questions such as "Some people say that yEnc is badly designed and was rushed without proper discussion. Is this right?") seem quite realistic and sensible to me, and I get the feeling some of the accusations levelled at Jürgen in the article weren't entirely fair.
This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Short, sweet, all on one page, and containing lots of concise, useful info plus some excellent diagrams. Well done guys!
Instead of reacting with your instincts, which I acknowledge as valid, and maintaining the first view, gather more facts along the way and review. Unless you're in the diplomatic dog pit that's been going on, we don't have the facts and you've got to think about things a little. Judgement should be the last thing you do before criticism or action, not the first.
Thanks for pointing that out - and I do agree with you on the need to gather more information. But I would ask you to do likewise. Don't believe everything your government tells you. And don't believe everything you see or hear in the media either - I have found some American agencies like CNN to be extremely biassed. The BBC tends to be much more balanced in its reporting. For another view entirely, go check out some English-language Pakistani or Iranian news sites. For example, you could go to Dawn or Iran News.
Argh. This makes me angry. What gives the US and Britain the right to attack a sovereign nation in this manner? And what do they hope to achieve?
Let me be clear, I realize what a bunch of madmen the Taliban are - but they were not the ones who bombed the World Trade Center. And they have been requesting to negotiate frequently during the past few weeks, which the US - with all the arrogance of a superpower - repeatedly dismissed.
These guys are just bullies. If bin Laden were hiding in China, or even Pakistan, they wouldn't just bomb the country he is hiding in like this! They would actually have to talk things over, try and find another solution. Maybe actually reveal some evidence?? I don't think that is such an outlandish request.
In a way I'm impressed at the way the Taliban are standing up to these bullies although it seems, they won't be around for much longer (and that is no doubt a good thing for most people in Afghanistan). But this self-righteous crusade our governments are currently on really pisses me off. Argh! Bastards. Anyway, rant over.
I recently bought a Sharp PC-AR10. Sharp are pretty low-profile over here as far as laptops go, although they're quite big in the Far East. This model has a fantastic 14" screen (Sharp's TFT screens are some of the best - other manufacturers tend to buy theirs from them in fact), PIII-650, 10GB HDD, 64MB RAM, FireWire(!) and a built in CD-RW drive. This machine was being flogged for a ridiculous price here in the UK recently, so I grabbed one. I'm very satisfied so far - it doesn't have the high-end 3D graphics that the Dell Inspiron 8000 has, but it is just fine for me (and it plays Quake III Arena perfectly:)
Try again... this is old news. Cactus Data Shield has been around for some time, not just in Eastern Europe (CDs with it were sold in Germany too, for example). More info can be found here.
By the way, because Cactus caused so much trouble for legitimate users it has been quietly phased out - though it seems they are planning another assault in other parts of the world now!
Yup, the very same Roberta Williams. A little known fact: she is actually one of the women in the hot tub on the front cover of Softporn Adventure... wish I had a link to the picture now. I think I have it somewhere on my drive...
I agree with you, chill - although it's not all that bad, is it? Companies like Looking Glass have been holding aloft the standard of strong, immersive stories. Hang on, they just went broke didn't they...
OK, maybe it is that bad then.
Any of you remember what Roberta Williams once said, how in the olden days, when computers were more expensive, only the more well-off (and usually more educated) could afford them, which is why adventures, especially the cerebral Infocom kind, were more popular? Nowadays when just about everyone can buy a cheapo PC or worse still, a console;) we have more "mass-market" games.
I don't know if I fully agree with that, but it's certainly an interesting conjecture.
That TOC modification trick was used in the "Cactus DataShield" on a few CDs a couple of years ago - but it caused too much trouble with people's CD players so it was quietly phased out again, and now you can only buy non-protected versions of the CDs in question (one which comes to mind is "Razorblade Romance" by H.I.M.)
Guys, stop just using the first word you find in a dictionary when translating. Realize that there is hardly ever a simple one to one mapping from words in one language to another.
"Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung" is better translated as something like "society with limited liability". "Haftung" can mean adhesion or liability, you need to look at the context to know which.
Slashdot Mirror
I know I might be playing devil's advocate here, but:
The HR rep began the meeting by asking me if I had noticed that *I* was the common theme in all of the reports I had been making, and that if I had ever considered that I might be the problem.
This worries me. What if HR are onto something? Can we fully trust her account of what happened here?
The football players have flushed your chess pieces and stuffed you in your locker, yet you still hope that if you just stick it out you will (a) magically become one of the popular kids or (b) wait a year and hope that Principal Trump will see fit to take your side.
Funny, but totally wrong. And I very much doubt you're going to find many Trump supporters in the astronomy community...
Before joining the TMT, China was developing its own similar design and was scouting its own locations on the Tibetan Plateau above 5000m.
Oh, they still are. But that site is pretty remote, and higher altitude doesn't automatically mean better seeing.
Astronomer here, I live and work on the Big Island. You are completely wrong to assume this means the end of TMT in Hawaii, it was pretty much what was expected to happen after the state supreme court vacated the permit last December. While the new permitting process is going to take more time (months or years, nobody knows for sure), TMT seem to be taking their time deciding on their next step and are still hoping to continue as planned. I have heard nothing that would suggest otherwise. Please understand a big project like that doesn't just up and leave after having so much invested. Supporters of the TMT here (of which there are plenty) are still hoping a new, watertight permit will come out of all this. Frankly, we're more shocked by the recent news about another batch of anti-TMT protesters being acquitted because they claimed to have "prevented a greater harm from occurring". But then again, this is Hawaii, and that's how things work here.
This submission text is tainted by the poster's personal opinions - opinions which are, to say the very least, not unanimously shared. If you read the article it is striking how Lamo seems completely bereft of any sympathy for Manning, how he might have possibly fooled him into confessing by promising to treat it in confidence - and how he likes to hide behind complex (made up?) words and phrases instead of answering the interviewer's questions directly. One for the psychologists...
My favourite passage from that article:
While there have been some massive steps forward in terms of what games can and are willing to do story-wise though, plot is actually the aspect of game design which has come on the least in the last twenty years.
Graham Linehan recently said on Charlie Brooker’s GamesWipe that he thinks a lot of that is because game designers don’t read enough books and that modern games are made by people who watch more films than they read stories. He’s probably onto something there, we reckon – especially when you consider the rambling nonsense which is the Metal Gear Solid series.
Stop sounding like an idiot and jumping to conclusions. I don't even own a Mac. But the OP's assertion that an "11 button" mouse is somehow more ergonomical than one with a few buttons is simply not true. And I don't care who makes this supposedly more ergonomical mouse, but this thread is about *Apple*'s new mouse, is it not?
You're being sarcastic, right? Why the hell would anyone want to have an 11-button monster pointing device on their desk? More than a few buttons is just silly on a mouse IMHO and in this case "less is more" really does apply.
No, it's not mineral oil he's submerged his computer in, it is in fact vegetable oil! Had you accepted my submission, oh CmdrTaco, this little typo would never have crept in....
Braveheart. If not the worst movie of all time, then certainly the most overrated!
So let me get this straight, a study sponsored by NEC-Mitsubishi and ATi comes to the conclusion that the more monitors we buy the better?
This whole SACD stuff is just a sneaky way of trying to replace the CD with something the RIAA and their minions have more control over. The audio CD's acoustic format is sufficient even for the finest ear. I challenge anyone to be able to distinguish CD from SACD in a blind listening test. See something like this thread on Hydrogen Audio if you don't believe me...
Hate to be anal, but the shot labelled "Quake" on the illustration page is in fact taken from Quake II.
Well, they were saying it will be the German robots versus the beautiful Brazilians, but that was all wrong! Germany came out with guns blazing and dare I say, in the first half they even dominated the Brazilians. :(
Unfortunately though, they were unable so score any goals (something which tends to be vital in football) whereas Ronaldo showed once again he is the world's best striker. That was the difference between the two teams tonight! Hats off to Germany, congratulations Brazil. And see you in 2006... will I really have to wait another 4 years?!
As some of you might already have noticed, the author of yEnc responds to several of the points raised in his FAQ (scroll down to near the end of the page). His replies (to questions such as "Some people say that yEnc is badly designed and was rushed without proper discussion. Is this right?") seem quite realistic and sensible to me, and I get the feeling some of the accusations levelled at Jürgen in the article weren't entirely fair.
This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Short, sweet, all on one page, and containing lots of concise, useful info plus some excellent diagrams. Well done guys!
Here is ATI's reponse ("ATI Responds to Radeon 8500 Questions" on SourceMagazine.com).
Instead of reacting with your instincts, which I acknowledge as valid, and maintaining the first view, gather more facts along the way and review. Unless you're in the diplomatic dog pit that's been going on, we don't have the facts and you've got to think about things a little. Judgement should be the last thing you do before criticism or action, not the first.
Thanks for pointing that out - and I do agree with you on the need to gather more information. But I would ask you to do likewise. Don't believe everything your government tells you. And don't believe everything you see or hear in the media either - I have found some American agencies like CNN to be extremely biassed. The BBC tends to be much more balanced in its reporting. For another view entirely, go check out some English-language Pakistani or Iranian news sites. For example, you could go to Dawn or Iran News.what do you suggest? we all just turn the other cheek? that's how we got to where we were on 9-11. well, guess what... there are no more cheeks left.
If you are going to quote Gandhi, then let me quote him too: an eye for an eye, will make the whole world blind.Argh. This makes me angry. What gives the US and Britain the right to attack a sovereign nation in this manner? And what do they hope to achieve?
Let me be clear, I realize what a bunch of madmen the Taliban are - but they were not the ones who bombed the World Trade Center. And they have been requesting to negotiate frequently during the past few weeks, which the US - with all the arrogance of a superpower - repeatedly dismissed.
These guys are just bullies. If bin Laden were hiding in China, or even Pakistan, they wouldn't just bomb the country he is hiding in like this! They would actually have to talk things over, try and find another solution. Maybe actually reveal some evidence?? I don't think that is such an outlandish request.
In a way I'm impressed at the way the Taliban are standing up to these bullies although it seems, they won't be around for much longer (and that is no doubt a good thing for most people in Afghanistan). But this self-righteous crusade our governments are currently on really pisses me off. Argh! Bastards. Anyway, rant over.
I recently bought a Sharp PC-AR10. Sharp are pretty low-profile over here as far as laptops go, although they're quite big in the Far East. This model has a fantastic 14" screen (Sharp's TFT screens are some of the best - other manufacturers tend to buy theirs from them in fact), PIII-650, 10GB HDD, 64MB RAM, FireWire(!) and a built in CD-RW drive. This machine was being flogged for a ridiculous price here in the UK recently, so I grabbed one. I'm very satisfied so far - it doesn't have the high-end 3D graphics that the Dell Inspiron 8000 has, but it is just fine for me (and it plays Quake III Arena perfectly :)
Just my 2 pence's worth...
Try again... this is old news. Cactus Data Shield has been around for some time, not just in Eastern Europe (CDs with it were sold in Germany too, for example). More info can be found here.
By the way, because Cactus caused so much trouble for legitimate users it has been quietly phased out - though it seems they are planning another assault in other parts of the world now!
Yup, the very same Roberta Williams. A little known fact: she is actually one of the women in the hot tub on the front cover of Softporn Adventure... wish I had a link to the picture now. I think I have it somewhere on my drive...
I agree with you, chill - although it's not all that bad, is it? Companies like Looking Glass have been holding aloft the standard of strong, immersive stories. Hang on, they just went broke didn't they...
;) we have more "mass-market" games.
OK, maybe it is that bad then.
Any of you remember what Roberta Williams once said, how in the olden days, when computers were more expensive, only the more well-off (and usually more educated) could afford them, which is why adventures, especially the cerebral Infocom kind, were more popular? Nowadays when just about everyone can buy a cheapo PC or worse still, a console
I don't know if I fully agree with that, but it's certainly an interesting conjecture.
That TOC modification trick was used in the "Cactus DataShield" on a few CDs a couple of years ago - but it caused too much trouble with people's CD players so it was quietly phased out again, and now you can only buy non-protected versions of the CDs in question (one which comes to mind is "Razorblade Romance" by H.I.M.)
Guys, stop just using the first word you find in a dictionary when translating. Realize that there is hardly ever a simple one to one mapping from words in one language to another.
"Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung" is better translated as something like "society with limited liability". "Haftung" can mean adhesion or liability, you need to look at the context to know which.
OK, translation-related rant over...