I think it's the inability of the admin staff to support Linux on corporate desktops/laptops. So much of the training and infrastructure is dedicated to Windows, it just doesn't cost to switch.
Also, it's not a cost issue either. Most corps will not `download and install' Linux. They'd get no support that way. But -buying- Linux (from RedHat, etc.) is generally more expensive than similar Windows offerings.
Hmm... Assuming that google/yahoo save all of the queries anyone ever does (over the years), just index the -entire- NARA database using google, and then run it against -all- the queries anyone has bothered to run in the last 5 years. Whatever files do -not- come up in the first 1000 results, can be safely deleted:-)
Amm... No. People used to make $5 a -day- at a Ford factory floor (low level employees), and the car cost $295. Now, how much is that in today's dollars?
I've also wondered that. Also, wouldn't time slow down for -you- so, not only are you moving fast, but your perception of time is also quite slow... (making you think you're at infinite velocity, and won't be able to -see- anything?)
And wasn't something like this done in the '70s? I remember seeing a scientific american article about that... a -while- ago. (primitive computer line drawings and everything).
Economics problem - spam is profitable as long as 0.01% of the spammed masses buy the pills. As long as there are just a few idiots buying into the crap, we all get spammed.
Or maybe it's just stupid wanna-be spammers who think that? So one spammer spams the world for a few weeks, doesn't make anything, and moves on. Then another spammer thinks ``wow, this is a great business model'', and spams the world for a few weeks, doesn't make anything, and moves on. And so the cycle repeats.
It's kind of weird, but -lots- of what the doom3 engine -can- do wasn't in the game. If you look through the SDK, there's plenty of stuff that seemingly didn't make it into the game (like support for vihicles, etc.) They could've made it FPS for part of the game, then have the player ride a tank like in UT2004, then fly around, etc. Dunno why they didn't do it.
Oh, and the engine can support huge open maps (just like Team Arena terrain maps).
The ACM contents aren't a very good indication. It just means that the few capable individuals bothered to go---and usually got lucky by knowing some trick to solve some particular problem.
Also, the reason that certain teams often tend to win year after year is because the -same- individuals seem to go year after year---and they also get used to the type of problems asked.
(ie: that competition says nothing about the technological competency of a nation)
Why not get your Cable Internet service from non-Cable-TV companies? Like Earthlink Cable service? (You don't even have to have cable TV to have that service).
Nop. Don't drive (never bothered to get a license). Living in NYC doesn't really `require' that. And I don't need any ID to use the subway (and would be really pissed if someone started checking IDs at the subway station---which is somewhat similar to someone checking IDs at the airport)
Are you implying that it is ok to require people to carry an ID with them all the time? (I, for one, very often don't carry an ID with me).
What if I just happen to forget my ID at home? (is that going to land me in jail on an off chance I might be "asked to show the ID" for no apparently good reason?)
It's kinda funny, but my old TV card works on Linux, but not on Windows (XP) (since the company never bothered to release a driver beyond Win98).
So much for Windows being more compatible? I'm sure there are stories both ways---but if someone carefuly picks the hardware they buy, there are no driver issues.
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I think it's the inability of the admin staff to support Linux on corporate desktops/laptops. So much of the training and infrastructure is dedicated to Windows, it just doesn't cost to switch.
Also, it's not a cost issue either. Most corps will not `download and install' Linux. They'd get no support that way. But -buying- Linux (from RedHat, etc.) is generally more expensive than similar Windows offerings.
Oh, and I use Linux both at home and at wr0k.
The DOD will get interested, and use a similar technique to train -real- robots?
Hmm... Assuming that google/yahoo save all of the queries anyone ever does (over the years), just index the -entire- NARA database using google, and then run it against -all- the queries anyone has bothered to run in the last 5 years. Whatever files do -not- come up in the first 1000 results, can be safely deleted :-)
Just an idea...
Kinda like writing reviews for their products at various online retailers.
We will have human-derivitive predators...
Hmm... lawyers.
Amm... No. People used to make $5 a -day- at a Ford factory floor (low level employees), and the car cost $295. Now, how much is that in today's dollars?
At that rate you can have it all paid back in a little over 55,769 YEARS!!!
Would be nice to have that kind of job security... (---office space)
Wasn't there a Dilbert episode on just -this-?
I've also wondered that. Also, wouldn't time slow down for -you- so, not only are you moving fast, but your perception of time is also quite slow... (making you think you're at infinite velocity, and won't be able to -see- anything?)
And wasn't something like this done in the '70s? I remember seeing a scientific american article about that... a -while- ago. (primitive computer line drawings and everything).
...and explain just what this Last Great Single Sign On is really about?
I think they agreed that cookies will be patented.
Beh, I'm waiting for AMD X3 86 myself.
Economics problem - spam is profitable as long as 0.01% of the spammed masses buy the pills. As long as there are just a few idiots buying into the crap, we all get spammed.
Or maybe it's just stupid wanna-be spammers who think that? So one spammer spams the world for a few weeks, doesn't make anything, and moves on. Then another spammer thinks ``wow, this is a great business model'', and spams the world for a few weeks, doesn't make anything, and moves on. And so the cycle repeats.
but what is a grey hat?
A color blind RedHat user?
It's kind of weird, but -lots- of what the doom3 engine -can- do wasn't in the game. If you look through the SDK, there's plenty of stuff that seemingly didn't make it into the game (like support for vihicles, etc.) They could've made it FPS for part of the game, then have the player ride a tank like in UT2004, then fly around, etc. Dunno why they didn't do it.
Oh, and the engine can support huge open maps (just like Team Arena terrain maps).
How about the railgun? (strange that they've mentioned lightining gun (from Quake1) and not railgun... hmm...)
Ditto! I really enjoyed coop mode...! That's probably why I like CTF (and UT) now---team wr0k.
Although that would explain why `laptops looking desktops' on startrek only have 1 big button...
The ACM contents aren't a very good indication. It just means that the few capable individuals bothered to go---and usually got lucky by knowing some trick to solve some particular problem.
Also, the reason that certain teams often tend to win year after year is because the -same- individuals seem to go year after year---and they also get used to the type of problems asked.
(ie: that competition says nothing about the technological competency of a nation)
Why not get your Cable Internet service from non-Cable-TV companies? Like Earthlink Cable service? (You don't even have to have cable TV to have that service).
...but if movies teach us anything, you're always alone in the dark in some remote part of the world (oh, and it's dark and raining).
Nop. Don't drive (never bothered to get a license). Living in NYC doesn't really `require' that. And I don't need any ID to use the subway (and would be really pissed if someone started checking IDs at the subway station---which is somewhat similar to someone checking IDs at the airport)
Are you implying that it is ok to require people to carry an ID with them all the time? (I, for one, very often don't carry an ID with me).
What if I just happen to forget my ID at home? (is that going to land me in jail on an off chance I might be "asked to show the ID" for no apparently good reason?)
It's kinda funny, but my old TV card works on Linux, but not on Windows (XP) (since the company never bothered to release a driver beyond Win98).
So much for Windows being more compatible? I'm sure there are stories both ways---but if someone carefuly picks the hardware they buy, there are no driver issues.
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