I live in Washington DC, and there are big tanks with army guys holding heavy assault rifels pointed at the roads as you drive by. I actually think this is kind of cool, except everyone goes the stupid speed limit (like they're gonna hop in their tank and give you a ticket)! On most other highways people average closer to 15 over, so it is a big difference. This adds to traffic around rush hour too, but thankfully I don't need to drive on this road most of the time.
Besides that, and the fact that new years was borring because nobody wanted to go to the mall (place in DC) or to New York City, I haven't felt much of the heat dirctly.
but very rarely do we actually hear of a new product being released that is based on one of the aforementioned technologies
elsewhere:
Still, the technology is at least five years from being commercially available, Williams said.
Are you gonna remember this in 5 years? These technologies are effecting us every day, but they just happen to be the ones we thought were cool 5 years ago, and seem like just another computer component today.
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shows these whiney twits how to turn off a computer, unplug the phone and experience REAL LIFE instead of the self-involved online world.
Yeah, totally!
Now that my slashdot break is over, back to my computer related job until I'm ready to go home and play warcraft 3 until I pass out. Maybe this weekend I'll watch The Net again just to make fun of how much it is unlike the real net. . . So this is troll.
After 5-10 viewings, I'm better off having bought the DVD. ..
5-10 viewings of MARS ATTACKS?
Given when I rent a movie, I watch it once, return it, and quite often, never rent that movie again, I think this is a great service? If you like a movie enough to watch it 5-10 times, you buy that movie, this is for the movies you don't plan to watch twice a week.
I think it would be rather nice if they[slashdot editors] could correct deliberate misspellings like this[windoze].
Weather or not you believe that we of slashdot shouldn't intentially misspell words doesn't mean that slash dot moderators have the right (leave alone obligation) to change the things we do on purpose (short of racist remarks, profanity, etc.).
If anything, you should be condeming the poster. I would be furious if a slashdot editor changed anything on my, or anyone elses, post like that.
let us not give people the impression we're 14 year old script kiddies. ..
I didn't think we were in the buisness of trying to look good for potential users. I think most people here just want to have an "intelligent" discussion about things they care about.
What worries me about this is not that microsoft products are not engineered for security, we've all known that for years. It's that microsoft is admitting to it openly.
In terms of marketing, Microsoft knows what they are doing, and they must believe that admitting this wont hurt their sales significantly. Has their customer base become so lowtech that the idea of insecure products doesn't bother them? Or are they simply so powerful that we (the rest of the world) can do nothing to stop them. I'm hoping that this is some kind of horrible mistake on their part, but I doubt it.
I spoke to a microsoft engineer once about.net and he told me that they were working on developing the.net virtual machines for Unix and other non-Windows OSes, but they were specifically planning on not releasing them if.net did well, as that would force developers to use Windows. I suspected as much, but the fact that they would come out and say it worries me.
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Of course the geek would annoy the hell out of his significant other by fawning over their rack-mounted clusters and robots
For some reason, I don't think the winner of this competition is going to have that problem. Why even give away 2 tickets? Isn't that kind of a tease? Or do they think he'll need the extra seating space in the airplane.
I thought all we have to do is engage the gray goo in conversation through telepathy or the meditation and convince it to stop... doesn't anyone watch gargoyles (cartoon)?
After watching someone I know practice fishing for 8 hrs a day, every day, for over 2 months on ultima online, I welcome whatever allows people to seperate themselves from that portion of gaming monotomy. Players will still have to decide weather to fish, cook, blacksmith, or whatever with their characters spare time. At least this way they can go do something productive, like watch TV or do drugs.
I think the application is for online games where pausing is either rude, impossible, or the other team can simply unpause for you (the case in the craft games).
I think this is a great idea. It's not made to play the entire game, just to hold out long enough for the chore/phonecall/whatever to be finished such that you haven't falled AS far behind.
Sure it wont be as good as us. And if the opponent finds out your on the phone, a feign to your ally followed by a strong attack to you will probably work every time (not that that ever fails against humans). But if they don't know, and don't try to exploit it, it'll be fine. In any case you'll be better off then nothing.
Try to work at something like the MIT media lab (an academic program that devotes itself to researching and developing prototypes that demonstrate interesting technology). There are similar institutions around, but they're hard jobs to land, don't pay well, and you often have to work there as a student/prof before you can become a non-school-related employee.
If that doesn't work out, I suggest trying a job in a corporate setting that is simply more interesting. System Administration is not the end of the road. If you want to get into science, get yourself a Ph. D. or Masters (if you don't have it) and then join a big company with a an R&D dept (or a startup working on a future tech idea). There's a big difference between computer science and computer engineering in the corporate world.
That said, academia and government lab work is a good idea too. It's not my cup of tea, and you'll have to learn to live with the fact that 50% of you work will be battling to do your work, but hey, at least it's the hard science and non of the mushy sysadmin stuff.
You can still get an expensive, good looking ring without all the value being put into the diamond.
When I got engaged, I bought my fiancee a platinum ring with a small diamond. It (in both our opinions) is better looking then a large diamond ring, still pretty expensive (~2Gs, not bad for a college kid), and retains most of it's value (it probably had $500 or so wrapped up in the smallish sized diamond, the rest was overhead and platinum, much higher % resale).
You don't have to throw away the tradition of an engagment ring, just look into alternative. I don't know about other rocks, but I'm sure you can do similar things with other rare rocks.
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I live in Washington DC, and there are big tanks with army guys holding heavy assault rifels pointed at the roads as you drive by. I actually think this is kind of cool, except everyone goes the stupid speed limit (like they're gonna hop in their tank and give you a ticket)! On most other highways people average closer to 15 over, so it is a big difference. This adds to traffic around rush hour too, but thankfully I don't need to drive on this road most of the time.
Besides that, and the fact that new years was borring because nobody wanted to go to the mall (place in DC) or to New York City, I haven't felt much of the heat dirctly.
but very rarely do we actually hear of a new product being released that is based on one of the aforementioned technologies
elsewhere:
Still, the technology is at least five years from being commercially available, Williams said.
Are you gonna remember this in 5 years? These technologies are effecting us every day, but they just happen to be the ones we thought were cool 5 years ago, and seem like just another computer component today.
shows these whiney twits how to turn off a computer, unplug the phone and experience REAL LIFE instead of the self-involved online world.
Yeah, totally!
Now that my slashdot break is over, back to my computer related job until I'm ready to go home and play warcraft 3 until I pass out. Maybe this weekend I'll watch The Net again just to make fun of how much it is unlike the real net. . . So this is troll.
After 5-10 viewings, I'm better off having bought the DVD. . .
5-10 viewings of MARS ATTACKS?
Given when I rent a movie, I watch it once, return it, and quite often, never rent that movie again, I think this is a great service? If you like a movie enough to watch it 5-10 times, you buy that movie, this is for the movies you don't plan to watch twice a week.
I'm a big fan of Einstein's book Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. It's easy to read, intellegent, short, and cheap.
Of course, it's only about relativity.
but you could almost ask a job as a slashdot editor
What would I ask said job?
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In a battle of grammer and spelling, there are only losers.
I think it would be rather nice if they[slashdot editors] could correct deliberate misspellings like this[windoze].
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Weather or not you believe that we of slashdot shouldn't intentially misspell words doesn't mean that slash dot moderators have the right (leave alone obligation) to change the things we do on purpose (short of racist remarks, profanity, etc.).
If anything, you should be condeming the poster. I would be furious if a slashdot editor changed anything on my, or anyone elses, post like that.
let us not give people the impression we're 14 year old script kiddies. .
I didn't think we were in the buisness of trying to look good for potential users. I think most people here just want to have an "intelligent" discussion about things they care about.
Just because you don't agree with his views doesn't give you the right to hold hate speech about him.
Yeah, only the constitution gives you that right.
First my X-Box starts trying to log into my tivo and delete the show it recorded on how microsoft smells.
If I try and stop it, it'll log into my new furniture and have it trick me into building myself into a cage.
If that doesn't work it'll have my microwave irratiate my house and my toaster burn all my toast (ok... so that one's not as scary).
Can't wait till my video game playing AI decides to "destory the humanoids." Man I love technology (note the lack of sarcasm tags).
What worries me about this is not that microsoft products are not engineered for security, we've all known that for years. It's that microsoft is admitting to it openly.
.net and he told me that they were working on developing the .net virtual machines for Unix and other non-Windows OSes, but they were specifically planning on not releasing them if .net did well, as that would force developers to use Windows. I suspected as much, but the fact that they would come out and say it worries me.
In terms of marketing, Microsoft knows what they are doing, and they must believe that admitting this wont hurt their sales significantly. Has their customer base become so lowtech that the idea of insecure products doesn't bother them? Or are they simply so powerful that we (the rest of the world) can do nothing to stop them. I'm hoping that this is some kind of horrible mistake on their part, but I doubt it.
I spoke to a microsoft engineer once about
Of course the geek would annoy the hell out of his significant other by fawning over their rack-mounted clusters and robots
For some reason, I don't think the winner of this competition is going to have that problem. Why even give away 2 tickets? Isn't that kind of a tease? Or do they think he'll need the extra seating space in the airplane.
I thought all we have to do is engage the gray goo in conversation through telepathy or the meditation and convince it to stop... doesn't anyone watch gargoyles (cartoon)?
After watching someone I know practice fishing for 8 hrs a day, every day, for over 2 months on ultima online, I welcome whatever allows people to seperate themselves from that portion of gaming monotomy. Players will still have to decide weather to fish, cook, blacksmith, or whatever with their characters spare time. At least this way they can go do something productive, like watch TV or do drugs.
I think the application is for online games where pausing is either rude, impossible, or the other team can simply unpause for you (the case in the craft games).
I think this is a great idea. It's not made to play the entire game, just to hold out long enough for the chore/phonecall/whatever to be finished such that you haven't falled AS far behind.
Sure it wont be as good as us. And if the opponent finds out your on the phone, a feign to your ally followed by a strong attack to you will probably work every time (not that that ever fails against humans). But if they don't know, and don't try to exploit it, it'll be fine. In any case you'll be better off then nothing.
Remind me. What was the Bit?
It was just a bit--the increment that we could get out of computers at the time.
The computer's equivalent to an atom?
Exactly. A zero and a one. A positive or a negative.
I wish I could unread that.
but I would think that the majority of the energy from the explosion would not propel the spaceship but would be emitted in perpendicular directions
You could always direct the explosions using the same design as a rocket engine.
Wouldn't using the resulting hot gasses/radiation from a nuclear reactor provide a smoother, more efficient burn?
It sounds like they're trying to make a practicle design, and leaving a trail of radiation may not be the best solution for that.
I think the best concern you raise is the G force issue, which I'm also curious about. Anyone know any details on that?
I hear those things cost an arm and a leg.
Watch out for Starbucks?
This is the wrong thread for that.
We do not belong.
Try to work at something like the MIT media lab (an academic program that devotes itself to researching and developing prototypes that demonstrate interesting technology). There are similar institutions around, but they're hard jobs to land, don't pay well, and you often have to work there as a student/prof before you can become a non-school-related employee.
If that doesn't work out, I suggest trying a job in a corporate setting that is simply more interesting. System Administration is not the end of the road. If you want to get into science, get yourself a Ph. D. or Masters (if you don't have it) and then join a big company with a an R&D dept (or a startup working on a future tech idea). There's a big difference between computer science and computer engineering in the corporate world.
That said, academia and government lab work is a good idea too. It's not my cup of tea, and you'll have to learn to live with the fact that 50% of you work will be battling to do your work, but hey, at least it's the hard science and non of the mushy sysadmin stuff.
You can still get an expensive, good looking ring without all the value being put into the diamond. When I got engaged, I bought my fiancee a platinum ring with a small diamond. It (in both our opinions) is better looking then a large diamond ring, still pretty expensive (~2Gs, not bad for a college kid), and retains most of it's value (it probably had $500 or so wrapped up in the smallish sized diamond, the rest was overhead and platinum, much higher % resale). You don't have to throw away the tradition of an engagment ring, just look into alternative. I don't know about other rocks, but I'm sure you can do similar things with other rare rocks.