In 96'-97' I worked for the Georgia Department of Corrections, and what we did was scan documents so they could be transmitted between various Corrections departments. We also created 'signatures' so that the scanned documents would be legal documents.
Sounds a lot like what they are doing, except applied to the banking industry. Sounds obvious to me, based on our prior work.
To defeat your scheme, I put an entry in my hosts table to direct any queries to the "checksum" verifier to one of my own machines, that always replies with a "thumbs up".
I still live in Oregon, and have (off and on) for 17+ years. A long time ago, there was a ballot measure to allow anyone to pump their own gas, with the idea that it would make for cheaper gas. It was defeated by people running advertisements that said, basically, 'do you want to have gas on your hands before you go eat food?' I guess being 'back to nature' means people here haven't learned how to bathe (and if you head downtown, you'll see lots of examples).
What are you looking at while you are coding? Intellisense would have quit displaying anything as soon as you made your 'mistake', thus you'd know there was something wrong. "Hunting around for anywhere up to a minute" just makes it seem like you are either copying someone elses code (since you aren't looking at the screen) or have no idea how your IDE tool works.
And on a related note - why rewrite? Can't people ever just go for cleaning something up?
Back in my Air Force days, I was asked to make some modifications to some code that had been writen 5-6 years before, consisting of some 10-20 thousand lines of code. The author if this code had decided that it was a good idea to have 50 flag variables, named "Flag01", "Flag02", "Flag03", etc., and 20 'switch' variables, named (you guessed it) "Switch01", "Switch02", etc.
This wonderful piece of code was filled with things like:
if (Switch05 == 7) Flag14 = 8; if (Switch18 == 3) Flag07 = 0; ...
I rewrote the code, and didn't use a single variable named 'Flag' or 'Switch'! Was it faster? Who cares, it was maintainable, which made my job easier since I had to maintain it.
From the article: "Indeed, the Free Software Foundation is rewriting its GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 to prohibit such patent deals in the future."
GLP 3.0 does no such thing. What it does is extend any such patent protection deals to all users of the GPL 3.0 software, not just the group that made the deal.
If you're sending out 100+ resumes a day THAT YOU'RE QUALIFIED FOR, then you should have NO trouble finding a job, determination or not. Pure bullshit. Along with your 100+ resumes, are the resumes of 200+ other people. If you aren't in the first 10 to submit, you might as well go home.
I'd say it wasn't a success. It removed stuff (creatures, items) from the game, making the world a duller place. Another indication that it wasn't a success is that it's been 2 years since this happened, and there hasn't been anything like it again.
Now, the EQ world has been changing, and the players can take roles in the change, but don't really determine the outcome (Evil Overlord will get powerfull magic item and enslave population). While it can be fun to be involved in these events, you still have the knowledge that succeed or fail, predetermined things will happen.
Of course, there are better ways to handle these things, and maybe the people at SOE need to reconsider what they are doing. But they have the most successful MMORPG, so they must be doing something right.
There was a dragon, who was very powerful, and insane. It took the might of all the other dragons to stop him, and put him to 'sleep' in a tomb. This tomb was guarded by 4 dragons, called warders. As long as 1 of the warders was alive, the sleeper (as he was called) would not awake.
In come the merry band of adventurers, 40-60 players, who kill all 4 of the warders. The sleeper awakes, kills everyone (yeah sleeper!), has revenge on a few dragons, then goes off to challenge the 'God Dragon'.
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Ok, there's the story. Now, in a MMORPG like EverQuest, when you kill something, after a period of time, it will respawn, or return to life. Also, things you kill have treasures on them, in the form of weapons or equipment. The 4 warders had nice equipment on them. For a long time, people would kill 3 of the warders, but not the 4th, so that others (and they themselves) could continue to get the treasures from the warders.
Eventually, some group killed all the warders, freeing the sleeper. After the sleeper was freed, the warders never 'respawned'. They had made a change to the world, making it a world in which the sleeper was awake. But now those treasures that the warders had are no longer available to anyone else (along with some other changes).
Now, the people who had already received the items from the warders were not upset, those that had not (the overwelming majority of players) will never have the chance to get them.
Give us a storyline that we actually run into! Not just something that'll unfold as news updates every month.
EverQuest tried a small sample of letting the players change the world. Ok, so those 40-60 people went and changed the world. The 20,000+ other people then bitched that the world has been changed, and they didn't get to do it.
Actually, it produces fuel. Plutonium is just one form a fuel that can be produced. It is the most common one since we have a large suply of U-238 laying around, not doing anything useful.
Technically, if it isn't producing a fuel you can use to continue your reaction, it really isn't a breeder reactor.
Never said it wasn't a nuclear reactor, said it wasn't a breeder reactor.
Breeder reactor produces more fuel than it uses. Producing some isotopes that are used in a breeder reactor doesn't mean you've built a breeder reactor.
Several universities have uranium used for physics, chemistry, and nuclear engineering purposes. When I went to school, we could obtain samples for use (I majored in Nuclear Engineering).
Get weapons grade plutonium was a different matter.
According to the article, they build a "working nuclear reactor", an fairly easy task if you know how, not a "working breeder reactor", a very complicated task requiring multi-million dollar processing plants and weapons grade plutonium.
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Try Eve-Online, it's the closest I can think of to what you want (still has quests from NPCs, but you don't ever have to do them).
In 96'-97' I worked for the Georgia Department of Corrections, and what we did was scan documents so they could be transmitted between various Corrections departments. We also created 'signatures' so that the scanned documents would be legal documents.
Sounds a lot like what they are doing, except applied to the banking industry. Sounds obvious to me, based on our prior work.
First you say:
... I only ask that you not swear or talk about sex in front of my child ...
But your tag line says:
It should be illegal to say that freedom of speech should be limited.
So please report you jail, since you are trying to limit my freedom of speech.
To defeat your scheme, I put an entry in my hosts table to direct any queries to the "checksum" verifier to one of my own machines, that always replies with a "thumbs up".
I still live in Oregon, and have (off and on) for 17+ years. A long time ago, there was a ballot measure to allow anyone to pump their own gas, with the idea that it would make for cheaper gas. It was defeated by people running advertisements that said, basically, 'do you want to have gas on your hands before you go eat food?' I guess being 'back to nature' means people here haven't learned how to bathe (and if you head downtown, you'll see lots of examples).
You make the same mistake that I see lots of people making, assuming that the RIAA only controls current music. Older music is controled by them also.
What are you looking at while you are coding? Intellisense would have quit displaying anything as soon as you made your 'mistake', thus you'd know there was something wrong. "Hunting around for anywhere up to a minute" just makes it seem like you are either copying someone elses code (since you aren't looking at the screen) or have no idea how your IDE tool works.
Back in my Air Force days, I was asked to make some modifications to some code that had been writen 5-6 years before, consisting of some 10-20 thousand lines of code. The author if this code had decided that it was a good idea to have 50 flag variables, named "Flag01", "Flag02", "Flag03", etc., and 20 'switch' variables, named (you guessed it) "Switch01", "Switch02", etc.
This wonderful piece of code was filled with things like:
I rewrote the code, and didn't use a single variable named 'Flag' or 'Switch'! Was it faster? Who cares, it was maintainable, which made my job easier since I had to maintain it.
You need to read Code Complete, you have your good/bad completly backwards (Chapter 18.4 for those with first edition).
From the article: "Indeed, the Free Software Foundation is rewriting its GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 to prohibit such patent deals in the future." GLP 3.0 does no such thing. What it does is extend any such patent protection deals to all users of the GPL 3.0 software, not just the group that made the deal.
You left out: All work product generated by you for your employer. They did pay for it, after all.
Considering how the authorities act in China, would you run around telling everyone that you had a way through the filter?
work during the day
But that's just the point, there is no day job, since it got outsourced to India.
Great, I'll just go back to school for 3-4 more years. My family can just starve, and live in the carboard box out back.
You know teen age girls with $1250 to spend on luxury items? Are their moms divorced/widowed?
If you're sending out 100+ resumes a day THAT YOU'RE QUALIFIED FOR, then you should have NO trouble finding a job, determination or not.
Pure bullshit. Along with your 100+ resumes, are the resumes of 200+ other people. If you aren't in the first 10 to submit, you might as well go home.
They aren't cutting you off, as GW will still be selling stuff online, just no one else can sell their products online.
I'd say it wasn't a success. It removed stuff (creatures, items) from the game, making the world a duller place. Another indication that it wasn't a success is that it's been 2 years since this happened, and there hasn't been anything like it again.
Now, the EQ world has been changing, and the players can take roles in the change, but don't really determine the outcome (Evil Overlord will get powerfull magic item and enslave population). While it can be fun to be involved in these events, you still have the knowledge that succeed or fail, predetermined things will happen.
Of course, there are better ways to handle these things, and maybe the people at SOE need to reconsider what they are doing. But they have the most successful MMORPG, so they must be doing something right.
There was a dragon, who was very powerful, and insane. It took the might of all the other dragons to stop him, and put him to 'sleep' in a tomb. This tomb was guarded by 4 dragons, called warders. As long as 1 of the warders was alive, the sleeper (as he was called) would not awake.
In come the merry band of adventurers, 40-60 players, who kill all 4 of the warders. The sleeper awakes, kills everyone (yeah sleeper!), has revenge on a few dragons, then goes off to challenge the 'God Dragon'.
---
Ok, there's the story. Now, in a MMORPG like EverQuest, when you kill something, after a period of time, it will respawn, or return to life. Also, things you kill have treasures on them, in the form of weapons or equipment. The 4 warders had nice equipment on them. For a long time, people would kill 3 of the warders, but not the 4th, so that others (and they themselves) could continue to get the treasures from the warders.
Eventually, some group killed all the warders, freeing the sleeper. After the sleeper was freed, the warders never 'respawned'. They had made a change to the world, making it a world in which the sleeper was awake. But now those treasures that the warders had are no longer available to anyone else (along with some other changes). Now, the people who had already received the items from the warders were not upset, those that had not (the overwelming majority of players) will never have the chance to get them.
Give us a storyline that we actually run into! Not just something that'll unfold as news updates every month.
EverQuest tried a small sample of letting the players change the world. Ok, so those 40-60 people went and changed the world. The 20,000+ other people then bitched that the world has been changed, and they didn't get to do it.
A breeder reactor produces plutonium.
Actually, it produces fuel. Plutonium is just one form a fuel that can be produced. It is the most common one since we have a large suply of U-238 laying around, not doing anything useful. Technically, if it isn't producing a fuel you can use to continue your reaction, it really isn't a breeder reactor.
so it's a nuclear reactor
Never said it wasn't a nuclear reactor, said it wasn't a breeder reactor. Breeder reactor produces more fuel than it uses. Producing some isotopes that are used in a breeder reactor doesn't mean you've built a breeder reactor.
From the article itself: "I know that some of the reactions that go on in a breeder reactor went on to a minute extent."
This is not the same as building a breeder reactor.
Several universities have uranium used for physics, chemistry, and nuclear engineering purposes. When I went to school, we could obtain samples for use (I majored in Nuclear Engineering). Get weapons grade plutonium was a different matter.
when students built a working breeder reactor.
According to the article, they build a "working nuclear reactor", an fairly easy task if you know how, not a "working breeder reactor", a very complicated task requiring multi-million dollar processing plants and weapons grade plutonium.