Okay, wise guy. Just relax and take it easy. Paramount is not "raping your childhood", or even improving the effects. (Much.) All they're doing is resampling the film for HD broadcasts. Unfortunately, a lot of the effects shots and audio will stand out as REALLY bad in High Definition, so they're recreating much of it.
What do I mean by "recreating"? I mean that they're matching the original shots (from what I've seen, mistakes and all) so that the jump to HD doesn't make them look like cheap models with sparklers on them. The theme song is being re-recorded to match the original exactly, but using modern sound capture technologies. The sound effects will be redubbed over the audio of the characters, again to take advantage of modern sound systems.
The result is that it will look like Star Trek, feel like Star Trek, and be like Star Trek. It will just look a little better on HD, while SD viewers will notice that the picture is a little cleaner and the audio a bit crisper. Go see for yourself.
No, I explained the key reason why it's important. (Time off for shopping thanks to the Thanksgiving Holiday.) You focused only on the early promotion gimmick which doesn't explain the NEED for the Wii to reach stored by Thanksgiving.:)
Actually, around Thanksgiving week is huge sales period for retail sales. It's not that people are buying gifts for Thanksgiving, it's that they have time off from work or school to go shopping. So retailers try to be fully stocked with their Christmas gifts by Thanksgiving weekend.
The part about pushing holidays two months (or more!) in advance is just a gimmick. Retailers figure that by starting the holiday season early, they can get consumers more excited about it when the holiday gets into full swing.
sorry I couldn't resist the temptation to undermine a basic assumption.
:D
Unfortunately, it's still not secure. Simply sending a short message like "Yes", "No, "Ja", "Nee", "Nein", "Da", "Nyet" practically guarantees that a dictionary attack will be successful in breaking your encryption. It's not like crytoanalysts have never considered the impact of other languages. Yet the only language that has ever been successfully used as a code is Navajo.
Translation (you probably got it already)
That I did. Even in Dutch, the general meaning wasn't too hard to figure out. I reckoned that it was probably a simple scramble like a letter shift using Fibonacci or something. Once I realized it was Dutch, it wasn't too hard to get a proper translation.;)
The first rule is that there's always exceptions to the rule.;-)
Google appears to pursue non-degreed people in a couple of different situations:
1. The early responders to their public Quiz sheet they put out a little while back. 2. You have a project, product, or unique knowledge they wish to acquire. 3. The position is not in a development area of the company, but is in a supporting function. (e.g. Customer Relations, Tech Ops, etc.)
Unfortunately, things seem to NOT work out with Google more often than they do. I remember a couple of fellows who were in category 2 and went in for interviews with Google. Google ended up turning them down, again for reasons unknown.
It's just *weird* working with Google. At times, even frustrating. There's absolutely zero visibility into the company and their practices. And from what I know from Google insiders, it doesn't get any better once you're there. I'm left to wonder if they're not having some growing pains as the company gets larger and larger. Being as meticulous as they usually are, I imagine that they're still trying to work out the best way of growing beyond a relatively small set of braniacs.
Maybe you only *thought* you completed the test perfectly.;-)
I did consider that. However, I'm pretty certain my answers were correct. If I showed you the form (which I won't do, as I do respect their confidentiality), I think you'd find the answers to be correct as well.:)
1) If the site is blocked, giving them the source won't help them much. 2) If they can't find a way to get around a block, they're not very good at what they do.;-)
B) Common area for critique.
It's the source code. It's gibberish that happens to have meaning to a computer. You wouldn't post an entire copy of Hamlet just to critique the existentialist meaning behind "To be or not to be" line, would you? No, you'd quote the relevant sections, then make your point.
C) In case the page goes down.
See #1 above.
Yes. The "mistake" is a tag in the script. Add it after the published URL, and it goes to the next form
You didn't answer the question. While the solution you gave is correct, did you take the time to understand the page fully before jumping on ahead? For example, do you know which tool is being used to track your movements? Is it first party or third party?
Part of being analytical is to do the analysis correctly. Shortcuts invariably mean that mistakes will eventually get made. Especially since the puzzle doesn't end there.
It's probably the domain name. I'm guessing that your blocking software looks for intentional "sex" misspellings. So it thinks that ProVeyourWorth.com is an intentional misspelling of ProVoyeurWorth.com.
I think "View Source" is the first thing that we all tried. The question is, did you advance onto more complex analysis techniques (such as tools that would show the page structure AFTER the embedded Javascript code ran) in an attempt to fully understand the page before you made an attempt at solving the puzzle?
Well, that was fun. For about 10 minutes. Then I got bored.:P
Or more precisely, I don't need a job in Quebec, nor do I particularly want to work with PHP for a living. So I wasn't particularly interested in submitting my resume and 'PHP code'. Still, it's kind of a neat site. I would encourage companies looking for high-end talent to do more of this as a recruitment effort. After all, it had me intrigued enough to solve their little puzzle (even if it was overrated) despite not looking to work for them.
Unfortunately, the comparison with Google is poor. Google requires that you have a Masters Degree (PhDs are preferrable) before they even give you their test. Then they're so secretive that they may never get back to you even if you complete their test perfectly. You'll never even know why they didn't get back to you, despite a promise to start an interview process after the test.
As a result, the two don't really compare.:)
P.S. The Prove Your Worth site really does track your movements via (some rather ugly looking) Javascript. So move carefully.
If they were able to remember to deliver paper ballots to the polls, then they should be expected to be able to remember to deliver voter cards.
Congratulations. Out of hundreds of freaking posts, you seem to be the first one to realize this! When I first read the article, I'd actually thought they'd forgotten the special paper ballots that are mechanically counted. It would have been the exact same result.
The whole fiasco is nothing more than a huge mismanagement issue. Somehow the ballots got left in a warehouse, and absolutely no one noticed they were missing until the day of the elections. Methinks that the latter part is far more worrisome than the former. How could all your voting stations not notice that they're missing a key supply? We'll have to keep an eye on this and see how it all shakes out.
In the interim, it's all quite amusing. Anyone got some popcorn?:)
Don't you ever get tired of listening to American Pie?
4096x3072 pics
Honestly, why would you carry a ditigal negative around in your pocket? Images that large are only good as source material for image editing and printed materials. What good is having hundreds of them in your iPod?
and 3 hour movies
100 hours of video is 100 hours of video. I think you can do the math to figure out how many movies that is.:)
they changed the color of the music note! It is blue now!
As the AC said, it's been blue before. It was also purple for a while. Apple changes it around every so often.
One of the weirder things they added though was the "explicit" warning to music bought from the music store that is well, explicit.
I'm not following you. That little warning has been there forever. The cleaned versions of explicit songs even get a little "CLEAN" tag to say that they're alternate versions. Apple has other tags as well, but they don't show up as often.
The actual silicon is tiny. For example, Samsungs 1GB NAND chip is a mere 146 square millimeters, or approx. 12mm x 12mm. The real space consumption on a board is always in the chip packaging, which is often sized to surface mount or slot into a board. So the 32mm x 24mm packaging of SD cards should pose little challenge to placing more than one chip, assuming the traces are etched directly into the SD card. Considering their size, I see no other way they'd do it.
They most likely have more than one chip in them. Look at a stick of RAM sometime and count how many chip packages are mounted on it. You'll usually find more than one chip.
Probably the craziest example of this was the SuperPaintFramebuffer which was spread across 16 circut cards, each populated with TONS of memory chips.
If I'm doing my computations right, he needed 1215 chips to complete his project! I hope he got a bulk discount.:P
Am I missing something about what the $600 version offers that makes it much more interesting than the $500 besides the HDMI port?
1. Expandability. If you get the low end version, you're screwed if any future games *require* one of the expansions that Sony is promising.
2. Future proofing. Anyone crazy enough to spend $500 on a game console will probably suck it up and get the HDMI port anyway. Even if they don't have an HDTV now, that doesn't mean that they won't in the future. After all, they just shelled out over half a kilobuck for a game console!
"Laptop" is a misprint. They mean to "a fully luggable XBox". It's designed to replace the Commodore SX-64 as the portable gaming^W... computing platform of choice.
Just think, you'll be the envy of the office when you lug it in to work!
What's with the wrong use of data capacity measurements?
Memory parts are always referred to in bits rather than bytes, since the actual storage is usually at the bit level. Bytes are only used once the device has been packaged, and only accepts requests on a byte, word, or dword basis. So it's not really incorrect. You're just unfamiliar with the terminology. Do a bit of circuit design and you'll hear a lot more numbers given in bits rather than bytes.:)
Also, what exactly does "three-dimensional transistor structure" mean?
Usually it means that the circuitry is layered or "stacked" in a 3D matrix rather than the traditional "flat" 2D matrix. This means that you can cram more parts per square centimeter because your circuits have depth as well as width and length.
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Okay, wise guy. Just relax and take it easy. Paramount is not "raping your childhood", or even improving the effects. (Much.) All they're doing is resampling the film for HD broadcasts. Unfortunately, a lot of the effects shots and audio will stand out as REALLY bad in High Definition, so they're recreating much of it.
What do I mean by "recreating"? I mean that they're matching the original shots (from what I've seen, mistakes and all) so that the jump to HD doesn't make them look like cheap models with sparklers on them. The theme song is being re-recorded to match the original exactly, but using modern sound capture technologies. The sound effects will be redubbed over the audio of the characters, again to take advantage of modern sound systems.
The result is that it will look like Star Trek, feel like Star Trek, and be like Star Trek. It will just look a little better on HD, while SD viewers will notice that the picture is a little cleaner and the audio a bit crisper. Go see for yourself.
No, I explained the key reason why it's important. (Time off for shopping thanks to the Thanksgiving Holiday.) You focused only on the early promotion gimmick which doesn't explain the NEED for the Wii to reach stored by Thanksgiving. :)
Actually, around Thanksgiving week is huge sales period for retail sales. It's not that people are buying gifts for Thanksgiving, it's that they have time off from work or school to go shopping. So retailers try to be fully stocked with their Christmas gifts by Thanksgiving weekend.
The part about pushing holidays two months (or more!) in advance is just a gimmick. Retailers figure that by starting the holiday season early, they can get consumers more excited about it when the holiday gets into full swing.
Unfortunately, it's still not secure. Simply sending a short message like "Yes", "No, "Ja", "Nee", "Nein", "Da", "Nyet" practically guarantees that a dictionary attack will be successful in breaking your encryption. It's not like crytoanalysts have never considered the impact of other languages. Yet the only language that has ever been successfully used as a code is Navajo.
That I did. Even in Dutch, the general meaning wasn't too hard to figure out. I reckoned that it was probably a simple scramble like a letter shift using Fibonacci or something. Once I realized it was Dutch, it wasn't too hard to get a proper translation.
BD 9E 8C 8B 9E 8D 9B D1 DF BB 90 DF 86 90 8A
DF 94 91 90 88 DF 97 90 88 DF 92 9E 91 86 DF
9C 8D 86 8F 8B 9E 91 9E 93 86 8C 96 8C DF 9E
93 98 90 8C DF B6 DF 8B 8D 96 9A 9B DF 9D 9A
99 90 8D 9A DF B6 DF 8D 9A 9E 93 96 85 9A 9B
DF 86 90 8A DF 88 9A 8D 9A DF 8C 8F 9A 9E 94
96 91 98 DF 9B 8A 8B 9C 97 C0 DF C5 D2 BB
A6 90 8A 8D DF 9E 91 8C 88 9A 8D DF 88 9E 8C
DF 91 90 8B DF 9C 8D 86 8F 8B 90 98 8D 9E 8F
97 96 9C 9E 93 93 86 DF 8C 9A 9C 8A 8D 9A D1
DF BE DF 8C 96 92 8F 93 9A DF 86 9A 8C DF 90
8D DF 91 90 DF 92 9E 86 DF 90 9D 8C 9C 8A 8D
9A DF 8B 97 9A DF 8E 8A 9A 8C 8B 96 90 91 D3
DF 9D 8A 8B DF 96 91 DF 9C 8D 86 8F 8B 90 98
8D 9E 8F 97 86 DF 96 8B DF 9C 9E 91 DF 98 96
89 9A DF 9E 88 9E 86 DF 8B 97 9A DF 9C 90 91
8B 9A 91 8B 8C D1 DF B6 91 DF 8B 97 96 8C DF
9C 9E 8C 9A D3 DF CC DF 9C 97 9E 8D 9E 9C 8B
9A 8D 8C DF 88 9E 8C DF 90 9D 89 96 90 8A 8C
93 86 DF 9E DF 86 9A 8C D1 DF C4 D2 D6
The first rule is that there's always exceptions to the rule. ;-)
Google appears to pursue non-degreed people in a couple of different situations:
1. The early responders to their public Quiz sheet they put out a little while back.
2. You have a project, product, or unique knowledge they wish to acquire.
3. The position is not in a development area of the company, but is in a supporting function. (e.g. Customer Relations, Tech Ops, etc.)
Unfortunately, things seem to NOT work out with Google more often than they do. I remember a couple of fellows who were in category 2 and went in for interviews with Google. Google ended up turning them down, again for reasons unknown.
It's just *weird* working with Google. At times, even frustrating. There's absolutely zero visibility into the company and their practices. And from what I know from Google insiders, it doesn't get any better once you're there. I'm left to wonder if they're not having some growing pains as the company gets larger and larger. Being as meticulous as they usually are, I imagine that they're still trying to work out the best way of growing beyond a relatively small set of braniacs.
I did consider that. However, I'm pretty certain my answers were correct. If I showed you the form (which I won't do, as I do respect their confidentiality), I think you'd find the answers to be correct as well.
AA 8C 96 91 98 DF AD B0 AB CE CC DF 8B 90 DF 93 90
90 94 DF 8C 92 9E 8D 8B DF 96 8C DF 8D 9E 8B 97 9A
8D DF 8F 8D 9A 8B 9A 91 8B 96 90 8A 8C D3 DF 9B 90
91 D8 8B DF 86 90 8A DF 8B 97 96 91 94 C0
Did they ever get back to you?
1) If the site is blocked, giving them the source won't help them much.
2) If they can't find a way to get around a block, they're not very good at what they do.
It's the source code. It's gibberish that happens to have meaning to a computer. You wouldn't post an entire copy of Hamlet just to critique the existentialist meaning behind "To be or not to be" line, would you? No, you'd quote the relevant sections, then make your point.
See #1 above.
You didn't answer the question. While the solution you gave is correct, did you take the time to understand the page fully before jumping on ahead? For example, do you know which tool is being used to track your movements? Is it first party or third party?
Part of being analytical is to do the analysis correctly. Shortcuts invariably mean that mistakes will eventually get made. Especially since the puzzle doesn't end there.
It's probably the domain name. I'm guessing that your blocking software looks for intentional "sex" misspellings. So it thinks that ProVeyourWorth.com is an intentional misspelling of ProVoyeurWorth.com.
And the point of posting that was... ?
I think "View Source" is the first thing that we all tried. The question is, did you advance onto more complex analysis techniques (such as tools that would show the page structure AFTER the embedded Javascript code ran) in an attempt to fully understand the page before you made an attempt at solving the puzzle?
Well, that was fun. For about 10 minutes. Then I got bored. :P
:)
Or more precisely, I don't need a job in Quebec, nor do I particularly want to work with PHP for a living. So I wasn't particularly interested in submitting my resume and 'PHP code'. Still, it's kind of a neat site. I would encourage companies looking for high-end talent to do more of this as a recruitment effort. After all, it had me intrigued enough to solve their little puzzle (even if it was overrated) despite not looking to work for them.
Unfortunately, the comparison with Google is poor. Google requires that you have a Masters Degree (PhDs are preferrable) before they even give you their test. Then they're so secretive that they may never get back to you even if you complete their test perfectly. You'll never even know why they didn't get back to you, despite a promise to start an interview process after the test.
As a result, the two don't really compare.
P.S. The Prove Your Worth site really does track your movements via (some rather ugly looking) Javascript. So move carefully.
I'm trying to figure out if it's an actual typo, or an attempt at a clever play on the name 'Flickr'.
Congratulations. Out of hundreds of freaking posts, you seem to be the first one to realize this! When I first read the article, I'd actually thought they'd forgotten the special paper ballots that are mechanically counted. It would have been the exact same result.
The whole fiasco is nothing more than a huge mismanagement issue. Somehow the ballots got left in a warehouse, and absolutely no one noticed they were missing until the day of the elections. Methinks that the latter part is far more worrisome than the former. How could all your voting stations not notice that they're missing a key supply? We'll have to keep an eye on this and see how it all shakes out.
In the interim, it's all quite amusing. Anyone got some popcorn?
Honestly, why would you carry a ditigal negative around in your pocket? Images that large are only good as source material for image editing and printed materials. What good is having hundreds of them in your iPod?
100 hours of video is 100 hours of video. I think you can do the math to figure out how many movies that is.
I'm not following you. That little warning has been there forever. The cleaned versions of explicit songs even get a little "CLEAN" tag to say that they're alternate versions. Apple has other tags as well, but they don't show up as often.
The actual silicon is tiny. For example, Samsungs 1GB NAND chip is a mere 146 square millimeters, or approx. 12mm x 12mm. The real space consumption on a board is always in the chip packaging, which is often sized to surface mount or slot into a board. So the 32mm x 24mm packaging of SD cards should pose little challenge to placing more than one chip, assuming the traces are etched directly into the SD card. Considering their size, I see no other way they'd do it.
They most likely have more than one chip in them. Look at a stick of RAM sometime and count how many chip packages are mounted on it. You'll usually find more than one chip.
Probably the craziest example of this was the SuperPaint Framebuffer which was spread across 16 circut cards, each populated with TONS of memory chips.
If I'm doing my computations right, he needed 1215 chips to complete his project! I hope he got a bulk discount.
1. Expandability. If you get the low end version, you're screwed if any future games *require* one of the expansions that Sony is promising.
2. Future proofing. Anyone crazy enough to spend $500 on a game console will probably suck it up and get the HDMI port anyway. Even if they don't have an HDTV now, that doesn't mean that they won't in the future. After all, they just shelled out over half a kilobuck for a game console!
"Laptop" is a misprint. They mean to "a fully luggable XBox". It's designed to replace the Commodore SX-64 as the portable gaming^W... computing platform of choice.
Just think, you'll be the envy of the office when you lug it in to work!
Memory parts are always referred to in bits rather than bytes, since the actual storage is usually at the bit level. Bytes are only used once the device has been packaged, and only accepts requests on a byte, word, or dword basis. So it's not really incorrect. You're just unfamiliar with the terminology. Do a bit of circuit design and you'll hear a lot more numbers given in bits rather than bytes.
No problem.
Welcome to the list of Slashdot editors, BTW. Don't let the anti-editor crowd get you down.
Usually it means that the circuitry is layered or "stacked" in a 3D matrix rather than the traditional "flat" 2D matrix. This means that you can cram more parts per square centimeter because your circuits have depth as well as width and length.