Aren't these matrix kids essentially able to do "superhuman" stuff in the matrix because they realize what's going on and can put their mind beyond it? This is of course generalized, but if I remember correctly, that's basically the gist.
If that's the case, couldn't the machines just write better code? Like say, slap together a couple of simple booleans and add in a line like this (with better formatting) in main():
if (ishuman(mynum) && isrestricted(action)) {
dontallow();
}
One would think that'd pretty well patch up the matrix. It could be The Matrix - Service Pack One. Am I right? Maybe I need to see the movie again, but honestly, I'd rather not. If someone can help me out with this concept I'd appreciate it.
There's also something to be said for what's necessary to successfully implement a patch in a corporate environment anyway. As a recent discussion about an update in Office 2k mentioned, the sysadmin also wouldn't be doing their job if they simply deployed an untested patch in to a live environ. While it's true the patch was out for sometime beforehand, how many other patches, also "critical" were made available at about that time and since, and what criteria should one use to decide which ones go on the top of the "critical" list for immediate deployment and which "critical" patches can afford to wait a while, due to monetary, manpower and time constraints?
What will remain is a universe full of black holes, which after trillions of years will explode to leave nothing but dark energy.
How the hell can they predict what the universe is going to do in trillions of years, but I can't get an accurate weather forcast for the next 24 hours??
Notice the processor stats on the systems are about the same, which means they were put out at about the same time. Now, given that most mfrs use the same few OEMs for specific parts.... maybe the batteries are mfr'd by the same company? If so, maybe there was something wrong with the battery hardware.
Even if the machine carries a three year warranty, batteries usually only have 1 year. If they were still replacing them for you 2 to 2.5 years out.. you're lucky.
And if the level of grammar and (usually) proper spelling in my post did not illustrate otherwise, I'm a well educated graduate from high school some time ago.
Yeeeeeah. You switched tense in that sentence a few times. Normally, one would let that pass, but, ironically enough, in that very sentence you're essentially stating your grammar should speak for your level of education. Ouch.
In addition, I have to agree with the other guy on this. The sarcasm would lead one to believe you know how you turned out and know your mother's opinions, which is great. However, the statement was regarding "people without children" not people who were once children. As a parent, I assure you there are enormous differences between the two.
Children also seem to want to do any number of things they know darn well they should not do. This is, in my opinion, in the nature of children; no amount of "good parenting" can eliminate that. You simply cannot blame every bad thing a child does on "bad parenting" any more than you can give "good parenting" credit for every good thing a child does. If parents were the only source of influence in a kid's life... Maybe. In reality... no.
On the subject of reality, it's a sad reality that many parents simply can't spend the time they'd like to with their children, largely due to work/school schedules. Does that make them bad parents?
The bottom line here is that this law isn't designed to replace parents, or even tell parents how to raise their kids. It's designed to help parents because, in reality, you can never have complete control over your children. You do what you can and hope for the best.
As someone else pointed out a few posts up, movies have ratings, why shouldn't video games? Why isn't everyone up in arms about the movie rating system? To quote Locke: "New ideas are often opposed and always suspected if for no other reason than they are not already common knowledge."
And ya know what? Feel free to pick this post apart grammatically. I'm not even gonna proof read it, cos I just don't care what you think of my intellect level!:-)
I was hyper hooked on Atomica for a long time (found on *gasp* MSN). After a while it sorta wore off, but I keep going back to it and other games like it. The main appeal to me is the fact that it's quick and simple, close to mindless, and you don't have to completely close out everything else you're doing and invest all of your attention on this one thing. It's a great background game which makes it perfect for a relaxer while working.
That's a pretty cool idea, but especially for (downloaded) movies and the like, wouldn't image scaling be a bit of an issue? Blowing a 640x480 (or often much smaller) picture to fit on even, say, a 27" TV seems like it'd make the image awfully grainy.
Also, wouldn't it be theoretically possible to take over someone else's DVD player if they don't set up decent security? Definitely interesting idea, but it's sure to have its issues.
If you're familiar with Microsoft's culture, my style is very different from Microsoft's style... I'm less confrontational. I'm more win-win, working with people, working with partners. People outside the company liked working with me.
How's that for a candid look inside MS's culture? The guy likes to work with people, likes to talk to people and doesn't explode in an irrational fit when someone says "Linux." No wonder he didn't fit in.
Microsoft characterized the deadline change as something that customers would welcome.
"Another major Windows server release in the Longhorn time frame does not meet the needs of most of our customers," the representative said. The delay "is a response to what our customers are asking for."
Apparently, M$ has finally realized that one thing customers really need is less extortion in pricing and forced upgrades for patches between one Server OS and the next. Unfortunately, it appears that practice will continue in the desktop space. Makes me wonder, though, if part of this move isn't based on technical spending. Businesses just can't afford to upgrade their servers so frequently. Perhaps they're a bit concerned about how many customers would skip the upgrade to Longhorn, given that a still newer version is just a few years down the road.
I admit to not knowing a lot about open source development, not being a developer myself. But I'm curious, is there any sort of legal accoutability when someone intentionally codes a trojan in to a piece of software? Is it possible to keep track of who is writing what code? When trojans, etc, are discovered, are you limited to just patching them and going from there, or is it usually possible to find out who did it and therefore be suspect of future code?
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That 35% of the respondents stated they liked Linux/OSS simply because it's "an alternative to Microsoft." That's almost insane. To think that a full third of the people polled said they see it as a viable alternative simply because it is, really, not Microsoft. Lower TCO is one thing. At least there's a solid business case for that. But "not Microsoft"... You think they may have some image problems?
Does this remind anyone else of that big snafu with Sony some months back where they finally admitted to having fabricated movie critic David Manning in order to get good reviews of certain movies? If you don't remember, google for "fake movie reviewer."
While I don't necessarily think that two instances are indicative of a some downward spirialing pattern, one has to wonder how much may be out there we haven't found out about yet.
Additionally, "David Manning" raved about such winners as "Animal" "A Knight's Tale" and "Hollow Man." And now MS's fakie is raving about Windows XP...
I guess if the product you're promoting is bad enough... And hey, they're in good company, taking marketing leads from the movie studios, right?
If you're comfortable with it, build it yourself. The customizing is so much better that way. For most parts, like several of these posts say, pricewatch.com is a great place to, if not buy, shop around for price comparasons with either another web outlet or a local store. I've used many pricewatch vendors and been completely satisfied every time.
Two things I strongly recommend: Don't buy a monitor over the 'Net unless you're getting an excellent deal. The shipping on monitors can be astronomical, and if it breaks shortly after you buy it, the ability to take a lemon to a local store, even if it is a Best Buy, is well worth a few extra bucks out of pocket initially.
Second, don't buy a case you haven't physically examined. This may not be as important, but if you don't get enough bays, you can end up hosed. Decide how many external bays you want for floppy drives, CD-RW/DVD, etc. and how many internal bays for HDDs and so forth, then go look at some at your local mom and pop store.
Otherwise, you may end up with a case that's too small, limiting the number of devices you can put in it and making working on it very, very difficult if it's cramped internally, or ending up with a huge case with more room than you need that simply takes up space and is a general eye-sore.
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Actually, as I recall, IBM was an $82 billion company last year, down from $85 billion the year before.
If that's the case, couldn't the machines just write better code? Like say, slap together a couple of simple booleans and add in a line like this (with better formatting) in main():
if (ishuman(mynum) && isrestricted(action)) {
dontallow();
}
One would think that'd pretty well patch up the matrix. It could be The Matrix - Service Pack One. Am I right? Maybe I need to see the movie again, but honestly, I'd rather not. If someone can help me out with this concept I'd appreciate it.
There's also something to be said for what's necessary to successfully implement a patch in a corporate environment anyway. As a recent discussion about an update in Office 2k mentioned, the sysadmin also wouldn't be doing their job if they simply deployed an untested patch in to a live environ. While it's true the patch was out for sometime beforehand, how many other patches, also "critical" were made available at about that time and since, and what criteria should one use to decide which ones go on the top of the "critical" list for immediate deployment and which "critical" patches can afford to wait a while, due to monetary, manpower and time constraints?
One Crazy Summer, of course.
At the very least it's a step in the right direction.
How the hell can they predict what the universe is going to do in trillions of years, but I can't get an accurate weather forcast for the next 24 hours??
Notice the processor stats on the systems are about the same, which means they were put out at about the same time. Now, given that most mfrs use the same few OEMs for specific parts.... maybe the batteries are mfr'd by the same company? If so, maybe there was something wrong with the battery hardware.
Even if the machine carries a three year warranty, batteries usually only have 1 year. If they were still replacing them for you 2 to 2.5 years out.. you're lucky.
ATI might sue you under the DMCA for using the terms "building" and "all-in-wonder" in the same sentence...
And if the level of grammar and (usually) proper spelling in my post did not illustrate otherwise, I'm a well educated graduate from high school some time ago.
Yeeeeeah. You switched tense in that sentence a few times. Normally, one would let that pass, but, ironically enough, in that very sentence you're essentially stating your grammar should speak for your level of education. Ouch.
In addition, I have to agree with the other guy on this. The sarcasm would lead one to believe you know how you turned out and know your mother's opinions, which is great. However, the statement was regarding "people without children" not people who were once children. As a parent, I assure you there are enormous differences between the two.
Children also seem to want to do any number of things they know darn well they should not do. This is, in my opinion, in the nature of children; no amount of "good parenting" can eliminate that. You simply cannot blame every bad thing a child does on "bad parenting" any more than you can give "good parenting" credit for every good thing a child does. If parents were the only source of influence in a kid's life... Maybe. In reality... no.
On the subject of reality, it's a sad reality that many parents simply can't spend the time they'd like to with their children, largely due to work/school schedules. Does that make them bad parents?
The bottom line here is that this law isn't designed to replace parents, or even tell parents how to raise their kids. It's designed to help parents because, in reality, you can never have complete control over your children. You do what you can and hope for the best.
As someone else pointed out a few posts up, movies have ratings, why shouldn't video games? Why isn't everyone up in arms about the movie rating system? To quote Locke: "New ideas are often opposed and always suspected if for no other reason than they are not already common knowledge."
And ya know what? Feel free to pick this post apart grammatically. I'm not even gonna proof read it, cos I just don't care what you think of my intellect level! :-)
Or maybe it's an attention span thing...
Also, wouldn't it be theoretically possible to take over someone else's DVD player if they don't set up decent security? Definitely interesting idea, but it's sure to have its issues.
How's that for a candid look inside MS's culture? The guy likes to work with people, likes to talk to people and doesn't explode in an irrational fit when someone says "Linux." No wonder he didn't fit in.
"Another major Windows server release in the Longhorn time frame does not meet the needs of most of our customers," the representative said. The delay "is a response to what our customers are asking for."
Apparently, M$ has finally realized that one thing customers really need is less extortion in pricing and forced upgrades for patches between one Server OS and the next. Unfortunately, it appears that practice will continue in the desktop space. Makes me wonder, though, if part of this move isn't based on technical spending. Businesses just can't afford to upgrade their servers so frequently. Perhaps they're a bit concerned about how many customers would skip the upgrade to Longhorn, given that a still newer version is just a few years down the road.
I admit to not knowing a lot about open source development, not being a developer myself. But I'm curious, is there any sort of legal accoutability when someone intentionally codes a trojan in to a piece of software? Is it possible to keep track of who is writing what code? When trojans, etc, are discovered, are you limited to just patching them and going from there, or is it usually possible to find out who did it and therefore be suspect of future code?
... That 35% of the respondents stated they liked Linux/OSS simply because it's "an alternative to Microsoft." That's almost insane. To think that a full third of the people polled said they see it as a viable alternative simply because it is, really, not Microsoft. Lower TCO is one thing. At least there's a solid business case for that. But "not Microsoft"... You think they may have some image problems?
While I don't necessarily think that two instances are indicative of a some downward spirialing pattern, one has to wonder how much may be out there we haven't found out about yet.
Additionally, "David Manning" raved about such winners as "Animal" "A Knight's Tale" and "Hollow Man." And now MS's fakie is raving about Windows XP...
I guess if the product you're promoting is bad enough... And hey, they're in good company, taking marketing leads from the movie studios, right?
~Mephie
"I am the spirit that denies forever..."
On the subject of spelling... I'm thinking you mean "definitely" perhaps?
Two things I strongly recommend: Don't buy a monitor over the 'Net unless you're getting an excellent deal. The shipping on monitors can be astronomical, and if it breaks shortly after you buy it, the ability to take a lemon to a local store, even if it is a Best Buy, is well worth a few extra bucks out of pocket initially.
Second, don't buy a case you haven't physically examined. This may not be as important, but if you don't get enough bays, you can end up hosed. Decide how many external bays you want for floppy drives, CD-RW/DVD, etc. and how many internal bays for HDDs and so forth, then go look at some at your local mom and pop store.
Otherwise, you may end up with a case that's too small, limiting the number of devices you can put in it and making working on it very, very difficult if it's cramped internally, or ending up with a huge case with more room than you need that simply takes up space and is a general eye-sore.