Doctor Phlox is just a rehash of Neelix from Voyager. Slightly rounder secondary character who is kind of either the 'cowardly lion' or the simpleton with small issues.
This character needs to
a. Die off, or
b. Go through hell, Aliens style.
I put b forth because the Dr is not a hero type, not an evil type, the only thing left is victim. Put him on an abandoned freighter with some dead bodies and mucous aliens, show him freaking out and stuff. Thats about all you can do with that character.
C'mon this article doesn't even have a photo of the robot. Any robot can be built to eventually reach a predicted outcome. Of course it will flap since thats what it was given wings to do. This is as exciting as giving a robot a lift fan, except in that case there is one step to success, the "turn on lift fan" command.
What would be more interesting is build a robot with many different unique mechanisms such as fans, deflectors, arms, and whatnot and see if it can produce lift in an unexpected or unique way.
Inmate 1: What are you in for? Inmate 2: I blew this guys face off with a shotgun because he didn't have my money. And you? Inmate 1: I downloaded some Weird Al mp3's and uploaded that video of the monkey sniffing his finger and falling over. Inmate 2: Sicko. You disgust me, its people like you...
That was some marketing BS to promote the PS2. PC hardware was already more powerful than the PS2 at the time and far more accesible. Where, exactly, did they restrict it? Bagdad? I can't sent a piece of paper to Bagdad.
These numbers have been pulled from asses ever since we heard about the x-box. The truth is, only the accountants and execs know for sure if an X-Box costs MS $300 or $50.
So please, leave the numbers in their respective asses.
This puts us closer to handheld DNA analysis from a PDA. How soon till police in the field can check one's identity with a palm or pocketpc? (assuming you won't tell them).
I knew it would happen. Someday big corporations would gain the strength they need to crush the forests. Huge behemoths would walk the forests leaving a swath of destruction with their mechanized chainsaws and huge claws. The stench of diesel fuel would replace the sweets smell of pine.
I knew...
Someday they would come to Fern Gulley, and all that could stop them was a 4 inch man and a bunch of HOT pixies.
"Making sure that IP addresses are assigned and allocated on a fair and equitable basis and in conformity with demands of the the packet routing systems of the Internet."
I thought this was ARIN's cash cow? I get all my web exploiters mixed up!
Your colleagues will never live up to you, so I suggest quitting now. When you say you are the "de-facto" team leader, I'm guessing this means you are not the real team leader. You've got prima donna syndrome written all over you. You can either
1. Quit now 2. Slack off a bit and see if the others pick up. (Your not in charge, what are you worried about?)
But you will probably do
3. Continue doing your own thing and keep telling yourself how crappy your teammates are until your ego explodes and you get fired or quit.
Truthfully, in programming this is the most important thing to overcome. People become so attached to their work. Now imagine you are on a team of professional toilet cleaners. Without the galmour theres no ego involvement. No one ever said, "I'm such a good shit cleaner, my fellow shit cleaners can't keep up. What do I do?" Its just about getting the job done.
By doing most of the work, you are fucking yourself. Your superiors are the only ones who can rectify the problem. But they won't if they expect 90% of the work from you. And you can't just reduce the work you get done because it looks like you are slacking and you take shit for it while in reality you are doing the same amount as everybody else. The only thing you can try at this point is soft delegation. Ask people how things are going, ask them about their code, hound them, not like a boss, but like someone who is interested. You can't tell them what to do but by continuously putting the focus of things in their mind, they will respond.
Probably the best solution is go on a two week vacation.
Think more broadly than that. Of course its not good for attacking ground targets, but think of it as a replacement for the main gun.
The problem with gun rounds is that they require a travel time to the target. While targeting computers can help the pilot aim better, its still just dumb projects.
A laser on the other hand travels at the speed of light. Plus, unlike a gatling gun with its long barrels, can be aimed quickly. Thus a radar controlled targetting computer can aim the laser dead on. You have practically a 100% chance of hitting an enemy plane that is in range.
Only in luxury items. The problem is it takes almost the same manpower to create a Ferrari as it does a Saturn.
"So quit whining about how 195,000 people out of 280 million are causing massive unemployment."
195k is the limit for one year. Since H1b's are for 3 or 6 years, that means the total potential temporary workers could reach over a million. The majority of those are programmers, so it doesn't make sense to compare that total to the entire population.
I don't think H1-Bs are creating an unemployment problem, I think they are depressing the prevailing wages.
"Free trade and free labor movement creates jobs and improves your standard of living."
I agree, non-citizens who want to work and live here should apply for citizenship to start their new life here.
But here's a simple test. If, as is claimed, H1-Bs are so much work to hire, then companies must be hiring them because:
A. Coroprations think H1-bs are cool! B. The training is better in poorer countries. C. They feel like giving H1-Bs a chance at the American Dream. D. H1-Bs cost the large corporations millions less.
But nope, can't find Win98 here. Sorry, maybe check those cash registers at target. I think maybe those bank signs that tell the temperature might run in Win95. You'll find something.
search for Wings 3d. Its an open source polygon modeller that works similar to Nendo. However it is written in a language called Erlang. It runs on Windows, but you have to download the Erlang interpreter from Ericcson.
This is all you need for making the actual models. OpenGL support, fast modelling, mouse emulation for the popular 3d apps, and features are being added every day. Exports/imports 3ds, obj, and vrml.
Then use max or something to UV map, and you are set.
The article seems to view Western democracy as the antithesis of totalitarianism. The fact is that anyone can start a web page and say any number of things that will get them interrogated, watched, arrested, or shipped off to camp X-ray without your lawyer. Really, just start a site claiming to be an Al Queda operative, post some bluprints of a government building.
The article seems to take the argument that "look how much better we are than 1950" But in reality, has freedom and privacy increased since 1970, 1980, or 1990? Sure we can exchange information easier.
And the quip about democracy spreading between 1989 and 1991 makes me think about what life has been like in the former Soviet union since that time. It seems to me war, strife, and poverty are the most prevailent things that have spread in the region. And what about organized crime?
No one can honestly claim that western democracy is the epitome of a perfect free and private society. The system is not perfect, but only works most of the time. Innocent people are put to death or jailed for decades. Cops abuse wiretap all the time.
And last time I checked there is still a totalitarian regime in place in China despite faxes and the internet. According to this paper we should be flooding Iraq, Cuba, Iran, etc with technology to liberate it from their dictatorship. And look at Japan, despite being one of the most high tech places on the planet, is still occupied by the country that conquered it over 50 years ago.
Short wave radios may have carried the news, but that doesn't mean anything if it only carries CNN or better yet, Army PsyOps officers. Guess who has an office within the CNN offices? one man's radio free whatever is another's war propaganda.
The author seems to agree that Hitler was able to use radio to spread propaganda to millions, while saying that Orwell was mistaken in thinking that radio would be used for propaganda. Huh?, we sent PsyOps to every warzone we've been in to spread propaganda.
He also makes the statement that Orwell was mistaken about governments using technology for surveillance. Remeber that 747 the US sold to Chinese premier with something like 200 listening devices installed in it. What exactly is Carnivore if not using technology for surveillance on the populace. And thats just the one we know about. In fact now corporations have more ability to spy on us than ever. Employee routinely look up private information for "fun", as do cops. IsP Technicians have packet sniffers running at all times and can look up what page your computer is surfing at any time, and they log the stuff. Any bank employee can get your credit info at any time.
(call up your ISP and tell them that you can't connect to your web page, ask them to watch for the connection to find the problem. Ohh, How'd they do that?!?)
This article is very Jingoistic. It claims that its only 1984ish if someone besides Western contries does it. Since our democracy is infallible and perfect.
X Cold X Influenza (Circle one, prescribe asprin or tylenol)
If you have unexplained symptoms, nowadays its better to visit the doc once and get your aspirin and maybe the decongestant that you will ALWAYS be prescribed. Then either wait until your symptoms go away by themselves (could take years), or you start developing emergency type symptoms like high blood pressure, difficulty breathing, seizures. At this point the MDs become liable and may actually try to figure out what's wrong with you. While you may feel sick and/or hurt, MDs see people DIE every day, or who have lost 95% of their skin, or whatever, and your sniffles, headaches, or dizziness are not really as big a deal to them as it is to you.
Oh yeah, on the topic of medical databases. Doctors are expected to read journals and medical studies, but many times they just stop as soon as they get out of school. Its not that they don't like new technology, they just shun everything new. New studies, new papers, new equipment, new techniques. The reasoning is, "hey I'm not in school anymore."
Most people see doctors as their last line of defense from disease, their savior. But in reality doctors are in the business of making money just like everyone else. The more $$$ you have the better the diagnosis and treatment. Not everyone gets to go Mayo or Johns Hopkins.
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I guess that's possible in a way. It would be more effective to attribute it to something like the government or something.
Please... come up with an original argument. This type of argument has been used in so many debates I bet it has a name. I'll give it a name: The fundamentalist's flawed formula. You'll hear this in every morality debate. The reason the formula is flawed is because it only works if the debater is fundamentally and indisputably correct. Look for negatives such as no, never, noone.
an example:
No one needs a handgun and they're only used to commit murders. I've never met anyone who's used handguns for anything but murder.
Law enformcement officers, rangers, hunters, soldiers, ranchers, sports shooters, and Buffalo Bill would all disagree.
This is just plain idiotic. First, ISPs already monitor bandwidth and throttle speeds. Mine is capped at 1.5 megabit.
What you're suggesting could be called 'bait and switch'. Whats wrong with paying by the gigabyte or something?
Secondly, heavy users DO NOT slow down the light users. What they do is eat into ISP profits. ISPs have to pay for bandwidth too. Their profit is, more or less, user fees - bandwidth costs. So which one do you work for?
Lastly, I don't pay for simply "access", I could get that with a dial-in, I pay for bandwidth, and when that bandwidth changes and the price stays the same, I'm getting ripped off.
>As a beneficial side-effect, getting rid of, or limiting the 5% of our users who used these programs, saved us over 50% of our bandwidth. We are not weeping at their loss.
Why don't you block everything, you'll save 100% !!!
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Sorry, I'm just sick of hearing all those "towel head" and "camel jockey" jokes. It just seems every one's getting away with it too easily these days.
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If Australian officials don't like the answer they shouldn't ask the queston in the first place.
Geez...
Doctor Phlox is just a rehash of Neelix from Voyager. Slightly rounder secondary character who is kind of either the 'cowardly lion' or the simpleton with small issues.
This character needs to
a. Die off, or
b. Go through hell, Aliens style.
I put b forth because the Dr is not a hero type, not an evil type, the only thing left is victim. Put him on an abandoned freighter with some dead bodies and mucous aliens, show him freaking out and stuff. Thats about all you can do with that character.
C'mon this article doesn't even have a photo of the robot. Any robot can be built to eventually reach a predicted outcome. Of course it will flap since thats what it was given wings to do. This is as exciting as giving a robot a lift fan, except in that case there is one step to success, the "turn on lift fan" command.
What would be more interesting is build a robot with many different unique mechanisms such as fans, deflectors, arms, and whatnot and see if it can produce lift in an unexpected or unique way.
Inmate 1: What are you in for?
Inmate 2: I blew this guys face off with a shotgun because he didn't have my money. And you?
Inmate 1: I downloaded some Weird Al mp3's and uploaded that video of the monkey sniffing his finger and falling over.
Inmate 2: Sicko. You disgust me, its people like you...
That was some marketing BS to promote the PS2. PC hardware was already more powerful than the PS2 at the time and far more accesible. Where, exactly, did they restrict it? Bagdad? I can't sent a piece of paper to Bagdad.
Yea, and the Mac is a "supercomputer"
These numbers have been pulled from asses ever since we heard about the x-box. The truth is, only the accountants and execs know for sure if an X-Box costs MS $300 or $50.
So please, leave the numbers in their respective asses.
This puts us closer to handheld DNA analysis from a PDA. How soon till police in the field can check one's identity with a palm or pocketpc? (assuming you won't tell them).
I knew it would happen. Someday big corporations would gain the strength they need to crush the forests. Huge behemoths would walk the forests leaving a swath of destruction with their mechanized chainsaws and huge claws. The stench of diesel fuel would replace the sweets smell of pine.
I knew...
Someday they would come to Fern Gulley, and all that could stop them was a 4 inch man and a bunch of HOT pixies.
"Making sure that IP addresses are assigned and allocated on a fair and equitable basis and in conformity with demands of the the packet routing systems of the Internet."
I thought this was ARIN's cash cow? I get all my web exploiters mixed up!
Where do you think the money he spends goes. I don't think his balloon runs by burning greenbacks.
Your colleagues will never live up to you, so I suggest quitting now. When you say you are the "de-facto" team leader, I'm guessing this means you are not the real team leader. You've got prima donna syndrome written all over you. You can either
1. Quit now
2. Slack off a bit and see if the others pick up. (Your not in charge, what are you worried about?)
But you will probably do
3. Continue doing your own thing and keep telling yourself how crappy your teammates are until your ego explodes and you get fired or quit.
Truthfully, in programming this is the most important thing to overcome. People become so attached to their work. Now imagine you are on a team of professional toilet cleaners. Without the galmour theres no ego involvement. No one ever said, "I'm such a good shit cleaner, my fellow shit cleaners can't keep up. What do I do?" Its just about getting the job done.
By doing most of the work, you are fucking yourself. Your superiors are the only ones who can rectify the problem. But they won't if they expect 90% of the work from you. And you can't just reduce the work you get done because it looks like you are slacking and you take shit for it while in reality you are doing the same amount as everybody else. The only thing you can try at this point is soft delegation. Ask people how things are going, ask them about their code, hound them, not like a boss, but like someone who is interested. You can't tell them what to do but by continuously putting the focus of things in their mind, they will respond.
Probably the best solution is go on a two week vacation.
Think more broadly than that. Of course its not good for attacking ground targets, but think of it as a replacement for the main gun.
The problem with gun rounds is that they require a travel time to the target. While targeting computers can help the pilot aim better, its still just dumb projects.
A laser on the other hand travels at the speed of light. Plus, unlike a gatling gun with its long barrels, can be aimed quickly. Thus a radar controlled targetting computer can aim the laser dead on. You have practically a 100% chance of hitting an enemy plane that is in range.
"They REINVEST IT and create MORE jobs "
Only in luxury items. The problem is it takes almost the same manpower to create a Ferrari as it does a Saturn.
"So quit whining about how 195,000 people out of 280 million are causing massive unemployment."
195k is the limit for one year. Since H1b's are for 3 or 6 years, that means the total potential temporary workers could reach over a million. The majority of those are programmers, so it doesn't make sense to compare that total to the entire population.
I don't think H1-Bs are creating an unemployment problem, I think they are depressing the prevailing wages.
"Free trade and free labor movement creates jobs and improves your standard of living."
I agree, non-citizens who want to work and live here should apply for citizenship to start their new life here.
You're reading this on slashdot not CNN. Its not a nationwide problem. Its constrained to programmers and IT types which make up the majority of H1Bs.
You can argue racism, you can argue xenophobia.
But here's a simple test. If, as is claimed, H1-Bs are so much work to hire, then companies must be hiring them because:
A. Coroprations think H1-bs are cool!
B. The training is better in poorer countries.
C. They feel like giving H1-Bs a chance at the American Dream.
D. H1-Bs cost the large corporations millions less.
But nope, can't find Win98 here. Sorry, maybe check those cash registers at target. I think maybe those bank signs that tell the temperature might run in Win95. You'll find something.
search for Wings 3d. Its an open source polygon modeller that works similar to Nendo. However it is written in a language called Erlang. It runs on Windows, but you have to download the Erlang interpreter from Ericcson.
This is all you need for making the actual models. OpenGL support, fast modelling, mouse emulation for the popular 3d apps, and features are being added every day. Exports/imports 3ds, obj, and vrml.
Then use max or something to UV map, and you are set.
The article seems to view Western democracy as the antithesis of totalitarianism. The fact is that anyone can start a web page and say any number of things that will get them interrogated, watched, arrested, or shipped off to camp X-ray without your lawyer. Really, just start a site claiming to be an Al Queda operative, post some bluprints of a government building.
The article seems to take the argument that "look how much better we are than 1950" But in reality, has freedom and privacy increased since 1970, 1980, or 1990? Sure we can exchange information easier.
And the quip about democracy spreading between 1989 and 1991 makes me think about what life has been like in the former Soviet union since that time. It seems to me war, strife, and poverty are the most prevailent things that have spread in the region. And what about organized crime?
No one can honestly claim that western democracy is the epitome of a perfect free and private society. The system is not perfect, but only works most of the time. Innocent people are put to death or jailed for decades. Cops abuse wiretap all the time.
And last time I checked there is still a totalitarian regime in place in China despite faxes and the internet. According to this paper we should be flooding Iraq, Cuba, Iran, etc with technology to liberate it from their dictatorship. And look at Japan, despite being one of the most high tech places on the planet, is still occupied by the country that conquered it over 50 years ago.
Short wave radios may have carried the news, but that doesn't mean anything if it only carries CNN or better yet, Army PsyOps officers. Guess who has an office within the CNN offices? one man's radio free whatever is another's war propaganda.
The author seems to agree that Hitler was able to use radio to spread propaganda to millions, while saying that Orwell was mistaken in thinking that radio would be used for propaganda. Huh?, we sent PsyOps to every warzone we've been in to spread propaganda.
He also makes the statement that Orwell was mistaken about governments using technology for surveillance. Remeber that 747 the US sold to Chinese premier with something like 200 listening devices installed in it. What exactly is Carnivore if not using technology for surveillance on the populace. And thats just the one we know about. In fact now corporations have more ability to spy on us than ever. Employee routinely look up private information for "fun", as do cops. IsP Technicians have packet sniffers running at all times and can look up what page your computer is surfing at any time, and they log the stuff. Any bank employee can get your credit info at any time.
(call up your ISP and tell them that you can't connect to your web page, ask them to watch for the connection to find the problem. Ohh, How'd they do that?!?)
This article is very Jingoistic. It claims that its only 1984ish if someone besides Western contries does it. Since our democracy is infallible and perfect.
Diagnosis Sheet:
X Cold
X Influenza
(Circle one, prescribe asprin or tylenol)
If you have unexplained symptoms, nowadays its better to visit the doc once and get your aspirin and maybe the decongestant that you will ALWAYS be prescribed. Then either wait until your symptoms go away by themselves (could take years), or you start developing emergency type symptoms like high blood pressure, difficulty breathing, seizures. At this point the MDs become liable and may actually try to figure out what's wrong with you. While you may feel sick and/or hurt, MDs see people DIE every day, or who have lost 95% of their skin, or whatever, and your sniffles, headaches, or dizziness are not really as big a deal to them as it is to you.
Oh yeah, on the topic of medical databases. Doctors are expected to read journals and medical studies, but many times they just stop as soon as they get out of school. Its not that they don't like new technology, they just shun everything new. New studies, new papers, new equipment, new techniques. The reasoning is, "hey I'm not in school anymore."
Most people see doctors as their last line of defense from disease, their savior. But in reality doctors are in the business of making money just like everyone else. The more $$$ you have the better the diagnosis and treatment. Not everyone gets to go Mayo or Johns Hopkins.
Mod down all you want, I'm just the messenger.
I guess that's possible in a way. It would be more effective to attribute it to something like the government or something.
Please... come up with an original argument. This type of argument has been used in so many debates I bet it has a name. I'll give it a name: The fundamentalist's flawed formula. You'll hear this in every morality debate. The reason the formula is flawed is because it only works if the debater is fundamentally and indisputably correct. Look for negatives such as no, never, noone.
an example:
No one needs a handgun and they're only used to commit murders. I've never met anyone who's used handguns for anything but murder.
Law enformcement officers, rangers, hunters, soldiers, ranchers, sports shooters, and Buffalo Bill would all disagree.
This is just plain idiotic. First, ISPs already monitor bandwidth and throttle speeds. Mine is capped at 1.5 megabit.
What you're suggesting could be called 'bait and switch'. Whats wrong with paying by the gigabyte or something?
Secondly, heavy users DO NOT slow down the light users. What they do is eat into ISP profits. ISPs have to pay for bandwidth too. Their profit is, more or less, user fees - bandwidth costs. So which one do you work for?
Lastly, I don't pay for simply "access", I could get that with a dial-in, I pay for bandwidth, and when that bandwidth changes and the price stays the same, I'm getting ripped off.
>we block access to all p2p file-sharing programs
"Damn that rap music. We have to shut it down..."
>As a beneficial side-effect, getting rid of, or limiting the 5% of our users who used these programs, saved us over 50% of our bandwidth. We are not weeping at their loss.
Why don't you block everything, you'll save 100% !!!
Sorry, I'm just sick of hearing all those "towel head" and "camel jockey" jokes. It just seems every one's getting away with it too easily these days.
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