I no longer play FPS because I started dreaming about being chased by demons after playing too much Doom. I find these
kinds of games so immersive that they affect the way my brain works.
I remember a story that came out about somebody who did the "restore game" finger sequence after doing something embarrasing at work -- they had the same reaction I did -- time to give it up.
I'm still addicted to games, I just avoid ones that change my brain in such a noticeable fashion.
I'm not sure why but everybody seems to want to get in on this.
I'm not sure why every school board, web site, city, province, state, etc. etc. needs to set up their own charity system whenever one of these things happen.
Send people to the Red Cross, like Amazon and Apple (to name two of many) are doing -- the Red Cross knows how to spend the money, where to spend the money, and their admin overhead is VERY low.
The only thing I want to see from my city is the offer of firemen, paramedics and road engineers, from my province the offer of engineers and emergency medical services. The only group I want to see offering money is my federal government (as well as offering army engineers, soldiers, doctors and food).
Right now my school board is giving money, my city is giving money, my province is giving money and so is my federal government. How much money is being wasted in salaries for hundreds of administrators to do this? Just so everbody and their dog can claim to have done something? How about the federal government writes one BIG check and everybody else just makes a personal donation to the Red Cross?
I shudder to think of the mess that will happen at the end of the year when all the school boards are short on their budgets because they did matching donations.
To all of you who missed the point of this article and why it's interesting to/. readers...
It's amazing that kids in High School are not aware enough of costs and fees of their own cell phones to be able to manage it.
When I was that age I had a job, was buying most of my own clothes, knew how much gas cost because my dad made me fill up the car if I borrowed it, and saved up for stuff that I really wanted.
Now these kids don't even know what the services on their phones cost. This is not a good thing...
How much power does a laptop draw, it's not like it's a hair dryer or something like that.
I've never seen any coffee shop or bar complain about this behaviour, it costs pennies to charge a laptop and it's a rounding error on a typical bar's power bill to charge a cell phone.
It's like using the bathroom or taking more paper napkins; it's part of the business and only idiots would even blink at a customer taking this kind of liberty.
The Software Project Survival Guide has an excellent self survey to gauge the current risk of your project failing. It's a lot more detailed than this "survey" and includes things like having a top ten risks list and management support.
It's written by Steve C McConnell (who also wrote Rapid Development and Writing Solid Code) and well worth it for anybody doing project management.
I've used $100 bills at Walmart; why do you assume the bill was fake?
Because I found it unlikely that this person would drive out to a walmart in the middle of nowhere, stand in line for at least 20 minutes just to buy a single pack of gum. That and the whole display of looking for a smaller bill or change was so obviously staged.
I was in a Walmart during the US Thanksgiving and the women ahead of us stood for 20 minutes in Thanksgiving weekend lines at Walmart and, after a horribly acted search for small change, bought a single pack of gum with a brand new crisp $100.
The sales clerk accepted it without question.
As soon as the women walked away with her gum and change I quickly told the sales clerk it was probably a fake, all the while keeping track of the probable counterfeiter.
The sales clerk just shrugged and started scanning our stuff.
They just don't care -- it's not their money and they have no love or loyality for their employee.
Why is it that humans are so motivated to make humans obselete? Do we hate ourselves that much?
Making humans obsolete is only a problem when it's combined with a fuck 'em if they can't take care of themselves mentality.
There's no point in finding ways to reduce costs and increase productivity if it means the vast majority of people end up unemployed or under employed.
Jason Bennett gets close to the mark. The problem is not with outsourcing of IT workers (although that impacts us personally), it's the outsourcing of ALL non-service jobs (and even some of those).
American manufacturing is in serious decline, Walmart and Home Depot are driving down prices and manufacturers are moving the jobs overseas.
This is destroying the middle class as blue collar jobs disappear.
This is destroying the upper middle class. The owner of the general store, the drug store, the hardware store, etc. have been replaced by the shift manager at Walmart.
This is not a good thing. Our society (and I lump Canada in here as well) is being pushed to extremes of poverty (McDonalds workers) and wealth (Home Depot shareholders). The only middle class left will be the specialized service industry (police, nurses, teachers).
It's clear in this case because the registry was on 2003/05/01
Come on people -- both of these guys ran out and grabbed this site and they just point to their flybynight sites. Is this really what the internet is about -- registering everything you can think of and pointing it at your piece of crap website?
This isn't some kid registering the site to talk about his favourite music store (that only recently started working in Canada...)
Adoption will be slow. Many companies already have maxed out mail servers. Adding even an 1 second compute cycle to all
outbound mail requires a fairly hefty increase in available
resources, especially since most mail systems are chosen for bandwidth and IO not math processing power. What happens to a system during peak business hours when 100 people send mail with an average of 5 recipients each... 500 seconds of computing... ummm. Imagine a company that sends 5000 messages an hour, or 50000, or...
If it's not at least a second on a reasonable machine than it's not going to cause ANY headaches for a spammer -- they are just text pumps they can send SO much more mail than a normal server because they don't care about logging, errors, bounces, rejects and retries.
The "use clients inside the company" idea is idiotic -- my mail server is going to punch through the DMZ directly to the desktop of my accounting staff and ask it to generate a key? I don't think so. There is a reason every company with any brains bans Seti/IM/etc. from their internal desktops.
Zombie writers will just interleave writing packets of the current message with SHA-1 calculation for the next message they are sending. Spammers have some really good programmers on their side. If you don't think of them as being at least as good as you are then you have already lost. They are already generating random text at the front and back of the payload, this isn't SHA-1 thing isn't a big deal.
Like SPF, spammers will be the FIRST people to generate proper keys. For the near future a valid key will be a STRONG indicator of spam not a "potential whitelist" feature.
Every couple of years I buy a new computer (10MB -> 500Mb -> 10Gb -> 60Gb -> 120Gb) and copy everything over.
I make a backup of everything important once a year and
take copy to my parents and the cottage. I take an
incremental backup with me anytime I go visiting.
My kids will have bigger computers and any digital photos
will just live on by being on their computers. And their grandkids computers and...
Recently one of my aunts scanned in and touched all my grandmothers photo album. Now that album lives on CD
and Hard-Drives of most of her 13 kids and 35 grandkids.
Now nobody really cares who gets the original album.
Digital medium is SOLVING the problem of the loss of
this type of heirloom data -- not introducing a problem.
I've got a running gag with my team that if I can find the answer to their problem in 3 google searches I get their pay for that week. The number of dumb question I get is WAY down.
Sigh, yes that was phase one. Now he says screwed:-)
Bizarre thing is my oldest friend is Jewish, my Dad still asks how he's doing and when my friend was recently back in our home town he dropped in to introduce my parents to his newest child.
This is what I call amateur racism. My dad uses all sorts of racial slurs but during my wedding party was buying drinks for all the "pakis" and "chinks" I had invited.
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I remember a story that came out about somebody who did the "restore game" finger sequence after doing something embarrasing at work -- they had the same reaction I did -- time to give it up.
I'm still addicted to games, I just avoid ones that change my brain in such a noticeable fashion.
I'm not sure why every school board, web site, city, province, state, etc. etc. needs to set up their own charity system whenever one of these things happen.
Send people to the Red Cross, like Amazon and Apple (to name two of many) are doing -- the Red Cross knows how to spend the money, where to spend the money, and their admin overhead is VERY low.
The only thing I want to see from my city is the offer of firemen, paramedics and road engineers, from my province the offer of engineers and emergency medical services. The only group I want to see offering money is my federal government (as well as offering army engineers, soldiers, doctors and food).
Right now my school board is giving money, my city is giving money, my province is giving money and so is my federal government. How much money is being wasted in salaries for hundreds of administrators to do this? Just so everbody and their dog can claim to have done something? How about the federal government writes one BIG check and everybody else just makes a personal donation to the Red Cross?
I shudder to think of the mess that will happen at the end of the year when all the school boards are short on their budgets because they did matching donations.
It's amazing that kids in High School are not aware enough of costs and fees of their own cell phones to be able to manage it.
When I was that age I had a job, was buying most of my own clothes, knew how much gas cost because my dad made me fill up the car if I borrowed it, and saved up for stuff that I really wanted.
Now these kids don't even know what the services on their phones cost. This is not a good thing ...
They were *really* stretching to get this list to 10 ... I guess things are pretty good in the world of vaporware given the bottom 3.
Sigh, well almost.
I've never seen any coffee shop or bar complain about this behaviour, it costs pennies to charge a laptop and it's a rounding error on a typical bar's power bill to charge a cell phone.
It's like using the bathroom or taking more paper napkins; it's part of the business and only idiots would even blink at a customer taking this kind of liberty.
Heck, buggy whip manufacturing and hand weaving still exists but these guys are going under.
It's written by Steve C McConnell (who also wrote Rapid Development and Writing Solid Code) and well worth it for anybody doing project management.
Because I found it unlikely that this person would drive out to a walmart in the middle of nowhere, stand in line for at least 20 minutes just to buy a single pack of gum. That and the whole display of looking for a smaller bill or change was so obviously staged.
Why do they always try to make this sound difficult?
Hey everybody, I've got pictures of Natalie Portman naked!
I was in a Walmart during the US Thanksgiving and the women ahead of us stood for 20 minutes in Thanksgiving weekend lines at Walmart and, after a horribly acted search for small change, bought a single pack of gum with a brand new crisp $100.
The sales clerk accepted it without question.
As soon as the women walked away with her gum and change I quickly told the sales clerk it was probably a fake, all the while keeping track of the probable counterfeiter.
The sales clerk just shrugged and started scanning our stuff.
They just don't care -- it's not their money and they have no love or loyality for their employee.
Making humans obsolete is only a problem when it's combined with a fuck 'em if they can't take care of themselves mentality.
There's no point in finding ways to reduce costs and increase productivity if it means the vast majority of people end up unemployed or under employed.
American manufacturing is in serious decline, Walmart and Home Depot are driving down prices and manufacturers are moving the jobs overseas.
This is destroying the middle class as blue collar jobs disappear.
This is destroying the upper middle class. The owner of the general store, the drug store, the hardware store, etc. have been replaced by the shift manager at Walmart.
This is not a good thing. Our society (and I lump Canada in here as well) is being pushed to extremes of poverty (McDonalds workers) and wealth (Home Depot shareholders). The only middle class left will be the specialized service industry (police, nurses, teachers).
I just checked this out -- an English version of this would be useful -- this dictionary is unmoderated and full of junk!
It's clear in this case because the registry was on 2003/05/01
Come on people -- both of these guys ran out and grabbed this site and they just point to their flybynight sites. Is this really what the internet is about -- registering everything you can think of and pointing it at your piece of crap website?
This isn't some kid registering the site to talk about his favourite music store (that only recently started working in Canada ...)
Missed all of IronPort's competitors (BorderWare, Barracuda, CipherTrust).
Missed Postini, the managed Spam services leader.
I'd start with MetaGroup, Gartner or somebody like that to get a list of what the options really are ...
Memorize less but recall more if you get my drift.
The problem is that unless you know what options are out there you don't look for them.
I will not be escalating my PVR vs. the networks war (I don't watch enough TV) but I could end up renting all the TV I watch a year later ...
Eventually this will end:
We only watch shows we've pre-recorded; I never channel surf anymore, the kids rarely do.
If I have nothing recorded the horror of watching "normal" TV is too much to bear so I can't channel surf anymore.
We watch shows in 3/4 the time (West Wing -- 42 minutes instead of 60).
The kids come home from school, do their homework, watch the two shows they recorded from yesterday and turn off the TV.
Adoption will be slow. Many companies already have maxed out mail servers. Adding even an 1 second compute cycle to all outbound mail requires a fairly hefty increase in available resources, especially since most mail systems are chosen for bandwidth and IO not math processing power. What happens to a system during peak business hours when 100 people send mail with an average of 5 recipients each ... 500 seconds of computing ... ummm. Imagine a company that sends 5000 messages an hour, or 50000, or ...
If it's not at least a second on a reasonable machine than it's not going to cause ANY headaches for a spammer -- they are just text pumps they can send SO much more mail than a normal server because they don't care about logging, errors, bounces, rejects and retries.
The "use clients inside the company" idea is idiotic -- my mail server is going to punch through the DMZ directly to the desktop of my accounting staff and ask it to generate a key? I don't think so. There is a reason every company with any brains bans Seti/IM/etc. from their internal desktops.
Zombie writers will just interleave writing packets of the current message with SHA-1 calculation for the next message they are sending. Spammers have some really good programmers on their side. If you don't think of them as being at least as good as you are then you have already lost. They are already generating random text at the front and back of the payload, this isn't SHA-1 thing isn't a big deal.
Like SPF, spammers will be the FIRST people to generate proper keys. For the near future a valid key will be a STRONG indicator of spam not a "potential whitelist" feature.
I make a backup of everything important once a year and take copy to my parents and the cottage. I take an incremental backup with me anytime I go visiting.
My kids will have bigger computers and any digital photos will just live on by being on their computers. And their grandkids computers and ...
Recently one of my aunts scanned in and touched all my grandmothers photo album. Now that album lives on CD and Hard-Drives of most of her 13 kids and 35 grandkids. Now nobody really cares who gets the original album.
Digital medium is SOLVING the problem of the loss of this type of heirloom data -- not introducing a problem.
I've got a running gag with my team that if I can find the answer to their problem in 3 google searches I get their pay for that week. The number of dumb question I get is WAY down.
Bizarre thing is my oldest friend is Jewish, my Dad still asks how he's doing and when my friend was recently back in our home town he dropped in to introduce my parents to his newest child.
This is what I call amateur racism. My dad uses all sorts of racial slurs but during my wedding party was buying drinks for all the "pakis" and "chinks" I had invited.