I've seen this commercial, and if anything, it will convince Sci-Fi that Farscape fans are a bunch of untalented fan-boys (and girls) that smell bad...
Get me one of these that is Zaurus-like (based on linux) and is also a cell-phone and also has voice-recognition software that works [...] THEN I'll really be excited...
Yeah, can't wait to sit next to you on the train home after a long day...
OK, finally we have had someone to post who has actually used and can competently describe this concept (damn/. effect).
Basically, what I think most of the meta-physical, quickly tangential arguments that are going on here regarding this theory is leading to an unasked question: What exactly does this system index in each file? Dose it simply index the modify/creation times? The owner/group? The actual data depending on file type? What if my mp3's have no id3 tags? Does it then have some database schema that get queried somehow? How does a query work, exactly?
These are all questions that have not been really asked (I haven't read through the noise of all the other declarative posts).
This seems similar, IMO, to how sports casters can get the most obscure facts and related them in obscure ways. It's like: "Well, this is the second time in history that a [basketball] player has missed his first free-throw and made the second after scoring more than x points in a row. The first player to do this was..."
OK, this example is a bit contrived but I've heard them relate even weirder connections.
It seems like the idea is to gather as much data (stats) as possible, to have a very efficient (read: normalized) database schema, and to be able to have a powerful query language (SQL, whatever) to relate or combine that data in any concevable way.
If this is the doctors idea then I don't think it's that "new" (he's aparently been a proponent of this for a while now), but maybe he could learn something from Monday Night Football (thats the oblong pigskin game like rugby, for all you people outside the US:).
Hmmm, I fail to see any problems with this as well. It does seem like a well thought-out, fool-proof plan. Lets get those 3rd graders started on building "Earth2: mostly (gooey) paper".
Metal gear on NES and even before that on the MSX (?) system was probably on of the earliest game to promote a stealth approach instead of contra-style crazy action.
It was so cool popping in back of a truck that takes youinto the enemy base, or needing a silencer to wipe out enemies while sneaking around them and the cameras while learning their patrol patterns.
I'm not a big action 3d gamer nowadays (lat FPS was unreal tournament) but I'm looking forward to that splinter cell game:D
Dont't forget the unbelievable funny Monkey Island 1 & 2 which were greatly written and sometimes ridiculously hard (how it the @#$@! was I to know you're suppose to use an actual *monkey* as a monkey wrench to shut off that valve by the waterfall to get at the secret passage behind it! arrgghh!).
I remember good old Mario 1 with the negative world and Mario 2 with all those cool boss enemies! Mario 3 was probably the most popular game ever on NES...
This may soud fruity but, you know a game is good when it leaves you with some cool memories of how cool and fun it was even if its through rose-tinted VR goggles...
Not true. The OOSEM (Official Open Source Elitism Manual) fully sanctions the use of such publicly available commercial software as Solaris and MacOS X.
You're wasting your time. At the risk of generalizing, a lot of people in general (esp. those in the tech domain) like to make themselves part of something or draw arbitrary us vs. them scenarios. It's the dark side of competition and the people who do this just are weak-minded and shouldn't be in the position of recruiting talent.
Yes, you're recruiting talent NOT resumes.
Now if you are looking for LPI certifications, then that's another story.
OK, all of you have valid points and I'd liek to bring in mine if I may.
I'm a US citizen and I think the reason SOME of us are so confident/arrogant is that we seem to subliminally absorb more talk of our 'greatness' throughout history as a superpower and a free and fair country (now I'm not here to debate whether the US is the perfect Camelot like so many people who just say that and eat steak for dinner watching Fear Factor and I'm not saying that the US is a facists gov't masquerading as a Democracy like so many conspiracy theorists here).
This arrogance (again, of SOME of us) is annoying but calling all 'Americans' arrogant is a generalizations and generalizations usually are filled with trouble even seemingly harmless ones (gee, that Asian kid's sure good at math).
We US citizens, are more isolated from a lot of the world. Over here, going to another state is as easy as for one to go to another country in Europe. We seem therefore more, nationalistic, self-centered, etc.
But most of us are taught one good thing in childhood (usually). I'll never forget one of my 4th or 5th grade teachers telling us that competition is good, that competition built this country (the good along with the bad, but competition is not itself bad). He said that competition is the foundation for capitalism (not is so many words), and that it brings out the best in people.
Of course some people will take this previous remark as 'win at all costs' when one can take it as 'honest competition is noble' (etc), so that will immediately give you a good indication of what type of person you are.
I see nothing wrong in failing and being upset about it, whether you cry or not depends upon your personality and how seriously you take the competition or maybe how important it is to you. Failing miserably is much more worthwhile that never trying at all, IMHO. Regret is a bitch.
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I've seen this commercial, and if anything, it will convince Sci-Fi that Farscape fans are a bunch of untalented fan-boys (and girls) that smell bad...
Have that new smell-o-vision, huh?
Gentoos are the fastest species of penguin and are really kind of sexy.
Ehrm...hmmm...yikes.
The IR port can be replaced by a -- *makes deliberate air-quotes -- "laser", if you wish.
Get me one of these that is Zaurus-like (based on linux) and is also a cell-phone and also has voice-recognition software that works [...] THEN I'll really be excited...
Yeah, can't wait to sit next to you on the train home after a long day...
So all the BASS played in a club is so a drunk can walk around trying to pick up chicks and still stand!
Exactly, BASS=ASS.
nVidia driver performance on win nt has been stellar, but their linux support is crappy.
I thought ATI was actually [as] competent for their linux drivers.
Wow, think that up all by yourself?
You know, that's a generalization and an insult.
I'll have you know that I throw like a fairy.
I think you can find it in the Gorilla source.
Something like Banana.bas, DoThrowBanana.bas, or maybe NSA.bas
It's anyone's guess.
Hmm, that's a well thought-out plan.
Anyways, I definetly rate you +3 funny, assuming you're joking.
OK, finally we have had someone to post who has actually used and can competently describe this concept (damn /. effect).
:).
Basically, what I think most of the meta-physical, quickly tangential arguments that are going on here regarding this theory is leading to an unasked question: What exactly does this system index in each file? Dose it simply index the modify/creation times? The owner/group? The actual data depending on file type? What if my mp3's have no id3 tags? Does it then have some database schema that get queried somehow? How does a query work, exactly?
These are all questions that have not been really asked (I haven't read through the noise of all the other declarative posts).
This seems similar, IMO, to how sports casters can get the most obscure facts and related them in obscure ways. It's like:
"Well, this is the second time in history that a [basketball] player has missed his first free-throw and made the second after scoring more than x points in a row. The first player to do this was..."
OK, this example is a bit contrived but I've heard them relate even weirder connections.
It seems like the idea is to gather as much data (stats) as possible, to have a very efficient (read: normalized) database schema, and to be able to have a powerful query language (SQL, whatever) to relate or combine that data in any concevable way.
If this is the doctors idea then I don't think it's that "new" (he's aparently been a proponent of this for a while now), but maybe he could learn something from Monday Night Football (thats the oblong pigskin game like rugby, for all you people outside the US
Hmmm, I fail to see any problems with this as well. It does seem like a well thought-out, fool-proof plan. Lets get those 3rd graders started on building "Earth2: mostly (gooey) paper".
Metal gear on NES and even before that on the MSX (?) system was probably on of the earliest game to promote a stealth approach instead of contra-style crazy action.
:D
It was so cool popping in back of a truck that takes youinto the enemy base, or needing a silencer to wipe out enemies while sneaking around them and the cameras while learning their patrol patterns.
I'm not a big action 3d gamer nowadays (lat FPS was unreal tournament) but I'm looking forward to that splinter cell game
Dont't forget the unbelievable funny Monkey Island 1 & 2 which were greatly written and sometimes ridiculously hard (how it the @#$@! was I to know you're suppose to use an actual *monkey* as a monkey wrench to shut off that valve by the waterfall to get at the secret passage behind it! arrgghh!).
I remember good old Mario 1 with the negative world and Mario 2 with all those cool boss enemies! Mario 3 was probably the most popular game ever on NES...
This may soud fruity but, you know a game is good when it leaves you with some cool memories of how cool and fun it was even if its through rose-tinted VR goggles...
Not true. The OOSEM (Official Open Source Elitism Manual) fully sanctions the use of such publicly available commercial software as Solaris and MacOS X.
ziiing!
You have a valid point but I'd wager that many peoples first reaction would be to mod you down. What's good for the goose...
Also, I'm not sure if the linux kernel itself is not certified. Maybe the NSA version is (if it's good enough for them, well).
You're wasting your time. At the risk of generalizing, a lot of people in general (esp. those in the tech domain) like to make themselves part of something or draw arbitrary us vs. them scenarios. It's the dark side of competition and the people who do this just are weak-minded and shouldn't be in the position of recruiting talent.
Yes, you're recruiting talent NOT resumes.
Now if you are looking for LPI certifications, then that's another story.
Yeah, after all, they only teach you to knit and do a three-finger salute when training for a MCSE. Its not like they have a curriculum or anything...
I know it's just killing you, but no, I am not a MCSE.
Heh, please refer to here.
I don't feel like typing...
Dammit-- If I see this one more time, i'm gonna do something really kooky.
It's 'damn it!' not 'dammit!'.
And it's 'Cooky', damn it!
And it's going to not gonna.
See how annoying it is now?
HAND
That's great they do virtually nothing about the DOZENS pieces if spam I recieve every day, but when it comes to putting money in their pocket...
OK, all of you have valid points and I'd liek to bring in mine if I may.
I'm a US citizen and I think the reason SOME of us are so confident/arrogant is that we seem to subliminally absorb more talk of our 'greatness' throughout history as a superpower and a free and fair country (now I'm not here to debate whether the US is the perfect Camelot like so many people who just say that and eat steak for dinner watching Fear Factor and I'm not saying that the US is a facists gov't masquerading as a Democracy like so many conspiracy theorists here).
This arrogance (again, of SOME of us) is annoying but calling all 'Americans' arrogant is a generalizations and generalizations usually are filled with trouble even seemingly harmless ones (gee, that Asian kid's sure good at math).
We US citizens, are more isolated from a lot of the world. Over here, going to another state is as easy as for one to go to another country in Europe. We seem therefore more, nationalistic, self-centered, etc.
But most of us are taught one good thing in childhood (usually). I'll never forget one of my 4th or 5th grade teachers telling us that competition is good, that competition built this country (the good along with the bad, but competition is not itself bad). He said that competition is the foundation for capitalism (not is so many words), and that it brings out the best in people.
Of course some people will take this previous remark as 'win at all costs' when one can take it as 'honest competition is noble' (etc), so that will immediately give you a good indication of what type of person you are.
I see nothing wrong in failing and being upset about it, whether you cry or not depends upon your personality and how seriously you take the competition or maybe how important it is to you. Failing miserably is much more worthwhile that never trying at all, IMHO. Regret is a bitch.
When I buy a movie on DVD at Blockbuster for $19.99 - I own it outright. I can set up a theatre and show it for profit.
/me does [that sound] whilst making a quick front to back motion with my hand above my head.
Um, you "can", but not legally
How does one type-out the sound that a racecar makes when it drives by you extremely fast? Is it 'vvvVVVVVRRRRRoooooommmm!!' ??
Anyways,
DRM Failure=IP Spoofing+Video Capture
If the client address is spoofed then it can't expect any IP datagrams to be routed to it when the hosting site responds to that address.
"Specious Argument" + "FP Syndrome" = "embarrasing declaration"
HTH
But remember: it's the "American" CEO's that are most immoral.