I woked at a company a few years ago that was a newly minted "Microsoft Partner". Microsoft came in one day and we all had a big meeting. The rep told us, point blank, that they were developing the same software as us, but were a little behind. The deal was this: We'll liscense them all our software at a n unfathomably great rate, they'll promote our company for two years to thier other partners, and then they'll release thier own version of the software at that point, having built in all the improvements that they can from examining our software, and undercut us.
If we don't agree to the terms, they'll release thier software now and compete with us directly withotu the two-year gap.
So basically, that was life as a Microsoft Partner.
I put the blame partly on managers in charge of the project
Indeed, that is exactly where the blame should ALWAYS go. That is the JOB of managers. The managers are there to manage. It doesn't matter if thier workers are retarded monkies or supergeniouses that can bend spoons with nothing but thier will. If the project doesn't get done on time, if it fails in the least way, the blame *should always* fall squarely on the shoulders of the manager.
If it isn't then there is something terribly wrong. It's the managers job to see that projects get done, and if they aren't doing that then they aren't managing. They are just taking a salary for nothing.
GOD MODE: "roll" dice by placing them down carefully on the number you want
KILL ALL MONSTERS: Place your hand firmly on your playing pice. With the other hand grasp the playing board with your other hand and shake vigorously.
UNLIMITED AMMO: Point behind the other players and say in a loud voice, "Hey, what the heck is THAT over there!?!?!" When other player look away to see what you are looking at, grab all unused game tokens.
CHANGE LEVELS: With a broad sweep of your arm, clean the board. Then set up again in the configuration of the level you want to play.
EASTER EGGS: IDDQD, many easter eggs will become hidden in your house. (This only works on Easter morning)
They've already come out with a see-through-walls hack too, in fact, it looks like it's pre-built into the game...
well, there is the claim they may in fact remember nothing, but I know too well this is just propaganda...
Just out of curiosity, who is claiming this? Ican prove pretty well that my cat can remember something traumatic that happened only once even months later (she got a surpise shower while playing with the knobs in the bathroom, and now freaks out if you bring her anywhere near the knobs).
It seems as though, if you are capable of creating wormholes at a whim, then you could just "fix" your current universe. Simply set up huge wormhole "reflectors". (i.e. the EXIT is a few parsecsright in FRONT of the ENTRACE.). Matter will be traveling away from the "center" of the universe at the speed of expansion and whop, it's turned around heading TOWARDS the "center" of the universe at the same speed.
The expansion of the univere continues accelerating, of course... If you set up the wormholes properly, you'd eventually just be blinking back and forth from them, but safe from the expansion.
(FYI, wormholes violate thermodynamics. If you can warm space then you could put a worm hole at the bottom of a gravity well that has an exit at the top. Perpertual motion...)
Right after 9/11 I was traveling quite often due to my home and job beign in different contries. I tended to take cheap, one way flights so that meant I was at the top of the "terrorist" list. As I usually had multiple stops I got multiple searchings, 14 in all over the course of 3 months.
Now the good part... I make my own habenero hot sauce, which is, frankly, too hot to even talk about in any detail without causing burns on the tounge... So I keep that little red bottle in a special biohazard container that a friend who works at hospital got for me. It's neat, lots of "DANGER" and "BIOHAZARD" logos with little biohazard flowers sencled all over.
I brought this with me on ever flight.
Every security person looked at it, they all saw it, but it wasn't an issue for them, didn't even raise an eyebrow... A small aluminum star chart (credit-card sized), however made for a HUGE fuss...
You make a good point. One could also argue that, if we lived a very long time people may stop looking at things so short term. Creating project X may take 80 years but we would all get to see it. Pollution and energy concerns would be taken seriously as they would indeed happen in our lifetime.
Crime, too, would vanish utterly... With 1000+ years to go, "life" in prision has an entirely different meaning... and also with 100+ years, you don't feel the "need" to get stuff right away. So what if you are poor and homeless for 30 years, you'll recover after that and still have centuries to go...
With the budget that Star Tek has, they SHOULDbe able to pull off some really spectacular episodes... but they don't and you can place the blame squarely on the writing.
I began watching the Andromeda series (downloaded from BitTorrent, I don't even know if it's still on, and if so what channel) recently... A budget of less than $100 by the looks of the sets and special effects, actors that were obviously kicked out of the porn industry because they couldn't measure up to the high acting standards required by Anal Asian Road Trip #18 (Imean Kevin Sorbo is the LEAD role in a Sci Fi show!), but with stories that are usually so good that you end up thinking the show is absolutly AWESOME.
The stories that they come up with are incredible. They can be funny, thought provoking, twisted in the most incredible ways but usually just realy solid entertainment.
If you've never seen the show, go watch the first season and see if you don't agree. And ask yourself why Star Trek hasn't come up with an episode yet that can match them.
why exactly do you think we evolved in such a way that sex is pleasurable? there is a reason for it you know. Imagine a few homosexual cavemen how do you think they would have reproduced? all they know is that they want to mate with others of the same sex. The wouldnt know that they need to mate with the opposite sex to reproduce. Not being programmed to mate properly is a severe weakness that really nullifies all other strenghts since you dont know how to pass your genes to another generation. I believe this is the reason why nothing like homosexaulity exists in other animals.
Actually, let me toss a little anthropology your way: Imagine you live on an island that can comfortable fit 100 people. So you start out with 50 men and 50 women.
Generation two comes around next year and now you have 100 adults and 50 kids... Oops, that island is feeling a little cramped.
Generation three comes around a little later, once the kids grow up. Now you potentially have 75 new people on top of generation 1 + 2. So 100 + 50 + 75... 225 people on an island that can only hold 100 comfortably.
Eventually people will begin to starve, resources will be used up in such a way they that *can't* come back (like Easter Island), and your population, as a whole, will die out in just a couple generations.
Now, let's say you have a recessive homo gene in your mix of people such that every other person is gay and can't reproduce. Now instead of having a population explosion that will nuke your population, you'll have a very stable population that never grows too big and never completely collapses.
As a group, you will survive, thus the homo gene actually makes you STRONGER, not in spite of but BECAUSE they can't reproduce.
The odds are still not good! The chances of someone winning the lottery is like 1 in a few million/billion! Yet there's almost always a winner! OMG WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!
So you mean one of our 56 millions earths will get demolished!?
Nobody is paying for my $1 billion a month horoscopes because of those damn free horoscopes in the papers! They are *costing* me billions! Whine, cry, boo-hoo.
If I remember the movie correctly, I think the blue screen of death has an entirely new meaning when using this case... I suspect upgrading to the newest specs may literally cost an arm and a leg. Possibly an eye as well.
Why NASA? Why not find some schlep on his ISP who wasn't running a firewall, had lots of space, and store the data there? A Joe-Clueless-User would have been far less able to determine who was storing data on his system than NASA.
You just have absolutely NO concept of what kind of wide-open whores the servers are at NASA. It's really quite shocking. It's difficult to even port-scan them without accedentally taking over thier entire network.
If someone drugged you, raped you, took pictures of the rape, do they automatically have the right to put distribute those photos on the Internet? What about your rights?
You misunderstand the point of freenet...
If a the governerorof a state/head of media organization/incredibly rich whoever drugged you, raped you and took pictures, and he had everyon on his payroll, and there was NO WAY to post your story without it getting it instantly pulled, changed, sued, etc... Then where can you go to tell yoru story? Freenet will let you tell your story, good or bad.
If you want truly free speech, you must take the good with the bad.
Instead of just letting your kids play counter-strike, make them have to jump through hoops, crack firewall passwords, decrypt.shadow password files, make it a challenge. That way when they are done they've learned a valuable skill. And the aiming and shooting skills the aquire at CS will helpt them deal withe consequences of thier new skill as well.
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"funny" posts here. I've already seen some that I would consider cruel and heartless.
Having a disability is not a funny thing.
Believe me...
Humor impairment... tragic disability.
I'm assuming the postere typed their own question.
It's ironic that the guy who can't type at all has better typing skills than the guy who can.
I woked at a company a few years ago that was a newly minted "Microsoft Partner". Microsoft came in one day and we all had a big meeting. The rep told us, point blank, that they were developing the same software as us, but were a little behind. The deal was this: We'll liscense them all our software at a n unfathomably great rate, they'll promote our company for two years to thier other partners, and then they'll release thier own version of the software at that point, having built in all the improvements that they can from examining our software, and undercut us.
If we don't agree to the terms, they'll release thier software now and compete with us directly withotu the two-year gap.
So basically, that was life as a Microsoft Partner.
Sure, don't invite me... FighterFax, my own personal fork, will be ready on thursday. :)
I put the blame partly on managers in charge of the project
Indeed, that is exactly where the blame should ALWAYS go. That is the JOB of managers. The managers are there to manage. It doesn't matter if thier workers are retarded monkies or supergeniouses that can bend spoons with nothing but thier will. If the project doesn't get done on time, if it fails in the least way, the blame *should always* fall squarely on the shoulders of the manager.
If it isn't then there is something terribly wrong. It's the managers job to see that projects get done, and if they aren't doing that then they aren't managing. They are just taking a salary for nothing.
Can someone tell me how I can roll "IDDQD"?
Get some glue and a note-card and stick the new letters on the outside of the dice. You win!
Cheat codes:
GOD MODE: "roll" dice by placing them down carefully on the number you want
KILL ALL MONSTERS: Place your hand firmly on your playing pice. With the other hand grasp the playing board with your other hand and shake vigorously.
UNLIMITED AMMO: Point behind the other players and say in a loud voice, "Hey, what the heck is THAT over there!?!?!" When other player look away to see what you are looking at, grab all unused game tokens.
CHANGE LEVELS: With a broad sweep of your arm, clean the board. Then set up again in the configuration of the level you want to play.
EASTER EGGS: IDDQD, many easter eggs will become hidden in your house. (This only works on Easter morning)
They've already come out with a see-through-walls hack too, in fact, it looks like it's pre-built into the game...
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234
Now I just need your login name.
well, there is the claim they may in fact remember nothing, but I know too well this is just propaganda...
Just out of curiosity, who is claiming this? Ican prove pretty well that my cat can remember something traumatic that happened only once even months later (she got a surpise shower while playing with the knobs in the bathroom, and now freaks out if you bring her anywhere near the knobs).
That's what I'm growing now.
It seems as though, if you are capable of creating wormholes at a whim, then you could just "fix" your current universe. Simply set up huge wormhole "reflectors". (i.e. the EXIT is a few parsecsright in FRONT of the ENTRACE.). Matter will be traveling away from the "center" of the universe at the speed of expansion and whop, it's turned around heading TOWARDS the "center" of the universe at the same speed.
like this (if my ascii art skills are up for it):
(universe) exit<-| start->|entrance
^___________^
wormhole
----------expansion---------->
The expansion of the univere continues accelerating, of course... If you set up the wormholes properly, you'd eventually just be blinking back and forth from them, but safe from the expansion.
(FYI, wormholes violate thermodynamics. If you can warm space then you could put a worm hole at the bottom of a gravity well that has an exit at the top. Perpertual motion...)
Right after 9/11 I was traveling quite often due to my home and job beign in different contries. I tended to take cheap, one way flights so that meant I was at the top of the "terrorist" list. As I usually had multiple stops I got multiple searchings, 14 in all over the course of 3 months.
Now the good part... I make my own habenero hot sauce, which is, frankly, too hot to even talk about in any detail without causing burns on the tounge... So I keep that little red bottle in a special biohazard container that a friend who works at hospital got for me. It's neat, lots of "DANGER" and "BIOHAZARD" logos with little biohazard flowers sencled all over.
I brought this with me on ever flight.
Every security person looked at it, they all saw it, but it wasn't an issue for them, didn't even raise an eyebrow... A small aluminum star chart (credit-card sized), however made for a HUGE fuss...
You make a good point. One could also argue that, if we lived a very long time people may stop looking at things so short term. Creating project X may take 80 years but we would all get to see it. Pollution and energy concerns would be taken seriously as they would indeed happen in our lifetime.
Crime, too, would vanish utterly... With 1000+ years to go, "life" in prision has an entirely different meaning... and also with 100+ years, you don't feel the "need" to get stuff right away. So what if you are poor and homeless for 30 years, you'll recover after that and still have centuries to go...
If you think that's bad now, think about if being rich automatically means you get several generations to amass a fortune
And lose it. Name me one family (discounting royals who have state-sanctioned wealth) that have kept thier wealth past 1000 years?
With the budget that Star Tek has, they SHOULDbe able to pull off some really spectacular episodes... but they don't and you can place the blame squarely on the writing.
I began watching the Andromeda series (downloaded from BitTorrent, I don't even know if it's still on, and if so what channel) recently... A budget of less than $100 by the looks of the sets and special effects, actors that were obviously kicked out of the porn industry because they couldn't measure up to the high acting standards required by Anal Asian Road Trip #18 (Imean Kevin Sorbo is the LEAD role in a Sci Fi show!), but with stories that are usually so good that you end up thinking the show is absolutly AWESOME.
The stories that they come up with are incredible. They can be funny, thought provoking, twisted in the most incredible ways but usually just realy solid entertainment.
If you've never seen the show, go watch the first season and see if you don't agree. And ask yourself why Star Trek hasn't come up with an episode yet that can match them.
why exactly do you think we evolved in such a way that sex is pleasurable? there is a reason for it you know. Imagine a few homosexual cavemen how do you think they would have reproduced? all they know is that they want to mate with others of the same sex. The wouldnt know that they need to mate with the opposite sex to reproduce. Not being programmed to mate properly is a severe weakness that really nullifies all other strenghts since you dont know how to pass your genes to another generation. I believe this is the reason why nothing like homosexaulity exists in other animals.
Actually, let me toss a little anthropology your way: Imagine you live on an island that can comfortable fit 100 people. So you start out with 50 men and 50 women.
Generation two comes around next year and now you have 100 adults and 50 kids... Oops, that island is feeling a little cramped.
Generation three comes around a little later, once the kids grow up. Now you potentially have 75 new people on top of generation 1 + 2. So 100 + 50 + 75... 225 people on an island that can only hold 100 comfortably.
Eventually people will begin to starve, resources will be used up in such a way they that *can't* come back (like Easter Island), and your population, as a whole, will die out in just a couple generations.
Now, let's say you have a recessive homo gene in your mix of people such that every other person is gay and can't reproduce. Now instead of having a population explosion that will nuke your population, you'll have a very stable population that never grows too big and never completely collapses.
As a group, you will survive, thus the homo gene actually makes you STRONGER, not in spite of but BECAUSE they can't reproduce.
The odds are still not good! The chances of someone winning the lottery is like 1 in a few million/billion! Yet there's almost always a winner! OMG WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!
So you mean one of our 56 millions earths will get demolished!?
Whatever happened to the American analysts and news companies?
So how long you been living abroad then? Must have been gone for quite a while, huh?
Every American who doesn't give me a dollar right now is costing me the dollar that I'd have if only they'd given it to me.
Hell yes! I'll even join in on your class action lawsuit for 125 million sex partners I don't have.
Nobody is paying for my $1 billion a month horoscopes because of those damn free horoscopes in the papers! They are *costing* me billions! Whine, cry, boo-hoo.
If I remember the movie correctly, I think the blue screen of death has an entirely new meaning when using this case... I suspect upgrading to the newest specs may literally cost an arm and a leg. Possibly an eye as well.
Why NASA? Why not find some schlep on his ISP who wasn't running a firewall, had lots of space, and store the data there? A Joe-Clueless-User would have been far less able to determine who was storing data on his system than NASA.
You just have absolutely NO concept of what kind of wide-open whores the servers are at NASA. It's really quite shocking. It's difficult to even port-scan them without accedentally taking over thier entire network.
What is required is some kind of hybrid between bit torrent and Freenet.
Something like this?
If someone drugged you, raped you, took pictures of the rape, do they automatically have the right to put distribute those photos on the Internet? What about your rights?
You misunderstand the point of freenet...
If a the governerorof a state/head of media organization/incredibly rich whoever drugged you, raped you and took pictures, and he had everyon on his payroll, and there was NO WAY to post your story without it getting it instantly pulled, changed, sued, etc... Then where can you go to tell yoru story? Freenet will let you tell your story, good or bad.
If you want truly free speech, you must take the good with the bad.
Instead of just letting your kids play counter-strike, make them have to jump through hoops, crack firewall passwords, decrypt .shadow password files, make it a challenge. That way when they are done they've learned a valuable skill. And the aiming and shooting skills the aquire at CS will helpt them deal withe consequences of thier new skill as well.