Would you give black hats a second chance if you were in their position?
It depends on the job they were applying for. Someone who has proven their ability to ignore the law in the past can no longer be trusted in a position of responsibility, therefore I wouldn't give them a job in any role that required any amount of access to business critical systems or information. I might be willing to hire one as a code monkey to churn out boring stuff that could easily be audited, but even then only if there were no other suitable applicants.
It sounds harsh, bu my job, and the jobs of my colleagues, are more important than giving someone else a break.
The CS community always complains about any significant change prior to actually seeing how it affects the game. The recent radar change was a prime example. So many people were moaning about it when it was announced, and yet now it's been rather well accepted as a good update.
This marketplace idea is the same sort of thing. It sounds interesting to me. I'm looking forward to seeing how it changes the game.
I do have a couple of small reservations though:
1. It could "unbalance" clan matchs. If Clan X plays Clan Y one week when the M4 is expensive then they'll have a very different game than when they play Clan Z when the M4 is cheaper. While each game is fair I think any comparison of games (we beat Clan Z, how come we lost to Clan Y?) will be skewed.
2. Weapons that are available to both sides will always have more spent on them than weapons unique to one team. For example, the M4 and the CK are only available to the one side, while the AWP and the P90 are available to both sides. That presumably will mean the AWP and P90 have more spent on them in any one week, pushing them into the top 50% half where prices increase. I hope Valve have thought about that, I'd hate all the shared weapons to increase while the unique weapons fall. Not just coz I'm a P90 spray'n'pray player of course..:)
That quote always annoys me. If you take it in context he was arguing against gun control, claiming that ownership of a firearm was an essential liberty and then banning them offered only temporary safety. Speaking as a Brit, I say he was wrong. Gun control is not an essential liberty, and the level of gun crime in the UK goes some way as evidence that gun control is not just temporary safety.
That opens up a couple of points to debate:
1. Is privacy actually an essential liberty? You can live without it after all. Why is it considered such an important "right"? Why shouldn't law enforcement organisations have the ability to look in potential criminal action?
2. Is the ability for the government to watch people without a court order only a temporary safety? If the government doesn't abuse the power given to it by the citizens then it would by a permanent safety wouldn't it?
Personally I like my freedom. I like it because I do things that break the law. I've downloaded things I know to be copyrighted, I drive my car far too fast occasionally, I'm been drunk in public, all sorts of things. If my privacy and liberty were curtailed I'd notice. But would that actually be a bad thing?
You save a huge amount of money if you launch from a geographic location that is near the equator, heading east (so you get the benefit of the Earth's rotation, which saves fuel and allows for an increased payload), and is far enough away from people that you don't get bits of rocket landing in residential areas if it all goes wrong. Being near the equator also puts you in a good position for a geostationary orbit.
Unless there are also developers in the UK constantly accessing the code repository there's no good reason to use source control outside of your office. It'll be considerably cheaper to buy a small server with a RAID array, stick Subversion on it, and put it on your network, than it would be to be transfering files all the time. If the company in the UK that you work for insist on having control of the code then write something that syncs diffs between your local repository and the UK nightly/a few times a day/hourly/whatever. 13 coders aren't likely to be checking in more than a couple of megabytes of changes every hour.
Note: SVN/CVS/SourceSafe/whatever can probably do this already, IANAEIVS (I am not an expert in versioning systems).
Roadrunner is to be installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, occupying 1,100 square metres of floorspace (that's a square about 110 feet on a side) Why mix the units like that? It's either 33 meters a side, or its 12,100 square feet. Mixing units is the sort of thing that can only lead to errors.
And for the record, sqrt(1100m2) = 33.17 meters = 108.83 feet a side. 110 feet per side gets you an extra 24.13 square meters.. enough for 4 interns including desks.
This wouldn't work for me. I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. That means buying lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. If there's any RFID tags in the things I buy then the chances are pretty high that I'll have eaten it.
Wouldn't it be possible to write a raytracer that used the GPU core(s) instead of the CPU? Raytracing is pretty much entirely vectors isn't it? That's what GPUs do best.
NB: The only raytracer I've ever written was in PHP and it managed about 0.01 frames per second with very basic geometry and no textures, so I'm probably very, very wrong.
How do you create an online encyclopedia in a language in which few native speakers have access to the Internet? Thats an easy question to answer. You wait. Rome wasn't built in a day. Until there's a critical mass of people capable of creating the resource then it's not going to happen. I'm sure that's an answer someone in Martin Benjamin's position won't like, but it's the only one that makes sense.
There are hundreds of millions of people who commute by train every day around the world..
Who, for the vast majority, never ever utter a single word to their fellow commuters unless they're friends already. It's a sad fact that a universal constant on buses, trains, tubes, and metros the world over is everyone travelling in deathly silence from the moment they board until the moment they alight at their destination.
If Microsoft can make people strike up conversations with the strangers around them they don't deserve a business success with the Zune, they deserve the next 100 Nobel Peace Prizes.
1. To push the price of unregistered domains up.. fair enough, if the registrar wants to 'auction' domains they should be able to, but as the article states they'd never get any real money from it because of the 6 month notice period. If the site then becomes popular over the 10 year period then it's effectively just..
2...ransoming companies running sites on already popular domains such as gamesindustry.biz into paying a lot in 10 years time because they're successful today.
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Besides, the registrar doesn't actually do any more work registering sex.org than registering IwantApurpleMonkey.biz.. so they're just cashing in on percieved value. I suppose it depends on whether you consider your money is going toward paying for the domain name itself like a physical product, or going toward paying for the service of registering a domain name. I'm in the latter group.. I don't see it as 'buying' the domain, just paying for access to the registry.
The Kwikset that she opened is sold in every hardware and DIY store in the country, and is believed to be secure by the public.
As with any security measure, be it a physical lock, a cipher, encryption, anything, it only works if you know how to use it properly. A cheap cylinder lock is secure enough to deter a passing opportunist (eg, not someone who carries a bump) and should be used as such. To secure your house or office you shouldn't look at anything less than a Mortis or a deadlock, and you should have at least two on each entry point. Windows should lock from the inside, again with deadlocks.
A cylinder lock is the equivalent of using ROT13 to secure a password file. It'll stop someone who's not trying to get in, but that's about it.
Even the numbers don't necessarily tell you much. For example, if one country is spending it's money on MSFT licenses and over-paid admin while another is running it's IT infrastructure on open source enterprise software with averagely paid admin.. that could explain a disparity in cost and potentially allow the cheaper country to come out of it with a better system.
IT spending should be about getting as much as possible for your money, it's not simply about spending as much as possible.
The device, which plugs into the electrical outlet in a car and sits on the dashboard, will monitor a car's speed only when the driver exceeds a specified limit.
Is it a magical device? Because I don't see how it can only monitor the speed of the car only when the car is speeding. It'd need to monitor the speed of the car all the time to know when it starts speeding. I can see that it might only log the GPS location of the car when the speed exceeds a certain amount.. but that's not what the article says.
Depends on the advert too. If the system was written to download advert material in a similar fashion to Windows Update, and then display it during boot up, or even on the Login screen, I don't think I'd have a problem with that at all. I might even put up with adverts replacing my desktop background.
In essence, so long as they don't actually get in the way then I'm happy with them. As soon as they make a noise, stop me accessing my PC immediately, or sit on top of windows I'm using, then I'd get irritated by them. The key to Google's ad success is that they're easy to ignore. Well, consciously ignore at least, we all still read them even if we don't realise it.
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Would you give black hats a second chance if you were in their position?
It depends on the job they were applying for. Someone who has proven their ability to ignore the law in the past can no longer be trusted in a position of responsibility, therefore I wouldn't give them a job in any role that required any amount of access to business critical systems or information. I might be willing to hire one as a code monkey to churn out boring stuff that could easily be audited, but even then only if there were no other suitable applicants.
It sounds harsh, bu my job, and the jobs of my colleagues, are more important than giving someone else a break.
The sooner the BBC move to a format that isn't RealVideo the better; even WMA would be preferable to RA.
The CS community always complains about any significant change prior to actually seeing how it affects the game. The recent radar change was a prime example. So many people were moaning about it when it was announced, and yet now it's been rather well accepted as a good update.
:)
This marketplace idea is the same sort of thing. It sounds interesting to me. I'm looking forward to seeing how it changes the game.
I do have a couple of small reservations though:
1. It could "unbalance" clan matchs. If Clan X plays Clan Y one week when the M4 is expensive then they'll have a very different game than when they play Clan Z when the M4 is cheaper. While each game is fair I think any comparison of games (we beat Clan Z, how come we lost to Clan Y?) will be skewed.
2. Weapons that are available to both sides will always have more spent on them than weapons unique to one team. For example, the M4 and the CK are only available to the one side, while the AWP and the P90 are available to both sides. That presumably will mean the AWP and P90 have more spent on them in any one week, pushing them into the top 50% half where prices increase. I hope Valve have thought about that, I'd hate all the shared weapons to increase while the unique weapons fall. Not just coz I'm a P90 spray'n'pray player of course..
That quote always annoys me. If you take it in context he was arguing against gun control, claiming that ownership of a firearm was an essential liberty and then banning them offered only temporary safety. Speaking as a Brit, I say he was wrong. Gun control is not an essential liberty, and the level of gun crime in the UK goes some way as evidence that gun control is not just temporary safety.
That opens up a couple of points to debate:
1. Is privacy actually an essential liberty? You can live without it after all. Why is it considered such an important "right"? Why shouldn't law enforcement organisations have the ability to look in potential criminal action?
2. Is the ability for the government to watch people without a court order only a temporary safety? If the government doesn't abuse the power given to it by the citizens then it would by a permanent safety wouldn't it?
Personally I like my freedom. I like it because I do things that break the law. I've downloaded things I know to be copyrighted, I drive my car far too fast occasionally, I'm been drunk in public, all sorts of things. If my privacy and liberty were curtailed I'd notice. But would that actually be a bad thing?
I haven't made up my mind yet.
89% uptime = Offline for more than a month every year = Absolutely terrible, and definitely not good enough for keeping in touch with friends.
How Do You Manage a Product Based on Linux?
;)
I don't.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
You save a huge amount of money if you launch from a geographic location that is near the equator, heading east (so you get the benefit of the Earth's rotation, which saves fuel and allows for an increased payload), and is far enough away from people that you don't get bits of rocket landing in residential areas if it all goes wrong. Being near the equator also puts you in a good position for a geostationary orbit.
Unless there are also developers in the UK constantly accessing the code repository there's no good reason to use source control outside of your office. It'll be considerably cheaper to buy a small server with a RAID array, stick Subversion on it, and put it on your network, than it would be to be transfering files all the time. If the company in the UK that you work for insist on having control of the code then write something that syncs diffs between your local repository and the UK nightly/a few times a day/hourly/whatever. 13 coders aren't likely to be checking in more than a couple of megabytes of changes every hour.
Note: SVN/CVS/SourceSafe/whatever can probably do this already, IANAEIVS (I am not an expert in versioning systems).
Roadrunner is to be installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, occupying 1,100 square metres of floorspace (that's a square about 110 feet on a side)
.. enough for 4 interns including desks.
Why mix the units like that? It's either 33 meters a side, or its 12,100 square feet. Mixing units is the sort of thing that can only lead to errors.
And for the record, sqrt(1100m2) = 33.17 meters = 108.83 feet a side. 110 feet per side gets you an extra 24.13 square meters
"If we break this down, it's going to be less than an HDMI cable," Karr said. "Those are about $100 plus installation."
;)
People pay for someone to come and install a cable?
"It's that whole 'plugging it in' thing! It's got me completely stumped!"
"And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."
Ooo.. ooo.. please! Go on! I'm on the edge of my seat here!
(On a side note, HTML really needs a sarcasm tag.)
This wouldn't work for me. I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. That means buying lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. If there's any RFID tags in the things I buy then the chances are pretty high that I'll have eaten it.
Who hasn't sat through sexual harrassment training
I haven't. But I'm getting better with practise.
Wouldn't it be possible to write a raytracer that used the GPU core(s) instead of the CPU? Raytracing is pretty much entirely vectors isn't it? That's what GPUs do best.
NB: The only raytracer I've ever written was in PHP and it managed about 0.01 frames per second with very basic geometry and no textures, so I'm probably very, very wrong.
How do you create an online encyclopedia in a language in which few native speakers have access to the Internet?
Thats an easy question to answer. You wait. Rome wasn't built in a day. Until there's a critical mass of people capable of creating the resource then it's not going to happen. I'm sure that's an answer someone in Martin Benjamin's position won't like, but it's the only one that makes sense.
There are hundreds of millions of people who commute by train every day around the world..
Who, for the vast majority, never ever utter a single word to their fellow commuters unless they're friends already. It's a sad fact that a universal constant on buses, trains, tubes, and metros the world over is everyone travelling in deathly silence from the moment they board until the moment they alight at their destination.
If Microsoft can make people strike up conversations with the strangers around them they don't deserve a business success with the Zune, they deserve the next 100 Nobel Peace Prizes.
I can see two reasons for doing this:
.. fair enough, if the registrar wants to 'auction' domains they should be able to, but as the article states they'd never get any real money from it because of the 6 month notice period. If the site then becomes popular over the 10 year period then it's effectively just..
..ransoming companies running sites on already popular domains such as gamesindustry.biz into paying a lot in 10 years time because they're successful today.
.. so they're just cashing in on percieved value. I suppose it depends on whether you consider your money is going toward paying for the domain name itself like a physical product, or going toward paying for the service of registering a domain name. I'm in the latter group .. I don't see it as 'buying' the domain, just paying for access to the registry.
1. To push the price of unregistered domains up
2.
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Besides, the registrar doesn't actually do any more work registering sex.org than registering IwantApurpleMonkey.biz
The Kwikset that she opened is sold in every hardware and DIY store in the country, and is believed to be secure by the public.
As with any security measure, be it a physical lock, a cipher, encryption, anything, it only works if you know how to use it properly. A cheap cylinder lock is secure enough to deter a passing opportunist (eg, not someone who carries a bump) and should be used as such. To secure your house or office you shouldn't look at anything less than a Mortis or a deadlock, and you should have at least two on each entry point. Windows should lock from the inside, again with deadlocks.
A cylinder lock is the equivalent of using ROT13 to secure a password file. It'll stop someone who's not trying to get in, but that's about it.
Even the numbers don't necessarily tell you much. For example, if one country is spending it's money on MSFT licenses and over-paid admin while another is running it's IT infrastructure on open source enterprise software with averagely paid admin .. that could explain a disparity in cost and potentially allow the cheaper country to come out of it with a better system.
IT spending should be about getting as much as possible for your money, it's not simply about spending as much as possible.
The device, which plugs into the electrical outlet in a car and sits on the dashboard, will monitor a car's speed only when the driver exceeds a specified limit.
.. but that's not what the article says.
Is it a magical device? Because I don't see how it can only monitor the speed of the car only when the car is speeding. It'd need to monitor the speed of the car all the time to know when it starts speeding. I can see that it might only log the GPS location of the car when the speed exceeds a certain amount
I hope he posts his "Purity Test" score. I bet he'd do really well.
I was going to make some TNG ones, but they'd all just be pictures of Wesley Crusher with the caption "Please shot this irritating brat".
- 1 book
:)
- 1 newspaper
- wallet
- passport
- bomb
- ???
- profit.
That's 7.
Depends on the advert too. If the system was written to download advert material in a similar fashion to Windows Update, and then display it during boot up, or even on the Login screen, I don't think I'd have a problem with that at all. I might even put up with adverts replacing my desktop background.
In essence, so long as they don't actually get in the way then I'm happy with them. As soon as they make a noise, stop me accessing my PC immediately, or sit on top of windows I'm using, then I'd get irritated by them. The key to Google's ad success is that they're easy to ignore. Well, consciously ignore at least, we all still read them even if we don't realise it.
I imagine that, with a relatively simple modification, you could have bullets that can only be fired in a particular building eg a gun club.