although they want $10 for the software and then $10 for many of the actual video loops.
Well, nothing is stopping you from making your own if you want to save $20, after spending several thousand on the hardware. Actually I suppose you could just engineer your own plasma screens too. Screw you patents! Stick it to the man!
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"In practice, the availability of Windows source code is generally heavily restricted or extremely expensive, if available at all. However, even where source is available..."
And "is windows expensive" returns just plain anti-Windows results. "why is windows expensive" (eliminating the 'so') returns more neutral responses. This is just a difference in the search algorithms. I wonder how many phrases were tried before the authors obtained suitably pro-MS results for their troll.
I was only pointing out that copy protection mechanisms are not immediately defeated, contrary to popular belief. I wouldn't buy anything with StarForce or SecuROM, either. You'll need to ask the companies that decide to implement such technologies about the cost/benefit analysis.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I don't know why everyone around here is under the impression that all copy protection is broken virtually before release. It took over a year to crack starforce. Besides, most publishers are just looking to buy themselves a few days so that the people desperate to get it will go ahead and buy it when they can't find a torrent.
Of course -- and I realize you're being sarcastic -- they are doing what you say, AND their job postings have made it clear they are also working on a "next-gen" MMO.
I can't find an online reference for this, but supposedly Warren Buffet once started out an earnings call with, "We would have done much better this year if I had never come in to work."
Or even just stay as a pontificating lazy idiot, but possibly when something is done by a trained researcher and published a well respected scientific journal not assume they methodology was stupid?
Well, this is keeping in the slashdot tradition -- how many times has the "correlationisnotcausation" tag been (mis)used?
It just seems to me like anyone not capable of answering that question would also not be capable of answering just about anything more complex. So if your screening test is actually targeted to a higher-level recruit, why even bother putting that question on the test? It should be pretty clear from the other responses when a candidate is grossly incapable.
if they try to answer the "Swap the values of A and B" with out creating a 3rd variable
Why would you even ask that if you weren't looking for a "clever" answer? Or are the caliber of people you're looking for so stupid that many of them might not know how to swap the values of two variables?
Here's another good test question, "you are writing a screening test. Do you put trick questions on it?"
I've also used both OO and Word for academic work and agree with you. However, I suggest you switch to Latex. Your school probably has Latex class files and templates. There is a small learning curve but it's worth it.
Or you could be like my friend and try to do everything with Google docs until you realize it won't indent correctly because it's HTML..
stackoverflow is supposed to be a question answer service, except that it is actually flooded with hypothetical and rhetorical questions meant to provoke discussion. For example, I checked there briefly earlier today, and saw the question "Is reverse engineering evil?". Then respondents are down-modded for answering with questions of their own, because the discussion is not in the form of an answer.
That site is like some perverse techy-oriented Jeopardy.
Seriously, check out EC2. You can use their API to dynamically bring on line as many nodes as you need and since they are your own Linux or Windows images, with any software or platform you need. Back-end bandwidth is free so you are free to use MPI or whatever distributed computing platform "for free".
Point taken about the pay. Certainly for virtually unlimited pay he could find someone willing and capable of doing the work.
Re-reading I see how the OP can be interpreted either way. I guess it's colored by experience. I have worked somewhere that relied on a lot of student talent of vastly varying quality, and have seen quite a range of the orthogonal qualities of eccentricity and immaturity.
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Well, nothing is stopping you from making your own if you want to save $20, after spending several thousand on the hardware. Actually I suppose you could just engineer your own plasma screens too. Screw you patents! Stick it to the man!
I liked the pictures. Is there a name for the muppet guy in the first one?
It might help to read the actual paper instead of some hand-waving article.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=is+windows+expensive&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n
And "is windows expensive" returns just plain anti-Windows results. "why is windows expensive" (eliminating the 'so') returns more neutral responses. This is just a difference in the search algorithms. I wonder how many phrases were tried before the authors obtained suitably pro-MS results for their troll.
I was only pointing out that copy protection mechanisms are not immediately defeated, contrary to popular belief. I wouldn't buy anything with StarForce or SecuROM, either. You'll need to ask the companies that decide to implement such technologies about the cost/benefit analysis.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I don't know why everyone around here is under the impression that all copy protection is broken virtually before release. It took over a year to crack starforce. Besides, most publishers are just looking to buy themselves a few days so that the people desperate to get it will go ahead and buy it when they can't find a torrent.
Of course -- and I realize you're being sarcastic -- they are doing what you say, AND their job postings have made it clear they are also working on a "next-gen" MMO.
Did you think maybe it is not the brightest idea to post one's salary on the Internet?
I can't find an online reference for this, but supposedly Warren Buffet once started out an earnings call with, "We would have done much better this year if I had never come in to work."
I think what he meant to say was, "dishonest students will never give up their notes" -- regardless of what the honest students do.
Well, this is keeping in the slashdot tradition -- how many times has the "correlationisnotcausation" tag been (mis)used?
It just seems to me like anyone not capable of answering that question would also not be capable of answering just about anything more complex. So if your screening test is actually targeted to a higher-level recruit, why even bother putting that question on the test? It should be pretty clear from the other responses when a candidate is grossly incapable.
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Why would you even ask that if you weren't looking for a "clever" answer? Or are the caliber of people you're looking for so stupid that many of them might not know how to swap the values of two variables?
Here's another good test question, "you are writing a screening test. Do you put trick questions on it?"
Of course it's debatable whether or not a speech recognition program would do a better job.
Or you could be like my friend and try to do everything with Google docs until you realize it won't indent correctly because it's HTML..
That site is like some perverse techy-oriented Jeopardy.
Not living in an escher painting would help, too.
Even the Ubuntu vim package is pretty barebones. To get e.g., syntax highlighting, you need to get vim-full.
Ooops, html escaped my ... map <F5> s/^/#/^M
map s/^/#/^M
That wasn't a joke.
Seriously, check out EC2. You can use their API to dynamically bring on line as many nodes as you need and since they are your own Linux or Windows images, with any software or platform you need. Back-end bandwidth is free so you are free to use MPI or whatever distributed computing platform "for free".
Re-reading I see how the OP can be interpreted either way. I guess it's colored by experience. I have worked somewhere that relied on a lot of student talent of vastly varying quality, and have seen quite a range of the orthogonal qualities of eccentricity and immaturity.