With the recent release of Einstein's private letters indicating that he was a Mack Daddy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/07/11/weins11.xml suggests a new series of gritty urban videogame: the GTR series. You start as a small time patent clerk named Al working your way up the ladder of Organized Physics. Busting up dice games run by God, setting up a convention for tense-hos, projects that are the Bomb, and so forth.
Or the complete text content of the Library of Congress, coupled with 6 Academic Research Libraries, with the capacity to dump the equivalent of 2 pickup trucks worth of books every second . In a 4U rack. For the price of several cars. Now that's my type of bookshelf system!
The solution is better/targeted advertising. Advertising (and moronic network executives) are currently stuck in the same diminishing returns/kill the messenger cycle as the MPAA/RIAA is. Deprived of a captive audience, they freak out trying to further oversaturate the world in ads, which makes people turn off further. But there are three better ways:
a. Make people want to see ads. A good ad will make people stop and rewind their PVR and watch it over. It will make people send it to their friends. Remember, music videos used to be ads.
b. Target your ads and make people ask for them. Google AdSense is good and getting better at this. Arguably, eBays "favorite searches" featue is even better. Every day, eBay sends me new items which match my search terms. I WANT this information and I always read it, and often buy items based on the information, and that is perfect advertising.
c. Integrate feedback. Incorporate honest "Next!" and "Hooray!" buttons in PVRs and on banner spaces. Hit the "Next!" button and the ad disappears replaced by another, Hit "Hooray!" and it's in heaver rotation. The results are sent back to the advertiser. They get invaluable feedback, you get relief from ads you'd zap anyway. Guys get more beer ads, less tampon ads and a virtuous circle is achieved!
Morale doesn't always track with business sucess directly, although it generally is a leading indicator. For example, when a company hits a rough patch for external reasons, morale can be the thing that pull the company through. In the same fashion lack of morale, even in a company that is doing well, can be devistating due to reduced productivity and rapid turnover.
A very good example of company morale is Southwest Airlines, they have a tangible esprit de corps that positively impacts the operation of the company. On the other hand look at EA, presently doing well but with horrific employee morale.
Spaceflight is dangerous, but it shouldn't be more dangerous than it has to be. If you found out that the next plane you were scheduled to fly had a documented problem that hadn't been fixed, and the mechanics who brought up the issue had been reassigned. And then a big crack was found on the airframe. Would you announce that "AIR TRAVEL IS DANGEROUS!" and corageously jump on the plane. Hell no, you'd insist that the plane checked out before it flew.
Sony is not only certian you will buy a PS3 if there are no games for it, they are gravely concerned that the PS3 doesn't cost enough. In fact they may not release any Blu-Ray discs, in order to increase demand. In fact they plan to release their $1,000 PS3 Special Edition which will simply consist of a PSTwo (without rumble pack) and a rootkit disc.
Given their grave concern that the PS3 isn't expensive enough, it's a short jump to being concerned that the games don't cost enough either.
So, two games will buy a Wii, one and a half get a DS lite. Apparently Sony has taken the "There is only one PS3" slogan to heart, literally. If they sell one I'll be astounded.
Yeah, just pop the disk in the system and next thing you know it's booting and you can acess your files and the web! No, you won't have to worry about Microsoft shutting it down.
I predominantly watch standard DVD's in much the same configuration and have much the same results . Short of a slight failure of deinterlacing that occurs during sharp pans, the image quality is sharp enough to be close enough to perfect to not require improvement.
The problem is that VRML was based on a weird scenegraph approach with known limitations. I've got a consultant who sends me intricate VRML files witch will not convert and will not display in half the browsers available.
Problem is, the megapublishers and their infrastructure are imploding, much the same way as hollywood. With the blockbuster/IP is everything mentality, the industry is rapidly pricing itself out of the business. After they implode, open source will look very nice.
Terrorists have no use for the DoD's C4ISR (command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveilence, reconisance) capability. Because it generates a huge foot print, is highly sensitive to decapitation attacks, is massively centralized and is extremely dependent upon huge resources. In fact, terrorists love to disrupt just such systems. For example the central command post for disaster response, and the corresponding antennas for New York were located in and on the World Trade Center.
This is the central point of asymetric warfare. Effective insurgencies employ highly decentralized, organic and redundant C3I structures which degrade gracefully under attack. The highly centralized C4ISR structure of Iraq's Regular Army collapsed over a period of days as a result of decapitation attacks, twice. On the other hand the insurgency remains highly effective despite intensive attacks over a period of 3 years. As for intelligence, the insurgency is quite effective as evidenced by the number of ambushes, assasinations and kidnappings sucessfully pulled off. You can't fight termites with a sniper rifle.
To provide another analogy, the bane of Organized Crime is accounting. While the Mafia (which developed from a Sicilian insurgency) is often resillient to conventional procecution over their violent crimes, the need for systematic accounting and banking often proves to be their Achilles heel.
While terrorists and insurgencies can and do exploit high tech is is usually in a fashion quite different in structure of established goverments. Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" for a good example.
It's very simple, he appeared on the cover of Wired.
Push technology, SEGA, Smell-o-Vision over IP, the New Economy, Newt Gingritch, all cratered after appearing on the cover of Wired. It's sort of a Karmic slashdotting effect.
Only if you are using the pixels for pure imaging. Several techniques such as cubic phase mask techniques http://www.cdm-optics.com/site/wf_overview.php use the spare pixels for wavefront sensing allowing tremendous depth of focus with fixed low f/# lenses via postprocesing.
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In Soviet Russia Vista Rootkits ship before Vista
With the recent release of Einstein's private letters indicating that he was a Mack Daddy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/07/11/weins11.xml suggests a new series of gritty urban videogame: the GTR series.
You start as a small time patent clerk named Al working your way up the ladder of Organized Physics. Busting up dice games run by God, setting up a convention for tense-hos, projects that are the Bomb, and so forth.
Or the complete text content of the Library of Congress, coupled with 6 Academic Research Libraries, with the capacity to dump the equivalent of 2 pickup trucks worth of books every second . In a 4U rack. For the price of several cars. Now that's my type of bookshelf system!
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Pirate Dog! ArrWoof!
The solution is better/targeted advertising. Advertising (and moronic network executives) are currently stuck in the same diminishing returns/kill the messenger cycle as the MPAA/RIAA is. Deprived of a captive audience, they freak out trying to further oversaturate the world in ads, which makes people turn off further. But there are three better ways:
a. Make people want to see ads. A good ad will make people stop and rewind their PVR and watch it over. It will make people send it to their friends. Remember, music videos used to be ads.
b. Target your ads and make people ask for them. Google AdSense is good and getting better at this. Arguably, eBays "favorite searches" featue is even better. Every day, eBay sends me new items which match my search terms. I WANT this information and I always read it, and often buy items based on the information, and that is perfect advertising.
c. Integrate feedback. Incorporate honest "Next!" and "Hooray!" buttons in PVRs and on banner spaces. Hit the "Next!" button and the ad disappears replaced by another, Hit "Hooray!" and it's in heaver rotation. The results are sent back to the advertiser. They get invaluable feedback, you get relief from ads you'd zap anyway. Guys get more beer ads, less tampon ads and a virtuous circle is achieved!
Until the East German contingent shows up!
Morale doesn't always track with business sucess directly, although it generally is a leading indicator. For example, when a company hits a rough patch for external reasons, morale can be the thing that pull the company through. In the same fashion lack of morale, even in a company that is doing well, can be devistating due to reduced productivity and rapid turnover.
A very good example of company morale is Southwest Airlines, they have a tangible esprit de corps that positively impacts the operation of the company.
On the other hand look at EA, presently doing well but with horrific employee morale.
Spaceflight is dangerous, but it shouldn't be more dangerous than it has to be. If you found out that the next plane you were scheduled to fly had a documented problem that hadn't been fixed, and the mechanics who brought up the issue had been reassigned. And then a big crack was found on the airframe. Would you announce that "AIR TRAVEL IS DANGEROUS!" and corageously jump on the plane. Hell no, you'd insist that the plane checked out before it flew.
Sony is not only certian you will buy a PS3 if there are no games for it, they are gravely concerned that the PS3 doesn't cost enough. In fact they may not release any Blu-Ray discs, in order to increase demand. In fact they plan to release their $1,000 PS3 Special Edition which will simply consist of a PSTwo (without rumble pack) and a rootkit disc.
Given their grave concern that the PS3 isn't expensive enough, it's a short jump to being concerned that the games don't cost enough either.
So, two games will buy a Wii, one and a half get a DS lite. Apparently Sony has taken the "There is only one PS3" slogan to heart, literally. If they sell one I'll be astounded.
Yeah, just pop the disk in the system and next thing you know it's booting and you can acess your files and the web! No, you won't have to worry about Microsoft shutting it down.
I predominantly watch standard DVD's in much the same configuration and have much the same results . Short of a slight failure of deinterlacing that occurs during sharp pans, the image quality is sharp enough to be close enough to perfect to not require improvement.
The problem is that VRML was based on a weird scenegraph approach with known limitations. I've got a consultant who sends me intricate VRML files witch will not convert and will not display in half the browsers available.
Because the PS3 comes with the rootkit preinstalled. Of course you'll have to pay for the monthly DRM rootkit upgrades.
The game actually forces you to play volleyball before you can get skimpier outfits!
Problem is, the megapublishers and their infrastructure are imploding, much the same way as hollywood. With the blockbuster/IP is everything mentality, the industry is rapidly pricing itself out of the business. After they implode, open source will look very nice.
I had much the same experience at Whitney Young HS in Chicago. Public education when funded and done right is excellent.
If Microsoft forces its employees to run as non-admin users... ...If only we could make stupidity more painful...
I suddenly felt a disturbance in the Force. It was as if thousands of non-admin users cried out at once and then suddenly rebooted...
I always liked the concept of shielding the reactor with lithium deuteride, which when irradiated generates more fuel in the form of lithium tritride.
Terrorists have no use for the DoD's C4ISR (command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveilence, reconisance) capability. Because it generates a huge foot print, is highly sensitive to decapitation attacks, is massively centralized and is extremely dependent upon huge resources. In fact, terrorists love to disrupt just such systems. For example the central command post for disaster response, and the corresponding antennas for New York were located in and on the World Trade Center.
This is the central point of asymetric warfare. Effective insurgencies employ highly decentralized, organic and redundant C3I structures which degrade gracefully under attack. The highly centralized C4ISR structure of Iraq's Regular Army collapsed over a period of days as a result of decapitation attacks, twice. On the other hand the insurgency remains highly effective despite intensive attacks over a period of 3 years. As for intelligence, the insurgency is quite effective as evidenced by the number of ambushes, assasinations and kidnappings sucessfully pulled off. You can't fight termites with a sniper rifle.
To provide another analogy, the bane of Organized Crime is accounting. While the Mafia (which developed from a Sicilian insurgency) is often resillient to conventional procecution over their violent crimes, the need for systematic accounting and banking often proves to be their Achilles heel.
While terrorists and insurgencies can and do exploit high tech is is usually in a fashion quite different in structure of established goverments. Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" for a good example.
Goverments should be afraid of hackers.
As will all future releases by him.
It's very simple, he appeared on the cover of Wired.
Push technology, SEGA, Smell-o-Vision over IP, the New Economy, Newt Gingritch, all cratered after appearing on the cover of Wired. It's sort of a Karmic slashdotting effect.
...no mammary glands.
So much for Spore:Dead or Alive!
But our windows based server went down in flames crippling the office for two days. Fixed everything with Knoppix.
Thank god for reliable, dependable commercial software!
Only if you are using the pixels for pure imaging. Several techniques such as cubic phase mask techniques http://www.cdm-optics.com/site/wf_overview.php use the spare pixels for wavefront sensing allowing tremendous depth of focus with fixed low f/# lenses via postprocesing.