- level of involvement - size of project - mindset
Level of involvement: Are you a system architect? Do you write php or perl on the weekend? I think the answer to those should be obvious. The higher ups who do design the system, and work with what parts fit where, etc, I concider engineers. They need to know the rules, have good practices, and so on.
Size of project: Writing a web-based app is usually not engineer-level work. I'm not putting this on what language you use, but in general anything written in perl/php/other-scripting-language is not engineer-level (a project we just finished at work was written entirely in perl/ksh, so this is not 100% true.)
Most of all.... Mindset: If you think like an engineer, you are an engineer. If you plan carefuly, and think everything through and treat your product as a full system, you are likely an engineer. If you sit down and start typing code, you are likely a code monkey.
Not true. Does it hurt more when a 50lb wait is applied to a needle on the back of your hand, or applied to a 10x10" flat surface.
Pressure is defined as Force * Area (P=FA) if I'm not mistaken.
If the rock stays as one peice, the impact point will suffer a very high level of damage (if water, huge title waves, if ground, large crater).
If the rock is broken up into several smaller peices and land in even slightly different places, the damage will be more localized (collapsed house or car, rather than leveling a city)
While I love my mp3s, downloading free images, music videos, tv shows, even copying a DVD to divx here and there;)... I can see both sides to the conflict.
I was always one of the people saying the Internet would revolutionize the world... that Information should be free, etc etc. And that's what it comes down to... the real world is based on selling goods, trading services, etc. These goods and services are of limited quantity, so they have value. Media on the Internet can be copied infinitelly, and thus has no value.
I am stepping out on a limb here, but is it possible the dot.com boom of the late 90's failed because of people trying to charge for things that were inherently worthless? What if your wallpapers.com website sold quality wallpaper images, but that were signed and could only be used by the person who bought it. (think: When I buy a painting to put on my wall, I can't send a copy to all my friends for free, can I? Isn't it the _same thing_??)
So there's the problem. Do you want the benefits of a media-rich world, where people can actually make MONEY, and succeed, and continue? How many GOOD sites have shut down because of lack of revenue?
Would it be worth it, if it were properly implemented and restricted, to put such a system in place to give the internet an actual economy?
Proposed solution - Handle more on the server side
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I'm not all too familiar with the multiplayer gaming infrastructure, but I am a 4th year computer science student... so I think this makes sense.
How about The server keeps track of positions of all the clients, and does some vector math on calculating visibily before even transmitting coordinates to the clients? With the fast-as-hell CPU's we have out there now, I'm sure this could be pulled off with VERY little slowdown. This reduces network traffic by not sending everyone everyone else's position, but also... so what if player X does have a see through walls hack? If the server doesn't tell Player X where Player Y is, he still can't see him.
Any Thoughts?
Oh, and by the way... I knew a guy doing transparent wall hacks back before 3d accel cards were even invented, it's not news:)
The Matrix. I have gone a long time now (2 years??) without watching it, in hopes that whenever I do again... it will seem even 10% as earth-shattering as it did the first time.
I watched that movie so many times that I could just lie back and watch the ceiling and recite the lines with the movie
How about we hire some of these eager-to-take-my-job-for-less-money foreigners for the boring jobs, and leave the American jobs for the American citizens?
The author mentions that SMS would be more useful if he could forward AIM messages to his phone...
I have found 2 solutions to forwarding iconming instant messenger messages to my cell phone.
1. Trillian Pro + AIMForwarder plugin (or something like that) This is a little buggy, but it works with any of the 4 protocols used by trillian
2. imforwards.com - their system monitors your connectivity,and when you sign off it signs on as you, and forwards your sms device any incoming messages. you can also reply from your phone. (its free)
I know this comment is a bit late (about 8 days late)... but I just got around to installing XPde, and was highly unimpressed. the screenshots make it look very useable, which it isn't. lots of the buttons are dead, as in don't do anything.
I guess maybe someday it will be usable if they keep at it, but by then it will be pointless.
I have previously worked at an ISP, and now in a software development organization, and it has always been common practice to send automated emails from webpages or servers.
How would a pay-per-email fee affect people like this? What about the "Forgot Your Password?" links on sites that email your registered email?
I think something like this would hit the Internet a lot harder than people think, since most people just seem to be concerned with Joe User at home sending 50 joke mails a day.
I really don't understand how the economy works, so please bear with me and correct me where I'm wrong.
It seems to me that the amount of money in the world is constant, and to some lesser degree so is the amount of money in America. Alteast, that's the way my simple mind would like to see it. In this model, money's value doesn't grow or shrink... it just changes hands.
So *if that's the case*, who is getting rich while everyone else's stocks are plumetting? Or is the definition of an economic growth/decline that the *value* of a dollar changes? I'm sure many of you have a far better grasp on this stuff than me, so lets hear your answers if you've got em.
Re:Yay for biases? +1 for an article, though.
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How exactly does "couple of more minutes while browsing" translate to "maliciously beating on it".
I hardly concider browsing the web malicious activity, and any box that crashes from that sole activity will not be used for long by me.
I think it would be difficult to post something here that hasn't already been covered... but here goes:
First, I would be leary of breaking the temporal prime directive... I am who I am now because of my sufferings in the past. I have a wonderful girlfriend, a good job, am in college, don't feel the need to drink or do drugs, have very few health problems, haven't suffered many deaths or losses/etc. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the outcome so far.
If I could be sure somehow that I wouldn't ruin everything, I would probably try to convince myself to eat better.
I would tell myself that there are no easy answers, and the only way to get out from under a pile of shit is to start digging - procrastinating just makes it smell worse.
While I find myself always thinking "if only I'd known _this_ or done _that_ I could have slept with or not screwed it up... but I'm pretty sure sharing that info would ruin what I have now.
Finally, my biggest advice: The computer industry isn't going to turn out how it seems. Sure, stick to it but keep your options open - follow physics as well, or some other engineering field
I'd also give some higene advice... sometimes ya just need a slap in the face to make you realize some stuff, maybe it would be better welcomed coming from yourself
The singularity, as any google search would reveal, is a predicted event in which AI surpases human intelligence. Since that AI will be smarter than us, it will create an even smarter AI even faster, and within the matter of days it is said we will be as cockroaches to them as cockroaches are to us (atleast, intellectually).
The key point of the singularity is that it is impossible to predict what will happen afterwards. I highly recommend reading the paper.
The idea was thought up, or at least the term was coined by vernor Vinge in his paper.
I don't use gestures asside from in Opera, but they are extremely useful for me in that aspect. This is because web browsing is a primarily mousing activity.
For example, I pair gestures with the ctrl-shift-click (to open window in a new tab, backgrounded) to open all the links off/., then read them and gesture to close them. Good technique for any reading style with a large branching factor.
Like I said though, I personally shy away from OS gestures. This is for several reasons - one is that most other activities are keyboard only - IM, word processing, terminal, whatever. Also, they're often too complicated. Opera's "close" gesture is left-right-left, and this is almost the only gesture i use.
I live in colorado, and I think we have some laws about telemarketting, but I'm not sure if this applies.
I used to get tons of sales calls too, mostly AT&T long distance and a few credit cards. I was getting extremely irriteted, especially at AT&T since they called EVERY day at 8am sharp (I'm usually still asleep), but I asked them one day to put me on their internal no-call list, and haven't received one call since - and it's been months.
Same thing worked with the credit cards - just politely ask to be placed on a no-call list and you never hear from them again.
Doesn't it seem like the Amish would be against genetically engineering their crops? or for that matter growing tobacco?
Re:Unemployment: Not just for Philosophy majors!
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They are not gay. One of them (I forget which) is married to a girl named Kara or something. Whoever said they were was just being disrespectful (and pretty spiteful about being unemployed by the sound of it)
I saw this lastnight, and it was seriously the most painful movie I've ever had to watch. I don't know what books or older movies it was based off of, but the fact of the matter is it had George Clooney and that's it. It was slow, short on dialog, confusing, and a lot of the plot was disconnected and left open-ended.
It is part of a curious venture dubbed the MyLifeBits project, in which engineers at Microsoft's Media Presence lab in San Francisco....
and...
The motivation? Microsoft argues that our memories often deceive us: experiences get exaggerated, we muddle the timing of events and simply forget stuff. Much better, says the firm, to junk such unreliable interpretations and instead build a faithful memory on that most reliable of entities, the PC.
Since when was a Microsoft product more reliable than a human mind? I have an uptime of 21 years, 11 months, 21 days, and counting. Not a single blue screen:)
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- level of involvement
- size of project
- mindset
Level of involvement:
Are you a system architect? Do you write php or perl on the weekend? I think the answer to those should be obvious. The higher ups who do design the system, and work with what parts fit where, etc, I concider engineers. They need to know the rules, have good practices, and so on.
Size of project:
Writing a web-based app is usually not engineer-level work. I'm not putting this on what language you use, but in general anything written in perl/php/other-scripting-language is not engineer-level (a project we just finished at work was written entirely in perl/ksh, so this is not 100% true.)
Most of all....
Mindset:
If you think like an engineer, you are an engineer. If you plan carefuly, and think everything through and treat your product as a full system, you are likely an engineer.
If you sit down and start typing code, you are likely a code monkey.
Not true. Does it hurt more when a 50lb wait is applied to a needle on the back of your hand, or applied to a 10x10" flat surface.
Pressure is defined as Force * Area (P=FA) if I'm not mistaken.
If the rock stays as one peice, the impact point will suffer a very high level of damage (if water, huge title waves, if ground, large crater).
If the rock is broken up into several smaller peices and land in even slightly different places, the damage will be more localized (collapsed house or car, rather than leveling a city)
While I love my mp3s, downloading free images, music videos, tv shows, even copying a DVD to divx here and there ;) ... I can see both sides to the conflict.
I was always one of the people saying the Internet would revolutionize the world... that Information should be free, etc etc. And that's what it comes down to... the real world is based on selling goods, trading services, etc. These goods and services are of limited quantity, so they have value. Media on the Internet can be copied infinitelly, and thus has no value.
I am stepping out on a limb here, but is it possible the dot.com boom of the late 90's failed because of people trying to charge for things that were inherently worthless? What if your wallpapers.com website sold quality wallpaper images, but that were signed and could only be used by the person who bought it. (think: When I buy a painting to put on my wall, I can't send a copy to all my friends for free, can I? Isn't it the _same thing_??)
So there's the problem. Do you want the benefits of a media-rich world, where people can actually make MONEY, and succeed, and continue? How many GOOD sites have shut down because of lack of revenue?
Would it be worth it, if it were properly implemented and restricted, to put such a system in place to give the internet an actual economy?
I'm not all too familiar with the multiplayer gaming infrastructure, but I am a 4th year computer science student... so I think this makes sense.
:)
How about The server keeps track of positions of all the clients, and does some vector math on calculating visibily before even transmitting coordinates to the clients? With the fast-as-hell CPU's we have out there now, I'm sure this could be pulled off with VERY little slowdown. This reduces network traffic by not sending everyone everyone else's position, but also... so what if player X does have a see through walls hack? If the server doesn't tell Player X where Player Y is, he still can't see him.
Any Thoughts?
Oh, and by the way... I knew a guy doing transparent wall hacks back before 3d accel cards were even invented, it's not news
The Matrix. I have gone a long time now (2 years??) without watching it, in hopes that whenever I do again... it will seem even 10% as earth-shattering as it did the first time.
I watched that movie so many times that I could just lie back and watch the ceiling and recite the lines with the movie
Boondock Saints seems to be popular in some circles, and unheard of in others... but my crowd loved it!
I was thinking the same thing
How about we hire some of these eager-to-take-my-job-for-less-money foreigners for the boring jobs, and leave the American jobs for the American citizens?
The author mentions that SMS would be more useful if he could forward AIM messages to his phone...
I have found 2 solutions to forwarding iconming instant messenger messages to my cell phone.
1. Trillian Pro + AIMForwarder plugin (or something like that) This is a little buggy, but it works with any of the 4 protocols used by trillian
2. imforwards.com - their system monitors your connectivity,and when you sign off it signs on as you, and forwards your sms device any incoming messages. you can also reply from your phone. (its free)
I know this comment is a bit late (about 8 days late)... but I just got around to installing XPde, and was highly unimpressed. the screenshots make it look very useable, which it isn't.
lots of the buttons are dead, as in don't do anything.
I guess maybe someday it will be usable if they keep at it, but by then it will be pointless.
I have previously worked at an ISP, and now in a software development organization, and it has always been common practice to send automated emails from webpages or servers.
How would a pay-per-email fee affect people like this? What about the "Forgot Your Password?" links on sites that email your registered email?
I think something like this would hit the Internet a lot harder than people think, since most people just seem to be concerned with Joe User at home sending 50 joke mails a day.
I really don't understand how the economy works, so please bear with me and correct me where I'm wrong.
It seems to me that the amount of money in the world is constant, and to some lesser degree so is the amount of money in America. Alteast, that's the way my simple mind would like to see it. In this model, money's value doesn't grow or shrink... it just changes hands.
So *if that's the case*, who is getting rich while everyone else's stocks are plumetting? Or is the definition of an economic growth/decline that the *value* of a dollar changes? I'm sure many of you have a far better grasp on this stuff than me, so lets hear your answers if you've got em.
How exactly does "couple of more minutes while browsing" translate to "maliciously beating on it".
I hardly concider browsing the web malicious activity, and any box that crashes from that sole activity will not be used for long by me.
Just a thought, but perhapse your (valid) point would be better accepted if you could state it without using fuck 4 times, amongst other prophanities.
I think it would be difficult to post something here that hasn't already been covered... but here goes:
First, I would be leary of breaking the temporal prime directive... I am who I am now because of my sufferings in the past. I have a wonderful girlfriend, a good job, am in college, don't feel the need to drink or do drugs, have very few health problems, haven't suffered many deaths or losses/etc. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the outcome so far.
If I could be sure somehow that I wouldn't ruin everything, I would probably try to convince myself to eat better.
I would tell myself that there are no easy answers, and the only way to get out from under a pile of shit is to start digging - procrastinating just makes it smell worse.
While I find myself always thinking "if only I'd known _this_ or done _that_ I could have slept with or not screwed it up... but I'm pretty sure sharing that info would ruin what I have now.
Finally, my biggest advice: The computer industry isn't going to turn out how it seems. Sure, stick to it but keep your options open - follow physics as well, or some other engineering field
I'd also give some higene advice... sometimes ya just need a slap in the face to make you realize some stuff, maybe it would be better welcomed coming from yourself
The singularity, as any google search would reveal, is a predicted event in which AI surpases human intelligence. Since that AI will be smarter than us, it will create an even smarter AI even faster, and within the matter of days it is said we will be as cockroaches to them as cockroaches are to us (atleast, intellectually).
The key point of the singularity is that it is impossible to predict what will happen afterwards. I highly recommend reading the paper.
The idea was thought up, or at least the term was coined by vernor Vinge in his paper.
I don't use gestures asside from in Opera, but they are extremely useful for me in that aspect. This is because web browsing is a primarily mousing activity.
/., then read them and gesture to close them. Good technique for any reading style with a large branching factor.
For example, I pair gestures with the ctrl-shift-click (to open window in a new tab, backgrounded) to open all the links off
Like I said though, I personally shy away from OS gestures. This is for several reasons - one is that most other activities are keyboard only - IM, word processing, terminal, whatever. Also, they're often too complicated. Opera's "close" gesture is left-right-left, and this is almost the only gesture i use.
I live in colorado, and I think we have some laws about telemarketting, but I'm not sure if this applies.
I used to get tons of sales calls too, mostly AT&T long distance and a few credit cards. I was getting extremely irriteted, especially at AT&T since they called EVERY day at 8am sharp (I'm usually still asleep), but I asked them one day to put me on their internal no-call list, and haven't received one call since - and it's been months.
Same thing worked with the credit cards - just politely ask to be placed on a no-call list and you never hear from them again.
I don't think anything, ever, on slashdot has ever made me actually laugh (especially alone in my cube)....
bravo.
Doesn't it seem like the Amish would be against genetically engineering their crops? or for that matter growing tobacco?
They are not gay. One of them (I forget which) is married to a girl named Kara or something. Whoever said they were was just being disrespectful (and pretty spiteful about being unemployed by the sound of it)
I saw this lastnight, and it was seriously the most painful movie I've ever had to watch. I don't know what books or older movies it was based off of, but the fact of the matter is it had George Clooney and that's it. It was slow, short on dialog, confusing, and a lot of the plot was disconnected and left open-ended.
If you care, you already know. If you don't, well... I guess you can do what I'm about to do and change my /. settings to ignore kernel stuff.
It is part of a curious venture dubbed the MyLifeBits project, in which engineers at Microsoft's Media Presence lab in San Francisco ....
:)
and...
The motivation? Microsoft argues that our memories often deceive us: experiences get exaggerated, we muddle the timing of events and simply forget stuff. Much better, says the firm, to junk such unreliable interpretations and instead build a faithful memory on that most reliable of entities, the PC.
Since when was a Microsoft product more reliable than a human mind? I have an uptime of 21 years, 11 months, 21 days, and counting. Not a single blue screen
Just my 0.02cents
Don't you mean "Just my $0.02" ?