You can't plead the 5th at a deposition- there's no judge- but you or your attorney can object to any/every question and the other lawyer will have to say something like 'let it be noted that Mr. Smith refuses to answer the question'.
I've often had the same thought for my son- and our 1981 nintendo still works too. I don't want him playing Halo 4 or whatever is around when he turns ~8 (he's two and a half now).
I'll let him play gamecube with us when he's old enough to be able to do it, but for now he likes his plug-in Thomas game
pc games I grew up with (not counting nintendo, atari, etc)
8088/80286 ------------------- the black cauldron donkey kong jump joe lander space invaders pac man asteroids blackjack gertrude's secret (when I was really young) reader rabbit (of course!) where in the world (or where in time) is carmen sandiego
earlier 486 -------------------- cabal ghostbusters a whole set of Cosmi software test drive life and death bass tour lotus 3 chessmaster 2000
586? ----- bioforge (that game ruled for its time!)
ahhh soo many more- what a time. So often, I find the games of old more appealing than a lot of todays complicated games. While I appreciate the graphics and the plots of things like Splinter Cell and sniping for fun in Hitman, there was something really great about the simple games and its a lost market- everything has to be in millions of colors and expertly rendered.. I wish they'd come up with some new old style games. Just can't beat em.
I'm not sure that I'd reach into the dark recesses of a wooden box with probably unshielded parts and possibly a high voltage flyback transformer for a CRT;o)
I played donkey kong on my Tandy 1000 for ages, but I suppose thats cheating since it probably wasn't available on personal computer for a few years after the arcade release. (unsure of the timeline).
We used to have a nickel arcade, I spent quite a bit of time and my 1,000 tickets earned me a free pizza or something silly that obviously doesn't cost near what it cost to get 1,000 tickets;)
If you've got an FPGA dev kit, you can probably implement such a thing without a huge effort- but making that portable would cost lots of $$$ to get an ASIC and circuit board made up.
I tried to switch long ago- but I got frustrated when I'd go to a lab or anywhere other than my home that didn't have the dvorak layout and all the hard-work I'd done getting used to dvorak went partially out the window and I found myself having trouble typing qwerty and lost some gained proficiency at dvorak.
The first few days were horrible- at the time I liked IMing a lot and I found myself trying to write everything in the shortest way possible and get offline. I went from being a ~120wpm typer to being closer to 5-10wpm. After a few days it wasn't excruciating anymore, but it took me almost two months to feel like I was even marginally close to my old speed.
If you switch, buy a USB hardware dvorak keyboard that you can take with you, otherwise you'll go nuts switching back and forth. If you can avoid it at all, don't use qwerty at all while you're learning dvorak- it really messes up your progress (or at least it did for me).
Anyway, I finally gave up at about 3 months, and I've been wanting to go back now that I really only type at home (work from home).
Watch future weapons lately? They have a new lower caliber gun (.408) that stays supersonic for over 2,200 feet and has more punch than a.50 cal due to the kinetic energy. I guess that's one way around the problem.
Never say never, but at least for the forseeable future, web apps won't replace locally installed applications for many of the same reasons that even network mounted applications on high speed networks just don't measure up. There are all kinds of problems from network availability to just plain misconfiguration and everything inbetween. Even on gigabit networks, server availability can be a bottleneck and other unforseeable factors such as high network utilization due to worms, tuesday updates, etc.
Web apps have their place- support ticket systems of all scales and sizes, various other corporate oriented intranet apps where multiple employees need to enter data and would otherwise have to install an application on every machine, and just too many other places to list- but big apps like Word and Excel just can't, with current technology, match the level of power (I mean functionality/features) available on the desktop (not counting shared resources on the server reducing responsiveness) and the ability to handle large files easily.
maybe I was thinking too much like someone who does this for a living- responsible designers test out with FPGAs as much as they would with ASICs- perhaps even more so since they can get in more revisions before 'printing' the ASICs. If theres a teeny bug in the 'release candidate' ASIC, are you really going to spend another million to fix it? At least with FPGAs you can fix it before you send it out to customers. Most designers should be using FPGAs that way (even if not for prototyping, but for actual in-circuit use). The article does suggest releasing things preemptively, but I think that was an add-on by the writer, not the researcher. If anything, I'd give credit and say that in an instance where you know there's one bug left that will only affect 1/1,000,000 users, but it'll take a couple more weeks to fix, you could push out the hardware and send out the update when its ready and hope no one hits that bug.
err I meant to say that the article also talks about self-healing processors- but (most people don't use fpgas.....(snip)... in silicon). What he's talking about isn't even self-healing, its just a new bitstream.
The way it was written it sounded like to unrelated thoughts.
Even as stupid as the article was- it stated clearly that it enables hardware designers to fix bugs in the field (that's the Field Programmable part of FPGA)- the error would otherwise have been fixed in silicon (ASIC). Most people don't use FPGAs as anything more than a microprocessor- if you want to do more, they usually use something like a Virtex Pro which has an onboard power-pc in silicon.
Maybe I'm nuts, but you got me thinking- what if they just send ICMP packets with a copyrighted payload to everyone under the sun and then get the ISP to note that copyrighted material is indeed coming into that machine- and since that machine is sending ACK's, it then by definition is acknowledging receipt of the copyrighted material.
You and I both know that that is a ludicrous proposition, but the RIAA has enough clout and the lawmakers understand so little of technology, it wouldn't surprise me if this worked.
I have to wonder how Turnitin handles citations/bibliographies (works cited). So I've got a blob in the middle of my paper that is a direct quote from somewhere and so Turnitin flags my paper and I get expelled. Only after fighting the 'never wrong' computer system and the administration do they notice that I properly footnoted and/or cited the 'plagiarized' work.
Sure thats an exaggeration, but it must be possible. If in an assignment where citations are frequent and/or required, every single cite must be hand verified, then turnitin has no purpose anyway.
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You can't plead the 5th at a deposition- there's no judge- but you or your attorney can object to any/every question and the other lawyer will have to say something like 'let it be noted that Mr. Smith refuses to answer the question'.
Just remember a deposition is informal, no judge, just a couple of bitchy lawyers- usually in a cheap conference room with bad coffee.
Have you watched Daylight (with Stallone) lately?
the mods are schizophrenic- for what its worth, I meant it as a joke.
that would piss me off enough to call in a bomb threat...
if everyone would, it might work, but there are idiots and apathetics everywhere or people that need that product
I keep getting offers for loans on my propert at my old dorm address.. i keep wanting to reply, sure I'll mortgage Friley Hall for a penny or two...
ISU was rumored to have sold off our entire phonebook to marketers for like $2M at one point while I was a student.
I've often had the same thought for my son- and our 1981 nintendo still works too. I don't want him playing Halo 4 or whatever is around when he turns ~8 (he's two and a half now).
I'll let him play gamecube with us when he's old enough to be able to do it, but for now he likes his plug-in Thomas game
pc games I grew up with (not counting nintendo, atari, etc)
8088/80286
-------------------
the black cauldron
donkey kong
jump joe
lander
space invaders
pac man
asteroids
blackjack
gertrude's secret (when I was really young)
reader rabbit (of course!)
where in the world (or where in time) is carmen sandiego
earlier 486
--------------------
cabal
ghostbusters
a whole set of Cosmi software
test drive
life and death
bass tour
lotus 3
chessmaster 2000
586?
-----
bioforge (that game ruled for its time!)
ahhh soo many more- what a time. So often, I find the games of old more appealing than a lot of todays complicated games. While I appreciate the graphics and the plots of things like Splinter Cell and sniping for fun in Hitman, there was something really great about the simple games and its a lost market- everything has to be in millions of colors and expertly rendered.. I wish they'd come up with some new old style games. Just can't beat em.
I'm not sure that I'd reach into the dark recesses of a wooden box with probably unshielded parts and possibly a high voltage flyback transformer for a CRT ;o)
;)
I played donkey kong on my Tandy 1000 for ages, but I suppose thats cheating since it probably wasn't available on personal computer for a few years after the arcade release. (unsure of the timeline).
We used to have a nickel arcade, I spent quite a bit of time and my 1,000 tickets earned me a free pizza or something silly that obviously doesn't cost near what it cost to get 1,000 tickets
If you've got an FPGA dev kit, you can probably implement such a thing without a huge effort- but making that portable would cost lots of $$$ to get an ASIC and circuit board made up.
I tried to switch long ago- but I got frustrated when I'd go to a lab or anywhere other than my home that didn't have the dvorak layout and all the hard-work I'd done getting used to dvorak went partially out the window and I found myself having trouble typing qwerty and lost some gained proficiency at dvorak.
The first few days were horrible- at the time I liked IMing a lot and I found myself trying to write everything in the shortest way possible and get offline. I went from being a ~120wpm typer to being closer to 5-10wpm. After a few days it wasn't excruciating anymore, but it took me almost two months to feel like I was even marginally close to my old speed.
If you switch, buy a USB hardware dvorak keyboard that you can take with you, otherwise you'll go nuts switching back and forth. If you can avoid it at all, don't use qwerty at all while you're learning dvorak- it really messes up your progress (or at least it did for me).
Anyway, I finally gave up at about 3 months, and I've been wanting to go back now that I really only type at home (work from home).
Watch future weapons lately? They have a new lower caliber gun (.408) that stays supersonic for over 2,200 feet and has more punch than a .50 cal due to the kinetic energy. I guess that's one way around the problem.
because googling will offer much better accuracy-
just read the cites on wikipedia and find the books yourself, dont cite wikipedia.
Never say never, but at least for the forseeable future, web apps won't replace locally installed applications for many of the same reasons that even network mounted applications on high speed networks just don't measure up. There are all kinds of problems from network availability to just plain misconfiguration and everything inbetween. Even on gigabit networks, server availability can be a bottleneck and other unforseeable factors such as high network utilization due to worms, tuesday updates, etc.
Web apps have their place- support ticket systems of all scales and sizes, various other corporate oriented intranet apps where multiple employees need to enter data and would otherwise have to install an application on every machine, and just too many other places to list- but big apps like Word and Excel just can't, with current technology, match the level of power (I mean functionality/features) available on the desktop (not counting shared resources on the server reducing responsiveness) and the ability to handle large files easily.
That's sort of what I meant- and I said 1/1,000,000 which is far fewer than 1/1,000. I guess I neglected to mention to tell the customers.
maybe I was thinking too much like someone who does this for a living- responsible designers test out with FPGAs as much as they would with ASICs- perhaps even more so since they can get in more revisions before 'printing' the ASICs. If theres a teeny bug in the 'release candidate' ASIC, are you really going to spend another million to fix it? At least with FPGAs you can fix it before you send it out to customers. Most designers should be using FPGAs that way (even if not for prototyping, but for actual in-circuit use). The article does suggest releasing things preemptively, but I think that was an add-on by the writer, not the researcher. If anything, I'd give credit and say that in an instance where you know there's one bug left that will only affect 1/1,000,000 users, but it'll take a couple more weeks to fix, you could push out the hardware and send out the update when its ready and hope no one hits that bug.
err I meant to say that the article also talks about self-healing processors- but (most people don't use fpgas.....(snip)... in silicon). What he's talking about isn't even self-healing, its just a new bitstream.
The way it was written it sounded like to unrelated thoughts.
Even as stupid as the article was- it stated clearly that it enables hardware designers to fix bugs in the field (that's the Field Programmable part of FPGA)- the error would otherwise have been fixed in silicon (ASIC). Most people don't use FPGAs as anything more than a microprocessor- if you want to do more, they usually use something like a Virtex Pro which has an onboard power-pc in silicon.
The person responsible for the copying has been sacked. ...
The person responsible for the sacking has been sacked...
watching too much ghostbusters?
Careful the staypuffed penguin man might appear.
Maybe I'm nuts, but you got me thinking- what if they just send ICMP packets with a copyrighted payload to everyone under the sun and then get the ISP to note that copyrighted material is indeed coming into that machine- and since that machine is sending ACK's, it then by definition is acknowledging receipt of the copyrighted material.
You and I both know that that is a ludicrous proposition, but the RIAA has enough clout and the lawmakers understand so little of technology, it wouldn't surprise me if this worked.
I was going to suggest taking the red pill. =)
I have to wonder how Turnitin handles citations/bibliographies (works cited). So I've got a blob in the middle of my paper that is a direct quote from somewhere and so Turnitin flags my paper and I get expelled. Only after fighting the 'never wrong' computer system and the administration do they notice that I properly footnoted and/or cited the 'plagiarized' work.
Sure thats an exaggeration, but it must be possible. If in an assignment where citations are frequent and/or required, every single cite must be hand verified, then turnitin has no purpose anyway.