Maybe it's one of those back in the old days moments.
As long as I remembered, terrorism was associated with the threat or actual enactment of physical violence (usually involving death) to coerce the targetted party.
I guess things have changed a lot since 9/11 and the word has lost a lot of its impact it once carried.
What Anonymous is doing to these corporations may be disruptive, annoying, and illegal but "terrorism?". Come on now. I wouldn't lump a DDOS attack with suicide bombings, plane hijackings, etc.
I was the lucky kid to purchase my first metal detector, a basic Micronta version, from Radio Shack back in grade 6.
As I proudly searched the sand by the monkey bars I was the star of the playground pack. After several minutes of searching we hit the jackpot--we found a penny woohoo! Then two seconds later, another kid on the other side of the sandbox looked down and exclaimed, 'Hey look, I found a nickel!'.
It's very effective but it's a pain in the ass compared to US Security.
Last time it took me a full 3 hours from entering the airport to arriving at the gate to depart. They x-rayed my bags, then hand-searched them, and asked me grilling and misleading questions before I even got to the ticket counter to check-in! Then it was a long wait to get through immigration. Then I got singled out for another x-ray line that _crawled_ along. There was probably a dozen of us in that line and it took 30 mins to get us all through. I think they make you wait on purpose to see if you get nervous etc.
Effective yes, but I'd hate to have to go through that everytime I want to fly.
While E Ink is pretty cool for readable displays in all sorts of bright light conditions, interferometric modulator display looks pretty cool as something that has full color and soon full motion video as well. Uses the same technology as peacock feathers, butterfly wings, etc. It refracts ambient light to create the color the same way natures does i.e. biomimicry.
I think it'll be an interesting race. Note I'm not in anyway related to Qualcomm. I just stumbled across this while reading more about E Ink.
For work it seems that various departments love to use solutions only available over the internet:
Travel booking
Expense reporting
Time tracking
Knowledge base for customer issues
SCM
Bug tracking
Wiki
HR info
HR health benefits
HR paystubs
HR retirement investment matching
MBO reports
Salesforce
WebEx
And this is just for work. None of these services have local clients that can run off-line. Only a handful are integrated with AD/LDAP. Finally, several have rotating passwords that need to be changed every month. @#$%#$
Of course there are 3 ways to do this and each has subtle differences.
Likewise, whether you pass a hash, or a reference to a hash, or you shift single parameters off the stack. It's totally up to you!
I love using perl for integrating to the shell and other systems plus using its text parsing abilities but man its OO is brutal and I wouldn't use perl in any large projects especially if multiple developers are required.
The last thing I want to do while on a plane is hear the person beside me yakking away. On the bus or subway is one thing. In a sardine can where you aren't allowed to move to another location is a whole different story.
When I pair program, what works best is to have two computers. One person does the typing with the 2nd watching. However, when needed, the 2nd person can use their computer to look things up and do research on the fly when needed to support the 1st.
If information (such as a URL) needs to be passed from one system to the other then a simple chat client does the trick.
I have no understanding of how Symantec remains in business. There's something deeply wrong with that.
They stay in business because most users don't understand computers and are afraid.
I've cleaned up a few computers and whenever I mention that I don't even use anti-virus software they look at me in horror and say they could never do that. They also have the mistaken belief that as long as they have Norton installed that their computer is magically safe. They would happily trade 50% performance for that mistaken feeling of security.
It's pretty sad actually. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to educate and protect these terrified users?
I have this dilemma as well but my reason is different. I really want to work on my hobby programs but after a full day's work my brain is too tired to do more coding.
And once the weekend comes along same thing.
Maybe I need a mind-numbing daily job and then I can really enjoy programming in my spare time.
I spent two terms as a teaching assistant to a fourth year Networking course. After the second term I was already becoming jaded. Half of the students were eager to learn, and the other half... well they'd do the bare minimum to pass. Reading the requirements looking only for the parts that counted for marks and then barely implementing those pieces. Their code was a god-awful mess and while it may have passed most of the bullet points of the requirements it was mostly unusable as a program.
Perhaps this was just during the dot-com boom and a large portion of the students were taking computer science for the money, not because they liked it or were good at it.
I was fortunate enough to purchase a good set of HD600s and a headphone amp to go with it. I've used them as my primary computer sound system for over a decade now.
I'd describe the Sennheisers as very detailed and precise. I can hear things with them that I have a hard time picking out with my stereo and other cheaper headphones. In addition the soft donut pads make the headphones a joy to wear. I can wear them all day without my ears feeling sore or my head feeling fatigued.
Shameless plug for HeadRoom at www.headphone.com where I purchased my gear. These guys make headphone amps and also spend lots of time testing all sorts of headphones to go with them. They're a wealth of information for anything headphones.
I'd go into your bank and ask if you can be taken off their marketing lists.
I had the same thing happen with CIBC and one day I got a pushy salesman that pissed me off. I marched into the local branch, told them my sad story, and then was somewhat surprised to see them clicking away at their computer and unchecking me from several lists.
The teller said it's quite rare that people ask to be taken off those lists. It must be because so few people know about it.
No, dvorak isn't good for coding. The braces and brackets are even harder to reach. I taught myself dvorak and became proficient enough to be able to use vim with that layout and type at similar speeds.
Eventually I went back to qwerty because I didn't find the advantages worth it while coding. If I had to type reams of English paragraphs then I'd probably stick with dvorak.
I just got a new MacBook and a new Mighty Mouse after being PC/Linux all my life. I love the MacBook. I absolutely _HATE_ the Mighty Mouse.
I can't squeeze the side buttons because they're so stiff. It hurts my hand and wrist to even try.
The right click is terrible. I actually need to lift up my left finger while right clicking for it to actually register!! I hear that's because there is really only one button but the mouse can sense where it is being touched. An incomprehensibly terrible design.
I'm a Canadian who was lucky enough to spend 8 months living in the US.
During that time one of my co-workers was in her early twenties and she had a boyfriend of about the same age who was in the transition between jobs.
She was terrified. During that time he would have no health insurance.
Now this gets me thinking. These are both very healthy people. Is this a big concern among many young people in the US? When I was that age (and in Canada), having a job meant more than paying the bills. When I thought about my current job and future ones I was thinking about career growth, experience, and opportunity. Never once did it cross my mind that I must stay with my job otherwise I lose my health insurance.
Is it possible that some people are stuck in shitty jobs because maybe they're sick or their spouse or child has a 'pre-existing condition' and leaving is not an option because of health insurance?
If that is the case then the lack of job mobility is a huge barrier to being truly competitive.
You do realize that Mythic is directly targeting those who like to PvP. That percentage of the market is much less than PvE'ers but it exists. Think of all the FPS out there.
One way to imagine WAR is a FPS MMORPG.
I played DAoC quite a bit and I think Mythic got the PvE/RvR balance right in that game. I spent most of my time in PvE but when I felt competitive I had a decent PvP game to partake in.
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I'd rather have this than the "everything in a browser" mentality that we've been suffering through for the last decade or so.
I'm looking forward to more decent rich apps.
Personally I view the "app" thing as a graphical apt-get. The consumer OSes are just catching on.
Maybe it's one of those back in the old days moments.
As long as I remembered, terrorism was associated with the threat or actual enactment of physical violence (usually involving death) to coerce the targetted party.
I guess things have changed a lot since 9/11 and the word has lost a lot of its impact it once carried.
What Anonymous is doing to these corporations may be disruptive, annoying, and illegal but "terrorism?". Come on now. I wouldn't lump a DDOS attack with suicide bombings, plane hijackings, etc.
I was the lucky kid to purchase my first metal detector, a basic Micronta version, from Radio Shack back in grade 6.
As I proudly searched the sand by the monkey bars I was the star of the playground pack. After several minutes of searching we hit the jackpot--we found a penny woohoo! Then two seconds later, another kid on the other side of the sandbox looked down and exclaimed, 'Hey look, I found a nickel!'.
Bah.
Have you every been through Ben Gurion?
It's very effective but it's a pain in the ass compared to US Security.
Last time it took me a full 3 hours from entering the airport to arriving at the gate to depart. They x-rayed my bags, then hand-searched them, and asked me grilling and misleading questions before I even got to the ticket counter to check-in! Then it was a long wait to get through immigration. Then I got singled out for another x-ray line that _crawled_ along. There was probably a dozen of us in that line and it took 30 mins to get us all through. I think they make you wait on purpose to see if you get nervous etc.
Effective yes, but I'd hate to have to go through that everytime I want to fly.
While E Ink is pretty cool for readable displays in all sorts of bright light conditions, interferometric modulator display looks pretty cool as something that has full color and soon full motion video as well. Uses the same technology as peacock feathers, butterfly wings, etc. It refracts ambient light to create the color the same way natures does i.e. biomimicry.
I think it'll be an interesting race. Note I'm not in anyway related to Qualcomm. I just stumbled across this while reading more about E Ink.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N19ivyaQ5Mc&feature=related
For work it seems that various departments love to use solutions only available over the internet:
And this is just for work. None of these services have local clients that can run off-line. Only a handful are integrated with AD/LDAP. Finally, several have rotating passwords that need to be changed every month. @#$%#$
For querying I like using SQuirreL Easy to construct your queries and execute which ones you want with very little retyping.
Of course there are 3 ways to do this and each has subtle differences.
Likewise, whether you pass a hash, or a reference to a hash, or you shift single parameters off the stack. It's totally up to you!
I love using perl for integrating to the shell and other systems plus using its text parsing abilities but man its OO is brutal and I wouldn't use perl in any large projects especially if multiple developers are required.
It's a glorified address book. That's what I mainly use Facebook for.
Another possibility is that any life-form capable of colonizing other planets annihilated itself before it could do so. Chilling but quite plausible.
Gah,
The last thing I want to do while on a plane is hear the person beside me yakking away. On the bus or subway is one thing. In a sardine can where you aren't allowed to move to another location is a whole different story.
If Copyright Law protects the GPL then wouldn't after X amount of years GPL code become public domain?
When I pair program, what works best is to have two computers. One person does the typing with the 2nd watching. However, when needed, the 2nd person can use their computer to look things up and do research on the fly when needed to support the 1st.
If information (such as a URL) needs to be passed from one system to the other then a simple chat client does the trick.
I have no understanding of how Symantec remains in business. There's something deeply wrong with that.
They stay in business because most users don't understand computers and are afraid.
I've cleaned up a few computers and whenever I mention that I don't even use anti-virus software they look at me in horror and say they could never do that. They also have the mistaken belief that as long as they have Norton installed that their computer is magically safe. They would happily trade 50% performance for that mistaken feeling of security.
It's pretty sad actually. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to educate and protect these terrified users?
I have this dilemma as well but my reason is different. I really want to work on my hobby programs but after a full day's work my brain is too tired to do more coding.
And once the weekend comes along same thing.
Maybe I need a mind-numbing daily job and then I can really enjoy programming in my spare time.
I spent two terms as a teaching assistant to a fourth year Networking course. After the second term I was already becoming jaded. Half of the students were eager to learn, and the other half... well they'd do the bare minimum to pass. Reading the requirements looking only for the parts that counted for marks and then barely implementing those pieces. Their code was a god-awful mess and while it may have passed most of the bullet points of the requirements it was mostly unusable as a program.
Perhaps this was just during the dot-com boom and a large portion of the students were taking computer science for the money, not because they liked it or were good at it.
I was fortunate enough to purchase a good set of HD600s and a headphone amp to go with it. I've used them as my primary computer sound system for over a decade now.
I'd describe the Sennheisers as very detailed and precise. I can hear things with them that I have a hard time picking out with my stereo and other cheaper headphones. In addition the soft donut pads make the headphones a joy to wear. I can wear them all day without my ears feeling sore or my head feeling fatigued.
Shameless plug for HeadRoom at www.headphone.com where I purchased my gear. These guys make headphone amps and also spend lots of time testing all sorts of headphones to go with them. They're a wealth of information for anything headphones.
Existed back then and there were lots to choose from. The MUDs were text. Ah, no need to download a GB client. Good ol' telnet was enough.
I'd go into your bank and ask if you can be taken off their marketing lists.
I had the same thing happen with CIBC and one day I got a pushy salesman that pissed me off. I marched into the local branch, told them my sad story, and then was somewhat surprised to see them clicking away at their computer and unchecking me from several lists.
The teller said it's quite rare that people ask to be taken off those lists. It must be because so few people know about it.
No, dvorak isn't good for coding. The braces and brackets are even harder to reach. I taught myself dvorak and became proficient enough to be able to use vim with that layout and type at similar speeds.
Eventually I went back to qwerty because I didn't find the advantages worth it while coding. If I had to type reams of English paragraphs then I'd probably stick with dvorak.
I just got a new MacBook and a new Mighty Mouse after being PC/Linux all my life. I love the MacBook. I absolutely _HATE_ the Mighty Mouse.
I can't squeeze the side buttons because they're so stiff. It hurts my hand and wrist to even try.
The right click is terrible. I actually need to lift up my left finger while right clicking for it to actually register!! I hear that's because there is really only one button but the mouse can sense where it is being touched. An incomprehensibly terrible design.
I'm a Canadian who was lucky enough to spend 8 months living in the US.
During that time one of my co-workers was in her early twenties and she had a boyfriend of about the same age who was in the transition between jobs.
She was terrified. During that time he would have no health insurance.
Now this gets me thinking. These are both very healthy people. Is this a big concern among many young people in the US? When I was that age (and in Canada), having a job meant more than paying the bills. When I thought about my current job and future ones I was thinking about career growth, experience, and opportunity. Never once did it cross my mind that I must stay with my job otherwise I lose my health insurance.
Is it possible that some people are stuck in shitty jobs because maybe they're sick or their spouse or child has a 'pre-existing condition' and leaving is not an option because of health insurance?
If that is the case then the lack of job mobility is a huge barrier to being truly competitive.
If you like raiding then you're already in the right game - WoW.
You do realize that Mythic is directly targeting those who like to PvP. That percentage of the market is much less than PvE'ers but it exists. Think of all the FPS out there.
One way to imagine WAR is a FPS MMORPG.
I played DAoC quite a bit and I think Mythic got the PvE/RvR balance right in that game. I spent most of my time in PvE but when I felt competitive I had a decent PvP game to partake in.
WAR is not designed to be the next WoW.