It's not going to do crap until engineers, physicists, chemists, and the people who actually do the grunt work are paid what they're worth. Why should extremely intelligent people who've worked 30 years advancing the frontiers of knowledge and technology be paid *MAYBE* 200k/yr when they can get an MBA or JD, learn some buzzwords, and become CEO in twenty years, then be given a 200M golden parachute for driving their corporation into bankruptcy?
I rather doubt that Rowling will *personally* write another Potter-world book. She's now dished out seven of them (itself a herculean task), and said point-blank she's done. Not only that, she's got a couple of little ones running around, and as any parent will tell you, chasing kids (and especially teens) is hard work. However, I will not discount the possibility that she may authorize and license other authors to write stories within the world she created, maintaining "benevolent dictator" status over it, much like George Lucas has done with the Star Wars universe.
What you describe (canned replies, GM's who don't read the petition, inappropriate replies, hamfisted actions, etc) was perhaps the trademark of EA's 'Earth and Beyond'. I can't even begin to think about how many times I sent something, only to be told it was my fault, my guild's fault, or any number of other screwball things. From what I hear, MCO wasn't any better during its run, and UO, well, good luck finding a GM.
All that said, every GM experience I've ever had with CCP while playing EVE has been pure bliss. Now if only I could find the blasted "close petition" button:)
Actually, the Swiss are supposedly among the best sharpshooters (aka, snipers) in the world. If you don't know how badly a single bullet can damage an inflexible top-down military structure, read Tom Clancy's "The Bear and the Dragon."
Disclaimer: I'm not a biologist! IIRC, only human fetal research is banned. Unless humans are somehow unique, I'd bet that most mammalian life on the planet goes through the same process we do (afterall, we all look like the same little mouse at one stage, then we look like monkeys with tails, and then our tails just stop growing). Yes, eventually study on humans may be necessary for the last puzzle piece, but odds are we can put most of the puzzle together with mice, rats, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, horses, wombats, and maybe even a stray moose.
Non-authoritative answer: 173.27.165.68.in-addr.arpa name = h-68-165-27-173.sttnwaho.covad.net.
Authoritative answers can be found from: 27.165.68.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns3.covad.com. 27.165.68.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns4.covad.com. ns3.covad.com internet address = 66.134.75.38 ns4.covad.com internet address = 66.134.75.39
I'm still leaning towards the "skr1p k1dd3z s33 m4h 1337 5k1lz" explaination.
Yeah, doing it is definately a nontrivial task, and certainly not something I'd want to do when the vendor already has done the work for me. Trouble is, vendors rarely release for *BSD (though Free is starting to show on their collective radar), have only started to grugingly release for Linux, and only spend time optimizing their Win32 drivers. If Theo and his gang really want to go through all the hair pulling and code weaving necessary, more power to 'em. Saves Adaptec from having to do it themselves, and gives us more/better functionality than we had before.
Maybe, but at that point, we're still talking about how to make the silicon do whatever it is it's designed to do, not how the silicon itself is designed. Sure, you could look at the docs, and say to yourself "To get that result, there must be a series of half-adders trunked into NANDs, all XORed together." So yeah, you could go to your local chip supplier, buy the requisite gates, and create your own card. Except you'd still be missing the elegance of their patent pending parallel gate design which makes those eight NANDs take up the space formerly required by two, and without that piece of magic, your product will still be slower than the real thing.
Nope. 3D cards are not an exception. The only reason there are things under NDA are because lawyers wanted it so. Who cares how nVidia or ATI design their chips? As a driver writer, all I care about is how to present a generic API that exposes all the commands/capabilities of the product. Knowing how to manipulate registers and transfer data gives me zero knowledge on how the underlying silicon is designed. If I were to open a lemonade stand on a hot day, does it really matter to you whether my lemons come from Florida or California? Sure, I could hand you an NDA and then tell you they're really from Georgia, but what good does that information do you if you go next door and open your own lemonade stand?
Drivers provide software an interface to hardware. They do not tell you how the silicon is fabbed, nor how the internal gate logic is designed.
Sure, you could copy the interface, the commands, everything about the software. How do you think we ended up with Hayes compatible modems? Doesn't mean the competitor has the know-how needed to implement all the functions, whether it be in silicon or firmware. Even if they did, the original vendor has a huge head-start in capabilities they can use to push their product, even if the other is cheaper. That's why folks still wanted Hayes modems, even though the knockoffs with compatible command sets were cheaper.
I'll not release my documentation because others business can get all of my secrets and my bugged harware.
Therein lies the fundamental misunderstanding... releasing specs does *NOT* give a competitor an advantage. What good does it do LSI to know that Adaptec's registers are little-endian? Or that tickling bit 4 of accumulator B will trigger an array rebuild? Documents only lay out the capabilities of a product, but do nothing to explain or detail the underlying silicon.
Forget trying to read the very short sample... it hurts. The quotes at the end, however, are a hoot. All of them are things someone could easily say about a true masterpiece of any literary era. Verne, Asimov, Clarke, Hemingway, Chaucer, Homer... and coming to a bookstore near you, a genius named Travis Tea who will soon be storming the NYTimes bestseller list!
This will fail miserably. It requires too much human involvement, the munging of previously easy to remember email addresses (however easy ilovemypoodlexo42@hotmail.com wass to remember anyway), but perhaps most importantly, it generates a bounce. Anytime a typical clueless user sees a bounce message, they don't bother to read it. They see "ERROR" and that's as far as they get before calling their buddy and bitching about the bum email address. Maybe if you're lucky, they'll doublecheck to see if they spelled it right, but that's about it. For any CAPTCHA to work, it has to be a one-time event (like registering a yahoo email address) that does not result in apparent error messages being thrown back at people. For any anti-spam system to work, it must be transparent to the end-user (like these new sender-id verification systems).
How did they come up with their numbers? I can easily see the US leading because of zombified Windows machines, but where are the ISP mail relays those zombies are using?
CCP is using BitTorrent to distribute both the complete EVE-Online client (roughly 500M) as well as the patches for Release -> Exodus, and Castor -> Exodus.
Easy... Let's say EA "leaks" another memo that says everyone involved in Product X (anything from Madden 2006 to Earth and Beyond Reborn) will be compensated according to common practice (ie salary for the first 40 hours, 1.5x 41-60 hours, 2x 61-80 hours). Product X is released, and ironically, the programmers are all cheering and happy (and say so) about either their huge paychecks, or that there wasn't any crunching involved. It's not that hard.
Call me cynical, but this appears to be nothing more than PR flack. "Oh, people actually know we think salary with no OT is fair compensation? Maybe we ought to act like we're fixing the problem." Kinda like Kerry during election season... big on talk, but absolutely no "We will do...." in concrete, objective, and independently verifiable terms. Nowhere is there mention of who *might* be reclassfied as non-exempt. Nowhere is there talk about going through, looking at timecards, and giving people backpay. And most telling, nowhere is there an apology.
You work for the electric company... that's very nice. It could mean you're anything from a PhD wielding AC generation specialist, all the way down to an unpaid meter-reading intern. Whoopie.
Now... about that info... It's not "First Power", it's "First Energy". I happened to be in a chem plant when the lights went out, and we all thought someone dropped a screwdriver. But I digress. Yes, generators don't work well unless they're near or at rated capacity, but I've never heard of needing that much reactive power to keep things stable. In fact, I bet I could probably do a pretty good job with a bunch of small windmills in the backyard, hooked up to Baldor 22H Regen VFDs, with isolation transformers to keep the transistor's switching harmonics to a minimum. Oh, and a very small 60Hz generator for the drives to have a reference should the power go out during a thunderstorm. Then there's the windmills themselves. All the power mills I was taught (primarily the 2- and 3-vane type, though we did consider Darrius) always had vane feathering as a design requirement to prevent the sort of runaway generation you seem to be worried about. Are you saying I was taught incorrectly? Wind gets too strong, you feather the vanes back or lock the rotors entirely. Yeah, kills that generator until the weather settles down, but there's no kVAR problem because of it. In short, I'd love to see how you come up with needing to maintain so much "conventional" generation, because that sounds more like a fossil fuel "you can't live without me" than anything else.
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It's not going to do crap until engineers, physicists, chemists, and the people who actually do the grunt work are paid what they're worth. Why should extremely intelligent people who've worked 30 years advancing the frontiers of knowledge and technology be paid *MAYBE* 200k/yr when they can get an MBA or JD, learn some buzzwords, and become CEO in twenty years, then be given a 200M golden parachute for driving their corporation into bankruptcy?
I rather doubt that Rowling will *personally* write another Potter-world book. She's now dished out seven of them (itself a herculean task), and said point-blank she's done. Not only that, she's got a couple of little ones running around, and as any parent will tell you, chasing kids (and especially teens) is hard work. However, I will not discount the possibility that she may authorize and license other authors to write stories within the world she created, maintaining "benevolent dictator" status over it, much like George Lucas has done with the Star Wars universe.
Come visit Rorsins on a weekend :)
What you describe (canned replies, GM's who don't read the petition, inappropriate replies, hamfisted actions, etc) was perhaps the trademark of EA's 'Earth and Beyond'. I can't even begin to think about how many times I sent something, only to be told it was my fault, my guild's fault, or any number of other screwball things. From what I hear, MCO wasn't any better during its run, and UO, well, good luck finding a GM.
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All that said, every GM experience I've ever had with CCP while playing EVE has been pure bliss. Now if only I could find the blasted "close petition" button
Actually, the Swiss are supposedly among the best sharpshooters (aka, snipers) in the world. If you don't know how badly a single bullet can damage an inflexible top-down military structure, read Tom Clancy's "The Bear and the Dragon."
Disclaimer: I'm not a biologist!
IIRC, only human fetal research is banned. Unless humans are somehow unique, I'd bet that most mammalian life on the planet goes through the same process we do (afterall, we all look like the same little mouse at one stage, then we look like monkeys with tails, and then our tails just stop growing). Yes, eventually study on humans may be necessary for the last puzzle piece, but odds are we can put most of the puzzle together with mice, rats, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, horses, wombats, and maybe even a stray moose.
$ nslookup 68.165.27.173
Server: 67.36.13.26
Address: 67.36.13.26#53
Non-authoritative answer:
173.27.165.68.in-addr.arpa name = h-68-165-27-173.sttnwaho.covad.net.
Authoritative answers can be found from:
27.165.68.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns3.covad.com.
27.165.68.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns4.covad.com.
ns3.covad.com internet address = 66.134.75.38
ns4.covad.com internet address = 66.134.75.39
I'm still leaning towards the "skr1p k1dd3z s33 m4h 1337 5k1lz" explaination.
Yeah, doing it is definately a nontrivial task, and certainly not something I'd want to do when the vendor already has done the work for me. Trouble is, vendors rarely release for *BSD (though Free is starting to show on their collective radar), have only started to grugingly release for Linux, and only spend time optimizing their Win32 drivers. If Theo and his gang really want to go through all the hair pulling and code weaving necessary, more power to 'em. Saves Adaptec from having to do it themselves, and gives us more/better functionality than we had before.
Maybe, but at that point, we're still talking about how to make the silicon do whatever it is it's designed to do, not how the silicon itself is designed. Sure, you could look at the docs, and say to yourself "To get that result, there must be a series of half-adders trunked into NANDs, all XORed together." So yeah, you could go to your local chip supplier, buy the requisite gates, and create your own card. Except you'd still be missing the elegance of their patent pending parallel gate design which makes those eight NANDs take up the space formerly required by two, and without that piece of magic, your product will still be slower than the real thing.
Nope. 3D cards are not an exception. The only reason there are things under NDA are because lawyers wanted it so. Who cares how nVidia or ATI design their chips? As a driver writer, all I care about is how to present a generic API that exposes all the commands/capabilities of the product. Knowing how to manipulate registers and transfer data gives me zero knowledge on how the underlying silicon is designed. If I were to open a lemonade stand on a hot day, does it really matter to you whether my lemons come from Florida or California? Sure, I could hand you an NDA and then tell you they're really from Georgia, but what good does that information do you if you go next door and open your own lemonade stand?
Drivers provide software an interface to hardware. They do not tell you how the silicon is fabbed, nor how the internal gate logic is designed.
Sure, you could copy the interface, the commands, everything about the software. How do you think we ended up with Hayes compatible modems? Doesn't mean the competitor has the know-how needed to implement all the functions, whether it be in silicon or firmware. Even if they did, the original vendor has a huge head-start in capabilities they can use to push their product, even if the other is cheaper. That's why folks still wanted Hayes modems, even though the knockoffs with compatible command sets were cheaper.
Therein lies the fundamental misunderstanding... releasing specs does *NOT* give a competitor an advantage. What good does it do LSI to know that Adaptec's registers are little-endian? Or that tickling bit 4 of accumulator B will trigger an array rebuild? Documents only lay out the capabilities of a product, but do nothing to explain or detail the underlying silicon.
Some idiot mailbombed his account. It's only natural that Adaptec removed the squeaky wheel, rather than oiling it.
Forget trying to read the very short sample... it hurts. The quotes at the end, however, are a hoot. All of them are things someone could easily say about a true masterpiece of any literary era. Verne, Asimov, Clarke, Hemingway, Chaucer, Homer... and coming to a bookstore near you, a genius named Travis Tea who will soon be storming the NYTimes bestseller list!
This will fail miserably. It requires too much human involvement, the munging of previously easy to remember email addresses (however easy ilovemypoodlexo42@hotmail.com wass to remember anyway), but perhaps most importantly, it generates a bounce. Anytime a typical clueless user sees a bounce message, they don't bother to read it. They see "ERROR" and that's as far as they get before calling their buddy and bitching about the bum email address. Maybe if you're lucky, they'll doublecheck to see if they spelled it right, but that's about it. For any CAPTCHA to work, it has to be a one-time event (like registering a yahoo email address) that does not result in apparent error messages being thrown back at people. For any anti-spam system to work, it must be transparent to the end-user (like these new sender-id verification systems).
Hmm... might have been MPL. I'm thinking of the one that NASA is pretty sure got there and landed safely, but never "called home" as it were.
Are either of these intrepid little bots in an area even remotely near Odyssey or Beagle? It'd be kinda nice to see what happened to them.
How did they come up with their numbers? I can easily see the US leading because of zombified Windows machines, but where are the ISP mail relays those zombies are using?
CCP is using BitTorrent to distribute both the complete EVE-Online client (roughly 500M) as well as the patches for Release -> Exodus, and Castor -> Exodus.
Zathras was cool, but I liked Zathras better ;)
Easy... Let's say EA "leaks" another memo that says everyone involved in Product X (anything from Madden 2006 to Earth and Beyond Reborn) will be compensated according to common practice (ie salary for the first 40 hours, 1.5x 41-60 hours, 2x 61-80 hours). Product X is released, and ironically, the programmers are all cheering and happy (and say so) about either their huge paychecks, or that there wasn't any crunching involved. It's not that hard.
Call me cynical, but this appears to be nothing more than PR flack. "Oh, people actually know we think salary with no OT is fair compensation? Maybe we ought to act like we're fixing the problem." Kinda like Kerry during election season... big on talk, but absolutely no "We will do...." in concrete, objective, and independently verifiable terms. Nowhere is there mention of who *might* be reclassfied as non-exempt. Nowhere is there talk about going through, looking at timecards, and giving people backpay. And most telling, nowhere is there an apology.
Hey, we all know why BSD is better :)
You work for the electric company... that's very nice. It could mean you're anything from a PhD wielding AC generation specialist, all the way down to an unpaid meter-reading intern. Whoopie.
Now... about that info... It's not "First Power", it's "First Energy". I happened to be in a chem plant when the lights went out, and we all thought someone dropped a screwdriver. But I digress. Yes, generators don't work well unless they're near or at rated capacity, but I've never heard of needing that much reactive power to keep things stable. In fact, I bet I could probably do a pretty good job with a bunch of small windmills in the backyard, hooked up to Baldor 22H Regen VFDs, with isolation transformers to keep the transistor's switching harmonics to a minimum. Oh, and a very small 60Hz generator for the drives to have a reference should the power go out during a thunderstorm. Then there's the windmills themselves. All the power mills I was taught (primarily the 2- and 3-vane type, though we did consider Darrius) always had vane feathering as a design requirement to prevent the sort of runaway generation you seem to be worried about. Are you saying I was taught incorrectly? Wind gets too strong, you feather the vanes back or lock the rotors entirely. Yeah, kills that generator until the weather settles down, but there's no kVAR problem because of it. In short, I'd love to see how you come up with needing to maintain so much "conventional" generation, because that sounds more like a fossil fuel "you can't live without me" than anything else.
for being an absolute ass when it comes to maintaining license simplicity, source purity, security paranoia, and funny looking pufferfish.