Why, I very nearly dropped my monocle when I heard that the rascals might be cahoots! Perhaps they have some sort of network (a system of tubes, perhaps?) that allows them to share their diabolical plans! Fiendishly clever!
We must safeguard our computing engines! I say we must find these these rogues and hang them from the highest scaffold in the land!
Interesting. The site is legit, but.... you would think McAfee would provide these links from a page on their main mcafee.com domain, instead of vil.nai.com (although whois confirms that McAfee does indeed own this domain).
Also, I find it disturbing that McAfee doesn't provide a SSL certificate for this page to confirm the site's identity. Seems to me that this page would be a high-profile target for hijacking, especially considering that most people will blindly download and run the executables that it contains.
Questionable accuracy and stilted, archaic language aside, can an employer legally require a (potential) employee to take this kind of test?
Many of the questions dwell on the applicant's state of health ("I have had no difficulty in starting or holding my bowel movement"), sexuality ("I am very strongly attracted by members of my own sex") or religious beliefs ("Everything is turning out just like the prophets of the Bible said it would"). Seems to me that this thing is a veritable minefield of discrimination lawsuits.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
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Granted, this kind of thing has been done before, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this is simply a really cool project, particularly for a group of high school kids.
They have a flickr page with more photos of the balloon and the results (note that much of the captions are in Spanish). I'm impressed; in fact, I'd love to try this myself.
That's brilliant - it will stop them dead in their tracks! Clearly nobody would EVER think of simply fashioning a point on a blunt knife using a hacksaw or a file.
My grandfather talked about hearing my grandmother's voice in the house and seeing her (out of the corner of his eye) for several years after her death.
My other family members attributed his claims at various times to imagination, dreams, wishful thinking, senility, and (depending on their beliefs) ghosts.
My grandparents were happily married for over 60 years. I believe that after all that time, he had become so accustomed to to seeing and hearing his wife that his senses just "filled in the blanks".
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken...There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of lawbreakers and then you cash in on the guilt. Now that's the system, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
As I understand it, fiber optic works because there is minimal signal (light) loss due to total internal reflection, which is a consequence of differences in the refractive indices of the glass and the cladding used in the fiber. Does the structure of DNA somehow support reflecting light in the same way? Pretty cool stuff.
I'm sorry to see the potshots being taken against the man for his global warming views. Michael Crichton was one of my favorite authors. Granted, his books could be a little light on hardcore scientific details, but they were still much better in this regard than the vast majority of mass-market fiction.
A few of my particular favorites:
Jurassic Park reawakened in me the awe and wonder of dinosaurs that had been dormant since childhood.
Eaters of the Dead was a terrific reimagining of the Beowulf saga (and a pretty decent movie as well - just ran across it on cable a few weeks ago).
The Great Train Robbery provided a vivid glimpse of the underworld in Victorian London. I particularly liked the descriptions of "flash cant" (street language) and the various sub-categories of thievery (e.g., "snowing" was stealing clothes from a clothesline, "smatter hauling" was stealing handkerchiefs). This was also made into a pretty good movie.
Sigh. Nice job conflating Iraq and 9/11. As has been shown time and timeagain, there was no plausible link between the two.
The invasion of Iraq will no doubt be regarded as the USA's worst foreign policy disaster of the modern era. The Bush administration still has not given a consistent reason for it. In the words of Kevin Tillman:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
My personal belief is that the whole thing stems from Bush trying to settle a family score, gain some political capital as a "wartime president", and (while he was at it) grab a lot of Iraqi oil for his buddies.
I was unimpressed with Elbot, and I would find it depressing if the program represents the "state of the art" in Turing simulations. Elbot feels like the spawn of Eliza and Racter. I remember playing with the Racter program back in the mid 80s. It was a neat hack on an Apple ][, but after 25 years of research and computing hardware advances, I would expect to see more convincing output from Elbot.
Here's one I found useful: Multithreading Applications in Win32 by Jim Beveridge and Robert Wiener. It's a little dated (no coverage of.NET, for example - it's more focused on C/C++), but it still provides a good introduction to threading and synchronization on Windows.
If you can find an inexpensive used copy, it's worth a read.
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Thank God someone posted a car analogy! Now it's all so clear!
Yes it's true. This man has no dick.
Why, I very nearly dropped my monocle when I heard that the rascals might be cahoots! Perhaps they have some sort of network (a system of tubes, perhaps?) that allows them to share their diabolical plans! Fiendishly clever!
We must safeguard our computing engines! I say we must find these these rogues and hang them from the highest scaffold in the land!
Would that be called the "O Face" gesture?
Interesting. The site is legit, but.... you would think McAfee would provide these links from a page on their main mcafee.com domain, instead of vil.nai.com (although whois confirms that McAfee does indeed own this domain).
Also, I find it disturbing that McAfee doesn't provide a SSL certificate for this page to confirm the site's identity. Seems to me that this page would be a high-profile target for hijacking, especially considering that most people will blindly download and run the executables that it contains.
Also Soylent Green. And hot dogs.
Questionable accuracy and stilted, archaic language aside, can an employer legally require a (potential) employee to take this kind of test?
Many of the questions dwell on the applicant's state of health ("I have had no difficulty in starting or holding my bowel movement"), sexuality ("I am very strongly attracted by members of my own sex") or religious beliefs ("Everything is turning out just like the prophets of the Bible said it would"). Seems to me that this thing is a veritable minefield of discrimination lawsuits.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Granted, this kind of thing has been done before, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this is simply a really cool project, particularly for a group of high school kids.
They have a flickr page with more photos of the balloon and the results (note that much of the captions are in Spanish). I'm impressed; in fact, I'd love to try this myself.
That's brilliant - it will stop them dead in their tracks! Clearly nobody would EVER think of simply fashioning a point on a blunt knife using a hacksaw or a file.
Just awesome. Seems like I never have mod points when I really need them.
So, logically, it's made of wood.
And, therefore, a witch.
BURN IT!
Then let me introduce you to another American invention: Google
Despite the past eight years, stupidity is still alive and well in places other than America.
After all, the American Idol TV show did originate in Britain.
My license expires this year. I am TOTALLY wearing this t-shirt when I renew!
My grandfather talked about hearing my grandmother's voice in the house and seeing her (out of the corner of his eye) for several years after her death.
My other family members attributed his claims at various times to imagination, dreams, wishful thinking, senility, and (depending on their beliefs) ghosts.
My grandparents were happily married for over 60 years. I believe that after all that time, he had become so accustomed to to seeing and hearing his wife that his senses just "filled in the blanks".
What's the maximum? Maybe eleven, or perhaps over 9000?
Mind you, promulgating is a perfectly cromulent word.
There, fixed that for ya.
I have had it with these motherf***ing spiders on this motherf***ing space station!
(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
As I understand it, fiber optic works because there is minimal signal (light) loss due to total internal reflection, which is a consequence of differences in the refractive indices of the glass and the cladding used in the fiber. Does the structure of DNA somehow support reflecting light in the same way? Pretty cool stuff.
I'm sorry to see the potshots being taken against the man for his global warming views. Michael Crichton was one of my favorite authors. Granted, his books could be a little light on hardcore scientific details, but they were still much better in this regard than the vast majority of mass-market fiction.
A few of my particular favorites:
Jurassic Park reawakened in me the awe and wonder of dinosaurs that had been dormant since childhood.
Eaters of the Dead was a terrific reimagining of the Beowulf saga (and a pretty decent movie as well - just ran across it on cable a few weeks ago).
The Great Train Robbery provided a vivid glimpse of the underworld in Victorian London. I particularly liked the descriptions of "flash cant" (street language) and the various sub-categories of thievery (e.g., "snowing" was stealing clothes from a clothesline, "smatter hauling" was stealing handkerchiefs). This was also made into a pretty good movie.
Sigh. Nice job conflating Iraq and 9/11. As has been shown time and time again, there was no plausible link between the two.
The invasion of Iraq will no doubt be regarded as the USA's worst foreign policy disaster of the modern era. The Bush administration still has not given a consistent reason for it. In the words of Kevin Tillman:
My personal belief is that the whole thing stems from Bush trying to settle a family score, gain some political capital as a "wartime president", and (while he was at it) grab a lot of Iraqi oil for his buddies.
I was unimpressed with Elbot, and I would find it depressing if the program represents the "state of the art" in Turing simulations. Elbot feels like the spawn of Eliza and Racter. I remember playing with the Racter program back in the mid 80s. It was a neat hack on an Apple ][, but after 25 years of research and computing hardware advances, I would expect to see more convincing output from Elbot.
Here's one I found useful: Multithreading Applications in Win32 by Jim Beveridge and Robert Wiener. It's a little dated (no coverage of .NET, for example - it's more focused on C/C++), but it still provides a good introduction to threading and synchronization on Windows.
If you can find an inexpensive used copy, it's worth a read.