You know, as soon as I read the headline, I had a picture of a Gary Larson-esque viking ship with a bunch of XBoxes in the little seats where the rowers sit.
"I think right now the key lesson is this -- if you're looking for a job with instant and guaranteed success, this isn't it."
That's from the professor in charge. On the plus side, he'll never forget to turn on one of his experiements ever again. =) Seriously, though, it's great to hear that the data may not be lost.
Are they really expecting the kids to go home, make a needle gun, and bring it in to school? All the Halo games teach is that you should kill aliens. It says nothing about school teachers or other students.
Here's a spoon, America. Let's dig our heads out of our asses.
Sounds like this could cause another nasty delay in getting the fleet back in orbit. Weren't they supposed to resume flights in the somewhat-near future?
Of -course- it's the most powerful one they've created to date.... it's the one they haven't yet released. How often do you hear a company trumpeting their latest non-groundbreaking technology?
While I'd love to get rid of the clunky set-top box my cable company forces me to use, as it's got no serial connection for the tivo... (they actually -ripped- the pins clear out of the db9 connector on the back), I think a lot of people are starting to get hooked on all of the two-way functionality that the cable companies are providing, so it'll be a while until these really see widespread adoption.
If you're not worried about having it all in one big partition, do what I did. Get a big case that can hold lots of drives, and just keep adding in SATA or IDE expansion cards and drives. It's worked well so far.
If you do want it all on one big raid5 partition, good luck finding a way to add additional disks into it without rebuilding.
If you can get the same amount (or more) of material into a video game as you can in a book, the game will obviously be much more effective. The ease of just being able to try something over and over again to see how changes in their behavior affect the outcome almost instantaneously is leaps and bounds ahead of any textbook I've seen.
This, of course, assumes that the target audience isn't afraid of computers or other such techno-gadgets.
I've always wanted to pay for the privilege to distribute the worm-of-the-week. The sad part is, with the number of people who are so dependant on hotmail and Outlook, this'll probably take off.
Who cares? Isn't leaping onto a bandwagon a show of support? If they think they can make money off of it, that generally means they believe it's A Good Thing(tm).
Every time something cool like this comes up, it's several thousand miles away from me. Stateside we've got convention after convention, but all the fun stuff is in Europe. Beer hikes, cartoon sheep over WiFi... geez. Time to change my citizenship.
Yeah, but the MPAA would never allow it... their bots would just see the domains as illegal files being offered for download and generate a flurry of lovely DMCA-invoking C&D letters.
People like this are exactly who need to get involved for things to take a positive turn. Technical folks can bitch and moan all we want, but until the non-techincal start to understand, no, care about, the implications, things just plain won't change.
This guy should go into politics! His brain-mouth cable has no filter on it. It'd be nice to hear politicians describe their colleagues' bills as "a horrible, horrible design based on a few very good ideas" or "clunky junk".
I'd love to hear his opinion on the vi/emacs debate... that'd get some heads rollin'!
the distributed.net projects? SETI at home? Protein folding? I like contributing to the really neat stuff without needing the advanced degrees to actually understand it.
Now my insurance company will be able to take a picture of me when their little black box in my car senses I'm doing something illegal. Two shots that are both location and time stamped will provide exact proof of how fast I was going, nevermind the fact that there was a dead hooker in the back seat...
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You know, as soon as I read the headline, I had a picture of a Gary Larson-esque viking ship with a bunch of XBoxes in the little seats where the rowers sit.
Monday... it makes the mind do stupid things.
"I think right now the key lesson is this -- if you're looking for a job with instant and guaranteed success, this isn't it."
That's from the professor in charge. On the plus side, he'll never forget to turn on one of his experiements ever again. =) Seriously, though, it's great to hear that the data may not be lost.
Are they really expecting the kids to go home, make a needle gun, and bring it in to school? All the Halo games teach is that you should kill aliens. It says nothing about school teachers or other students.
Here's a spoon, America. Let's dig our heads out of our asses.
...this isn't helping the lives-with-his-mother geek stereotype much.
Sounds like this could cause another nasty delay in getting the fleet back in orbit. Weren't they supposed to resume flights in the somewhat-near future?
Of -course- it's the most powerful one they've created to date.... it's the one they haven't yet released. How often do you hear a company trumpeting their latest non-groundbreaking technology?
While I'd love to get rid of the clunky set-top box my cable company forces me to use, as it's got no serial connection for the tivo... (they actually -ripped- the pins clear out of the db9 connector on the back), I think a lot of people are starting to get hooked on all of the two-way functionality that the cable companies are providing, so it'll be a while until these really see widespread adoption.
If you're not worried about having it all in one big partition, do what I did. Get a big case that can hold lots of drives, and just keep adding in SATA or IDE expansion cards and drives. It's worked well so far.
If you do want it all on one big raid5 partition, good luck finding a way to add additional disks into it without rebuilding.
If you can get the same amount (or more) of material into a video game as you can in a book, the game will obviously be much more effective. The ease of just being able to try something over and over again to see how changes in their behavior affect the outcome almost instantaneously is leaps and bounds ahead of any textbook I've seen.
This, of course, assumes that the target audience isn't afraid of computers or other such techno-gadgets.
The article reads like we're almost supposed to know who 'Anonymous' is... Kernighan? Ritchie?
I've always wanted to pay for the privilege to distribute the worm-of-the-week. The sad part is, with the number of people who are so dependant on hotmail and Outlook, this'll probably take off.
Yay.
My probe didn't destroy the sun! Now I'll never alter the cosmic ribbon's course to get myself back into the nexus!
God, I hate that movie.
...but could someone explain the Val Kilmer reference? I have a feeling there's a funny I'm missing. =)
Who cares? Isn't leaping onto a bandwagon a show of support? If they think they can make money off of it, that generally means they believe it's A Good Thing(tm).
Every time something cool like this comes up, it's several thousand miles away from me. Stateside we've got convention after convention, but all the fun stuff is in Europe. Beer hikes, cartoon sheep over WiFi... geez. Time to change my citizenship.
Yeah, but the MPAA would never allow it... their bots would just see the domains as illegal files being offered for download and generate a flurry of lovely DMCA-invoking C&D letters.
...in each of these alternate realities, there's a politician who's considered to be correct. =)
IANAL, obviously. Isn't parody protected under some sort of constitution something-or-other?
Now all we need is a shrinkification ray so that we can climb into the tiny little capsule and crawl around in peoples' bodies.
People like this are exactly who need to get involved for things to take a positive turn. Technical folks can bitch and moan all we want, but until the non-techincal start to understand, no, care about, the implications, things just plain won't change.
This guy should go into politics! His brain-mouth cable has no filter on it. It'd be nice to hear politicians describe their colleagues' bills as "a horrible, horrible design based on a few very good ideas" or "clunky junk".
I'd love to hear his opinion on the vi/emacs debate... that'd get some heads rollin'!
Come on, Verisign... it's A/S/L, not A/S! Get with the program! Unless this thing is a GPS receiver too, it'll never fly.
the distributed.net projects? SETI at home? Protein folding? I like contributing to the really neat stuff without needing the advanced degrees to actually understand it.
If you did, I'd have to mod you unable to detect sarcasm.
Now my insurance company will be able to take a picture of me when their little black box in my car senses I'm doing something illegal. Two shots that are both location and time stamped will provide exact proof of how fast I was going, nevermind the fact that there was a dead hooker in the back seat...