...at least when it comes to Planetside, which I play frequently.
Every month or so, there comes a patch which tweaks the game a little bit, adds something, modifies some stats, etc. Sony people are following the forums and listening to what people think about the game.
At one time they even restructured their entire server farm to accommodate a common desire (they merged the population of several servers to increase player density). This is not a small effort.
Is there any kind of International treaties governing use of the Moon?
Who cares? This is America. We have more, bigger, and badder weapons than anybody else. Particularly, we have more weapons than international treaties, which we eat for breakfast anyway these days. American tax dollars should care for American interests.
So... The moon? <Arwen>If you want it, *draws sword* come and CLAIM it!</Arwen>
Computer code is not open to interpretation - it runs the way it was written to run. It doesn't match the same way a performer can offer a different interpretation of a work.
It is quite obvious that you have never taken part in GUI design and the ensuing hilariousness as people interpret the computer program as not just a bit off, but completely differently from what was intended, in the usability studies.:-)
This is actually the scheme used, except the third number is the build number. This is a huge number that increments every day, but is exactly what you propose, in a sense: each day sees many small fixes and increments to the code base.
What Marketing calls "Windows XP" internally carries the product name "Windows" and the version number "5.1.2600".
One will note that this reveals that Windows XP is considered a minor release from Windows 2k, which was 5.0.2195.
Ok, correcting an AC won't do much good, but what the heck:
First, it's "Kelvin", never "degrees Kelvin". 750 Kelvin. Be careful with that -- it's one of the signs you can tell people you don't really know the subject you're talking about.
Second, a Kelvin can be defined as the equivalent degree Celsius, plus 283.15. 750 Kelvin equals about 450 degrees Celsius.
If I'm not mistaken, I wrote "in the 400-500 degrees Celsius range"? How would this be way out?
The most compelling reason to not send bots to Venus, but to Mars, would be Venus' surface temperature. If you think the greenhouse effect is bad on Earth, try an atmosphere comprised almost exclusively of greenhouse gases, and hop in a notch towards the Sun.
Try surface temperatures in the range of 400-500 degrees C, and watch closely as that poor overclocked Pentium powering the robot overheats like an Eskimo who's in Rio de Janiero to watch the carneval.
Thanks, I'd rather try for Mars first, with temperatures in the much more comfortable range for Earth-invented technology. Hell, we don't even have to shield it for temperature most of the time, as it is just marginally cooler on Mars and the electronics gives off some heat by itself to stay warm.
I have a feeling I shouldn't write this as it sort of challenges destiny, but what the heck:
I've got two 75GXPs. They're mounted to a striped volume (!) that houses critical data (!!). They have been spinning 24/7 since I installed them in this server in... uh... must have been 1999 or so.
Win2k (which is the host) says that one shows signs of weariness and should be replaced, but has said so for over a year now.
And yes, I do have backups. I also have a plan to retire the drives and find a new job for (the rest of) the server. Unfortunately, I don't have a job as of right now, so that'll have to wait a bit. Reality can interfere with utopia sometimes.
That's why my home LAN is wired -- so I at least know if anyone is tapping me, then they must be on the inside.
This isn't true -- you can pick up (copper) LAN signals from a reasonable distance, which is why the military always uses fiber outside of shielded environments. At least when sensitive data is expected to travel along the pipes.
The most obvious way to test this is to place an ordinary FM radio antenna along the network wire and see how much junk you are picking up; you can clearly hear the intensity of the network traffic.
I heard this traffic when sitting in my car in the company parking lot at one of my previous jobs and so knew when the builds were done.
Granted, the equipment is fairly expensive, but don't think for a second that you're safe because you're wired. Wires leak like hell.
A new worm, named Doomjuice and MyDoom.C by various AV vendors, was identified. It spreads by exploiting the backdoor left by MyDoom.A and MyDoom.B. After infecting a system, it leaves a copy of the Mydoom.A source in a file named 'sync-src-1.00.tbz'. Doomjuice is also set to perform a DDOS against www.microsoft.com.
(I wasn't so much asking you to write a reply as trying to be funny referring to Libraries of Congress for an energy unit... Thanks for the effort on behalf of those who won't bother looking it up, though. I do know about Google, and my HP-48 can do the same conversions.)
Silver thermal paste is preferred for a reason: The thermal conductivity of the chemical element silver.
If silver thermal paste is sold that does NOT contain silver, but some silver-colored goo with focus on the approximate color, then it will also be less thermally conductive. This will have severe effects on the paste's performance.
Short story, your proc will fry.
So yes, people ARE paying for silver, as in the element silver, for chemical reasons.
When I was there (in 1999) there was talk of the government more or less forcibly changing the registrar in order to change the policies. I don't know if anything happened.
Changed last year to a free-for-all landgrab with after-the-fact conflict resolution model. Anybody (I don't think you have to be Swedish, even) can register a.se domain.
In related news, the admins also slashed their domain prices 40% this year due to the overwhelming increase in registered domains. They didn't need as much money to admin the TLD as they were getting.
One wonders then how it is they were able to deal with crime before the advent of technology.
Actually, they didn't have too hard a time. They found the suspect, and questioned him - using whatever methods were deemed appropriate at the time - until they had a confession.
Easy as pie. No technology needed at all.
Forensics was initially very unpopular with law enforcement, as it meant a sh*tload of extra work, seemingly with no visible payoff. People who advocated it had a hard time keeping their rank.
Power corrupts you know.
I think that was my point.:-)
Power doesn't corrupt neither more nor less than in previous generations, anyway. There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to how good or bad humans behave. Especially in a group.
Laws come from a societal need, usually in backlash to something undesirable.
In the absence of laws, the cheapest alternative and the safest alternative to accomplish something will always exist in tandem. In the case of robotic killers, they may be cheapest AND safest, when compared to the cost of deploying trained (expensive!) human soldiers.
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Dude, you need to get out of your email client and spend more time on IRC.
...at least when it comes to Planetside, which I play frequently.
Every month or so, there comes a patch which tweaks the game a little bit, adds something, modifies some stats, etc. Sony people are following the forums and listening to what people think about the game.
At one time they even restructured their entire server farm to accommodate a common desire (they merged the population of several servers to increase player density). This is not a small effort.
I like that. They really do listen to customers.
Is there any kind of International treaties governing use of the Moon?
Who cares? This is America. We have more, bigger, and badder weapons than anybody else. Particularly, we have more weapons than international treaties, which we eat for breakfast anyway these days. American tax dollars should care for American interests.
So... The moon? <Arwen>If you want it, *draws sword* come and CLAIM it!</Arwen>
These "Fr1st P0st" posts kind of become moot when you provided the article in the first place. :-)
Computer code is not open to interpretation - it runs the way it was written to run. It doesn't match the same way a performer can offer a different interpretation of a work.
:-)
It is quite obvious that you have never taken part in GUI design and the ensuing hilariousness as people interpret the computer program as not just a bit off, but completely differently from what was intended, in the usability studies.
/me looks at clip and exclaims,
"Blue sky on Mars... is this a new one?"
This is actually the scheme used, except the third number is the build number. This is a huge number that increments every day, but is exactly what you propose, in a sense: each day sees many small fixes and increments to the code base.
What Marketing calls "Windows XP" internally carries the product name "Windows" and the version number "5.1.2600".
One will note that this reveals that Windows XP is considered a minor release from Windows 2k, which was 5.0.2195.
In light of recent government decrees in Oceania, it should be insightful, not funny.
Ok, correcting an AC won't do much good, but what the heck:
First, it's "Kelvin", never "degrees Kelvin". 750 Kelvin. Be careful with that -- it's one of the signs you can tell people you don't really know the subject you're talking about.
Second, a Kelvin can be defined as the equivalent degree Celsius, plus 283.15. 750 Kelvin equals about 450 degrees Celsius.
If I'm not mistaken, I wrote "in the 400-500 degrees Celsius range"? How would this be way out?
The most compelling reason to not send bots to Venus, but to Mars, would be Venus' surface temperature. If you think the greenhouse effect is bad on Earth, try an atmosphere comprised almost exclusively of greenhouse gases, and hop in a notch towards the Sun.
Try surface temperatures in the range of 400-500 degrees C, and watch closely as that poor overclocked Pentium powering the robot overheats like an Eskimo who's in Rio de Janiero to watch the carneval.
Thanks, I'd rather try for Mars first, with temperatures in the much more comfortable range for Earth-invented technology. Hell, we don't even have to shield it for temperature most of the time, as it is just marginally cooler on Mars and the electronics gives off some heat by itself to stay warm.
To be as fair, I loved him in Batman Forever. He was absolutely brilliant as the Utterly Mad Scientist Who Doesn't Understand People.
:-)
It was like Jim Carrey was born for the part.
The world as a whole needs more connection to their history, like this post.
I have a feeling I shouldn't write this as it sort of challenges destiny, but what the heck:
I've got two 75GXPs. They're mounted to a striped volume (!) that houses critical data (!!). They have been spinning 24/7 since I installed them in this server in... uh... must have been 1999 or so.
Win2k (which is the host) says that one shows signs of weariness and should be replaced, but has said so for over a year now.
And yes, I do have backups. I also have a plan to retire the drives and find a new job for (the rest of) the server. Unfortunately, I don't have a job as of right now, so that'll have to wait a bit. Reality can interfere with utopia sometimes.
Your pseudocode maps 1:1 to the exploitable code (seen at other places in this thread).
The exploitability came from an the loaded int in your code being signed, and the sizeof equivalent being unsigned.
So maybe it isn't exactly a challenging task, but you more or less just showed you'd fail in the same way as MS engineers did.
That's why my home LAN is wired -- so I at least know if anyone is tapping me, then they must be on the inside.
This isn't true -- you can pick up (copper) LAN signals from a reasonable distance, which is why the military always uses fiber outside of shielded environments. At least when sensitive data is expected to travel along the pipes.
The most obvious way to test this is to place an ordinary FM radio antenna along the network wire and see how much junk you are picking up; you can clearly hear the intensity of the network traffic.
I heard this traffic when sitting in my car in the company parking lot at one of my previous jobs and so knew when the builds were done.
Granted, the equipment is fairly expensive, but don't think for a second that you're safe because you're wired. Wires leak like hell.
From Internet Storm Center (emphasis mine):
A new worm, named Doomjuice and MyDoom.C by various AV vendors, was identified. It spreads by exploiting the backdoor left by MyDoom.A and MyDoom.B. After infecting a system, it leaves a copy of the Mydoom.A source in a file named 'sync-src-1.00.tbz'. Doomjuice is also set to perform a DDOS against www.microsoft.com.
I'm surprised the crash made slashdot, but not the root exploit in BSD that was posted to BugTraq at the same time. To wit:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/352733
(I wasn't so much asking you to write a reply as trying to be funny referring to Libraries of Congress for an energy unit... Thanks for the effort on behalf of those who won't bother looking it up, though. I do know about Google, and my HP-48 can do the same conversions.)
Four thousand foot-pounds?
How much is that Libraries of Congress?
Silver thermal paste is preferred for a reason: The thermal conductivity of the chemical element silver.
If silver thermal paste is sold that does NOT contain silver, but some silver-colored goo with focus on the approximate color, then it will also be less thermally conductive. This will have severe effects on the paste's performance.
Short story, your proc will fry.
So yes, people ARE paying for silver, as in the element silver, for chemical reasons.
When I was there (in 1999) there was talk of the government more or less forcibly changing the registrar in order to change the policies. I don't know if anything happened.
.se domain.
Changed last year to a free-for-all landgrab with after-the-fact conflict resolution model. Anybody (I don't think you have to be Swedish, even) can register a
In related news, the admins also slashed their domain prices 40% this year due to the overwhelming increase in registered domains. They didn't need as much money to admin the TLD as they were getting.
For a rather long time, one of the crossings by the Microsoft Campus had the warning sign "Geek Xing".
Was gone when I looked a year ago, though.
Translation:
Low-level -- they're not getting past the receptionist.
Intermittent -- Google keeps hanging up on them.
Hence their turning to the media instead, since Google won't take them seriously (and shouldn't).
One wonders then how it is they were able to deal with crime before the advent of technology.
:-)
Actually, they didn't have too hard a time. They found the suspect, and questioned him - using whatever methods were deemed appropriate at the time - until they had a confession.
Easy as pie. No technology needed at all.
Forensics was initially very unpopular with law enforcement, as it meant a sh*tload of extra work, seemingly with no visible payoff. People who advocated it had a hard time keeping their rank.
Power corrupts you know.
I think that was my point.
Power doesn't corrupt neither more nor less than in previous generations, anyway. There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to how good or bad humans behave. Especially in a group.
Laws come from a societal need, usually in backlash to something undesirable.
In the absence of laws, the cheapest alternative and the safest alternative to accomplish something will always exist in tandem. In the case of robotic killers, they may be cheapest AND safest, when compared to the cost of deploying trained (expensive!) human soldiers.