Not to mention that the people developing these tools are also programmers - so they tool they end up developing just continues the mindset embodied by the programmer. Very few development tools are really able to reach very far outside that box, and the amount of work to reate something that operates in a way alien to prorgammers is huge because you are fighting the very creators each step of the way.
Just what the hell is this supposed to mean, exactly? Programmers don't have some magical karmic vibe that hexes everything they write automatically. There are really only two situations here:
1) The program is well designed, as per the guidelines and requirements set, discussed, rediscussed, and unset, and then eventually solidified on shortly before the end of the project. 2) It's not well designed, didn't have enough input from the people that would be using the software and are more intimately familiar with the task at hand ("Well, we do have a transaction every other month or so that requires this kind of functionality, but I didn't think it was important. What's that, it would require a complete rewrite?!"), and was poorly colaborated.
That's it, plain and simple. Granted, scenario 1 isn't likely to be a perfect fit, but you'll end up with some damned good software (as in, it gets the job done well) if you follow that process and have a competent project leader/team.
You can have an adequate law enforcement force while still having a small national/state government. Law enforcement is (generally) a local-level thing anyway. If a spouse is getting beaten, she calls the cops. Simple.
Damned near everyhwere has "don't hurt others" laws. They're part of the foundational principle of government.
I'd hardly consider 50,000 words a "novel" - maybe a novelette or something like that, though. 50,000 words only clocks in at roughly 60 pages in MS Word or some similar editor using defaultfonts, borders, etc.
If you look at it from a "per day" basis, that's only 1666 words a day, which is roughly twice the size as a medium-to-large slashdot post. How many of you have multiple "Click here to read the rest of this post" comments several times a week? If so, I'd wager you've got the perseverence to finish writing a 50,000 word book in a month. It hardly seems like a difficult task to me, provided you've got the motivation to sink your soul into such a work.
I'd hope that 1600 words a day wouldn't be difficult at all for a novelist. However, I'd hope they'd spend the majority of their time thinking of what to write, so that their books wouldn't be shit. For me, that's what takes the longest amount of time - thinking of how you want everything to interact in a realistic manner.
If you had a good idea going into this with relationships already fleshed out in your head, there's no reason you couldn't write a decent to good novelette, IMO.
I'm guessing this has something to do with their attempt to mimic the holy Law and Order. At the beginning of every episode, the detectives make witty (yes, they generally are) quips at the crime scene, generally reflecting their hardened outlook on the whole "dead bodies" thing.
Yes, CSI sucks, but only because it's a poor copy.
Except there is no such thing as anarchy. It's a figment of your imagination. It's technically impossible when more than one person exists in the same environment.
He wasn't saying "no government" he was saying "less government. As in, less interference so you can actually live out your life, uninhibited by regulations. In essence, he used the saying wrong.
No, small government is beneficial for everyone except politicians. It allows for less taxes, more freedom, and a more natural economy (outside of monopolistic settings, that is). If you have a small government (ie, minimalist, simplistic laws) with monopoly prevention laws, you're looking at a very happy, productive, and financially wealthy populace.
No, it doesn't. In no way, shape, or form does Monopoly teach kids "good money management".
Monopoly teaches kids that "he who has the most 'toys', wins" - ie, consume, consume, consume. It teaches kids that if you buy more stuff, people give you more money.
Either it's teaching gross consumerism, or setting kids up for behavior that, in the business world, results in anti-competitive monopolistic corporations
that, or it's just a game. Though, you can't argue that at least -some- sort of pro-consumerist tendancies aren't picked up.
The problem with your approach is that damned near everyone's "backup plan" seems to be "get a teaching degree". That's only going to last so long, particularly when the gov't sees all the willing and able teachers, and decides that they can cut teachers' wages further.
Not only that, but not everyone can teach. I'm not talking about ability, I'm talking about simple economy balance. The way things are looking, we're going to have an economy nearly completely composed of business executives, teachers, food service workers, and store operators, while all the innovation is done elsewhere.
Don't want to spend the time? Then "don't do the crime." In this case, the "crime" is being involved with computers in a higher capacity than advanced user.
If you're working with computers and can't do even the basics, why are you in the field? A hobbist probably wouldn't mind spending the time to learn it "right". However, for a 'professional' you've got to know things properly and thoroughly so as to not be an idiot about things.
The intro just smacks of a pre-dotcom bomb mentality. There are many, many people with quite indepth resumes and experience, many of them looking for jobs and willing to take menial tech jobs just to remain in what they love.
I can't believe there are still people getting into IT at 40 for a career change and "good jobs". Where have they been for the last 4 years? (yes, I know of quite a few people)
C'mon. This is DOOM we're talking about here, not Tolkien's LotR. The mythology amounts to, "Space station on Mars is invaded by demons through a portal to hell; space marine saves the day."
So, what are they going to do? Have him bleeding to death, half an arm severed off, and then he finds a medical box with a magic saringe with which he re-grows an arm and heals all his wounds?
You think you're a bad ass because you've been beating up on 5th graders, but then you call out Mike Tyson; you break 4 ribs, lose an ear and realize you aren't all that - and some dog ate your bag of chips. But at least you can say you upgraded from a bully to a bitch for the pure joy of knowing you know nothing about being a 5th grader or a world heavy weight champion. And now you can move on with your life, wearing a body cast around your pride, knowing that any time someone picks a fight with you just ask your buddy to get your back because that fucker's been taking kung fu since he was 3. Or just go back to kicking around 5th graders and risk the diseases they carry that made you call out a healthy adult in the first place. So its your choice, risk losing a piece of yourself by taking the easy way out or stand tall, get the shit kicked out of you, work out and come back stronger than ever. But always remember once you kick Mike Tyson's ass, Godzilla and Galacticus are always waiting to slap you down.
Well, aside from that (I don't know anything about ZoneAlarm's services), you could also do application-level filtering. It possibly/probably wouldn't prevent things like spyware requesting banners and the like (provided the spyware could spoof http headers), but you could use it to deny things like P2P, FTP, and the like w/o a problem. Additionally, you could tell it to disallow, say, IE from accessing the internet (via application-layer filtering - check the "OSI model" on wikipedia) - there goes 95% (or more) of the problem of spyware.:)
This seems like much more of an elegant and fool-proof method of filtering than having a client on each workstation. AFAIK, IOS, netfilter, and ipfw (BSD) can all do application level filtering.
Hell, even Asimov's writing speaks of such a far-reaching empire that gets disolved/destroyed (in the Foundation and Empire books, i believe - it's been a while since I've read them).
OMG that's the same premise for my nearly-finished character novel! (and I've never seen andromeda)
Lighten up, chap. With science fiction, you've got to do something to bring the familiar to the future, whether it's time travel, a wormhole, cryogenics, or a person with an antiquated mindset. It's how people relate to the writing - they see it through the eyes of the familiar characters.
Since Boba Fett is a clone of Jango Fett, and Jango Fett is played by Temura Morrison, doesn't it make sense that he should sound like him, too? That's exactly what George Lucas thought, so Morrison was brought in to revoice the four lines of dialogue (yes, believe it or not there are only four!) Boba spoke in the original trilogy.
Does anyone else think this is shit? Bobba Fett in the original trilogy, the way I understood it, was the son of Jango Fett - you know, that kid that was with Jango in Episode 2? Seems like saying Bobba Fett was a clone simply discards the purpose of even having the kid in Epside II at all.
I also seem to recall something in one of the novels, or something like that, about Bobba Fett being Jango's progeny. This would make sense, as progeny is more likely to follow in their father's footsteps than a clone is to follow in the footsteps of the person they were cloned from, no? I'd think a clone would be more interested in seeking their own identity.
And what's with changing Bobba Fett's voice? Even if he were a clone (I'm not believing it), half of what made Fett such a badass was his -voice-. It was fucking hardcore and made you fear the guy. Now, Jango? Not so much. Not only that, but a clone is going to have different cultural influences than Jango, and thus his accent is going to be different anyway. But I digress.
I don't know, dude. When I first read the title, I thought, "Ask Who?" - it's been so long since Ask Jeeves was contextual with web searches that I don't even see them as being in the running.
There are many, many more search engines with superior functionality than Ask Jeeves, with a "different flavor" than Google but still roughly the same functionality. Ask Jeeves seems pretty dysfunctional to me, and I know of nobody that uses it. I don't think I know anyone that ever actually used it, really. It was just a fad - oh look, we can search with full-english sentences! Google can do that now, too. It's no big deal.
Slim to nill, I'd say, unless they were cross-client viruses - ie, you could get them from Outlook, et al users.
Aside from that, I'm sure there's a possibility of such an exploit taking place. I think the real concern would be viruses which do not bother the end user, as they'd be more likely to go undetected.
asus offers (or offered?) a router/wireless AP (something like that; not quite sure which. they've got several different models, but I believe it could function as both a ethernet and wireless router) that runs linux.
It has at least one (don't remember if it was two) USB ports, through which you could connect it to an external USB drive, or even something like a dongle for CF or SD.
Read much? The books have those "oliphants" as well. They are by no means "elephants", though Tolkien obviously intended for a parallel to be drawn in some respects. Oliphants != elephants. And the whole "badass elves"? Seems pretty damn well executed to me.
The Osengard battle, though - bang on, there. Still, your first criticism has no merit.
Why make the taxpayers pay for cleaning up the internet of spam?
Make the spammers pay out the bounty. There's absolutely no reason to make taxpayers (you know, citizens) suffer and go further in debt (via the nation) for the crimes to humanity that spammers have perpetrated.
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Not to mention that the people developing these tools are also programmers - so they tool they end up developing just continues the mindset embodied by the programmer. Very few development tools are really able to reach very far outside that box, and the amount of work to reate something that operates in a way alien to prorgammers is huge because you are fighting the very creators each step of the way.
Just what the hell is this supposed to mean, exactly? Programmers don't have some magical karmic vibe that hexes everything they write automatically. There are really only two situations here:
1) The program is well designed, as per the guidelines and requirements set, discussed, rediscussed, and unset, and then eventually solidified on shortly before the end of the project.
2) It's not well designed, didn't have enough input from the people that would be using the software and are more intimately familiar with the task at hand ("Well, we do have a transaction every other month or so that requires this kind of functionality, but I didn't think it was important. What's that, it would require a complete rewrite?!"), and was poorly colaborated.
That's it, plain and simple. Granted, scenario 1 isn't likely to be a perfect fit, but you'll end up with some damned good software (as in, it gets the job done well) if you follow that process and have a competent project leader/team.
What you said was just useless rhetoric.
You can have an adequate law enforcement force while still having a small national/state government. Law enforcement is (generally) a local-level thing anyway. If a spouse is getting beaten, she calls the cops. Simple.
Damned near everyhwere has "don't hurt others" laws. They're part of the foundational principle of government.
I'd hardly consider 50,000 words a "novel" - maybe a novelette or something like that, though. 50,000 words only clocks in at roughly 60 pages in MS Word or some similar editor using defaultfonts, borders, etc.
If you look at it from a "per day" basis, that's only 1666 words a day, which is roughly twice the size as a medium-to-large slashdot post. How many of you have multiple "Click here to read the rest of this post" comments several times a week? If so, I'd wager you've got the perseverence to finish writing a 50,000 word book in a month. It hardly seems like a difficult task to me, provided you've got the motivation to sink your soul into such a work.
I'd hope that 1600 words a day wouldn't be difficult at all for a novelist. However, I'd hope they'd spend the majority of their time thinking of what to write, so that their books wouldn't be shit. For me, that's what takes the longest amount of time - thinking of how you want everything to interact in a realistic manner.
If you had a good idea going into this with relationships already fleshed out in your head, there's no reason you couldn't write a decent to good novelette, IMO.
I'm guessing this has something to do with their attempt to mimic the holy Law and Order. At the beginning of every episode, the detectives make witty (yes, they generally are) quips at the crime scene, generally reflecting their hardened outlook on the whole "dead bodies" thing.
Yes, CSI sucks, but only because it's a poor copy.
Except there is no such thing as anarchy. It's a figment of your imagination. It's technically impossible when more than one person exists in the same environment.
He wasn't saying "no government" he was saying "less government. As in, less interference so you can actually live out your life, uninhibited by regulations. In essence, he used the saying wrong.
No, small government is beneficial for everyone except politicians. It allows for less taxes, more freedom, and a more natural economy (outside of monopolistic settings, that is). If you have a small government (ie, minimalist, simplistic laws) with monopoly prevention laws, you're looking at a very happy, productive, and financially wealthy populace.
No, it doesn't. In no way, shape, or form does Monopoly teach kids "good money management".
Monopoly teaches kids that "he who has the most 'toys', wins" - ie, consume, consume, consume. It teaches kids that if you buy more stuff, people give you more money.
Either it's teaching gross consumerism, or setting kids up for behavior that, in the business world, results in anti-competitive monopolistic corporations
that, or it's just a game. Though, you can't argue that at least -some- sort of pro-consumerist tendancies aren't picked up.
The problem with your approach is that damned near everyone's "backup plan" seems to be "get a teaching degree". That's only going to last so long, particularly when the gov't sees all the willing and able teachers, and decides that they can cut teachers' wages further.
Not only that, but not everyone can teach. I'm not talking about ability, I'm talking about simple economy balance. The way things are looking, we're going to have an economy nearly completely composed of business executives, teachers, food service workers, and store operators, while all the innovation is done elsewhere.
Don't want to spend the time? Then "don't do the crime." In this case, the "crime" is being involved with computers in a higher capacity than advanced user.
If you're working with computers and can't do even the basics, why are you in the field? A hobbist probably wouldn't mind spending the time to learn it "right". However, for a 'professional' you've got to know things properly and thoroughly so as to not be an idiot about things.
The intro just smacks of a pre-dotcom bomb mentality. There are many, many people with quite indepth resumes and experience, many of them looking for jobs and willing to take menial tech jobs just to remain in what they love.
I can't believe there are still people getting into IT at 40 for a career change and "good jobs". Where have they been for the last 4 years? (yes, I know of quite a few people)
... make sure the mythology is correct?
C'mon. This is DOOM we're talking about here, not Tolkien's LotR. The mythology amounts to, "Space station on Mars is invaded by demons through a portal to hell; space marine saves the day."
So, what are they going to do? Have him bleeding to death, half an arm severed off, and then he finds a medical box with a magic saringe with which he re-grows an arm and heals all his wounds?
You think you're a bad ass because you've been beating up on 5th graders, but then you call out Mike Tyson; you break 4 ribs, lose an ear and realize you aren't all that - and some dog ate your bag of chips. But at least you can say you upgraded from a bully to a bitch for the pure joy of knowing you know nothing about being a 5th grader or a world heavy weight champion. And now you can move on with your life, wearing a body cast around your pride, knowing that any time someone picks a fight with you just ask your buddy to get your back because that fucker's been taking kung fu since he was 3. Or just go back to kicking around 5th graders and risk the diseases they carry that made you call out a healthy adult in the first place. So its your choice, risk losing a piece of yourself by taking the easy way out or stand tall, get the shit kicked out of you, work out and come back stronger than ever. But always remember once you kick Mike Tyson's ass, Godzilla and Galacticus are always waiting to slap you down.
Well, aside from that (I don't know anything about ZoneAlarm's services), you could also do application-level filtering. It possibly/probably wouldn't prevent things like spyware requesting banners and the like (provided the spyware could spoof http headers), but you could use it to deny things like P2P, FTP, and the like w/o a problem. Additionally, you could tell it to disallow, say, IE from accessing the internet (via application-layer filtering - check the "OSI model" on wikipedia) - there goes 95% (or more) of the problem of spyware. :)
This seems like much more of an elegant and fool-proof method of filtering than having a client on each workstation. AFAIK, IOS, netfilter, and ipfw (BSD) can all do application level filtering.
Yes. Did you see the little boy Jango called "Boba" that was always running underfoot?
Hell, even Asimov's writing speaks of such a far-reaching empire that gets disolved/destroyed (in the Foundation and Empire books, i believe - it's been a while since I've read them).
OMG that's the same premise for my nearly-finished character novel! (and I've never seen andromeda)
Lighten up, chap. With science fiction, you've got to do something to bring the familiar to the future, whether it's time travel, a wormhole, cryogenics, or a person with an antiquated mindset. It's how people relate to the writing - they see it through the eyes of the familiar characters.
Not exactly. I did set up a 3GHz x 30 machine lab OpenMosix cluster, though. Close enough? :) 90GHz > 51.2 GHz :P
4. Boba Fett has a new voice
Since Boba Fett is a clone of Jango Fett, and Jango Fett is played by Temura Morrison, doesn't it make sense that he should sound like him, too? That's exactly what George Lucas thought, so Morrison was brought in to revoice the four lines of dialogue (yes, believe it or not there are only four!) Boba spoke in the original trilogy.
Does anyone else think this is shit? Bobba Fett in the original trilogy, the way I understood it, was the son of Jango Fett - you know, that kid that was with Jango in Episode 2? Seems like saying Bobba Fett was a clone simply discards the purpose of even having the kid in Epside II at all.
I also seem to recall something in one of the novels, or something like that, about Bobba Fett being Jango's progeny. This would make sense, as progeny is more likely to follow in their father's footsteps than a clone is to follow in the footsteps of the person they were cloned from, no? I'd think a clone would be more interested in seeking their own identity.
And what's with changing Bobba Fett's voice? Even if he were a clone (I'm not believing it), half of what made Fett such a badass was his -voice-. It was fucking hardcore and made you fear the guy. Now, Jango? Not so much. Not only that, but a clone is going to have different cultural influences than Jango, and thus his accent is going to be different anyway. But I digress.
In conclusion, Lucas sucks. What a hack.
I don't know, dude. When I first read the title, I thought, "Ask Who?" - it's been so long since Ask Jeeves was contextual with web searches that I don't even see them as being in the running.
There are many, many more search engines with superior functionality than Ask Jeeves, with a "different flavor" than Google but still roughly the same functionality. Ask Jeeves seems pretty dysfunctional to me, and I know of nobody that uses it. I don't think I know anyone that ever actually used it, really. It was just a fad - oh look, we can search with full-english sentences! Google can do that now, too. It's no big deal.
Slim to nill, I'd say, unless they were cross-client viruses - ie, you could get them from Outlook, et al users.
Aside from that, I'm sure there's a possibility of such an exploit taking place. I think the real concern would be viruses which do not bother the end user, as they'd be more likely to go undetected.
Damn, those are some creepy photos.
Where's the evidence that says it's a hoax?
I think MS will find that the only people that run Windows Update are the people using a pirated copy - at least, for the most part, for home users.
I don't think I know a single (technically savy) person who has a licensed version of Windows at home.
Oops. Here is a link.
asus offers (or offered?) a router/wireless AP (something like that; not quite sure which. they've got several different models, but I believe it could function as both a ethernet and wireless router) that runs linux.
It has at least one (don't remember if it was two) USB ports, through which you could connect it to an external USB drive, or even something like a dongle for CF or SD.
Read much? The books have those "oliphants" as well. They are by no means "elephants", though Tolkien obviously intended for a parallel to be drawn in some respects. Oliphants != elephants. And the whole "badass elves"? Seems pretty damn well executed to me.
The Osengard battle, though - bang on, there. Still, your first criticism has no merit.
Why make the taxpayers pay for cleaning up the internet of spam?
Make the spammers pay out the bounty. There's absolutely no reason to make taxpayers (you know, citizens) suffer and go further in debt (via the nation) for the crimes to humanity that spammers have perpetrated.
It must be me. I've seen a torrent of spam in the last week, easily two to three times as much as I normally get.