The article has the control group also playing the same game. The difference is that group is not 'trained.'
When I started to play Warcraft I thought it would be a great way to train younger kids.. Balencing resources between peon verses fighter and what task to assign each to maximize resource use.
The fact that most things require all three resources.
"Dog Drool!"
If the data shows when the vote was done - which I'm sure it does - then the data can be evaluated and stats worked up.
If someone was fooling with the vote count they would have to be very careful in how they entered the data. Stats can be run one the distribution pattern and non-random sequence of entries can be looked at closely.
Hell - every election voting database should be accessable on the net for any election, so that ANYONE can run the numbers and take a look. look what happened 2004 election - someone was able to show the the exit poles were SIGNIFICANTLY different then the results. Showing it had been rigged.
The powerful conservative group that is trying to run this country and own the media tried to debunk it but it holds true.
They silenced the discussion pretty well - don't you think?
**BANG** ("looks like another suicide guys - but it's okay the guy's spelling was harrable!")
" worst case is they report you to the authorities and you get fined for violating the list. In both cases you gain nothing and only loose time spent calling the person and quite possibly a lot of money too."
As a person who worked as a Support Engineer as well as a programmer I can say that one call every 15-20 minutes can effectively destroy my ability to get any real work done (programmer.)
I worked for a small company and 'filled in' for the owner who was getting to many technical calls to get anything else done. Guess what - It wasn't long before I was not making progress on my serious work. It takes me a good 10 minutes after an interuption to get my head back around a problem - at least the problems I like to solve.
Small companys can be a pain - it wasn't long before the owner was inquiring as to why things were going so slowly. He stopped asking as often when I repeatedly asked him to remember what he told me in my interview - "I can't seem to get anything done while getting all these calls." He - as many managers - seem to live in some kind of fantisy world where they can ignore they're own personal experiences and reality in general.
I went back to working in a University medical lab where I could finish solving problems, but only after endoring that company for 6 plus years.
When I left I got the best complamnet - they hire 3 full time people to take my place, and a 4th a few months later. And all I really wanted was a decent raise and my new (ass-hole) manager off my back. After working most weekends for years to stay on top this manager always agreed with the owner that a person should be able to do technical programming, answer and fix technical problems for the 8 technical product spin offs and manage a company wide (30+ computers, servers, internet access, and FTP site) lan at the same time.
The new manager didn't last much longer. I worked as a consultant for them at $50+ and hour for almost a year after he left. I told him I outlasted the last 4 managers and I'ld outlast him, it turned out to be true. I Had a son and lived happily ever-after. The End.
Back when I was a kid we didn't even have gravity - you had to hold onto something all the time or float away. Lost an older brother that way.. either that or food posion.
Walk uphill to school and uphill back....
I have a 4.5 year old boy and I'm constantly stopping myself from buying everything I would have killed or died for when I was a kid. Things that would cost a dedicated hobbiest 4 months of work and 1/2 year chore money is under $10!
Our one big advantage is I have a small hobbie farm - pigs, cows, horses, gease, and when the fox is away I sometimes have chickens. Barn cat, house cat, 3 dogs, morning and evening chores.
He has 'helped' me with then as soon as he was born, although keeping him safe often required more work then the chores. There is 150 ways to be serously hirt or killed around the barn, and safty (he is learning) is most important.
He has lots of neat toys, most of which are not played with. He plays with his tool set about as much as the rest and as soon as he is able to read we will go closed caption on the tv.
He and I play on the computer. I help him construct simple animations using Poser, and we have a digital camera he plays with, and getting better with.
I'm a firm believer that there is NOTHING that a person can't learn about and do, and yesterday we layed som PVC pumbing and made a apple pie from 'scratch'.
Your job as a parent is to help your kids become successful and happy adults, and who knows what you don't have to bother teaching them? Tell me what the future holds.
If it is not too late.. get into your setup menue and disable auto-update! When it asks you to update say NO.
I turned that feature off after they rearanged some of the menues to sell me crap. I didn't want it any worse so I shut it off. I just happened to so NO to an upgrade that was requested yesterday. Would that upgrade improve my service - I asked. My answer was - it could be better, but it could and probably would be something I didn't like.
Ok, we all say it eval and terible. Enough about that.
IF done correctly it might be a nice gray area.
IF all sites are required to carry it, and IF 'art' and medical information is given a wide exception, then it could be alright. As a parent I want my child to be able to access ALL material on the web with the understanding that comes with it - that some of it is explotive and possibly degrading. When they are old enough to understand this and accept this then he (and maybe some day, she) may view it.
My objection, and those of more then a few of slash-dot readers is that this is masked as a possibly exceptable method with which censorship can be implemented at a state/IPservice level - to be blocked at the whim of any external discribed moral justification, local or otherwise.
To be truely valuable, the web can never be 'child-safe'. If that is the goal for the average parent then it needs to be clearer for them: You can't let you kid wonder the net unsupervise - like any city street or park. Help them by being there with them.
If done well, I could support a law like this. But let's face it - it will not be. I don't TRUST this law or any other that looks, sounds, or smells like it.
Leave things the way they are.. I have only seen porn when I've wanted it, the way it is now.
As I understand it there is a lot of power which goes into processing the nuclear rods that are used. A value like 80% of power ultimately produced comes to mind - taken from hydropower as I recall.
If that is in fact true - wouldn't a better power storage device be almost as good?
Absolutely correct - That is my feeling on all these new powers given in these laws. State clearly that anything else found (except capital murder maybe) can not ever be used in court.
That means no "boom making material" (bathroom cleaners + duck tape), drugs, etc.
The only time you here about this 'lack' is when Business/Gov can't hire an Engineer/Scientist for near min. wage.
I worked in a research lab programming while getting a degree in the 80's and saw a large number of young scientist trying to get established. In the lab I worked in we had 5 postdocs, none of which got funding and all ended up leaving the field, most after a series of 2-5 year postdoc's. Not enough funding in the field. The only one of my general age group I know of who made some progress is my wife.
When I worked in a small engineering business there were always huge number of qualified applicant for new positions - we had our pick, so it was the best per $, sometimes getting experienced people for $35K. Sad.
After years of overwork I was finially given an assistant to train who would help me at my engineering support position in a small company. He spent no more then 15 minutes a day eating a brown bag lunch and playing the ASCII version of startrek.
Unfortuentally, his desktop could be seen from the hallway and it happened the owner saw this game being played a number of times. He was reassigned away because "he did nothing but play computer games."
A short time later after getting an amazingly bad performace review I left the company and they hire 3 people (kid you not) to do my jobs (and kept me as a part time consultant for 6 months).
Basic fact is that these (non-oversited) wiretapes are illegal, even if our fascist leader says otherwise. No one is correcting Bush on this, but by-god make it clear by hitting every for profit company which moves to help - hit'em in a way they understand. $money$
It's commonly understood (through out the world if not here) that big money corporations are overly represented in our government. This seems a good tactic.
(flamebate on)
It makes me sick to see min wage poor, or unemployed bluecollar worker, or anyone for that matter showing support for Bush. Bush is 3 times more impeachable then Nixon was. Wakeup please.
(flamebate off)
"Serious question: why should the computer be up & running (and consuming electricity) when you are not using it? So you could show off your uptime-figures?"
It goes into power save mode if not using for 20 minutes. Saves switch/powersupply/harddrive ware&tare. And I like to work from home evenings/latenight/weekends over net.
I use rtLinux at work (university biomed research) and we use this to collect data and drive equipment on a tight schedule. Regular linux runs as the lowest priority. Development at this level is tricky - I learned not to development code on test system because I got tired of rebooting and restarting editors when I screwed up.:)
Vermont Congressman B. Sanders (I) authored this bill.
Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords (I formally R) switched to Independent because of this type of crap ( Rep.s are expected to march lock-step and the hell with the people that sent them.) Jim is an old style Republican - fiscally conservative, limit powers of government, etc.
Vermont Senator Pat Leahy is the only senator I've seen put Rumsfeld on the carpet over the White House torture crap. ( http://thememoryhole.org/spy/edmonds_letters.htm
- was link to information about FBI interpretor who reported the FBI has details of 9/11 plans long before 9/11, Leahy wrote letter to Rumsfeld asking for more info - everything, including letter was classified, and now thememoryhole.org is off line)
Howard Dean from Vermont (debating Nader on NPR at 2 pm on east coast.) Dean gave party some backbone - and issues which people care about ( health care, no reason for war in Iraq) The media did a coordinated and systematic assalted where non-thinking people were lead to beleave
I followed the phone spec sheet to www.grandstream.com web site, thinking there is a chance that I could finally pick up some VOIP hardware at a decent price if I ordered directly.
These guys must be business newbees - very little sales info, for example - they do indicate quantity requirements for purchase (or any pricing)!
I tried calling and of course these are busy, so I sent them an email. Since they are no dout been side-effect slashdotted, my guess is the only way I will get my answer is if these guys do what they should have and put some actual sales information on there web site.
Here I am, credit card in hand, ready to pick up 3 or 4 if the price is anything slightly better then the Lindows guys price. Hell, I'd rather purchase the adapters for the $70 they mention in the beta news clip.
How can a business be so stupid.. makes me wonder. Listen up guys - add some sales info, and if your not selling for Quanities less then 100 - put that on there and save yourself 99% of the sudden slashdotting.
Global information is not just position information, it's world state information.
Fire fighting robots - for example - might be the only way for which smoke level and heat level info at there location is communicated, but there is no single known state (or Global source) for this information. And it changes with time. Robot 5 reports it can no longer advance due to a heat threshold level hit, not the GUI operator has one less function availible for that robot (or perhaps more.)
Yes. You will learn things in a few upper level computer classes that you will not on the job. For example, some problems do not scale linearly - knowing this and being able to prove this to your MBA supervisor can save you your job, and the company a lot of time and money. There are handfulls of cases like this and without the background you will be lost.
Hardware support of dual perspective transmitted through odd/even frame with shutter glasses is highly recommended! Unreal in 3D - watch out for those rockets!
41,000+ people died on our highways in 1999. We *could* reduce that number to sigle digit thousands (2-3K maybe) if we moved toward mass transet.. but we don't BECAUSE we like the _convience_ and are will to die for it.
5-6K die and everyone is ready to throw away a chunk of our civil liberties to save what? Our rights, our american way?
So sad.
How long until the ENUM is needed to book a flight, take a cab, register a car, enter a fed. building, or fill up your tank?
Sounds like a universal ID with a different name
Slashdot Mirror
The article has the control group also playing the same game. The difference is that group is not 'trained.' When I started to play Warcraft I thought it would be a great way to train younger kids.. Balencing resources between peon verses fighter and what task to assign each to maximize resource use. The fact that most things require all three resources. "Dog Drool!"
If the data shows when the vote was done - which I'm sure it does - then
the data can be evaluated and stats worked up.
If someone was fooling with the vote count they would have to be very careful
in how they entered the data. Stats can be run one the distribution pattern and
non-random sequence of entries can be looked at closely.
Hell - every election voting database should be accessable on the net for any
election, so that ANYONE can run the numbers and take a look. look what happened
2004 election - someone was able to show the the exit poles were SIGNIFICANTLY
different then the results. Showing it had been rigged.
The powerful conservative group that is trying to run this country and own the media
tried to debunk it but it holds true.
They silenced the discussion pretty well - don't you think?
**BANG** ("looks like another suicide guys - but it's okay the guy's
spelling was harrable!")
" worst case is they report you to the authorities and you get fined for violating the list. In both cases you gain nothing and only loose time spent calling the person and quite possibly a lot of money too."
As a person who worked as a Support Engineer as well as a programmer I can say that one call every 15-20 minutes can effectively destroy my ability to get any real work done (programmer.)
I worked for a small company and 'filled in' for the owner who was getting to many technical calls to get anything else done. Guess what - It wasn't long before I was not making progress on my serious work. It takes me a good 10 minutes after an interuption to get my head back around a problem - at least the problems I like to solve.
Small companys can be a pain - it wasn't long before the owner was inquiring as to why things were going so slowly. He stopped asking as often when I repeatedly asked him to remember what he told me in my interview - "I can't seem to get anything done while getting all these calls." He - as many managers - seem to live in some kind of fantisy world where they can ignore they're own personal experiences and reality in general.
I went back to working in a University medical lab where I could finish solving problems, but only after endoring that company for 6 plus years.
When I left I got the best complamnet - they hire 3 full time people to take my place, and a 4th a few months later. And all I really wanted was a decent raise and my new (ass-hole) manager off my back. After working most weekends for years to stay on top this manager always agreed with the owner that a person should be able to do technical programming, answer and fix technical problems for the 8 technical product spin offs and manage a company wide (30+ computers, servers, internet access, and FTP site) lan at the same time.
The new manager didn't last much longer. I worked as a consultant for them at $50+ and hour for almost a year after he left. I told him I outlasted the last 4 managers and I'ld outlast him, it turned out to be true. I Had a son and lived happily ever-after. The End.
Back when I was a kid we didn't even have gravity - you had to hold onto something all the time or float away. Lost an older brother that way .. either that or food posion.
...
Walk uphill to school and uphill back.
I have a 4.5 year old boy and I'm constantly stopping myself from buying everything I would have killed or died for when I was a kid. Things that would cost a dedicated hobbiest 4 months of work and 1/2 year chore money is under $10!
Our one big advantage is I have a small hobbie farm - pigs, cows, horses, gease, and when the fox is away I sometimes have chickens. Barn cat, house cat, 3 dogs, morning and evening chores.
He has 'helped' me with then as soon as he was born, although keeping him safe often required more work then the chores. There is 150 ways to be serously hirt or killed around the barn, and safty (he is learning) is most important.
He has lots of neat toys, most of which are not played with. He plays with his tool set about as much as the rest and as soon as he is able to read we will go closed caption on the tv.
He and I play on the computer. I help him construct simple animations using Poser, and we have a digital camera he plays with, and getting better with.
I'm a firm believer that there is NOTHING that a person can't learn about and do, and yesterday we layed som PVC pumbing and made a apple pie from 'scratch'.
Your job as a parent is to help your kids become successful and happy adults, and who knows what you don't have to bother teaching them? Tell me what the future holds.
If only I could Spell!
If it is not too late
I turned that feature off after they rearanged some of the menues to sell me crap. I didn't want it any worse so I shut it off. I just happened to so NO to an upgrade that was requested yesterday. Would that upgrade improve my service - I asked. My answer was - it could be better, but it could and probably would be something I didn't like.
Seems I might have been correct. And lucky.
Good luck to other DishNetwork customers.
Ok, we all say it eval and terible. Enough about that.
IF done correctly it might be a nice gray area.
IF all sites are required to carry it, and IF 'art' and medical information is given a wide exception, then it could be alright. As a parent I want my child to be able to access ALL material on the web with the understanding that comes with it - that some of it is explotive and possibly degrading. When they are old enough to understand this and accept this then he (and maybe some day, she) may view it.
My objection, and those of more then a few of slash-dot readers is that this is masked as a possibly exceptable method with which censorship can be implemented at a state/IPservice level - to be blocked at the whim of any external discribed moral justification, local or otherwise.
To be truely valuable, the web can never be 'child-safe'. If that is the goal for the average parent then it needs to be clearer for them: You can't let you kid wonder the net unsupervise - like any city street or park. Help them by being there with them.
If done well, I could support a law like this. But let's face it - it will not be. I don't TRUST this law or any other that looks, sounds, or smells like it.
Leave things the way they are.. I have only seen porn when I've wanted it, the way it is now.
We don't need this.
As I understand it there is a lot of power which goes into processing the nuclear rods that are used. A value like 80% of power ultimately produced comes to mind - taken from hydropower as I recall.
If that is in fact true - wouldn't a better power storage device be almost as good?
Absolutely correct - That is my feeling on all these new powers given in these laws. State clearly that anything else found (except capital murder maybe) can not ever be used in court.
That means no "boom making material" (bathroom cleaners + duck tape), drugs, etc.
My 2 cents.
The only time you here about this 'lack' is when Business/Gov can't hire an Engineer/Scientist for near min. wage.
I worked in a research lab programming while getting a degree in the 80's and saw a large number of young scientist trying to get established. In the lab I worked in we had 5 postdocs, none of which got funding and all ended up leaving the field, most after a series of 2-5 year postdoc's. Not enough funding in the field. The only one of my general age group I know of who made some progress is my wife.
When I worked in a small engineering business there were always huge number of qualified applicant for new positions - we had our pick, so it was the best per $, sometimes getting experienced people for $35K. Sad.
I worked in a university research lab with these toads - they are fun to watch at feeding time, the way they aim at the mealworms was very robot like.
The 'Toxin' also has an 'LSD/Mushroom' effect. As in licking toads. Jokes were made of this on American_Dad and Simsons.
Just say _Toad_
After years of overwork I was finially given an assistant to train who would help me at my engineering support position in a small company. He spent no more then 15 minutes a day eating a brown bag lunch and playing the ASCII version of startrek.
Unfortuentally, his desktop could be seen from the hallway and it happened the owner saw this game being played a number of times. He was reassigned away because "he did nothing but play computer games."
A short time later after getting an amazingly bad performace review I left the company and they hire 3 people (kid you not) to do my jobs (and kept me as a part time consultant for 6 months).
This is the perfect way to handle this.
Basic fact is that these (non-oversited) wiretapes are illegal, even if our fascist leader says otherwise. No one is correcting Bush on this, but by-god make it clear by hitting every for profit company which moves to help - hit'em in a way they understand. $money$
It's commonly understood (through out the world if not here) that big money corporations are overly represented in our government. This seems a good tactic.
(flamebate on)
It makes me sick to see min wage poor, or unemployed bluecollar worker, or anyone for that matter showing support for Bush. Bush is 3 times more impeachable then Nixon was. Wakeup please.
(flamebate off)
"Serious question: why should the computer be up & running (and consuming electricity) when you are not using it? So you could show off your uptime-figures?"
It goes into power save mode if not using for 20 minutes. Saves switch/powersupply/harddrive ware&tare. And I like to work from home evenings/latenight/weekends over net.
Well - stop rebooting it! It's not windows which need a reboot after every application ran!
Really, My development machine at work has an uptime of 35 days, at that was a reboot because my cdrom burner went off and never came back.
I use rtLinux at work (university biomed research) and we use this to collect data and drive equipment on a tight schedule. Regular linux runs as the lowest priority. Development at this level is tricky - I learned not to development code on test system because I got tired of rebooting and restarting editors when I screwed up. :)
Computer Case is still working!
Vermont Congressman B. Sanders (I) authored this bill.
Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords (I formally R) switched to Independent because of this type of crap ( Rep.s are expected to march lock-step and the hell with the people that sent them.) Jim is an old style Republican - fiscally conservative, limit powers of government, etc.
Vermont Senator Pat Leahy is the only senator I've seen put Rumsfeld on the carpet over the White House torture crap. ( http://thememoryhole.org/spy/edmonds_letters.htm
Howard Dean from Vermont (debating Nader on NPR at 2 pm on east coast.) Dean gave party some backbone - and issues which people care about ( health care, no reason for war in Iraq) The media did a coordinated and systematic assalted where non-thinking people were lead to beleave
Support the military in Iraq - Impeach Bush
I followed the phone spec sheet to www.grandstream.com web site, thinking there is a chance that I could finally pick up some VOIP hardware at a decent price if I ordered directly.
These guys must be business newbees - very little sales info, for example - they do indicate quantity requirements for purchase (or any pricing)!
I tried calling and of course these are busy, so I sent them an email. Since they are no dout been side-effect slashdotted, my guess is the only way I will get my answer is if these guys do what they should have and put some actual sales information on there web site.
Here I am, credit card in hand, ready to pick up 3 or 4 if the price is anything slightly better then the Lindows guys price. Hell, I'd rather purchase the adapters for the $70 they mention in the beta news clip.
How can a business be so stupid.. makes me wonder. Listen up guys - add some sales info, and if your not selling for Quanities less then 100 - put that on there and save yourself 99% of the sudden slashdotting.
Global information is not just position information, it's world state information.
Fire fighting robots - for example - might be the only way for which smoke level and heat level info at there location is communicated, but there is no single known state (or Global source) for this information. And it changes with time. Robot 5 reports it can no longer advance due to a heat threshold level hit, not the GUI operator has one less function availible for that robot (or perhaps more.)
Yes. You will learn things in a few upper level computer classes that you will not on the job. For example, some problems do not scale linearly - knowing this and being able to prove this to your MBA supervisor can save you your job, and the company a lot of time and money. There are handfulls of cases like this and without the background you will be lost.
Good luck whatever you do.
Hardware support of dual perspective transmitted through odd/even frame with shutter glasses is highly recommended! Unreal in 3D - watch out for those rockets!
41,000+ people died on our highways in 1999. We *could* reduce that number to sigle digit thousands (2-3K maybe) if we moved toward mass transet.. but we don't BECAUSE we like the _convience_ and are will to die for it. 5-6K die and everyone is ready to throw away a chunk of our civil liberties to save what? Our rights, our american way? So sad.
I would not expect all Palastinian's to react with sadness at this event. The USA supports their oppressors, while making lip service to peace.
How long until the ENUM is needed to book a flight, take a cab, register a car, enter a fed. building, or fill up your tank? Sounds like a universal ID with a different name