I would think it would relate more to learned patterns of behavior, though, and exclude instinctive behaviors. Like the flocking simulators they set up in the early 90's that showed that bird behaviors in flocks can be simplified to a few set rules, more or less. I think culture is transmitted information, not encoded. That's just IMHO, of course.
And so began the patent wars of the early 21st Century...
Seriously, is it just me or does this sound like the beginning of one of those joke histories in some Sci-Fi novels? "Well, we have a system kind of like that, but the patent system was abolished after the patent wars of the early 21st Century began to turn ugly. Apparently, some company named Microsomething-or-other started tactical nuking people, and the SCO Biowarfare program caused tremendous casualties."
A friend of mine is doing his master's thesis on a theory that rather more elegantly explains the phenomenon without having to resort to dark matter, but unfortunately I don't understand enough of physics to know if he's right or not. Something about gravity. (I know, I know....in physics, that really narrows it down, since there's so little about gravity out there...) In any event, I suspect we will find something a little more elegant, just like the article said, because dark matter sounds......well, silly.
Good point - it's all relative to where you are. In larger cities that I personally have been to, like Dallas, LA, New York, etc, there is a shortage of IT jobs, but in a lot of places it's the other way around. Perhaps we should all be migrating back to the midwest?:)
This is one of the reasons that I am relieved that I no longer work in IT. I worry a lot about those friends of mine who still work in the industry, especially those who have kids. I think that part of the problem is also that the market was oversaturated, so to speak. IT became the big degree to get in the 90's, because "that's where the money is", so the jobs that do remain have a number of people applying for them. Post-boom, post-outsourcing computer field sucks.
I'm not sure if this is a project I wish to encourage, really. Although I'm sure that there are plenty of spammers already out there doing similar things, rendering it kind of academic.
I thought I had been keeping up with the spam-stopping stuff, but I had never heard of this idea. It seems like a very good idea to me, pros and cons anyone?
Not if you overextend yourself, which is pretty likely considering how he did in hot wars. CCCP did that, and they lost. And peacetime makes it much harder to hide your policies of exterminating people. After all, tourism kinda stops when there's a war on, usually.
Oh, god don't I know it! I have a friend who constantly does this sort of shit with his own freezer, but I have finally told him that if he continues to put my diet at risk by exposing it to shrapnelline (New word, I know. My perogative as a native speaker) glass I will have no choice but to forcibly remove him from the premises. It is kinda nice when some of the water freezes out and you get weak ice brandy, though.
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I agree. This is such an obvious good idea that I can't understand why it isn't widespread. I had the most ridiculous time trying to find out the remote touch-tone codes for my extremely old answering machine, until finally I found an old issue of 2600 or Phrack or something on "hacking answering machines" that had the (short) list of commands. 3-#-3 indeed, sheesh.
Well personally, I think that's pretty relieving. The harder it is to censor the internet, the better, big picture wise. Although that means I'll be forced to accidentally run across "gems" like goatse mirrors occasionally, I suppose. c'est la vie
Well, as someone pointed out elsewhere, you are broadcasting the video. Of course, the same could be said for phones, I suppose, and video isn't used for conversations that much. In one way of looking at things, there is a lot more privacy to protect in conversations than in video of oneself, say, wandering around the house all nekkid. (Nekkid - like naked but more southern)
That would certainly be one way to find the mines. Drop coconuts from airplanes. I don't think you'd even have to genetically engineer them, they'd detect mines just fine if you dropped them from a high enough height.:)
Oh, sure, if you want to do things the easy way...(rolls eyes)
In all honesty, this didn't even occur to me until after I hit "submit", for some reason. Still, it made for a pretty Monty-Python-esque mental picture for a while: "And now Mr. Johnson will present the proper way to plant land mine detecting flowers."
Who's going to volunteer to plant them? BOOOM!!! Still, this is a pretty neat idea. Might not be so good for people who are color-blind, like my dad.:)
The question is...do they really have any claws? I can completely understand the analogy, except that rats can do something to attack. I'm not sure how much SCO can really do, apart from annoy people with nuisance lawsuits.
Business skill set and programming skill set are not mutually exclusive, but they don't necessarily go hand in hand, either. I completely agree with you on that. If you go the route of starting your own business, you're going to be learning an entirely new set of skills and pitfalls, and you're going to be gambling on it with your financial well being. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but it's a risk to consider, as well. If you're unemployed, the argument could be made that you have nothing to lose, but you can still lose a lot of time spent and energy exerted that could be finding work in the mean time. It's a gamble I can take, at my age, but one that a middle-aged family provider may have a lot more difficulty justifying.
I diversify. I recently got my massage therapy certification, and am doing that in my spare time instead. It's pretty decent spare time work, and I'm able to avoid the burnout I would begin to feel if I did the same thing after work that I do at work. I also sell homemade soaps, candles, and wreaths during the Xmas months, and have occasionally been known to get a throwaway second job, like waiting tables or part time entry-level retail work. Of course, I don't have the needs and responsibilities of someone who is in their 30's or 40's (or 50's), and I don't have a family to support right now, so it is easier for me to get by on these sorts of things, but it helps to have many different skills in case one fails me for a while.
Absolutely. I think that the difficulty that faces a lot of people is seeing what is needed, what there is a market for. It's very easy for a person to figure out what their own software needs are - I can tell you the top ten programs that I would write/have written if I had the time or wherewithal, but it is difficult for me to figure out the needs of the business on the fifth floor of our office building. I suppose that the trick, as you have pointed out, is to find places where a huge volume of information is being generated that needs processing and correlating. Still, it can be hard for a lot of people to see the difference in "things I need" and "things other people want and need".
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I would think it would relate more to learned patterns of behavior, though, and exclude instinctive behaviors. Like the flocking simulators they set up in the early 90's that showed that bird behaviors in flocks can be simplified to a few set rules, more or less. I think culture is transmitted information, not encoded. That's just IMHO, of course.
I don't know, I thought that the "Best Viewed With Lynx" button I've seen on some websites was pretty funny.
And so began the patent wars of the early 21st Century...
Seriously, is it just me or does this sound like the beginning of one of those joke histories in some Sci-Fi novels? "Well, we have a system kind of like that, but the patent system was abolished after the patent wars of the early 21st Century began to turn ugly. Apparently, some company named Microsomething-or-other started tactical nuking people, and the SCO Biowarfare program caused tremendous casualties."
A friend of mine is doing his master's thesis on a theory that rather more elegantly explains the phenomenon without having to resort to dark matter, but unfortunately I don't understand enough of physics to know if he's right or not. Something about gravity. (I know, I know....in physics, that really narrows it down, since there's so little about gravity out there...) In any event, I suspect we will find something a little more elegant, just like the article said, because dark matter sounds......well, silly.
Good point - it's all relative to where you are. In larger cities that I personally have been to, like Dallas, LA, New York, etc, there is a shortage of IT jobs, but in a lot of places it's the other way around. Perhaps we should all be migrating back to the midwest? :)
This is one of the reasons that I am relieved that I no longer work in IT. I worry a lot about those friends of mine who still work in the industry, especially those who have kids. I think that part of the problem is also that the market was oversaturated, so to speak. IT became the big degree to get in the 90's, because "that's where the money is", so the jobs that do remain have a number of people applying for them. Post-boom, post-outsourcing computer field sucks.
Oh yeah? *My* computer refuses *not* to die!!!! Nyah, nyah, nyah! :P
I'm not sure if this is a project I wish to encourage, really. Although I'm sure that there are plenty of spammers already out there doing similar things, rendering it kind of academic.
I thought I had been keeping up with the spam-stopping stuff, but I had never heard of this idea. It seems like a very good idea to me, pros and cons anyone?
Not if you overextend yourself, which is pretty likely considering how he did in hot wars. CCCP did that, and they lost. And peacetime makes it much harder to hide your policies of exterminating people. After all, tourism kinda stops when there's a war on, usually.
Oh, god don't I know it! I have a friend who constantly does this sort of shit with his own freezer, but I have finally told him that if he continues to put my diet at risk by exposing it to shrapnelline (New word, I know. My perogative as a native speaker) glass I will have no choice but to forcibly remove him from the premises. It is kinda nice when some of the water freezes out and you get weak ice brandy, though.
I agree. This is such an obvious good idea that I can't understand why it isn't widespread. I had the most ridiculous time trying to find out the remote touch-tone codes for my extremely old answering machine, until finally I found an old issue of 2600 or Phrack or something on "hacking answering machines" that had the (short) list of commands. 3-#-3 indeed, sheesh.
Well personally, I think that's pretty relieving. The harder it is to censor the internet, the better, big picture wise. Although that means I'll be forced to accidentally run across "gems" like goatse mirrors occasionally, I suppose. c'est la vie
Well, as someone pointed out elsewhere, you are broadcasting the video. Of course, the same could be said for phones, I suppose, and video isn't used for conversations that much. In one way of looking at things, there is a lot more privacy to protect in conversations than in video of oneself, say, wandering around the house all nekkid. (Nekkid - like naked but more southern)
That said, I like your sig.
Probably some other folk rocker entirely. :) Sorry, couldn't resist.
Oh, now reassuring. That means they're going to reproduce, escape to the mainland, and make several bad sequels, right? :)
That would certainly be one way to find the mines. Drop coconuts from airplanes. I don't think you'd even have to genetically engineer them, they'd detect mines just fine if you dropped them from a high enough height. :)
Oh, sure, if you want to do things the easy way...(rolls eyes)
In all honesty, this didn't even occur to me until after I hit "submit", for some reason. Still, it made for a pretty Monty-Python-esque mental picture for a while:
"And now Mr. Johnson will present the proper way to plant land mine detecting flowers."
Who's going to volunteer to plant them? BOOOM!!! Still, this is a pretty neat idea. Might not be so good for people who are color-blind, like my dad. :)
Only if they find purchase, and dig in. "You swing! You miss! The Justice System hits! You are feeling faint!"
The question is...do they really have any claws? I can completely understand the analogy, except that rats can do something to attack. I'm not sure how much SCO can really do, apart from annoy people with nuisance lawsuits.
Depends on the level of detail, I suppose. They didn't specify that.
Business skill set and programming skill set are not mutually exclusive, but they don't necessarily go hand in hand, either. I completely agree with you on that. If you go the route of starting your own business, you're going to be learning an entirely new set of skills and pitfalls, and you're going to be gambling on it with your financial well being. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but it's a risk to consider, as well. If you're unemployed, the argument could be made that you have nothing to lose, but you can still lose a lot of time spent and energy exerted that could be finding work in the mean time. It's a gamble I can take, at my age, but one that a middle-aged family provider may have a lot more difficulty justifying.
I diversify. I recently got my massage therapy certification, and am doing that in my spare time instead. It's pretty decent spare time work, and I'm able to avoid the burnout I would begin to feel if I did the same thing after work that I do at work. I also sell homemade soaps, candles, and wreaths during the Xmas months, and have occasionally been known to get a throwaway second job, like waiting tables or part time entry-level retail work. Of course, I don't have the needs and responsibilities of someone who is in their 30's or 40's (or 50's), and I don't have a family to support right now, so it is easier for me to get by on these sorts of things, but it helps to have many different skills in case one fails me for a while.
Absolutely. I think that the difficulty that faces a lot of people is seeing what is needed, what there is a market for. It's very easy for a person to figure out what their own software needs are - I can tell you the top ten programs that I would write/have written if I had the time or wherewithal, but it is difficult for me to figure out the needs of the business on the fifth floor of our office building. I suppose that the trick, as you have pointed out, is to find places where a huge volume of information is being generated that needs processing and correlating. Still, it can be hard for a lot of people to see the difference in "things I need" and "things other people want and need".