I sorry, but who put this list together? Goonies is number 20? That is just wrong. This list is obviously a joke list.
I get jokes
And E.T. is up there in the top 10. Gimme a break. Anyone with small kids knows The Lion King should be way up there. We all know all the words to all the songs... (please make it stop!!!)
This is why you should never trust some other company with your own surveillance needs. There are plenty of camera + software combinations that can do TCP/IP stuff and you can tinker with it yourself and set it up on your own apache server.
Sure, and if you're inexperienced or a moron then you can do it wrong, just as these people have. High quality tools can still be misused by dolts.
I am sure someone will post with OSS software solutions.
Aside from that, how many people really need web-enabled surveillance? Just record it to HD or have it monitored live in closed-circuit fashion.
Does anyone remember the article, couple years back about people using X10 cams for survelience, which were easily monitored from, not a black suburban, but so much as a Yugo with a coathanger antenna out in the street? It's about understanding the deployment needs and big picture of security.
"hey, I can see myself in the bathroom in the internet.... uh..."
This just underlines the engineer's problem with making something secure, yet making sure every moron in the U.S. can plug it in and turn it on and have it basically work.
Well, it's really just another example of engineers doing the job right, only to then have a PHB of some ilk tell them, "Now I want to be able to watch this from my office or my cell phone or from home, etc." Where the Engineer exclaims, "Doh!" and does it because he/she's not paid to THINK.
Good thing he did, as he'd have had customs issues bringing several back into the country. For the paltry few hundred $$$ he could have made, he could also have paid duties and had to deal with the scumbags on eBay who bid but don't pay.
Board, with little magnets(!) to hold pieces in place.
If the first ; I never knew that Capcom also dealt in boardgames.
I don't know the history of CapCom, but I wouldn't be surprised to see they originated somewhere other than video games, like board games, ceramic capacitors, bicycles, refridgerators or aircraft.
A version of SoC for PSP would probably be enough cause for me to buy it, but only if it's a really good version of the game. Knowing Sony it'll probably only be available in Japan, so you'll have to pry it open, move some jumpers and learn to read japanese to play an import.
Now if I could just find a game on this that I consider worth playing.
A friend is returning from Japan and was contemplating joining the hordes selling the Japanese model on ebay, for up to $400 each. I explained the logistics and other troubles he may encounter and thankfully he elected to drop the scheme. Though he is bringing in the Capcom Travel version of Settlers of Catan for me 8^)
New DRM Scheme To Make Current Slashdot stories Obsolete
In tonight's news: Los Angeles and New York are in flames as thousands of Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings fans rioted as word they would have to buy additional copies of all the works they have various copies of already. The pocket-protector bedecked Rob Malda, Commander of Tacos, appealed for calm until he heard that he would have to repurchase his entire Anime collection. He was last seen urinating on the door of a Sun Coast franchise. Police were able to disperse some rioters when they called out that additional features would be included in most of the DVD's concerned. Calmed rioters 'oohed' and 'aahed' and at least one 'ooked'.
and Microsoft might have already sneaked in a pay subscription service."
And lastly, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that Microsoft is making it a subscription service. I was able to download, install, and run the program all without signing up for a subscription of any sort. Maybe that's because the program is still in beta or maybe it's just anti-MS FUD on the subscriber's part... who knows.
It appears to me that such a practice would amount to a racket, as Microsoft sold the operating system which allows the spyware to flourish.
Microeconomics Joel touches on for what I consider trivial reasons. My recommendation in regard to the non-CS core classes with a math foundation is to get a broad exposure to them, including macroecon, chem, physics and of course, calculus (which is usually required anyway.) Why? Because it gives you opportunities to consider how you might approach problems or exercises in these disciplines analytically and how you might program modeling and such. I found on thing could lead to another, quite often, as classes can often be very interconnected in theories and information and were inspirational for lots of experiments in coding. Broad experience in coding is essential, unless you like to play the high-risk game of specialization (big bucks, but little call for your skills)
Non-math courses help develop a personality and there's no shortage of need in that department, where I've worked. Learn some general psychology, socialogy and language. A well exercised brain is more creative than one that only dwells on one aspect or type of challenge.
I found many formulas and ideas from classes outside CS contributed greatly to offering information and processes which normally may not have occured to me.
In short, you're in school, make understanding the concepts behind your classes your main focus, socializing and entertainment when you can fit it in, not the other way around.
Virtually every field nowadays seems to be ruthlessly dominated by one or two (if you're lucky, three) titanic competitors. Trying to break into an existing market is tantamount to financial suicide. Not because newcomers have bad ideas or make bad products-- but because the "mindshare" of the unwashed masses is so stuck on the existing titans..
You overlook a once tried-and-true strategy, which doesn't seem to have happened in this case:
Devise some clever new bit of technology
Burn venture capital (or even your own money if you're confident) waving it under the big noses in the industry.
Sell out
Logically you'd expect Intel, IBM or AMD to snatch them up as some sort of IP asset or leverage against a competitor, but Intel's scrambling against AMD, which hasn't exactly had lots of money to burn on other fronts, which left IBM who probably will pick up the ashes, unless Microsoft does and uses it for their Windows Processor...
Never even knew they existed. Wow. I guess either they couldn't compete, or they sucked.
Well they fell into the trap of ending a processor line with -eon, which never set well with me. I mean, it practically screems 'Solutions', which is what people add to marketing babble when their actually stumped when trying to explain what their product actually does.
The secret behind marketing -> "it's supposed to be a go-faster, use-less-power device which has built in flexibility of use... let's look up some word in the dictionary and cement -eon onto the end and go get drunk."
Just about every geeky site has reported on Eisner's death, yet nothing on slashdot's front page today or yesterday. Speaks volumes of the editors really, and not in a good way.
If Will had drawn in Anime style they's be all over it like flies on a cow patty.
Instead he pioneered american comic styles, fathered the graphic novel and targetted his work at 'the 55 year old who has had his wallet stolen on the subway' rather than bubblegum gnawing children.
Already their IP licensing revenue exceeds that of their microprocessor sales, though both are dwarfed by their recurring quarterly losses."
And yet they're going to the CES in Lost Wages. (Booth 36235, LVCC)
[Hello! My name is ARTHUR SWIFT]"Hi, these are our microproceesor products, which cost more to make than we sell them for. We're thinking about breaking into the game console market next. Losing money seems to be working for the X Box!"
It's only a matter of time before OCP takes over and starts running our cities like a corporation! Next they'll experiment with convicts in order to build cyborgs. We must stop them now before all our rights belong to them!
A tempest in a teapot, of which IL should have known better and resisted the urge to file a suit. All they've done is drag their own name through the mud and elevate HardOCP, but worst, both parties I really couldn't care less about to begin with, yet here they are dragging each other through the mud before our eyes in the finest of tradition pioneered by people and companies long ago bankrupt. Thanks for the entertainment, really.
Oh, and Will Eisner, who drew The Spirit died, after a magnificent career and giving so much. Seems like some could learn from such an example rather than pissing in their own coffee.
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And E.T. is up there in the top 10. Gimme a break. Anyone with small kids knows The Lion King should be way up there. We all know all the words to all the songs... (please make it stop!!!)
Do we believe Blizzard on this?
i'll be the envy of all eco-artists!
Does anyone else see us heading back towards feudalism?
To whatever device 'techn-uh-logy' spreads, virii and worms are sure to follow.
Sure, and if you're inexperienced or a moron then you can do it wrong, just as these people have. High quality tools can still be misused by dolts.
I am sure someone will post with OSS software solutions. Aside from that, how many people really need web-enabled surveillance? Just record it to HD or have it monitored live in closed-circuit fashion.
Does anyone remember the article, couple years back about people using X10 cams for survelience, which were easily monitored from, not a black suburban, but so much as a Yugo with a coathanger antenna out in the street? It's about understanding the deployment needs and big picture of security.
"hey, I can see myself in the bathroom in the internet.... uh..."
Well, it's really just another example of engineers doing the job right, only to then have a PHB of some ilk tell them, "Now I want to be able to watch this from my office or my cell phone or from home, etc." Where the Engineer exclaims, "Doh!" and does it because he/she's not paid to THINK.
Because in this case Linus Torvalds is our new overlord, and I for one, welcome him.
Good thing he did, as he'd have had customs issues bringing several back into the country. For the paltry few hundred $$$ he could have made, he could also have paid duties and had to deal with the scumbags on eBay who bid but don't pay.
I thought that was supposed to be the sharks with the lasers.
I for one welcome our new Robosapien V2 Overlo... oh buggerit.
Board, with little magnets(!) to hold pieces in place.
If the first ; I never knew that Capcom also dealt in boardgames.
I don't know the history of CapCom, but I wouldn't be surprised to see they originated somewhere other than video games, like board games, ceramic capacitors, bicycles, refridgerators or aircraft.
A version of SoC for PSP would probably be enough cause for me to buy it, but only if it's a really good version of the game. Knowing Sony it'll probably only be available in Japan, so you'll have to pry it open, move some jumpers and learn to read japanese to play an import.
A friend is returning from Japan and was contemplating joining the hordes selling the Japanese model on ebay, for up to $400 each. I explained the logistics and other troubles he may encounter and thankfully he elected to drop the scheme. Though he is bringing in the Capcom Travel version of Settlers of Catan for me 8^)
What gets me is this doesn't even sound like it should fit under the FCC's perview, as it is not a broadcast matter of any sort.
It appears to me that such a practice would amount to a racket, as Microsoft sold the operating system which allows the spyware to flourish.
Then again, maybe it's an indication most of this sh!t is perpetrated by students...
Tell me the first name of that Arafat fellow. Yasir! ...
Somewhat more recently I did this back when Hu Jintao was only vice president ...
Non-math courses help develop a personality and there's no shortage of need in that department, where I've worked. Learn some general psychology, socialogy and language. A well exercised brain is more creative than one that only dwells on one aspect or type of challenge.
I found many formulas and ideas from classes outside CS contributed greatly to offering information and processes which normally may not have occured to me.
In short, you're in school, make understanding the concepts behind your classes your main focus, socializing and entertainment when you can fit it in, not the other way around.
You overlook a once tried-and-true strategy, which doesn't seem to have happened in this case:
Devise some clever new bit of technology
Burn venture capital (or even your own money if you're confident) waving it under the big noses in the industry.
Sell out
Logically you'd expect Intel, IBM or AMD to snatch them up as some sort of IP asset or leverage against a competitor, but Intel's scrambling against AMD, which hasn't exactly had lots of money to burn on other fronts, which left IBM who probably will pick up the ashes, unless Microsoft does and uses it for their Windows Processor ...
(Please note, I did not include
and
Profit!!!
above. Thanks.)
Well they fell into the trap of ending a processor line with -eon, which never set well with me. I mean, it practically screems 'Solutions', which is what people add to marketing babble when their actually stumped when trying to explain what their product actually does.
The secret behind marketing -> "it's supposed to be a go-faster, use-less-power device which has built in flexibility of use ... let's look up some word in the dictionary and cement -eon onto the end and go get drunk."
If Will had drawn in Anime style they's be all over it like flies on a cow patty.
Instead he pioneered american comic styles, fathered the graphic novel and targetted his work at 'the 55 year old who has had his wallet stolen on the subway' rather than bubblegum gnawing children.
Yeah, I can see why it's not news.
And yet they're going to the CES in Lost Wages. (Booth 36235, LVCC)
[Hello! My name is ARTHUR SWIFT] "Hi, these are our microproceesor products, which cost more to make than we sell them for. We're thinking about breaking into the game console market next. Losing money seems to be working for the X Box!"
I for one, welcome our new OCP overlords.
Oh, and Will Eisner, who drew The Spirit died, after a magnificent career and giving so much. Seems like some could learn from such an example rather than pissing in their own coffee.