So because its been used in military applications, you've constructed this elaborate fantasy scenario rather than just researching its actual history? It was developed years ago as a commercial product primarily for the embedded systems market. Military aircraft are just an example of the applications it's been used for after it was already a mature commercial product.
How do you figure? The NSA didn't develop the OS, they just certified it. It was developed by a private company. The NSA makes companies pay to be tested this way, so it isn't tax payer subsidized.
No OS has ever been certified to EAL-7. Look it up with the agency that does these certifications. It's public information. Many OSs make the nebulous claim that they were designed for EAL-7, but none have been certified for it. This is the first OS to be certified to EAL-6.
This OS comes with source code that you compile yourself. High security developers can't just take another companies word for what their OS is doing. So you would be able to inspect the source code for a potential backdoor.
The source code in this case is available both to the NSA testers trying to hack it as well as to customers. "Security through obscurity" isn't good enough to get that level of EAL certification. It requires going through each line of code and proving that its secure, even to someone who knows exactly how it works. It would be theoretically possible to do it with open source, but it would require an extreme degree of organization and discipline compared to normal open source projects.
Shadowrun was responsible for one of the greatest RPG games available on the SNES. Its still fun on an emulator. I hope it makes it to the Wii virtual console someday.
Since then, it hasn't been associated with anything good. An FPS, are you kidding me? I don't understand why they can't just make a solid computer RPG out of such a great system. The fallout series are pretty good games in that genre.
People pointing that out is a pet peeve of mine. Under the strict definition, anything and everything is unique. Even if it isn't immediately apparent, each object has a unique history, a unique position, a unique trajectory. Any sufficiently complex object has a unique structure, even if the differences are subtle. Everything as complex as a human being is unique in a billion small ways.
Thus, a word like unique becomes meaningless when applied rigidly. We acknowledge that everything is unique in some way. What we mean when we say something is highly unique is that it is unique in more ways than some other thing or that it is unique in some major way that is easily recognized.
When you really learn to program, the language is irrelevant. My university specifically taught their introductory courses in a language that isn't used in the real world, and it was a useful approach. The point is to learn the underlying concepts, not the syntax of any one language. Learning different languages helps you abstract out what is really important. After you've learned a few languages from different families of languages, you can pick up a new language in days and still apply all the programming concepts you've learned. In the real world, its more useful to know that you can be effective with any language necessary, rather than locking yourself into a specific language, even a very useful one like C++.
Even Logo has a place as an early introduction. Its actually more complex than a lot of people realize. Your first exposure to it may not have included all the language features that were possible, but you can code some pretty reasonably complex logic with it.
A nice thing about World of Warcraft is the art direction. The models are all pretty low polygon, but they are chosen carefully to get the most benefit out of the fewest polygons. So World of Warcraft actually has lower hardware requirements than some of its peers, but in many ways it looks better too. To go any lower in hardware requirements, they would have to really shrink down zones and reduce the clipping distance, at the expense of gameplay. I think they have a good balance of making the game look decent but keeping the requirements low enough for most people to play. So I actually think they did a good job of what you're asking of them.
That plan would make it virtually impossible to inform consumers of prices, genius, since sales taxes may vary from town to town. Some places in the US levy 0% sales tax.
iTunes isn't the one pushing DRM, its the record labels like Universal who insist on it. Apple knows its customers don't like DRM and they'd sell more without it, but the copyright holders are the ones worried about losing revenue in the long term without DRM. You've got it completely confused.
Open beta testing amounts to playing the game and giving feedback on it. Its not substantially more "work" than if the game were released, except you're not paying for it.
And the fact that you can't muster the effort to write a paragraph or two indicates that you'll be a terrible candidate when it comes to holding up your end of the bargain and actually providing usable feedback for them.
While its just a joke, there is a bit of a point to it. Some of the sites they are sending cease and desist orders to like Digg and Wikipedia are just repositories of user generated content. If those sites are responsible for anything that their users might type into their system, then where do you draw the line?
They came even before Beowulf. Many languages have words for monsters derived from the latin Orcus. Although he was originally a specific underworld god, the term became a generic description for underworld monsters and evil spirits. In Italian orcos are flesh eating fairy tale bogeymen. The word "ogre" comes from a French word derived from this, so the words "ogre" and "orc" actually have the same root, even though they now have distinct meanings in fantasy. Tolkein made an interesting and lively world, but he certainly didn't do it from "whole cloth".
Well, some of these factors are pretty recent in human history. Evolution isn't that quick, and hasn't had nearly enough time to catch up with modern civilization. Humans and chimps branched from each other long long before most of these changes in environment. If you had grown up several thousand years ago, your same genes may not have resulted in the same problems, due to environment. For example, our teeth rot particularly quick due to our diet high in simple carbohydrates, made possible by agriculture. In nature, people may not eat quite so many starches and sugars. Our eyes may develop differently due to all the reading and maybe even artificial lighting. Our feet don't have to become hard and calloused because shoes are available.
You don't need extremely high level math, but the further you go with it, the more likely you are to be able to retain and apply the basics in appropriate situations. A 2 year certification program generally isn't going to cover much university level math at all. When it comes right down to it, you could learn almost anything on your own without a degree, but if you have the skills for it, just get a real degree and make yourself employable.
Filters are useful, but those exist cheaply on the web too. The web has some powerful tools for self organizing communities. There is plenty of room for free online only journals to develop. Different sites can build their reputation for quality standards just like different paper journals have. The peer review process can still be handled very much like it is now. Switching to free online solutions doesn't have to mean total anarchy where Google is the only tool for finding papers with no means of assessing the credible from garbage.
Its not exactly the same as being at 6000ft, its just similar from the perspective of how easily a human can breath. Higher altitudes have the same percentage of oxygen in the air, they just have lower air pressure, meaning less of all of its components. The lower altitude air will still be higher pressure, but with less oxygen. In terms of breathing, we just care about the partial pressure of oxygen, but thats not all that matters when it comes to whether something will burn.
Actually, the median income in Dubai is comparable to a western country, so I really doubt thats the motivation. There are plenty of countries that they could have chosen with sweatshop wages, but they picked the most expensive area in the region. They aren't going to save much on labor costs this way. Considering that they'll probably still hire a lot of westerners to come live in Dubai, it might even cost a bit more. I hate to defend Halliburton, believe me, but I think this particular complaint is off the mark.
If you do some research, the Wii was launched on a Sunday, and at many retailers, new shipments have been getting released on Sunday mornings on a weekly basis since then. So a Sunday afternoon is exactly when you might expect to actually find one.
I have to ask how long you've been buying games? How often do you really pop in that excite bike nintendo cartridge or put the 5.25" Impossible Mission floppy in your C64? The technology changes. At some point your games will be worth approximately $0 to you (not worth the shelf space). Somewhere on the road from $50 to $0, it will hit $5.
Some games are excellent but have highly limited replay value. If you spend 30+ hours playing all the way through a game, and maybe do it again, how much more of your precious time do you really want to spend doing the exact same thing rather than buying another game? In terms of dollar per hour of entertainment you've already gotten more than your moneys worth at that point, so anything you can get selling it is just bonus.
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Good luck collecting on that, troll.
So because its been used in military applications, you've constructed this elaborate fantasy scenario rather than just researching its actual history? It was developed years ago as a commercial product primarily for the embedded systems market. Military aircraft are just an example of the applications it's been used for after it was already a mature commercial product.
How do you figure? The NSA didn't develop the OS, they just certified it. It was developed by a private company. The NSA makes companies pay to be tested this way, so it isn't tax payer subsidized.
No OS has ever been certified to EAL-7. Look it up with the agency that does these certifications. It's public information. Many OSs make the nebulous claim that they were designed for EAL-7, but none have been certified for it. This is the first OS to be certified to EAL-6.
This OS comes with source code that you compile yourself. High security developers can't just take another companies word for what their OS is doing. So you would be able to inspect the source code for a potential backdoor.
The source code in this case is available both to the NSA testers trying to hack it as well as to customers. "Security through obscurity" isn't good enough to get that level of EAL certification. It requires going through each line of code and proving that its secure, even to someone who knows exactly how it works. It would be theoretically possible to do it with open source, but it would require an extreme degree of organization and discipline compared to normal open source projects.
Shadowrun was responsible for one of the greatest RPG games available on the SNES. Its still fun on an emulator. I hope it makes it to the Wii virtual console someday.
Since then, it hasn't been associated with anything good. An FPS, are you kidding me? I don't understand why they can't just make a solid computer RPG out of such a great system. The fallout series are pretty good games in that genre.
People pointing that out is a pet peeve of mine. Under the strict definition, anything and everything is unique. Even if it isn't immediately apparent, each object has a unique history, a unique position, a unique trajectory. Any sufficiently complex object has a unique structure, even if the differences are subtle. Everything as complex as a human being is unique in a billion small ways.
Thus, a word like unique becomes meaningless when applied rigidly. We acknowledge that everything is unique in some way. What we mean when we say something is highly unique is that it is unique in more ways than some other thing or that it is unique in some major way that is easily recognized.
When you really learn to program, the language is irrelevant. My university specifically taught their introductory courses in a language that isn't used in the real world, and it was a useful approach. The point is to learn the underlying concepts, not the syntax of any one language. Learning different languages helps you abstract out what is really important. After you've learned a few languages from different families of languages, you can pick up a new language in days and still apply all the programming concepts you've learned. In the real world, its more useful to know that you can be effective with any language necessary, rather than locking yourself into a specific language, even a very useful one like C++.
Even Logo has a place as an early introduction. Its actually more complex than a lot of people realize. Your first exposure to it may not have included all the language features that were possible, but you can code some pretty reasonably complex logic with it.
Well yeah, but the point is that she's now a sleazy, corrupt EX-politician, so the situation has changed for the lobbyist.
If Card took the helm, 60% of the final book would involve Olver as the protagonist, and Rand would become a thinly veiled allegory of Joseph Smith.
A nice thing about World of Warcraft is the art direction. The models are all pretty low polygon, but they are chosen carefully to get the most benefit out of the fewest polygons. So World of Warcraft actually has lower hardware requirements than some of its peers, but in many ways it looks better too. To go any lower in hardware requirements, they would have to really shrink down zones and reduce the clipping distance, at the expense of gameplay. I think they have a good balance of making the game look decent but keeping the requirements low enough for most people to play. So I actually think they did a good job of what you're asking of them.
That plan would make it virtually impossible to inform consumers of prices, genius, since sales taxes may vary from town to town. Some places in the US levy 0% sales tax.
iTunes isn't the one pushing DRM, its the record labels like Universal who insist on it. Apple knows its customers don't like DRM and they'd sell more without it, but the copyright holders are the ones worried about losing revenue in the long term without DRM. You've got it completely confused.
Open beta testing amounts to playing the game and giving feedback on it. Its not substantially more "work" than if the game were released, except you're not paying for it. And the fact that you can't muster the effort to write a paragraph or two indicates that you'll be a terrible candidate when it comes to holding up your end of the bargain and actually providing usable feedback for them.
While its just a joke, there is a bit of a point to it. Some of the sites they are sending cease and desist orders to like Digg and Wikipedia are just repositories of user generated content. If those sites are responsible for anything that their users might type into their system, then where do you draw the line?
They came even before Beowulf. Many languages have words for monsters derived from the latin Orcus. Although he was originally a specific underworld god, the term became a generic description for underworld monsters and evil spirits. In Italian orcos are flesh eating fairy tale bogeymen. The word "ogre" comes from a French word derived from this, so the words "ogre" and "orc" actually have the same root, even though they now have distinct meanings in fantasy. Tolkein made an interesting and lively world, but he certainly didn't do it from "whole cloth".
Well, some of these factors are pretty recent in human history. Evolution isn't that quick, and hasn't had nearly enough time to catch up with modern civilization. Humans and chimps branched from each other long long before most of these changes in environment. If you had grown up several thousand years ago, your same genes may not have resulted in the same problems, due to environment. For example, our teeth rot particularly quick due to our diet high in simple carbohydrates, made possible by agriculture. In nature, people may not eat quite so many starches and sugars. Our eyes may develop differently due to all the reading and maybe even artificial lighting. Our feet don't have to become hard and calloused because shoes are available.
You don't need extremely high level math, but the further you go with it, the more likely you are to be able to retain and apply the basics in appropriate situations. A 2 year certification program generally isn't going to cover much university level math at all. When it comes right down to it, you could learn almost anything on your own without a degree, but if you have the skills for it, just get a real degree and make yourself employable.
Filters are useful, but those exist cheaply on the web too. The web has some powerful tools for self organizing communities. There is plenty of room for free online only journals to develop. Different sites can build their reputation for quality standards just like different paper journals have. The peer review process can still be handled very much like it is now. Switching to free online solutions doesn't have to mean total anarchy where Google is the only tool for finding papers with no means of assessing the credible from garbage.
Its not exactly the same as being at 6000ft, its just similar from the perspective of how easily a human can breath. Higher altitudes have the same percentage of oxygen in the air, they just have lower air pressure, meaning less of all of its components. The lower altitude air will still be higher pressure, but with less oxygen. In terms of breathing, we just care about the partial pressure of oxygen, but thats not all that matters when it comes to whether something will burn.
The word "shipping", despite its etymology, no longer exclusively refers to seafaring vessels.
Actually, the median income in Dubai is comparable to a western country, so I really doubt thats the motivation. There are plenty of countries that they could have chosen with sweatshop wages, but they picked the most expensive area in the region. They aren't going to save much on labor costs this way. Considering that they'll probably still hire a lot of westerners to come live in Dubai, it might even cost a bit more. I hate to defend Halliburton, believe me, but I think this particular complaint is off the mark.
If you do some research, the Wii was launched on a Sunday, and at many retailers, new shipments have been getting released on Sunday mornings on a weekly basis since then. So a Sunday afternoon is exactly when you might expect to actually find one.
I have to ask how long you've been buying games? How often do you really pop in that excite bike nintendo cartridge or put the 5.25" Impossible Mission floppy in your C64? The technology changes. At some point your games will be worth approximately $0 to you (not worth the shelf space). Somewhere on the road from $50 to $0, it will hit $5. Some games are excellent but have highly limited replay value. If you spend 30+ hours playing all the way through a game, and maybe do it again, how much more of your precious time do you really want to spend doing the exact same thing rather than buying another game? In terms of dollar per hour of entertainment you've already gotten more than your moneys worth at that point, so anything you can get selling it is just bonus.