Basically these are cruise missles that return the returnable parts instead of destroying them. Think of these things as the space shuttle vs just big rockets.
(only of course for the analogy to hold, you'd need to make the space shuttle carry 10x what it currently can)
I'm sure there's a great many people who will say that screwing your neighbor is one of the great principles of a "Free Market".
But of course Americans are blazing hypocrits when it comes to the Free Market, since most Americans believe we (as I am an American) invented it. Sorry folks, Adam Smith (probably the most famous economist wrt Free Markets) was a Scot.
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I dunno, the cyberdemon wasn't that scary for me. It didn't exactly have the "oh shit" factor going on too much.
Headcrabs did, and Serious Sam did about 40 times. Great times for those of you that love the "oh shit I'm going to die!" style fps =]
I don't believe they ever said single player was dead. I believe the more accurate statement was "hey, we do great mutliplayer, and kinda half-assed single player in our last two games. This game will focus only on multiplayer so we can make it even more kickass". And if I'm not mistaken, one of the interviews said that they indeed would do single player again, except they would focus almost exclusively on the single player when they did. So here you are.
As far as multiplayers' problems are: most people don't want to deal with fuckholes.
People do not understand how computers work. If they do not understand how computers work they cannot understand how computer security works. If they do not understand how computer security works, they will likely never ever understand the gravity of a password no matter how much it's explained to them.
To users a password is an annoyance. And they are trained to not be secure with their identities. How many people just give out their SSN? Something that is a definative source of identity, and allows access to tons of things: bank accounts, medical info, home addy. People will just give this to pretty much any customer service Joe.
Unfortunately there are a great number of "corperate solutions" which are nothing better than ASP hacks which require iis and mssql. And of course these solutions are required by sales vps who haven't the slightest clue how to configure an email client, let alone understand the dynamixs of network security; and they certainly don't care that a lowly systems administrator says it's insecure.
Worse yet, it is likely at a company who doesn't even have lowly systems administrators that know it's insecure, or that there's even a sa password for sql.
I should still always be behind some sort of access list, but that probably won't help you terribly much, as users are sure to find a way to get the worm on the lan anyways.
Cellular automata as I understand them are iterative, and doing a method for factoring/prime finding is probably time consuming, and more than likely VERY memory hungry.
Current factoring technology does alot of tricks to bypass alot of unneccisary steps and would not translate to an iterative method. The iterative method would translate very well to quantum style computing as I understand it, but then again it's fairly simple to derive much better methods using quantum style computing, or even the DNA computing that was on slashdot a few months back.
That's the thing though, ad agencies aren't attacking their clients. They are assisting their clients by making the most annoyingly visible ad they can.
It's like the Real World on MTV, and the accursed 'reality' shows. The Sims allows people to look in on other people's lives, even if they aren't real. The game is made in such a way to create drama to entertain, and give just enough control to keep people "playing".
I hate reality TV. I hated the sims.
The sims is just reality TV you can interact with.
It is not a thought of wrong or right, we're just perhaps wary of the "Earth shattering" connotations everyone seems to be placing upon the work. And as the review reads, it doesn't seem to prove or describe things as much as try to get people interested in the field.
Sorry, let me rephrase then for the pedantic crowd.
The analogy used was that most things in Newtonian physics can be described with the Force equation, and with Gauss' equation, but doing so does not shed any insight to what you're modelling. Furthermore they begin to have limitations for certain things (ie, things that don't really follow Newtonian physics).
As for my coworker, who's studied cellular automata for a while, thinks that the process (because cellular automata is more of a process than an equation, or even a field of mathmatics) is a poor desciber of the universe, and will invariably fail in cases where options are not finite, just like Newtonian laws fail when things do not follow basic force equations.
We were discussing this at work yesterday. As some of my collegues were quick to point out, this is all most likely toss. For cellular automata to be relevant you'd have to assume the universe has a finite number of 'states'. Quantum physics currently is pretty certain it is not.
The analogy used by the super math junkie of the group was that you can describe all physics with 2 equations; it doesn't mean that sheds any insight to anything though.
The one thing that is of interest to me is perhaps using the methods used to create fractals in factoring (since the numberline is self deriving from many many number lines masking one another).
No. I mean if the car was so poorly designed that when it hit a bump it blew up. IMO it's wholy reasonable to want a car I bought to drive over a bump properly.
Furthermore I don't think it's unreasonable to expect win2k to run with multiple processes and not crash.
win2k of course does this fairly well (even if other windows versions don't). So what about a better analogy?
How about I expect my car to have a totally contained gas tank? I wouldn't want Joe Somebody to just walk up to it, and toss a match in...
Windows (all versions) have SERIOUS problems with the code base, that like the open gas tank, are only concealed because nobody knows the tank is open, and nobody can look to see if it is open.
Until of course someone comes along and tosses a match in. It's criminal negligence, which does not require improper use to be dangerous.
True, though isn't the point of the story that they admitted to such things? Perhaps it's just one guy that is out of line, but it's another thing to add to the mounting list of circumstantial evidence.
If the code is so bad as to be dangerous, shouldn't the government make them recall the code and return a properly functioning version?
If a car was dangerous enough to possibly cause death, wouldn't the government require a recall? Wouldn't the media jump on them like rabid wolves like they did Firestone? Wouldn't people avoid the things like they did Firestone?
And a point to the submitter: Be wary of any company that has more interest in certs or procedures over computing and problem solving. (IMO anyways) IT shops that don't focus on problem solving have tons of problems with slightly unusual requirements, and with evolving technology.
Sounds like the board of napster tried to call a bluff which wasn't a bluff. Though if I was anyone affiliated with napster I'd be taking what I can, as at least from the outside, it looks like a sinking ship.
The main fault of your argument, is of course that slaves, and jews could live a wonderfully productive and enjoyable life if they weren't downtrodden.
The reason abortion law (in the US, now) is the way it is, is because the judges at the time made a comprimise that took into consideration when the child is able to live beyond the mother. This is what they considered the scientific limiting point of when a child becomes a legal person. They then set the limit at the first trimester because no child can exist without the mother at that time.
Abortion is the last, worst form of contraception, but still better than a child who lives a tortured life.
Backround: I am currently a systems administrator, and have been for 4 years now, all with the same company. I am 22 and American.
I actually gained valuable knowledge and experience at the university, but nearly none of it came from class. It came from playing quake all day (and learning how to trasfer the game to the lab computers around certain "restrictions") and hanging around with my buddies who were CS/CE majors (I was an Aero eng). If you just listen to them discuss their work, and can get a good grasp of how things work, you should be able to deduce what can cause the problems a sysadmin encounters on a regular basis.
I'd also recommend learning a programming language. Doesn't much matter which one, though imo a more 'low level' one, or at least one that requires compilation will provide great insight as to how things can break (because you will probably run across such bugs in your class). Plus it will make learning other similar languages easier (to do scripting).
And of course, as the parent states, a live on campus university is one of the best places to have the best times in your life. (I dropped out from university after 2 years for a reason y'know)
Slashdot should televise a conversation between this guy and RMS. This of course assumes placing the two close together doesn't cause reality to tear asunder.
Perhaps you could use those deep pockets to hire back the 2 fired programmers? 2 programmers you can actually talk to and design with are probably as productive, if not more, than 4 you can't communicate well with.
The only problem of course, was that even the orignal star wars had memorable lines and was in a few ways funny because it was absurdly bad (trash compactor scene anyone? 3cpo? ewoks?).
Ebert at least was dismayed because the dialoge in 2 sounds like laywers chanting 3rd grade english books. The first movies (and even phantom menace to a degree) were at least lawyers reading trashy sci-fi novels.
btw: ever notice how Harrison Ford is the only actor that was ever good in a lucas film?
Indeed. Though certainly I, and probably most everyone that has the extra cash for internet access has an extra buck or 5 (probably from the cd's they now don't need to buy) to access what amounts to (nearly) every song ever made.
This sounds fairly communist (though good, since music has always been "for the people"), and I'd wager that kazaa and especially Verizon have more at stake than good will. Hell, the pair almost make TW/AOL look good. What next? SBC and MTV will pair up?
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I said Americans, not my friends.
Basically these are cruise missles that return the returnable parts instead of destroying them. Think of these things as the space shuttle vs just big rockets.
(only of course for the analogy to hold, you'd need to make the space shuttle carry 10x what it currently can)
I'm sure there's a great many people who will say that screwing your neighbor is one of the great principles of a "Free Market".
But of course Americans are blazing hypocrits when it comes to the Free Market, since most Americans believe we (as I am an American) invented it. Sorry folks, Adam Smith (probably the most famous economist wrt Free Markets) was a Scot.
I dunno, the cyberdemon wasn't that scary for me. It didn't exactly have the "oh shit" factor going on too much.
Headcrabs did, and Serious Sam did about 40 times. Great times for those of you that love the "oh shit I'm going to die!" style fps =]
I don't believe they ever said single player was dead. I believe the more accurate statement was "hey, we do great mutliplayer, and kinda half-assed single player in our last two games. This game will focus only on multiplayer so we can make it even more kickass". And if I'm not mistaken, one of the interviews said that they indeed would do single player again, except they would focus almost exclusively on the single player when they did. So here you are.
As far as multiplayers' problems are: most people don't want to deal with fuckholes.
probably 60-75% were cracked within 8 hours.
People do not understand how computers work. If they do not understand how computers work they cannot understand how computer security works. If they do not understand how computer security works, they will likely never ever understand the gravity of a password no matter how much it's explained to them.
To users a password is an annoyance. And they are trained to not be secure with their identities. How many people just give out their SSN? Something that is a definative source of identity, and allows access to tons of things: bank accounts, medical info, home addy. People will just give this to pretty much any customer service Joe.
Why shouldn't they do the same with a password?
Unfortunately there are a great number of "corperate solutions" which are nothing better than ASP hacks which require iis and mssql. And of course these solutions are required by sales vps who haven't the slightest clue how to configure an email client, let alone understand the dynamixs of network security; and they certainly don't care that a lowly systems administrator says it's insecure.
Worse yet, it is likely at a company who doesn't even have lowly systems administrators that know it's insecure, or that there's even a sa password for sql.
I should still always be behind some sort of access list, but that probably won't help you terribly much, as users are sure to find a way to get the worm on the lan anyways.
Cellular automata as I understand them are iterative, and doing a method for factoring/prime finding is probably time consuming, and more than likely VERY memory hungry.
Current factoring technology does alot of tricks to bypass alot of unneccisary steps and would not translate to an iterative method. The iterative method would translate very well to quantum style computing as I understand it, but then again it's fairly simple to derive much better methods using quantum style computing, or even the DNA computing that was on slashdot a few months back.
That's the thing though, ad agencies aren't attacking their clients. They are assisting their clients by making the most annoyingly visible ad they can.
It's like the Real World on MTV, and the accursed 'reality' shows. The Sims allows people to look in on other people's lives, even if they aren't real. The game is made in such a way to create drama to entertain, and give just enough control to keep people "playing".
I hate reality TV. I hated the sims.
The sims is just reality TV you can interact with.
It is not a thought of wrong or right, we're just perhaps wary of the "Earth shattering" connotations everyone seems to be placing upon the work. And as the review reads, it doesn't seem to prove or describe things as much as try to get people interested in the field.
Sorry, let me rephrase then for the pedantic crowd.
The analogy used was that most things in Newtonian physics can be described with the Force equation, and with Gauss' equation, but doing so does not shed any insight to what you're modelling. Furthermore they begin to have limitations for certain things (ie, things that don't really follow Newtonian physics).
As for my coworker, who's studied cellular automata for a while, thinks that the process (because cellular automata is more of a process than an equation, or even a field of mathmatics) is a poor desciber of the universe, and will invariably fail in cases where options are not finite, just like Newtonian laws fail when things do not follow basic force equations.
We were discussing this at work yesterday. As some of my collegues were quick to point out, this is all most likely toss. For cellular automata to be relevant you'd have to assume the universe has a finite number of 'states'. Quantum physics currently is pretty certain it is not.
The analogy used by the super math junkie of the group was that you can describe all physics with 2 equations; it doesn't mean that sheds any insight to anything though.
The one thing that is of interest to me is perhaps using the methods used to create fractals in factoring (since the numberline is self deriving from many many number lines masking one another).
Ugh, I certainly hope not. Though you did make the connection between Grisham and snails...
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No. I mean if the car was so poorly designed that when it hit a bump it blew up. IMO it's wholy reasonable to want a car I bought to drive over a bump properly.
Furthermore I don't think it's unreasonable to expect win2k to run with multiple processes and not crash.
win2k of course does this fairly well (even if other windows versions don't). So what about a better analogy?
How about I expect my car to have a totally contained gas tank? I wouldn't want Joe Somebody to just walk up to it, and toss a match in...
Windows (all versions) have SERIOUS problems with the code base, that like the open gas tank, are only concealed because nobody knows the tank is open, and nobody can look to see if it is open.
Until of course someone comes along and tosses a match in. It's criminal negligence, which does not require improper use to be dangerous.
True, though isn't the point of the story that they admitted to such things? Perhaps it's just one guy that is out of line, but it's another thing to add to the mounting list of circumstantial evidence.
If the code is so bad as to be dangerous, shouldn't the government make them recall the code and return a properly functioning version?
If a car was dangerous enough to possibly cause death, wouldn't the government require a recall? Wouldn't the media jump on them like rabid wolves like they did Firestone? Wouldn't people avoid the things like they did Firestone?
Here here.
And a point to the submitter: Be wary of any company that has more interest in certs or procedures over computing and problem solving. (IMO anyways) IT shops that don't focus on problem solving have tons of problems with slightly unusual requirements, and with evolving technology.
Sounds like the board of napster tried to call a bluff which wasn't a bluff. Though if I was anyone affiliated with napster I'd be taking what I can, as at least from the outside, it looks like a sinking ship.
The main fault of your argument, is of course that slaves, and jews could live a wonderfully productive and enjoyable life if they weren't downtrodden.
The reason abortion law (in the US, now) is the way it is, is because the judges at the time made a comprimise that took into consideration when the child is able to live beyond the mother. This is what they considered the scientific limiting point of when a child becomes a legal person. They then set the limit at the first trimester because no child can exist without the mother at that time.
Abortion is the last, worst form of contraception, but still better than a child who lives a tortured life.
I am also biased, but differently.
Backround: I am currently a systems administrator, and have been for 4 years now, all with the same company. I am 22 and American.
I actually gained valuable knowledge and experience at the university, but nearly none of it came from class. It came from playing quake all day (and learning how to trasfer the game to the lab computers around certain "restrictions") and hanging around with my buddies who were CS/CE majors (I was an Aero eng). If you just listen to them discuss their work, and can get a good grasp of how things work, you should be able to deduce what can cause the problems a sysadmin encounters on a regular basis.
I'd also recommend learning a programming language. Doesn't much matter which one, though imo a more 'low level' one, or at least one that requires compilation will provide great insight as to how things can break (because you will probably run across such bugs in your class). Plus it will make learning other similar languages easier (to do scripting).
And of course, as the parent states, a live on campus university is one of the best places to have the best times in your life. (I dropped out from university after 2 years for a reason y'know)
Slashdot should televise a conversation between this guy and RMS. This of course assumes placing the two close together doesn't cause reality to tear asunder.
Perhaps you could use those deep pockets to hire back the 2 fired programmers? 2 programmers you can actually talk to and design with are probably as productive, if not more, than 4 you can't communicate well with.
The only problem of course, was that even the orignal star wars had memorable lines and was in a few ways funny because it was absurdly bad (trash compactor scene anyone? 3cpo? ewoks?).
Ebert at least was dismayed because the dialoge in 2 sounds like laywers chanting 3rd grade english books. The first movies (and even phantom menace to a degree) were at least lawyers reading trashy sci-fi novels.
btw: ever notice how Harrison Ford is the only actor that was ever good in a lucas film?
Indeed. Though certainly I, and probably most everyone that has the extra cash for internet access has an extra buck or 5 (probably from the cd's they now don't need to buy) to access what amounts to (nearly) every song ever made.
This sounds fairly communist (though good, since music has always been "for the people"), and I'd wager that kazaa and especially Verizon have more at stake than good will. Hell, the pair almost make TW/AOL look good. What next? SBC and MTV will pair up?