A press release for a successful mission would read like, "The People's Republic Of China successfully inserted their latest spaceship into LEO."
If it's circulated after the event it's non-fiction - provided the ship didn't actually burn on the launch pad. If it's circulated *before* the event has taken place it's called fiction....or, dare I say, propaganda. See the difference?
As far as the transcripts go, I take it with a grain of salt. China is so in the habit of blatantly attempting to make their shit smell like roses that their roses now remind me of cow manure. You guessed it, I'm totally mistrustful and very skeptical towards any Chinese press release.
As for your example of acceptance speeches for the two US Presidential Candidates...If either one of them released their acceptance speech before they we're elected, they'd be laughed off the ticket. That being said, any prepared entity(person/business/Gov't) makes preparations for eventualities. Releasing them early plays very well into propaganda stratagems - therefore, free thinkers are more inclined to question the motives behind the press release and question the validity of any future press releases.
The last app I wrote for that same cell-co used HTTP and XML to display a navigation menu to the user to download music. There were communication streams open between 4 or 5 companies depending of which service (prepay/postpay) that app was being used with. By the very definition you provided in your post simply using this navigation menu would require the user to subscribe to a data-plan BEFORE they are even allowed to access the system. But, the user is NOT required to be on any special pricing plan to see the selections presented. Therefore, I can dismiss the cost of the equipment as the factor for the vastly over-priced SMS costs.
As a matter of fact, some of the preview audio I was tasked to download, then play for the user, was in excess of 300K for the audio file itself. Add in the pretty gif album art and the text of title, artist, genre, etc,...we're approaching 700K per song title view.
The app I wrote was approximated to be used by %50 of their current customer base. ~20-25 million users. Million. If data costs as much as it does for 1 SMS message all the cell-cos should be bankrupt within 6mths. Or the users would be. But neither of them are.
I used to work for one of the large telecommunications companies. 161 bytes plus a little bit of HTTP header overhead is nothing. Practically everything performed on today's cellphones is completed via HTTP commands - most are clear-text. Usually, the only thing NOT encrypted is the NAI of user of the phone.
It just doesn't ring true to me that text messages are eating up their bandwidth even if the scale of their customer base is increased with the next purchase of the next cell-co.
I've always noticed that, despite their propensity for hanging around roadkill on busy highways, I've never seen a dead crow on the road.
I've performed my own 'research' into this area of study as I, too, noticed the lack of dead crows on the side of the road.
So, the next time you see a crow on the side of the road while driving....honk your horn at it. (Jeez, I'm chuckling to myself as I write this.) The crow will jump back from the road looking for a change of tail feathers. I've done this for several species of birds and crows are the only species I've noticed to startle like that.
Mostly it's just good humor on an otherwise boring drive.
Exactly! While I still think my Like2Byte moniker is rather clever for 1993 (when I made it and,dare I say, on AOL when they were about the only game in town). When I wanted a serious position within a company I patterned my new email address after my last name, first name and middle initial. It just so happened that it also turned out to be another, somewhat, catchy email phrase/addy. carmoca@%somesillyisphere%.com
It netted me more interviews than my old non-professional email addy.
carmoca - Professional addy. Like2Byte - Only long-term friends use that one anymore.
Just ignore the comment where "Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboro's code enforcement officer, said Mr. Deeb was doing scientific research and development in a residential area, which is a violation of zoning laws.
"It is a residential home in a residential neighborhood," she said. "This is Mr. Deeb's hobby. He's still got bunches of ideas. I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere.(Emphasis, mine) This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation.... There are regulations about how much you're supposed to have, how it's detained, how it's disposed of." "
OK. He violated zoning laws. Slap him a ticket, give him 30 days to remove the materials to a proper zoning location or turn them in for proper disposal. If he fails to make things right, THEN serve a warrant and have the offending materials disposed of. Taking his property without a warrant is a blatant disregard of his rights as a citizen of the US or Massachusetts. This is, IMNSHO, a blatant abuse of power by Mrs. Wilderman and she should be reprimanded, publicly, by the highest governing authority for her role as a Code Enforcement Officer.
If I may impart some anecdotal evidence of what the parent described:
I weighed 225lbs with a 36" waist @5' 7.5". I joined a gym and I worked out for 8 months there (through early Fall and through late Spring). My legs were already massively muscular; but, my arms are disproportionately sized WRT my lower frame. So I spent a lot of time on the stair master for aerobic activity and of course hit the weights to increase my arms' diameter. I was able to curl about 70lbs with each arm before I quit. I mixed it up so as not to enter a rut so quickly, too. My arms got strong but never big - that is, the increase in size wasn't that much.
I lost no weight at all.
Not being a terribly social person anyway, I grew bored of all the hotties being too hot to, gasp, look in their general direction nor could I stand every guy in the place trying to size you up or being aggressive to impress the ladies. So I quit - I wasn't having any fun anyway.
So, I went back to mountain biking - I lost 27 lbs in two months and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! I never looked or felt better about my own self image. I've stuck to biking ever since and have never regretted the decision. The people you meet biking are the most interesting, intelligent and easy-to-get-along-with people I've ever met.
Now, time to be a hypocrite: STOP DRINKING COLA PRODUCTS - I'm sure that factored in there a lot, too.
Just remember: If you're trying to lose weight you must ensure that energy spent grossly outweighs energy consumed. Here:
If(CaloriesConsumed < CaloriesSpent)
--m_weight;// Lost Weight else if(CaloriesConsumed > CaloriesSpent)
++m_weight;// Gain Weight else
__noop(m_weight);
And you've got to keep this up for a long period of time - hopefully, for your entire life (exercise, that is).
People who have never used e-mail are going to be far more susceptible to scams that those who have used e-mail have become well aware of and learned to ignore.
As much as I would like to agree with you, I simply can not. It's stands to reason that those made aware of the dangers (either by education, experience or cynicism ) would take safeguards to prevent theft via email scams; however, I personally know of someone who has been made aware of these scams (Nigerian 411 and others) on a continuing basis and STILL gets taken in by them year after year. The most recent quandary almost resulted in the loss of their life's savings - and this was a near miss - the check they were given *was* deposited. I found out through a family member that has very little contact with the person in question.
You may be thinking that this person is a real idiot (and in many cases it would be hard argue to the contrary); but, this person has several advanced engineering degrees. What could it be? Greed is all I can think of.
Greed is a powerful motivator and I believe greed has overridden this person's natural cautious sense.
Mind you now, this "victim" (self imposed?) is a Retired US Marine and still thinks that there is a way to combat these scams directly. So, he takes the frontal assault method and even replies to scams telling them to "Buzz Off" - which, as we all know, only fuels the fire. (For those who don't know, never reply to spam as all that does is inform the spammer that they have a 'live' email address. Those are worth more and spammers pay big for them. Dont do it. Ignore it. Let the spammers work harder, will ya.)
So, it's obvious the person knows about the scams and what to look for (to a degree) because they are trying to "fight it." So, why does he get taken in?
As with this most recent scam, he was taken in because someone paid him ~$9000.00 in the form of a check from a bank in NYC. So he thought it was real. I just wish they could have kept the 9 grand. In this run, there were 4500 of these checks issued all across the USA. I think they were all found out, though, and no one got scammed...this time.
If you think you are being taken in by a scam or the victim of a scam CONTACT THE FBI. Local police can't do a thing to protect you from identity theft or fraud. The FBI can...again, only to a certain degree.
Christianity was a cult when it first started, but over the years it integrated more into society to the point that it isn't considered a cult now.
Christianity is a direct descendant of Judaism. So, in essence, some people who were Jews (or close to judaistic beliefs) splintered from Judaism and started their own religion.
This is why I despise religions. It's that whole, "Any who don't believe the way we believe are going to {{insert a word that is horrific to most people}}." You are all screaming the same bullshit at each other.
I totally agree. Even if you are a developer for a large, corporate, multi-vendor project - knowing how components that feed components you directly interface with will allow you to become a better developer for the project and to point out problematic architectural design issues.
And if I hear one more project manager say, "Let's not worry about this corner case" (usually said with no idea how this is going to negatively effect the entire process tree) I'm going to punch them in the colon.
There are two ideas of thought about corner cases (and the GP pointed out one). Thought #1) (GP) There's no such things as a corner. It is a requirement - it may be that fewer people/fewer processes use it; but, it is still a section of the total solution that must be designed to overcome some problematic section. Otherwise, why is the code being written?
Thought #2) Corner cases only effect a small number of your user-base; therefore, code to satisfy 95%-99% of your customers. The underlying principle here is that the manager will wait for another release. This approach is usually taken when the project manager failed to account for something and says (and I quote), "We'll just re-design it after the first release."
If you find yourself in an environment where #2 (hehe) permeates the thought structure of management you have few options available to you. a) Kindly (because wrapping your hands firmly around their neck is just not understood these days) explain to them the flaw in that kind of thinking. It usually involves educating the manager to a level they've never even considered before. Completion of this project will be long and arduous. Good luck to you.
b) If step 'a' fails - inform management. Project Managers (in large corps) are not, usually, the final decision maker. Elevate this threat (to the project) to the PM's manager - a Director, perhaps.
c) If you're able, move to a new project within the company where the project manager in case 'a' has no influence. I know that's not feasible in most segments.
d) Find a new job.
If the project is sufficiently high profile enough then recourse option 'a', above, is your only solution. Mitigate the damage by engaging the offending PM and try to keep them under thumb by sharing your expertise with them. Good luck with that brick wall. YMMV.
And therein lies the fault of your reasoning. THERE IS NO DOOR!
The Net is open. Period. If an engineer makes the decision (or in this case a business decision) to not put up a gate with a guard then MobiTV can expect anyone to enter.
Let's step back from the "home invasion" mentality. This is a business. Most businesses allow people to enter without ID. Take a SAMS Club or COSTCO, for instance, though. The doors are open but you need a membership to buy merchandise. You can look around for free, though. And guess what? They kick *everyone* out after business hours. So, you could spend all day in the store if you wanted to; but, you'd be asked to leave at closing.
You wouldn't be allowed to buy something until you were a member; so, you could watch TV all day in the store and no one would care. Eventually, someone would probably ask you to leave and you'd have to go. Bottom line is just get a membership before you try to buy that 50" LCD.
COSTCO and SAMS Club could tell people, "No ID? Get a membership before you come back." and they'd be justified to enforce that rule to perform their business this way if it was their choice.
With MobiTV - same thing. MobiTV needs to validate their users before serving media. They control the access and they are responsible for minimizing access to paying members only to protect their share-holders.
Also, this is not a "hack". This is a copy paste job at best. Sure, the guy might know how to use Ethereal and an application (or hardware(doubtful)) to capture the data packets from a phone - that only puts him in the power-user category. Hacking security requires a lot more understanding of how MobiTV safeguards their data and maybe a method to bypass their security.
But, none of that is being performed here - this guy simply stumbled across a URL that serves Streaming Video.
So, once again, someone's making a mountain out of a mole-hill. Plug your leak and move on.
Ooh, man, I was gonna MOD today - instead, let's burn karma.
.... The zoo is at fault....
The zoo is *not* "at fault". This enclosure existed for many years with the current species of tiger enclosed in it and no one was attacked from the observation deck.
In walks this ass-hat and he begins to taugnt the tigers. You know what's really at fault? Nature. Nature is at fault. And as I see it, *Nature* isn't even at fault. Nature did it's job by thinning the gene pool before this shithead could breed.
Certainly the zoo will have to improve all if its animal enclosures to ensure that *innocent* people arn't killed in the future by the actions of people dumb enough to tempt an attack by another dangerous animal.
Today's Life-lesson is: Don't live to be an example of what *not* to do.
However, after my father brought home the Commodore Pet/CPM with a whopping 64K of RAM my interest turned toward "Dungeon Of Death" or, simply, "Dungeon".
*That* game got me interested in not only gaming but programming and changed my life, in a positive way, forever.
What does this have to do with the price of bananas? I've had the priviledge to work with *extremely* talented wizards - in the hacker sense of the word - in my recent past *and* in my current position. None of them could swing a tune on any instrument save a keyboard.
Now, that is not to say that they didn't have some hobby or personal-life project. They all did. And they are passionate about it. One's a debian developer in his off time. Another is seriously obsessed with home theater. And still another one's a robot - work is his passion.
If anyone asked me to play a musical instrument during an interviewing session I'd pack my bags running.
A prospective employee sharing a subject matter that you respect or love does not make them a *viable* prospective employee. A proven track-record does.
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Press releases....sure. Transcripts!?
You're joking, right?
A press release for a successful mission would read like, "The People's Republic Of China successfully inserted their latest spaceship into LEO."
If it's circulated after the event it's non-fiction - provided the ship didn't actually burn on the launch pad. If it's circulated *before* the event has taken place it's called fiction....or, dare I say, propaganda. See the difference?
As far as the transcripts go, I take it with a grain of salt. China is so in the habit of blatantly attempting to make their shit smell like roses that their roses now remind me of cow manure. You guessed it, I'm totally mistrustful and very skeptical towards any Chinese press release.
As for your example of acceptance speeches for the two US Presidential Candidates...If either one of them released their acceptance speech before they we're elected, they'd be laughed off the ticket. That being said, any prepared entity(person/business/Gov't) makes preparations for eventualities. Releasing them early plays very well into propaganda stratagems - therefore, free thinkers are more inclined to question the motives behind the press release and question the validity of any future press releases.
Attached to story "Windows Home Server Corrupts Files": http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/27/1457240
My post: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=399904&cid=21831664
Yes. I'm shameless.
The last app I wrote for that same cell-co used HTTP and XML to display a navigation menu to the user to download music. There were communication streams open between 4 or 5 companies depending of which service (prepay/postpay) that app was being used with. By the very definition you provided in your post simply using this navigation menu would require the user to subscribe to a data-plan BEFORE they are even allowed to access the system. But, the user is NOT required to be on any special pricing plan to see the selections presented. Therefore, I can dismiss the cost of the equipment as the factor for the vastly over-priced SMS costs.
As a matter of fact, some of the preview audio I was tasked to download, then play for the user, was in excess of 300K for the audio file itself. Add in the pretty gif album art and the text of title, artist, genre, etc,...we're approaching 700K per song title view.
The app I wrote was approximated to be used by %50 of their current customer base. ~20-25 million users. Million. If data costs as much as it does for 1 SMS message all the cell-cos should be bankrupt within 6mths. Or the users would be. But neither of them are.
What gives?
I used to work for one of the large telecommunications companies. 161 bytes plus a little bit of HTTP header overhead is nothing. Practically everything performed on today's cellphones is completed via HTTP commands - most are clear-text. Usually, the only thing NOT encrypted is the NAI of user of the phone.
It just doesn't ring true to me that text messages are eating up their bandwidth even if the scale of their customer base is increased with the next purchase of the next cell-co.
It's greed - plain and simple.
That's my 2 cents.
I've performed my own 'research' into this area of study as I, too, noticed the lack of dead crows on the side of the road.
So, the next time you see a crow on the side of the road while driving....honk your horn at it. (Jeez, I'm chuckling to myself as I write this.) The crow will jump back from the road looking for a change of tail feathers. I've done this for several species of birds and crows are the only species I've noticed to startle like that.
Mostly it's just good humor on an otherwise boring drive.
Ok, Agent Mulder, settle down.
Exactly! While I still think my Like2Byte moniker is rather clever for 1993 (when I made it and ,dare I say, on AOL when they were about the only game in town). When I wanted a serious position within a company I patterned my new email address after my last name, first name and middle initial. It just so happened that it also turned out to be another, somewhat, catchy email phrase/addy. carmoca@%somesillyisphere%.com
It netted me more interviews than my old non-professional email addy.
carmoca - Professional addy.
Like2Byte - Only long-term friends use that one anymore.
Just ignore the comment where "Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboro's code enforcement officer, said Mr. Deeb was doing scientific research and development in a residential area, which is a violation of zoning laws.
"It is a residential home in a residential neighborhood," she said. "This is Mr. Deeb's hobby. He's still got bunches of ideas. I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere.(Emphasis, mine) This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation. ... There are regulations about how much you're supposed to have, how it's detained, how it's disposed of." "
OK. He violated zoning laws. Slap him a ticket, give him 30 days to remove the materials to a proper zoning location or turn them in for proper disposal. If he fails to make things right, THEN serve a warrant and have the offending materials disposed of. Taking his property without a warrant is a blatant disregard of his rights as a citizen of the US or Massachusetts. This is, IMNSHO, a blatant abuse of power by Mrs. Wilderman and she should be reprimanded, publicly, by the highest governing authority for her role as a Code Enforcement Officer.
If I may impart some anecdotal evidence of what the parent described:
// Lost Weight // Gain Weight
I weighed 225lbs with a 36" waist @5' 7.5". I joined a gym and I worked out for 8 months there (through early Fall and through late Spring). My legs were already massively muscular; but, my arms are disproportionately sized WRT my lower frame. So I spent a lot of time on the stair master for aerobic activity and of course hit the weights to increase my arms' diameter. I was able to curl about 70lbs with each arm before I quit. I mixed it up so as not to enter a rut so quickly, too. My arms got strong but never big - that is, the increase in size wasn't that much.
I lost no weight at all.
Not being a terribly social person anyway, I grew bored of all the hotties being too hot to, gasp, look in their general direction nor could I stand every guy in the place trying to size you up or being aggressive to impress the ladies. So I quit - I wasn't having any fun anyway.
So, I went back to mountain biking - I lost 27 lbs in two months and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! I never looked or felt better about my own self image. I've stuck to biking ever since and have never regretted the decision. The people you meet biking are the most interesting, intelligent and easy-to-get-along-with people I've ever met.
Now, time to be a hypocrite: STOP DRINKING COLA PRODUCTS - I'm sure that factored in there a lot, too.
Just remember: If you're trying to lose weight you must ensure that energy spent grossly outweighs energy consumed.
Here:
If(CaloriesConsumed < CaloriesSpent)
--m_weight;
else if(CaloriesConsumed > CaloriesSpent)
++m_weight;
else
__noop(m_weight);
And you've got to keep this up for a long period of time - hopefully, for your entire life (exercise, that is).
You forgot the extension: AND-DIE-BUT-WILL-YOUR-MONTHLY-PAYMENTS-TO-US.
Man, where's '+1 Tasteless' when you need it? Funny....but tasteless.
As much as I would like to agree with you, I simply can not. It's stands to reason that those made aware of the dangers (either by education, experience or cynicism ) would take safeguards to prevent theft via email scams; however, I personally know of someone who has been made aware of these scams (Nigerian 411 and others) on a continuing basis and STILL gets taken in by them year after year. The most recent quandary almost resulted in the loss of their life's savings - and this was a near miss - the check they were given *was* deposited. I found out through a family member that has very little contact with the person in question.
You may be thinking that this person is a real idiot (and in many cases it would be hard argue to the contrary); but, this person has several advanced engineering degrees. What could it be? Greed is all I can think of.
Greed is a powerful motivator and I believe greed has overridden this person's natural cautious sense.
Mind you now, this "victim" (self imposed?) is a Retired US Marine and still thinks that there is a way to combat these scams directly. So, he takes the frontal assault method and even replies to scams telling them to "Buzz Off" - which, as we all know, only fuels the fire. (For those who don't know, never reply to spam as all that does is inform the spammer that they have a 'live' email address. Those are worth more and spammers pay big for them. Dont do it. Ignore it. Let the spammers work harder, will ya.)
So, it's obvious the person knows about the scams and what to look for (to a degree) because they are trying to "fight it." So, why does he get taken in?
As with this most recent scam, he was taken in because someone paid him ~$9000.00 in the form of a check from a bank in NYC. So he thought it was real. I just wish they could have kept the 9 grand. In this run, there were 4500 of these checks issued all across the USA. I think they were all found out, though, and no one got scammed...this time.
If you think you are being taken in by a scam or the victim of a scam CONTACT THE FBI. Local police can't do a thing to protect you from identity theft or fraud. The FBI can...again, only to a certain degree.
http://www.ic3.gov/
Christianity is a direct descendant of Judaism. So, in essence, some people who were Jews (or close to judaistic beliefs) splintered from Judaism and started their own religion.
This is why I despise religions. It's that whole, "Any who don't believe the way we believe are going to {{insert a word that is horrific to most people}}." You are all screaming the same bullshit at each other.
You call them a cult? I'm shocked.
I totally agree. Even if you are a developer for a large, corporate, multi-vendor project - knowing how components that feed components you directly interface with will allow you to become a better developer for the project and to point out problematic architectural design issues.
And if I hear one more project manager say, "Let's not worry about this corner case" (usually said with no idea how this is going to negatively effect the entire process tree) I'm going to punch them in the colon.
There are two ideas of thought about corner cases (and the GP pointed out one).
Thought #1) (GP) There's no such things as a corner. It is a requirement - it may be that fewer people/fewer processes use it; but, it is still a section of the total solution that must be designed to overcome some problematic section. Otherwise, why is the code being written?
Thought #2) Corner cases only effect a small number of your user-base; therefore, code to satisfy 95%-99% of your customers. The underlying principle here is that the manager will wait for another release. This approach is usually taken when the project manager failed to account for something and says (and I quote), "We'll just re-design it after the first release."
If you find yourself in an environment where #2 (hehe) permeates the thought structure of management you have few options available to you.
a) Kindly (because wrapping your hands firmly around their neck is just not understood these days) explain to them the flaw in that kind of thinking. It usually involves educating the manager to a level they've never even considered before. Completion of this project will be long and arduous. Good luck to you.
b) If step 'a' fails - inform management. Project Managers (in large corps) are not, usually, the final decision maker. Elevate this threat (to the project) to the PM's manager - a Director, perhaps.
c) If you're able, move to a new project within the company where the project manager in case 'a' has no influence. I know that's not feasible in most segments.
d) Find a new job.
If the project is sufficiently high profile enough then recourse option 'a', above, is your only solution. Mitigate the damage by engaging the offending PM and try to keep them under thumb by sharing your expertise with them. Good luck with that brick wall. YMMV.
Here's a novel idea: Let's wait for a person to commit a crime before we start throwing labels around.
I know. I know! It's crazy-talk!!
And therein lies the fault of your reasoning. THERE IS NO DOOR!
The Net is open. Period. If an engineer makes the decision (or in this case a business decision) to not put up a gate with a guard then MobiTV can expect anyone to enter.
Let's step back from the "home invasion" mentality. This is a business. Most businesses allow people to enter without ID. Take a SAMS Club or COSTCO, for instance, though. The doors are open but you need a membership to buy merchandise. You can look around for free, though. And guess what? They kick *everyone* out after business hours. So, you could spend all day in the store if you wanted to; but, you'd be asked to leave at closing.
You wouldn't be allowed to buy something until you were a member; so, you could watch TV all day in the store and no one would care. Eventually, someone would probably ask you to leave and you'd have to go. Bottom line is just get a membership before you try to buy that 50" LCD.
COSTCO and SAMS Club could tell people, "No ID? Get a membership before you come back." and they'd be justified to enforce that rule to perform their business this way if it was their choice.
With MobiTV - same thing. MobiTV needs to validate their users before serving media. They control the access and they are responsible for minimizing access to paying members only to protect their share-holders.
Also, this is not a "hack". This is a copy paste job at best. Sure, the guy might know how to use Ethereal and an application (or hardware(doubtful)) to capture the data packets from a phone - that only puts him in the power-user category. Hacking security requires a lot more understanding of how MobiTV safeguards their data and maybe a method to bypass their security.
But, none of that is being performed here - this guy simply stumbled across a URL that serves Streaming Video.
So, once again, someone's making a mountain out of a mole-hill. Plug your leak and move on.
Ugh, I *just* cancelled my DDO subscription this morning, too - before I found out about his passing.
For those who don't know Gary Gygax performed the narrator sequences for a few quests in DDO.
Tips an ale to Gary Gygax.
Cheers, mate!!
Yeah, I was shopping around for a new TV and couldn't decide to go DB or HD. I saw the prices of the players and thought, "Way too much."
Then, as I was passing the Games section I noticed the PS3 consoles. It had BD. It was $40 more than the player alone.
TRIFECTA!!
1080i HD TV - Check
BD player - Check
PS3 Games - Check
Sitting in my underwear at 2am playing Motorstorm 2 - Priceless!
You think butterflies are bad? Wait until the sharks hear about this!!
The zoo is *not* "at fault". This enclosure existed for many years with the current species of tiger enclosed in it and no one was attacked from the observation deck.
In walks this ass-hat and he begins to taugnt the tigers. You know what's really at fault? Nature. Nature is at fault. And as I see it, *Nature* isn't even at fault. Nature did it's job by thinning the gene pool before this shithead could breed.
Certainly the zoo will have to improve all if its animal enclosures to ensure that *innocent* people arn't killed in the future by the actions of people dumb enough to tempt an attack by another dangerous animal.
Today's Life-lesson is: Don't live to be an example of what *not* to do.
I got dibs on Sarah!!
Looking for info on one game I found this little nugget. YMMV.
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/info/classic-game-programmers.list
Pong, of course.
However, after my father brought home the Commodore Pet/CPM with a whopping 64K of RAM my interest turned toward "Dungeon Of Death" or, simply, "Dungeon".
*That* game got me interested in not only gaming but programming and changed my life, in a positive way, forever.
That's a classic straw-man argument.
What does this have to do with the price of bananas? I've had the priviledge to work with *extremely* talented wizards - in the hacker sense of the word - in my recent past *and* in my current position. None of them could swing a tune on any instrument save a keyboard.
Now, that is not to say that they didn't have some hobby or personal-life project. They all did. And they are passionate about it. One's a debian developer in his off time. Another is seriously obsessed with home theater. And still another one's a robot - work is his passion.
If anyone asked me to play a musical instrument during an interviewing session I'd pack my bags running.
A prospective employee sharing a subject matter that you respect or love does not make them a *viable* prospective employee. A proven track-record does.