I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that a first person shooter, no matter how "realistic" the blood and guts is anything like actually going out and fighting has needs a reality check. They've either never played the game, or they've been playing for too long or they are just plain idiots.
Same goes for the movies. They might be used as recruiting tools (chiefly for cannon fodder as anyone dumb enough to think they're going to be Maverick from Top Gun clearly is too stupid and naive to be useful as much else).
I think the differences here are that
1) The games have become more mainstream. Every man and his dog has a phone or a netbook or a tablet or something else that can run some sort of shooter
2) The conflicts are current. In the 80s conflicts were short, few and far between, at least for the western world. Games about Vietnam, Korea and the World wars or some future WWIII scenario were all you could write games about because there wasn't much that was current and in the mainstream public eye (at least till the Gulf War)
What amazes me is that all these people whining about video games probably grew up playing WWII games, Cops and Robbers, racially insensitive "Cowboys and Indians" etc. without a thought. Yet I'd argue they're more realistic in many ways than clicking a mouse cursor on a screen. The only way you're going to get a bloody nose doing the latter is if you're stupid and trip over your own shoelaces.
You're being too nice. I wasn't and got modded troll. The reality is he's got the whole of the Internet with thousands upon thousands of resources - books, tutorials, whole development environments he can download, and instead he's chosen to post to ask slashdot? WTF?! I wouldn't want to work with him.
Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.
Yes but asking such a silly question on slashdot makes him unemployable. There are thousands of tutorials, books and even complete development environments online. If this is a genuine query this guy is LAZY.
There are several limitations to adaptive optics, which are by no means a cutting edge technology for large observatories any more. Just about every telescope being built or upgraded today are having adaptive optics fitted.
One major limitation is that the adaptive optics are only good for small fields of view since you're using a single guide star to calibrate the disturbances in the atmosphere you're correcting. So they are not good for imaging multiple objects or even large single objects (like a single galaxy). Another is that since you're not in orbit like Hubble you have to wait for the planet to rotate, so a deep field would take much longer anyway.
When we lose Hubble we lose some unique capability. Even successor telescopes that don't work in optical light will not fill that void. Adaptive optics will only be useful in some circumstances whereas Hubble would have been useful in the general case. Oversimplifications like this story don't belong on a techy site like slashdot.
Maybe they were able to access your router because the password was still password1?
I think he would have preferred that they left his password alone and that instead some malicious hacker got in there and really did some damage. I wonder what feat of administrative magic he could do? Perhaps reset the router to default settings (removing any back doors he's worried about) and setting his own damn password. Nah, that would require taking some personal responsibility. Much better to yell "I've fallen and I can't get up" on a public board. What was your IP address again? You've broadcast that you don't secure your equipment, but you just haven't made it easy enough for every hacker on the planet to p0wn you.
I've had what I consider a very bad experience with Paypal and now I only use them begrudgingly if I have no other alternative. I consider their assurances technically accurate but due to their execution to be of no use whatsoever to me. So I treat all transactions put through Paypal as high risk "might not get what you pay for" transactions. If I were looking for a credit card, I'd rather poke out both my eyes than get one with that company. I don't think I'm alone.
I've been coding for about as long as you have. I've seen all you're talking about. It's stressful sometimes. At the moment I'm between coding Unix C system level stuff (sockets, semaphores, shared memory etc), a VBA course and VBA Excel work, Java Spring MVC and hibernate and support of multiple systems. My job is no picnic, it can be stressful, and I'm not rich, but I've been able to support my family well as the sole earner. The secret is to ignore all the political BS and realise that sometimes you have to do it the way you're paid to instead of the elegant way. I miss the RAD tools of the mid 90s and think Java and the web platform suck. That doesn't matter - I don't usually get to choose what I use to write the system or what is in vogue in the industry. If the platform sucks I still make the most of it. If a job needs to be done my bosses know if they assign it to me it will get done if at all possible, and if it's not I will clearly state why. My success is not language or platform dependent. Learning new languages, new libraries, new platforms, new methodologies, new paradigms...none of that scares me or puts me off. They're just the tool I use to solve the problem, and that is what I love doing (particularly for interesting problems).
My first IT boss told me I'd never succeed. I proved him wrong. Anyone that's told me that since i've moved on and proved wrong. Where I've had a disagreement with someone over the way to do something if I've won out and there have been hard feelings I've moved forward despite them. I've had bosses try to keep me in low paid work or put me down. I've moved on to better positions. If a boss workplace or manager or colleagues put too much in my way to allow me to succeed, I go find somewhere else to work. So far I've had 4 IT positions through my whole career (though worked with plenty
Actually, their lives will probably get a fair bit better from it.
Not that that helps you very much.
You're one of the ones that considers working 14 hour days 7 days a week significantly better than starving to death> Perhaps. But probably not if the whole world pays for it by living that way (save for a few rich individuals). It's just slavery by another name.
So how do the people in Harlem afford to live there?
By living in rat infested shit holes, skipping meals and eating horrible food, getting an education that is a joke and healthcare that leaves them dead if theu get sick enough or injured. It's called poverty and it's not desirable. Suggesting that people should work towards this is ridiculous.
Exactly. Just because you can buy a consumer grade hard disk for $1/GB, doesn't mean $30/GB is necesarily a rip off. For starters commercial grade network devices aren't so cheap. Secondly you may have multiple online copies via some form of RAID. Thirdly you might have that backed up periodically to more than one other device. Fourthly there's admin costs of overseeing this...
I wouldn't go as far as including bandwidth though.
"Don't let your asshole friend go to get the pizza, cause all he'll bring you home is a couple of cold slices"
No, the lesson is send your asshole friend who can't play rock, paper, scissors for shit to go get fat on pizza while you use his Amiga. Why the fuck should you pay for one? When he gets back with cold pizza refuse to pay cause hey he ate most of it and it's cold, then tell him it's time to go home.
...you should see their pilot training. Instead of learning correct operating procedure for an airplane and controlled airspace, their pilots are taught to shut their eyes and repeat "oh god! oh god! oh god!". Apparently this has allowed them to save a lot of money by combining training for their pilots and hosties.
Nope. Welcome to globalization! Billions of third world people just waiting to do what you do for 1/10th the price. Expect your living standard to trend towards theirs, because if it's one thing this planet has, it's a huge excess of available labor.
SO their lives don't get much better and mine goes to absolute shite. Is that the world we really want to build or live in?
Gone are the days when you can charge $5000 for 3 logo concepts when some college student is happy to spend 2 hours cranking out a concept in his spare time for the chance at winning $269
The trouble is apply this to every industry and all of a sudden it's not overcharging fat cats that add no value that are affect: Suddenly there is no way to make a decent living. The only industries that survive are the ones that require qualifications.
In other words I agree that charging $5000 for 3 logo concepts isn't necessarily reasonable, but I don't want to see only amateurs compete for a single prize pool of $269 either. Effectively most people are working for free. That's not reasonable either. Surely there's a middle ground?
That's some great QA you've got going on over there.
My current DELL laptop once had a nonpaged memory pool leak that would cause the machine to die with a blue screen within between 12 and 24 hours. The only way to fix it was to restart. Hibernate didn't cut it. Once Windows started, you lost 4k at a time every couple of minutes till the non paged pool was exhausted. I tried everything and was about to reformat. In desperation I reset the bios and THAT fixed it. What the fuck!
My point is, if you bought a DELL, you bought malware. My next laptop looks like it will either be an ASUS or a Toshiba.
Anyone else tired of every god damn company picking up on this lil' pat on the back "hey good job buddy" crap?
My favourite achievement is the Apple iPhone 4 achievement for managing to complete a call without the signal dropping out because you touched the antenna.
(C'mon, even the fanboys must have a sense of humour)
Congratulations. You no longer need an airline to help you treat yourself and your fellow travellers like heads of cattle who are weighed by the pound. You're doing a fantastic job of that yourself.
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"I am only sorry that so many people end up bashing Wine."
It's because no-one complains worse than the people getting something for free.
My time is not free. So it's not free if I waste my time trying to get it to work after being told that it runs almost flawlessly only to find that it's going to take a significant investment of time and require me to become an expert hacker on the project. You see giving something away for free doesn't entitle a developer to be rude, arrogant, condescending abusive or a liar. I've seen all of these behaviours from developers giving something away for "free".
There, fixed that for you. Bricked is permanent. Non-permanent "bricking" isn't bricking at all. If you can revive it, it was never bricked in the first place.
It all depends on how easy it is to reinstall the software. MOST "bricked" devices could be recovered at a service center with specialised equipment for a fee (that may not make it a cost effective proposition). If an end user can make the phone unusable but can't reverse the situation using the same equipment (or at least readily available affordable - as in a few bucks - equipment) I would still call it bricked even if it can be revived.
I have no idea if in this safe mode it's easy to install the authorised software. If it is easy I wouldn't call that bricked either. I'd just call it nasty DRM that I'll steer well clear of.
It's not filtering of different opinions, it's filtering of the trolls who post off-topic graffiti and goatse links rather than actually taking part in the discussion. OP was spot on. Slashdot's moderation system works because it has a huge army of visitors that can be tapped for mod duties.
No it most certainly doesn't work. It rates a comment according to popularity. Now it may just happen that a comment is unpopular because it is off topic or it is a troll, but there are many other reasons for a view expressed to be unpopular. The moderation is routinely misused by people who disagree with content or find a point of view unpopular regardless of whether it is valid. You only have to look at any topic involving Apple, or better yet post to one, and watch the moderation roller-coaster. That "huge army of visitors" is more biased than a politician that's just received a large bribe.
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I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that a first person shooter, no matter how "realistic" the blood and guts is anything like actually going out and fighting has needs a reality check. They've either never played the game, or they've been playing for too long or they are just plain idiots.
Same goes for the movies. They might be used as recruiting tools (chiefly for cannon fodder as anyone dumb enough to think they're going to be Maverick from Top Gun clearly is too stupid and naive to be useful as much else).
I think the differences here are that
1) The games have become more mainstream. Every man and his dog has a phone or a netbook or a tablet or something else that can run some sort of shooter
2) The conflicts are current. In the 80s conflicts were short, few and far between, at least for the western world. Games about Vietnam, Korea and the World wars or some future WWIII scenario were all you could write games about because there wasn't much that was current and in the mainstream public eye (at least till the Gulf War)
What amazes me is that all these people whining about video games probably grew up playing WWII games, Cops and Robbers, racially insensitive "Cowboys and Indians" etc. without a thought. Yet I'd argue they're more realistic in many ways than clicking a mouse cursor on a screen. The only way you're going to get a bloody nose doing the latter is if you're stupid and trip over your own shoelaces.
I see the fucktards are moderating today.
The real problem with donkey votes is that the people casting them are negligent in fulfilling their public duty to vote.
Yes, that's right. They just don't realise! You have to become a politician to earn the right to be negligent in fulfilling your public duty!
You're being too nice. I wasn't and got modded troll. The reality is he's got the whole of the Internet with thousands upon thousands of resources - books, tutorials, whole development environments he can download, and instead he's chosen to post to ask slashdot? WTF?! I wouldn't want to work with him.
Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.
Yes but asking such a silly question on slashdot makes him unemployable. There are thousands of tutorials, books and even complete development environments online. If this is a genuine query this guy is LAZY.
There are several limitations to adaptive optics, which are by no means a cutting edge technology for large observatories any more. Just about every telescope being built or upgraded today are having adaptive optics fitted.
One major limitation is that the adaptive optics are only good for small fields of view since you're using a single guide star to calibrate the disturbances in the atmosphere you're correcting. So they are not good for imaging multiple objects or even large single objects (like a single galaxy). Another is that since you're not in orbit like Hubble you have to wait for the planet to rotate, so a deep field would take much longer anyway.
When we lose Hubble we lose some unique capability. Even successor telescopes that don't work in optical light will not fill that void. Adaptive optics will only be useful in some circumstances whereas Hubble would have been useful in the general case. Oversimplifications like this story don't belong on a techy site like slashdot.
Maybe they were able to access your router because the password was still password1 ?
I think he would have preferred that they left his password alone and that instead some malicious hacker got in there and really did some damage. I wonder what feat of administrative magic he could do? Perhaps reset the router to default settings (removing any back doors he's worried about) and setting his own damn password. Nah, that would require taking some personal responsibility. Much better to yell "I've fallen and I can't get up" on a public board. What was your IP address again? You've broadcast that you don't secure your equipment, but you just haven't made it easy enough for every hacker on the planet to p0wn you.
Summary: Problem behind keyboard. IDIOT.
I've had what I consider a very bad experience with Paypal and now I only use them begrudgingly if I have no other alternative. I consider their assurances technically accurate but due to their execution to be of no use whatsoever to me. So I treat all transactions put through Paypal as high risk "might not get what you pay for" transactions. If I were looking for a credit card, I'd rather poke out both my eyes than get one with that company. I don't think I'm alone.
I've been coding for about as long as you have. I've seen all you're talking about. It's stressful sometimes. At the moment I'm between coding Unix C system level stuff (sockets, semaphores, shared memory etc), a VBA course and VBA Excel work, Java Spring MVC and hibernate and support of multiple systems. My job is no picnic, it can be stressful, and I'm not rich, but I've been able to support my family well as the sole earner. The secret is to ignore all the political BS and realise that sometimes you have to do it the way you're paid to instead of the elegant way. I miss the RAD tools of the mid 90s and think Java and the web platform suck. That doesn't matter - I don't usually get to choose what I use to write the system or what is in vogue in the industry. If the platform sucks I still make the most of it. If a job needs to be done my bosses know if they assign it to me it will get done if at all possible, and if it's not I will clearly state why. My success is not language or platform dependent. Learning new languages, new libraries, new platforms, new methodologies, new paradigms...none of that scares me or puts me off. They're just the tool I use to solve the problem, and that is what I love doing (particularly for interesting problems).
My first IT boss told me I'd never succeed. I proved him wrong. Anyone that's told me that since i've moved on and proved wrong. Where I've had a disagreement with someone over the way to do something if I've won out and there have been hard feelings I've moved forward despite them. I've had bosses try to keep me in low paid work or put me down. I've moved on to better positions. If a boss workplace or manager or colleagues put too much in my way to allow me to succeed, I go find somewhere else to work. So far I've had 4 IT positions through my whole career (though worked with plenty
Actually, their lives will probably get a fair bit better from it.
Not that that helps you very much.
You're one of the ones that considers working 14 hour days 7 days a week significantly better than starving to death> Perhaps. But probably not if the whole world pays for it by living that way (save for a few rich individuals). It's just slavery by another name.
Looks like you're right; they appear to be using an implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing
That sounds like the Arabic version of the Colonel's 7 secret herbs and spices.
So how do the people in Harlem afford to live there?
By living in rat infested shit holes, skipping meals and eating horrible food, getting an education that is a joke and healthcare that leaves them dead if theu get sick enough or injured. It's called poverty and it's not desirable. Suggesting that people should work towards this is ridiculous.
Exactly. Just because you can buy a consumer grade hard disk for $1/GB, doesn't mean $30/GB is necesarily a rip off. For starters commercial grade network devices aren't so cheap. Secondly you may have multiple online copies via some form of RAID. Thirdly you might have that backed up periodically to more than one other device. Fourthly there's admin costs of overseeing this...
I wouldn't go as far as including bandwidth though.
I thought the lesson was..
"Don't let your asshole friend go to get the pizza, cause all he'll bring you home is a couple of cold slices"
No, the lesson is send your asshole friend who can't play rock, paper, scissors for shit to go get fat on pizza while you use his Amiga. Why the fuck should you pay for one? When he gets back with cold pizza refuse to pay cause hey he ate most of it and it's cold, then tell him it's time to go home.
...you should see their pilot training. Instead of learning correct operating procedure for an airplane and controlled airspace, their pilots are taught to shut their eyes and repeat "oh god! oh god! oh god!". Apparently this has allowed them to save a lot of money by combining training for their pilots and hosties.
Come to Australia. Unless you're very careful you'll find yourself signed up to plans that charge tens of cents or even dollars per extra MEGABYTE
Re:The real question is...who had more fun?
It's not usually a lot of fun having your arse handed to you.
Nope. Welcome to globalization! Billions of third world people just waiting to do what you do for 1/10th the price. Expect your living standard to trend towards theirs, because if it's one thing this planet has, it's a huge excess of available labor.
SO their lives don't get much better and mine goes to absolute shite. Is that the world we really want to build or live in?
Gone are the days when you can charge $5000 for 3 logo concepts when some college student is happy to spend 2 hours cranking out a concept in his spare time for the chance at winning $269
The trouble is apply this to every industry and all of a sudden it's not overcharging fat cats that add no value that are affect: Suddenly there is no way to make a decent living. The only industries that survive are the ones that require qualifications.
In other words I agree that charging $5000 for 3 logo concepts isn't necessarily reasonable, but I don't want to see only amateurs compete for a single prize pool of $269 either. Effectively most people are working for free. That's not reasonable either. Surely there's a middle ground?
That's some great QA you've got going on over there.
My current DELL laptop once had a nonpaged memory pool leak that would cause the machine to die with a blue screen within between 12 and 24 hours. The only way to fix it was to restart. Hibernate didn't cut it. Once Windows started, you lost 4k at a time every couple of minutes till the non paged pool was exhausted. I tried everything and was about to reformat. In desperation I reset the bios and THAT fixed it. What the fuck!
My point is, if you bought a DELL, you bought malware. My next laptop looks like it will either be an ASUS or a Toshiba.
Anyone else tired of every god damn company picking up on this lil' pat on the back "hey good job buddy" crap?
My favourite achievement is the Apple iPhone 4 achievement for managing to complete a call without the signal dropping out because you touched the antenna.
(C'mon, even the fanboys must have a sense of humour)
Congratulations. You no longer need an airline to help you treat yourself and your fellow travellers like heads of cattle who are weighed by the pound. You're doing a fantastic job of that yourself.
"I am only sorry that so many people end up bashing Wine."
It's because no-one complains worse than the people getting something for free.
My time is not free. So it's not free if I waste my time trying to get it to work after being told that it runs almost flawlessly only to find that it's going to take a significant investment of time and require me to become an expert hacker on the project. You see giving something away for free doesn't entitle a developer to be rude, arrogant, condescending abusive or a liar. I've seen all of these behaviours from developers giving something away for "free".
There, fixed that for you. Bricked is permanent. Non-permanent "bricking" isn't bricking at all. If you can revive it, it was never bricked in the first place.
It all depends on how easy it is to reinstall the software. MOST "bricked" devices could be recovered at a service center with specialised equipment for a fee (that may not make it a cost effective proposition). If an end user can make the phone unusable but can't reverse the situation using the same equipment (or at least readily available affordable - as in a few bucks - equipment) I would still call it bricked even if it can be revived.
I have no idea if in this safe mode it's easy to install the authorised software. If it is easy I wouldn't call that bricked either. I'd just call it nasty DRM that I'll steer well clear of.
It's not filtering of different opinions, it's filtering of the trolls who post off-topic graffiti and goatse links rather than actually taking part in the discussion. OP was spot on. Slashdot's moderation system works because it has a huge army of visitors that can be tapped for mod duties.
No it most certainly doesn't work. It rates a comment according to popularity. Now it may just happen that a comment is unpopular because it is off topic or it is a troll, but there are many other reasons for a view expressed to be unpopular. The moderation is routinely misused by people who disagree with content or find a point of view unpopular regardless of whether it is valid. You only have to look at any topic involving Apple, or better yet post to one, and watch the moderation roller-coaster. That "huge army of visitors" is more biased than a politician that's just received a large bribe.