lately, the way ive been playing on battle.net, the AI would watch my strategy closely, evaluating diligently, predicting the style and outcome of my strategy,...
and at that crucial moment i get a phone call and need its help for a few minutes, i click it on and...
every character would slit its own throat, saving the gold and lumber.
some of the programmers i know are brilliant at what they do because they have very little interest in social activities, physical activities, or leaving their monitors at all. almost all of there time is spent learning and soaking up new data. -generally- i find them pretty un energetic and hard to work with in groups sometimes.
but, if they were doing physical activities, getting out more, they may be better to work with, easier to pool knowledge, and have more energy and focus.
but would they be as tech smart and on top of things? at what point is the 'geek specialization' hurting the group interaction and thus the goals of forming a unit that works well to serve the fbi and its goal?
is it just me, but as i was trying to decipher the english in the post, i could just hear him saying, "Hi, have you ever thought why does your graphic card has so much memory?"
i usually could care, but this post reads like ghetto yoda.
Lots of other professions speculate on compilied data. The/. posting here implies that they are guessing completely, but in fact they are really just taking note of people that are hanging in shady areas, loitering, with no real reason to be there.
If the majority of those people end up commiting a crime, and they see a pattern, I see no problem with getting familiar with those faces in case anything ever does happen.
Now, it would be funny to see some CEO's pop up on a fbi list.... this ceo has aurthur anderson consulting as his auditor, a seemingly inflated stock price... hes probably laundering, lets keep an eye on him!
although i dont have the problem, most people need some way to bring files to work on to their computer labs, school public use computers, and libraries, where many people use systems they dont own themselves.
I used them recently when a friend needed to print some pictures at kinkos... i knew a floppy would work at kinkos, and i didnt need to spend the time burning anything, nor did i need to ask for it back.
The same goes for many school files back in my college days.
code heads.... would it be possible for the software the read the file being downloaded, and check to see if it is looping over the firsts 20 seconds or so, and then alert you virus software style?
It could automatically stop the download, look for another file for you, and send that users name to a database as a bad file carrier.
i mentioned that often companies need strong legal rulings that go unenforced unless of some specific rare occurence, just so they have their legal butts covered here:
might be missing why they have this here
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often policies like this are meant to be rpesent but really never enforced unless in the most extreme circumstance. this way legally they have protected and stated the most extreme case.
then maybe if they were upset that some farm sex site decided to link them for whatever reason, they have some recourse.
on another side of this, certainly they have to know that link popularity (incoming links) is a major factor for search engine algorythms and any policy against that would push their site down in rankings on both yahoo and google among others if this policy were ever successfully enforced.
lets get a couple hundred people to try and get into a small bar running a 1 bartender server system, and see if he can handle the load.
with this many people, it should be pretty easy to over run the bar buffer and get into the back end areas like the kitchen and accounting areas.
ahhh, the REAL slashdot effect in person.
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I find it very interesting that a quantum theory invoked what is a common philisophical idea: that at some point the universe ceases to exist as we know it when one reaches a new plane of existance.... the sort of end id say you get when you realize exactly how the universe works and the whole equation collapses.
"the crew... thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store. ''They thought, My God, this is never going to work."
I admit I thought the same the first time i saw Pat Morita playing ol' Miyagi, but he turned out all right too.
you missed it a bit on the analogy. let me clear that up for you.
its not knowing where the steering wheeel is. in this analogy, you as an IT person are the pit crew. That driver is going around the track doing something you clearly cant, and when he needs service, you run out there and service his car, change the tires, fill up the tank, and fix whatever is keeping him from going fast and winning.
you arent better than him because you know what oil to put in... you simply get paid to help him make money. dont forget you drain the companies resources, because you make no money, but are a necessary evil to keep that guy going. you aren't wanted- but in this day and age we must pay you to keep things going. if computers stopped being complicated, you'd be gone is a second.
and to carry your analogy 1 step furthur, arent you jealous of the car designers that get to be innovative and design things noone has ever seen before... instead of just maintaining them?
study, and someday maybe youll be a programmer instead of just a IT guy.
btw, i am neither a programmer or a IT guy.... just a UI guy.
Slashdot Mirror
whats worse is a life where you patrol slashdot for grammar heirs.
lander: we are now returning with alan sheperds balls.
base: what was that? (chuckle)
lander: i said were returning with alan shepards balls.
base: hehe, sweet. did you use the retractable cup tool to scoop them up?
lander: yes, we used the cup.
base: would you say that your... hehehehehe, cupping alan shepards balls?
lander: umm, yes, weve successfully cupped his balls.... do you guys hear laughing over the frequency cutting in?
base: oh no, no laughing here. would you say your excited to be cupping....
lately, the way ive been playing on battle.net, the AI would watch my strategy closely, evaluating diligently, predicting the style and outcome of my strategy,...
and at that crucial moment i get a phone call and need its help for a few minutes, i click it on and...
every character would slit its own throat, saving the gold and lumber.
interesting balance working here.
some of the programmers i know are brilliant at what they do because they have very little interest in social activities, physical activities, or leaving their monitors at all. almost all of there time is spent learning and soaking up new data. -generally- i find them pretty un energetic and hard to work with in groups sometimes.
but, if they were doing physical activities, getting out more, they may be better to work with, easier to pool knowledge, and have more energy and focus.
but would they be as tech smart and on top of things? at what point is the 'geek specialization' hurting the group interaction and thus the goals of forming a unit that works well to serve the fbi and its goal?
i think this technique is for the geel of it, not really for the practicality.
its one of those mountains geeks climb because its there.
is it just me, but as i was trying to decipher the english in the post, i could just hear him saying, "Hi, have you ever thought why does your graphic card has so much memory?"
i usually could care, but this post reads like ghetto yoda.
I wonder if hybrids (which seem to be the practical transitional cars) are only the stop gap till the real 'next' car, fuel cell powered vehicles.
i think ford saw ev as that stop gap, but they got the beta instead of the vhs in this case.
i always though the most beautiful experiment was creating kelly lebrock in wierd science!
chips, dips, chains, whips, sex, drugs, rock and roll... your average party.
from the slashdot readers that I know... top things they'd like to see added to a game:
10. golems
9. battle chariots
8. star cruisers
7. light sabers
6. dark elves
5. dancing girls
4. power axes
3. tanks
2. balistic missles
1. more cinematics of lara croft
things they wouldn't like:
10. calisthenics
9. exertion
8. breathing hard
7. movement
6. physicality
5. burning energy
4. working out
3. sweat
2. exercise
1. dancing
i see a critical flaw here.
i believe racial profiling is based on race, not location.
these lists are based on loitering in bad areas where most of those people there for "no reason" are more often than not there for an illegal one.
Lots of other professions speculate on compilied data. The /. posting here implies that they are guessing completely, but in fact they are really just taking note of people that are hanging in shady areas, loitering, with no real reason to be there.
If the majority of those people end up commiting a crime, and they see a pattern, I see no problem with getting familiar with those faces in case anything ever does happen.
Now, it would be funny to see some CEO's pop up on a fbi list.... this ceo has aurthur anderson consulting as his auditor, a seemingly inflated stock price... hes probably laundering, lets keep an eye on him!
"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of Cameron up his own ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond."
lets hear it for fat grandparents...
bigger diamonds!
ill take grandma earrings, grandpa inlayed into my cane, and if possible i'd like sparky my dog as a necklace.
my aunt loved music, perhaps she can focus the lazer on my cd player or something to that effect.
thankfully the posts
usually long winded
are much shorter now
Its a little known fact that power golves with linux is the first step towards those neato computers tom cruise uses in the movie.
although i dont have the problem, most people need some way to bring files to work on to their computer labs, school public use computers, and libraries, where many people use systems they dont own themselves.
I used them recently when a friend needed to print some pictures at kinkos... i knew a floppy would work at kinkos, and i didnt need to spend the time burning anything, nor did i need to ask for it back.
The same goes for many school files back in my college days.
"IF you are serious, Think about the bumbest thing you ever did..."
There's nothing sweeter than when you notice someone describing something as stupid, dumb, ignorant, etc, and they mispell the word meant to degrade.
And no, 'b' is not near 'd'.
"There are no stpid posts, just stoopid people making posts"
code heads.... would it be possible for the software the read the file being downloaded, and check to see if it is looping over the firsts 20 seconds or so, and then alert you virus software style?
It could automatically stop the download, look for another file for you, and send that users name to a database as a bad file carrier.
pick this one apart please...
i find it disturbing that he assumes that people who work in tech dont have just a wide array of tastes as any other demographic.
just because you work with computers does not mean that you listen to music made with computers... thats just stupid.
i mentioned that often companies need strong legal rulings that go unenforced unless of some specific rare occurence, just so they have their legal butts covered here:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=34457&cid=3
often policies like this are meant to be rpesent but really never enforced unless in the most extreme circumstance. this way legally they have protected and stated the most extreme case.
then maybe if they were upset that some farm sex site decided to link them for whatever reason, they have some recourse.
on another side of this, certainly they have to know that link popularity (incoming links) is a major factor for search engine algorythms and any policy against that would push their site down in rankings on both yahoo and google among others if this policy were ever successfully enforced.
lets get a couple hundred people to try and get into a small bar running a 1 bartender server system, and see if he can handle the load.
with this many people, it should be pretty easy to over run the bar buffer and get into the back end areas like the kitchen and accounting areas.
ahhh, the REAL slashdot effect in person.
I find it very interesting that a quantum theory invoked what is a common philisophical idea: that at some point the universe ceases to exist as we know it when one reaches a new plane of existance.... the sort of end id say you get when you realize exactly how the universe works and the whole equation collapses.
"the crew... thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store. ''They thought, My God, this is never going to work."
I admit I thought the same the first time i saw Pat Morita playing ol' Miyagi, but he turned out all right too.
you missed it a bit on the analogy. let me clear that up for you.
its not knowing where the steering wheeel is. in this analogy, you as an IT person are the pit crew. That driver is going around the track doing something you clearly cant, and when he needs service, you run out there and service his car, change the tires, fill up the tank, and fix whatever is keeping him from going fast and winning.
you arent better than him because you know what oil to put in... you simply get paid to help him make money. dont forget you drain the companies resources, because you make no money, but are a necessary evil to keep that guy going. you aren't wanted- but in this day and age we must pay you to keep things going. if computers stopped being complicated, you'd be gone is a second.
and to carry your analogy 1 step furthur, arent you jealous of the car designers that get to be innovative and design things noone has ever seen before... instead of just maintaining them?
study, and someday maybe youll be a programmer instead of just a IT guy.
btw, i am neither a programmer or a IT guy.... just a UI guy.