Let's see, the US pulled off landing a man on the moon in 7 1/2 years. China has years of technological growth since then, and more manpower (and more resources?) then the US did at that time. The state of the art for propultion is far beyond what it was back in the day US landed on the moon.
Sounds like a piece of cake.
To start mining would take a much reduced cost per kg to lift, most likely heavily reusable spacecraft. Getting it down doesn't have to be the same way - read Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" for ideas, which also converts into a nice big weapon. Gotta love standing at the top of a deep gravity well.
I think this is not only possible, but probable. And potentially scary for nations that don't play nicely with China. Once to the moon, elsewhere is next. Population pressure unlike anywhere but India may provide a good motivation to think long term about spaceflight. Or maybe I'm wrong.
But there is no reason the Chinese can not succeed if they want to.
Social Security Numbers are public records. They are not, and never were intended to be, secret.
What they may have been intended for, and what innumerable private companies use them for, may not be the same thing.
SSNs seem to be the stock in trade as unique IDs. I know my old bank's automated phone service would ID you with a) your account number (found on any check you've every given out), your SSN, and a private pin which defaulted to the last four of your SSN. With that you could do just about anything, including transfer funds.
Did I mention that is was my OLD bank. 8) It also took them about a year and a half to catch on that someone else was writing and signing my checks, but that's wandering off topic. (It was my wife, so I knew about it, otherwise I would of caught it.)
Because it's a ready made unique identifier, that people will most likely remember, businesses love to use it. I think that you don't have to give it our if it doesn't involves taxes (like interest bearing accounts, jobs, etc), but that doesn't stop companies from asking you - you need to police it, they will try and get away with as much as they can.
It seems pitifully simple to steal an identity today.
The article didn't say there were no tech jobs left, just that they decreased. I used to get a lot more then 3 a week from headhunters trying to lure me away from where I am now. I'm still here, and quite happy, but if I wasn't that 3+/wk headhunters have definitely decreased.
There are jobs out there, but nothing at all near the level they used to be. It used to be if you could spell "computer" with a spell-check, you were hired. Now there is not only competition, but it's against other folks who are also good. Makes it a lot toughter to get a position.
Companies don't have to spend the buck$ to try and catch the eyes of good talent - it's more readily available. Not that we're cheap now, simply supply and demand - when available techies were scarce, market price went up.
There are a lot of legitimate adult topics that are not for children. I have a problem with all adult material getting lumped with pr0n.
If they want to just make this "objectionable" content, who decides? This is the one that drives me crazy.
Also what about sites that may have some minor % of things that aren't child safe. If I have a collection of poetry published on the web, and one of the poems references a non-child-safe topic, does my whole site get banned?
How about web pages that can include user content (like/., guestbooks, web forums, wiki, etc.) Because someone CAN post something that might not be child safe, will they be slapped with a.prn?
How does this deal with home pages, and with people who don't own the domain. Is the domain containing my home page moved to.prn because someone else's home page has adult material?
Will web archives of mailing lists and usenet groups become.prn if posters put in offtopic adult material, say an inoppropriate quote in a.sig?
Bah, when I went to NJIT, it was 12:1 men to women. You just had to look elsewhere. NJIT has a nice program with neighboring Rutgers university for taking classes, you'll find it much different. Or other neighboring colleges.
I head a story (don't know if it's true) about an incoming freshman at NJIT who asked "Where are all the girls?" Told they were in architecture, he changed majors, and five years later graduated with a degree in it.
This is exceedingly facinating. I've worked with word associations for computer authoring, mostly Markov chains of various lengths and phrase-structure stuff. While this takes works for human authors and works out from that, there are some very interesting concepts in here which may be useful in the other direction.
And on top, a wonderful way of displaying it, to catch the eye so the brain has time to engage. 8)
You know, $500 is not a lot. Especially compared to the actual cost of a lawsuit. The number of people who know their rights, and properly preserve the evidice is low. It might just be part of business-as-usual for YourHomeCareer.com to pay those who know the law.
They get PR (and all PR is good PR), come across as "ok, we did something wrong but we're good upstanding people who are willing to be good members of the community and make amends." They come out smelling like roses for a fairly paltry sum. It's a wonderful thought.
Come off it. This is a double standard. If someone came into your house, and was doing soemthing you didn't like, you'd tell them to stop. If they said "I never signed anything, you can't take my rights away", would you settle for it?
A store owner is doing the same thing, also in a place he owns. He has more public coming through, so he or she is probably a lot more lenient. But if they don't like something, they are perfectly justified in asking you to leave, or in refusing service. There are some things they are not allowed to discriminate on (like race or gender), but plenty of others things they dislike (such as possibly bags) are not a "protected" right.
When you can apply the same rules to you as to others, you're talking about something fair.
I remember years past when I was on the team competing for my university. Locals, not International. One year we had several of our guys graduate (IIRC), and were short on filling in with CS students. Well, we ended up with a Chemical Engineer who could program, and I tell you it was a blessing. He brought a whole different viewpoint to the table on how to solve things, because of having different techniques needed for his discipline.
Iterative estimation of math problems to get the needed significant digits instead of actually trying to solve it, that sort of thing. Helped all of us open our eyes for "non-CS" ways to solve stuff.
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A few months back I listed by top three games of all time in regards to how much time I spent on them. (No indication if they were the "best" games I played, just the ones with the most hours logged.
#3 was the Diablo series and expansion.
#2 was the Civ series. Each one grabs me and doesn't let go. I've played for 24 hour blocks of time.
#1 was Nethack. It's so incredible, so in depth. And so easy to die and have to start again.
If you haven't tried this yet, and you have enough imagination not to need fancy graphics, give this a try. Then go read some strategies on the web, get completely overwhelmed by possibilities, and try again. 8) "Hmm, if I engrave Elbereth on the floor with this unidentified wand, what will that do..."
A friend who played piano woudl just position his hands on random places on the keyboard and play a bit. All he had to remember was where to position and the piece. Of course, there was no mixed case (unless Caps Lock was one of the keys he was playing), but still fairly non-dictionary.
I must say, I keep on getting tempted to put a slightly modified version of login that looks for a specific password and dumps them into a honeypot. And then leave that password on a post-it on my monitor. See how many people would be tempted by possible root access.
Reading the story and the points, they seem very much aimed at getting the general public interested, as opposed to the smaller band of people currently involved who understand the effects of the DMCA and SSSCA. The language they use and what they are lobbying for are specifically things that consumers understand and want, as opposed to the more esoteric and ideal-oriented problems most of the/. crowd can understand and has been rallying against.
Now, since you brought it up, let's discuss what guide information should cost. Or rather, what I would be willing to pay for it: maybe a buck per week. If Tivo can't provide that for that price, they should make their software in such a way that I could retreive from other willing services for less or free
Why?
Why should they make their software to allow other sources. Sure, it would be nice for us. But it's extra costs for them to make for less revenue, which doesn't seem like a reasonable business plan. Companies don't have a right to make money, but they don't have to intentionally loose money to the consumer. It's supply and demand - if enough people want the product and the service at their prices, it'll sell. If people don't, it won't.
But that's like saying the satellite TV companies should give you their dish at a discount (which many do), and also have spent the additional development time/money that it can hook up to any source. Doesn't pay for them to make it.
Corporation have no right to make money, but they are definitely allowed to try without stabbing themselves in the back.
Wow, they plant to make thirty pods in two years for a price of $65 million.
The article mentions it will be about 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of light rail. You know, light rail, already being used in cities but causing traffic problems because it runs at the same level as cars.
Light rail is still quite nice. Once you get into the concept of mass transit vs. personal transit, things open up.
Sort of like a bus. Except buses don't cost $2 million to build
Neither do these. That $65 million is 30 pods and all of the track, stations, etc. If you include in the cost of buses all the stations and roads, I bet you fidn they run much more then $65 million in a city.
The problem with limiting the information the client knows and doing everything on the server is lag. (Actually it's bandwidth and processing, but to the end user, it is spelled l-a-g). The more that has to be transmitted, the slower it is. Think about the map in starcraft or D2 - it's loaded in it's entirety when start the game/go to the board. Why? Because doing it piecemeal uses lots of bandwidth because of retransmit of what you arelreay know, or processor power to keep track and send you only the changes.
Servers figuring out for all users what they can and can't see is just not feasible - some of the processing task needs to be offloaded on the client in order to have a reasonable speed.
Bzzzzt. Wrong. It's not their property, it's mine. They still hold the copyright, but that doesn't mean I can't use my single copy pretty much any damn way I please.
In your language, "Bzzzzt. Wrong." If you can _guarentee_ that only people who have bought a copy use bnet, Blizzard might be more forgiving. However, one of the points is that they have copy protection to stop people who _pirate_ the game. Those people have not purchased the software, and therefore have no rights to it.
Nobody stole the code, they're just getting competition that's better and cheaper than they are.
Can you explain how it's "better and cheaper" then well tested and free? Which is the service that Blizzard is offering with battle.net.
Go read their FAQ on why they have a problem with it. It is not because they don't want a bnet emulator. It's because:
a) Battle.net is part of Blizzard's anti-piracy scheme for Blizzard's other games, such as Starcraft, Diablo II, and the upcoming warcraft III, which the writers of bnet did not write.
b) Using battle.net is integral in their beta test process, both for testing the servers and exipirng old copies of the beta. These can not be done if the software connects to non-battle.net servers.
"As her PC works, pennies trickle into her virtual bank account."
However, it doesn't mention the other side, that as her files are backed up elsewhere, pennies trickle out. In addition, assuming an equal amount of "work", the outflow needs to be greater then in inflow. Take for example, the pay-per-view movie. It has a set cost to purchase. Everyone storing the movie gets a bite. But a single copy of it won't work - a single system off (or back under control of the user) means that part of the real-time delivery of the movie is delayed. So the movie has to be stored in such a way that dozens of systems can be inaccessable and yet still play in real time. As such, you need to have a large numebr of copies.
Now think about this for data backup. Is Mary gets paid "X" to hold some data, she can't be the sole recipient of it. Say she's one of 3 people with a copy of it (a rather low number). So the total cost is 3X. Now, she's going hand having her data backed up, which is the same size. She's paying out 3X to back up the same amount of storage she's only getting paid X to provide - it's much more economical to back it up herself, say a copy on her laptop and her home coputer, or work and home so the never share geographical space.
Same goes for processing power - you can't assume that a unit will finish the task given it, so that you need to run it multiple times if it is time sensitive, leading to the same inflation on what you pay out over what you are paid for your unused resources.
A while back at a place I worked, I was getting a new laptop. My old laptop wasn't in the inventory system. As per normal we went to sell old equipment, and then a big hassle because since it wasn't in inventory the accounting departmetn didn't know who to credit the sale price to. Ended up with a several week email discussion between my boss and some higher ups in accounting.
Mind you, this is for a machine that had been fully depreciated (known because of the time frame we purchased that model). Finally we told them we were destroying it. That was jsut fine - it had 0 value on the books. But to sell it was a major hassle and probably wasted a couple hundred bucks of people's time.
Besides OpenCola and OpenLaw, there are other places out there opening up information. Many of you might be familiar with Dungeons & Dragons, the classic RPG. A few years back the current owners (Wizards of the Coast) came out with a new version. But besides that, they opened up two different licenses (OGL (open gaming license) and D20) and opened up the majority of their game for use. A good place to get information on this is http://www.opengamingfoundation.org
Bah, don't jump to conclusions. I've got Outlook because my company (stuck in the Win conspiracy) requires it and it's gadgets - shared tasks, etc. And no, I don't have autopreviewed enabled - they just had to waste time to check all of the laptops for idjits who do have autopreview enabled.
*sigh* It's/., why did I think that I could post something without people callign names, making assumptions, claiming I trust Micro$loth, and warning me away from Linux because I might contaminate it.
I administer real machines, can't put a real OS on my laptop because of shortsighted corp policy, and I scare you because I'm a doof who doesn't patch systems? You really should check your facts before you post.
Non destructive... except in time spent cleaning it up. And hassle. Just had a PC guy come check my laptop to determine if I had autopreview enabled in my Outlook. What a waste.
Gah, if my company just let me throw linux on my laptop I wouldn't have to deal with these problems.
What do you mean expensive proprietary hardware? Just because the PDP family doesn't enjoy the high sales of IBM, Sun, or Intel, doesn't mean that the Millenium Update (tm) of their architecture running Star Trek X isn't a first class, mature, business solution.
Sure, it's pricy. Sure, no one else has it. But I'm proud to count myself as one of the six to eight prophets of the OS of the future. As soon as the hypno-ray comes back from the shop, we expect to be up to seven to nine prophets of the future - that's a 12-16% increase in market share in hours. Join us or fear us.
These new sets are extremely cool - for us, who have possibly mastered some visualization, planning and building skills. However, for kids that just start putting blocks together, I think this won't provide them with the structure or framework they need.
I still have all of my lego sets from when I was a kid, and they'll go on to my children. for my 30th birthday, I got a mindstorms. Exceedingly cool, but not for kids (or at least not for kids alone). I see these sort of the same way, though kids are inventive enough to have fun with whatever they have, even if it's just setting them up and dropping heavy things on them. 8)
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D'ya think they can pull it off?
Let's see, the US pulled off landing a man on the moon in 7 1/2 years. China has years of technological growth since then, and more manpower (and more resources?) then the US did at that time. The state of the art for propultion is far beyond what it was back in the day US landed on the moon.
Sounds like a piece of cake.
To start mining would take a much reduced cost per kg to lift, most likely heavily reusable spacecraft. Getting it down doesn't have to be the same way - read Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" for ideas, which also converts into a nice big weapon. Gotta love standing at the top of a deep gravity well.
I think this is not only possible, but probable. And potentially scary for nations that don't play nicely with China. Once to the moon, elsewhere is next. Population pressure unlike anywhere but India may provide a good motivation to think long term about spaceflight. Or maybe I'm wrong.
But there is no reason the Chinese can not succeed if they want to.
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Social Security Numbers are public records. They are not, and never were intended to be, secret.
What they may have been intended for, and what innumerable private companies use them for, may not be the same thing.
SSNs seem to be the stock in trade as unique IDs. I know my old bank's automated phone service would ID you with a) your account number (found on any check you've every given out), your SSN, and a private pin which defaulted to the last four of your SSN. With that you could do just about anything, including transfer funds.
Did I mention that is was my OLD bank. 8) It also took them about a year and a half to catch on that someone else was writing and signing my checks, but that's wandering off topic. (It was my wife, so I knew about it, otherwise I would of caught it.)
Because it's a ready made unique identifier, that people will most likely remember, businesses love to use it. I think that you don't have to give it our if it doesn't involves taxes (like interest bearing accounts, jobs, etc), but that doesn't stop companies from asking you - you need to police it, they will try and get away with as much as they can.
It seems pitifully simple to steal an identity today.
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...I found 3 offers that I got to pick from...
The article didn't say there were no tech jobs left, just that they decreased. I used to get a lot more then 3 a week from headhunters trying to lure me away from where I am now. I'm still here, and quite happy, but if I wasn't that 3+/wk headhunters have definitely decreased.
There are jobs out there, but nothing at all near the level they used to be. It used to be if you could spell "computer" with a spell-check, you were hired. Now there is not only competition, but it's against other folks who are also good. Makes it a lot toughter to get a position.
Companies don't have to spend the buck$ to try and catch the eyes of good talent - it's more readily available. Not that we're cheap now, simply supply and demand - when available techies were scarce, market price went up.
=Blue(23)
There are a lot of legitimate adult topics that are not for children. I have a problem with all adult material getting lumped with pr0n.
/., guestbooks, web forums, wiki, etc.) Because someone CAN post something that might not be child safe, will they be slapped with a .prn?
.prn because someone else's home page has adult material?
.prn if posters put in offtopic adult material, say an inoppropriate quote in a .sig?
If they want to just make this "objectionable" content, who decides? This is the one that drives me crazy.
Also what about sites that may have some minor % of things that aren't child safe. If I have a collection of poetry published on the web, and one of the poems references a non-child-safe topic, does my whole site get banned?
How about web pages that can include user content (like
How does this deal with home pages, and with people who don't own the domain. Is the domain containing my home page moved to
Will web archives of mailing lists and usenet groups become
Bah, when I went to NJIT, it was 12:1 men to women. You just had to look elsewhere. NJIT has a nice program with neighboring Rutgers university for taking classes, you'll find it much different. Or other neighboring colleges.
I head a story (don't know if it's true) about an incoming freshman at NJIT who asked "Where are all the girls?" Told they were in architecture, he changed majors, and five years later graduated with a degree in it.
=Blue(23)
This is exceedingly facinating. I've worked with word associations for computer authoring, mostly Markov chains of various lengths and phrase-structure stuff. While this takes works for human authors and works out from that, there are some very interesting concepts in here which may be useful in the other direction.
And on top, a wonderful way of displaying it, to catch the eye so the brain has time to engage. 8)
=Blue(23)
You know, $500 is not a lot. Especially compared to the actual cost of a lawsuit. The number of people who know their rights, and properly preserve the evidice is low. It might just be part of business-as-usual for YourHomeCareer.com to pay those who know the law.
They get PR (and all PR is good PR), come across as "ok, we did something wrong but we're good upstanding people who are willing to be good members of the community and make amends." They come out smelling like roses for a fairly paltry sum. It's a wonderful thought.
=Blue(23)
Come off it. This is a double standard. If someone came into your house, and was doing soemthing you didn't like, you'd tell them to stop. If they said "I never signed anything, you can't take my rights away", would you settle for it?
A store owner is doing the same thing, also in a place he owns. He has more public coming through, so he or she is probably a lot more lenient. But if they don't like something, they are perfectly justified in asking you to leave, or in refusing service. There are some things they are not allowed to discriminate on (like race or gender), but plenty of others things they dislike (such as possibly bags) are not a "protected" right.
When you can apply the same rules to you as to others, you're talking about something fair.
=Blue(23)
I remember years past when I was on the team competing for my university. Locals, not International. One year we had several of our guys graduate (IIRC), and were short on filling in with CS students. Well, we ended up with a Chemical Engineer who could program, and I tell you it was a blessing. He brought a whole different viewpoint to the table on how to solve things, because of having different techniques needed for his discipline.
Iterative estimation of math problems to get the needed significant digits instead of actually trying to solve it, that sort of thing. Helped all of us open our eyes for "non-CS" ways to solve stuff.
=Blue(23)
A few months back I listed by top three games of all time in regards to how much time I spent on them. (No indication if they were the "best" games I played, just the ones with the most hours logged.
#3 was the Diablo series and expansion.
#2 was the Civ series. Each one grabs me and doesn't let go. I've played for 24 hour blocks of time.
#1 was Nethack. It's so incredible, so in depth. And so easy to die and have to start again.
If you haven't tried this yet, and you have enough imagination not to need fancy graphics, give this a try. Then go read some strategies on the web, get completely overwhelmed by possibilities, and try again. 8) "Hmm, if I engrave Elbereth on the floor with this unidentified wand, what will that do..."
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A friend who played piano woudl just position his hands on random places on the keyboard and play a bit. All he had to remember was where to position and the piece. Of course, there was no mixed case (unless Caps Lock was one of the keys he was playing), but still fairly non-dictionary.
I must say, I keep on getting tempted to put a slightly modified version of login that looks for a specific password and dumps them into a honeypot. And then leave that password on a post-it on my monitor. See how many people would be tempted by possible root access.
=Blue(23)
Reading the story and the points, they seem very much aimed at getting the general public interested, as opposed to the smaller band of people currently involved who understand the effects of the DMCA and SSSCA. The language they use and what they are lobbying for are specifically things that consumers understand and want, as opposed to the more esoteric and ideal-oriented problems most of the /. crowd can understand and has been rallying against.
=Blue(23)
Now, since you brought it up, let's discuss what guide information should cost. Or rather, what I would be willing to pay for it: maybe a buck per week. If Tivo can't provide that for that price, they should make their software in such a way that I could retreive from other willing services for less or free
Why?
Why should they make their software to allow other sources. Sure, it would be nice for us. But it's extra costs for them to make for less revenue, which doesn't seem like a reasonable business plan. Companies don't have a right to make money, but they don't have to intentionally loose money to the consumer. It's supply and demand - if enough people want the product and the service at their prices, it'll sell. If people don't, it won't.
But that's like saying the satellite TV companies should give you their dish at a discount (which many do), and also have spent the additional development time/money that it can hook up to any source. Doesn't pay for them to make it.
Corporation have no right to make money, but they are definitely allowed to try without stabbing themselves in the back.
=Blue(23)
Wow, they plant to make thirty pods in two years for a price of $65 million.
The article mentions it will be about 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of light rail. You know, light rail, already being used in cities but causing traffic problems because it runs at the same level as cars.
Light rail is still quite nice. Once you get into the concept of mass transit vs. personal transit, things open up.
Sort of like a bus. Except buses don't cost $2 million to build
Neither do these. That $65 million is 30 pods and all of the track, stations, etc. If you include in the cost of buses all the stations and roads, I bet you fidn they run much more then $65 million in a city.
=Blue(23)
The problem with limiting the information the client knows and doing everything on the server is lag. (Actually it's bandwidth and processing, but to the end user, it is spelled l-a-g). The more that has to be transmitted, the slower it is. Think about the map in starcraft or D2 - it's loaded in it's entirety when start the game/go to the board. Why? Because doing it piecemeal uses lots of bandwidth because of retransmit of what you arelreay know, or processor power to keep track and send you only the changes.
Servers figuring out for all users what they can and can't see is just not feasible - some of the processing task needs to be offloaded on the client in order to have a reasonable speed.
=Blue(23)
Bzzzzt. Wrong. It's not their property, it's mine. They still hold the copyright, but that doesn't mean I can't use my single copy pretty much any damn way I please.
In your language, "Bzzzzt. Wrong." If you can _guarentee_ that only people who have bought a copy use bnet, Blizzard might be more forgiving. However, one of the points is that they have copy protection to stop people who _pirate_ the game. Those people have not purchased the software, and therefore have no rights to it.
=Blue(23)
Nobody stole the code, they're just getting competition that's better and cheaper than they are.
Can you explain how it's "better and cheaper" then well tested and free? Which is the service that Blizzard is offering with battle.net.
Go read their FAQ on why they have a problem with it. It is not because they don't want a bnet emulator. It's because:
a) Battle.net is part of Blizzard's anti-piracy scheme for Blizzard's other games, such as Starcraft, Diablo II, and the upcoming warcraft III, which the writers of bnet did not write.
b) Using battle.net is integral in their beta test process, both for testing the servers and exipirng old copies of the beta. These can not be done if the software connects to non-battle.net servers.
=Blue(23)
The article mentions:
"As her PC works, pennies trickle into her virtual bank account."
However, it doesn't mention the other side, that as her files are backed up elsewhere, pennies trickle out. In addition, assuming an equal amount of "work", the outflow needs to be greater then in inflow. Take for example, the pay-per-view movie. It has a set cost to purchase. Everyone storing the movie gets a bite. But a single copy of it won't work - a single system off (or back under control of the user) means that part of the real-time delivery of the movie is delayed. So the movie has to be stored in such a way that dozens of systems can be inaccessable and yet still play in real time. As such, you need to have a large numebr of copies.
Now think about this for data backup. Is Mary gets paid "X" to hold some data, she can't be the sole recipient of it. Say she's one of 3 people with a copy of it (a rather low number). So the total cost is 3X. Now, she's going hand having her data backed up, which is the same size. She's paying out 3X to back up the same amount of storage she's only getting paid X to provide - it's much more economical to back it up herself, say a copy on her laptop and her home coputer, or work and home so the never share geographical space.
Same goes for processing power - you can't assume that a unit will finish the task given it, so that you need to run it multiple times if it is time sensitive, leading to the same inflation on what you pay out over what you are paid for your unused resources.
=Blue(23)
A while back at a place I worked, I was getting a new laptop. My old laptop wasn't in the inventory system. As per normal we went to sell old equipment, and then a big hassle because since it wasn't in inventory the accounting departmetn didn't know who to credit the sale price to. Ended up with a several week email discussion between my boss and some higher ups in accounting.
Mind you, this is for a machine that had been fully depreciated (known because of the time frame we purchased that model). Finally we told them we were destroying it. That was jsut fine - it had 0 value on the books. But to sell it was a major hassle and probably wasted a couple hundred bucks of people's time.
=Blue(23)
Besides OpenCola and OpenLaw, there are other places out there opening up information. Many of you might be familiar with Dungeons & Dragons, the classic RPG. A few years back the current owners (Wizards of the Coast) came out with a new version. But besides that, they opened up two different licenses (OGL (open gaming license) and D20) and opened up the majority of their game for use. A good place to get information on this is http://www.opengamingfoundation.org
=Blue(23)
Bah, don't jump to conclusions. I've got Outlook because my company (stuck in the Win conspiracy) requires it and it's gadgets - shared tasks, etc. And no, I don't have autopreviewed enabled - they just had to waste time to check all of the laptops for idjits who do have autopreview enabled.
/., why did I think that I could post something without people callign names, making assumptions, claiming I trust Micro$loth, and warning me away from Linux because I might contaminate it.
*sigh* It's
I administer real machines, can't put a real OS on my laptop because of shortsighted corp policy, and I scare you because I'm a doof who doesn't patch systems? You really should check your facts before you post.
Non destructive ... except in time spent cleaning it up. And hassle. Just had a PC guy come check my laptop to determine if I had autopreview enabled in my Outlook. What a waste.
Gah, if my company just let me throw linux on my laptop I wouldn't have to deal with these problems.
=Blue(23)
What do you mean expensive proprietary hardware? Just because the PDP family doesn't enjoy the high sales of IBM, Sun, or Intel, doesn't mean that the Millenium Update (tm) of their architecture running Star Trek X isn't a first class, mature, business solution.
Sure, it's pricy. Sure, no one else has it. But I'm proud to count myself as one of the six to eight prophets of the OS of the future. As soon as the hypno-ray comes back from the shop, we expect to be up to seven to nine prophets of the future - that's a 12-16% increase in market share in hours. Join us or fear us.
(Or not. 8)
=Blue(23)
...the car will also take pictures when it determines the atmosphere inside is a happy one...
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Well, we caught the thief because he was in a good mood, and it snapped a few pictures.
Think this might be useful for other things, too?
Though I'd hate for that flash to go off when it's dark and I'm driving
=Blue(23)
These new sets are extremely cool - for us, who have possibly mastered some visualization, planning and building skills. However, for kids that just start putting blocks together, I think this won't provide them with the structure or framework they need.
I still have all of my lego sets from when I was a kid, and they'll go on to my children. for my 30th birthday, I got a mindstorms. Exceedingly cool, but not for kids (or at least not for kids alone). I see these sort of the same way, though kids are inventive enough to have fun with whatever they have, even if it's just setting them up and dropping heavy things on them. 8)
=Blue(23)
"...you might be eaten by a Grue..."