Isn't this akin to saying that, in the modern era of 747s and stealth aircraft, the Wright Brothers' Flyer apparently was built wrong from the ground up?
Do any of these security exploits happen in Exchange? Every time an Outlook hole is revealed, we Exchange users also get the patches broadcast to us, but I don't remember hearing anything ever said about Exchange -- only Outlook, which will run on my work machine only after they fire me for refusing to have anything to do with it.:o)
If anything, probably not violent and sickening enough to get the point across. I want combat sim games to get at least as realistic-looking as the special-effects sequences in Starship Troopers, where hapless troops were impaled, dismembered and decapitated by the aliens.
If we had live-video-quality images generated in real time, we could start seeing what kind of horror white phosphorus, napalm, and Claymore mines perpetrate on flesh. Maybe if, in a first-person shoot-'em-up, it were possible to get wounded by shrapnel that turns out the be the bone fragments of the guy next to you -- as happens sometimes in real-world combat -- it might make a few would-be Sgt. Rock types stop and think a little.
Not to mention, alcohol is arguably one of the more destructive drugs out there: Consider drunken driving, alcohol-related domestic violence, chronic illnesses related to long-term alcohol consumption, and the stress put on social-welfare institutions and family structures due to the effects of alcohol addiction. Yet when we tried prohibiting it in the US, we created a huge wave of underground crime and fomented disrespect for the law, so we had to prohibit prohibition.
I'm in the slightly nutty situation of living out-of-town where I work during the week, then coming home (5 hr drive each way) to spend the weekend. While I'm home, I focus on my wife & little boy, wife's mom, our close friends, church, etc. It's a rare weekend when I bother to check even my personal email. On the other hand, during the week I work late, take stuff home, work at the apartment, studying related to work, etc.
Not exactly the scenario JK has in mind, but it's interesting how my working and personal life is getting redefined by my job -- I've had to rigidly separate the two.
How long before we see 256-bit desktop machines? And what will we be able to do on them?
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Your comments re depression got me to thinking...the psychiatrist who treats me for bipolar disorder (manic depression) points out that there's a high degree of correspondence between BP and creativity. Might we throw away a great wealth of creative energy in trying to make people "normal" genetically?
Thank God I live in Europe, where the kind of rampant capitalism the US practices is tempered with a more humane socialist brand of politics.
Thank God I live on the Internet, which is big enough to accomodate pictures-of-people-and-pets-loving hoi polloi like me and arrogant socialist sneering assholes like you.
If you were inhumanly patient and had a decent ear, you could write programs in FP Basic that would make an Apple II+ play tones out of the speaker. I remember a popular tune at our ComputerLand franchise was Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."
John K., I respectfully suggest that when reviewing the movie, you may have neglected to consider its true audience. It's really at a level that will appeal most to the 10-to-14 set than the later teens or grown-up/. crowd. If you can see it through younger eyes, it's actually a pretty entertaining little flick.
I'll grant you it's not Bertolucci, Kurosawa or Bergman, but what the hey, it's summer entertainment. I hope you'll think about that, wait a couple weeks, and go see it again.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the studio, the distributor, a theater chain, or anywhere in the infotainment industry...I'm just a poor old broken-down technical writer. But I DID see the movie yesterday.
Nonviolent 1st person/3D I'd like to see...
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A really *good* baseball game where you can play any position plus batter or baserunner -- let an AI handle the each of other ones. Hell, have some AIs to act as coaches and the managers,too.
Bench-clearing brawls, arguments with umpires, and encounters with drunken spectators wouldn't be allowed, of course. "Let's keep it clean out there, kids..."
You'll also have to find a way to stabilize the comm dish/feed horn so it's always pointed at the satellite, no matter what the wind and waves are doing. I'd like to know how you'd go about miniaturizing such a stabilization system -- I doubt the buoy could be smaller than, say, a large flower pot. Especially when it has to have some sort of flotation bladder.
Not to mention the ASW guys would love to find one of these gadgets -- with a range of three lousy miles, it's like a neon sign saying "SUBMARINES THIS WAY."
Locate comm buoy, use as initial search datum. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This has got to be the most ill-conceived idea since the Navy tried to train sea gulls to crap on enemy periscopes. (I bet you think I'm making that one up.)
without going into too much detail, ADCAP Mk 48s go a hell of a lot further than the kind of ranges this thing's supposed to work over.
If you're sneakily "swimming" a torp out off-bearing to come at the target from different direction so he can't follow the line-of-bearing back to the initial firing point, *maybe* this thing is useful. I *think* they actually download that into the torp and send corrections over the wire if they need to -- any bubbleheads who are/.'s wanna comment? (Or I could ask on sci.military.naval.) For a "snap shot" where you're trying to get off a torp directly down the other guy's line of bearing, then get the hell outta Dodge, this thing would not be useful -- you'll have to trust the torp to home on the target and not get spoofed by countermeasures. But then, torps are pretty smart li'l fishes.
I suspect that any kind of acoustic-communication guidance is a heckuva lot easier to jam than it is to make it work over any real-world type torpedo range.
Growing up in the era of Calvin Klein and Jordache on jeans -- which, being the son of Depression/WWII-era parents, I equated mainly with work clothes for crissakes -- I used to shake my head at how people seemed proud to provide free advertising space on their butts.
It's only gotten worse with this Nike swoop all over every damn thing. I don't even buy stuff that features a logo prominently displayed, although my material-girl Yuppie/preppie wife and her similarly-minded mom keep thinking my chest needs to proclam "Old Navy."
When Open Sourcerers develop a scriptable, extensible app that does what FrameMaker and PageMaker do, I'll finally be able to say adieu to Bill G and John W forever. And life will be good.
What the hell's elitist about preferring emacs, g++ and make over a graphical IDE like this one? Seems to me that what you're comfortable using, that gives you the greatest power and flexibility, is what really counts. As long as you're not dissing anybody else over their preferences, nobody in his right mind could accuse you of snobbery.
Now, me, if I'm getting used to a new language (and this is just different enough from the Pascal I learned in 198mumble that I'd call it "new"), the spiffy environment can be a godsend.
This all underscores the underlying coolness of the Linux universe, which is that it can give you whatever you need in whatever way you want it.
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' "
The physical location is going to exist at the sufferance of the British government. Anybody who says differently doesn't know how the Brits practice realpolitik. They're like the Israelis that way -- if something really troublesome is in that data haven, the place might just disappear.
The only way to forestall any possibility of hassles with governments is to make manifestly clear that there are copious off-site backups in undisclosed locations -- but doesn't that violates the sanctity of a data haven in the first place?
SEAL team my @$$. SBS would get first dibs. Look where they're located, for crissakes. Who do you suppose gets to play in the North Sea more -- NAVSPECWARDEVGRU or SBS and SAS?
Once upon a time, Team Six used to play with oil rigs out there, but the Brits are a lot handier when it comes to actual response time.
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Isn't this akin to saying that, in the modern era of 747s and stealth aircraft, the Wright Brothers' Flyer apparently was built wrong from the ground up?
...I just sent a check for about US$150 for a brand-new 20-gigger. I'd only want an 80 if I had access to a T3 line and was a hardcore Napsterite.
Do any of these security exploits happen in Exchange? Every time an Outlook hole is revealed, we Exchange users also get the patches broadcast to us, but I don't remember hearing anything ever said about Exchange -- only Outlook, which will run on my work machine only after they fire me for refusing to have anything to do with it. :o)
Once the marketroids get desperate to separate themselves from the pack by starting new trends, I bet we'll see a dodecahedron...
If anything, probably not violent and sickening enough to get the point across. I want combat sim games to get at least as realistic-looking as the special-effects sequences in Starship Troopers, where hapless troops were impaled, dismembered and decapitated by the aliens.
If we had live-video-quality images generated in real time, we could start seeing what kind of horror white phosphorus, napalm, and Claymore mines perpetrate on flesh. Maybe if, in a first-person shoot-'em-up, it were possible to get wounded by shrapnel that turns out the be the bone fragments of the guy next to you -- as happens sometimes in real-world combat -- it might make a few would-be Sgt. Rock types stop and think a little.
Not to mention, alcohol is arguably one of the more destructive drugs out there: Consider drunken driving, alcohol-related domestic violence, chronic illnesses related to long-term alcohol consumption, and the stress put on social-welfare institutions and family structures due to the effects of alcohol addiction. Yet when we tried prohibiting it in the US, we created a huge wave of underground crime and fomented disrespect for the law, so we had to prohibit prohibition.
Are we learning yet?
I'm in the slightly nutty situation of living out-of-town where I work during the week, then coming home (5 hr drive each way) to spend the weekend. While I'm home, I focus on my wife & little boy, wife's mom, our close friends, church, etc. It's a rare weekend when I bother to check even my personal email. On the other hand, during the week I work late, take stuff home, work at the apartment, studying related to work, etc.
Not exactly the scenario JK has in mind, but it's interesting how my working and personal life is getting redefined by my job -- I've had to rigidly separate the two.
...Brittle, high-strung Steve Jobs introducing each Sunday episode of "The Wide World of Disney."
How long before we see 256-bit desktop machines? And what will we be able to do on them?
Your comments re depression got me to thinking...the psychiatrist who treats me for bipolar disorder (manic depression) points out that there's a high degree of correspondence between BP and creativity. Might we throw away a great wealth of creative energy in trying to make people "normal" genetically?
Thank God I live in Europe, where the kind of rampant capitalism the US practices is tempered with a more humane socialist brand of politics.
Thank God I live on the Internet, which is big enough to accomodate pictures-of-people-and-pets-loving hoi polloi like me and arrogant socialist sneering assholes like you.
If you were inhumanly patient and had a decent ear, you could write programs in FP Basic that would make an Apple II+ play tones out of the speaker. I remember a popular tune at our ComputerLand franchise was Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."
John K., I respectfully suggest that when reviewing the movie, you may have neglected to consider its true audience. It's really at a level that will appeal most to the 10-to-14 set than the later teens or grown-up /. crowd. If you can see it through younger eyes, it's actually a pretty entertaining little flick.
I'll grant you it's not Bertolucci, Kurosawa or Bergman, but what the hey, it's summer entertainment. I hope you'll think about that, wait a couple weeks, and go see it again.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the studio, the distributor, a theater chain, or anywhere in the infotainment industry...I'm just a poor old broken-down technical writer. But I DID see the movie yesterday.
A really *good* baseball game where you can play any position plus batter or baserunner -- let an AI handle the each of other ones. Hell, have some AIs to act as coaches and the managers,too.
Bench-clearing brawls, arguments with umpires, and encounters with drunken spectators wouldn't be allowed, of course. "Let's keep it clean out there, kids..."
forget about bringing a girl into the house, cause he *WILL* hear you... and be able to give a frequency count too
I bet he'd also call out the Doppler and aspect changes. :o)
You'll also have to find a way to stabilize the comm dish/feed horn so it's always pointed at the satellite, no matter what the wind and waves are doing. I'd like to know how you'd go about miniaturizing such a stabilization system -- I doubt the buoy could be smaller than, say, a large flower pot. Especially when it has to have some sort of flotation bladder.
Not to mention the ASW guys would love to find one of these gadgets -- with a range of three lousy miles, it's like a neon sign saying "SUBMARINES THIS WAY."
Locate comm buoy, use as initial search datum. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This has got to be the most ill-conceived idea since the Navy tried to train sea gulls to crap on enemy periscopes. (I bet you think I'm making that one up.)
Because the bandwidth for ELF is in seconds per character -- a relatively brief email could take half a day.
without going into too much detail, ADCAP Mk 48s go a hell of a lot further than the kind of ranges this thing's supposed to work over.
If you're sneakily "swimming" a torp out off-bearing to come at the target from different direction so he can't follow the line-of-bearing back to the initial firing point, *maybe* this thing is useful. I *think* they actually download that into the torp and send corrections over the wire if they need to -- any bubbleheads who are /.'s wanna comment? (Or I could ask on sci.military.naval.) For a "snap shot" where you're trying to get off a torp directly down the other guy's line of bearing, then get the hell outta Dodge, this thing would not be useful -- you'll have to trust the torp to home on the target and not get spoofed by countermeasures. But then, torps are pretty smart li'l fishes.
I suspect that any kind of acoustic-communication guidance is a heckuva lot easier to jam than it is to make it work over any real-world type torpedo range.
Bobby Shaftoe = Marine Raider nerd
"Marine Raider nerd"?? WTH????
The closest thing to a Marine Raider nerd I've ever seen is William Manchester -- maybe.
Growing up in the era of Calvin Klein and Jordache on jeans -- which, being the son of Depression/WWII-era parents, I equated mainly with work clothes for crissakes -- I used to shake my head at how people seemed proud to provide free advertising space on their butts.
It's only gotten worse with this Nike swoop all over every damn thing. I don't even buy stuff that features a logo prominently displayed, although my material-girl Yuppie/preppie wife and her similarly-minded mom keep thinking my chest needs to proclam "Old Navy."
When Open Sourcerers develop a scriptable, extensible app that does what FrameMaker and PageMaker do, I'll finally be able to say adieu to Bill G and John W forever. And life will be good.
What the hell's elitist about preferring emacs, g++ and make over a graphical IDE like this one? Seems to me that what you're comfortable using, that gives you the greatest power and flexibility, is what really counts. As long as you're not dissing anybody else over their preferences, nobody in his right mind could accuse you of snobbery.
Now, me, if I'm getting used to a new language (and this is just different enough from the Pascal I learned in 198mumble that I'd call it "new"), the spiffy environment can be a godsend.
This all underscores the underlying coolness of the Linux universe, which is that it can give you whatever you need in whatever way you want it.
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' "
The physical location is going to exist at the sufferance of the British government. Anybody who says differently doesn't know how the Brits practice realpolitik. They're like the Israelis that way -- if something really troublesome is in that data haven, the place might just disappear.
The only way to forestall any possibility of hassles with governments is to make manifestly clear that there are copious off-site backups in undisclosed locations -- but doesn't that violates the sanctity of a data haven in the first place?
SEAL team my @$$. SBS would get first dibs. Look where they're located, for crissakes. Who do you suppose gets to play in the North Sea more -- NAVSPECWARDEVGRU or SBS and SAS?
Once upon a time, Team Six used to play with oil rigs out there, but the Brits are a lot handier when it comes to actual response time.