My reaction is.. NOT DIRECT CONNECT!! In everything I've read this is the first time anyone has mentioned direct connect which (naturally) is the only one I use. Now the question is what's the next best thing?
Personally I think the answer would be in software that utilizes randomly shaped packets. I know people who think I'm a complete idiot but they never gave a good reason.
If people want to know if there is extensive file sharing on a given campus, they'll look at the packets. If there is a very high frequency of DC packets, Kazaa packets, or FTP packets etc they know what to go after. If on the other hand there are lots of many kinds of packets, it is much harder to determine if anything is going on at all, aside from traffic being high. All it takes to make one kind of packet versus another is how it is shaped.
If what I am saying is so extremely stupid, I'd appreciate a response beyond "that's extremely stupid.".
To me, a terrorist is someone who purposefully inflicts violent damage on civilians for the purpose of causing political change.
Now I'm sure you can poke some holes in this but it's mostly correct. A suicide bomber who attacks the military is not a terrorist. A suicide bomber who attacks the military in a civilian area to cause civilian injury is. The KKK often is a terrorist organization (although not so much anymore).
Now I have the adjective "violent" to leave room for protesting. Protests can shut a city down without being terrorists easily enough. If it turns violent they aren't terrorists but just regular criminal acts. They aren't committing the violence for the cause, they're doing it because they are in a mob.
As for a cyberterrorist:
Someone who purposefully inflicts irrecoverable damage on civilians for the purpose of causing political change.
Not a lot of change in the definition, and the only bit comes from the fact that it's an abstraction now. Hogging 911 lines might cause a fire call coming in late, resulting in later rescue services possibly resulting in death. That is cyberterrorism (of course only if there was a political motive, otherwise it's manslaughter at least). I'm no good at examples though so I'll stop while I'm a head and go outside. It's nice out.
Where does it state that a company has to be nice to you?
You are completely missing the point of the concept of being nice. If you have to do it, it's no longer being nice, it's abiding by the rules/laws.
Advertising to mislead isn't illegal in the united states because part of it is that what you are saying is true (after a fashion). What you are implying is not. This is not tolerated as much in the EU and I really wish we'd get more strict about it.
Anyway you're trying to argue the same point that I have, just through a different means.
I also try to think towards the positive side. If unobtrusive ads decrease monthly fees, I'm happy. If it makes it so the game itself costs nothing (just monthly fees), I'm also happy. As for non pay-to-play games, I'd rather not have any ads for any real products or companies, except of course any delightful easter eggs.
You're right. They don't have to say anything. Just the same I don't have to respond to your message in an intelligent manner, but I will anyway. Call it a moral obligation or simply a courtesy, but whenin any form it is ignored, I get angry. Advertising to mislead is certainly not very nice, however legal it might be in the US.
I hate the spell checker the most. It just says YOU ARE WRONG. Now I'm no expert but let's say I start righting something and transconductance becomes an issue. Right after a type the word, it turns red. Fine, it doesn't understand this, they didn't ever look at any technical jargon when making the dictionary. So I add the word to the dictionary. Later on I have a sentence that starts with "Transconductance" capitalized because it's the first word in the sentence. ruh roh! No, apparently "transconductance" is a word but MS Word also thinks it's a word that cannot be capitalized (because words like this exist....). Later on I Must be sure to compare the transconductance of two things because if I dare compare two transconductances, I'll be wrong about spelling again.
Ok Microsoft listen up. I thought about it: No, it's not acceptable for your program to lack the jargon in ANY field unless it is bleeding edge. Additionally when someone adds a word locally ask them, "is it a verb/noun/adjective/adverb/particle/etc". Immediately enter it into your grammar rules so that sentences with these words aren't ignored. Figure out the most probable plural form of the word, or in the case of a verb, every form of the word.
This is too funny. As I am typing this message MSN Encarta popped up... Let's see my browser doesn't have pop-ups, the only other thing open is Word, it must know that I am talking about it.
Oh yes I'd like to petition the world to allow "them" over "him or her". It's about time we had some sexually neutral words (unlike "it" which is sexually sterile).
To be fair Microsoft does somewhat have a point as IBM, one of the foremost advocates of Linux, is pushing the virtual-Linux-on-a-mainframe concept, and a lot of people are buying. It seems that Microsoft was tageting that competitor rather than Linux-running-on-obsoleted-developer-PC.
Right, and Microsoft clearly states this whenever they make any outrageous claim. ... no wait
1) Scripting won't give you any sort of interactive graphical display.
2) Not everyone wants to sit in front of a prompt all day.
3) Especially in genetics colored graphs are important.
4) Scripting won't even accomplish anything because the analysis is done by the user, not the program. The program presents the results, the person analyzes them.
Like cell phones now, printers and keyboards have been industery forced innovation. Products become extremely cheap and reliable so people rarely need to get replacements. The cure for this condition of utter customer contentment is one of two things:
The printer path was (still is) to make products which quickly self-destruct. The addition of charging more for ink than the printer itself was also marketing genius. Yes, I've bought a printer to get the free ink with it before.
The alternative is social norming coupled with abusive advertising. Don't have our new phone? You're a fucktard. This is the theme of most cell phone commercials today, and many people buy into it.
Now I would go into some theory of how blue tooth keyboards and cell phones would eventually merge, but I don't want to give marketers any more "bright" ideas.
I agree entirely. Java is slightly akin to Visual Basic, just with more control and (obviously) wider compatibility. If you want an interfacing program, especially one with a GUI, more traditional approaches (C, C++) fall flat due to coding overhead. In Java this is traded for execution overhead, which largely doesn't matter given the speed of modern CPUs (although I hate to say it) and the fact that a user interface doesn't have to be any faster than the person using it.
Last summer I worked for Rutgers University in the genetics department. One person had a piece of software someone else had developed in java, which interpreted the results of a machine output. Without understanding the output, or how the program worked, or anything about biology what so ever, less than a day's time I was able to implement changes that a graduate student wanted to assist in his operations, namely, enhancing the GUI with some specific features. If it had been written in C/++, it certainly would have taken me much longer (although I don't have any sort of proof, what I can say is Java is easy).
I propose that XP should require you to create a user account by default.
Woah, woah slow down sparky! I know what you're getting at but last I checked there's no graceful way to switch users back and forth while the system is running. That being said there are not-so-graceful ways (perhaps one of Microsoft's many mascots would be willing to help), but switching back and forth isn't as simple as a shortcut with an F key. This isn't Linux. One computer, One user, One operating system. Microsoft.
True, however athletes are getting better every year. While there isn't any obvious solid line where performance will stop, what will happen is that things will have to be more percise. Instead of 100th of a second, I wouldn't be surprised if the next olympics has 1000th of a second. With 0.02 seconds splitting the 3 fastest runners in the 100m, you know that's just a bit too close. One bike race they actually had to rerun because the equipment wasn't fast enough to figure out who ran-- and that was just two people.
Yes, yes the book being "discontinued" might be an excuse for some, but is it really a practical excuse? I haven't had a problem getting any discontinued books before. The fact that it is no longer in print doesn't change the fact that many people who have it don't want it anymore, and online sellers such as amazon make it very easy to buy from someone else just like you were purchasing from them. Especially a recently revised textbook! You can't resell it to your own university so all the sales that go online from every university student is picked up by those students in the schools that still take the old editions.
I agree entirely but who is to blame? Is it the publisher for releasing a new textbook every couple years? Is it the school for adopting it? I go to RIT, and here the professor has final and ONLY say in what textbooks are used (although the department might try to dictate a policy, the professor does not need to follow it). If a new textbook is out but the library has used copies of the old one available, the professor often picks the older edition. Also if the professor wants to transition, often s/he'll give a course with page numbers for both the new and old edition.
In almost all circumstances old edition + online published errata + pictures = new edition.
Lyndsay: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: Are you kidding me, this baby's off the charts.
CBG: Oooh a sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(detector explodes)
I prefer a geek switch, or rather, a series of geek switches that turn the software from being a usable piece of software into a controllable piece of software. You must understand some people will NEVER want to switch into geek mode. I know my parents would never sacrifice usability for features. By the same token some geeks may know the author of the software well and be able to guess how to control the software and may never use an easier mode. Many games have this feature (RTS) so I'd really like to see it in programs.
The one mistake many programmers make it requiring people to accept things they do not want. Perhaps I want control X but not control Y. Many programs would force you to take both or neither. This must always be circumvent-able without resorting to geekhood.
It sounds like you want to reach the end without the means. In my view the ultimate goal of the liberal ideology is to eliminate government almost entirely once people accept the fact that interdependence is in the best interest of everyone. Unfortunately most people cannot accept this yet and choose the conservative agenda. The ultimate goal of this agenda is sort of a feudal state where by people are dependent upon a small body (say, royal families, nobility, elected officials, etc) for protection and (presumably) employment. (Note: I consider our current system feudal. We are split into around 200 "sovereign" nations, which are often at war. How any given nations chooses a leader is immaterial. Also many of which are subdivided further giving some power to a few lower ranked people.)
Both systems can work fine assuming zero corruption, but the liberal system has more people in charge reducing the influence of any single person. The conservative system is prone to producing the master/slave mentality and leads to civil wars. The liberal system is prone to someone deciding that they'd rather have more control of their lives (read: other people's lives) and promote the conservative system. Others agree seeing they can do get power, and the liberal system collapses.
So anyway, as we stand presently, our conservative system is relatively stable. However we (especially lately) have seen people grabbing for more power in positions (patriot act is a scary start). Watch for increases in militias, etc. After a while a slave mentality will development and the system will be overthrown (unless the current trend changes), and it will be replaced with a more liberal system which can go either way.
Until everyone is simultaneously ready to accept the fact they their own rights/wants/needs are superseded by the society's rights/wants/needs, and that individual ambition pales in comparison to our ambition as a race, we'll be stuck in a cycle of bloodshed and hatred. Even if we do successfully overcome our situation, we'll have to be ever vigilant about giving any person a decent amount of power.
I am a tad confused about your description of them as conservatives and libertarians. They make obvious political messages through many of their shows and they don't seem libertarian, and certainly usually take the liberal route.
Old people should not be able to drive if they are a risk. This is both liberal and non-libertarian.
South Park shows that America was founded on hypocrisy. The conservative ideal is that America was founded perfect and the founding fathers are infallible. The US is also regularly made fun of throughout the series, something that conservatives a more likely not to enjoy. [liberal]
The show isn't anti-homosexual (not by a long shot). [liberal]
Pro stem cell research (although this message is garbled a bit by the plot.) [liberal]
Lawyers are a nuisance. [liberal]
Big business is bad, unless that business is good. Relatively neutral and this is a good message. Too bad Star Bucks doesn't fit their example.
In the episode where people come back from the future, conservatives are shown as extremely stupid. The boys figure out that taking a Green initiative is the solution but quit when they figure out it is too "gay" (read: difficult).
Anyway you can take the message from many shows because they usually make it blatantly obvious, almost to a fault. I actually prefer the episodes that don't teach a political lesson. Other lessons are OK. I want an Awesome-o robot.
Slashdot Mirror
I had to GIS it. You'll be happy there are no results. However I do have a sudden desire to start a website called "diaperse".
My reaction is.. NOT DIRECT CONNECT!! In everything I've read this is the first time anyone has mentioned direct connect which (naturally) is the only one I use. Now the question is what's the next best thing?
Personally I think the answer would be in software that utilizes randomly shaped packets. I know people who think I'm a complete idiot but they never gave a good reason.
If people want to know if there is extensive file sharing on a given campus, they'll look at the packets. If there is a very high frequency of DC packets, Kazaa packets, or FTP packets etc they know what to go after. If on the other hand there are lots of many kinds of packets, it is much harder to determine if anything is going on at all, aside from traffic being high. All it takes to make one kind of packet versus another is how it is shaped.
If what I am saying is so extremely stupid, I'd appreciate a response beyond "that's extremely stupid.".
To me, a terrorist is someone who purposefully inflicts violent damage on civilians for the purpose of causing political change.
Now I'm sure you can poke some holes in this but it's mostly correct. A suicide bomber who attacks the military is not a terrorist. A suicide bomber who attacks the military in a civilian area to cause civilian injury is. The KKK often is a terrorist organization (although not so much anymore).
Now I have the adjective "violent" to leave room for protesting. Protests can shut a city down without being terrorists easily enough. If it turns violent they aren't terrorists but just regular criminal acts. They aren't committing the violence for the cause, they're doing it because they are in a mob.
As for a cyberterrorist:
Someone who purposefully inflicts irrecoverable damage on civilians for the purpose of causing political change.
Not a lot of change in the definition, and the only bit comes from the fact that it's an abstraction now. Hogging 911 lines might cause a fire call coming in late, resulting in later rescue services possibly resulting in death. That is cyberterrorism (of course only if there was a political motive, otherwise it's manslaughter at least). I'm no good at examples though so I'll stop while I'm a head and go outside. It's nice out.
Where does it state that a company has to be nice to you?
You are completely missing the point of the concept of being nice. If you have to do it, it's no longer being nice, it's abiding by the rules/laws.
Advertising to mislead isn't illegal in the united states because part of it is that what you are saying is true (after a fashion). What you are implying is not. This is not tolerated as much in the EU and I really wish we'd get more strict about it.
Anyway you're trying to argue the same point that I have, just through a different means.
I also try to think towards the positive side. If unobtrusive ads decrease monthly fees, I'm happy. If it makes it so the game itself costs nothing (just monthly fees), I'm also happy. As for non pay-to-play games, I'd rather not have any ads for any real products or companies, except of course any delightful easter eggs.
You're right. They don't have to say anything. Just the same I don't have to respond to your message in an intelligent manner, but I will anyway. Call it a moral obligation or simply a courtesy, but whenin any form it is ignored, I get angry. Advertising to mislead is certainly not very nice, however legal it might be in the US.
I hate the spell checker the most. It just says YOU ARE WRONG. Now I'm no expert but let's say I start righting something and transconductance becomes an issue. Right after a type the word, it turns red. Fine, it doesn't understand this, they didn't ever look at any technical jargon when making the dictionary. So I add the word to the dictionary. Later on I have a sentence that starts with "Transconductance" capitalized because it's the first word in the sentence. ruh roh! No, apparently "transconductance" is a word but MS Word also thinks it's a word that cannot be capitalized (because words like this exist....). Later on I Must be sure to compare the transconductance of two things because if I dare compare two transconductances, I'll be wrong about spelling again.
Ok Microsoft listen up. I thought about it: No, it's not acceptable for your program to lack the jargon in ANY field unless it is bleeding edge. Additionally when someone adds a word locally ask them, "is it a verb/noun/adjective/adverb/particle/etc". Immediately enter it into your grammar rules so that sentences with these words aren't ignored. Figure out the most probable plural form of the word, or in the case of a verb, every form of the word.
This is too funny. As I am typing this message MSN Encarta popped up... Let's see my browser doesn't have pop-ups, the only other thing open is Word, it must know that I am talking about it.
Oh yes I'd like to petition the world to allow "them" over "him or her". It's about time we had some sexually neutral words (unlike "it" which is sexually sterile).
To be fair Microsoft does somewhat have a point as IBM, one of the foremost advocates of Linux, is pushing the virtual-Linux-on-a-mainframe concept, and a lot of people are buying. It seems that Microsoft was tageting that competitor rather than Linux-running-on-obsoleted-developer-PC.
... no wait
Right, and Microsoft clearly states this whenever they make any outrageous claim.
1) Scripting won't give you any sort of interactive graphical display.
2) Not everyone wants to sit in front of a prompt all day.
3) Especially in genetics colored graphs are important.
4) Scripting won't even accomplish anything because the analysis is done by the user, not the program. The program presents the results, the person analyzes them.
Like cell phones now, printers and keyboards have been industery forced innovation. Products become extremely cheap and reliable so people rarely need to get replacements. The cure for this condition of utter customer contentment is one of two things:
The printer path was (still is) to make products which quickly self-destruct. The addition of charging more for ink than the printer itself was also marketing genius. Yes, I've bought a printer to get the free ink with it before.
The alternative is social norming coupled with abusive advertising. Don't have our new phone? You're a fucktard. This is the theme of most cell phone commercials today, and many people buy into it.
Now I would go into some theory of how blue tooth keyboards and cell phones would eventually merge, but I don't want to give marketers any more "bright" ideas.
I agree entirely. Java is slightly akin to Visual Basic, just with more control and (obviously) wider compatibility. If you want an interfacing program, especially one with a GUI, more traditional approaches (C, C++) fall flat due to coding overhead. In Java this is traded for execution overhead, which largely doesn't matter given the speed of modern CPUs (although I hate to say it) and the fact that a user interface doesn't have to be any faster than the person using it.
Last summer I worked for Rutgers University in the genetics department. One person had a piece of software someone else had developed in java, which interpreted the results of a machine output. Without understanding the output, or how the program worked, or anything about biology what so ever, less than a day's time I was able to implement changes that a graduate student wanted to assist in his operations, namely, enhancing the GUI with some specific features. If it had been written in C/++, it certainly would have taken me much longer (although I don't have any sort of proof, what I can say is Java is easy).
I propose that XP should require you to create a user account by default.
Woah, woah slow down sparky! I know what you're getting at but last I checked there's no graceful way to switch users back and forth while the system is running. That being said there are not-so-graceful ways (perhaps one of Microsoft's many mascots would be willing to help), but switching back and forth isn't as simple as a shortcut with an F key. This isn't Linux. One computer, One user, One operating system. Microsoft.
True, however athletes are getting better every year. While there isn't any obvious solid line where performance will stop, what will happen is that things will have to be more percise. Instead of 100th of a second, I wouldn't be surprised if the next olympics has 1000th of a second. With 0.02 seconds splitting the 3 fastest runners in the 100m, you know that's just a bit too close. One bike race they actually had to rerun because the equipment wasn't fast enough to figure out who ran-- and that was just two people.
Yes, yes the book being "discontinued" might be an excuse for some, but is it really a practical excuse? I haven't had a problem getting any discontinued books before. The fact that it is no longer in print doesn't change the fact that many people who have it don't want it anymore, and online sellers such as amazon make it very easy to buy from someone else just like you were purchasing from them. Especially a recently revised textbook! You can't resell it to your own university so all the sales that go online from every university student is picked up by those students in the schools that still take the old editions.
I agree entirely but who is to blame? Is it the publisher for releasing a new textbook every couple years? Is it the school for adopting it? I go to RIT, and here the professor has final and ONLY say in what textbooks are used (although the department might try to dictate a policy, the professor does not need to follow it). If a new textbook is out but the library has used copies of the old one available, the professor often picks the older edition. Also if the professor wants to transition, often s/he'll give a course with page numbers for both the new and old edition.
In almost all circumstances old edition + online published errata + pictures = new edition.
I think I speak for the majority of geeks who can't get any when I ask:
Where can I get said worm and what are the IPs of the seven sisters colleges?
My mom speaks Anglo and my dad speaks Saxon.
Apparently most Americans are like that.
Lyndsay: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: Are you kidding me, this baby's off the charts.
CBG: Oooh a sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(detector explodes)
I prefer a geek switch, or rather, a series of geek switches that turn the software from being a usable piece of software into a controllable piece of software. You must understand some people will NEVER want to switch into geek mode. I know my parents would never sacrifice usability for features. By the same token some geeks may know the author of the software well and be able to guess how to control the software and may never use an easier mode. Many games have this feature (RTS) so I'd really like to see it in programs.
The one mistake many programmers make it requiring people to accept things they do not want. Perhaps I want control X but not control Y. Many programs would force you to take both or neither. This must always be circumvent-able without resorting to geekhood.
Wouldn't that be ironic? If all the tinfoil hat people were killed by the very thing they thought would protect them?
Wait, ironic isn't the word I am looking for.. Oh yeah, funny.
It sounds like you want to reach the end without the means. In my view the ultimate goal of the liberal ideology is to eliminate government almost entirely once people accept the fact that interdependence is in the best interest of everyone. Unfortunately most people cannot accept this yet and choose the conservative agenda. The ultimate goal of this agenda is sort of a feudal state where by people are dependent upon a small body (say, royal families, nobility, elected officials, etc) for protection and (presumably) employment. (Note: I consider our current system feudal. We are split into around 200 "sovereign" nations, which are often at war. How any given nations chooses a leader is immaterial. Also many of which are subdivided further giving some power to a few lower ranked people.)
Both systems can work fine assuming zero corruption, but the liberal system has more people in charge reducing the influence of any single person. The conservative system is prone to producing the master/slave mentality and leads to civil wars. The liberal system is prone to someone deciding that they'd rather have more control of their lives (read: other people's lives) and promote the conservative system. Others agree seeing they can do get power, and the liberal system collapses.
So anyway, as we stand presently, our conservative system is relatively stable. However we (especially lately) have seen people grabbing for more power in positions (patriot act is a scary start). Watch for increases in militias, etc. After a while a slave mentality will development and the system will be overthrown (unless the current trend changes), and it will be replaced with a more liberal system which can go either way.
Until everyone is simultaneously ready to accept the fact they their own rights/wants/needs are superseded by the society's rights/wants/needs, and that individual ambition pales in comparison to our ambition as a race, we'll be stuck in a cycle of bloodshed and hatred. Even if we do successfully overcome our situation, we'll have to be ever vigilant about giving any person a decent amount of power.
Hey, many nerds keep their silicon and silicone quite close.
My house is on fire!
I am a tad confused about your description of them as conservatives and libertarians. They make obvious political messages through many of their shows and they don't seem libertarian, and certainly usually take the liberal route.
Old people should not be able to drive if they are a risk. This is both liberal and non-libertarian.
South Park shows that America was founded on hypocrisy. The conservative ideal is that America was founded perfect and the founding fathers are infallible. The US is also regularly made fun of throughout the series, something that conservatives a more likely not to enjoy. [liberal]
The show isn't anti-homosexual (not by a long shot). [liberal]
Pro stem cell research (although this message is garbled a bit by the plot.) [liberal]
Lawyers are a nuisance. [liberal]
Big business is bad, unless that business is good. Relatively neutral and this is a good message. Too bad Star Bucks doesn't fit their example.
In the episode where people come back from the future, conservatives are shown as extremely stupid. The boys figure out that taking a Green initiative is the solution but quit when they figure out it is too "gay" (read: difficult).
Anyway you can take the message from many shows because they usually make it blatantly obvious, almost to a fault. I actually prefer the episodes that don't teach a political lesson. Other lessons are OK. I want an Awesome-o robot.
The sega channel was awesome. There was this one populous type game where you made these roman/greek like cities.. Anyone have the name?