I carry my phone, wallet and even keys in a tinfoil handbag. It looks gay, but keeps the government from spying on my precious bodily fluids. I'm thinking of switching to a new shampoo with tinfoil instead of alumninium as a a major ingredient.
Unless of course you watch Anime or read Manga or study history. Joan of Arc was the very essence of a teen girl who kicked ass. Battle Angel Alita is one of many from the Japanese culture, and it's a pretty safe bet Weadon was heavily influenced by this culture.
From western culture you have Ripley, the very definition as ass kicking - just not a teen. If you check out comics they are crammed with ass kicking female characters.
So perhaps I guess the best you can say is that he drew upon all these other pioneers and influences and managed to get management to take a small risk on casting a hot teen girl as a lead role.
Of all the work that Joss Weadon has churned out the only thing I can honestly say I enjoy is Firefly, and a lot of that is down to Jayne. Joss Weadon is a hack, a hack with a following, but a hack none the less. His ideas are tired and constantly recycled, his dialogue is weak, and his characters generic. e.g. a vampire that won't suck blood, a teenage girl with kick ass powers. None of his work is so bad I won't watch it, it's just not so good I'd switch channels to view it.
Do the world a favour, kill an author today. Help lower the length of time his/her works are under copyright. Also...someone kill George Lucus...please.
So long as people keep wanting to buy Britney / Lada Gaga albums, watch US sitcoms (oh lord, why!), or import US I.P. in one form or another they are putting themselves into a weak position of negotiation against unwanted foreign I.P. laws.
You can have the turkish delight, but it comes with a price.
I'd go and grab one or more MacBooks. Rugedised gear makes Apple pricing look dead cheap and the mac has a couple of other features which will be helpful, depending on how long you are out there.
1. You can easily port your data, setting and user profile to another Mac, even onto the net. This gets you back in the field quickly if anything goes wrong. 2. Macs are designed to have few holes or obtrusions. 3. They are relatively easy to take apart and when you have the keyboard area is dead easy to clean as is the motherboard.
So, grab a Mac or two and some duct tape and Chux cloths. Duct tape up all the ports you're not using and across the front slot of the DVD burner. Fold the Chux cloth over a few times and tape it down over the vents. Close the laptop up whenever you're not typing something. Wipe the keyboard clean every so often with a damp cloth - or hit it with a can of compressed air.
When the Mac is too choked up to keep working well, transport the data to the other Mac and you get to keep working seemlessly. A sync every night is a sensible option. The chocked up Mac gets opened up and carefully cleaned during the night in a clean environment, put back together and ready to go out again as needed.
I've been a programmer for 29 years now. First in BASIC, then PASCAL, MODULA II, C, C++, SQL, C#, and the usual web technologies.
In all those 29 years I have never once needed math skills beyond what an education to Year 12 in Australia provides. It's true I did do the math classes, so had exposure to differentials, matrices, vectors, and other mathy stuff - but none of that was ever needed.
What I did need was logic, algorithms, an understanding of how an algorithm executes on a given piece of hardware, and the ability to convert business requirements into lines of code.
I worked on a range of software which included custom written software for businesses, event driven presentation software, high availability online applications for the London Stock Exchange and FTSE, and tools to manage and value instruments for financial markets.
The financial market tool took the longest to release (1.5 years to phase 2) and had the most intricate math requirements. Of course, all the actually tricky math was in a library with came from Bloomberg, so the hardest part was coming to terms with the various instruments, storing them, linking to the library to get values out using curves, Black-Scholes, or whatever.
As for the best programmers being mathematicians, the single worst programmer I have ever worked with was on this project and he had a masters in Maths. His code was sloppy, poorly written, badly documented, and make itself dependant on an extra framework he decided to add to the program because he always used it. He was also spectacularly boring as a person. This was the first project I have ever asked to be removed from.
Seems like the writer of the article likes maths and is trying to come up with conclusions from there.
The other theory is they simply didn't breed a bunch of cattle they didn't need for meat or milk. China takes a lot of it's food from the ocean, rivers, poultry, etc. They have no reason to import and breed cattle if they can't use it's milk and already have more viable sources of meat.
I think actually it's that Australians are close to the same percentage of obese people as the Americans. Where it differs is that the Americans super-size their obesity. Same percent as us obese, but there's tend towards being much heavier. I hear Texas is one of the hotspots if you want to view this in action.
Did you get some version of Vista I didn't? That stupid UAC crap pops up on my screen on a regular basis. I see it most days and I don't think I'm doing anything too fancy.
You don't see them on Amigas because they don't generally have network connections. What they do have is floppy drives and presumably ability to use a modem.
Amigas have viruses, so don't imagine they'd be any more secure than Windows or whatever OS you hate currently if they were connected to the net 24/7 on a fast pipe.
Even on a computer where someone has to walk into the office carrying a 3.5 inch floppy and boot your machine with it, you have viruses.
Of course, to become a fully fledged botnet it would have to tell the user to eject the floppy and walk around the room sticking it in all the other Amigas...and then visit all his mates and do the same - running off a copy of the disk for them as he went.
Having used remoting software from back in the days of Carbon Copy, PC Anywhere then on to VNC and RDP I'll take that propriety RDP protocol any day. It's the only one that's remotely (haha!) fast enough to make it bearable to do anything more than log in, admin for a bit, then log out.
I use VNC to remote to my Mac Powerbook G4 these days, which is spending it's retirement as a DVR. The interface is so sluggish it's infuriating. By contrast, I know if I remoted to another Windows machine using RDP that it would be barely noticeable.
Now, if there was some Open Source protocol with an implementation on Windows / Linux / Mac OS, that worked as fast as RDP and was as secure as SSH I'd be all over it.
Student: "Stand down black knight, for I am Monty, a paladin of great power, pure of spirit, righteous to my core and I will strike you from your stead this day. What say you?"
Teacher: For God's sake student, sit down, I told you there is no XP for roleplaying in this class.
So post some statistics that are less than a few decades old indicating the vast number of people are opposed to copyright. You're making the claim, now back it up with proof.
Please post statistics from a reliable source indicating that the vast population of this planet accept there is nothing wrong with piracy. Note: just asking the doodz at thepiratebay.com what they think is not acceptable.
Actually, you would have the same effect on the company and DRM uptake if you didn't pirate the game and simply chose to not play it. Your argument that you're doing something positive to block DRM is a straw man, all you are doing is selective piracy.
What's your justification for playing a game you have no intention of buying when you could just as easily skip that content and have some integrity instead?
Let me ask you, have you ever pirated a software package that didn't have DRM? My bet is you have a long list of reasons why something should be pirated, but the truth is you want it for free and will take it by force if you can.
You're actually meant to do this in full view of the authorities and get arrested for it. This doesn't apply to you downloading a copy of the latest game and cowering in your basement playing it.
Firstly, you're not actually making a stand by hiding away breaking the law, You're not declaring your opposition to the unjust law, but rather just quietly circumventing it. You change nothing and bring nothing to the debate.
A group of activists who go sit on the stairs of congress with laptops running torrents, burning discs, and swapping their favorites tunes or handing discs out to passerbys would be making a difference. If they organised media to come down and film it for the news and posted to their blogs shots of them being dragged off in cuffs it might bring attention to the issue.
Get a few million involved and you might make a difference.
That kid, in his basement playing a pirate copy of BS2 changes nothing.
If that was what was explicitly stated on the box at the time I bought it, how could I not be happy. I had accepted the terms of the purchase, paid the money, and enjoyed the content.
If the box promised a feature length movie in HD with a 92 minute running time I would feel cheated and simply refund the item.
The people arguing here don't even know what that extra content is, let alone whether it was something promised to them and left out.
Sounds to me like they are getting exactly what it says on the box then whining about some extra they feel entitled to for free.
It seems to me we're unlikely to find aliens and they are unlikely to find us. The distances between us and possible life are extreme and there's a whole universe of stars, black holes, radiation clouds, and other forms of interference in the way.
Are you seriously counting on those old AM/FM radio transmissions making a direct line through space-time to a planet 140 billion light years away? Let's look at what can go wrong. Assume the Earth has a bunch of weak transmitters which occasionally fire information into space - this will already be a weak version of a weak signal since it's gone through our atmosphere, clouds, etc.
1. This signal is subject to inverse-square law. By the time it's left our own solar system the signal is infinitesimal. 2. The earth itself will obscure more than 50% of all the signals as it rotates. 3. Signals will be shot straight into our sun or pass close enough to either bend into it's gravity or have it's course dramatically altered. 4. There's billions of other suns which will do the same thing as it passes by. 5. Signals will slowly approach chaos, and be in-detectable from background radiation. 6. Their receivers will be expecting more powerful signals and our will pass "under the radar".
There's likely a million other ways for a signal which is designed to bounce off our atmosphere to become lost in space as it tries to make it from here...to there, whereever there is. Don't expect contact any time soon.
It's not just a simple lunch they are being plied with. They are given expensive holidays overseas, to attend an important conference of course, and many other big ticket items to convince them to push one manufacturers drugs over another.
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I carry my phone, wallet and even keys in a tinfoil handbag. It looks gay, but keeps the government from spying on my precious bodily fluids. I'm thinking of switching to a new shampoo with tinfoil instead of alumninium as a a major ingredient.
Unless of course you watch Anime or read Manga or study history. Joan of Arc was the very essence of a teen girl who kicked ass. Battle Angel Alita is one of many from the Japanese culture, and it's a pretty safe bet Weadon was heavily influenced by this culture.
From western culture you have Ripley, the very definition as ass kicking - just not a teen. If you check out comics they are crammed with ass kicking female characters.
So perhaps I guess the best you can say is that he drew upon all these other pioneers and influences and managed to get management to take a small risk on casting a hot teen girl as a lead role.
Of all the work that Joss Weadon has churned out the only thing I can honestly say I enjoy is Firefly, and a lot of that is down to Jayne. Joss Weadon is a hack, a hack with a following, but a hack none the less. His ideas are tired and constantly recycled, his dialogue is weak, and his characters generic. e.g. a vampire that won't suck blood, a teenage girl with kick ass powers. None of his work is so bad I won't watch it, it's just not so good I'd switch channels to view it.
You could have purchased a square inch of paper that could fly you to the moon instead :D
Do the world a favour, kill an author today. Help lower the length of time his/her works are under copyright. Also...someone kill George Lucus...please.
So long as people keep wanting to buy Britney / Lada Gaga albums, watch US sitcoms (oh lord, why!), or import US I.P. in one form or another they are putting themselves into a weak position of negotiation against unwanted foreign I.P. laws.
You can have the turkish delight, but it comes with a price.
I'd go and grab one or more MacBooks. Rugedised gear makes Apple pricing look dead cheap and the mac has a couple of other features which will be helpful, depending on how long you are out there.
1. You can easily port your data, setting and user profile to another Mac, even onto the net. This gets you back in the field quickly if anything goes wrong.
2. Macs are designed to have few holes or obtrusions.
3. They are relatively easy to take apart and when you have the keyboard area is dead easy to clean as is the motherboard.
So, grab a Mac or two and some duct tape and Chux cloths. Duct tape up all the ports you're not using and across the front slot of the DVD burner. Fold the Chux cloth over a few times and tape it down over the vents. Close the laptop up whenever you're not typing something. Wipe the keyboard clean every so often with a damp cloth - or hit it with a can of compressed air.
When the Mac is too choked up to keep working well, transport the data to the other Mac and you get to keep working seemlessly. A sync every night is a sensible option. The chocked up Mac gets opened up and carefully cleaned during the night in a clean environment, put back together and ready to go out again as needed.
RAIM - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Macs ;p
I've been a programmer for 29 years now. First in BASIC, then PASCAL, MODULA II, C, C++, SQL, C#, and the usual web technologies.
In all those 29 years I have never once needed math skills beyond what an education to Year 12 in Australia provides. It's true I did do the math classes, so had exposure to differentials, matrices, vectors, and other mathy stuff - but none of that was ever needed.
What I did need was logic, algorithms, an understanding of how an algorithm executes on a given piece of hardware, and the ability to convert business requirements into lines of code.
I worked on a range of software which included custom written software for businesses, event driven presentation software, high availability online applications for the London Stock Exchange and FTSE, and tools to manage and value instruments for financial markets.
The financial market tool took the longest to release (1.5 years to phase 2) and had the most intricate math requirements. Of course, all the actually tricky math was in a library with came from Bloomberg, so the hardest part was coming to terms with the various instruments, storing them, linking to the library to get values out using curves, Black-Scholes, or whatever.
As for the best programmers being mathematicians, the single worst programmer I have ever worked with was on this project and he had a masters in Maths. His code was sloppy, poorly written, badly documented, and make itself dependant on an extra framework he decided to add to the program because he always used it. He was also spectacularly boring as a person. This was the first project I have ever asked to be removed from.
Seems like the writer of the article likes maths and is trying to come up with conclusions from there.
The other theory is they simply didn't breed a bunch of cattle they didn't need for meat or milk. China takes a lot of it's food from the ocean, rivers, poultry, etc. They have no reason to import and breed cattle if they can't use it's milk and already have more viable sources of meat.
I think actually it's that Australians are close to the same percentage of obese people as the Americans. Where it differs is that the Americans super-size their obesity. Same percent as us obese, but there's tend towards being much heavier. I hear Texas is one of the hotspots if you want to view this in action.
Did you get some version of Vista I didn't? That stupid UAC crap pops up on my screen on a regular basis. I see it most days and I don't think I'm doing anything too fancy.
You don't see them on Amigas because they don't generally have network connections. What they do have is floppy drives and presumably ability to use a modem.
Amigas have viruses, so don't imagine they'd be any more secure than Windows or whatever OS you hate currently if they were connected to the net 24/7 on a fast pipe.
Even on a computer where someone has to walk into the office carrying a 3.5 inch floppy and boot your machine with it, you have viruses.
Of course, to become a fully fledged botnet it would have to tell the user to eject the floppy and walk around the room sticking it in all the other Amigas...and then visit all his mates and do the same - running off a copy of the disk for them as he went.
Having used remoting software from back in the days of Carbon Copy, PC Anywhere then on to VNC and RDP I'll take that propriety RDP protocol any day. It's the only one that's remotely (haha!) fast enough to make it bearable to do anything more than log in, admin for a bit, then log out.
I use VNC to remote to my Mac Powerbook G4 these days, which is spending it's retirement as a DVR. The interface is so sluggish it's infuriating. By contrast, I know if I remoted to another Windows machine using RDP that it would be barely noticeable.
Now, if there was some Open Source protocol with an implementation on Windows / Linux / Mac OS, that worked as fast as RDP and was as secure as SSH I'd be all over it.
Student: "Stand down black knight, for I am Monty, a paladin of great power, pure of spirit, righteous to my core and I will strike you from your stead this day. What say you?"
Teacher: For God's sake student, sit down, I told you there is no XP for roleplaying in this class.
You're unable to substantiate your claim that most people approve of piracy.
So post some statistics that are less than a few decades old indicating the vast number of people are opposed to copyright. You're making the claim, now back it up with proof.
Please post statistics from a reliable source indicating that the vast population of this planet accept there is nothing wrong with piracy. Note: just asking the doodz at thepiratebay.com what they think is not acceptable.
Actually, you would have the same effect on the company and DRM uptake if you didn't pirate the game and simply chose to not play it. Your argument that you're doing something positive to block DRM is a straw man, all you are doing is selective piracy.
What's your justification for playing a game you have no intention of buying when you could just as easily skip that content and have some integrity instead?
Let me ask you, have you ever pirated a software package that didn't have DRM? My bet is you have a long list of reasons why something should be pirated, but the truth is you want it for free and will take it by force if you can.
You're actually meant to do this in full view of the authorities and get arrested for it. This doesn't apply to you downloading a copy of the latest game and cowering in your basement playing it.
Firstly, you're not actually making a stand by hiding away breaking the law, You're not declaring your opposition to the unjust law, but rather just quietly circumventing it. You change nothing and bring nothing to the debate.
A group of activists who go sit on the stairs of congress with laptops running torrents, burning discs, and swapping their favorites tunes or handing discs out to passerbys would be making a difference. If they organised media to come down and film it for the news and posted to their blogs shots of them being dragged off in cuffs it might bring attention to the issue.
Get a few million involved and you might make a difference.
That kid, in his basement playing a pirate copy of BS2 changes nothing.
If that was what was explicitly stated on the box at the time I bought it, how could I not be happy. I had accepted the terms of the purchase, paid the money, and enjoyed the content.
If the box promised a feature length movie in HD with a 92 minute running time I would feel cheated and simply refund the item.
The people arguing here don't even know what that extra content is, let alone whether it was something promised to them and left out.
Sounds to me like they are getting exactly what it says on the box then whining about some extra they feel entitled to for free.
It seems to me we're unlikely to find aliens and they are unlikely to find us. The distances between us and possible life are extreme and there's a whole universe of stars, black holes, radiation clouds, and other forms of interference in the way.
Are you seriously counting on those old AM/FM radio transmissions making a direct line through space-time to a planet 140 billion light years away? Let's look at what can go wrong. Assume the Earth has a bunch of weak transmitters which occasionally fire information into space - this will already be a weak version of a weak signal since it's gone through our atmosphere, clouds, etc.
1. This signal is subject to inverse-square law. By the time it's left our own solar system the signal is infinitesimal.
2. The earth itself will obscure more than 50% of all the signals as it rotates.
3. Signals will be shot straight into our sun or pass close enough to either bend into it's gravity or have it's course dramatically altered.
4. There's billions of other suns which will do the same thing as it passes by.
5. Signals will slowly approach chaos, and be in-detectable from background radiation.
6. Their receivers will be expecting more powerful signals and our will pass "under the radar".
There's likely a million other ways for a signal which is designed to bounce off our atmosphere to become lost in space as it tries to make it from here...to there, whereever there is. Don't expect contact any time soon.
You'd be wrong.
You assume because they are detecting for 50 years they can only get signals from 50 light years away, but that is false.
A signal could have travelled for a thousand light years and still be detected if it travelled past a spot 50 light years out less than 50 years ago.
It's not just a simple lunch they are being plied with. They are given expensive holidays overseas, to attend an important conference of course, and many other big ticket items to convince them to push one manufacturers drugs over another.
What the fuck is an inch?