This reinforces a fundamental fact of human behaviour: People generally ignore laws. If there is a policeman standing at their elbow, they'll obey the law, but as soon as the policeman is not obviously present, they'll go back to doing whatever they feel is "right".
I beleive that the fundamental reason people are dodging the law when not actively look upon is slighty different from your view. Most laws are there to help people live in society and are irrelevant when applied to a single individual.
For example: the street lights when there is absolutly no traffic (I mean that you are the single car at the intersection). Do you wait for the green or after stoping you feel like you might as well proceed?
Another thing is that people most people follow the law to the letter and not to the idea. The laws are written down ideas and should be considered as such instead of the litteral text. Unfortunetly we are educating a legion of lawyer whose only goal in life is to make money, hence abuse the legislative system to the hilt. Isn't it sarcastic?
The ice melting part is wrong for 2 reasons. 1) the density of frozen water is different than liquid water. Try this experience: completly fill a bottle with water and place it in the freezer. There is a chance that, if you picked a glass bottle, it may explode. Reason: ice takes make room than liquid water. 2) there is a part of the ice that is not underwater, hence, that volume is not taken into account in the current sea (glass) level.
Do you think the US join the war to help Europe only? They did it because the damn war was coming in their own backyard. Nothing to do with 'helping' out other countries. That was simply a nice side-effect.
Doesn't it sound like evolution where the changes occurs in a relatively short period of time followed by a long period with relatively no changes?
We got the bubble that ballooned and eventualy died. It's use was to 'weed out' the junk as said and now we are back in the period where the remaining ones (cie, individuals, orgs.) start again to fill the gaps. Could that be an economic model I am not aware of?
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Obviously, I never read the book myself or it was in a parrallel universe because I sure don't remember as much fighting as in the movie! Or many many other details. I wouldn't give the book as an argument considering the way it has been bastardized.
This is a really interesting comment in light of the bill presented to congress last week where they said, paraphrasing, that "we have to put copy-protection into computer because pirate can create perfect copies of DVDs".
I'd beleive the rumors if I was you. A friend went there for one semester of his second year of Computer Science. He said that the easiest class at Waterloo was toughest than the tougehst class at his usual university and that he has '0' time to do anything else than homework and projects.
God knows we did a *lot* of Magic the Gathering playing back home!
The images would have to be doctored to work with software that could convert pixels to numbers and encrypt them.
That would certainly require a couple hundred programmer to doctor those image. Add another 100 for the pixel to number algo. At least! While you are there, while not add 50-60 assistants to make the coffee?
I enjoyed the part about biotech for sure... Playstation 6 or 7... Mouarf! What do they want to do with such a console?
If they want a thousand fold increase in all their new version we are looking at a 1,000,000,000,000 more performant console for the Playstation 6. Now, seriously, we will have reached the point where games look like movies wayyyyy before that. So, what is all the extra performance for? And how much will it cost to develop a game on such a platform anyway?
Look mom, I can run all my game at the same time on the multi-dimensionized display and I still have 99.99999999997% CPU left! Maybe that's what Sony meant by distributed computation, they'll resale the unused cycles to Stanford.
I'm not sure how Valve hopes to turn in profit with their Steam engine. I was under the impression that the bandwidth was costly enough for a 'simple' game server. But they are proposing that you download the whole game (runtime file at least) every time you want to play? Or simply every time there is a new version available? Which would be the same as patching to me...
Where is the revenue coming from anyway? Monthly fee per game or pay once and play anytime?
I, for one, would not trust too much such a service if you don't get the game CD-ROM shipped at some point. It suspiciously looks like it could fold anytime and you'd be left without the games you used to play, definitly.
Also, if you think you are going to get 200kb/sec donwload time, I'd like to point you to the Anarchy Online release. You could dnload the CD from the net and then burn it. Even under those condition, it was quite tough to get the files under 5-6 hours. (By those conditions I mean the necessity of having a burner to do it).
Still, even if you don't go to school for the guys and the pot, do it for yourself. A degree is nice to have. And while you may think that there is nothing to learn there, there is a-plenty.
Even if greek history isn't going to be useful for your career, it's nice to open up your horizon.
I personaly wouldn't bother hiring anyone who doesn't have some kind of education. And I'm not talking cert courses. Sure, there is a lot of really good people without education, but there is helluva more bad ones. Also, consider that you need a degree of some sort if you want to go work in another country. I know the states are so great and all, but there is actualy interesting people in other countries!
No seriously, how many of these song were downloaded from the same person? Gee, if someone asked me, they'd get over 2000 songs. The rest is a matter of bandwidth.
The problems with Commitees is that they often have a political agenda of their own. Just like everything else, you have to try to see thru their own eyes to get a non-biased view. I.e. take what they say, apply a good dose of subjectivity in the opposite direction of their and you are about where the thruth is. However, it is difficult to get a good measurement of that subjectivity in the first place.
There was an article last month about Intelligence gathering (and you would beleive that the/.ers would have learned the difference between 'Open Source' in Intelligence and in software...), and one guy from the CIA or FBI said that at one point on Sept, 11th, they turned on to CNN to get the latest news. This is no bullshit, there is a lot going on 'in the open' that we can learn from.
I have to agree. That would explain why simple games on the net work so well.
I got Re-Volt demo the other day for fun. It's a remotly-controled car race. It's easy, fun and takes about 2 minutes to get over the learning curve. Some days I like to play that kind of stuff.
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I saw a few post about: "Unions did a lot of wonderfull things". Well, that's right, they did. We have a 35 to 40 hours work week now, insurance and a bunch of other things.
However, does that mean that they are still that useful? From my experiences, unions cater to the lowest common denominator: the incompetent worker. Why? Because those are the very guys in need of the union. They are not competent enough to keep their job in the firt place. So, over the years, they get into the union-decision taker position and make sure nothing will happen.
Have you ever tried to get some unioned worker fired? Even as a co-worker, it's next to impossible. For example, there was that guy that didn't write any documentation about his program. None, niet, nicht. When asked why (even by the management), he said: "This is job security". There was nothing management was able to do. To be able to show the door to someone, you had to file 3 complains in 1 year. One complain takes about 3-4 months to file with witness, hearing and all, and you can't file 2 complains at the same time. Net result: impossible to fired anyone.
Who is the big winner then? The idiots, lazy and other incompetents who can't keep their jobs by themselves. How often have you worked with someone asking you what was a pointer? Someone who didn't know how to write a SQL query and was in charge of the database? An admin who comes to you when it's time to create new users?
We have many people already abusing the system in IT, so let's not give them more power with union. From my point of view, unions were once great and needed. They are not in our field (IT). The people pushing for unions are probably the ones you dislike working with in the first place because they are incompetents.
And besides, would you like to have your raises based on some stupid ladder? That the moron next to you is getting more money because he was in the company for longer than you? Unions means a lot of things, not only safety. We are working in a fantastic domain, with lots of nice jobs. If one employer is bad, move on, get another job. You can do that. If you are competent, that's it. If all you can do is write business paper about selling socks over the internet, maybe you can't, but there will always be some jobs for the good programmer, the wise manager and the creative web designer. What we have now on our hands, is a surplus of semi-incompetent from the dot-com era. Color me cheap, but I don't think it's a bad thing if they change industry.
Crevette
If an incompetent hit a wall at 80m/h... are you gonna miss him?
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I beleive that the fundamental reason people are dodging the law when not actively look upon is slighty different from your view. Most laws are there to help people live in society and are irrelevant when applied to a single individual.
For example: the street lights when there is absolutly no traffic (I mean that you are the single car at the intersection). Do you wait for the green or after stoping you feel like you might as well proceed?
Another thing is that people most people follow the law to the letter and not to the idea. The laws are written down ideas and should be considered as such instead of the litteral text. Unfortunetly we are educating a legion of lawyer whose only goal in life is to make money, hence abuse the legislative system to the hilt. Isn't it sarcastic?
Duh? What are the different kind of cheese for you? Yellow process cheese, white process cheese, Cheez-Weez(sp?) and schredded cheese?
I'm just curious. I haven't seen the movie (is it out yet anyway?) and I just started the book. But, how come an aircraft carrier cannot get hit?
You really got me thinking about this one and you are perfectly right. Given the right explanation, it's now quite clear.
The ice melting part is wrong for 2 reasons. 1) the density of frozen water is different than liquid water. Try this experience: completly fill a bottle with water and place it in the freezer. There is a chance that, if you picked a glass bottle, it may explode. Reason: ice takes make room than liquid water. 2) there is a part of the ice that is not underwater, hence, that volume is not taken into account in the current sea (glass) level.
Do you think the US join the war to help Europe only? They did it because the damn war was coming in their own backyard. Nothing to do with 'helping' out other countries. That was simply a nice side-effect.
Welcome to Bermuda.
I love Dijkstra (sp?) algo, it gets my vote too! Any algo with a complexity N is great to me.
Doesn't it sound like evolution where the changes occurs in a relatively short period of time followed by a long period with relatively no changes?
We got the bubble that ballooned and eventualy died. It's use was to 'weed out' the junk as said and now we are back in the period where the remaining ones (cie, individuals, orgs.) start again to fill the gaps. Could that be an economic model I am not aware of?
Obviously, I never read the book myself or it was in a parrallel universe because I sure don't remember as much fighting as in the movie! Or many many other details. I wouldn't give the book as an argument considering the way it has been bastardized.
This is a really interesting comment in light of the bill presented to congress last week where they said, paraphrasing, that "we have to put copy-protection into computer because pirate can create perfect copies of DVDs".
Lies, lies and more lies. It's getting boring.
I'd beleive the rumors if I was you. A friend went there for one semester of his second year of Computer Science. He said that the easiest class at Waterloo was toughest than the tougehst class at his usual university and that he has '0' time to do anything else than homework and projects.
God knows we did a *lot* of Magic the Gathering playing back home!
The images would have to be doctored to work with software that could convert pixels to numbers and encrypt them.
That would certainly require a couple hundred programmer to doctor those image. Add another 100 for the pixel to number algo. At least! While you are there, while not add 50-60 assistants to make the coffee?
Go read the website (when it's going to be up again) and you'll see he is getting replys.
I enjoyed the part about biotech for sure... Playstation 6 or 7... Mouarf! What do they want to do with such a console?
If they want a thousand fold increase in all their new version we are looking at a 1,000,000,000,000 more performant console for the Playstation 6. Now, seriously, we will have reached the point where games look like movies wayyyyy before that. So, what is all the extra performance for? And how much will it cost to develop a game on such a platform anyway?
Look mom, I can run all my game at the same time on the multi-dimensionized display and I still have 99.99999999997% CPU left! Maybe that's what Sony meant by distributed computation, they'll resale the unused cycles to Stanford.
I'm not sure how Valve hopes to turn in profit with their Steam engine. I was under the impression that the bandwidth was costly enough for a 'simple' game server. But they are proposing that you download the whole game (runtime file at least) every time you want to play? Or simply every time there is a new version available? Which would be the same as patching to me...
Where is the revenue coming from anyway? Monthly fee per game or pay once and play anytime?
I, for one, would not trust too much such a service if you don't get the game CD-ROM shipped at some point. It suspiciously looks like it could fold anytime and you'd be left without the games you used to play, definitly.
Also, if you think you are going to get 200kb/sec donwload time, I'd like to point you to the Anarchy Online release. You could dnload the CD from the net and then burn it. Even under those condition, it was quite tough to get the files under 5-6 hours. (By those conditions I mean the necessity of having a burner to do it).
Still, even if you don't go to school for the guys and the pot, do it for yourself. A degree is nice to have. And while you may think that there is nothing to learn there, there is a-plenty.
Even if greek history isn't going to be useful for your career, it's nice to open up your horizon.
I personaly wouldn't bother hiring anyone who doesn't have some kind of education. And I'm not talking cert courses. Sure, there is a lot of really good people without education, but there is helluva more bad ones. Also, consider that you need a degree of some sort if you want to go work in another country. I know the states are so great and all, but there is actualy interesting people in other countries!
No seriously, how many of these song were downloaded from the same person? Gee, if someone asked me, they'd get over 2000 songs. The rest is a matter of bandwidth.
Too bad it's not 2000 *good* songs =(
The problems with Commitees is that they often have a political agenda of their own. Just like everything else, you have to try to see thru their own eyes to get a non-biased view. I.e. take what they say, apply a good dose of subjectivity in the opposite direction of their and you are about where the thruth is. However, it is difficult to get a good measurement of that subjectivity in the first place.
/.ers would have learned the difference between 'Open Source' in Intelligence and in software...), and one guy from the CIA or FBI said that at one point on Sept, 11th, they turned on to CNN to get the latest news. This is no bullshit, there is a lot going on 'in the open' that we can learn from.
There was an article last month about Intelligence gathering (and you would beleive that the
I have to agree. That would explain why simple games on the net work so well.
I got Re-Volt demo the other day for fun. It's a remotly-controled car race. It's easy, fun and takes about 2 minutes to get over the learning curve. Some days I like to play that kind of stuff.
However, does that mean that they are still that useful? From my experiences, unions cater to the lowest common denominator: the incompetent worker. Why? Because those are the very guys in need of the union. They are not competent enough to keep their job in the firt place. So, over the years, they get into the union-decision taker position and make sure nothing will happen.
Have you ever tried to get some unioned worker fired? Even as a co-worker, it's next to impossible. For example, there was that guy that didn't write any documentation about his program. None, niet, nicht. When asked why (even by the management), he said: "This is job security". There was nothing management was able to do. To be able to show the door to someone, you had to file 3 complains in 1 year. One complain takes about 3-4 months to file with witness, hearing and all, and you can't file 2 complains at the same time. Net result: impossible to fired anyone.
Who is the big winner then? The idiots, lazy and other incompetents who can't keep their jobs by themselves. How often have you worked with someone asking you what was a pointer? Someone who didn't know how to write a SQL query and was in charge of the database? An admin who comes to you when it's time to create new users?
We have many people already abusing the system in IT, so let's not give them more power with union. From my point of view, unions were once great and needed. They are not in our field (IT). The people pushing for unions are probably the ones you dislike working with in the first place because they are incompetents.
And besides, would you like to have your raises based on some stupid ladder? That the moron next to you is getting more money because he was in the company for longer than you? Unions means a lot of things, not only safety. We are working in a fantastic domain, with lots of nice jobs. If one employer is bad, move on, get another job. You can do that. If you are competent, that's it. If all you can do is write business paper about selling socks over the internet, maybe you can't, but there will always be some jobs for the good programmer, the wise manager and the creative web designer. What we have now on our hands, is a surplus of semi-incompetent from the dot-com era. Color me cheap, but I don't think it's a bad thing if they change industry.
Crevette
If an incompetent hit a wall at 80m/h... are you gonna miss him?