will the compiler find a better polygon intersection algorithm for me? Will it write a spatial hash? Will it find places when I am calculating something in a tight loop and move the code somewhere higher?
The real question in everybody's mind is: will it blend?
Quite frankly, that's the first thing that went through my mind when the Wii came out: here you have this console with a wireless remote that vibrate and senses accelerations, and nobody has come up with a massively multiplayer online gangbang sort of game yet? It can't be that hard to make a dildo sleeve for the wiimote (and a snatch-shaped attachment for Sir) and come up with a piece of software that transmits accelerations and make faraway wiimotes vibrate accordingly.
I'm not a hardware guy and I'm no fan of IBM but I must be missing something here: what is it about mainframes that makes them so different from servers?
So you're saying it's a good political strategy to do nothing then go around saying "nah nah nah I told you so?" I'm sure they'll back down and repel the law out of shame after the fact... </sarcasm>
Oh and also, nobody cares about truths, people just vote the most charismatic guy.
Tell that to the guy who has to interpret two different display colors at 2am on a generator status panel that appear to be the same temper of gray to him. (Real situation, fixed by some 2 cent cellophane)
So apparently, your company's special accommodation for its employee's disability is a candy wrapper and a bit of sticky tape. You prove my point.
My boss is partially color blind, and it's been an experience trying to rework monitoring systems / internal UI's so he can gain the same meaning from a display that everyone else can. You just don't think about things like that when it doesn't affect you
Fair enough. But is your boss able to drive? Does he need adaptations in his house? does he need a disabled parking placard because he can't walk far? Does he need nursing care? I guess not. He just needed a more convenient UI for himself.
I guess in the end it comes down to what can be considered a disability or not. For instance, I can't feel half of my right hand because of an accident I had years ago. As a result, I keep dropping things, hurting myself, etc... but I don't consider myself disabled: I just wear a glove with a sticky rubber palm side when I work on delicate parts, a fireproof glove when I heat things up, and a "chain mail" glove (they are sold at scuba diving stores, for diving with sharks) when I work with tools that drill or cut and I need to hold the part by hand. I suppose I could have asked my boss to pay for them, but that's a bit much don't you think?
nobody aside from the boss and secretary need email?
Well, I didn't count myself in:) We're a small firearms manufacture, so the boss and the secretary need email to answer customers, and the boss needs the web to check on the competition (he's not into porn at all, not the type). The secretary doesn't need the web, but I left it for her because she sometimes has no work for hours and she doesn't really like to read. She also does the accounting, so she needs her distributed accounting software client. As for the other guys, they work mostly at the workbench, mounting the guns. They need PCs to consult technical documents such as plans, steel compositions or art drawings, and they also need them to work with 3D models of parts, to feed the milling machine. None of these computers need to be on the internet, they are just glorified document viewers and machining tools.
As I said, every situation is different. In a software development outfit, the sort of solution we have here wouldn't work at all, but for us it works. The OP says he manages a "small business network": for all I know, it could be a printing shop, or a garage, not necessarily all white collars. That's why I mentioned what we implemented here at my company.
Look, I'm not dissing color blind folks, I'm just saying, unless they tell you they're daltonians, you'd be hard-pressed to know. Sure they have trouble finding tasteful shirts or (in the case of my friend) judging the color of a steel part when tempering it, but it's not like they bump into things, need a white cane or buy books in braille. It's not disabling, it's inconvenient. Everybody has problems like that at some point in their lives.
I "administer" our small business IT infrastructure (well, it's just 10 computers) and our solution was to assess who needs internet access. As it turned out, the boss and the secretary need web, email and access to the accounting software on the remote side of a VPN, and the other guys don't because they use only internal documents. But they do need Windows because we use Windows-only software (SolidWorks and MasterCAM). So I've setup a fast Linux box that's on the internet, that provides web and email access through NX servers and clients (that is, the clients run on the linux box and display on the Windows workstations). USB ports are also disabled on all Windows boxes, and people who really want to see what's in a USB key have to plug it on the Linux box and have the content checked before it's transfered to a Samba share for Windows consumption. Same thing for CDs. None of the Windows boxes ever see the internet.
None of our Windows boxes are patched, updated or fitted with antivirus software, and we're doing just fine. The Windows boxes are super-fast as a result too.
But that's *our* solution. Your mileage may vary, but I think you should make a reasonable assessment of workers' need for internet access. You may be surprised how few actually need it to do their work (IM isn't a valid reason) and you may be able to rearrange your infrastructure to make it very easy and manageable like ours.
Amputees develop coping mechanisms anyway; they do things in a different way, that's all. It's especially true with congenital amputees because they have never known the use of the body parts they miss, so they really aren't disabled at all. Most of them end up ditching whatever prosthetics their parents try to get them fitted with and do just fine without. See this for example. It's trickier for people who become amputees later in life though.
Amputees have been playing video games for as long as video games have existed, and quite frankly, I think that Microsoft effort is a just a feel-good, look-how-caring-we-are marketing stunt.
To be honest, you can't ask companies to consider *all* disabilities. I agree that, for instance, a ramp should be mandatory when staircases are present to access a building, because in that case, wheelchair-bound people just cannot access the building on their own. But color blindness is hardly disabling, it's merely an inconvenience.
A friend of mine is color blind, and his solution for hard-to-see computer images was to disconnect the red VGA pin and reconnected it in parallel with the green. His display is truly atrocious, but apparently much easier to see for him and he likes it that way. Anyway, just saying, a bit of solder and 5 minutes may take care of all problems with video game colors for color-blind people, so I don't think video game companies should bear that burden really.
Nothing. The whole point was do create said visualizations. From the "expedition" homepage here:
This is an exercise in visualization and kernel exploration. I'm not an expert in either of them but I like file systems and I also find great pleasure in creating visual representations of the things around me. --RazvanME
He likes file systems and he likes to create visual representation of things. There's your explanation. I suspect the guy is a student with too much free time and a desire to be featured on Slashdot.
So they finally managed to recover DNA evidence on BSD's corpse after all. Hopefully we'll find out who killed it.
Seriously, what a useless "analysis". It's all a bunch of unreadable tables, graphs and other things, such as the history of the number of exported symbols in the BSD kernel (yeah right...) nobody cares about.
Getting a virus when receiving an email with a doc file attachment has nothing to do with suckering people into installing software. There are plenty such examples where computer-savvy owners, who aren't suckers, get malware anyway. This would not happen if the OS was not to blame otherwise.
I suppose most Microsoft programmers are fundamentally honest, so they surely don't want to produce bad code. But they do, so they must possess a certain degree of incompetence. Do I trust incompetents to correct their own mistakes? If they could, they wouldn't have made them in the first place.
As for management, they are known to rush software out the door with critical bugs and huge inefficiencies because they don't care about good software, they care about sales, and when you work for a monopoly, product quality doesn't matter. Do I trust these people to spend time and money developing a free or cheap anti-virus when the crappy software they propose to fix is forced down consumers' throats anyway? of course not.
Microsoft, the virtual inventor of buggy bananaware and OS monoculture that enables mass distributable malware gets into the A/V market. Sounds like Typhoid Mary selling antibiotics...
I don't know, I used to suffer from the exact same symptoms during my years at university living on curry and cheap lager. Bad eating habits is the first thing that came to my mind personally.
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will the compiler find a better polygon intersection algorithm for me? Will it write a spatial hash? Will it find places when I am calculating something in a tight loop and move the code somewhere higher?
The real question in everybody's mind is: will it blend?
No to mention the danger of attracting friggin' sharks if you ride near the seafront.
VICTORY for those ignorant enough to think that this would lead to a 1982 orwellien dystopia or some other BS
Do you know what irony is?
they don't really need ID cards.
Quite frankly, that's the first thing that went through my mind when the Wii came out: here you have this console with a wireless remote that vibrate and senses accelerations, and nobody has come up with a massively multiplayer online gangbang sort of game yet? It can't be that hard to make a dildo sleeve for the wiimote (and a snatch-shaped attachment for Sir) and come up with a piece of software that transmits accelerations and make faraway wiimotes vibrate accordingly.
Make shitty games. That way, they have no resale value whatsoever. Or better, call them something-forever and don't even sell them in the first place.
I'm not a hardware guy and I'm no fan of IBM but I must be missing something here: what is it about mainframes that makes them so different from servers?
Well let's see: here.
they know all about being anticompetitive.
So you're saying it's a good political strategy to do nothing then go around saying "nah nah nah I told you so?"
I'm sure they'll back down and repel the law out of shame after the fact... </sarcasm>
Oh and also, nobody cares about truths, people just vote the most charismatic guy.
some of the blocks have a very phallic shapes. Like for instance:
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Eew... Think of the children!
At 2Mb/s, I'd say the entire country gets punished right from the start. This sort of speed is okay, but it's hardly the future.
Tell that to the guy who has to interpret two different display colors at 2am on a generator status panel that appear to be the same temper of gray to him. (Real situation, fixed by some 2 cent cellophane)
So apparently, your company's special accommodation for its employee's disability is a candy wrapper and a bit of sticky tape. You prove my point.
My boss is partially color blind, and it's been an experience trying to rework monitoring systems / internal UI's so he can gain the same meaning from a display that everyone else can. You just don't think about things like that when it doesn't affect you
Fair enough. But is your boss able to drive? Does he need adaptations in his house? does he need a disabled parking placard because he can't walk far? Does he need nursing care? I guess not. He just needed a more convenient UI for himself.
I guess in the end it comes down to what can be considered a disability or not. For instance, I can't feel half of my right hand because of an accident I had years ago. As a result, I keep dropping things, hurting myself, etc... but I don't consider myself disabled: I just wear a glove with a sticky rubber palm side when I work on delicate parts, a fireproof glove when I heat things up, and a "chain mail" glove (they are sold at scuba diving stores, for diving with sharks) when I work with tools that drill or cut and I need to hold the part by hand. I suppose I could have asked my boss to pay for them, but that's a bit much don't you think?
nobody aside from the boss and secretary need email?
Well, I didn't count myself in :) We're a small firearms manufacture, so the boss and the secretary need email to answer customers, and the boss needs the web to check on the competition (he's not into porn at all, not the type). The secretary doesn't need the web, but I left it for her because she sometimes has no work for hours and she doesn't really like to read. She also does the accounting, so she needs her distributed accounting software client. As for the other guys, they work mostly at the workbench, mounting the guns. They need PCs to consult technical documents such as plans, steel compositions or art drawings, and they also need them to work with 3D models of parts, to feed the milling machine. None of these computers need to be on the internet, they are just glorified document viewers and machining tools.
As I said, every situation is different. In a software development outfit, the sort of solution we have here wouldn't work at all, but for us it works. The OP says he manages a "small business network": for all I know, it could be a printing shop, or a garage, not necessarily all white collars. That's why I mentioned what we implemented here at my company.
Look, I'm not dissing color blind folks, I'm just saying, unless they tell you they're daltonians, you'd be hard-pressed to know. Sure they have trouble finding tasteful shirts or (in the case of my friend) judging the color of a steel part when tempering it, but it's not like they bump into things, need a white cane or buy books in braille. It's not disabling, it's inconvenient. Everybody has problems like that at some point in their lives.
I "administer" our small business IT infrastructure (well, it's just 10 computers) and our solution was to assess who needs internet access. As it turned out, the boss and the secretary need web, email and access to the accounting software on the remote side of a VPN, and the other guys don't because they use only internal documents. But they do need Windows because we use Windows-only software (SolidWorks and MasterCAM). So I've setup a fast Linux box that's on the internet, that provides web and email access through NX servers and clients (that is, the clients run on the linux box and display on the Windows workstations). USB ports are also disabled on all Windows boxes, and people who really want to see what's in a USB key have to plug it on the Linux box and have the content checked before it's transfered to a Samba share for Windows consumption. Same thing for CDs. None of the Windows boxes ever see the internet.
None of our Windows boxes are patched, updated or fitted with antivirus software, and we're doing just fine. The Windows boxes are super-fast as a result too.
But that's *our* solution. Your mileage may vary, but I think you should make a reasonable assessment of workers' need for internet access. You may be surprised how few actually need it to do their work (IM isn't a valid reason) and you may be able to rearrange your infrastructure to make it very easy and manageable like ours.
Amputees develop coping mechanisms anyway; they do things in a different way, that's all. It's especially true with congenital amputees because they have never known the use of the body parts they miss, so they really aren't disabled at all. Most of them end up ditching whatever prosthetics their parents try to get them fitted with and do just fine without. See this for example. It's trickier for people who become amputees later in life though.
Amputees have been playing video games for as long as video games have existed, and quite frankly, I think that Microsoft effort is a just a feel-good, look-how-caring-we-are marketing stunt.
To be honest, you can't ask companies to consider *all* disabilities. I agree that, for instance, a ramp should be mandatory when staircases are present to access a building, because in that case, wheelchair-bound people just cannot access the building on their own. But color blindness is hardly disabling, it's merely an inconvenience.
A friend of mine is color blind, and his solution for hard-to-see computer images was to disconnect the red VGA pin and reconnected it in parallel with the green. His display is truly atrocious, but apparently much easier to see for him and he likes it that way. Anyway, just saying, a bit of solder and 5 minutes may take care of all problems with video game colors for color-blind people, so I don't think video game companies should bear that burden really.
You're right, I reckon they don't have a leg to stand on.
Nothing. The whole point was do create said visualizations. From the "expedition" homepage here:
This is an exercise in visualization and kernel exploration. I'm not an expert in either of them but I like file systems and I also find great pleasure in creating visual representations of the things around me. --RazvanME
He likes file systems and he likes to create visual representation of things. There's your explanation. I suspect the guy is a student with too much free time and a desire to be featured on Slashdot.
So they finally managed to recover DNA evidence on BSD's corpse after all. Hopefully we'll find out who killed it.
Seriously, what a useless "analysis". It's all a bunch of unreadable tables, graphs and other things, such as the history of the number of exported symbols in the BSD kernel (yeah right...) nobody cares about.
Getting a virus when receiving an email with a doc file attachment has nothing to do with suckering people into installing software. There are plenty such examples where computer-savvy owners, who aren't suckers, get malware anyway. This would not happen if the OS was not to blame otherwise.
I suppose most Microsoft programmers are fundamentally honest, so they surely don't want to produce bad code. But they do, so they must possess a certain degree of incompetence. Do I trust incompetents to correct their own mistakes? If they could, they wouldn't have made them in the first place.
As for management, they are known to rush software out the door with critical bugs and huge inefficiencies because they don't care about good software, they care about sales, and when you work for a monopoly, product quality doesn't matter. Do I trust these people to spend time and money developing a free or cheap anti-virus when the crappy software they propose to fix is forced down consumers' throats anyway? of course not.
Microsoft, the virtual inventor of buggy bananaware and OS monoculture that enables mass distributable malware gets into the A/V market. Sounds like Typhoid Mary selling antibiotics...
Never having had any medical schooling but with a little engineering background I made some changes to the protocol for the operation
Sentences like this usually have "duct tape" somewhere in them.
I don't know, I used to suffer from the exact same symptoms during my years at university living on curry and cheap lager. Bad eating habits is the first thing that came to my mind personally.