If I remember right they attempted 2, 1 car actually had an attack weapon attached to the roof that had a spinning chain on the top, though the weapon was rather useless. I still say not a bad job for 8 or so hours work.
Now if it was on the scale of battle bots and people had time to develop thier weapons we could see some real carnage.
Only thing is once you get to that size if you loose you bot its 20 grand down the drain as opposed to 3 - 5 grand.
There was an episode of junkyard wars that did this. They took 2 old V6 beaters and converted them into giant battlebots to fight in a 100 yard ring.
Its was great at the end one tore the hell out of the axel of the other and it went careening out of control at 45mph into a dirt mound.
If battle bots was like that I would watch every day.:-)
Battle bots used to be much better before all the lawsuits. If your curious to see what happend to hmonigize all this then look up all the legal battles over who owned battle bots and you will see what really killed this idea.
It may not work on millions of people but with a US market of 270+ million and a world wide market of 6+ billion a 10% group who completly ignores advertising wont hurt these companies.
This is one of the reasons I think the PVR argument is stupid. If I remember right there was an artice on Wired (Im too lazy to look it up) that estimated PVR users consitute about 1-2% of the total market. This isnt going to kill TV, so long as that number does not grwo substansially.
Marketers and Studios have some tiem to figure out how to change thier models should this kind of device increase in popularity.
They are only trying to kill it beacuse its easier to kill while its small than to have to draft up a long term plan of how to change the entire market.
In reality it will be some time before we even see if the PVR market is going to take off or not. Though it does look very promising.
Well from what it seems to me (though it could be happening the article did not mention) is that this whole thing is missing something.
This something is called Validation and Qualification. These 2 processes are used in many types of industries (espicially pharmX). Basically the concept is to evaluate and log everything ever done to every system.
There are checklists that should be followed to ensure each system has an identical setup (these checklists are so detailed they tell you where to click).
The setups are then tested and re-tested for consistency and accuracy. Once a system has been qualified and validated, any change no matter how small to the configuration must be logged and the machine must undergo another validation process.
Through all this an accurate paper trail is kept with each change, update or install.
This way if anything is ever challenged there can be records showing what goes on with the machines and thus either disproving or proving malfunction. This would allow us to avoid the whole problem with debating what could hav happend and track down the real issue if there is one.
This way a canidate cannot "wait out the clock" so to speak.
Though not all people agree with this and many companies dont excercise this. IMHO I don't believe what someone chooses to do with thier time outside of work should be a consideration for thier position (besides major crimes and drug use of course).
A person should not get a hand up becasue they participate in a paticular group, club or project outside of work. Nor should it count aginst them becasue they choose not to participate.
I personally have never contrubuited to OSS projects (though I have considered it). this does not mean that I do not program enough or that I don't enjoy it I have many personal projects that I am working on.
Also in the past few months I haven't coded much outside of the office I feel that there are many more things to do than to spend another evening in front of the screen.
Interview skill like any other skill will get better over time. As you take more jobs and interview more it will get easier.
Being a contractor for the past 7 years I have been to 100's of interviews and to be honest there comes a point when you realize that its normally the person doing the hiring that is kind of nervous or off thier game (they don't do interviews everyday normally).
I also don't tend to think about wheather im going to get the job or not, instead I think of them as a paying client already and I try to get them into discussions about thier current enviornment, issues, future plans etc. Then I provide advice and suggestions on these things. sometime if I steer it right I can go through the interview without ever having a formal tech-out or question anwser session becasue you show your skills right away.
Yeah but for 15k I should be able to put it all together as is and make it work. Not spend another 5-10k on equipment and another 10+k (time cost) on coding or setting up the framework.
if im gonna spend all that time I might as well use the 150 pics he has on his site and build my own.
However im not interested in it enough to do either.
its this great little bar near node 1 it looks like a pyrmird (sp), and of course those who come in on public terminals are not let in, this place is a little 7337.
The cool thing is theres this little dameon I wrote when I was helping write the bar that actually scoops up the body of the looser and boots him off the system becasue of course the metaverse can't handle death.
Well first off I'm not a college grad. as a matter of fact I never attended college. I myself am self-taught and have been in the industry for quite some time.
Perhaps I sounded harsher than I should have (one tends to do that when they get on a roll).
To summeriaze I have no problem what-so-ever for those who are honestly trying thier best to learn. As someone who has taught classes as well as managed project teams I have made plenty of mistakes learning the difference. However during the boom I saw a large amount of people fooling companies into thinking that they knew more than they really did. Which I also have no problem with provided if you pull such a stunt your willing to bust your ass to get up to the level at which you promised to be.
If I see that some one is willing to learn and is actually trying then even if they are way behind the curve I will make every effort to help them along. However some just don't care and are just there to milk the company of money which hurts everyone espically the team as they work extra hours to take up the slack someone was supposed to do.
As I said I prob sounded harsh; most likely becasue I'm about to spend my weekend doing some work that some one else promised they could do when they really couldn't even after much help. To bad at this paticular job I have no way of fixing this person other than doing thier work for them.
Your method sometimes works however is not fool-proof. I had a similar situation a couple of years back and tried to work every possible angle. When it came down to it he was a nice guy but was dumb as rocks when it came to coding.
Turns out he was just really good at getting hired and then talking others into doing the work for him.
Of course people like him ended up getting fired every 2-3 months and moving onto some other company to leech off of.
Fact of the matter is becasue of the boom, everybody and thier dog decided it would be a great idea to get into tech (coding, networking, whatever)
Companies were so starved for labor that they would hire anyone who even sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
now that we are bottoming out and IT budgets are getting slashed only the best techs and the best of the bullshitters will get through.
My advice: dont let these bullshitters continue on, send them packing and hopefully they won't sucker some other company (if they do hope its your competitor).
I would like to feel sorry for all the people who have been laid off and fired during these times but from what I've seen many of those (there are of course exceptions) who have were worthless anyway and the teams I'm beginning to see now are more focused, better trained, more expierenced and know what its like to deal with the real world.
Of course there are still many fakers out there and I only hope that we can weed even more out over time.
And before you go off ranting about people who are just starting to learn: I have no problem if you are new and just learning, what I have a problem with are those who know the buzzwords and can code some scripts then talk a big game. However when it comes down to the wire and you have to go live in 3 weeks and still have a week and a half of Q&A and you still havent learned the API of the application youve been coding for the last 6 months then I have a problem.
Well it would not be something as an official black list but imagine your a manager at a competing company and Prens comes in for a job.
Any manager would have major reservations about hiring someone who would openly and publicy go aginst his employers wishes to possible deteiment to the employer.
If he were to go through with it then get hired somewhere else then pull the same kind of thing, then it would not be only him but the higher ups would prob point thier fingers at the guy that hired him as well.
Perhaps it was a publicity stunt, or maybe it wasn't. Some people can be extremely intelligent and then do some extremely boneheaded things like assume your employer would not get involved in this.
So questions should be asked to determins such intent:
Was the presentation he was to give in any way connected to or endorsed by HP?
Did he believe that by making such a presentation even if un-connected to his employer that an arrest and possible criminal conviction would not affect his job or his employers reputation in the indusrty?
Even the smart sometimes fail to plan and see all the angles (remember hindsight is 20/20). Only Prens knows for sure.
It just so happens that the authority that told him not too also pays his bills.
Funny how prison may not seem so bad (espically to those that dont think they will go or have never been) but when you threaten someones livelyhood ideas can change quick.
Im sure the conversation went something to the effect that if he gives his presentation that he will not work for any major computer company again. In this economy the last thing a tech worker needs is to be black listed.
Though I wish he would go through with it I can understand his motivations not to. Im sure hes not happy about the whole situation either.
Yes but an IR detctor must be strck either by the beam it self or by the refacted beam. If struk by the beam itself with a power of 100k the detctor will probaly be toast before it has a chance to register.
If it detects the refacted beam then the point of orgin will be the point of where the beam refacted from and not the actual source.
Also considering the fact that this can be shot from a plan that could quickly goto mach 1 or higer and be gone before you had a chance to wipe the explosion dust from your eyes.
Point taken, fair enough, know any trustworthy places to get a PS2 modded in Michigan? All this caffiene makes me to jittery to use an soldering iron;-)
I think that this technology will havbe the largest benefit in large cities and apartment buildings (dorms too).
You start your PS2 and via the piconet you can see all the other people in the building and maybe nearby buildings who are playing.
Just like on the net you can singin to a game and begin play.
From the sound of the tech it will be possible to extend the network without the use of repeaters simpily by using each unit as a repeater it self (or routing, whatever word you like).
of course this wont work in areas where there arent enough users to extend the network out but in Tokyo, NYC, SF and other such places this could be an awesome app.
Mod chips for the PS2 that play Japaneese titles will also always play back-ups.
Its a side effect of the by-pass that the mod chip makes in order to circmumvent (sp) the security check.
Its a great selling point for those selling MOD chips but can also cause problems like this.
The real problem here is that I should be able to chip my PS2 with what ever I like. Just becasue my PS2 is chipped and capable of playing back-up copies doesnt mean I will play pirated copies.
Back-ups are important as I just recently lost a $50 copy of GTA3 due to scratching. Now if these chips were not illegal then I could just bust out a back-up and keep on playing. As it stands now I'm out $50 and I don't know if I have my heart in it to give another $50 to have the right to play a game I already owned (or excuse me license to use).
I love to enter a dialogue with the telemarkter asking them how they feel about having such a horrible job as cold calling people. Asking them how they sleep at night knowing that 90+% of the population thinks thay what they do is crap and by extension thier entire existance is crap.
They normally get really angry and hang up on me, getting a telemarketer to hang up on you is quite a feat, believe me, they are supposed to stay on the phone at all costs.
Circuts called arbiters handle the switching and determine when a paticulare step is free to take on another calculation.
Though in most operations one process can depend on another and there is no way to determine when the next anwser will come up to match data in teh buffer. At the end of the article they mentioned that this is one issue they are stillworking on yet they did not mention how they were going about it (schoolchildern analogy). Perhaps some predictive circuit.
Only because the people making the iMAX films are so stuck on showing you the wonderful beauty of thier film technology they completly forget to make it interesting.
The only good iMAX films I ever saw were ones made by NASA for the iMAX at KSC.
If i remember right the game was not complete yet for the filiming of the movie. The movie was actually billed as providing a sneak peak at the newest mario game.
I would not be surprised if the thing was still in beta when they filmed it.
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If I remember right they attempted 2, 1 car actually had an attack weapon attached to the roof that had a spinning chain on the top, though the weapon was rather useless. I still say not a bad job for 8 or so hours work.
Now if it was on the scale of battle bots and people had time to develop thier weapons we could see some real carnage.
Only thing is once you get to that size if you loose you bot its 20 grand down the drain as opposed to 3 - 5 grand.
. It would be nice to see Linux based bot beating a Microsoft based one to hell and back.
:(
There would be no clear winner as the MS bot would explode for no reason taking half the arena with it. Much like our exchange server recently did
There was an episode of junkyard wars that did this. They took 2 old V6 beaters and converted them into giant battlebots to fight in a 100 yard ring.
:-)
Its was great at the end one tore the hell out of the axel of the other and it went careening out of control at 45mph into a dirt mound.
If battle bots was like that I would watch every day.
Battle bots used to be much better before all the lawsuits. If your curious to see what happend to hmonigize all this then look up all the legal battles over who owned battle bots and you will see what really killed this idea.
must be time for some caffiene becasue my spelling is horrible.
It may not work on millions of people but with a US market of 270+ million and a world wide market of 6+ billion a 10% group who completly ignores advertising wont hurt these companies.
This is one of the reasons I think the PVR argument is stupid. If I remember right there was an artice on Wired (Im too lazy to look it up) that estimated PVR users consitute about 1-2% of the total market. This isnt going to kill TV, so long as that number does not grwo substansially.
Marketers and Studios have some tiem to figure out how to change thier models should this kind of device increase in popularity.
They are only trying to kill it beacuse its easier to kill while its small than to have to draft up a long term plan of how to change the entire market.
In reality it will be some time before we even see if the PVR market is going to take off or not. Though it does look very promising.
Well from what it seems to me (though it could be happening the article did not mention) is that this whole thing is missing something.
This something is called Validation and Qualification. These 2 processes are used in many types of industries (espicially pharmX). Basically the concept is to evaluate and log everything ever done to every system.
There are checklists that should be followed to ensure each system has an identical setup (these checklists are so detailed they tell you where to click).
The setups are then tested and re-tested for consistency and accuracy. Once a system has been qualified and validated, any change no matter how small to the configuration must be logged and the machine must undergo another validation process.
Through all this an accurate paper trail is kept with each change, update or install.
This way if anything is ever challenged there can be records showing what goes on with the machines and thus either disproving or proving malfunction. This would allow us to avoid the whole problem with debating what could hav happend and track down the real issue if there is one.
This way a canidate cannot "wait out the clock" so to speak.
-I am too lazy to spell check today
Though not all people agree with this and many companies dont excercise this. IMHO I don't believe what someone chooses to do with thier time outside of work should be a consideration for thier position (besides major crimes and drug use of course).
A person should not get a hand up becasue they participate in a paticular group, club or project outside of work. Nor should it count aginst them becasue they choose not to participate.
I personally have never contrubuited to OSS projects (though I have considered it). this does not mean that I do not program enough or that I don't enjoy it I have many personal projects that I am working on.
Also in the past few months I haven't coded much outside of the office I feel that there are many more things to do than to spend another evening in front of the screen.
Interview skill like any other skill will get better over time. As you take more jobs and interview more it will get easier.
Being a contractor for the past 7 years I have been to 100's of interviews and to be honest there comes a point when you realize that its normally the person doing the hiring that is kind of nervous or off thier game (they don't do interviews everyday normally).
I also don't tend to think about wheather im going to get the job or not, instead I think of them as a paying client already and I try to get them into discussions about thier current enviornment, issues, future plans etc. Then I provide advice and suggestions on these things. sometime if I steer it right I can go through the interview without ever having a formal tech-out or question anwser session becasue you show your skills right away.
Yeah but for 15k I should be able to put it all together as is and make it work. Not spend another 5-10k on equipment and another 10+k (time cost) on coding or setting up the framework.
if im gonna spend all that time I might as well use the 150 pics he has on his site and build my own.
However im not interested in it enough to do either.
its this great little bar near node 1 it looks like a pyrmird (sp), and of course those who come in on public terminals are not let in, this place is a little 7337.
The cool thing is theres this little dameon I wrote when I was helping write the bar that actually scoops up the body of the looser and boots him off the system becasue of course the metaverse can't handle death.
Well first off I'm not a college grad. as a matter of fact I never attended college. I myself am self-taught and have been in the industry for quite some time.
:-)
Perhaps I sounded harsher than I should have (one tends to do that when they get on a roll).
To summeriaze I have no problem what-so-ever for those who are honestly trying thier best to learn. As someone who has taught classes as well as managed project teams I have made plenty of mistakes learning the difference. However during the boom I saw a large amount of people fooling companies into thinking that they knew more than they really did. Which I also have no problem with provided if you pull such a stunt your willing to bust your ass to get up to the level at which you promised to be.
If I see that some one is willing to learn and is actually trying then even if they are way behind the curve I will make every effort to help them along. However some just don't care and are just there to milk the company of money which hurts everyone espically the team as they work extra hours to take up the slack someone was supposed to do.
As I said I prob sounded harsh; most likely becasue I'm about to spend my weekend doing some work that some one else promised they could do when they really couldn't even after much help. To bad at this paticular job I have no way of fixing this person other than doing thier work for them.
Oh well, at least its overtime
Your method sometimes works however is not fool-proof. I had a similar situation a couple of years back and tried to work every possible angle. When it came down to it he was a nice guy but was dumb as rocks when it came to coding.
Turns out he was just really good at getting hired and then talking others into doing the work for him.
Of course people like him ended up getting fired every 2-3 months and moving onto some other company to leech off of.
Fact of the matter is becasue of the boom, everybody and thier dog decided it would be a great idea to get into tech (coding, networking, whatever)
Companies were so starved for labor that they would hire anyone who even sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
now that we are bottoming out and IT budgets are getting slashed only the best techs and the best of the bullshitters will get through.
My advice: dont let these bullshitters continue on, send them packing and hopefully they won't sucker some other company (if they do hope its your competitor).
I would like to feel sorry for all the people who have been laid off and fired during these times but from what I've seen many of those (there are of course exceptions) who have were worthless anyway and the teams I'm beginning to see now are more focused, better trained, more expierenced and know what its like to deal with the real world.
Of course there are still many fakers out there and I only hope that we can weed even more out over time.
And before you go off ranting about people who are just starting to learn: I have no problem if you are new and just learning, what I have a problem with are those who know the buzzwords and can code some scripts then talk a big game. However when it comes down to the wire and you have to go live in 3 weeks and still have a week and a half of Q&A and you still havent learned the API of the application youve been coding for the last 6 months then I have a problem.
Do I sound bitter??
and yes my spieling and grammer sucks.
Well it would not be something as an official black list but imagine your a manager at a competing company and Prens comes in for a job.
Any manager would have major reservations about hiring someone who would openly and publicy go aginst his employers wishes to possible deteiment to the employer.
If he were to go through with it then get hired somewhere else then pull the same kind of thing, then it would not be only him but the higher ups would prob point thier fingers at the guy that hired him as well.
Perhaps it was a publicity stunt, or maybe it wasn't. Some people can be extremely intelligent and then do some extremely boneheaded things like assume your employer would not get involved in this.
So questions should be asked to determins such intent:
Was the presentation he was to give in any way connected to or endorsed by HP?
Did he believe that by making such a presentation even if un-connected to his employer that an arrest and possible criminal conviction would not affect his job or his employers reputation in the indusrty?
Even the smart sometimes fail to plan and see all the angles (remember hindsight is 20/20). Only Prens knows for sure.
It just so happens that the authority that told him not too also pays his bills.
Funny how prison may not seem so bad (espically to those that dont think they will go or have never been) but when you threaten someones livelyhood ideas can change quick.
Im sure the conversation went something to the effect that if he gives his presentation that he will not work for any major computer company again. In this economy the last thing a tech worker needs is to be black listed.
Though I wish he would go through with it I can understand his motivations not to. Im sure hes not happy about the whole situation either.
Unless of course your driving the truck they are aiming the laser at then I would say you chances are quite a bit higher ;-)
Yes but an IR detctor must be strck either by the beam it self or by the refacted beam. If struk by the beam itself with a power of 100k the detctor will probaly be toast before it has a chance to register.
If it detects the refacted beam then the point of orgin will be the point of where the beam refacted from and not the actual source.
Also considering the fact that this can be shot from a plan that could quickly goto mach 1 or higer and be gone before you had a chance to wipe the explosion dust from your eyes.
Point taken, fair enough, know any trustworthy places to get a PS2 modded in Michigan? All this caffiene makes me to jittery to use an soldering iron ;-)
I think that this technology will havbe the largest benefit in large cities and apartment buildings (dorms too).
You start your PS2 and via the piconet you can see all the other people in the building and maybe nearby buildings who are playing.
Just like on the net you can singin to a game and begin play.
From the sound of the tech it will be possible to extend the network without the use of repeaters simpily by using each unit as a repeater it self (or routing, whatever word you like).
of course this wont work in areas where there arent enough users to extend the network out but in Tokyo, NYC, SF and other such places this could be an awesome app.
Though I disagree with the laws that are set forth in this country I still abide by them until they are seen for what they are and removed.
Yes I have written my seantor and congressman, not that they care about 1 single consituent (sp)
Mod chips for the PS2 that play Japaneese titles will also always play back-ups.
Its a side effect of the by-pass that the mod chip makes in order to circmumvent (sp) the security check.
Its a great selling point for those selling MOD chips but can also cause problems like this.
The real problem here is that I should be able to chip my PS2 with what ever I like. Just becasue my PS2 is chipped and capable of playing back-up copies doesnt mean I will play pirated copies.
Back-ups are important as I just recently lost a $50 copy of GTA3 due to scratching. Now if these chips were not illegal then I could just bust out a back-up and keep on playing. As it stands now I'm out $50 and I don't know if I have my heart in it to give another $50 to have the right to play a game I already owned (or excuse me license to use).
I love to enter a dialogue with the telemarkter asking them how they feel about having such a horrible job as cold calling people. Asking them how they sleep at night knowing that 90+% of the population thinks thay what they do is crap and by extension thier entire existance is crap.
They normally get really angry and hang up on me, getting a telemarketer to hang up on you is quite a feat, believe me, they are supposed to stay on the phone at all costs.
This concept is discussed in the article.
Circuts called arbiters handle the switching and determine when a paticulare step is free to take on another calculation.
Though in most operations one process can depend on another and there is no way to determine when the next anwser will come up to match data in teh buffer. At the end of the article they mentioned that this is one issue they are stillworking on yet they did not mention how they were going about it (schoolchildern analogy). Perhaps some predictive circuit.
Anyone know how this may work?
Only because the people making the iMAX films are so stuck on showing you the wonderful beauty of thier film technology they completly forget to make it interesting.
The only good iMAX films I ever saw were ones made by NASA for the iMAX at KSC.
If i remember right the game was not complete yet for the filiming of the movie. The movie was actually billed as providing a sneak peak at the newest mario game.
I would not be surprised if the thing was still in beta when they filmed it.