It's going to take a *LOT* longer then you anticipated.
It's going to cost a *LOT* more then you calculated.
If half of the complete construction goes according to the original plan you have done a great job.
You have less friends then you thought you had.
You overestimated your own skills and knowledge. Not even a little bit, a lot.
If you have the guts, stamina, willpower and cash to complete it. It most likely will be one of the most fulfilling you will ever do in your live.
Building your own house from scratch is not for the fainthearted. But if you succeed you will have done something most people dream of their entire life.
Don't marry someone who can't handle the fact that you had multiple relationships before her. There usualy is a reason why someone is a "ex".
Hell, some of my ex-es have become very close friends (no pun intended) after the relationship ended. Even been best man? (witness?) when one of my ex gf's married the guy she *did* want to spend the rest of her life with.
Publicity is one reason for less formal communication ala twitter while you're on such a mission. However, I think it's not the most important reason.
If you're sending humans on their way into nothingness for 500 days with a very reasonable chance of not surviving it I guess you would want to make it as comfortable as possible for the crew.
Anything that helps to keep them mentally stable and healthy is a priority I reckon. (yah, I know. Twitter and mentally stable in the same sentence is odd.. )
...so are people really dumb enough to go "oh right, my bank's webpage" without realizing they didn't bring it up themselves?
Short answer, yes! Long answer, yes!
It's not even about being stupid or being dumb but the majority of people is simply clueless. It's their computer and that's safe by definition. They can't imagine that anything they see in their browser (or other program) they started up themselves could be malicious.
They had to be taught to not click on links in their mail and you expect that very same group to know that a website can be evil too, even if it looks exactly, pixelperfect, the same as the website they usualy visit. Not going to happen.
There are 2 kinds of people on this world, those who are stupid and/or gullible and those who take advantage of that
I'm not sure what your definition of "easy" is of course. But pressing the winkey, start typing a name or command and pressing enter to launch about anything you can think of in Win7 is "easy" in my book.
Yes there are shitloads of configuration options but for most users Win7 is ready to go right out of the box. They've done a really good job with that.
Absolutely. I have a messed up biological clock. Forgot the proper medical term for it but basically my day/night rhythm isn't a typical 24 hour cycle like most people have but slightly longer. My body likes to think there are 26 hours in a day so to speak.
I've had this since childhood and a good sleeping pattern always has been some kind of personal hell since I still have to live my life in 24 hr cycles whether i'm made for it or not. Society simply demands it;)
A year or two I got some tests again and one of the docs. advised me to not watch tv or sit behind a computer screen 3 hours prior to sleeping. I have to say it's a definite improvement, a pretty big one actually. I fall asleep faster and sleep deeper/better.
Of course, I can't hold myself to it everyday but it's defenatly something I try to approach. As less comps/tv's before sleep. It simply helps.
Have to admit.... yes;-) There is always that little spark of hope whispering....
"this time it's for real! There were several very credible witnesses. Among them a professional camera crew that for once was capable of making steady and focused shots. Some other witnesses are blessed with a photographic memory and have consistent accounts of what happened and can describe it in detail. And that bright journalist among them had the presence of mind to try communicating on a basic level"
But meh.. hope is what keeps you going isn't it?:)
Linux is simply not realistic in a regular office environment.
I work at a non tech company with a lot of average Jane's and Joe's. We are talking about people who reboot their machine if tech-support tells them to restart a certain program. We are talking about people who don't know the difference between a url and a email adress. Cut/copy and paste is witchcraft. These people are good at what they do as long as the tools they have to work with just work.
If shit hits the fan they are lost. If after a update button X is moved to another menu or simply 100 pixels to the right hell breaks loose. Now imagine what would happen if their "computer" doesn't look like the "computer" they are used to seeing at home and everywhere else. Production wouldn't slow down, it would do a full emergency stop, handbrake with smoking and screaming tires...
And this is what a lot of nerds like "us" tend to forget a lot of the time. There are vast amounts of people out there who don't get computers, os-es and software. It's a tool and it should work, period. They don't care how it works, even if they did they wouldn't understand it because they have no feeling for it.
don't think it's just that we can't "think out of the physics box". I'm saying that it is extremely unlikely that anything lies outside of that "physics box" that we'd (or any other civilization) find useful for interstellar space travel.
100 years ago we knew about the atom but no scientist at that time that could even begin to phantom the of power and energy it can generate. We knew about it, we saw it but it took a fairly long time before we discovered what we really could do with it.
It's not so hard to imagine that a hundred years from now we have discovered new properties and uses for things we already know about now.
So? Even if they did capture that "famous" first broadcast and figured out how to read the signal and decode it to images all they would see is some alien lifeform that apparently is communicating with a large group of the same species. Nothing more. They don't know who he is, what he is communicating and what he is about to do in the next 6 years.
Lets fast forward a bit to the first hugely televised active war.. Vietnam. If they capture those images and decode them they will get a very different picture of us wouldn't you say? Americans are the first group of humans that send clear pictures of the ugly side of the human race into space, not the Nazi's..
The question is, what are the effects that people who play these kinds of games are hoping for?
No, the first question is who buys these kind of games. My guess is that it's the same kind of people that buy stuff via tell-sell or something similar on tv. "That vacuumcleaner is going to change my whole life, there never has been a device that will benefit me as much as this one.. MUST HAVE!"
Seriously, if you think you need game to train your brain I kinda doubt there is something that can be trained in the first place.
If your phone is jailbroken you can replace your hostsfile with your own. There are several hostsfiles available that are targeted at blocking ad / malware sites. ( http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm for example )
That way it's not only your browser that won't recieve any ads but every application on the device will be ad free as well. Saves you bandwith and anoyance:)
I want to build iPhone applications, but I can't because I don't own a Mac. I must go spend $1200 (roughly) to buy a Mac before I can develop an application for the iPhone. That is not fair for a small developer
That's called investing. Or are you currently developing on a machine that in some magical way was totally free (as in beer)?
I bet you don't. You coughed up a few hundred bucks at least for some hardware and then you needed a OS and development tools. If you're not running a *nix/*lux variant chances are you had to pay for those as well. Same thing, spend cash to earn cash.
It's not fair for my place of employment since I work for a state agency and we are mandated by state to purchase all computers from a specific vendor. Because of this, we can not develop an iPhone app
You're blaming Apple for the fact that your employer refuses (or is not allowed) to buy from Apple.. You have a strange way of thinking I must say.
Company A doesn't want to use technology developed by company B. Good luck with that.
Granted, Apple is quite aggressive and loud when it comes to Flash but that is still no reason to sue them for not using it. Their device, their technology.
Also, where are the custom maps? What was ridiculously boring about other CoDs was the lack of wide use of custom maps. Unreal Tournament, full of custom maps, anyone remember the giant maps... of like an office... chair was 100 feet tall? Man, those were the best
Oh yeah, I remember those.. specificaly the office map because I hated it;)
But the lack of custom maps in games these days can't really be blamed on the developer. Up to UT2004 and CoD III(?) it was relatively easy for anyone with slightly above average knowledge about the game and 3d design to make a decent custom map in a reasonable amount of time.
If you look at the latest UT and CoD however.. map making isn't for the amateur/hobby type of modder anymore. It became far to complex for your average amateur mapmaker to just sit down and whip up something for fun. You need a huge ammount of time and knowledge/experience to come up with something that is slightly on par with the game.
The demand for realism, more pixels and more advanced ai killed the custom maps and mods, not the developer but the gamer himself.
In theory you can you use gmail to store as much data as you could ever want. The only limit is google's own limit on storage space they allocated for the gmail service as a whole(which comes close to infinite I reckon).
There are several programs that interact with gmail as if it were a local folder for backup purposes. The programs split your data into sizes gmail accepts (zip, rar or something similar) and up/downloads them to/from your gmail account just as easy as any other off site backup service.
I'm sure that it won't be to hard to configure a existing, or create a program yourself that divides the data over several gmail accounts. From there on it's just a matter how much gmail accounts you'd own.. If you have enough of em TB's of data stored at gmail is no problem at all.
Nope, ice repairs are done during the breaks when the ice gets shaved of across the entire track....
The two minutes breaks between each and every run are purely for the $. Apparently in some countries (I'm looking at you USA) they have small commercials between each run.
Gah, the whole Olympic speed-skating competition is a giant fail already..
Very poor ice conditions, very high humidity in the stadium, ice that is cleaned/groomed only once a hour (wtf!) during contests, contests that have to be delayed because of machines breaking down, a 2 minute break between each next match.... puhlease....
I expected a whole lot more from the Canadians when it comes to ice-skating to be honest....
Why spend thousands upon thousands of dollars developing services hoping that it will be picked up by the crowd while you can make money and have acces to every packet sent....
The idea that apple is trying it's hardest to keep quality developers away from the iphone os platform?
With such ridiculous and arbitrary rules I'm willing to bet there are a lot of serious companies and/or developers that would like to develop for the iphone but are afraid to invest the time and money because of the insane approval process.
I'm willing to bet that if apple would make the approval rules a lot more transparent and less strict we would see much more quality apps being developed.
Has anyone considered the historical evidence of what happens when superior civilizations encounter lesser ones? Has anyone considered the historical evidence of what happens when human civilizations who feel superior encounter ones they consider lesser? The Native Americans, the Mayans, the Incas, the Australian Aborigines, the tribes of South America, the natives of Pacific Islands, to name a few, all cry out to humanity to avoid at all costs encounters of the first, second, and third kinds. We are so ignorant and arrogant that we expect other civilizations to think and act exactly like us (which led to the above in the first place) so they must be truculent and violent like we are, and they will destroy us as a service to the rest of the galaxy because that is what we would do. Let's just hope aliens don't find, or if they do, avoid us.
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Building your own house from scratch is not for the fainthearted. But if you succeed you will have done something most people dream of their entire life.
Or better yet,
Don't marry someone who can't handle the fact that you had multiple relationships before her. There usualy is a reason why someone is a "ex".
Hell, some of my ex-es have become very close friends (no pun intended) after the relationship ended. Even been best man? (witness?) when one of my ex gf's married the guy she *did* want to spend the rest of her life with.
Publicity is one reason for less formal communication ala twitter while you're on such a mission.
However, I think it's not the most important reason.
If you're sending humans on their way into nothingness for 500 days with a very reasonable chance of not surviving it I guess you would want to make it as comfortable as possible for the crew.
Anything that helps to keep them mentally stable and healthy is a priority I reckon. (yah, I know. Twitter and mentally stable in the same sentence is odd.. )
...so are people really dumb enough to go "oh right, my bank's webpage" without realizing they didn't bring it up themselves?
Short answer, yes! Long answer, yes!
It's not even about being stupid or being dumb but the majority of people is simply clueless. It's their computer and that's safe by definition. They can't imagine that anything they see in their browser (or other program) they started up themselves could be malicious.
They had to be taught to not click on links in their mail and you expect that very same group to know that a website can be evil too, even if it looks exactly, pixelperfect, the same as the website they usualy visit.
Not going to happen.
There are 2 kinds of people on this world, those who are stupid and/or gullible and those who take advantage of that
I'm not sure what your definition of "easy" is of course.
But pressing the winkey, start typing a name or command and pressing enter to launch about anything you can think of in Win7 is "easy" in my book.
Yes there are shitloads of configuration options but for most users Win7 is ready to go right out of the box. They've done a really good job with that.
Absolutely. I have a messed up biological clock. Forgot the proper medical term for it but basically my day/night rhythm isn't a typical 24 hour cycle like most people have but slightly longer. My body likes to think there are 26 hours in a day so to speak.
I've had this since childhood and a good sleeping pattern always has been some kind of personal hell since I still have to live my life in 24 hr cycles whether i'm made for it or not. Society simply demands it ;)
A year or two I got some tests again and one of the docs. advised me to not watch tv or sit behind a computer screen 3 hours prior to sleeping. I have to say it's a definite improvement, a pretty big one actually. I fall asleep faster and sleep deeper/better.
Of course, I can't hold myself to it everyday but it's defenatly something I try to approach. As less comps/tv's before sleep. It simply helps.
What could possibly go wrong?
Using your own device in whatever manner you wish is your right!
Nobody is denying that. No one can and will stop you from writing your own flashcompiler and run it on your iphone.
Have to admit.... yes ;-)
There is always that little spark of hope whispering....
"this time it's for real! There were several very credible witnesses. Among them a professional camera crew that for once was capable of making steady and focused shots. Some other witnesses are blessed with a photographic memory and have consistent accounts of what happened and can describe it in detail. And that bright journalist among them had the presence of mind to try communicating on a basic level"
But meh.. hope is what keeps you going isn't it? :)
Please, for the love of God....
Can we at least try to leave some portions of this planet relatively intact?
Humans have cannibalized this planet enough as it is already.
Linux is simply not realistic in a regular office environment.
I work at a non tech company with a lot of average Jane's and Joe's.
We are talking about people who reboot their machine if tech-support tells them to restart a certain program. We are talking about people who don't know the difference between a url and a email adress. Cut/copy and paste is witchcraft. These people are good at what they do as long as the tools they have to work with just work.
If shit hits the fan they are lost. If after a update button X is moved to another menu or simply 100 pixels to the right hell breaks loose.
Now imagine what would happen if their "computer" doesn't look like the "computer" they are used to seeing at home and everywhere else. Production wouldn't slow down, it would do a full emergency stop, handbrake with smoking and screaming tires...
And this is what a lot of nerds like "us" tend to forget a lot of the time.
There are vast amounts of people out there who don't get computers, os-es and software. It's a tool and it should work, period. They don't care how it works, even if they did they wouldn't understand it because they have no feeling for it.
don't think it's just that we can't "think out of the physics box". I'm saying that it is extremely unlikely that anything lies outside of that "physics box" that we'd (or any other civilization) find useful for interstellar space travel.
100 years ago we knew about the atom but no scientist at that time that could even begin to phantom the of power and energy it can generate.
We knew about it, we saw it but it took a fairly long time before we discovered what we really could do with it.
It's not so hard to imagine that a hundred years from now we have discovered new properties and uses for things we already know about now.
So? Even if they did capture that "famous" first broadcast and figured out how to read the signal and decode it to images all they would see is some alien lifeform that apparently is communicating with a large group of the same species.
Nothing more. They don't know who he is, what he is communicating and what he is about to do in the next 6 years.
Lets fast forward a bit to the first hugely televised active war.. Vietnam. If they capture those images and decode them they will get a very different picture of us wouldn't you say? Americans are the first group of humans that send clear pictures of the ugly side of the human race into space, not the Nazi's..
The question is, what are the effects that people who play these kinds of games are hoping for?
No, the first question is who buys these kind of games.
My guess is that it's the same kind of people that buy stuff via tell-sell or something similar on tv. "That vacuumcleaner is going to change my whole life, there never has been a device that will benefit me as much as this one.. MUST HAVE!"
Seriously, if you think you need game to train your brain I kinda doubt there is something that can be trained in the first place.
Excellent point.
Instead of spending money on research, science and exploration spend it on war. Much better fatality rate.
If your phone is jailbroken you can replace your hostsfile with your own. There are several hostsfiles available that are targeted at blocking ad / malware sites. ( http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm for example )
That way it's not only your browser that won't recieve any ads but every application on the device will be ad free as well. Saves you bandwith and anoyance :)
I want to build iPhone applications, but I can't because I don't own a Mac. I must go spend $1200 (roughly) to buy a Mac before I can develop an application for the iPhone. That is not fair for a small developer
That's called investing.
Or are you currently developing on a machine that in some magical way was totally free (as in beer)?
I bet you don't. You coughed up a few hundred bucks at least for some hardware and then you needed a OS and development tools. If you're not running a *nix/*lux variant chances are you had to pay for those as well. Same thing, spend cash to earn cash.
It's not fair for my place of employment since I work for a state agency and we are mandated by state to purchase all computers from a specific vendor. Because of this, we can not develop an iPhone app
You're blaming Apple for the fact that your employer refuses (or is not allowed) to buy from Apple.. You have a strange way of thinking I must say.
Adobe is going to sue for what?
Company A doesn't want to use technology developed by company B. Good luck with that.
Granted, Apple is quite aggressive and loud when it comes to Flash but that is still no reason to sue them for not using it. Their device, their technology.
Also, where are the custom maps? What was ridiculously boring about other CoDs was the lack of wide use of custom maps. Unreal Tournament, full of custom maps, anyone remember the giant maps... of like an office... chair was 100 feet tall? Man, those were the best
Oh yeah, I remember those.. specificaly the office map because I hated it ;)
But the lack of custom maps in games these days can't really be blamed on the developer.
Up to UT2004 and CoD III(?) it was relatively easy for anyone with slightly above average knowledge about the game and 3d design to make a decent custom map in a reasonable amount of time.
If you look at the latest UT and CoD however.. map making isn't for the amateur/hobby type of modder anymore. It became far to complex for your average amateur mapmaker to just sit down and whip up something for fun. You need a huge ammount of time and knowledge/experience to come up with something that is slightly on par with the game.
The demand for realism, more pixels and more advanced ai killed the custom maps and mods, not the developer but the gamer himself.
In theory you can you use gmail to store as much data as you could ever want.
The only limit is google's own limit on storage space they allocated for the gmail service as a whole(which comes close to infinite I reckon).
There are several programs that interact with gmail as if it were a local folder for backup purposes.
The programs split your data into sizes gmail accepts (zip, rar or something similar) and up/downloads them to/from your gmail account just as easy as any other off site backup service.
I'm sure that it won't be to hard to configure a existing, or create a program yourself that divides the data over several gmail accounts. From there on it's just a matter how much gmail accounts you'd own.. If you have enough of em TB's of data stored at gmail is no problem at all.
In theory.... ;)
Nope, ice repairs are done during the breaks when the ice gets shaved of across the entire track....
The two minutes breaks between each and every run are purely for the $.
Apparently in some countries (I'm looking at you USA) they have small commercials between each run.
Gah, the whole Olympic speed-skating competition is a giant fail already..
Very poor ice conditions, very high humidity in the stadium, ice that is cleaned/groomed only once a hour (wtf!) during contests, contests that have to be delayed because of machines breaking down, a 2 minute break between each next match.... puhlease....
I expected a whole lot more from the Canadians when it comes to ice-skating to be honest....
And cheaper....
Why spend thousands upon thousands of dollars developing services hoping that it will be picked up by the crowd while you can make money and have acces to every packet sent....
Purely as a user, what's not to like?
The idea that apple is trying it's hardest to keep quality developers away from the iphone os platform?
With such ridiculous and arbitrary rules I'm willing to bet there are a lot of serious companies and/or developers that would like to develop for the iphone but are afraid to invest the time and money because of the insane approval process.
I'm willing to bet that if apple would make the approval rules a lot more transparent and less strict we would see much more quality apps being developed.
Has anyone considered the historical evidence of what happens when superior civilizations encounter lesser ones?
Has anyone considered the historical evidence of what happens when human civilizations who feel superior encounter ones they consider lesser?
The Native Americans, the Mayans, the Incas, the Australian Aborigines, the tribes of South America, the natives of Pacific Islands, to name a few, all cry out to humanity to avoid at all costs encounters of the first, second, and third kinds.
We are so ignorant and arrogant that we expect other civilizations to think and act exactly like us (which led to the above in the first place) so they must be truculent and violent like we are, and they will destroy us as a service to the rest of the galaxy because that is what we would do. Let's just hope aliens don't find, or if they do, avoid us.