I was in the military at the time, but the message was sent via my commercial email account from my off-base apartment. So the infrastructure was already in place (and in use) to scan email sent from commercial ISPs. And if they were targeting me specifically, it's perhaps even more disturbing, because it indicates that the system alerts them and identifies you when you sign up for a commercial account.
So if you're paranoid, don't give your ISP your real SSN, I guess...
In 2000, I sent an email to my father and cousin in which I called Janet Reno "the domestic enemy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against," and said the she needed to be removed "by any means necessary." A few days later, I was visited by two FBI agents from the Atlanta office. They had a printout of my email showing only what I'd written myself, with the quoted parts and the names of the recipients redacted. (I know, this detail makes very little sense. Maybe they were testing my honesty and willingness to cooperate when they asked me what the redacted parts said.)
Apparently, they'd already interviewed a bunch of my co-workers about me before they came to my apartment. It became a perpetual joke around the shop. "Hey Krum, been visited by the FBI lately?"
Speaking from experience: use whatever tool works best for the job. Let me guess... the guy advocating using one programming language for everything wears a suit and has never written a single line of code in his life?
Now, one thing that does need to be standardized is terminology. I'm working on a contract right now for a wireless telco. The hardest part of this project was getting managers from various departments to agree on how this system we're trying to automate is supposed to work, and describe it to me in a way that would allow me to translate it to software. Compounding the proverbial six-blind-men-describing-an-elephant problem was the fact that everybody was using different vocabulary.
Bullshitting and ass-kissing, probably. There are a huge number of idiots posing as scientists, and they tend to congregate at major research universities.
Sensational discoveries == research grants; research grants > scientific integrity.
No... I *am* the guy who knows about.NET live and in person. I don't just idly speculate on Slashdot; I do this stuff for a living. Fact:.NET was stillborn. It offers absolutely nothing that isn't available from other technologies at a lower price and with less lock-in. So yes, do not question my authoritaaaaa.
You missed the point completely. The average consumer never makes anything bigger than a 4x6, and can't tell a good picture from a bad one.
Anyway, you are exaggerating greatly. A 3MP 5x7 can look pretty good, depending on the subject. (I even have a couple 2MP images that look great at 5x7, thanks to high contrast lighting.) Meanwhile, 20x30 is pushing the limits of the best 35mm slide film. A large 6MP sensor equals 35mm film for most subjects.
I agree -- he should have run for President in 2004. I think he would have won. And he could have been one of the most significant Presidents in our history, for several reasons.
Instead, true to his military roots, he didn't rock the boat, but remained silent and walked away. A sad anticlimax of a brilliant career.
It wouldn't be hard to create a launcher that would run them all on the same virtual machine. Such a launcher would a candidate for the system integration you suggest. After all, if you needed to run Windows apps on your Linux box, you wouldn't run multiple instances of VMWare, would you?
Yes, every DSLR can shoot raw. But are they 13MP and wireless enabled? No. Learn to read, retard.
I know what people want. I worked in the photofinishing industry for several years. The majority of film users were satisfied with shitty disposable cameras that don't even take as good a photo as a cheap 3MP digita The pictures most people take with a 8MP camera are just as shitty as the ones they take with a 3MP camera. They can't tell the difference, and they don't care. They just think that more is better.
A good salesman will steer people away from megapixel envy toward features that will actually benefit them. Megapixels are "first and foremost the most important measure of a camera" only for ignorant schmucks like yourself.
...for all but the most discriminating consumers. The only difference with 8MP cameras is that now people are posting 4MB images on their Web pages, or emailing them to Grandma who's still stuck on dialup.
There is very little legacy.NET code out there, and if you're writing new code, why lock your client into a platform? My shop uses PHP or whatever other open technology fits the bill. Only one guy in the shop knows anything about.NET, and he's not a fan of it. I don't intend to waste my time learning it, because it's dead-end technology for a dying platform.
The client UI for the Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG is defined in XML and is highly customizable. I'm not sure if the license explicitly allows redistribution, but there are numerous sites distributing mods, and I've never heard of Mythic going after any of them.
They would deflate the NPC economy, where prices are fixed. But DAoC has a comprehensive system for trading between players, with searchable consignment merchants. That economy has become inflated, and it makes things worse because it keeps more money changing hands between players rather than going into NPC sinks.
Then give a little bit of money to new characters, and put a limit on the number of new characters [with money] that can be created on an account within a given time period.
Creating money all the time does not give a fair start to new players. As the amount of money in circulation grows, trading prices are inflated. New and casual players, whose income is fixed by cash drop rates, find it harder to obtain the cash needed to buy crafted items and rare drops from wealthy and powerful players. Increasing the cash drop rate would only make the problem worse. The only solution for this kind of economy is a large NPC cash sink. But those are to design in a way that doesn't hurt poor players more than rich players.
Dark Age of Camelot, for example, has no such cash sink, and inflation is rampant. When I made my first platinum, it was actually a significant amount of money. But now there are single items selling for 80-100 plat, and I only have about 30 plat across all my characters! There's not much hope for a casual player to keep up with inflation, unless you get really lucky and win a roll for a rare drop. If you're not in a big farming guild, you're left in the dust.
Why not make a game with a real economy instead of one where gold comes from the hacked and dismembered corpses of innocent woodland creatures? Put a fixed amount of cash into circulation, and issue more as needed via NPC merchants.
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So if you're paranoid, don't give your ISP your real SSN, I guess...
Apparently, they'd already interviewed a bunch of my co-workers about me before they came to my apartment. It became a perpetual joke around the shop. "Hey Krum, been visited by the FBI lately?"
Except for those parts of the world where it's the Red Crescent.
Now, one thing that does need to be standardized is terminology. I'm working on a contract right now for a wireless telco. The hardest part of this project was getting managers from various departments to agree on how this system we're trying to automate is supposed to work, and describe it to me in a way that would allow me to translate it to software. Compounding the proverbial six-blind-men-describing-an-elephant problem was the fact that everybody was using different vocabulary.
Sensational discoveries == research grants; research grants > scientific integrity.
GTA isn't really that open-ended. It's just that crashing cars and killing cops and prostitutes never gets old.
Telcos have always been prime candidates for socialization. They're really pressing their luck pursuing this ridiculous idea.
No... I *am* the guy who knows about .NET live and in person. I don't just idly speculate on Slashdot; I do this stuff for a living. Fact: .NET was stillborn. It offers absolutely nothing that isn't available from other technologies at a lower price and with less lock-in. So yes, do not question my authoritaaaaa.
Anyway, you are exaggerating greatly. A 3MP 5x7 can look pretty good, depending on the subject. (I even have a couple 2MP images that look great at 5x7, thanks to high contrast lighting.) Meanwhile, 20x30 is pushing the limits of the best 35mm slide film. A large 6MP sensor equals 35mm film for most subjects.
Instead, true to his military roots, he didn't rock the boat, but remained silent and walked away. A sad anticlimax of a brilliant career.
Fascinating, Captain.
Sounds like all the more reason not to run more than one of them. :o)
The problem is that the bulk of Java's libraries aren't shared. At least, that's how it looks to pmap.
Sun JVM running a simple "Hello World" program that sleeps 1000ms between messages in an endless loop:
mapped: 260888K writeable/private: 199604K shared: 54652K
It wouldn't be hard to create a launcher that would run them all on the same virtual machine. Such a launcher would a candidate for the system integration you suggest. After all, if you needed to run Windows apps on your Linux box, you wouldn't run multiple instances of VMWare, would you?
I know what people want. I worked in the photofinishing industry for several years. The majority of film users were satisfied with shitty disposable cameras that don't even take as good a photo as a cheap 3MP digita The pictures most people take with a 8MP camera are just as shitty as the ones they take with a 3MP camera. They can't tell the difference, and they don't care. They just think that more is better.
A good salesman will steer people away from megapixel envy toward features that will actually benefit them. Megapixels are "first and foremost the most important measure of a camera" only for ignorant schmucks like yourself.
Can I get a research grant now? Kthx.
What you are describing exists. (And costs $5000-8000, not including the lens.)
...for all but the most discriminating consumers. The only difference with 8MP cameras is that now people are posting 4MB images on their Web pages, or emailing them to Grandma who's still stuck on dialup.
Linux never crashes unless you try to upgrade something. :o)
The list of my company's clients and the projects we've done for them. Need I say more?
There is very little legacy .NET code out there, and if you're writing new code, why lock your client into a platform? My shop uses PHP or whatever other open technology fits the bill. Only one guy in the shop knows anything about .NET, and he's not a fan of it. I don't intend to waste my time learning it, because it's dead-end technology for a dying platform.
The client UI for the Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG is defined in XML and is highly customizable. I'm not sure if the license explicitly allows redistribution, but there are numerous sites distributing mods, and I've never heard of Mythic going after any of them.
They would deflate the NPC economy, where prices are fixed. But DAoC has a comprehensive system for trading between players, with searchable consignment merchants. That economy has become inflated, and it makes things worse because it keeps more money changing hands between players rather than going into NPC sinks.
Creating money all the time does not give a fair start to new players. As the amount of money in circulation grows, trading prices are inflated. New and casual players, whose income is fixed by cash drop rates, find it harder to obtain the cash needed to buy crafted items and rare drops from wealthy and powerful players. Increasing the cash drop rate would only make the problem worse. The only solution for this kind of economy is a large NPC cash sink. But those are to design in a way that doesn't hurt poor players more than rich players.
Dark Age of Camelot, for example, has no such cash sink, and inflation is rampant. When I made my first platinum, it was actually a significant amount of money. But now there are single items selling for 80-100 plat, and I only have about 30 plat across all my characters! There's not much hope for a casual player to keep up with inflation, unless you get really lucky and win a roll for a rare drop. If you're not in a big farming guild, you're left in the dust.
In fact, if it were something like this, I wouldn't even entertain it.
Why not make a game with a real economy instead of one where gold comes from the hacked and dismembered corpses of innocent woodland creatures? Put a fixed amount of cash into circulation, and issue more as needed via NPC merchants.