7. Parental controls: That could be very nice, and is unique. As I'm not a parent it's not as important to me, but could be nice for locking down labs etc. to standard hours. This is actually cool.
I can only guess how long until kids figure out the system and parental controls live up to their name.
You may think you're smarter than your kids, but they have 8 hours a day to make your life miserable and no qualms about doing it.
They've still got all the same stuff, just investor's perceptions of them changed slightly. Stocks tend to swing wildly on brash news like this, then return to their default level.
On the other hand, if they actually did hand over all of their search data, people would lose faith in Google. People NEED their anonymity on the web... they don't want people to find out that they're searching for warez copies of Word, or pictures of Katie Holmes naked, or reading up on how Bush is evil, etc. Remember the row over Google's automatic searches of Gmail? Think of the reaction if Google search records were repeatedly handed over to the Government to read. If people can't trust Google's anonymity, they will look elsewhere for their search provider.
And if people are driven from Google in droves to other, smaller search providers, Google's stock will take a much bigger, much more permanent hit.
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
1. People have an annoying habit of abusing their power. Statistically, there are just as many criminal police officers as there are criminal normal citizens. I certainly wouldn't give an average citizen, for example, decryption keys to the password file on my computer. I don't want to give an entire police department a video feed entering credit card numbers into websites. Or plans for protest marches at the RNC. Or meetings, for example, of a group trying to get a new police chief elected. The police and other information gathering organizations have in the past most definitely not been bastions of holyness when it comes to ethical management of valuable information.
2. There are secrets people have that aren't illegal. Maybe you're seeing a psychological councelor, and the stigma attached with that could lose your job if that slips out. Maybe you got really drunk and made a mistake that you don't want to break up your family. Maybe J Edgar Hoover just doesn't want people to know that he wears women's underwear. Why should people know any of that? Why take the risk of telling that to people, and just pray that it doesn't 'slip out'.
3. Because there are lots of little things we do every day that break the rules. These include: j-walking, downloading MP3's, subletting without telling your landlord, recording sporting events without express written concent, undocumented domestic help, recreational drug use, stealing cable, logging on to other people's wireless networks, "leaking" company information to your girlfriend, anything besides the missionary position (in many states), cheating on your wife (in many states), rolling stops on empty streets, u-turns in the middle of empty streets, locking your bicycle to the handrailing, lying about your age to get into movies, lying about your age to get senior citizens discounts, lying about your age to avoid getting senior citizens discounts, telling your company that you're "sick" when you really mean you're "sick and tired of this crappy job," not reporting e-bay sales as taxable income, grabbing an extra newspaper when someone else buys one from the machine, putting chairs in the street to save your parking spot, stealing office supplies, stealing the towels, littering, loitering, the office NCAA pool, etc etc. All of these are necessary for the functioning of our society in some way or another, but are illegal. Yet we would go batshit insane without a few personal pet vices.
And the system has been built with this in mind: nobody wants to stop your weekly 5$ poker match, they wanted to stop the gambling houses where people lost their rent money. Enforce the letter of the law, and the intent of the law gets lost.
4. Because there is a big difference between serving the public interest and fascism.
Japan was attempting to destroy the US as well. No doubt there were Japanese infultrators amongst the citizens of the US... some must have have been in positions of power in their communities.
But that doesn't justify taking the lives and families of Japanese Citizens of the US and throwing them in concentration camps. That does not justify locking my grandparents up like criminals for years, kept away from their kids.
McCarthy didn't just go after traitors. He went after communists, people with alternative sexualities, liberals, those that believed in social support, those that felt capitalism needed work, and anyone that anyone was willing to name to get themselves out of trouble. Just like being ethnically japanese made people potential traitors in WW2, being of the opinion that pure capitalism is broken was enough to get you thrown in jail. Even agreeing with Adam Smith that the pure capitalist system eventually breaks down was enough to get people blacklisted, thrown out of work and schools, careers and futures taken away from them. And remember, Social Security was considered a liberal, communist thought. There is a lot of ugly, pointless history there.
And its happening again. Now we're throwing people in Guantanamo if we suspect them of being a terrorist. And a terrorist is anyone who disagrees with the war on terrorism. Being a darkie, of course, doesn't hurt, just like racism played into our concentration camps in WW2 and our ideological purge by McCarthy.
You're a history teacher. You should know better. If you can't see the connection, history is most assuredly doomed to repeat itself. And who knows who it will be next time: lots of countries have purged their intellectuals.
Why not have a p2p-style network with packet re-routing, so that person A attempting to access site E first sends it to random person C, who decrypts the outer layer and a random amount of time later sends it to person D, who decrypts their outer layer and sends it to site E, who takes the request, and returns along a second obfuscated return path. Nobody except the requesting computer would know the entire path, and while the ping time due to the random delay would be terrible, it would be utterly untracable.
High latency, but still high throughput. And untracable.
As to the other submitter's question... It is time to overhaul the e-mail system. It is just plain time. And end-to-end encryption should be part of that.
Close. Anonymous posting revealed the source, then it was a matter of tracking down working cyphers. Others claim they had working algorithms before that time.
On the other hand, knowing what we know now about that algorithm, calling it "encryption" is a bit of a stretch. Keys can be brute forced in a matter of hours. A more competant algorithm would be a tougher nut to crack (see the Xbox).
I'm also of the opinion that the X360's future isn't perfectly smooth sailing.
The problem is that "being safe" in gaming usually means delivering an experience a lot like everyone else's experiences. But this really is a hit-driven industry, and so far Microsoft's only homer is Xbox Live.
Nintendo is pushing the bounds of immersion. It might be the next 2D to 3D revolution, or the next Virtual Boy. We'll see. The PS3 might be a slightly more powerful X360 with 10x the storage, but that storage capacity will come in really handy... if you have 5x the RAM, you will need at least 5x the storage.
But by the same token, the 360 is no slouch. It has decent power in an otherwise traditional package. Xbox Live is amazing, and really the reason to own a 360, but is that enough for the average consumer?
It will all come down to which games are the most revolutionary, and only time will tell.
It is a simple question of getting your entangled particle encryption to spin your atomic holographic optical nanostorage drive in an accredited OLED Display_n_Store handheld device reader, thus creating standing quantum waves in the ferroelectric perovskite molecules. With sufficient surface conduction, why, you could induce resonant absorption excitation via plasmon photonic bandgap crystals. Just think of high-k dipole dielectric material that can then be made reversible with non-dissipative power, all thanks to the Einstein / Plank theorem of Energy Quantum!
This unique nanotechnology will set the stage for the 5 exabytes of new data generated every year world wide and growing through molecular dissociation.
This assumes, of course, that you have a capacitor of sufficient size to handle 1.21 jigawatts of flux.
The source material for Bloodrayne, House of the Dead, and Alone in the Dark are almost ideal for movie making. Any zombie movie you care to name could have fit into the House of the Dead universe. With Bloodrayne, the source material is so farcically light that the writer basically has a free hand to write any story they like about a vampire woman with blades on her arms... so long as it is a good story. Maybe Nazis are involved somehow, maybe not. And Alone in the Dark has had a ton of outings and an encyclopedia of reference. But all you really need is a lone detective story, a touch of the weirdly supernatural, and a flashlight in darkness.
Ironically all 3 of the games are based loosely on good movies. The Zombies in House of the Dead are almost a dead ringer for Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Alone in the Dark is based more loosely on the noir filmmaking style popular in the 40's and 50's. Rayne is a parody of Indiana Jones and The Matrix.
Really, the current best example of a game-to-movie conversion is Resident Evil. They took some basic premise from the game, and some signature sets / moments that might work as a movie, and re-created everything else. If it wasn't for the terrible CGI on the Licker, and dogs covered in cold cuts, it would have been a great movie. It encompassed many things that the game didn't have, yet the fans were happy.
You're not making a movie from a game. Your making a movie that shares the same name and certain signature elements as a game, but only those that work as a movie.
Are people still worked up about this midi-chlorian shit? That's the part of the prequels that bothered me the least. I do at least understand why you're all pissed.
The problem is that the prequals were full of crap like this that could have been done in 1/4th the time and with heightened mood in the hands of a college-level competent filmmaker. We didn't really need to see Anakin tossing and turning in his bed for 30 seconds before Amidala comments that he's been having nightmares. We could have had a single line about mind-tricks not working on Toydarians, rather than the silly minute of dialog that just served to make everyone look incompetent. When Anakin gets his sword cut in half, he says "Man... Not again. Obi Wan is going to kill me." That line would have been twice as effective cut in half.
Half of the first two prequals could have been cut. Half. It was full of rambling exposition and clumsy dialog laborously filling in plot points that didn't need to be filled in. Mixed in with these were pod races, trips to the other sides of planets through water, and other useless scenes that should have been cut in concepting.
The midi-chlorian thing isn't even very original. Mitochondria are our little power generators. They are, in fact, separate organisms that reside within the cells of almost all living things, and do the bulk of the work of converting Glucose and ADP into ATP. They are symbionic: without them, life could not exist. Same thing with chloroplasts, which also happen to be green. The whole thing was long, unnecessary, and trite, which sums up the prequals pretty well.
It was even more effective if you were using a black & white tv that had manual brightness and contrast controls. If you adjusted things just right, you could aim at one target and due to a bug, you would hit all of the targets with one shot.
You could also just shoot at a white piece of paper. My favorite trick was to take out the little plastic lens, turn the room lights up, and invite some friends over for a massive display of my skillz.
It's a marketing ploy. (thank you, nephew post) Passive, static RFID. Easy to clone, unless they've upgraded recently.
But even if it wasn't, why implant it? Theoretically that should prevent someone from stealing someone else's wallet and getting in, but you shouldn't be allowing access to people without proper ID anyway. I pose the question genuinely... what's the advantage?
Also, with wireless devices, there is no fixed range. If you're going to make a wireless RFID reader, you might as well give it a wide range. Any range you may care to get can be had with a sufficiently high send signal and a sufficiently good receiving antenna (or array). If it is one foot it might as well be 50. The 15 foot range might help you hide the equipment, might let them put it behind walls to make it less succeptable to attack. It might also be covering for certain angles through the body where the RF would have a hard time penetrating. They might just want to sell a more expensive antenna array, or expect the signal to get fainter as the system ages. Having a smaller range makes reading harder, but for the kind of cash you're talking in industrial espionage, you should have no problem.
(This Science Fiction in the News story used with permission from Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction.)
That's not to say that the article has no merit, or that we shouldn't be aware of the foreign bodies inside of ourselves. But take it with a grain of salt.
Ask people, people who may be happy with their jobs currently, who they think the best people are. Agressively recruit these people yourselves. Considering how much of a cut a recruiter usually takes, you can get talented people yourself for what you were going to pay. Plus you get people that you know can work with others.
Never hire based soley upon qualifications. Always get people recommended by good people. You have a much better chance of getting someone great. Worst case, you get someone competent that everyone likes to work with.
I'm not understanding the point here. If you inject the RFID chip, you can theoretically track your users wherever they go. But you can't ensure that access isn't being granted to someone who has an RFID chip in their wallet. You are making it slightly harder to steal the data, but you're not making it any harder to clone the chip.
720p as the target resolution. Developers aren't really expecting games to run at 1080p
This seems to be key. Higher resolution does not always equal better image quality. When you boost the resolution of a shot, you reduce the amount of processing available for each pixel. If these systems are 10x the power of current systems, going from 640i to 1080p will consume 8x that power, giving you basically today's graphics, but sharper.
Some games would be wise to spend those clock cycles on higher resolutions. Geometry Wars, for example, would be great candidate for 1080p. Others should spend the clock cycles on effects, like the swirling clouds in survival horror games. Still others should be looking towards more intelligent character interactions (I'm looking at you, tactical squad shooters with AIs that runs blindly into death).
Personally, I feel that 640p ought to be enough for any game. Higher resolutions would be nice too, but better dynamic lighting, cloth effects, water effects and hair effects would be better. Higher resolutions expose poly problems and any effects shortcomings more, so it is best to shore these up first anyway.
Guaranteed placement on-screen would be great too. You're losing something like 30% of your usable screen area simply to not being sure that an edge pixel is an edge pixel. Ever wonder why the HUD floats annoyingly close to the middle of the screen? That's why.
And can we please stop putting an environment map on absolutely everything? Old stones in run-down castles are not high-gloss.
I'm surprised they hadn't agreed to pick up the tab earlier. People have frequently cited indemnification as a reason to pick up Windows rather than Linux or BSD. However, the occasional case has shown that such indemnification is illusory, and if you get caught with, say, an IP-violating Win2K printer driver, you're SOL.
On the other hand, notice that it isn't full indemnification they're offering, merely legal costs. If it is ruled that the windows device does violate IP law, it is on the client to pay the piper. And it is only device makers. If you're running or selling a windos system, you are on your own.
Maybe this announcement will raise awareness of that.
If you are paid to *work* for 8 hours, rather than just be present for 8 hours, then it is an entirely realistic goal.
You may pay for your child to go to school, but that still stops on Sundays. You may pay for a live-in nanny, but s/he still has to sleep.
The brain is a muscle. It consumes 25% of your body's calories. The best way to get performance out of a muscle is to contract, relax, contract, relax. During the relax phase nutrients are delivered to the muscle, proteins are rebuilt, and the muscle is prepared for its next contraction phase.
Studies have shown that employees are the most productive overall when they spend %20 of their time offtask.
By demanding 100% activity 100% of their time, you're reducing your employee's overall outputs while making them far less happy about their situations. It's a lose / lose situation.
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7. Parental controls: That could be very nice, and is unique. As I'm not a parent it's not as important to me, but could be nice for locking down labs etc. to standard hours. This is actually cool.
I can only guess how long until kids figure out the system and parental controls live up to their name.
You may think you're smarter than your kids, but they have 8 hours a day to make your life miserable and no qualms about doing it.
Wow, that's perfect! Thanks!
They've still got all the same stuff, just investor's perceptions of them changed slightly. Stocks tend to swing wildly on brash news like this, then return to their default level.
On the other hand, if they actually did hand over all of their search data, people would lose faith in Google. People NEED their anonymity on the web... they don't want people to find out that they're searching for warez copies of Word, or pictures of Katie Holmes naked, or reading up on how Bush is evil, etc. Remember the row over Google's automatic searches of Gmail? Think of the reaction if Google search records were repeatedly handed over to the Government to read. If people can't trust Google's anonymity, they will look elsewhere for their search provider.
And if people are driven from Google in droves to other, smaller search providers, Google's stock will take a much bigger, much more permanent hit.
Selling "protection" to small business owners?
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
1. People have an annoying habit of abusing their power. Statistically, there are just as many criminal police officers as there are criminal normal citizens. I certainly wouldn't give an average citizen, for example, decryption keys to the password file on my computer. I don't want to give an entire police department a video feed entering credit card numbers into websites. Or plans for protest marches at the RNC. Or meetings, for example, of a group trying to get a new police chief elected. The police and other information gathering organizations have in the past most definitely not been bastions of holyness when it comes to ethical management of valuable information.
2. There are secrets people have that aren't illegal. Maybe you're seeing a psychological councelor, and the stigma attached with that could lose your job if that slips out. Maybe you got really drunk and made a mistake that you don't want to break up your family. Maybe J Edgar Hoover just doesn't want people to know that he wears women's underwear. Why should people know any of that? Why take the risk of telling that to people, and just pray that it doesn't 'slip out'.
3. Because there are lots of little things we do every day that break the rules. These include: j-walking, downloading MP3's, subletting without telling your landlord, recording sporting events without express written concent, undocumented domestic help, recreational drug use, stealing cable, logging on to other people's wireless networks, "leaking" company information to your girlfriend, anything besides the missionary position (in many states), cheating on your wife (in many states), rolling stops on empty streets, u-turns in the middle of empty streets, locking your bicycle to the handrailing, lying about your age to get into movies, lying about your age to get senior citizens discounts, lying about your age to avoid getting senior citizens discounts, telling your company that you're "sick" when you really mean you're "sick and tired of this crappy job," not reporting e-bay sales as taxable income, grabbing an extra newspaper when someone else buys one from the machine, putting chairs in the street to save your parking spot, stealing office supplies, stealing the towels, littering, loitering, the office NCAA pool, etc etc. All of these are necessary for the functioning of our society in some way or another, but are illegal. Yet we would go batshit insane without a few personal pet vices.
And the system has been built with this in mind: nobody wants to stop your weekly 5$ poker match, they wanted to stop the gambling houses where people lost their rent money. Enforce the letter of the law, and the intent of the law gets lost.
4. Because there is a big difference between serving the public interest and fascism.
Japan was attempting to destroy the US as well. No doubt there were Japanese infultrators amongst the citizens of the US... some must have have been in positions of power in their communities.
But that doesn't justify taking the lives and families of Japanese Citizens of the US and throwing them in concentration camps. That does not justify locking my grandparents up like criminals for years, kept away from their kids.
McCarthy didn't just go after traitors. He went after communists, people with alternative sexualities, liberals, those that believed in social support, those that felt capitalism needed work, and anyone that anyone was willing to name to get themselves out of trouble. Just like being ethnically japanese made people potential traitors in WW2, being of the opinion that pure capitalism is broken was enough to get you thrown in jail. Even agreeing with Adam Smith that the pure capitalist system eventually breaks down was enough to get people blacklisted, thrown out of work and schools, careers and futures taken away from them. And remember, Social Security was considered a liberal, communist thought. There is a lot of ugly, pointless history there.
And its happening again. Now we're throwing people in Guantanamo if we suspect them of being a terrorist. And a terrorist is anyone who disagrees with the war on terrorism. Being a darkie, of course, doesn't hurt, just like racism played into our concentration camps in WW2 and our ideological purge by McCarthy.
You're a history teacher. You should know better. If you can't see the connection, history is most assuredly doomed to repeat itself. And who knows who it will be next time: lots of countries have purged their intellectuals.
Why not have a p2p-style network with packet re-routing, so that person A attempting to access site E first sends it to random person C, who decrypts the outer layer and a random amount of time later sends it to person D, who decrypts their outer layer and sends it to site E, who takes the request, and returns along a second obfuscated return path. Nobody except the requesting computer would know the entire path, and while the ping time due to the random delay would be terrible, it would be utterly untracable.
High latency, but still high throughput. And untracable.
As to the other submitter's question... It is time to overhaul the e-mail system. It is just plain time. And end-to-end encryption should be part of that.
A relevant wikipedia article that doesn't go into enough detail.
Close. Anonymous posting revealed the source, then it was a matter of tracking down working cyphers. Others claim they had working algorithms before that time.
On the other hand, knowing what we know now about that algorithm, calling it "encryption" is a bit of a stretch. Keys can be brute forced in a matter of hours. A more competant algorithm would be a tougher nut to crack (see the Xbox).
I'm also of the opinion that the X360's future isn't perfectly smooth sailing.
The problem is that "being safe" in gaming usually means delivering an experience a lot like everyone else's experiences. But this really is a hit-driven industry, and so far Microsoft's only homer is Xbox Live.
Nintendo is pushing the bounds of immersion. It might be the next 2D to 3D revolution, or the next Virtual Boy. We'll see. The PS3 might be a slightly more powerful X360 with 10x the storage, but that storage capacity will come in really handy... if you have 5x the RAM, you will need at least 5x the storage.
But by the same token, the 360 is no slouch. It has decent power in an otherwise traditional package. Xbox Live is amazing, and really the reason to own a 360, but is that enough for the average consumer?
It will all come down to which games are the most revolutionary, and only time will tell.
Either way, I'm pretty sure doc meant to say Jibiwatt.
Looks legitamate to me.
It is a simple question of getting your entangled particle encryption to spin your atomic holographic optical nanostorage drive in an accredited OLED Display_n_Store handheld device reader, thus creating standing quantum waves in the ferroelectric perovskite molecules. With sufficient surface conduction, why, you could induce resonant absorption excitation via plasmon photonic bandgap crystals. Just think of high-k dipole dielectric material that can then be made reversible with non-dissipative power, all thanks to the Einstein / Plank theorem of Energy Quantum!
This unique nanotechnology will set the stage for the 5 exabytes of new data generated every year world wide and growing through molecular dissociation.
This assumes, of course, that you have a capacitor of sufficient size to handle 1.21 jigawatts of flux.
>>And who doesn't suspect MS would leave backdoors intentionally anyway?
Fixed your typo.
The source material for Bloodrayne, House of the Dead, and Alone in the Dark are almost ideal for movie making. Any zombie movie you care to name could have fit into the House of the Dead universe. With Bloodrayne, the source material is so farcically light that the writer basically has a free hand to write any story they like about a vampire woman with blades on her arms... so long as it is a good story. Maybe Nazis are involved somehow, maybe not. And Alone in the Dark has had a ton of outings and an encyclopedia of reference. But all you really need is a lone detective story, a touch of the weirdly supernatural, and a flashlight in darkness.
Ironically all 3 of the games are based loosely on good movies. The Zombies in House of the Dead are almost a dead ringer for Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Alone in the Dark is based more loosely on the noir filmmaking style popular in the 40's and 50's. Rayne is a parody of Indiana Jones and The Matrix.
Really, the current best example of a game-to-movie conversion is Resident Evil. They took some basic premise from the game, and some signature sets / moments that might work as a movie, and re-created everything else. If it wasn't for the terrible CGI on the Licker, and dogs covered in cold cuts, it would have been a great movie. It encompassed many things that the game didn't have, yet the fans were happy.
You're not making a movie from a game. Your making a movie that shares the same name and certain signature elements as a game, but only those that work as a movie.
Are people still worked up about this midi-chlorian shit? That's the part of the prequels that bothered me the least. I do at least understand why you're all pissed.
The problem is that the prequals were full of crap like this that could have been done in 1/4th the time and with heightened mood in the hands of a college-level competent filmmaker. We didn't really need to see Anakin tossing and turning in his bed for 30 seconds before Amidala comments that he's been having nightmares. We could have had a single line about mind-tricks not working on Toydarians, rather than the silly minute of dialog that just served to make everyone look incompetent. When Anakin gets his sword cut in half, he says "Man... Not again. Obi Wan is going to kill me." That line would have been twice as effective cut in half.
Half of the first two prequals could have been cut. Half. It was full of rambling exposition and clumsy dialog laborously filling in plot points that didn't need to be filled in. Mixed in with these were pod races, trips to the other sides of planets through water, and other useless scenes that should have been cut in concepting.
The midi-chlorian thing isn't even very original. Mitochondria are our little power generators. They are, in fact, separate organisms that reside within the cells of almost all living things, and do the bulk of the work of converting Glucose and ADP into ATP. They are symbionic: without them, life could not exist. Same thing with chloroplasts, which also happen to be green. The whole thing was long, unnecessary, and trite, which sums up the prequals pretty well.
Actually, they may soon have something to worry about.
Opera for the DS.
Japan only, I'm afraid. We'll see if it can run on this side of the pond.
It was even more effective if you were using a black & white tv that had manual brightness and contrast controls. If you adjusted things just right, you could aim at one target and due to a bug, you would hit all of the targets with one shot.
You could also just shoot at a white piece of paper. My favorite trick was to take out the little plastic lens, turn the room lights up, and invite some friends over for a massive display of my skillz.
The article is right. This is completely preposterous.
BTW, anyone who wants to win a free Nintendo DS* just visit AOL Teen Chat and send me your A/S/L.
*Free Nintendo DS not guaranteed
This sort of thing is self-regulating.
It's a marketing ploy. (thank you, nephew post) Passive, static RFID. Easy to clone, unless they've upgraded recently.
But even if it wasn't, why implant it? Theoretically that should prevent someone from stealing someone else's wallet and getting in, but you shouldn't be allowing access to people without proper ID anyway. I pose the question genuinely... what's the advantage?
Also, with wireless devices, there is no fixed range. If you're going to make a wireless RFID reader, you might as well give it a wide range. Any range you may care to get can be had with a sufficiently high send signal and a sufficiently good receiving antenna (or array). If it is one foot it might as well be 50. The 15 foot range might help you hide the equipment, might let them put it behind walls to make it less succeptable to attack. It might also be covering for certain angles through the body where the RF would have a hard time penetrating. They might just want to sell a more expensive antenna array, or expect the signal to get fainter as the system ages. Having a smaller range makes reading harder, but for the kind of cash you're talking in industrial espionage, you should have no problem.
(This Science Fiction in the News story used with permission from Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction.)
That's not to say that the article has no merit, or that we shouldn't be aware of the foreign bodies inside of ourselves. But take it with a grain of salt.
Ask people, people who may be happy with their jobs currently, who they think the best people are. Agressively recruit these people yourselves. Considering how much of a cut a recruiter usually takes, you can get talented people yourself for what you were going to pay. Plus you get people that you know can work with others.
Never hire based soley upon qualifications. Always get people recommended by good people. You have a much better chance of getting someone great. Worst case, you get someone competent that everyone likes to work with.
I'm not understanding the point here. If you inject the RFID chip, you can theoretically track your users wherever they go. But you can't ensure that access isn't being granted to someone who has an RFID chip in their wallet. You are making it slightly harder to steal the data, but you're not making it any harder to clone the chip.
What's the security benefit to injected RFID?
BTW, this is the original article.
720p as the target resolution. Developers aren't really expecting games to run at 1080p
This seems to be key. Higher resolution does not always equal better image quality. When you boost the resolution of a shot, you reduce the amount of processing available for each pixel. If these systems are 10x the power of current systems, going from 640i to 1080p will consume 8x that power, giving you basically today's graphics, but sharper.
Some games would be wise to spend those clock cycles on higher resolutions. Geometry Wars, for example, would be great candidate for 1080p. Others should spend the clock cycles on effects, like the swirling clouds in survival horror games. Still others should be looking towards more intelligent character interactions (I'm looking at you, tactical squad shooters with AIs that runs blindly into death).
Personally, I feel that 640p ought to be enough for any game. Higher resolutions would be nice too, but better dynamic lighting, cloth effects, water effects and hair effects would be better. Higher resolutions expose poly problems and any effects shortcomings more, so it is best to shore these up first anyway.
Guaranteed placement on-screen would be great too. You're losing something like 30% of your usable screen area simply to not being sure that an edge pixel is an edge pixel. Ever wonder why the HUD floats annoyingly close to the middle of the screen? That's why.
And can we please stop putting an environment map on absolutely everything? Old stones in run-down castles are not high-gloss.
I'm surprised they hadn't agreed to pick up the tab earlier. People have frequently cited indemnification as a reason to pick up Windows rather than Linux or BSD. However, the occasional case has shown that such indemnification is illusory, and if you get caught with, say, an IP-violating Win2K printer driver, you're SOL.
On the other hand, notice that it isn't full indemnification they're offering, merely legal costs. If it is ruled that the windows device does violate IP law, it is on the client to pay the piper. And it is only device makers. If you're running or selling a windos system, you are on your own.
Maybe this announcement will raise awareness of that.
If you are paid to *work* for 8 hours, rather than just be present for 8 hours, then it is an entirely realistic goal.
You may pay for your child to go to school, but that still stops on Sundays. You may pay for a live-in nanny, but s/he still has to sleep.
The brain is a muscle. It consumes 25% of your body's calories. The best way to get performance out of a muscle is to contract, relax, contract, relax. During the relax phase nutrients are delivered to the muscle, proteins are rebuilt, and the muscle is prepared for its next contraction phase.
Studies have shown that employees are the most productive overall when they spend %20 of their time offtask.
By demanding 100% activity 100% of their time, you're reducing your employee's overall outputs while making them far less happy about their situations. It's a lose / lose situation.