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It worked great. I got good responses and advice as well as getting different viewpoints on my poems. Writers take note.
When my friend and I were creating an offshore gambling application for a sports bookie in [censored] we decided to go with Zope. Our decision was made on a couple factors. Mandrake could encrypt both disk and swap out of the box, Zope had (has) an incredible security model, and very few sports betters would likely to know Python. (Yeah, you with the glasses, I know all about you. I know you exist but you weren't on our books).
In any event, when we looked at Plone we ditched it immediately. It was too much. We lost all the abilities to control the minutia of any given piece that we wanted and the bubble up ability of Zope was more or less lost.
I'm NOT saying don't use Plone. It has a lot going for it... but don't forget to look under the hood and see if straight Zope will do what you need first.
Clearly one of the most innovative pieces of the Playstation 3 platform is the virtual environment. Not as open ended as Second Life, you can still do all the critical things you would like. There are three things people want from a virtual environment:
1. Permanency
When someone moves an object, they want that object to stay moved. When they kill a dragon they want that dragon to stay dead. When they learn a new skill they want to always have that skill.
2. Diversity & Uniqueness
They want their characters to be unique, just like everyone else. In addition items, locations, sounds, movements, should all be things that are different from person to person. No one wants to show up to the party in the same bunny suit as that other furry.
3. Interaction
People want to have a fairly rich connection with other people. The ability to build groups and maintain them. The ability to create relationships that have in game world effect. These are things people want because they mimic the things they sometimes can't have in real life.
Ditch any pre-created, cookie cutter crap. Let the players rule the world. Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may... wait, I'm from a different movie.
I suspect that public termination is a deterrent to other members of the company, not a warning to other companies. This kind of termination is an example to others that whatever he did (office love affair?) will not be tolerated. It takes balls to terminate someone this high up. Kudos to the HR department and whoever signed the paper.
On the other hand kudos to the guy for having an office love affair. Too bad you got caught.
Four times the price and the name is 'kNow'. It actually jumps ahead loading aps *before* you know you want them. Apples been working on psychic computers for years, but this will be the first implementation.
There's a mail button? Why didn't someone tell me sooner? You've been hiding it from me. I mean after the agents attacked me and inplanted that meme that made me think I was Mr. Anderson and the whole green tinted world dropped I realize that slashdot was green tinted and that if I was to have any peace or solace in this pseudo world of virtual reality that I would have to attack any green website with abandon. Then my therapist explained that I had a very old monitor that only showed things in green. She called it a CRT, but when I looked closer at it I could see my own reflection and instead of being where I was I ended up in the reflection. This happened over and over again and I think if there was a wall of these monitors I might have had different reactions each time I fell into one, but I only had on monitor because Slashdot wont give me another one. That's when things kinda got strange. I mean do people really think there's some hot chick wearing skin tight clothing waiting for you at a goth club if you follow some girl who has the slashdot logo tattooed to her shoulder blade? I mean how far down the rabbit's hole are you guy. Get your heads out of the sand and look around at what Micro$oft has done. You don't think they own Slashdot? Slashdot is a freaking ANAGRAM for Microsoft (if you ignore the m,i,l,a,h,c,f... which just happen to spell 'milf chaf'... explain that.) But what I really want to know is why everytime I click on my name it tells me how good my KARMA is? What kind of state religion of china are you guys trying to pull? Christians don't believe in china! You can't force us to just bow (Kow Tow, sorry) to your idiosyncratical system of self reflective accrued luck. Mod me down as a troll. I dare you. This stupid Karma thing is reversible. You call me a troll and you go down too. Sure, Overate me. I'll tell you who's overrated. Cowboy Nell. I mean now that he's all powerful and got super cool free stuff from anyone who wants a good review of their crappy products. I think he drives a Korean car. Aren't the Korean's on the Axis of Evil list? And for god sakes don't reply to this or I'll be forced to find you and reply to you in person. Just let it go, man. I wasn't in Nam, but my dad was. I didn't grow up with him, but dude, I swear I learned things from him telepathically that would allow me to say without fear of contradiction "I learned that in the Nam". But don't take my word for it. Try it. Open the hole and see just how far down goatse goes.
Guys, you can't have it both ways. Reading/. and listening to Air America, George Bush is either an evil genius able to mastermind these great conspiracies, or, he's dumb as a rock.
Ah, you've fallen into his trap.
You see while GW is pretty much incapable of mustering the intelligence of the average 9th grader he does excel at one aspect of business and politics. He delegates extremely well. Not only that, but when the person he delegates something to messes up, he takes the blame and protects his people, thus insulating his delegation from public scrutiny.
In every situation, he makes no decisions. He brings in an expert to do that. You want evil genius? Hired. But if said evil genius is not there speaking into his ear, when you talk to GW you get the ninth grader.
I hope that explains it for you, because this is waaaay off topic.
1. Moving away from the extremely fat smelly guy guarantee. 2. Sitting in the "Baby Free" flight. 3. Super Model Mini Skirt stewardesses. 4. Gold Standard Hand Jobs 5. Mile High club voucher. 6. Oxygen Masks and Flotation devices. 7. A seat. 8. Pilots.
The only thing i want to add to the I phone is SSH and an external keyboard. Then it would be pretty much the ultimate laptop... if you had a really tiny lap. But it would then serve all my mobile computing needs.
1.Boundaries Don't let your people talk to anyone else's. Make everyone talk through you. The less they know about the outside, the more they need you, and vice versa to the outside world. Job security!
2.Initiation Make sure to put your new employees through hell before they are "really" part of the team. I suggest documenting the entire code-base.
3.Customs Create customs like beer Fridays or High Fives in the hallway. Everyone wears red ties. Everyone wears T-Shirts that all say the same thing like "Team Tiger Rulez. LOL." If others follow suit, change yours.
4.Ideology Tell your people what to think. Every meeting should start with some set of ideals. Beat it into them. For example; "Ruby on Rails is the only technology worth investing your time in."
I would prefer for him to post it here and get it fixed immediately than for someone to find it and start using it without anyone being able to see what was going on. He has done the responsible thing.
My refrigerator repair man was explaining to me in a very pedantic way that a refrigerator doesn't make cold, but rather it moves heat out of the inside and pushes it to the outside. This is the conservation of energy.
If a laser can counter the speed of atoms, thus creating an object at near absolute zero, couldn't this create a cold environment without creating equal heat outside the environment? Am I misunderstanding the experiment or are they creating cold without removing heat?
The applications of this are remarkable. Cooling systems that don't require heat dissipation, air conditioners without access to the outside. Engines can be cooled without radiators.
So what am I missing here, because this sounds remarkable to me.
There is virtually no difference between mutation breeding and direct gene manipulation.
Yes, there is a huge difference.
In nature random mutations are what causes new varieties of plant and animals. Viability of these plants and animals are judged by natural selection and unstable mutations or mutations that are not suitable to their environment disappear. This process is not the same as directly changing the DNA with the intention of a result. When someone intentionally changes DNA, these changes are not put through the rigors of natural selection.
The most likely way to get new plants is to "marry" two existing plants. This is relatively safe as compared to what you call "mutation breeding".
Mutation breeding, at least, still has natural selection as a check. Direct DNA manipulation does not have this check.
Maybe judgment should be reserved until someone has seen this data.
I believe the judgment not be reserved until the data is seen and the assumption should always be that genetically modified material needs to be tested vigorously and that any potential problems be assumed dangerous. There is enough room in the genetically modified realm to stick to things that don't exhibit any bad effects to spend any time with ones that do.
If you're guilty, but also have an life threatening illness then a judge can decide god has already punished you enough. No need for the legal system to do anything. Move along. You don't even have to plead guilty for your crimes.
On the other hand, if you're guilty and have a really good lawyer, money, and run a large company you don't even need to be ill.
Most people who've spent any time analysing the situation come to the conclusion that he adopted the credentials in order to able to browbeat anyone who disagreed with him on his pet topic into submission using an "I know better than you do" attitude. When clearly he didn't know better.
To my mind, it's not so much that he didn't have any credentials, as it is that he lied and claimed that he did. If he lied about that, what else has he lied about? How can I trust the article now?
But that begs the question of "Why did he lie?". Did he feel he had to lie or his edits (which could have been perfectly valid) would not be accepted? I don't think you can call into question his articles because he lied about having credentials anymore than you can assume that someone with valid credentials wouldn't have a reason to lie in an article.
Fuck credentials. If he did a good job I don't see what his credentials were. I suspect he was pressured to put fake credentials in because people were requesting that editors have credentials.
Judge by the quality of work, credentials mean nothing more than that you've paid someone enough money to gain them.
The cost of making a game in the major categories is staggering when you look at what you're up against. But invent something completely different that's just fun to play and you can open up a whole new market. You can't win by making a new FPS, increasingly accurate physics and polymesh technology.
You're going to win because your game is just plain fun.
It doesn't cost a lot of money to make a game fun, it just takes a fun idea. If you insist on remaking the same games because you're afraid of loss, you've just painted yourself into a nice corner.
We still have an account there until some final payments come out, but we have been charged outrageous amounts of money for $3 overdrafts and on numerous occasions told that a check would clear "the next day" only to have it clear three days later... again incurring bounce check fees. At $35 a pop, Chase is making a huge profit. On one of my paychecks we ended up only getting 70% of the money into the account after bank fees.
I want to solve sudoku. Now some computer can do it so fast that it's finished before they even start? What good is that? Sudoku is supposed to be about wasting time, not reversing it.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly me point. I don't want to take anything away from Plone, but I want to show that Plone is built on something pretty nifty in it's own right.
It's hard to find people to read bad poetry... and I write a lot of it. So I used the Turk to hire people to read my poetry. This was my post on Turk:
Go to http://www.poemhunter.com/john-kipling-lewis/poems/ and rate the 69 poems found there.
1) If a poem is rated 9 or 10, please leave a comment as to why.
2) If a poem is rated 1 or 2 or 3, please leave a comment as to why.
3) If you rate a poem from 4-8 and feel it could be a 10 with a change, please comment how.
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It worked great. I got good responses and advice as well as getting different viewpoints on my poems. Writers take note.
When my friend and I were creating an offshore gambling application for a sports bookie in [censored] we decided to go with Zope. Our decision was made on a couple factors. Mandrake could encrypt both disk and swap out of the box, Zope had (has) an incredible security model, and very few sports betters would likely to know Python. (Yeah, you with the glasses, I know all about you. I know you exist but you weren't on our books).
In any event, when we looked at Plone we ditched it immediately. It was too much. We lost all the abilities to control the minutia of any given piece that we wanted and the bubble up ability of Zope was more or less lost.
I'm NOT saying don't use Plone. It has a lot going for it... but don't forget to look under the hood and see if straight Zope will do what you need first.
Clearly one of the most innovative pieces of the Playstation 3 platform is the virtual environment. Not as open ended as Second Life, you can still do all the critical things you would like. There are three things people want from a virtual environment:
1. Permanency
When someone moves an object, they want that object to stay moved. When they kill a dragon they want that dragon to stay dead. When they learn a new skill they want to always have that skill.
2. Diversity & Uniqueness
They want their characters to be unique, just like everyone else. In addition items, locations, sounds, movements, should all be things that are different from person to person. No one wants to show up to the party in the same bunny suit as that other furry.
3. Interaction
People want to have a fairly rich connection with other people. The ability to build groups and maintain them. The ability to create relationships that have in game world effect. These are things people want because they mimic the things they sometimes can't have in real life.
Ditch any pre-created, cookie cutter crap. Let the players rule the world. Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may... wait, I'm from a different movie.
I suspect that public termination is a deterrent to other members of the company, not a warning to other companies. This kind of termination is an example to others that whatever he did (office love affair?) will not be tolerated. It takes balls to terminate someone this high up. Kudos to the HR department and whoever signed the paper.
On the other hand kudos to the guy for having an office love affair. Too bad you got caught.
"no you can't."
Yes he can. It's easy to find rebuttals here.
Four times the price and the name is 'kNow'. It actually jumps ahead loading aps *before* you know you want them. Apples been working on psychic computers for years, but this will be the first implementation.
"k" will be the new "i"
There's a mail button? Why didn't someone tell me sooner? You've been hiding it from me. I mean after the agents attacked me and inplanted that meme that made me think I was Mr. Anderson and the whole green tinted world dropped I realize that slashdot was green tinted and that if I was to have any peace or solace in this pseudo world of virtual reality that I would have to attack any green website with abandon. Then my therapist explained that I had a very old monitor that only showed things in green. She called it a CRT, but when I looked closer at it I could see my own reflection and instead of being where I was I ended up in the reflection. This happened over and over again and I think if there was a wall of these monitors I might have had different reactions each time I fell into one, but I only had on monitor because Slashdot wont give me another one. That's when things kinda got strange. I mean do people really think there's some hot chick wearing skin tight clothing waiting for you at a goth club if you follow some girl who has the slashdot logo tattooed to her shoulder blade? I mean how far down the rabbit's hole are you guy. Get your heads out of the sand and look around at what Micro$oft has done. You don't think they own Slashdot? Slashdot is a freaking ANAGRAM for Microsoft (if you ignore the m,i,l,a,h,c,f... which just happen to spell 'milf chaf'... explain that.) But what I really want to know is why everytime I click on my name it tells me how good my KARMA is? What kind of state religion of china are you guys trying to pull? Christians don't believe in china! You can't force us to just bow (Kow Tow, sorry) to your idiosyncratical system of self reflective accrued luck. Mod me down as a troll. I dare you. This stupid Karma thing is reversible. You call me a troll and you go down too. Sure, Overate me. I'll tell you who's overrated. Cowboy Nell. I mean now that he's all powerful and got super cool free stuff from anyone who wants a good review of their crappy products. I think he drives a Korean car. Aren't the Korean's on the Axis of Evil list? And for god sakes don't reply to this or I'll be forced to find you and reply to you in person. Just let it go, man. I wasn't in Nam, but my dad was. I didn't grow up with him, but dude, I swear I learned things from him telepathically that would allow me to say without fear of contradiction "I learned that in the Nam". But don't take my word for it. Try it. Open the hole and see just how far down goatse goes.
Guys, you can't have it both ways. Reading /. and listening to Air America, George Bush is either an evil genius able to mastermind these great conspiracies, or, he's dumb as a rock.
Ah, you've fallen into his trap.
You see while GW is pretty much incapable of mustering the intelligence of the average 9th grader he does excel at one aspect of business and politics. He delegates extremely well. Not only that, but when the person he delegates something to messes up, he takes the blame and protects his people, thus insulating his delegation from public scrutiny.
In every situation, he makes no decisions. He brings in an expert to do that. You want evil genius? Hired. But if said evil genius is not there speaking into his ear, when you talk to GW you get the ninth grader.
I hope that explains it for you, because this is waaaay off topic.
1. Moving away from the extremely fat smelly guy guarantee.
2. Sitting in the "Baby Free" flight.
3. Super Model Mini Skirt stewardesses.
4. Gold Standard Hand Jobs
5. Mile High club voucher.
6. Oxygen Masks and Flotation devices.
7. A seat.
8. Pilots.
The only thing i want to add to the I phone is SSH and an external keyboard. Then it would be pretty much the ultimate laptop... if you had a really tiny lap. But it would then serve all my mobile computing needs.
9000? I thought the cut off was 5000.
1.Boundaries
Don't let your people talk to anyone else's. Make everyone talk through you. The less they know about the outside, the more they need you, and vice versa to the outside world. Job security!
2.Initiation
Make sure to put your new employees through hell before they are "really" part of the team. I suggest documenting the entire code-base.
3.Customs
Create customs like beer Fridays or High Fives in the hallway. Everyone wears red ties. Everyone wears T-Shirts that all say the same thing like "Team Tiger Rulez. LOL." If others follow suit, change yours.
4.Ideology
Tell your people what to think. Every meeting should start with some set of ideals. Beat it into them. For example; "Ruby on Rails is the only technology worth investing your time in."
Many eyes.
I would prefer for him to post it here and get it fixed immediately than for someone to find it and start using it without anyone being able to see what was going on. He has done the responsible thing.
My refrigerator repair man was explaining to me in a very pedantic way that a refrigerator doesn't make cold, but rather it moves heat out of the inside and pushes it to the outside. This is the conservation of energy.
If a laser can counter the speed of atoms, thus creating an object at near absolute zero, couldn't this create a cold environment without creating equal heat outside the environment? Am I misunderstanding the experiment or are they creating cold without removing heat?
The applications of this are remarkable. Cooling systems that don't require heat dissipation, air conditioners without access to the outside. Engines can be cooled without radiators.
So what am I missing here, because this sounds remarkable to me.
There is virtually no difference between mutation breeding and direct gene manipulation.
Yes, there is a huge difference.
In nature random mutations are what causes new varieties of plant and animals. Viability of these plants and animals are judged by natural selection and unstable mutations or mutations that are not suitable to their environment disappear. This process is not the same as directly changing the DNA with the intention of a result. When someone intentionally changes DNA, these changes are not put through the rigors of natural selection.
The most likely way to get new plants is to "marry" two existing plants. This is relatively safe as compared to what you call "mutation breeding".
Mutation breeding, at least, still has natural selection as a check. Direct DNA manipulation does not have this check.
Do you propose banning virtually all food crops while we see if they are dangerous?
No. Don't be stupid.
But there's a big difference between breeding and direct gene manipulation and any comparison is ingenious.
Maybe judgment should be reserved until someone has seen this data.
I believe the judgment not be reserved until the data is seen and the assumption should always be that genetically modified material needs to be tested vigorously and that any potential problems be assumed dangerous. There is enough room in the genetically modified realm to stick to things that don't exhibit any bad effects to spend any time with ones that do.
If you're guilty, but also have an life threatening illness then a judge can decide god has already punished you enough. No need for the legal system to do anything. Move along. You don't even have to plead guilty for your crimes.
On the other hand, if you're guilty and have a really good lawyer, money, and run a large company you don't even need to be ill.
Most people who've spent any time analysing the situation come to the conclusion that he adopted the credentials in order to able to browbeat anyone who disagreed with him on his pet topic into submission using an "I know better than you do" attitude. When clearly he didn't know better.
If that's the case then he's a dickweed.
To my mind, it's not so much that he didn't have any credentials, as it is that he lied and claimed that he did. If he lied about that, what else has he lied about? How can I trust the article now?
But that begs the question of "Why did he lie?". Did he feel he had to lie or his edits (which could have been perfectly valid) would not be accepted? I don't think you can call into question his articles because he lied about having credentials anymore than you can assume that someone with valid credentials wouldn't have a reason to lie in an article.
Fuck credentials. If he did a good job I don't see what his credentials were. I suspect he was pressured to put fake credentials in because people were requesting that editors have credentials.
Judge by the quality of work, credentials mean nothing more than that you've paid someone enough money to gain them.
The cost of making a game in the major categories is staggering when you look at what you're up against. But invent something completely different that's just fun to play and you can open up a whole new market. You can't win by making a new FPS, increasingly accurate physics and polymesh technology.
You're going to win because your game is just plain fun.
It doesn't cost a lot of money to make a game fun, it just takes a fun idea. If you insist on remaking the same games because you're afraid of loss, you've just painted yourself into a nice corner.
We still have an account there until some final payments come out, but we have been charged outrageous amounts of money for $3 overdrafts and on numerous occasions told that a check would clear "the next day" only to have it clear three days later... again incurring bounce check fees. At $35 a pop, Chase is making a huge profit. On one of my paychecks we ended up only getting 70% of the money into the account after bank fees.
Anyone up for doing this?
I want to solve sudoku. Now some computer can do it so fast that it's finished before they even start? What good is that? Sudoku is supposed to be about wasting time, not reversing it.