From the press release: "For example, the owner can send an email instruction to AIBO asking it to take an unsuspecting picture of the owner's children and send it back to the mobile telephone."
Spy on your children with AIBO! Seriously, that's pretty creepy. But I suppose the first time a kid gets in trouble because AIBO was snooping around, he'll
1) Stop doing naughty stuff when AIBO is around. 2) Put a towel over AIBO's head. 3) Hack AIBO to send dad a picture of the kids sitting around reading books. 4) Hack AIBO to send a picture of dad in a compromising position to dad's boss. 5) Have a swarm of BattleBugs attack AIBO.
Won't purveyors of such formletters now just use the standard "search engines don't come here" methods? Seems like the NYTimes just made its job a little harder...
You'll note in the article that one thing editors are concerned about is actually _printing_ these form letters. They're not taking polls, they're actually publishing content, and there's something at least vaguely dishonest about sending a "letter to the editor" that you didn't write.
Of course, it may be the case that you have a sense of humor and I don't.
I also can't help thinking that using 360 has greatly improved the math skills of skater & snowboarder dudes the world over.
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That sound sample is the most hilarious thing I've heard all week. It sounds like he crammed my whole high school band into his harpsichord!
Seriously, bravo to the "inventor" for his "accomplishment", but he obviously loves Legos much more than he loves music. Bach's ghost is hunting him down right now...
I know this is offtopic, and I know the poster already got reamed for misunderstanding/not reading the article, but that Marshmallow Man line had me laughing for a whole minute. I don't describe nearly enough of my life in terms of Ghostbusters!
I will be greatly saddened to be modded down for this silly little comment.
Well, first, we're not invading Afghanistan, and we're not a hostile occupying power; we are welcomed their by the current government. There are some reasons to compare the USSR's efforts and our own, but I think you're gravely oversimplifying.
Also, the fact that the CIA backed and provided information and training for Mujahadeen doesn't make the Mujahadeen "ex-CIA operatives". It just makes them "former recipients of US military and intelligence aid that decided to kill US civilians and are now hiding in caves waiting for the bomb with their name on it."
If your sig was really meant to indicate that you're being sarcastic, my apologies.
I agree wholeheartedly. I can't decide whether it's laughable or disturbing that someone would suggest that what we need right now (of all times!) is more foreign nationals involved in the inner workings of our security infrastructure! Citizenship is more than a right to vote: it's also a statement that "you're one of ours", and while many feel that the US should be a sort of perpetual job fair for the rest of the world, I think that, at least for now, US citizenship should only be the first filter you have to pass through to be put in positions of high trust.
too much privacy leads to a lack of motivation, in my experience. While I don't condone the use of Big Brother technologies to track programmer productivity, I find that the knowledge that someone can easily see what's on your computer screen makes us (myself and the programmers I oversee) more likely to stay on task.
That said, it took my five minutes to write this because I had to keep alt-tabbing over to my "real work". Sigh.
What does "too addictive" mean with reference to a computer game? EQ looks pretty lame to me, and people are certainly spending WAY too much time on it, but when does a game's ability to get people to play it a lot become a negative trait?
"I don't remember ANY RPGs that allowed you to really swim"
with the disclaimer that I've never played, nor know anything about, Everquest. That cheesy pointy-eared chick on the box killed my interest, I'm sorry to say.
Recall that BG & BG2 had neither swimming nor climbing, and I don't remember that hurting the gameplay at all. They used a stairway tile to imitate the "feel" of climbing on a flat plane, though I don't know whether that will be possible in NWN. Anyway, I don't remember ANY RPGs that allowed you to really swim. A number of games let you lamely "walk underwater", but I don't think that really adds to the immersive (sorry) element.
If you're disappointed in the engine, I wonder if you've taken the time to really examine how many things ARE possible? I haven't played or heard of any RPG, let alone one that's inherently "moddable", that does anywhere near as many things as NWN!
Anyone can buy a bunch of books, but one of the points of college is that you're being taught by experts, and the hope is that the quality of your education will be far better than if you were an autodidact. Good schools are expected to provide their students with a certain minimum level of education which cannot be assumed if cheating is allowed (or not actively disallowed).
"let the cheaters screw themselves over in the long run"
Enough cheaters will screw over the honest students by association with their schools.
I see how the issues of ownership are troubling, but I don't see why in the post Turnitin is called a "placebo." It actually catches cheaters (my gf is a TA, so I've seen it in action), and because of this acts as a powerful deterrent. If the copyright/ownership/confidentiality issues are resolved, I for one think this kind of service is pretty great.
My personal experience: ever since I changed my default threshold to 2, I see almost none of what you're complaining about. A good 60%-70% of what I read at 3 or above is relevant, meaningful, or at least funny. The moderation system has it flaws, but mostly for individuals who are concerned that they are "justly" rewarded for their contributions; the trolls seem to get slapped down before I even get to the story.
Even if it's "unusable" in that sense, don't you think there's plenty of value in examining the inner workings of Windows? Particularly with regards to security? There's sure to be lots (TONS) of uninteresting/unreadable crap in there, but that's not all there will be.
And I'm reasonably sure someone would cobble together some "stripped down" version of Windows within a year.
I can't speak to application development on.NET, but I can say for web apps that ASP.NET is very fast, particularly in comparison to "interpreted" approaches like ASP 3. The improvements in organization are fantastic as well. Nearly everything we've had to implement an embarrassing hack for on ASP has been replaced by a clean, well-thought out bit of code.
That said, initial compiles of ASP.NET pages are sorta slow, about 5-10 seconds per page on the first run-through, but after that the only bottlenecks seems to be at the DB.
Uh, is this even a response to this topic? Vague language and links to the home pages of science and tech-related sites? What, that's really "+3 informative."
Does this make me a troll? I've never been one yet.
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At first I thought the "dept." was unnecessarily pessimistic, but the name "bubbloy" alone is enough to doom this stuff.
I just couldn't find a moderation option for "stupid".
I don't deserve my moderation points, and I'm comfortable with that.
From the press release: "For example, the owner can send an email instruction to AIBO asking it to take an unsuspecting picture of the
owner's children and send it back to the mobile telephone."
Spy on your children with AIBO! Seriously, that's pretty creepy. But I suppose the first time a kid gets in trouble because AIBO was snooping around, he'll
1) Stop doing naughty stuff when AIBO is around.
2) Put a towel over AIBO's head.
3) Hack AIBO to send dad a picture of the kids sitting around reading books.
4) Hack AIBO to send a picture of dad in a compromising position to dad's boss.
5) Have a swarm of BattleBugs attack AIBO.
This, my friends, is why we're all going to die.
Won't purveyors of such formletters now just use the standard "search engines don't come here" methods? Seems like the NYTimes just made its job a little harder...
You'll note in the article that one thing editors are concerned about is actually _printing_ these form letters. They're not taking polls, they're actually publishing content, and there's something at least vaguely dishonest about sending a "letter to the editor" that you didn't write.
Actually, isn't 360 more useful than 400? Not that I know anything about the origin of "360 degrees", but:
360/2 = 180
360/3 = 120
360/4 = 90
360/5 = 72
360/6 = 60
360/8 = 45
360/9 = 40
whereas
400/3 = 133.3...
400/6 = 66.6...
400/9 = 44.4...
Of course, it may be the case that you have a sense of humor and I don't.
I also can't help thinking that using 360 has greatly improved the math skills of skater & snowboarder dudes the world over.
That sound sample is the most hilarious thing I've heard all week. It sounds like he crammed my whole high school band into his harpsichord!
Seriously, bravo to the "inventor" for his "accomplishment", but he obviously loves Legos much more than he loves music. Bach's ghost is hunting him down right now...
I know this is offtopic, and I know the poster already got reamed for misunderstanding/not reading the article, but that Marshmallow Man line had me laughing for a whole minute. I don't describe nearly enough of my life in terms of Ghostbusters!
I will be greatly saddened to be modded down for this silly little comment.
Well, first, we're not invading Afghanistan, and we're not a hostile occupying power; we are welcomed their by the current government. There are some reasons to compare the USSR's efforts and our own, but I think you're gravely oversimplifying.
Also, the fact that the CIA backed and provided information and training for Mujahadeen doesn't make the Mujahadeen "ex-CIA operatives". It just makes them "former recipients of US military and intelligence aid that decided to kill US civilians and are now hiding in caves waiting for the bomb with their name on it."
If your sig was really meant to indicate that you're being sarcastic, my apologies.
I agree wholeheartedly. I can't decide whether it's laughable or disturbing that someone would suggest that what we need right now (of all times!) is more foreign nationals involved in the inner workings of our security infrastructure! Citizenship is more than a right to vote: it's also a statement that "you're one of ours", and while many feel that the US should be a sort of perpetual job fair for the rest of the world, I think that, at least for now, US citizenship should only be the first filter you have to pass through to be put in positions of high trust.
too much privacy leads to a lack of motivation, in my experience. While I don't condone the use of Big Brother technologies to track programmer productivity, I find that the knowledge that someone can easily see what's on your computer screen makes us (myself and the programmers I oversee) more likely to stay on task.
That said, it took my five minutes to write this because I had to keep alt-tabbing over to my "real work". Sigh.
What does "too addictive" mean with reference to a computer game? EQ looks pretty lame to me, and people are certainly spending WAY too much time on it, but when does a game's ability to get people to play it a lot become a negative trait?
I should qualify this:
"I don't remember ANY RPGs that allowed you to really swim"
with the disclaimer that I've never played, nor know anything about, Everquest. That cheesy pointy-eared chick on the box killed my interest, I'm sorry to say.
Recall that BG & BG2 had neither swimming nor climbing, and I don't remember that hurting the gameplay at all. They used a stairway tile to imitate the "feel" of climbing on a flat plane, though I don't know whether that will be possible in NWN. Anyway, I don't remember ANY RPGs that allowed you to really swim. A number of games let you lamely "walk underwater", but I don't think that really adds to the immersive (sorry) element.
If you're disappointed in the engine, I wonder if you've taken the time to really examine how many things ARE possible? I haven't played or heard of any RPG, let alone one that's inherently "moddable", that does anywhere near as many things as NWN!
Anyone can buy a bunch of books, but one of the points of college is that you're being taught by experts, and the hope is that the quality of your education will be far better than if you were an autodidact. Good schools are expected to provide their students with a certain minimum level of education which cannot be assumed if cheating is allowed (or not actively disallowed).
"let the cheaters screw themselves over in the long run"
Enough cheaters will screw over the honest students by association with their schools.
I see how the issues of ownership are troubling, but I don't see why in the post Turnitin is called a "placebo." It actually catches cheaters (my gf is a TA, so I've seen it in action), and because of this acts as a powerful deterrent. If the copyright/ownership/confidentiality issues are resolved, I for one think this kind of service is pretty great.
My personal experience: ever since I changed my default threshold to 2, I see almost none of what you're complaining about. A good 60%-70% of what I read at 3 or above is relevant, meaningful, or at least funny. The moderation system has it flaws, but mostly for individuals who are concerned that they are "justly" rewarded for their contributions; the trolls seem to get slapped down before I even get to the story.
Even if it's "unusable" in that sense, don't you think there's plenty of value in examining the inner workings of Windows? Particularly with regards to security? There's sure to be lots (TONS) of uninteresting/unreadable crap in there, but that's not all there will be.
And I'm reasonably sure someone would cobble together some "stripped down" version of Windows within a year.
How long do you think before we can download a leaked copy on Morpheus?
MS has responded with unprecedented speed!
n /MS02-006.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulleti
Well, there's not patch yet, but at least they have a bulletin.
I can't speak to application development on .NET, but I can say for web apps that ASP.NET is very fast, particularly in comparison to "interpreted" approaches like ASP 3. The improvements in organization are fantastic as well. Nearly everything we've had to implement an embarrassing hack for on ASP has been replaced by a clean, well-thought out bit of code.
That said, initial compiles of ASP.NET pages are sorta slow, about 5-10 seconds per page on the first run-through, but after that the only bottlenecks seems to be at the DB.
Uh, is this even a response to this topic? Vague language and links to the home pages of science and tech-related sites? What, that's really "+3 informative."
Does this make me a troll? I've never been one yet.
I couldn't think of any use I'd have for 3G until you wrote that. Thanks!