Of all the noble and respected philosophers you could have quoted, you quote from an early 1980s rock concept album envisioned by a dude now widely reviled for the pomoposity of his lyrics?
For a moment there I read that as "pornoposity" and I was like "what? wtf? where?" before opening my entire pink floyd playlist.
They have a total of three game franchises: Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft line
Ah, but what franchises they are...
There's very few game titles I'd be willing to buy without spending a lot of time checking out reviews and the like. With Blizzard I won't have to, except maybe to get all excited with anticipation. Once you get to the point where customers will choose your products simply because you made them, I'd say you're doing pretty damn well as a company.
I liked the way the advertising was placed in Grid. Billboards besides roads and a bunch of existing companies that would offer your sponsorship deals. Then again, not like it was hard for the art to imitate life in this particular case;-)
Who says you have to wait for them to fix it? Contrary to analog crime-scenes, in this case the authorities could make a full copy of the thing including logs etc. and then give you the go-ahead to cross the yellow and black plastic lines to do your thing?
According to this bill, if you believe that your website or a website you support has been compromised, you are not legally allowed to investigate that compromise because the compromise itself is a crime, and even looking to see how it happened so you can prevent it from happening again requires a PI license under the bill.
Which sorta, kinda, makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, if I were to return from vacation and find my place had been cleaned out, I wouldn't go off investigating it myself either but would call the police.
Having a webserver "hacked" sounds like an actual crime to me, and I can see why it should be investigated by someone who's trained in investigative methods and evidence gathering.
When all is said and done the largest casualty of the oil companies may be international air travel. Someone is going to have to bail the airlines out soon, because Boeing/Exxon/Lockeed-Martin etc. are not providing them with the technologies to adequately meet demand or lift supply.
Ok, so with all of you "the free market will take care of it" guys out there, what's really going to happen if airlines are forced to adjust their prices in line with price of oil?
- Flying becomes a lot more expensive. - Fewer people will fly and the ones that do will have to pay a lot more for the privilege. - A number of airlines will go bankrupt. Less flights will take place in a frantic search to squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of every flight to at least keep the costs down a bit. Some mergers will take place.
In the end fewer people will fly, and the market will accomodate what's left of the demand. All the airports around the world that are struggling to keep up find themselves with enough runways all of a sudden.
End result is less birds in the sky spewing out pollutants and more people being forced to holiday closer to home and using all them newfangled technologies like the intertubes to communicate with people far away. Heck, we might actually start seeing forms of transport that don't rely on keeping a huge hunk of metal airborne for an extended amount of time(trains).
To be quite honest when I got further into the series I was wondering whether I was reading fiction or anti-communistic propaganda.
Another issue I had with the series is that the hero is so goddamn perfect all the time. I like my heroes human and flawed, thank you.
Maybe that's the reason I like Colin Hobb so much. Her characters are just as flawed as real people, sometimes annoyingly so. Would seem pretty suitable for a younger audience too. No preaching, interesting concepts and storylines, and what sex and violence there is is described in a non-shocking manner from what I can tell.
I'd think starting off with the 3 Tiffany books (Wee Free Men, a Hat full of a sky, Wintersmith) would make for an excellent introduction to Pratchett.
Only downside might be that since these were written relatively late in his career they'll put the bar too high to properly enjoy some of the earlier books, especially considering how the characters have evolved over time.
Yes, certain themes may be a bit mature (i.e. A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho)
Having read American Psycho as an adult, I definitely wouldn't recommend that book for anyone below 16. Only book I recall making me sick to my stomach, and I read a *lot*.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean. The only people that think that your reasoning makes sense are the abusers themselves, who are simply too fucking egotistical to believe that, yeah, it really is their fault.
Sorry, but things aren't that black or white. I've been, unfortunately, in several relationships with women who did everything within their power to provoke my anger. Their reactions when I refused to act on that anger were...interesting to say the least. One even went so far as to question my manliness over refusing to kick her face in.
Don't get me wrong, as far as I'm concerned being angry is never an excuse to resort to physical violence, but for some people being a victim is the only kind of life they know, and they will go to extreme lengths to remain in their unhappy bubbles.
One guy got into legal trouble and now the filesystem and the whole metadata vision that went along with it is dead. Sucks to be you if you were writing applications against Reiser's APIs.
Don't you mean: "One guy got into legal trouble and oh yeah, his wife is dead. However, because the full source code of his database project was available as open source, we're still able to continue developing it."
That's why I don't believe for a minute that it was premeditated. The guy is too incredibly bad at lying to be a psychopath, IMHO.
Ehmm, are you saying premeditated murder is only committed by psychopaths?
From what I've read Hans Reiser suffers from what I've seen in a lot of geeks, including yours truly, which is that because we know a lot more about certain subjects we automatically think we're more intelligent. In the past few years I've come across a lot of, for example, managers who at first glance seem to be idiots. Only if one bothers to dig a little deeper does one find that these folks aren't trained to handle computers or indepth business matters, they're trained to look at the big picture and, most importantly, deal with people. I might be able to outbluff 'm on some subjects but 9 times out of 10 they'll know exactly how I really feel about what I'm telling them, as well as how I feel about them personally.
You can be fired for no reason at all and have no recourse? Well, duh, you can quit hiring your maid for no reason at all, too; should she be able to take you to court over you firing her?
Ehmm, yes, that is pretty much the way it works in large parts of western europe and we like it that way, thank you very much. Then again, here in the Netherlands our contracts actually contain provisions to protect both parties, as opposed to just our corporate overlords.
We also have this really weird concept where any company that has more than x employees is obligated to have an employee council containing members voted on by their co-workers, and protected under very strict law, which the big boss is obligated to seek advice from and in some cases even explicit permission to do certain things. Sounds pretty awful, and I used to think it was until I actually ended up in one and realized just how much information never reaches the big boss unless you give Joe Blow from accounting the opportunity to ask some sharp questions, while making sure that he won't get fired for doing so.
Nobody who knows anything about IE and is mostly sane would ever make IE standard. Have the option, sure, but you should STRONGLY recommend people not use it.
You'd be amazed at the number of "enterprise" "web interface" applications that...turn out to only work on IE, and with any luck only on a specific version.
Let's see, right now I'm looking at CC&B and Blue Pumpkin, both of which simply will not render on anything but IE, not even with fake user clients.
Goodness. Even if what the U.S. does at places like Guantanamo is not as (hmm, searching for a word here...) restrained as some might like it to be, its forces still operates at a substantially higher standard of conduct than practically any other military force in the world.
Sorry. Perhaps what you're trying to say is that currently the US Armed Forces behave nowhere near as badly as a lot of other countries' do. How many western countries that behave either a lot better or are just a heck of a lot better at hiding their misdeeds does it take to invalidate your "practically all"?
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And what exactly is wrong with that?
Absolutely nothing? That's why we have different licenses, right?
I would argue that firing a gun is much more likely to produce evidence against someone than repairing a computer will, but you don't need any kind of license for that in Texas.
Time to amend the constitution then? The citizen's rights to....reinstall Windows shall not be infringed?
No, it's entirely the fault of the Republican party.
And thus, by extension, of those who vote and keep voting them into office.
and American politics will not start being sane again until the current crop of Republicans are gone.
Or stop being elected?
Note, I'm neither american nor do i really care how you guys keep running your country into the ground. I just can't stop being amazed at how willing you all are to keep blaming the boogeyman(whoever the other guys vote for) instead of getting a goddamn grip.
Only times I've had firefox 3 go down is on particular, badly made, flash-based sites, when trying to do specified things, which makes me fairly sure it's Adobe's fault.
Hey, if we're blaming Bill for Windows going down because an app crashes, we can do the same for a browser that crashes when a plugin does something bad. If it really misbehaves FF should just kill the plugin, not die itself, shouldn't it?
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Some of us have a plastic diet, you insensitive clod!
Customers call that "really unlucky". Companies call that "good engineering".
Europeans call that tough luck and go claim their 2 year warranty on computer parts.
Isn't that the point? If all your traffic is encrypted, how is the ISP supposed to tell what is what?
Of all the noble and respected philosophers you could have quoted, you quote from an early 1980s rock concept album envisioned by a dude now widely reviled for the pomoposity of his lyrics?
For a moment there I read that as "pornoposity" and I was like "what? wtf? where?" before opening my entire pink floyd playlist.
I'll settle for an anything-themed sequel to Battlezone II, those damn vehicles were way too much fun to hover around in.
Ok, granted, the game had a lot of downsides...but, oh the potential!
They have a total of three game franchises: Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft line
Ah, but what franchises they are...
There's very few game titles I'd be willing to buy without spending a lot of time checking out reviews and the like. With Blizzard I won't have to, except maybe to get all excited with anticipation. Once you get to the point where customers will choose your products simply because you made them, I'd say you're doing pretty damn well as a company.
I liked the way the advertising was placed in Grid. Billboards besides roads and a bunch of existing companies that would offer your sponsorship deals. Then again, not like it was hard for the art to imitate life in this particular case ;-)
Battlestar Galactica? In order for life to make sense, it has to end?
Who says you have to wait for them to fix it? Contrary to analog crime-scenes, in this case the authorities could make a full copy of the thing including logs etc. and then give you the go-ahead to cross the yellow and black plastic lines to do your thing?
According to this bill, if you believe that your website or a website you support has been compromised, you are not legally allowed to investigate that compromise because the compromise itself is a crime, and even looking to see how it happened so you can prevent it from happening again requires a PI license under the bill.
Which sorta, kinda, makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, if I were to return from vacation and find my place had been cleaned out, I wouldn't go off investigating it myself either but would call the police.
Having a webserver "hacked" sounds like an actual crime to me, and I can see why it should be investigated by someone who's trained in investigative methods and evidence gathering.
When all is said and done the largest casualty of the oil companies may be international air travel. Someone is going to have to bail the airlines out soon, because Boeing/Exxon/Lockeed-Martin etc. are not providing them with the technologies to adequately meet demand or lift supply.
Ok, so with all of you "the free market will take care of it" guys out there, what's really going to happen if airlines are forced to adjust their prices in line with price of oil?
- Flying becomes a lot more expensive.
- Fewer people will fly and the ones that do will have to pay a lot more for the privilege.
- A number of airlines will go bankrupt. Less flights will take place in a frantic search to squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of every flight to at least keep the costs down a bit. Some mergers will take place.
In the end fewer people will fly, and the market will accomodate what's left of the demand. All the airports around the world that are struggling to keep up find themselves with enough runways all of a sudden.
End result is less birds in the sky spewing out pollutants and more people being forced to holiday closer to home and using all them newfangled technologies like the intertubes to communicate with people far away. Heck, we might actually start seeing forms of transport that don't rely on keeping a huge hunk of metal airborne for an extended amount of time(trains).
So....where's the downside?
To be quite honest when I got further into the series I was wondering whether I was reading fiction or anti-communistic propaganda.
Another issue I had with the series is that the hero is so goddamn perfect all the time. I like my heroes human and flawed, thank you.
Maybe that's the reason I like Colin Hobb so much. Her characters are just as flawed as real people, sometimes annoyingly so. Would seem pretty suitable for a younger audience too. No preaching, interesting concepts and storylines, and what sex and violence there is is described in a non-shocking manner from what I can tell.
I'd think starting off with the 3 Tiffany books (Wee Free Men, a Hat full of a sky, Wintersmith) would make for an excellent introduction to Pratchett.
Only downside might be that since these were written relatively late in his career they'll put the bar too high to properly enjoy some of the earlier books, especially considering how the characters have evolved over time.
Yes, certain themes may be a bit mature (i.e. A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho)
Having read American Psycho as an adult, I definitely wouldn't recommend that book for anyone below 16. Only book I recall making me sick to my stomach, and I read a *lot*.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean. The only people that think that your reasoning makes sense are the abusers themselves, who are simply too fucking egotistical to believe that, yeah, it really is their fault.
Sorry, but things aren't that black or white. I've been, unfortunately, in several relationships with women who did everything within their power to provoke my anger. Their reactions when I refused to act on that anger were...interesting to say the least. One even went so far as to question my manliness over refusing to kick her face in.
Don't get me wrong, as far as I'm concerned being angry is never an excuse to resort to physical violence, but for some people being a victim is the only kind of life they know, and they will go to extreme lengths to remain in their unhappy bubbles.
One guy got into legal trouble and now the filesystem and the whole metadata vision that went along with it is dead. Sucks to be you if you were writing applications against Reiser's APIs.
Don't you mean: "One guy got into legal trouble and oh yeah, his wife is dead. However, because the full source code of his database project was available as open source, we're still able to continue developing it."
That's why I don't believe for a minute that it was premeditated. The guy is too incredibly bad at lying to be a psychopath, IMHO.
Ehmm, are you saying premeditated murder is only committed by psychopaths?
From what I've read Hans Reiser suffers from what I've seen in a lot of geeks, including yours truly, which is that because we know a lot more about certain subjects we automatically think we're more intelligent. In the past few years I've come across a lot of, for example, managers who at first glance seem to be idiots. Only if one bothers to dig a little deeper does one find that these folks aren't trained to handle computers or indepth business matters, they're trained to look at the big picture and, most importantly, deal with people. I might be able to outbluff 'm on some subjects but 9 times out of 10 they'll know exactly how I really feel about what I'm telling them, as well as how I feel about them personally.
Correction. It isn't the republicans or democrats, it's the politicians in general.
Correction. It's not the politicians, it's the people that elect them.
You can be fired for no reason at all and have no recourse? Well, duh, you can quit hiring your maid for no reason at all, too; should she be able to take you to court over you firing her?
Ehmm, yes, that is pretty much the way it works in large parts of western europe and we like it that way, thank you very much. Then again, here in the Netherlands our contracts actually contain provisions to protect both parties, as opposed to just our corporate overlords.
We also have this really weird concept where any company that has more than x employees is obligated to have an employee council containing members voted on by their co-workers, and protected under very strict law, which the big boss is obligated to seek advice from and in some cases even explicit permission to do certain things. Sounds pretty awful, and I used to think it was until I actually ended up in one and realized just how much information never reaches the big boss unless you give Joe Blow from accounting the opportunity to ask some sharp questions, while making sure that he won't get fired for doing so.
Your company is insane.
Or just stupid.
Nobody who knows anything about IE and is mostly sane would ever make IE standard. Have the option, sure, but you should STRONGLY recommend people not use it.
You'd be amazed at the number of "enterprise" "web interface" applications that...turn out to only work on IE, and with any luck only on a specific version.
Let's see, right now I'm looking at CC&B and Blue Pumpkin, both of which simply will not render on anything but IE, not even with fake user clients.
Posting this using Firefox though ;-)
Goodness. Even if what the U.S. does at places like Guantanamo is not as (hmm, searching for a word here...) restrained as some might like it to be, its forces still operates at a substantially higher standard of conduct than practically any other military force in the world.
Sorry. Perhaps what you're trying to say is that currently the US Armed Forces behave nowhere near as badly as a lot of other countries' do. How many western countries that behave either a lot better or are just a heck of a lot better at hiding their misdeeds does it take to invalidate your "practically all"?
And what exactly is wrong with that?
Absolutely nothing? That's why we have different licenses, right?
I would argue that firing a gun is much more likely to produce evidence against someone than repairing a computer will, but you don't need any kind of license for that in Texas.
Time to amend the constitution then? The citizen's rights to....reinstall Windows shall not be infringed?
No, it's entirely the fault of the Republican party.
And thus, by extension, of those who vote and keep voting them into office.
and American politics will not start being sane again until the current crop of Republicans are gone.
Or stop being elected?
Note, I'm neither american nor do i really care how you guys keep running your country into the ground. I just can't stop being amazed at how willing you all are to keep blaming the boogeyman(whoever the other guys vote for) instead of getting a goddamn grip.
Only times I've had firefox 3 go down is on particular, badly made, flash-based sites, when trying to do specified things, which makes me fairly sure it's Adobe's fault.
Hey, if we're blaming Bill for Windows going down because an app crashes, we can do the same for a browser that crashes when a plugin does something bad. If it really misbehaves FF should just kill the plugin, not die itself, shouldn't it?