If Hollick's union wanted to play silly buggers, someone would have to explain to me why I would want to employ a union actor.
Successful unions usually do all they can to ensure everybody in their fields joins them, and those who don't get no work. I deal with unions all the time and often they are worse than the mafia. In many places, you can't hold a job for long or get promoted if you don't join the union and obey.
In short: if a video game actor's union is created, you quickly won't be able to employ a non-union actor at all.
Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good?
because those prequels are actually sequels. You know, they were actually made *after* the originals. Like all sequels, they are attempts to milk the cash cow created by the original franchise, i.e. ensure money will be made on the sequels just by vertue of the movie's name. And in many cases, the moviemaker thinks the name alone is enough, and forgets to make the sequel original or exciting because he has cold feets he didn't have when he made the first incarnation.
Examples of good movies with bad sequels:
Matrix Rambo Rocky... shall I go on? you know them.
Yeah but then those students would upload the script on P2P to give to their friends, but the friends need the script to access P2P, which contains the script needed to access P2P, which is needed to access P2P...
all on-campus users at Missouri S&T have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement
If I headed this university, I'd make my students take quizzes on math, chemistry, physics and whatever else the university teaches, to get access to P2P. I mean, if they want their music bad enough, they'd have a great incentive to do well at school.
But quizzes on copyright infringement? talk about brainwashing. As if they had nothing more productive to cram their brains with. Sheesh... On top of it, it's a trap: if a student is caught downloading illegal material, he can't claim ignorance.
All in all, a rotten idea that could have been a great one. You can feel the twisted minds of **AA execs behind this sorry scheme...
I can't seem to find the artist's view of the failed mission, with the Phoenix lander splattered all over the place and bits falling back down on Spirit and Opportunity...
You've never met my grandma. As a kid, going there felt like a 25,000 mph trip, and there are still skidmarks from my shoes trying wildy to decelerate while my parents dragged me into the house. And about half of the times they tried taking me there, it failed too...
Quite frankly, I reckon even if these (carefully screened) individuals who control the nuclear arsenal were trigger-happy, they'd quickly rethink their situation when they realize they have the destiny of the world in their hands. Yes, even the chief monkey in the White House.
For having been in the computer industry for too long, I reckon the "next hot thing" usually means the "latest fad" that many of the entrepreneurs involved in hope will turn into the "next get-rich-quick scheme".
Because really, anybody believes Web-Two-Oh was anything but the regular web's natural evolution with a fancy name tacked on?
All these stories about open source software seem to be joining in a symphony that is ringing a death knoll for MS.
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I've been hearing that for at least 10 years now, be it with Linux or other non-Microsoft software ventures. Truth is, Microsoft is still there and it still beats the crap out of most of its competition by virtue of its monopolies.
I love Linux as much as the next guy, I use it professionally, but Microsoft is still the big rabid dog of a bad software company it's always been, and it won't go away anytime soon.
Most days I receive about 50. When it's busy I can get well over a hundred. As everyone knows, people are precisely 500% more rude and angry online than they are in real life.
Only 50? people are rude in emails? I guess you've never worked as tech support for Microsoft then (or any other big outfit for that matter, but I thought I'd slip Microsoft in the post). 50 emails a day is on the low side.
So how bout doing something about these Viagra 79% off October emails I get?
Are you kidding? I got a GREAT deal on that bottle of viagra. You should try it too! Sure I didn't get quite the hard-on I expected, but I got contacted by a friend of the viagra reseller, a Dr. Adewale Johnson from Lagos, who proposes to make me rich. I figure no scratch, no snatch, so I might as well go for it!
I have a couple of Graphoplex slide rules, a big G620 and a pocket G612. They are nice, but the plastic doesn't age very well, it has become yellow and brittle.
Mainly to give rough answers to vaguely complex calculations, to check if this or that engineering decision is sound, or not way off the mark. For me, that's the main interest of a slide rule today: not precise answers, but quick validation of a calculation. For anything more precise, I juse my trusty HP48.
Because people are willing to accept a certain degree of corruption in financial transactions that they are unwilling to accept in the democratic process
How quaint... I assume you don't live in the US right?
I'm no computer security expert but I do know of the world's most unhackable firewall -- it's called a one inch air gap. Put that gap between the network cable and the NIC and nobody is gaining access.
Sorry, not enough. Smart hackers up the line voltage in the network cable to 20kV to cross the one inch air gap.
because the automation system controlling the infrastructure is not connected to a public network, like say, the internet - right ?
You know, the internet isn't the only network out there. The telephone system is another, with wetware acting as clients and servers. For example:
JOE (technician): *rrring*.. hello? JACK (mischievous social engineer): Hey Joe, this is Terry at central control JOE: Hi Terry, what can I do for you? JACK: I need you to offset the timing on the third generator coil by 20% please. JOE: Uh? 20%? That sounds dangerous. JACK: It's urgent! the power-grid is not stable, if you don't do this, we'll have New York in the dark! JOE: erh.. I really need to talk to my supervisor for this. Who did you say you were? JACK: I've already talked to your supervisor. John's gonna be really pissed off if you don't do this! JOE: Well ok then. Here goes... **KABOOM**
See? no need for any internet, wetware can be hacked too.
The meters are there to reduce the number of parked cars, not for revenue. Apple is offering money, not a solution to overcrowded streets.
I don't know what planet you live on, but most cities in the world where there are cars use parking meters to fill up their coffers. Cities that want to discourage car usage downtown either reduce the number of parking spaces, improve public transportation, use some kind of fee system to drive downtown (e.g London) or close off some street to cars, purely and simply.
I thought radiation levels around 3 Mile Island never got more than twice background? Aernt there are plenty of normal places around the word (i.e. not uranium mines/dumps) where the levels are naturally higher?
There are plenty of places where water is naturally full of alligators, it doesn't mean it's okay or desirable to introduce crocs in places where there aren't any.
Why do so many nerds seem to lean toward the Libertarian end of the spectrum? As a leftist, I know [blah]
If you're a "leftist", you're not a libertarian. Left-leaning people generally believe the state should force people to help one another despite mankind's natural egotistic tendencies, through taxes. Libertarians believe they should be free to do whatever they want provided everybody else is free as well. Not exactly the same thing eh?
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If Hollick's union wanted to play silly buggers, someone would have to explain to me why I would want to employ a union actor.
Successful unions usually do all they can to ensure everybody in their fields joins them, and those who don't get no work. I deal with unions all the time and often they are worse than the mafia. In many places, you can't hold a job for long or get promoted if you don't join the union and obey.
In short: if a video game actor's union is created, you quickly won't be able to employ a non-union actor at all.
Fat short italian plumber dresses in red and stages protest in front of Nintendo office in Rome to claim unpaid billions.
Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good?
... shall I go on? you know them.
because those prequels are actually sequels. You know, they were actually made *after* the originals. Like all sequels, they are attempts to milk the cash cow created by the original franchise, i.e. ensure money will be made on the sequels just by vertue of the movie's name. And in many cases, the moviemaker thinks the name alone is enough, and forgets to make the sequel original or exciting because he has cold feets he didn't have when he made the first incarnation.
Examples of good movies with bad sequels:
Matrix
Rambo
Rocky
This is by far the most convoluted way of getting someone's email adress spammed.
Yeah but then those students would upload the script on P2P to give to their friends, but the friends need the script to access P2P, which contains the script needed to access P2P, which is needed to access P2P...
I'm so confused now...
all on-campus users at Missouri S&T have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement
If I headed this university, I'd make my students take quizzes on math, chemistry, physics and whatever else the university teaches, to get access to P2P. I mean, if they want their music bad enough, they'd have a great incentive to do well at school.
But quizzes on copyright infringement? talk about brainwashing. As if they had nothing more productive to cram their brains with. Sheesh... On top of it, it's a trap: if a student is caught downloading illegal material, he can't claim ignorance.
All in all, a rotten idea that could have been a great one. You can feel the twisted minds of **AA execs behind this sorry scheme...
I can't seem to find the artist's view of the failed mission, with the Phoenix lander splattered all over the place and bits falling back down on Spirit and Opportunity...
This is not a trip to grandma's house
You've never met my grandma. As a kid, going there felt like a 25,000 mph trip, and there are still skidmarks from my shoes trying wildy to decelerate while my parents dragged me into the house. And about half of the times they tried taking me there, it failed too...
...which are managed by a monkey and operated by people with a god complex.
You might find this refreshing then.
Quite frankly, I reckon even if these (carefully screened) individuals who control the nuclear arsenal were trigger-happy, they'd quickly rethink their situation when they realize they have the destiny of the world in their hands. Yes, even the chief monkey in the White House.
For having been in the computer industry for too long, I reckon the "next hot thing" usually means the "latest fad" that many of the entrepreneurs involved in hope will turn into the "next get-rich-quick scheme".
Because really, anybody believes Web-Two-Oh was anything but the regular web's natural evolution with a fancy name tacked on?
All these stories about open source software seem to be joining in a symphony that is ringing a death knoll for MS.
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I've been hearing that for at least 10 years now, be it with Linux or other non-Microsoft software ventures. Truth is, Microsoft is still there and it still beats the crap out of most of its competition by virtue of its monopolies.
I love Linux as much as the next guy, I use it professionally, but Microsoft is still the big rabid dog of a bad software company it's always been, and it won't go away anytime soon.
Most days I receive about 50. When it's busy I can get well over a hundred. As everyone knows, people are precisely 500% more rude and angry online than they are in real life.
Only 50? people are rude in emails? I guess you've never worked as tech support for Microsoft then (or any other big outfit for that matter, but I thought I'd slip Microsoft in the post). 50 emails a day is on the low side.
So how bout doing something about these Viagra 79% off October emails I get?
Are you kidding? I got a GREAT deal on that bottle of viagra. You should try it too! Sure I didn't get quite the hard-on I expected, but I got contacted by a friend of the viagra reseller, a Dr. Adewale Johnson from Lagos, who proposes to make me rich. I figure no scratch, no snatch, so I might as well go for it!
Who said spam was bad?
I have a couple of Graphoplex slide rules, a big G620 and a pocket G612. They are nice, but the plastic doesn't age very well, it has become yellow and brittle.
Mainly to give rough answers to vaguely complex calculations, to check if this or that engineering decision is sound, or not way off the mark. For me, that's the main interest of a slide rule today: not precise answers, but quick validation of a calculation. For anything more precise, I juse my trusty HP48.
Because people are willing to accept a certain degree of corruption in financial transactions that they are unwilling to accept in the democratic process
How quaint... I assume you don't live in the US right?
I'm no computer security expert but I do know of the world's most unhackable firewall -- it's called a one inch air gap. Put that gap between the network cable and the NIC and nobody is gaining access.
Sorry, not enough. Smart hackers up the line voltage in the network cable to 20kV to cross the one inch air gap.
Like 11 and a half years by now. Name Chernobyl rings a bell?
Hello friend. Now don't panic, but I'm afraid I have to tell you you're stuck in the year 1997.
Yeah, if only the planes during 9/11 weren't connected to a public network, like the internet... Oh, wait. They weren't.
Yes they were. If you ever placed a 20$/min phone call from a plane, you would know.
But I digress, telephones obviously didn't cause the planes to crash.
because the automation system controlling the infrastructure is not connected to a public network, like say, the internet - right ?
You know, the internet isn't the only network out there. The telephone system is another, with wetware acting as clients and servers. For example:
JOE (technician): *rrring*.. hello?
JACK (mischievous social engineer): Hey Joe, this is Terry at central control
JOE: Hi Terry, what can I do for you?
JACK: I need you to offset the timing on the third generator coil by 20% please.
JOE: Uh? 20%? That sounds dangerous.
JACK: It's urgent! the power-grid is not stable, if you don't do this, we'll have New York in the dark!
JOE: erh.. I really need to talk to my supervisor for this. Who did you say you were?
JACK: I've already talked to your supervisor. John's gonna be really pissed off if you don't do this!
JOE: Well ok then. Here goes...
**KABOOM**
See? no need for any internet, wetware can be hacked too.
The meters are there to reduce the number of parked cars, not for revenue. Apple is offering money, not a solution to overcrowded streets.
I don't know what planet you live on, but most cities in the world where there are cars use parking meters to fill up their coffers. Cities that want to discourage car usage downtown either reduce the number of parking spaces, improve public transportation, use some kind of fee system to drive downtown (e.g London) or close off some street to cars, purely and simply.
Did you mean CEBEN NLEBEN?
I thought radiation levels around 3 Mile Island never got more than twice background? Aernt there are plenty of normal places around the word (i.e. not uranium mines/dumps) where the levels are naturally higher?
There are plenty of places where water is naturally full of alligators, it doesn't mean it's okay or desirable to introduce crocs in places where there aren't any.
Actually real nerds play youtube videos in their ascii-art-rendered X-session.
Why do so many nerds seem to lean toward the Libertarian end of the spectrum? As a leftist, I know [blah]
If you're a "leftist", you're not a libertarian. Left-leaning people generally believe the state should force people to help one another despite mankind's natural egotistic tendencies, through taxes. Libertarians believe they should be free to do whatever they want provided everybody else is free as well. Not exactly the same thing eh?