What about a URL where, every time you go there, it sets off an automated script that pulls the trigger on a shotgun and shoots an adorable kitten in the face? What about a public building whose front door is rigged up with a shotgun that "shoots an adorable kitten in the face" when the first person opens the door? Is it the fault of the person who opened the door, or the person who rigged up the shotgun to the door? Regardless of whether or not the person opening the door knew about the shotgun?
On Monday, I had to present my driver's license and "sign in" in order to buy Advil Cold & Sinus (the only stuff that really works for me). Took my license for about 7 or 8 minutes while I stood there like a dope. Couldn't pay at the register with my other groceries, either.
I'm really starting to like the way the French do a revolution.
What we need is a separation of Commerce and State, just like the separation of Church and State. And I know what you're thinking; the Church/State has worked out so well. Well, maybe it's time to get moving again on separating our Civic leadership from other entities, strengthening the already existing separation.
Now watch Mit Romney win the election and anoint himself Pope of the Mormons.
Seems like the real solution to this is to allow members of YouTube to vote on the relevance of tags for videos. I recall searching for "Bugs Bunny" a while back and getting some of the most annoying, weird crap. Oh wait, let me rephrase that. Some of the most annoying, weird, TOTALLY UNRELATED crap.
One of my Comp. Sci. professors gave a talk to our ACM chapter about once a year or semester, describing his experience as a computer scientist in Russia. He had worked on a chess-playing program back in the '70s, and became a professor there.
Part of the talk was the history of Russian computing. Essentially, it was a lot of reverse-engineering of big IBM's. IIRC, it was Romainia that was assigned the task of reverse engineering the system OS machine code. Having to do it this way gave the programmers intimate knowledge of systems and assembly, and consequentially in the 80's produced some hardcore virus & worm coders.
So I wouldn't really expect their attitude toward software to be quite the same...
Oddly enough, the area in Google Maps around the Catawba Nuclear Power Plant (see: http://www.nukeworker.com/) is at a higher resolution than the surrounding area (I grew up nearby) and obviously taken during a different season. At least, as of a week ago...
My only gripe about it (so far) is that I didn't get the $10 off for signing up. Of course, I used my gmail account ID, but I hadn't ever used Google Checkout before, and had to enter all my information (thus, IMO, "creating" a GC account). I'll appeal but I'm not too thrilled about having to.
The F-16 didn't "bounce off the equator". Before it ever flew, in simulation the computer flipped the plane over when it crossed the equator due to a bug that incorrectly handled southern lattitudes. Additionally, since the computer "flip" happened instantaneously, and the f-16 can roll at much higher G forces than the pilot can take, the flip would have killed the pilot (and the F-16 would have happily continued on its way).
This is a funny misconception from movies; GPS receivers do not emit a signal.
Um, no, but the cell phone itself is in constant communication with the cellular tower it's relayed to at the time, including such info as time/date, carrier, and phone capabilities (voice/data). So, all a carrier has to do is add a little code to the firmware of the phone to periodically send in the contents of the GPS registers. Allow access to that data through a website and viola!
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Speaking of which, that's why I clicked on the link and read the article.....except the article mentions nothing about T.D.A.H.O.D.S.N.
Harumph!
I'd be willing to bet dd-wrt comes close. On $50 hardware.
Not that the Rockefellers are any better than Gates.
Sounds like this guy is just the worst kind of user. Knows just enough to be dangerous.
I'd be happy if we developed Bussard's Polywell reactor, and turned death valley into a giant desalinization plant.
Essentially free energy and free water. It'd be damn good for the economy, but the powers that be would never let it happen.
On Monday, I had to present my driver's license and "sign in" in order to buy Advil Cold & Sinus (the only stuff that really works for me). Took my license for about 7 or 8 minutes while I stood there like a dope. Couldn't pay at the register with my other groceries, either.
I'm really starting to like the way the French do a revolution.
Hey! I was that DD!
Commander Hoek.
You don't think that pissing away grand opportunities is foolish?
Q.E.D.
when you can fly a jet?
What we need is a separation of Commerce and State, just like the separation of Church and State. And I know what you're thinking; the Church/State has worked out so well.
Well, maybe it's time to get moving again on separating our Civic leadership from other entities, strengthening the already existing separation.
Now watch Mit Romney win the election and anoint himself Pope of the Mormons.
This deserves a congratulatory screening of The Green Slime!
Amen to that. Nothing online has ever come close.
Been there, done that. It's a movie called The Green Slime:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/
Seems like the real solution to this is to allow members of YouTube to vote on the relevance of tags for videos. I recall searching for "Bugs Bunny" a while back and getting some of the most annoying, weird crap. Oh wait, let me rephrase that. Some of the most annoying, weird, TOTALLY UNRELATED crap.
Well, it should depend strictly on the contract the freelancer signs with the publisher, period.
However, in general if the publisher gets paid, the freelancer (regardless of the work done) ought to get paid as well.
Lesson: get it in writing!
One of my Comp. Sci. professors gave a talk to our ACM chapter about once a year or semester, describing his experience as a computer scientist in Russia. He had worked on a chess-playing program back in the '70s, and became a professor there.
Part of the talk was the history of Russian computing. Essentially, it was a lot of reverse-engineering of big IBM's. IIRC, it was Romainia that was assigned the task of reverse engineering the system OS machine code. Having to do it this way gave the programmers intimate knowledge of systems and assembly, and consequentially in the 80's produced some hardcore virus & worm coders.
So I wouldn't really expect their attitude toward software to be quite the same...
Oddly enough, the area in Google Maps around the Catawba Nuclear Power Plant (see: http://www.nukeworker.com/) is at a higher resolution than the surrounding area (I grew up nearby) and obviously taken during a different season. At least, as of a week ago...
"You can't take me to court, I did all those things way back when I was President! I'm not President anymore!" - George W. Bush, Feb. 2009.
"You can't take me to court, Nicole isn't dying, she's dead! That's past tense, see. I'm not still killing her!" - OJ Simpson
"Oh, no, no, I stopped mailing out bombs a while ago, thanks anyway! Oh, I have a present for you. Go ahead, open it!" -Theodore Kaczynski
My only gripe about it (so far) is that I didn't get the $10 off for signing up. Of course, I used my gmail account ID, but I hadn't ever used Google Checkout before, and had to enter all my information (thus, IMO, "creating" a GC account). I'll appeal but I'm not too thrilled about having to.
The F-16 didn't "bounce off the equator". Before it ever flew, in simulation the computer flipped the plane over when it crossed the equator due to a bug that incorrectly handled southern lattitudes. Additionally, since the computer "flip" happened instantaneously, and the f-16 can roll at much higher G forces than the pilot can take, the flip would have killed the pilot (and the F-16 would have happily continued on its way).
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http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=163293&ty
"Tesla did it!"
This is a funny misconception from movies; GPS receivers do not emit a signal.
Um, no, but the cell phone itself is in constant communication with the cellular tower it's relayed to at the time, including such info as time/date, carrier, and phone capabilities (voice/data). So, all a carrier has to do is add a little code to the firmware of the phone to periodically send in the contents of the GPS registers. Allow access to that data through a website and viola!
Hey, dry writing or not, good work.
Thanks.
If Sir Ian McKellen can put solar panels on his roof in England and have it generate more energy than he needs I think you could do just fine in Michigan.
If you ask me, it's you brain making solar power hard, not the Universe. The Universe is dumping it all over the ground around you.