My experience with plant engineers is that they've always got people coming around and messing with their setup. So, they'll appreciate it when you come to them and say right to their face "I'm out of my element here and I'm like your expertise".
Building interpersonal bridges has never hurt anybody's career (we'll except for those people who attented Duke Cunningham's luncheons, but that's a different story!)
Also like other posters said, more than likely they'll have a host of questions and potential problems (such as the whole places power systems are all DC) that you hadn't even thought about.
I'm suspecting that feature will land in the same category as multiangle DVD's. Yeah there are some pornos that use the technology, but I'm suspecting the logistics of coordinating X number of cameras instead of one is the reason. Also, I bet if you went into a porno store and asked everybody in the place if they knew about the multiangle technology, I'm betting the response would be less than 1 in 10.
As for the modem thing, I wouldn't be suprised if it wasn't forth coming.
I can't imagine it would that hard to change the software on the phone to make it act like the business end of a USB ethernet adaptor... Since the phone has so much intelligence in it, you could have the phone manage all the ugly bits. For that matter since it supports wifi you could even have it setup so it could act as a WAP that would then route it's data through a cellular link and it would provide rendevous services, etc. Then you would have a simple applet that would run on the ibook that would allow you to manage the behavior (as well as the phone) for the gateway.
I actually see a problem that nobody has mentioned yet.
Anhydrous Ammonia is used to make methanphedamines, hence you're going to have a couple of problems.
Firstly, any chemical company that's going to sell you the required quantities (I think) has to report these sales to the athorities (which won't be an issue when they show up and you show them that you're working on a renewable energy system (and you've got all the proper permits, etc))
Secondly, I suspect that you'll be a target for meth dealers who will want to steal your ammonia.
With that all said, it does look like an interesting system however the feasibility is yet to be seen.
You forget, the coffeebot would then steal your wallet and rape you in your sleep while yelling "My name is Garunda Mabushi and my husband worked for the Oil Ministry of Nigeria..."
The company I work for uses MySQL for mission critical stuff and it works just fine. We even have a slave node and mirror our data in realtime without issue.
I find myself in a constant state of frustration with Sony. The PSP is a great device, but much like the PS2 they haven't even tapped the full potential of the system and due to silly concerns (such as piracy) probably never will. They've talked ferverently about downloadable games being available for the PSP, yet all I ever see are at best freely available demos and at the moment only PS1 games available via a PS3... What I'd really like is for Sony to make an SDK available for us homebrew software writers to create our own PSP games.
It would have been cooler if they'd sent this knucklehead screenshots of them doing the "hack" and it be from Uplink. Then it would have been complete!
It's simple economics. There are (according to Wikipedia (which is a bit like reading tea-leaves)) 35.6 Million PS2's in the US, (111.25 Million World Wide).
Yeah, the PS3 has lots of new great features, but you can't ignore your existing HUGE install base. I'm suspecting that they'll continue to be a steady stream of games that'll make duel releases for PS2 and PS3. Alot of the smaller developers will just stick to the PS2 knowing that their game will work on the PS3 because they can't afford to duel path their development trees.
What I'd love to see Sony do is release a homebrew SDK for PS2/PSP so that knuckleheads like myself could create my own games.
It is an arguable point. There are some really great games for the PSP (such as Roco Loco and Lumines) and a bunch that are at best shotty ports.
However, I think the problem is that there's just too many different platforms to develop for at this point. A game company has to allocate it's resources towards what it thinks is going to be a money maker. Thus I think the PSP development ends up getting handed off to a smaller development groups on tight deadlines.
If sony was really smart, they'd make a SDK publically available with documentation and sample games. Yeah, people would port MAME over and play NES on the PSP (which they are / were already doing...) However it would let the rest of us put together our own games. Even better, Sony could setup a centeralized site where people could rate games, etc and maybe put out a yearly "Years best home brew games for PSP" on UMD. Heck, they could even keep the profits.
Whoa buddy, you don't regular backups of your towns rural car carrying infrastructure!?! What if a tornado blizzard showed up and ripped up all the roads.
A 333mhz mips CPU, a decent resolution screen. Yeah, the UMD format is hokey, but that's Sony for you. The controls are close to what people expect if they've ever held a duel shock controller. The lack of a left analog and R2 and L2 trigger buttons are a bummer.
As far as the PSP as a development platform, it doesn't appear to me to be that exotic of a platform. It's got one CPU, a read only device and a read write device. For connectivity it's got a USB interface, a wireless card and an infrared port.
I consider myself a pretty incompetent programmer and I'm pretty sure I could hack together a crappy tetris knock off.
I agree. The only real things worth of value stored in vaults these days are in safety deposit boxes. Even then, when your looking at a wall of a couple hundred boxes, you've got several challenges. You need to get into the vault alone. Everytime I've ever gone to add/remove stuff from my SDB I've been escorted into the vault where I was put into a small room while then unlocked the safety door to the vault, not the big solid door, but a smaller internal door. On this door was a lock. Also the whole area is covered by security cameras. 0. Get into area around vault and provided the main door isn't locked, defeat lock on internal door. 1. Your time is limited so you'd need to know in advance which boxes you were going to attack. 2. Unless you've figured out a way to get keys, you've got to defeat at a minimum of 2 locks per SDB quietly. Needless to say, I suspect they'd think it a bit odd if they hard drilling coming from the vault. 3. Stash the loot. 4. Replace and relock SDB doors 5. Get back into around around vault and relock the internal door.
Unless they add a specific hardener to the plastic post material intake (which I wouldn't imagine they'd do) the bad bricks just go into a grinder and are dumped back into the incoming bin...
Instead of giving up on gaming, I think I'd find another doctor to give you a better diagnosis. My grandmother has terrible arthritis and she takes some good shit, considering she can knit 12 hours a day!
Get on the arthritis meds and play video games until you're 100!
It's good to see Blizzard actually take the time to investigate their mistake and make things right.
I understand based on market share vs. time to develop why Blizzard doesn't have a linux client, but considering that they've got an OSX client I can't imagine the hurdles for porting are that high.
I'm suspecting that just like Meth, this shit will cook your brain.
The tragedy is that we've gotten to this place. That people are so buried in work and are demanded to do so much in such unrealistic time frames that they feel compelled to cut sleep out of their lives.
Because in Secondlife you have the ability to create and upload objects into their system that uses their proprietary scripting language.
So, you could create a virtual object that upon it being touched would create four more of these objects at 200m in the four cardinal directions from where it is in the game world. Then some other fool would touch one of those new objects and yet another four more objects would be created.
Now imagine that your script starts off by seeding thousands of these boobytrapped objects all over the place.
Now imagine 1000's of fools all touching these objects...
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My experience with plant engineers is that they've always got people coming around and messing with their setup. So, they'll appreciate it when you come to them and say right to their face "I'm out of my element here and I'm like your expertise".
Building interpersonal bridges has never hurt anybody's career (we'll except for those people who attented Duke Cunningham's luncheons, but that's a different story!)
Also like other posters said, more than likely they'll have a host of questions and potential problems (such as the whole places power systems are all DC) that you hadn't even thought about.
I'm suspecting that feature will land in the same category as multiangle DVD's. Yeah there are some pornos that use the technology, but I'm suspecting the logistics of coordinating X number of cameras instead of one is the reason. Also, I bet if you went into a porno store and asked everybody in the place if they knew about the multiangle technology, I'm betting the response would be less than 1 in 10.
As for the modem thing, I wouldn't be suprised if it wasn't forth coming.
I can't imagine it would that hard to change the software on the phone to make it act like the business end of a USB ethernet adaptor... Since the phone has so much intelligence in it, you could have the phone manage all the ugly bits. For that matter since it supports wifi you could even have it setup so it could act as a WAP that would then route it's data through a cellular link and it would provide rendevous services, etc. Then you would have a simple applet that would run on the ibook that would allow you to manage the behavior (as well as the phone) for the gateway.
I actually see a problem that nobody has mentioned yet.
Anhydrous Ammonia is used to make methanphedamines, hence you're going to have a couple of problems.
Firstly, any chemical company that's going to sell you the required quantities (I think) has to report these sales to the athorities (which won't be an issue when they show up and you show them that you're working on a renewable energy system (and you've got all the proper permits, etc))
Secondly, I suspect that you'll be a target for meth dealers who will want to steal your ammonia.
With that all said, it does look like an interesting system however the feasibility is yet to be seen.
It's fun, but it can get really repetative. For my money, I find Diablo and Diablo 2 to still be extremely enjoyable old games.
Sunny without a cloud in the sky. With weather like that, who needs windows...
You forget, the coffeebot would then steal your wallet and rape you in your sleep while yelling "My name is Garunda Mabushi and my husband worked for the Oil Ministry of Nigeria..."
The company I work for uses MySQL for mission critical stuff and it works just fine. We even have a slave node and mirror our data in realtime without issue.
I find myself in a constant state of frustration with Sony. The PSP is a great device, but much like the PS2 they haven't even tapped the full potential of the system and due to silly concerns (such as piracy) probably never will. They've talked ferverently about downloadable games being available for the PSP, yet all I ever see are at best freely available demos and at the moment only PS1 games available via a PS3... What I'd really like is for Sony to make an SDK available for us homebrew software writers to create our own PSP games.
That's a slick product and something tht SONY should have put on the market a long time ago.
Oh well, It seems the R&D people who design this stuff get screwed from the marketing/legal people at every turn...
I suppose that you could install a leapfrog program on another machine and route your traffic through their machine, thus disguising your IP.
Though when they see the leapfrog pointing back to your machine, the gig's pretty much up...
Yet another reason to create a web user, copy in your bookmarks, do your online reading and can that user!
It would have been cooler if they'd sent this knucklehead screenshots of them doing the "hack" and it be from Uplink.
Then it would have been complete!
It's simple economics. There are (according to Wikipedia (which is a bit like reading tea-leaves)) 35.6 Million PS2's in the US, (111.25 Million World Wide).
Yeah, the PS3 has lots of new great features, but you can't ignore your existing HUGE install base. I'm suspecting that they'll continue to be a steady stream of games that'll make duel releases for PS2 and PS3. Alot of the smaller developers will just stick to the PS2 knowing that their game will work on the PS3 because they can't afford to duel path their development trees.
What I'd love to see Sony do is release a homebrew SDK for PS2/PSP so that knuckleheads like myself could create my own games.
Well, there's always hoping...
It is an arguable point. There are some really great games for the PSP (such as Roco Loco and Lumines) and a bunch that are at best shotty ports.
However, I think the problem is that there's just too many different platforms to develop for at this point. A game company has to allocate it's resources towards what it thinks is going to be a money maker. Thus I think the PSP development ends up getting handed off to a smaller development groups on tight deadlines.
If sony was really smart, they'd make a SDK publically available with documentation and sample games. Yeah, people would port MAME over and play NES on the PSP (which they are / were already doing...) However it would let the rest of us put together our own games. Even better, Sony could setup a centeralized site where people could rate games, etc and maybe put out a yearly "Years best home brew games for PSP" on UMD. Heck, they could even keep the profits.
Whoa buddy, you don't regular backups of your towns rural car carrying infrastructure!?! What if a tornado blizzard showed up and ripped up all the roads.
Then you wished you'd taken a backup!
Actually, it isn't. What's so terrible about it?
A 333mhz mips CPU, a decent resolution screen. Yeah, the UMD format is hokey, but that's Sony for you.
The controls are close to what people expect if they've ever held a duel shock controller. The lack of a left analog and R2 and L2 trigger buttons are a bummer.
As far as the PSP as a development platform, it doesn't appear to me to be that exotic of a platform. It's got one CPU, a read only device and a read write device. For connectivity it's got a USB interface, a wireless card and an infrared port.
I consider myself a pretty incompetent programmer and I'm pretty sure I could hack together a crappy tetris knock off.
I agree. The only real things worth of value stored in vaults these days are in safety deposit boxes. Even then, when your looking at a wall of a couple hundred boxes, you've got several challenges.
You need to get into the vault alone. Everytime I've ever gone to add/remove stuff from my SDB I've been escorted into the vault where I was put into a small room while then unlocked the safety door to the vault, not the big solid door, but a smaller internal door. On this door was a lock. Also the whole area is covered by security cameras.
0. Get into area around vault and provided the main door isn't locked, defeat lock on internal door.
1. Your time is limited so you'd need to know in advance which boxes you were going to attack.
2. Unless you've figured out a way to get keys, you've got to defeat at a minimum of 2 locks per SDB quietly. Needless to say, I suspect they'd think it a bit odd if they hard drilling coming from the vault.
3. Stash the loot.
4. Replace and relock SDB doors
5. Get back into around around vault and relock the internal door.
You don't know what the Geneva Conventions are? Go to Wikipedia and search on it.
Unless they add a specific hardener to the plastic post material intake (which I wouldn't imagine they'd do) the bad bricks just go into a grinder and are dumped back into the incoming bin...
Actually, exporting the Zune to them would be a violation of the Geneva conventions.
Instead of giving up on gaming, I think I'd find another doctor to give you a better diagnosis. My grandmother has terrible arthritis and she takes some good shit, considering she can knit 12 hours a day!
Get on the arthritis meds and play video games until you're 100!
It's good to see Blizzard actually take the time to investigate their mistake and make things right.
I understand based on market share vs. time to develop why Blizzard doesn't have a linux client, but considering that they've got an OSX client I can't imagine the hurdles for porting are that high.
I'm suspecting that just like Meth, this shit will cook your brain.
The tragedy is that we've gotten to this place. That people are so buried in work and are demanded to do so much in such unrealistic time frames that they feel compelled to cut sleep out of their lives.
Because in Secondlife you have the ability to create and upload objects into their system that uses their proprietary scripting language.
So, you could create a virtual object that upon it being touched would create four more of these objects at 200m in the four cardinal directions from where it is in the game world. Then some other fool would touch one of those new objects and yet another four more objects would be created.
Now imagine that your script starts off by seeding thousands of these boobytrapped objects all over the place.
Now imagine 1000's of fools all touching these objects...