So how does this relate to the Slashdot article from yesterday about DNA being used for data storage? It seems to me that that cellphones (and other such devices) are going to continue to proliferate and at the same time DNA does seem promising for data storage. But in light of this new study isn't DNA going to be too unstable and prone to mutations due to the fact we are constantly bombarded with various waves?
"I'd like to see how they plan on monitoring my mage as it talks to your cleric in some obscure, nearly impossible to reach (unless you're level 50) corner of our favorite MUD."
This one's easy - NSA is just going to have to employ dungeon masters. It brings a whole new meaning to "racial profiling"!
The mini-series means nothing to me. I grew up reading the "Earthsea" cycle and they completely butchered it in this adaptation. I think just about anything else would have been better than what they did. You should really quit referring to the Sci-Fi channel mini-series as a classic. It's not.
Actually Will Smith would have done a great job in the movie as Ged. The guy can act and be serious if he wants to. He would also have fit in with LeGuin's "color scheme" (her words).
Well, pal, the budget for many of the games that are produced these days approach that of a hollywood blockbuster. So why then, I ask, can't you compare the two? Gaming at this stage of the game is like the beginning of the movie industry at the start of the 20 century - it's rough around the edges and it leaves a lot to be desired. But problems aside they DID have awards for movies back then even though there were people just like YOU saying "Duh, this is not art, it's not Mozart, why do we need awards." It's simple, really - awards drive competition, and competition drives excellence. Though it's going to be commercialized to no end it's still inevitable.
Yep, what you describe is a problem in other games such as Everquest. However, WoW uses the so called "instancing" - i.e. each party gets their own instance of the dungeon so that camping is avoided altogether. You will never ever see another party in the same dungeon and that solves your problem right there.
On a sidenote, I seriously doubt that he is the very first one to have thought of swarming. Swarming has been around since before 1999 (when he claims he invented it). He *may* be the first one to have applied it to p2p/networking however.
I don't believe that the naming of the functions and variables is simply an effort to obfuscate the code. There is that, of course, but the main reason is probably to save money on bandwidth. When you have millions of people hitting your servers you can scrape quite a few bucks by removing white space and reducing the size of your files the way they have.
You just wait till they start writing viruses for that brand spanking new cortex implant you got last week (circa 2067)... how are you going to unplug then?
No vulnerability here. I clicked on both links and Citibank shows just fine. I am running ZoneAlarm as well but I don't think is the reason the vuln doesn't work.
While I agree in principle with your reasoning - there is no easy cure for people who just *won't* learn. If someone chooses not to learn or to care there is not a damn thing you can do. I was speaking more about those students who actually do care and want to learn but are impeded by the system. I had great teachers in high school and I owe the world to them and the way they taught. But then again I didn't go to high school in the US.
This is not the real issue. Everyone is lazy. The real problem is that in the US students are taught to pass the test at the end of the year - whatever the flavor of the year might be. The teachers know the answers and so try to emphasize problems that are going to be on the test. Not only that but the problems have to be framed just right for the student to memorize them. No emphasis whatsoever is placed on learning how and why the technique works so that when the kid is faced with problems in the real world they can come up with a solution even when the problem is in a different context.
The idea is exactly a solution for that kind of problem - if you RTFA you would notice that companies won't get paid UNTIL they have a working model to prove they deserve the prize. This in stark contrast to the current system of presenting a bunch of papers, bidding, and then having a bunch of pencil-pushers decide who gets the money. In the end the contractor always gets paid whether they completed a project or that project was cancelled or ran into trouble.
OMG, the most violent criminals will no longer have access to the most violent games? Doh, now they'll just have to go back to killing *real* people... It's in the brain and the character, stupid... a game does not a criminal make, just as a criminal is not going to reform all of sudden if you let them play "Shangri-La: Adventures with Jesus 3"!
Come again now? You get your "facts" from about.com?
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The recent US election results prove that at least half of Americans do not EVER think twice about anything at all... including the relation between ozone and death levels... or carbon dioxide and the increasingly more common news about melting glaciers, rising sea levels, disappearing flora and fauna, etc.
Note to christians, evangelicals, and what not - this is one case where Jesus is NOT going to make it ok in the "second coming" which is happening any time now (tm). The fact that you don't believe in global warming and evolution doesn't mean those things don't exist. I constantly hear the argument - "the fact that you don't believe in god doesn't mean he doesn't exist." Well, duh, two can play this game!
It seems that you skipped a few biology classes, specifically those on the balance of ecosystems.
ANYTHING you do to an ecosystem has an effect on it, and because of the delicate equilibrium between species that effect is usually disastrous. Consider the demise of the lowly mosquito - you'd think that would be great, right? Wrong! From there frogs are gone, then snakes and birds, and before you know it small mammals and larger ones too. What I am trying to say is that it's a chain and the broken links are not easy to repair.
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I was in Japan in November and the movie was in theaters! How did you come up with "yesterday was the opening date"?
So how does this relate to the Slashdot article from yesterday about DNA being used for data storage? It seems to me that that cellphones (and other such devices) are going to continue to proliferate and at the same time DNA does seem promising for data storage. But in light of this new study isn't DNA going to be too unstable and prone to mutations due to the fact we are constantly bombarded with various waves?
This one's easy - NSA is just going to have to employ dungeon masters. It brings a whole new meaning to "racial profiling"!
The mini-series means nothing to me. I grew up reading the "Earthsea" cycle and they completely butchered it in this adaptation. I think just about anything else would have been better than what they did. You should really quit referring to the Sci-Fi channel mini-series as a classic. It's not.
Actually Will Smith would have done a great job in the movie as Ged. The guy can act and be serious if he wants to. He would also have fit in with LeGuin's "color scheme" (her words).
Well, pal, the budget for many of the games that are produced these days approach that of a hollywood blockbuster. So why then, I ask, can't you compare the two? Gaming at this stage of the game is like the beginning of the movie industry at the start of the 20 century - it's rough around the edges and it leaves a lot to be desired. But problems aside they DID have awards for movies back then even though there were people just like YOU saying "Duh, this is not art, it's not Mozart, why do we need awards." It's simple, really - awards drive competition, and competition drives excellence. Though it's going to be commercialized to no end it's still inevitable.
Yep, what you describe is a problem in other games such as Everquest. However, WoW uses the so called "instancing" - i.e. each party gets their own instance of the dungeon so that camping is avoided altogether. You will never ever see another party in the same dungeon and that solves your problem right there.
Here is some info on the new technology from the guy's company's website: http://onionnetworks.com/products/swarmstream/
On a sidenote, I seriously doubt that he is the very first one to have thought of swarming. Swarming has been around since before 1999 (when he claims he invented it). He *may* be the first one to have applied it to p2p/networking however.
I don't believe that the naming of the functions and variables is simply an effort to obfuscate the code. There is that, of course, but the main reason is probably to save money on bandwidth. When you have millions of people hitting your servers you can scrape quite a few bucks by removing white space and reducing the size of your files the way they have.
You just wait till they start writing viruses for that brand spanking new cortex implant you got last week (circa 2067)... how are you going to unplug then?
No vulnerability here. I clicked on both links and Citibank shows just fine. I am running ZoneAlarm as well but I don't think is the reason the vuln doesn't work.
While I agree in principle with your reasoning - there is no easy cure for people who just *won't* learn. If someone chooses not to learn or to care there is not a damn thing you can do. I was speaking more about those students who actually do care and want to learn but are impeded by the system. I had great teachers in high school and I owe the world to them and the way they taught. But then again I didn't go to high school in the US.
This is not the real issue. Everyone is lazy. The real problem is that in the US students are taught to pass the test at the end of the year - whatever the flavor of the year might be. The teachers know the answers and so try to emphasize problems that are going to be on the test. Not only that but the problems have to be framed just right for the student to memorize them. No emphasis whatsoever is placed on learning how and why the technique works so that when the kid is faced with problems in the real world they can come up with a solution even when the problem is in a different context.
... a cluster of three million Chinese browsing the web in real time and responding to queries!!
The idea is exactly a solution for that kind of problem - if you RTFA you would notice that companies won't get paid UNTIL they have a working model to prove they deserve the prize. This in stark contrast to the current system of presenting a bunch of papers, bidding, and then having a bunch of pencil-pushers decide who gets the money. In the end the contractor always gets paid whether they completed a project or that project was cancelled or ran into trouble.
The guy in the picture looks to be at least 500!
OMG, the most violent criminals will no longer have access to the most violent games? Doh, now they'll just have to go back to killing *real* people... It's in the brain and the character, stupid... a game does not a criminal make, just as a criminal is not going to reform all of sudden if you let them play "Shangri-La: Adventures with Jesus 3"!
Come again now? You get your "facts" from about.com?
Read this if you please: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4013719.stm
The recent US election results prove that at least half of Americans do not EVER think twice about anything at all... including the relation between ozone and death levels... or carbon dioxide and the increasingly more common news about melting glaciers, rising sea levels, disappearing flora and fauna, etc.
Note to christians, evangelicals, and what not - this is one case where Jesus is NOT going to make it ok in the "second coming" which is happening any time now (tm). The fact that you don't believe in global warming and evolution doesn't mean those things don't exist. I constantly hear the argument - "the fact that you don't believe in god doesn't mean he doesn't exist." Well, duh, two can play this game!
Judging from the submitter's email address this is a shameless plug for a product. What, no real news today?
It seems that you skipped a few biology classes, specifically those on the balance of ecosystems.
ANYTHING you do to an ecosystem has an effect on it, and because of the delicate equilibrium between species that effect is usually disastrous. Consider the demise of the lowly mosquito - you'd think that would be great, right? Wrong! From there frogs are gone, then snakes and birds, and before you know it small mammals and larger ones too. What I am trying to say is that it's a chain and the broken links are not easy to repair.
I believe this post single-handedly begs for a new mod category on Slashdot: "profoundly sad in a funny way".
It boggles the mind that sci-fi authors nowadays need to place ads for Suicide Girls to make an extra buck. Not. Safe. For. Work.
Beloved Slashdot? Pfeh. But seriously try Gizmodo or Lawrence Lessig's blog.