I present to you the Antimatter Calculator - it actually releases less energy than I would have thought since an entire kilo is slightly less powerful than the most powerful nuke ever detonated (although still a helluva lot of power, ~40 kilotons/gram)
Sweet! My mass contains about 3.6 Gigatons of explosive force... Beware!
I make sure to not get addicted to caffeine since...
Too late... it's one of the most addictive substances known to man. Drink a coke today? You are now physiologically addicted. You'll have withdrawl symptoms with that little.
WHY WOULD I WANT TO QUIT OR REDUCE MY CAFFEINE CONSUMPTION?
From what I have read ane experienced, caffeine is just abotu as wonder drug as you can get. Helps cure cancer, makes you smarter, faster stronger, live longer, even can help defend against radioactive fallout. Wht are the drawbacks again?
Yes, much easier to ask a question about the contents of the article than RTFA. The article has 40 words on it with lots of pictures. Do you need the articles to have no words with nothing but pictures?
Might sound good to some, but the net result will be increased labor costs (or increased tax and tax-compliance costs) for business
Because we all know how quickly prices drop when outsouring is unfettered... oh wait, no, it doesn't... it's just more money into the pockets of the executives.
The reason why you don't understand is that you fail to see that these "all electronic" voting maches are the PREFECT tool to steal an election. That is thier purpose! Once you get that through your head THEN you'll understand why we don't try a more reliable way...
Wow, is that really how messed up I am? When I was 10 I ran a warez/hacking BBS that was so popular that I was answering calls as far away as Guam and so actvie that I was forced to perm-ban ANYONE who dared to upload because my poor 20 meg hard drive was too full to boot properly... The LAST thing I needed was somone telling me what a keyboard was.
If I were you, I would start by asking for a show of hands, how many kids know what an openSSH timing attack is and anyone who understands what you just said should be sent outside and forced to play in the sun.
I was expecting to see a free Service Patch on their website to fix the security flaws. As far as I know that's how businesses take care of flawed products nowadays.
That's SO pre-DMCA. The way companies deal with it *nowadays* is attempt to sue the pen manufaturers.
I hear you brother. I hate waiting in line at the bank. So instead of getting my cash from the bank I just steal it from old ladies. Works great and saves me TIME!
To make your lame analogy even close to correct, what you meant to say was you XEROXED they money of little old ladies (or more correctly, xeroxed the money of large mafia hit-men), allowing those women to use thier money, but still allowing you a copy.
Otherwise, what you are saying is that when I download a copy of a song, I am now the ABSOLUTE OWNER of that song and no-one else in the world can listen to it while I have it.
Shortage? A bidding system be for the case where land-lubbing nurse wenches be in great supply. This is logic that walks the plank. No man but those in Davey Jones locker understand this cabin swill! Arrrr.
(It be the 19th o' sept this hearty day in Japan!)
I've owned 3 PS2's, all of them have had problems, I sent my first one (one of the originals that Sony admitted to having problems with), and got one of the second generation ones, sent it in for repair 4 times before they switched it out for a third one, after having to send it in several times for repairs I finally just decided to go with a gamecube, which has served me faithfully for 2 years now.
I'm used my ps2 for FOUR years, banged it up, taveled to Japan and back with it and it's never had a hiccup.
Anybody that is willing to throwthemselves in the line of fire with a bomb strapped to their body isn't going to pay much attention to the rock that you're brandishing, no matter how large.
They might if it's a particularly comical rock, maybe bright orange and shaped like a penis? Not that it would stop them, but they may pay attention to it as they run past.
Don't knock XOR. XOR alone can be used for encryption. Infact it is unbreakable when used for encryption. Ever heard of an one time pad. For example free gmail invite to the first person to crack the following: 11110110110011101101010111100111101010 10
I don't get why they store (and check) the password in any way. The password becomes the encryption key for the data. If you enter the correct key you can access the files, if you don't you get garbage...
Makes me think there si NO encryption on any of the data... Just a funny driver hack that stops you from reading a certian sector of the drive.
Just have every copy of the software call home and give you it's unique ID. First you check that the ID is one of the ones you have sold to retailers, and that you haven't seen it more than say, five times, and then you hand back the unique decryption key to make the program run from that point on. Easy schmeasy.
2. Establish your principles and DO NOT SACRIFICE THEM FOR ANYTHING.
Nice try, but seriously? Don't sacrifice for ANYTHING? What if you find out you were wrong? You think it's a good idea to hold tight to your principles knowing full well that you're wrong? Sounds like idiocy to me.
The problem is that I can't see $35M revenue (not profit) paying Infiniums costs or paying any of that $68M debt. How exactly do you rack up $68M in debt developing a PC anyway? The personal computer is pretty straightforward as it is... most of the work has already been done.
You weren't around in the dot com days, I take it. I worked at a company that blew $250M in six months just buying rights to pop star's websites. Not the rights to any of the SALES or AD REVENUE, mind you, just the right to host and the website... that's right, PAYING to eat the costs of high bandwith sites without any of the possible benifit.
Many of the XP stories I've heard have been tales of woe, so I'm interested in hearing about your project. Has somebody on your team written up this success story somewhere?
Well, no success story written anywhere, but even though it's off topic, I guess I can explain a little better here. But before I do, I think I should start by saying that XP woe stores that I have read usually have more to the company NOT following XP practices. If you read any of the major books on they subject, they all say that you can't expect XP to work at all unless you have ALL the pieces, not just a sub-set of them. Our version of XP is "hard core", meaning we DO sweat the small stuff, and subsequently we have a remarkably smooth running system. I've worked at MANY a software company, and from that experience, I have to say that I am absolutly amazed at how we can keep up a bug free system from day to day, with a staff od 80-90% junior programmers, while still introducing new features on a weekly basis, and without missing deadlines.
The single most important facet of XP taht we've been using is so called "test-first" programming. It mean, as it sounds, before you write a line of code, you write the test for it. I used to moan and groan abotu this for a long time, until I started to notice it maked programming remarkably easier both in the long AND the short term.
In the long term, it means that you have 100% automated test coverage at all times, so you can change the system with confidence that whatever you are changing is not going to break something else in the system in any subtle way that you are unaware of.
Before XP, this problem was the bane of my programmign existance... fix on bug and watch another bug pop up somewhere else. As long as you have a system with a full set of FUNCTIONAL tests, then it doesn't matter how madly you manage to mangle the system, becuase if those tests pass (and if you were dilligent and did not add any functionality without adding the test first) then it means your system is production worthy. It also means any bugs you DO create will only ever happen once, because you'll be putting in a test that covers the bug as soon as it is discovered so that it can never happen again without you knowing about it.
Additionally, it means junior programmers who cannot understand the concepts involved in large functionality additions/changes can also participate. a senior member can write the tests, and the junior programmers can "paint by numbers" and implement the functionality. As long as thier code makes the tests pass, it is code that can go out into production. And since the senior member knows the pitfalls that are likely to occour, he can write the tests in such a way that all of the most likely danger areas and edge cases are accounted for.
Now, the junior programmers are still likey to make mistakes from time to time, so the tests first paradigmn is supplemented by agressive refactoring. The rule is, when you see suspiscious or odd code, no matter what part of the system it's in, and no matter what you are currently working on, you drop everything and refactor it.
This is something else I used to moan about, becuase it often means rolling back what you are working on to refactor, which means some lost time... But this is further supported by a policy of very small incrimental change. If you are working on a bit of code and it's taking you more than, say, ten minutes or so to write and check in, more often than not, you've taken too big a bite.
We nibble at the code, making small change after small change, and it means that even if every system were to crash at once, we'd never be more than ten minutes away from what's checked into CVS. It takes practice to know how to do this right, becuase it often involes writing bits of code that you know you will be throwing away in an hour, but in the long run, this system of development allows you a great deal of flexibility in terms of priorities. We can always drop what we are doing
I mean come on, if only she would haev taken him back and never left his sight again he wouldn't have been FORCED to to this. She really needs to STOP getting a life!
Why don't people start sending out DMCA letters to the ISPs of the folks at the RIAA and MPAA? Like to the ISPs that their kids use at school, the ISPs at thier homes, the ISPs that the friends of the family use to run thier businesses, the ISPs that run the servers that the various bands' websites are on?
I'll even let you use me as the copyright holder... I've just now created one song per letter of the alphabet, so go find an English on thier web site letter and threaten to sue them for me, all in good faith!
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I present to you the Antimatter Calculator - it actually releases less energy than I would have thought since an entire kilo is slightly less powerful than the most powerful nuke ever detonated (although still a helluva lot of power, ~40 kilotons/gram)
Sweet! My mass contains about 3.6 Gigatons of explosive force... Beware!
I make sure to not get addicted to caffeine since...
Too late... it's one of the most addictive substances known to man. Drink a coke today? You are now physiologically addicted. You'll have withdrawl symptoms with that little.
HOW CAN I QUIT OR REDUCE MY CAFFEINE CONSUMPTION?
WHY WOULD I WANT TO QUIT OR REDUCE MY CAFFEINE CONSUMPTION?
From what I have read ane experienced, caffeine is just abotu as wonder drug as you can get. Helps cure cancer, makes you smarter, faster stronger, live longer, even can help defend against radioactive fallout. Wht are the drawbacks again?
Yes, much easier to ask a question about the contents of the article than RTFA. The article has 40 words on it with lots of pictures. Do you need the articles to have no words with nothing but pictures?
Will those pictures require any reading?
Might sound good to some, but the net result will be increased labor costs (or increased tax and tax-compliance costs) for business
Because we all know how quickly prices drop when outsouring is unfettered... oh wait, no, it doesn't... it's just more money into the pockets of the executives.
The reason why you don't understand is that you fail to see that these "all electronic" voting maches are the PREFECT tool to steal an election. That is thier purpose! Once you get that through your head THEN you'll understand why we don't try a more reliable way...
Wow, is that really how messed up I am? When I was 10 I ran a warez/hacking BBS that was so popular that I was answering calls as far away as Guam and so actvie that I was forced to perm-ban ANYONE who dared to upload because my poor 20 meg hard drive was too full to boot properly... The LAST thing I needed was somone telling me what a keyboard was.
If I were you, I would start by asking for a show of hands, how many kids know what an openSSH timing attack is and anyone who understands what you just said should be sent outside and forced to play in the sun.
I was expecting to see a free Service Patch on their website to fix the security flaws. As far as I know that's how businesses take care of flawed products nowadays.
That's SO pre-DMCA. The way companies deal with it *nowadays* is attempt to sue the pen manufaturers.
I hear you brother. I hate waiting in line at the bank. So instead of getting my cash from the bank I just steal it from old ladies. Works great and saves me TIME!
To make your lame analogy even close to correct, what you meant to say was you XEROXED they money of little old ladies (or more correctly, xeroxed the money of large mafia hit-men), allowing those women to use thier money, but still allowing you a copy.
Otherwise, what you are saying is that when I download a copy of a song, I am now the ABSOLUTE OWNER of that song and no-one else in the world can listen to it while I have it.
Shortage? A bidding system be for the case where land-lubbing nurse wenches be in great supply. This is logic that walks the plank. No man but those in Davey Jones locker understand this cabin swill! Arrrr.
(It be the 19th o' sept this hearty day in Japan!)
I've owned 3 PS2's, all of them have had problems, I sent my first one (one of the originals that Sony admitted to having problems with), and got one of the second generation ones, sent it in for repair 4 times before they switched it out for a third one, after having to send it in several times for repairs I finally just decided to go with a gamecube, which has served me faithfully for 2 years now.
I'm used my ps2 for FOUR years, banged it up, taveled to Japan and back with it and it's never had a hiccup.
The difference is that there has been evidence of planned attacks which have been thwarted.
That wouldn't be evidence collected by the same people who told you there were WMDs in Iraq, would it?
Anybody that is willing to throwthemselves in the line of fire with a bomb strapped to their body isn't going to pay much attention to the rock that you're brandishing, no matter how large.
They might if it's a particularly comical rock, maybe bright orange and shaped like a penis? Not that it would stop them, but they may pay attention to it as they run past.
This is such a sham. I don't see a single rigged Diebold machine!
Don't knock XOR. XOR alone can be used for encryption. Infact it is unbreakable when used for encryption. Ever heard of an one time pad. For example free gmail invite to the first person to crack the following:0 10
1111011011001110110101011110011110101
Cracked it... Man that was easy.
I don't get why they store (and check) the password in any way. The password becomes the encryption key for the data. If you enter the correct key you can access the files, if you don't you get garbage...
Makes me think there si NO encryption on any of the data... Just a funny driver hack that stops you from reading a certian sector of the drive.
And more importantly, do you even know what "redundant" means?
Do YOU have any idea what "redundant"... aw, screw it.
Just have every copy of the software call home and give you it's unique ID. First you check that the ID is one of the ones you have sold to retailers, and that you haven't seen it more than say, five times, and then you hand back the unique decryption key to make the program run from that point on. Easy schmeasy.
How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do about It.
Quite simple realy... We'll wait until they are all old and feeble and then stop paying for them. It's cruel, but they brought it on themselves.
2. Establish your principles and DO NOT SACRIFICE THEM FOR ANYTHING.
Nice try, but seriously? Don't sacrifice for ANYTHING? What if you find out you were wrong? You think it's a good idea to hold tight to your principles knowing full well that you're wrong? Sounds like idiocy to me.
The problem is that I can't see $35M revenue (not profit) paying Infiniums costs or paying any of that $68M debt. How exactly do you rack up $68M in debt developing a PC anyway? The personal computer is pretty straightforward as it is... most of the work has already been done.
You weren't around in the dot com days, I take it. I worked at a company that blew $250M in six months just buying rights to pop star's websites. Not the rights to any of the SALES or AD REVENUE, mind you, just the right to host and the website... that's right, PAYING to eat the costs of high bandwith sites without any of the possible benifit.
Many of the XP stories I've heard have been tales of woe, so I'm interested in hearing about your project. Has somebody on your team written up this success story somewhere?
Well, no success story written anywhere, but even though it's off topic, I guess I can explain a little better here. But before I do, I think I should start by saying that XP woe stores that I have read usually have more to the company NOT following XP practices. If you read any of the major books on they subject, they all say that you can't expect XP to work at all unless you have ALL the pieces, not just a sub-set of them. Our version of XP is "hard core", meaning we DO sweat the small stuff, and subsequently we have a remarkably smooth running system. I've worked at MANY a software company, and from that experience, I have to say that I am absolutly amazed at how we can keep up a bug free system from day to day, with a staff od 80-90% junior programmers, while still introducing new features on a weekly basis, and without missing deadlines.
The single most important facet of XP taht we've been using is so called "test-first" programming. It mean, as it sounds, before you write a line of code, you write the test for it. I used to moan and groan abotu this for a long time, until I started to notice it maked programming remarkably easier both in the long AND the short term.
In the long term, it means that you have 100% automated test coverage at all times, so you can change the system with confidence that whatever you are changing is not going to break something else in the system in any subtle way that you are unaware of.
Before XP, this problem was the bane of my programmign existance... fix on bug and watch another bug pop up somewhere else. As long as you have a system with a full set of FUNCTIONAL tests, then it doesn't matter how madly you manage to mangle the system, becuase if those tests pass (and if you were dilligent and did not add any functionality without adding the test first) then it means your system is production worthy. It also means any bugs you DO create will only ever happen once, because you'll be putting in a test that covers the bug as soon as it is discovered so that it can never happen again without you knowing about it.
Additionally, it means junior programmers who cannot understand the concepts involved in large functionality additions/changes can also participate. a senior member can write the tests, and the junior programmers can "paint by numbers" and implement the functionality. As long as thier code makes the tests pass, it is code that can go out into production. And since the senior member knows the pitfalls that are likely to occour, he can write the tests in such a way that all of the most likely danger areas and edge cases are accounted for.
Now, the junior programmers are still likey to make mistakes from time to time, so the tests first paradigmn is supplemented by agressive refactoring. The rule is, when you see suspiscious or odd code, no matter what part of the system it's in, and no matter what you are currently working on, you drop everything and refactor it.
This is something else I used to moan about, becuase it often means rolling back what you are working on to refactor, which means some lost time... But this is further supported by a policy of very small incrimental change. If you are working on a bit of code and it's taking you more than, say, ten minutes or so to write and check in, more often than not, you've taken too big a bite.
We nibble at the code, making small change after small change, and it means that even if every system were to crash at once, we'd never be more than ten minutes away from what's checked into CVS. It takes practice to know how to do this right, becuase it often involes writing bits of code that you know you will be throwing away in an hour, but in the long run, this system of development allows you a great deal of flexibility in terms of priorities. We can always drop what we are doing
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Now, just imagine donloading porn at 300dps (dot/dash per second)
I mean come on, if only she would haev taken him back and never left his sight again he wouldn't have been FORCED to to this. She really needs to STOP getting a life!
Why don't people start sending out DMCA letters to the ISPs of the folks at the RIAA and MPAA? Like to the ISPs that their kids use at school, the ISPs at thier homes, the ISPs that the friends of the family use to run thier businesses, the ISPs that run the servers that the various bands' websites are on?
I'll even let you use me as the copyright holder... I've just now created one song per letter of the alphabet, so go find an English on thier web site letter and threaten to sue them for me, all in good faith!