Taking it may have been easy, but the shocker is that Network Solutions + Comcast don't have any kind of response time... 5 hours of someone else controlling a whole swath of high-traffic names sounds like a breach of contract to me. Shouldn't Network Solutions have re-aimed those back to the default values within seconds? There's nothing that they're using to keep track of huge changes like that? Weird... that's what i would do if I were running a domain registrar.
If you're going to make a street fighter game at this point, why would it not include all the fighters from every fighting game you could conceivably license? And why not include tons of other characters from pop culture just for fun? The graphics and memory space are there, and the game itself is pretty straightforward -- once you have the gameplay, adding characters should be a breeze. The Wii goes for more of this strategy with Smash Bros. Brawl, and IMHO that's the wave of the future for fighting games (everyone vs. everyone, play your favorite char from any game).
Multi-touch will be accompanied by multi-crash, where Windows tries to compete with multiple apps for kernel priority at the same time from you trying to touch multiple things, and then they will all independently crash! yay.
Not only that, but usually the ones that are supposed to be "unhackable" are humorously hackable, like with a permanent marker or a whistle. Tweet tweet, free games are sweet!
I've heard similar stories from people waiting to get granted access after they get hired, so I guess in the best of both worlds, you could have as much as a year where you're not allowed to do anything but that they have to pay you. That's what we call a sinecure -- money and a title but no responsibilities. Artists use them all the time; I'd recommend painting your ceiling with grandiose biblical scenes if you have nothing else to do... I've heard that can take years with a big enough ceiling.
The best thing these tools can do is to tell everyone what they probably already know -- that a particular coder or coder(s) are responsible for a whole ton of the errors in the code. I think it'd be much better to move that coder to some other part of the company... it would be way cheaper than trying to fix all their bugs.
I don't get it, are you saying that 65-year olds don't make for good action heroes? Why, that's preposterous! Oh wait, no it's not, it makes total sense. Meesa smell the Lucas-4th-movie curse!
I'm concerned that the labels for the switches appear to be on a paper template. Imagine the chaos that you could cause by cutting a new template with the labels mixed up... uh oh, spageddios!
The only reason that there's a perception of the 20-something success is that it generates media attention when it works. There are way, way more young failures and older successes, but that's what we should expect to happen. The younger the kid, the less attention is paid to how successful their strategy is and the more credence is lended (for some reason) to their outrageous claims. Try to follow up on any of those 12-year old dot-com phenom types and see if any of them (or their parents) are still pushing headlines once they reach the age where their young age is no longer a media magnet, and they must compete directly with the more experienced folks.
Based on all this, it must be pretty hard after all. I assume they would have 2 separate counters, a grand total incremented as above, and an individual anonymous vote recorder. Both of these could be compared at a later date on paper vs. the electronic records. I assume it's hard because, well if it were made as easy as it could be, then you probably couldn't patent it or call it a "trade secret" since it's entirely obvious how it would work.
Disappearing ink sounds to me like a feature, not a bug. That documentation expires when a new version comes out, so why not have it actually fade away and be unusable?
Predicting errors is easy. I can predict that certain anonymous coworkers of mine will make errors because they simply always make the same errors. If you see someone driving 100mph and a 30mph curve approaching, you can predict that may result in an error. Predicting which leaf may fall off a tree is easy if you have a detailed enough picture of how the leaves connect... this isn't a way to prevent the error, just to predict it. Preventing the error before it happens in the brain would be a much bigger deal!
Rolls Royce doesn't make smart cars, so The Hobbit would have to be a Bentley lol. If Del Toro can make a Hobbit movie that has the cinematic feel of Pan's Labyrinth, that'd be good enough for me.
If it's too expensive to make a secure electronic voting machine, then maybe that's the wrong solution? Nah, let's just make an insecure one that's cheap enough... gotta love that logic!
Slashdot Mirror
(Enter guy carrying way-too-full box of tapes)
la la la...
trip...CRASH!!!!
uh-oh, spageddios!
(Back at the bank of NY)
wah wah wah waaaaaah.
Taking it may have been easy, but the shocker is that Network Solutions + Comcast don't have any kind of response time... 5 hours of someone else controlling a whole swath of high-traffic names sounds like a breach of contract to me. Shouldn't Network Solutions have re-aimed those back to the default values within seconds? There's nothing that they're using to keep track of huge changes like that? Weird... that's what i would do if I were running a domain registrar.
1. buy LED lights from thinkgeek.
2. Mail into DoE.
3. Profit?
I know my team dropped because after reviewing the objective of getting to the moon, we concluded that it would be "really, really hard" to get there.
All you youngsters and your mice with no balls. I recommend only a kensington pro trackball -- that's mousing with big balls!
That's nothing, I know tons of girls like Rogue, that can steal your powers by touching you.
If you're going to make a street fighter game at this point, why would it not include all the fighters from every fighting game you could conceivably license? And why not include tons of other characters from pop culture just for fun? The graphics and memory space are there, and the game itself is pretty straightforward -- once you have the gameplay, adding characters should be a breeze. The Wii goes for more of this strategy with Smash Bros. Brawl, and IMHO that's the wave of the future for fighting games (everyone vs. everyone, play your favorite char from any game).
Multi-touch will be accompanied by multi-crash, where Windows tries to compete with multiple apps for kernel priority at the same time from you trying to touch multiple things, and then they will all independently crash! yay.
Not only that, but usually the ones that are supposed to be "unhackable" are humorously hackable, like with a permanent marker or a whistle. Tweet tweet, free games are sweet!
I've heard similar stories from people waiting to get granted access after they get hired, so I guess in the best of both worlds, you could have as much as a year where you're not allowed to do anything but that they have to pay you. That's what we call a sinecure -- money and a title but no responsibilities. Artists use them all the time; I'd recommend painting your ceiling with grandiose biblical scenes if you have nothing else to do... I've heard that can take years with a big enough ceiling.
Not if you get satellite.
If no one else wants the moon, I guess I'll take it.
The best thing these tools can do is to tell everyone what they probably already know -- that a particular coder or coder(s) are responsible for a whole ton of the errors in the code. I think it'd be much better to move that coder to some other part of the company ... it would be way cheaper than trying to fix all their bugs.
Not to be a jerk, but don't you have to be 14 to use myspace?
I don't get it, are you saying that 65-year olds don't make for good action heroes? Why, that's preposterous! Oh wait, no it's not, it makes total sense. Meesa smell the Lucas-4th-movie curse!
I'm concerned that the labels for the switches appear to be on a paper template. Imagine the chaos that you could cause by cutting a new template with the labels mixed up... uh oh, spageddios!
The only reason that there's a perception of the 20-something success is that it generates media attention when it works. There are way, way more young failures and older successes, but that's what we should expect to happen. The younger the kid, the less attention is paid to how successful their strategy is and the more credence is lended (for some reason) to their outrageous claims. Try to follow up on any of those 12-year old dot-com phenom types and see if any of them (or their parents) are still pushing headlines once they reach the age where their young age is no longer a media magnet, and they must compete directly with the more experienced folks.
Eh, I always heard the first BASIC program was:
10 SIN
20 GOTO HELL
Additionally, expect a flood of /. comments related to how the email fiasco isn't the worst thing currently operating in the White House.
Based on all this, it must be pretty hard after all. I assume they would have 2 separate counters, a grand total incremented as above, and an individual anonymous vote recorder. Both of these could be compared at a later date on paper vs. the electronic records. I assume it's hard because, well if it were made as easy as it could be, then you probably couldn't patent it or call it a "trade secret" since it's entirely obvious how it would work.
Disappearing ink sounds to me like a feature, not a bug. That documentation expires when a new version comes out, so why not have it actually fade away and be unusable?
The economy must be bad if this story doesn't even get a "haha" tag.
Predicting errors is easy. I can predict that certain anonymous coworkers of mine will make errors because they simply always make the same errors. If you see someone driving 100mph and a 30mph curve approaching, you can predict that may result in an error. Predicting which leaf may fall off a tree is easy if you have a detailed enough picture of how the leaves connect... this isn't a way to prevent the error, just to predict it. Preventing the error before it happens in the brain would be a much bigger deal!
Rolls Royce doesn't make smart cars, so The Hobbit would have to be a Bentley lol. If Del Toro can make a Hobbit movie that has the cinematic feel of Pan's Labyrinth, that'd be good enough for me.
If it's too expensive to make a secure electronic voting machine, then maybe that's the wrong solution? Nah, let's just make an insecure one that's cheap enough... gotta love that logic!