This is not that bad of an idea. After all, this is similiar responsibility doctors and lawyers have to deal with every day. It would quickly cause a few changes:
a) requirement of proffessional certification in order to work in the field,
b) salaries would go to $200K (in US) average real quick,
c) no one sane would outsorce to 3rd world countries.
While this would be beneficial to some (self included), it would wreak havoc through the system. It would certainly slow down computer systems development as only big and rich could afford it.
All after all, it will happen some day but not yet. Computer science engineering is still stone age as compared to other professions like engineering and architecture. We need some more turbulent development to get there.
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Thanks to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act AKA Financial Privacy Law, financial institutions can and do sell all your information to anyone they see fit anyway! Well, maybe with exception to account numbers but your name, address, social, phone, etc is legally sold anyday, anytime.
If you thought Fair Credit Reporting Act protects your rights, think again.
Couple of months ago I installed XP Pro with RAID - the only way one can do this is by inserting a floppy with RAID drivers into drive a: ! Long live the floppy!
Long story short, it is not the realism or beautiful renedering that makes or breakes the game. It is the gameplay.
Speaking about shooters, there are rules that need to be followed:
1. Monsters coming at ya in well paced waves so you can rest and prepare for next,
2. Monsters should be very different, charcteristic; just like D1 or D2 had big red ball with eye, piggy thingy, imp, etc.
3. There should be clear matching between weapons and monsters, so you know you need shotgun for one and machine gun for the other. If not why carry all the crap? NOTE: it is not only about fire power! Player takes pride in "thinking" but it is still about killing and not some crappy puzzles!
4. It is not fun not to see them until they get you (the whole Doom3 scary deal is bad bad bad for gameplay),
5. It is not fun to get whacked by some invisible mofo that shoots from somewhere you cannot see - unless you verywell know where they are,
6. From time to time a wave of monsters subsides and then you can be sure that there will be mini boss guarding the level,
7. At the end of game or in very key points during the game, there is a super boss,
8. Puzzles and shit - it is not quite close to shooter game,
9. There should be not too many returns through the same places. If you've been through all is dead, so you are bored. If it is not dead then why the fuck did you kill it in the first place? Where is the sense of achievement?
10. There should be enough ammo for good shootout. I do not want to search for some lame clip. I want to fire entire plasma gun into one monster. The only price you haveto py for extra ammo should be walking somewhere to pick it up. No damn codes and shit!
etc.
Doom3 violates most of these rules:
ad 1. Waves of bad guys are not well-paced, there is always one or two behind doors wherever you go and there is no time for resting (unless you stay in one place after you kill em),
ad 2. Monsters are different but most of the time you cannot see it because it is so fucking dark!
ad 3. Well, they tried match weapons and monters. But it seems shotgun is good for all. Shotgun ammo is limited, you say? Too bad: it makes me unhappy - after all it is about shooting whit some cool shit and not running away most of the time!
ad 4. Seems all evil has one purpose - hide in the closet and wait forever for some dude walking by to scare him. Fuck!
ad 5. Fuck again! I want to shoot and die only if I cannot shoot fast enough!
ad 6. OK, I've seen minibosses. But they had all these rockets and shit and I had a machine gun with couple of clips. I had to hide. WHERE IS MY AMMO?
ad 7. Haven't see him yet but I'm sure my Beavertooth will run out of gas before I can grind him to death.
ad 8. Shit! Fuck! Who the hell (pun intended) had this lame idea?
ad 9. The freaking returns make me puke - I had some fun killing and then half an hour walking and looking for some lame shit before I can get on train. Did you all remember people doing nightmare doom in 20 minutes? Was it fun to watch? Impossible in D3.
ad 10. Holy molly - do not get me started on this.
etc etc.
So after we established it is not a shooter, what is it? RPG? So where are all my choices, all my possibilities, all my different paths, all the different ways of finishing the game?
So maybe it is a new genre? Kinda like Far Cry or HL only more strategic or something? Nope.
Get real, there are a few good things that come with rfids:
- lower cost of manufacturing / transport,
- greater safety in medical processes (including surgery and drugs dispensing),
- lower maintenance costs of complex systems and installations,
- better safety on the road (signs can carry a message that displays in your car the moment you pass it),
- more acurate navigation,
etc.
Can rfid tags be used for bad things? Yes. But so can things we love: knives, dynamite and box cutters.
Have fun.
I just returned from Down Under and did exactly what you plan - drove from Sydney to Gold Coast. With a few exceptions, the scenery is dull as road goes a bit inland so you cannot see the ocean. Roads are narrow and two way for most of the time.
Fun nevertheless! I'd do it again.
"My wife and I separated for a time because she thought I was looking at porno"
Something must be really fscked with your marriage if this is the case - the computer is not at fault here.
Whenever I see a running TV I must flip channels for hours with no rhyme or reason. This was the main reason to get rid of cable 5 years ago and leave just the TV + DVD + Netflix/BlockBuster combination. All I can say - it kicks ass! No more crap, no more brain overload with flashy guano, no more sudden urges to get up and buy that Mc-Pizza right away.
I strongly recommend you do the same. Netflix + a few DVD-RWs (so you can work-around the famous now Netflix mail delay) can give you all TV fun for $20 that you can ever imagine without crap and commercials. Also, you do not watch what is given, you select stuff yourself.
P.S. And you have more time to browse all pr0n you need!;-)
Either I have deja vu or I've seen this stuff on Boing Boing yesterday... To editors: I guess most people here glance through BB once I day, so there is no need to repost!
XForms is doomed as long as it is not natively supported in IE.
I am still looking for "native IE" solution for writing rich web-enabled client apps -- short of hacking gigabytes of ugly JavaScript that is. XUL would be nice!
There are hyperlinks in books and are called references. Also, in most cases, information in books is not designed to skew potential search logic, so search can be performed at face value - by keywords (like in old good search engines).
BTW, I wonder when will the first "sex sex sex porn porn porn hot hot hot big big big" book show up?
I'm not into conspiracy theory too much but what if ATT et al _want_ to loose and then apply for some Bush-$10B-bailout money? Just do not tell me it will not work.
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a) requirement of proffessional certification in order to work in the field,
b) salaries would go to $200K (in US) average real quick,
c) no one sane would outsorce to 3rd world countries.
While this would be beneficial to some (self included), it would wreak havoc through the system. It would certainly slow down computer systems development as only big and rich could afford it.
All after all, it will happen some day but not yet. Computer science engineering is still stone age as compared to other professions like engineering and architecture. We need some more turbulent development to get there.
Floppy dependencies are still there. E.g. Win XP requires floppy to install the RAID drivers during Windows setup. So, the flppy is not dead yet.
Acording to latest news, the sail crashed:r _sail;_ylt=AmNvcJYpkMGq0kI.vYvCMlqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDM TA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_sc/sola
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Cool, I can use it in my flying car! (I'll lose my karma for this).
If you thought Fair Credit Reporting Act protects your rights, think again.
Computer Chips - it's for dinner!
Couple of months ago I installed XP Pro with RAID - the only way one can do this is by inserting a floppy with RAID drivers into drive a: ! Long live the floppy!
Speaking about shooters, there are rules that need to be followed:
1. Monsters coming at ya in well paced waves so you can rest and prepare for next,
2. Monsters should be very different, charcteristic; just like D1 or D2 had big red ball with eye, piggy thingy, imp, etc.
3. There should be clear matching between weapons and monsters, so you know you need shotgun for one and machine gun for the other. If not why carry all the crap? NOTE: it is not only about fire power! Player takes pride in "thinking" but it is still about killing and not some crappy puzzles!
4. It is not fun not to see them until they get you (the whole Doom3 scary deal is bad bad bad for gameplay),
5. It is not fun to get whacked by some invisible mofo that shoots from somewhere you cannot see - unless you verywell know where they are,
6. From time to time a wave of monsters subsides and then you can be sure that there will be mini boss guarding the level,
7. At the end of game or in very key points during the game, there is a super boss,
8. Puzzles and shit - it is not quite close to shooter game,
9. There should be not too many returns through the same places. If you've been through all is dead, so you are bored. If it is not dead then why the fuck did you kill it in the first place? Where is the sense of achievement?
10. There should be enough ammo for good shootout. I do not want to search for some lame clip. I want to fire entire plasma gun into one monster. The only price you haveto py for extra ammo should be walking somewhere to pick it up. No damn codes and shit!
etc.
Doom3 violates most of these rules:
ad 1. Waves of bad guys are not well-paced, there is always one or two behind doors wherever you go and there is no time for resting (unless you stay in one place after you kill em),
ad 2. Monsters are different but most of the time you cannot see it because it is so fucking dark!
ad 3. Well, they tried match weapons and monters. But it seems shotgun is good for all. Shotgun ammo is limited, you say? Too bad: it makes me unhappy - after all it is about shooting whit some cool shit and not running away most of the time!
ad 4. Seems all evil has one purpose - hide in the closet and wait forever for some dude walking by to scare him. Fuck!
ad 5. Fuck again! I want to shoot and die only if I cannot shoot fast enough!
ad 6. OK, I've seen minibosses. But they had all these rockets and shit and I had a machine gun with couple of clips. I had to hide. WHERE IS MY AMMO?
ad 7. Haven't see him yet but I'm sure my Beavertooth will run out of gas before I can grind him to death.
ad 8. Shit! Fuck! Who the hell (pun intended) had this lame idea?
ad 9. The freaking returns make me puke - I had some fun killing and then half an hour walking and looking for some lame shit before I can get on train. Did you all remember people doing nightmare doom in 20 minutes? Was it fun to watch? Impossible in D3.
ad 10. Holy molly - do not get me started on this. etc etc.
So after we established it is not a shooter, what is it? RPG? So where are all my choices, all my possibilities, all my different paths, all the different ways of finishing the game?
So maybe it is a new genre? Kinda like Far Cry or HL only more strategic or something? Nope.
Where is my shooter?
Get real, there are a few good things that come with rfids:
- lower cost of manufacturing / transport,
- greater safety in medical processes (including surgery and drugs dispensing),
- lower maintenance costs of complex systems and installations,
- better safety on the road (signs can carry a message that displays in your car the moment you pass it),
- more acurate navigation,
etc.
Can rfid tags be used for bad things? Yes. But so can things we love: knives, dynamite and box cutters. Have fun.
I just returned from Down Under and did exactly what you plan - drove from Sydney to Gold Coast. With a few exceptions, the scenery is dull as road goes a bit inland so you cannot see the ocean. Roads are narrow and two way for most of the time. Fun nevertheless! I'd do it again.
And it is an open source product! So cool!
I guess they meant unallocated as in "not allocated for browser cache", e.g. in c:\myporn
"My wife and I separated for a time because she thought I was looking at porno"
Something must be really fscked with your marriage if this is the case - the computer is not at fault here.
Whenever I see a running TV I must flip channels for hours with no rhyme or reason. This was the main reason to get rid of cable 5 years ago and leave just the TV + DVD + Netflix/BlockBuster combination. All I can say - it kicks ass! No more crap, no more brain overload with flashy guano, no more sudden urges to get up and buy that Mc-Pizza right away.
;-)
I strongly recommend you do the same. Netflix + a few DVD-RWs (so you can work-around the famous now Netflix mail delay) can give you all TV fun for $20 that you can ever imagine without crap and commercials. Also, you do not watch what is given, you select stuff yourself.
P.S. And you have more time to browse all pr0n you need!
Either I have deja vu or I've seen this stuff on Boing Boing yesterday... To editors: I guess most people here glance through BB once I day, so there is no need to repost!
I'm watching the live conference. Odyssey reports the Rover is healthy, we are expecting Mars pictures tonight. Cool!
Start running/jogging an hour a day, every day -- this should be enough to get you going when you feel sleepy or tired.
You do not have any children, now do you? ;-)
I am still looking for "native IE" solution for writing rich web-enabled client apps -- short of hacking gigabytes of ugly JavaScript that is. XUL would be nice!
BTW, I wonder when will the first "sex sex sex porn porn porn hot hot hot big big big" book show up?
I'm not into conspiracy theory too much but what if ATT et al _want_ to loose and then apply for some Bush-$10B-bailout money? Just do not tell me it will not work.
I wonder when will the courts stop accepting videotaped material as evidence?
Silly me. So much for weekend ;-)
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