Now now, be fair, the US government spends only about 5 billion per day, so really, it will take them something like 4 hours to burn through that money.
In all fairness, Symantec only got screwed if they didn't do due diligence work about their purchase, which would make it their own fault. No one spends $10 billion to buy a company without looking through the books and paying their own corporate accountants to do an audit. On the other hand, if they did their due diligence work, then they probably knew, and maybe were just hoping they could get away with something, in which case, yay for the IRS, make those corporate tax frauders pay!
I have a dell inspiron 9300. They designed it so that the fans don't go up to high speed until it gets really hot (to keep the noise down I assume). Unfortunately, that means it reaches lap scalding temperatures before the fan comes on to cool it off. So although it is a 'laptop' it cannot actually be used on the lap for more than 15 minutes without injury. So heat does matter to some extent. My next laptop will not have this problem, because I won't buy one that does.
You might be concerned that your purchasing of the product in question lent financial support to a downright evil regime that murders and otherwise oppresses its people quite viciously.
I don't see the fear being obvious in his statements. I interpreted it as a concern about lending support to an oppressive regime. Concern for the well being of one's fellow man is neither fear nor hatred of foreigners. But maybe I'm reading too much into his original statement.
It turns out to be easier to subvert the hosts file than to intercept DNS lookup. There's a really easy way to replace the hosts file from an activex script. How you would subvert DNS from the same point of attack is unclear.
I can see it now, origami masters in high demand to fold sheets of this stuff into ultra compactness to fit inside conventional bulbs, and thus make use of the existing manufacturing process.
This is pretty funny, but in reality I fully expect that a lightbulb over the head will always be symbolic of idea, it's just that eventually we won't know what a lightbulb is. It'll just be an idea over the head, and no one will know why it looks like that.
I bought myself a set of blue LED christmas lights in minibulb format this year... they are fantastic. Run on 3 watts per strand, brighter than standard minibulbs. I could easily afford to run a hundred strands continuously. I'll definitely be buying up more each year (they were a bit pricey, but the prices keep coming down).
Traditional light bulbs aren't dead in the home lighting industry at all. Why? Because the color is so vastly superior to what flourescent lights have to offer. Offices typically care more about costs than the well being of their employees, so they employ flourescents to save money. Communities care only about improving safety at night, so they use HPS. Traffic signals just need to be visible in a narrow field and a narrow frequency range, so they use LEDs.
Which leaves home lighting as the last big frontier in energy saving lighting. And to replace incandescents there will require a light source with better color. Which unfortunately neither LED nor OLED is likely to be soon, but you never know, one breakthrough can so easily change the situation, thanks to the cheapness with which LEDs and OLEDs can be manufactured.
Well, that company was never very competent anyway. It was my first job, and I left when it became sufficiently obvious to me that they were a dotbomb. They'll exist forever because one of the Lauder heirs built it, and it's sort of his toy company, but the management isn't in good shape. And personally, I think patents really only ought to be granted on really innovative ideas (if at all), and I certainly wouldn't consider such a simple concept innovative. I mean it took 3 engineers shooting the breeze 10 minutes to think up, and a team of 8 engineers all of two weeks to implement. I guess the patent office would have granted us a patent on it, but I don't think they should have. The patents we did get were on much more interesting/complicated 'inventions'.
On the other hand, many people are pretty pleased with very star trek like devices. We have cell phones smaller than communicators now, and that's a good 4 centuries early I believe. I can't see anything keeping us from having the voice activated chest tag version within the next 10 years early (we almost have the voice activation part, and likewise almost have the size down), which will put us another century plus ahead of schedule.
We have stun phasers for the military. Our computers are in some ways superior already. We have the beginnings of replicators being worked on (plastics and metal laser fabricators, atomic depositors). I can foresee existing technologies being refined into a pretty functional replicator not more than 50 years down the line.
Transporters seem like the one area where we really don't have a good foundation. I'd guess that we'll still be moving people around at typically no more than 40mph average in 50 years, sadly.
A company I worked for had a system that did this in 1995 (ICTV). But the hardware all resided in the cable headend, so maybe tivo's invention was different enough somehow?
Even if the game only had 20 people working on it, at $50k per year, for 10 years, that's 10 million dollars. You have to sell more than a million units to make that back (developers rarely get $10 per unit... i'd be surprised if they can get $5 per unit).
Indeed, I can see a company doing it that way as well, though I don't think it changes my point: the 'inspiration' / 'hand drawn art' phase of development is not where the bottleneck and the overworked hours lie.
I worked on several titles, every one of them had literally piles of concept art that wasn't used due to lack of resources on the modelling/programming end.
The 'famous names' in games are sort of like 'famous researchers' Most of them did something great one time, and now they have a whole team of people producing stuff that they stamp their name on (research equivallent: graduate students). The people that are really innovating, or really creating the fun stuff that goes into great games are usually just hidden away in the credits. Having one super hit can carry you the rest of your career.
Creative spark plays a relatively minor role in AAA game development. Most of the 'overworked' crowd is doing 2 things: generating code and generating art. But even the artists typically need more skill than creativity, and in my experience the older artists tend to produce both more and better stuff (thanks to experience, particularly with the tools). For example, if the artist is going to generate an elf character... that might typically involve one day of inspiration, and two weeks of pixel pushing. Even if he's twice as slow during that 1 day of inspiration, he'll more than make up for that extra day thanks to his familiarity with tools. On the code development side, I think we all understand how experience renders advantage.
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This was marked funny, but unless I'm misreading the article, that is in fact what was done.
Now now, be fair, the US government spends only about 5 billion per day, so really, it will take them something like 4 hours to burn through that money.
In all fairness, Symantec only got screwed if they didn't do due diligence work about their purchase, which would make it their own fault. No one spends $10 billion to buy a company without looking through the books and paying their own corporate accountants to do an audit. On the other hand, if they did their due diligence work, then they probably knew, and maybe were just hoping they could get away with something, in which case, yay for the IRS, make those corporate tax frauders pay!
Very effective. It puts those who can't effectively drink and drive in jail so that they don't kill twice.
I have a dell inspiron 9300. They designed it so that the fans don't go up to high speed until it gets really hot (to keep the noise down I assume). Unfortunately, that means it reaches lap scalding temperatures before the fan comes on to cool it off. So although it is a 'laptop' it cannot actually be used on the lap for more than 15 minutes without injury. So heat does matter to some extent. My next laptop will not have this problem, because I won't buy one that does.
You might be concerned that your purchasing of the product in question lent financial support to a downright evil regime that murders and otherwise oppresses its people quite viciously.
I don't see the fear being obvious in his statements. I interpreted it as a concern about lending support to an oppressive regime. Concern for the well being of one's fellow man is neither fear nor hatred of foreigners. But maybe I'm reading too much into his original statement.
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You can turn off signatures you know. As far as I know, my signature is not particularly spam related.
It turns out to be easier to subvert the hosts file than to intercept DNS lookup. There's a really easy way to replace the hosts file from an activex script. How you would subvert DNS from the same point of attack is unclear.
I can see it now, origami masters in high demand to fold sheets of this stuff into ultra compactness to fit inside conventional bulbs, and thus make use of the existing manufacturing process.
This is pretty funny, but in reality I fully expect that a lightbulb over the head will always be symbolic of idea, it's just that eventually we won't know what a lightbulb is. It'll just be an idea over the head, and no one will know why it looks like that.
I bought myself a set of blue LED christmas lights in minibulb format this year ... they are fantastic. Run on 3 watts per strand, brighter than standard minibulbs. I could easily afford to run a hundred strands continuously. I'll definitely be buying up more each year (they were a bit pricey, but the prices keep coming down).
Traditional light bulbs aren't dead in the home lighting industry at all. Why? Because the color is so vastly superior to what flourescent lights have to offer. Offices typically care more about costs than the well being of their employees, so they employ flourescents to save money. Communities care only about improving safety at night, so they use HPS. Traffic signals just need to be visible in a narrow field and a narrow frequency range, so they use LEDs.
Which leaves home lighting as the last big frontier in energy saving lighting. And to replace incandescents there will require a light source with better color. Which unfortunately neither LED nor OLED is likely to be soon, but you never know, one breakthrough can so easily change the situation, thanks to the cheapness with which LEDs and OLEDs can be manufactured.
A 192 subnet in IPV4 is more than sufficient for your 10k light source needs.
Well, that company was never very competent anyway. It was my first job, and I left when it became sufficiently obvious to me that they were a dotbomb. They'll exist forever because one of the Lauder heirs built it, and it's sort of his toy company, but the management isn't in good shape. And personally, I think patents really only ought to be granted on really innovative ideas (if at all), and I certainly wouldn't consider such a simple concept innovative. I mean it took 3 engineers shooting the breeze 10 minutes to think up, and a team of 8 engineers all of two weeks to implement. I guess the patent office would have granted us a patent on it, but I don't think they should have. The patents we did get were on much more interesting/complicated 'inventions'.
On the other hand, many people are pretty pleased with very star trek like devices. We have cell phones smaller than communicators now, and that's a good 4 centuries early I believe. I can't see anything keeping us from having the voice activated chest tag version within the next 10 years early (we almost have the voice activation part, and likewise almost have the size down), which will put us another century plus ahead of schedule.
We have stun phasers for the military. Our computers are in some ways superior already. We have the beginnings of replicators being worked on (plastics and metal laser fabricators, atomic depositors). I can foresee existing technologies being refined into a pretty functional replicator not more than 50 years down the line.
Transporters seem like the one area where we really don't have a good foundation. I'd guess that we'll still be moving people around at typically no more than 40mph average in 50 years, sadly.
Perhaps, we had a fair number of patents. This tech in particular seemed too straightforward, it didn't occur to me to put it into the patent process.
A company I worked for had a system that did this in 1995 (ICTV). But the hardware all resided in the cable headend, so maybe tivo's invention was different enough somehow?
Even if the game only had 20 people working on it, at $50k per year, for 10 years, that's 10 million dollars. You have to sell more than a million units to make that back (developers rarely get $10 per unit ... i'd be surprised if they can get $5 per unit).
And when the earth freezes over, and we all die because we didn't warm the globe when we had the chance what will you say then?????
Short term tax revenue increases and incumbent reelections?
Indeed, I can see a company doing it that way as well, though I don't think it changes my point: the 'inspiration' / 'hand drawn art' phase of development is not where the bottleneck and the overworked hours lie.
I worked on several titles, every one of them had literally piles of concept art that wasn't used due to lack of resources on the modelling/programming end.
I think the implication is that the stress is causing the lack of imagination.
The 'famous names' in games are sort of like 'famous researchers' Most of them did something great one time, and now they have a whole team of people producing stuff that they stamp their name on (research equivallent: graduate students). The people that are really innovating, or really creating the fun stuff that goes into great games are usually just hidden away in the credits. Having one super hit can carry you the rest of your career.
Creative spark plays a relatively minor role in AAA game development. Most of the 'overworked' crowd is doing 2 things: generating code and generating art. But even the artists typically need more skill than creativity, and in my experience the older artists tend to produce both more and better stuff (thanks to experience, particularly with the tools). For example, if the artist is going to generate an elf character ... that might typically involve one day of inspiration, and two weeks of pixel pushing. Even if he's twice as slow during that 1 day of inspiration, he'll more than make up for that extra day thanks to his familiarity with tools. On the code development side, I think we all understand how experience renders advantage.