And I'm going to get it on my cube how...? That shitty PSO I/II network hack? Yeah, like I want to wait for all the game content to be sucked over a shitty 10baseT connection from a laptop....
Plus it makes the game feel more real. (lets just hope theres no Coke ads in games based on other planets/times.. that would do the opposite, it would make the game less realistic)
Really? While playing Doom3, I would have found Coke machines much more immersive and realistic than RoboCola machines.
No shit. I mean, when they talk about Spirit Mediums or Chiropractors, then I'm all there beside them, because that's what they're about -- dealing with people conning money out of marks with psychological tricks.
But when they try and take on unresolved scientific debates (Environmentalism, GM Food, etc), they come off looking like ignorant morons (and the people that belive them moreso).
I think it more has to do with how people behave in thier organization rather than the formal org tree. The problem really isn't the formal-on-paper organization, it's the way people interpret that and behave that.
The companies that I've worked in where the org chart was printed out and on everyone's desk, and everyone knew the pecking order were not nearly as positive as the places I worked where they recognize that they have to have a formal organization chart, but really just treat it as a nessecary evil.
When you focus on who is above and who is below you, you start to live the dominant and subordinate roles that they imply. If you treat them as simply another thing that has to be documented, then you don't end up falling into the above traps where you are afraid of the people above you, and where your subordinantes are afraid of you.
Which goes back to Wilson's point, which is that true communication is only possible between equals -- while you never may be on equal ground with your boss, if you're hanging org charts all over the office, that will simply reinforce the belief that you are not equal, and cause the organization to fall into the above trap (faster, anyway).
The other problem is is that this type of 'message modification' can be done unconciously, from choice of words and adjectives, 'forgetting' to mention bad news, and even body language. Even subtle moderations can have an impact in a large heirachy.
It *is* possible to fight this, but what you then have to do is have a manager and the people they manage feel and act like equals. If there is no fear of reprisals for bad news, and no fear of reprisals for honest mistakes, then the quality of the communication within the organization will rise.
Really, the solution is to try and structure your organization as something other than a pyramid. You don't need to run an organization with a single "alpha male" at the head, and everyone reporting indirectly to that person or board. But that seems to be the cultural norm in western society.
As a result, the development staff here lies to their managers, who lie to their directors, who lie to their VP's and on up the line. This points to a breakdown in communication between all levels in IT including the lines between IT and the business.
This is not something unique to IT -- it's something fundamental to any command structure which relies on communication between unequals.
It's only common name is the SNAFU Principle, which was coined by Robert Anton Wilson (there's a very good discussion of it in his book Prometheus Rising).
In Illuminatus!, a satirical study of social pathologies, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea brought out an important principal that causes trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear, especially if they have noticed that the practice of ``shooting the messenger'' is common. This means that the information passed up the pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher layer of managers tends to have less and less contact with reality, and near the top they are often completely out of touch.
Regarding SIDS, there's one piece of advice that SIDS gives out which is potentially damaging to a baby -- and that is putting the baby on it's back to sleep.
Babies need to be in a position to be able to interact with thier environment in order to develop properly -- they are utterly powerless laying on thier back, and it's a very unnatural way for a child to sleep. By placing them on thier back, you make them unable to move and interact with thier environment (such as it is). Not to mention now you have to worry about the child coughing up something in thier sleep if they're on thier back.
In this case, the SIDS organization is basically taking a correlation and treating it as a causative factor, and ignoring the damaging side effects from thier solution.
No, you're wrong. Water which touches the Uranium is radioactive, and it is NOT vented into the atmosphere because it is highly toxic.
Nowhere in your example does it state that the coolant is toxic.
Radioactivity != Toxicity.
In some cases, the coolant is water which is toxic because it is heavy water (CANDU reactors, I think, are the best example of this type). In some cases, the coolant is an already toxic material selected for it's physical properties.
But the heavy water's toxicity is not a result of it's exposure to uranium.
And heavy water isn't even that toxic : "Poisoning is doubtful except in unusual industrial and scientific situations. It depends on the patient taking only heavy water. An intake of, say, 25% heavy water in ordinary water would produce no symptoms. So it is not so much that heavy water is damaging to health, but rather that light water is necessary for it."
So what? There's never been any legality to fansubbing anyway. It's always been a copyright violation. Just because anime is popular enough not to ignore those violations now doesn't change the fact it was always a crime:)
The fansub community (i.e. buying tapes for the cost of tapes) was a nessecity because of the unavailability of anime. Personally, I'd much rather give the $300 (Cdn) to Animego for the KOR DVD set than having to give $120 to Arctic Animation for a set of 12nth generation VHS tapes of the series. (Well, that was 9 years ago I did that -- now I'd just download a digisub from Usenet or IRC if I couldn't buy it.)
rei:/home/iwarford# dmesg | grep -i becker ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.13 Nov-17-2001 Written by Donald Becker
Slashdot Mirror
here
And I'm going to get it on my cube how...? That shitty PSO I/II network hack? Yeah, like I want to wait for all the game content to be sucked over a shitty 10baseT connection from a laptop....
Plus it makes the game feel more real. (lets just hope theres no Coke ads in games based on other planets/times.. that would do the opposite, it would make the game less realistic)
Really? While playing Doom3, I would have found Coke machines much more immersive and realistic than RoboCola machines.
No shit. I mean, when they talk about Spirit Mediums or Chiropractors, then I'm all there beside them, because that's what they're about -- dealing with people conning money out of marks with psychological tricks.
But when they try and take on unresolved scientific debates (Environmentalism, GM Food, etc), they come off looking like ignorant morons (and the people that belive them moreso).
I'm in Canada. Same here.
Good point. But at least they were trying
I think it more has to do with how people behave in thier organization rather than the formal org tree. The problem really isn't the formal-on-paper organization, it's the way people interpret that and behave that.
The companies that I've worked in where the org chart was printed out and on everyone's desk, and everyone knew the pecking order were not nearly as positive as the places I worked where they recognize that they have to have a formal organization chart, but really just treat it as a nessecary evil.
When you focus on who is above and who is below you, you start to live the dominant and subordinate roles that they imply. If you treat them as simply another thing that has to be documented, then you don't end up falling into the above traps where you are afraid of the people above you, and where your subordinantes are afraid of you.
Which goes back to Wilson's point, which is that true communication is only possible between equals -- while you never may be on equal ground with your boss, if you're hanging org charts all over the office, that will simply reinforce the belief that you are not equal, and cause the organization to fall into the above trap (faster, anyway).
The other problem is is that this type of 'message modification' can be done unconciously, from choice of words and adjectives, 'forgetting' to mention bad news, and even body language. Even subtle moderations can have an impact in a large heirachy.
It *is* possible to fight this, but what you then have to do is have a manager and the people they manage feel and act like equals. If there is no fear of reprisals for bad news, and no fear of reprisals for honest mistakes, then the quality of the communication within the organization will rise.
Really, the solution is to try and structure your organization as something other than a pyramid. You don't need to run an organization with a single "alpha male" at the head, and everyone reporting indirectly to that person or board. But that seems to be the cultural norm in western society.
As a result, the development staff here lies to their managers, who lie to their directors, who lie to their VP's and on up the line. This points to a breakdown in communication between all levels in IT including the lines between IT and the business.
This is not something unique to IT -- it's something fundamental to any command structure which relies on communication between unequals.
It's only common name is the SNAFU Principle, which was coined by Robert Anton Wilson (there's a very good discussion of it in his book Prometheus Rising).
In Illuminatus!, a satirical study of social pathologies, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea brought out an important principal that causes trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear, especially if they have noticed that the practice of ``shooting the messenger'' is common. This means that the information passed up the pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher layer of managers tends to have less and less contact with reality, and near the top they are often completely out of touch.
Since GLQuake, id has always used OpenGL instead of Direct3D.
But on Windows, it might perfectly well use other parts of DirectX that aren't Direct3D.
Regarding SIDS, there's one piece of advice that SIDS gives out which is potentially damaging to a baby -- and that is putting the baby on it's back to sleep.
Babies need to be in a position to be able to interact with thier environment in order to develop properly -- they are utterly powerless laying on thier back, and it's a very unnatural way for a child to sleep. By placing them on thier back, you make them unable to move and interact with thier environment (such as it is). Not to mention now you have to worry about the child coughing up something in thier sleep if they're on thier back.
In this case, the SIDS organization is basically taking a correlation and treating it as a causative factor, and ignoring the damaging side effects from thier solution.
Kirk was born in Iowa, not Shatner.
Jeez, geeks these days just aren't what they used to be...
No, you're wrong. Water which touches the Uranium is radioactive, and it is NOT vented into the atmosphere because it is highly toxic.
Nowhere in your example does it state that the coolant is toxic.
Radioactivity != Toxicity.
In some cases, the coolant is water which is toxic because it is heavy water (CANDU reactors, I think, are the best example of this type). In some cases, the coolant is an already toxic material selected for it's physical properties.
But the heavy water's toxicity is not a result of it's exposure to uranium.
And heavy water isn't even that toxic : "Poisoning is doubtful except in unusual industrial and scientific situations. It depends on the patient taking only heavy water. An intake of, say, 25% heavy water in ordinary water would produce no symptoms. So it is not so much that heavy water is damaging to health, but rather that light water is necessary for it."
Dude,
The expression in question isn't 5!, it's 5 (!) -- the 5 is outside of the parenthesis, and is not part of the term with the !.
Since the expression is malformed, you cannot make a meaningful statement about what the factorial applies to.
But how did he survive the explosion at the end of Nemesis?
They signed a contract saying they wouldn't do something.
They did that something.
but it demeans a work of his which was actually dark. Hint: it's historical and based on facts.
Hint: he didn't come up with those facts.
So what? There's never been any legality to fansubbing anyway. It's always been a copyright violation. Just because anime is popular enough not to ignore those violations now doesn't change the fact it was always a crime :)
The fansub community (i.e. buying tapes for the cost of tapes) was a nessecity because of the unavailability of anime. Personally, I'd much rather give the $300 (Cdn) to Animego for the KOR DVD set than having to give $120 to Arctic Animation for a set of 12nth generation VHS tapes of the series. (Well, that was 9 years ago I did that -- now I'd just download a digisub from Usenet or IRC if I couldn't buy it.)
The point he was trying to make was that
dmesg | grep Donald Becker
will get you:
grep: Becker: No such file or directory
Really? How do you get that out of his post?
rei:/home/iwarford# dmesg | grep -i becker
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.13 Nov-17-2001 Written by Donald Becker
Comments are printed out sometimes.
Nintendo Corporation, Limited was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda (Japanese playing cards).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
How much longer until this is fixed, and I can exclude this stuff from my front page?
umm, you're not paying to keep running the software -- you're paying for the labour expended to create the updated virus definition files.
It's more efficient than incandescent and the bulbs last longer, but it's not exciting every time I turn on a light.
Oh, but it is getting excited
Basically i'm willing to sell my soul to the devil for cheaper insurance.
Or vote NDP.
Wait....