Is the atlas actually on the media or do you have to connect to the website to access it?
Re:Somone get these ppl some free software!
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Its amazing isn't it, yet many people -- including many in the IT industry, *especially* management -- do not grasp the concept that the quality of software is almost always *inversely* proportional to the cost.
"People just don't know how to do the math, and don't feel the need anymore."
People just don't know how program by manually loading up the machine code, and don't feel the need anymore.
I don't feel that routinely running arithmetic algorithms helps with using math any more than routinely writing machine code helps with using computers.
My arithmetic is absolutely *shocking* but I find math fascinating.
So I did formal logic instead. Much easier; only two numbers. I get dizzy trying to do long division in base 10 though.
;)
But I agree in another sense; computers are too often 'en-lame-ing' rather than 'en-able-ing'.
"Why not just grow a spine and keep your brat kids from watching inappropriate material?"
Why not?
Because that is America; your 'brat kids' could well pull out a glock and pump some caps in yo ass.
Re:How else could it get a PG13 rating?
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Same with Aliens vs Predator.
How many kids in its target audience said "but isn't the predator an alien too?"
How else could it get a PG13 rating?
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I mean, that seems like the driving force behind movies these days.
Hence, movies get butchered into an appropriate state for (an American) 13 year old to be allowed to go and see... or something like that (if I understand the meaning of PG13 right).
"The code are the rules in this system. And if everyone knew every rule, there would be no enforcement possible!"
I don't mean to sound rude, but maybe you should learn about something called 'seperating code from data'?
It seems to me, that the data -- configuration details about how to determine whether someone gets audited -- can be kept secret, while the code -- how the configuration is used -- can be opened to public scrutiny.
IE; the souce code of your program should never have contained those secret details in the first place.
This has impact in other areas than security as well; what happens if the client wants to adjust the audit parameters? You have to change the sourcecode and recompile?
"The problem of reliability could ultimately be a flaw in the way business works rather than a technical problem."
Well of course it is; business is *all* about making as fast a profit for your shareholders as possible. And thats really all there is to it.
Putting time into consolidating your existing systems is often seen as pointless; why make existing systems more reliable when you can use that time to build new systems for new clients.
Oh and by the way, when the existing systems go wrong and have to be fixed, you get to charge for it.
Personally, I believe that the way computer systems are built and maintained today is *primitive*.
I can see the way forward and the article gesticulates in that direction, but believe me, its *not* popular with management.
Perhaps the reason that the USA appears to value human life, at least in terms of its own war casualties, is because the USA has so few of them whereas the Chinese have so many?
Some time in 2000 I spidered the CIA world factbook.
There is an entry in that book labelled; "Military manpower - fit for military service"
In the edition which I have, it lists the USA as having 2,056,762 people who are fit for military service. I believe that was supposed to include women.
Thats less than one percent of the population.
Every other listed country can manage at least 10%,IIRC.
After the Sept.11 attacks these figures were no longer listed. Instead today it says "NA"
The USA is the *only* country listed as "NA".
Why does the USA *need* machines like this? Do the math.
I know the parent post was mostly humerous but frankly the idea of a USA with autonomous fighting machines scares the bejebits out of me since lack of manpower seems to be the *only* thing holding them back from a classic Civ endgame.
personally, and I know I'll get flamed for this, but thats ok, personally I believe that if *anyone* carries a firearm and gets shot (at or actually shot), well thats no big deal.
If you carry a gun then so far as I am concerned you are asking to be shot at so don't complain when it happens.
The reverse, converse or perverse of this is/are open to debate.
"Before drug prohibition, people weren't falling victim to to skyrocketing crime rates due to a violent black market. And, we weren't forking over billions to keep non-violent drug offenders in jail."
And the cotton industry was facing serious competition from hemp growers...
The Vulcans of Trek are actually just a devious ploy by the Romulans; the Romulans knew that the Earthlings wouldn't trust them so they invented the Vulcans to infiltrate the fledgling UFP.:-P
I think you'll find that the black-and-white color scheme is actually copied from New Zealand sporting teams (who don't seem to be able to think past variations like 'tall blacks' 'all whites' 'black caps' and of course 'all blacks').
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Is the atlas actually on the media or do you have to connect to the website to access it?
Its amazing isn't it, yet many people -- including many in the IT industry, *especially* management -- do not grasp the concept that the quality of software is almost always *inversely* proportional to the cost.
"People just don't know how to do the math, and don't feel the need anymore."
;)
People just don't know how program by manually loading up the machine code, and don't feel the need anymore.
I don't feel that routinely running arithmetic algorithms helps with using math any more than routinely writing machine code helps with using computers.
My arithmetic is absolutely *shocking* but I find math fascinating.
So I did formal logic instead. Much easier; only two numbers. I get dizzy trying to do long division in base 10 though.
But I agree in another sense; computers are too often 'en-lame-ing' rather than 'en-able-ing'.
I'm sorry, I am ignorant and do not live in a 'gun culture'
:)
"Why not just grow a spine and keep your brat kids from watching inappropriate material?"
Why not?
Because that is America; your 'brat kids' could well pull out a glock and pump some caps in yo ass.
Same with Aliens vs Predator.
How many kids in its target audience said "but isn't the predator an alien too?"
I mean, that seems like the driving force behind movies these days.
Hence, movies get butchered into an appropriate state for (an American) 13 year old to be allowed to go and see... or something like that (if I understand the meaning of PG13 right).
Look what they did to Aliens vs. Predator.
And then theres the tragedy of Riddick.
This will happen to the Doom movie as well.
Oh... So *thats* what it is...
thx
"The code are the rules in this system. And if everyone knew every rule, there would be no enforcement possible!"
I don't mean to sound rude, but maybe you should learn about something called 'seperating code from data'?
It seems to me, that the data -- configuration details about how to determine whether someone gets audited -- can be kept secret, while the code -- how the configuration is used -- can be opened to public scrutiny.
IE; the souce code of your program should never have contained those secret details in the first place.
This has impact in other areas than security as well; what happens if the client wants to adjust the audit parameters? You have to change the sourcecode and recompile?
"The problem of reliability could ultimately be a flaw in the way business works rather than a technical problem."
Well of course it is; business is *all* about making as fast a profit for your shareholders as possible. And thats really all there is to it.
Putting time into consolidating your existing systems is often seen as pointless; why make existing systems more reliable when you can use that time to build new systems for new clients.
Oh and by the way, when the existing systems go wrong and have to be fixed, you get to charge for it.
Personally, I believe that the way computer systems are built and maintained today is *primitive*.
I can see the way forward and the article gesticulates in that direction, but believe me, its *not* popular with management.
Perhaps the reason that the USA appears to value human life, at least in terms of its own war casualties, is because the USA has so few of them whereas the Chinese have so many?
,IIRC.
Some time in 2000 I spidered the CIA world factbook.
There is an entry in that book labelled;
"Military manpower - fit for military service"
In the edition which I have, it lists the USA as having 2,056,762 people who are fit for military service. I believe that was supposed to include women.
Thats less than one percent of the population.
Every other listed country can manage at least 10%
After the Sept.11 attacks these figures were no longer listed. Instead today it says "NA"
The USA is the *only* country listed as "NA".
Why does the USA *need* machines like this?
Do the math.
I know the parent post was mostly humerous but frankly the idea of a USA with autonomous fighting machines scares the bejebits out of me since lack of manpower seems to be the *only* thing holding them back from a classic Civ endgame.
"This system offers a lot more control to the human operator, who I guess will be playing an FPS in real-life."
If the FPS players I've known are anything to go by,
when these guys are playing their 'deathmatch' in your backyard, get the hell out of there.
Seriously. I bet discipline becomes a huge problem with the pilots of these things;
If today, war has become something that we see on TV, virtually an entertainment, imagine when its something played on a game console...
well them too, DUH.
personally, and I know I'll get flamed for this, but thats ok, personally I believe that if *anyone* carries a firearm and gets shot (at or actually shot), well thats no big deal.
If you carry a gun then so far as I am concerned you are asking to be shot at so don't complain when it happens.
The reverse, converse or perverse of this is/are open to debate.
hmmm DoSsing it with a bunch of people with guns and a pile of ammo wearing out its bearings...
"Seems like these could be deployed all over the place then. They'd be useful in Iraq ;-)"
Indeed.
I'd go so far as to configure it to automatically kill *anyone* who fires a gun in Iraq.
Within a week or so, problem solved;
no more gun-wielding terrorists and no more gun-wielding soldiers.
Its a win win situation.
"But oddly enough, abstinence does prevent AIDS."
Absolutely.
What we need is for more and more human beings to just abstain from having (reproductive) sex *completely*
This would solve the number one problem that the Earth has; human beings. Far too many of them.
Yeah and that applies to elves too...
I'll never forget some of the one-liners from Baldurs Gate;
Kagain the Dwarf: "Damn forest, always reminds me of pansy elves"
or my favorite...
Xzar the necromancer: "I wanted infravision like the elves, but tis more than just eating their eyes!"
I am guessing that Mr Rendell is now a somewhat richer governer of Pennsylvania.
Just install cams in the prison cells and showers and you'd have a gay porn site that would make a *fortune*
Really? What are the rents like there on a small apartment?
"Before drug prohibition, people weren't falling victim to to skyrocketing crime rates due to a violent black market. And, we weren't forking over billions to keep non-violent drug offenders in jail."
And the cotton industry was facing serious competition from hemp growers...
"There aren't enough officers to even make attempts at extraditing / hunting down care thiefs"
Shameful!
People who steal care bears should be ruthlessly hunted down and exterminated!
The Vulcans of Trek are actually just a devious ploy by the Romulans; the Romulans knew that the Earthlings wouldn't trust them so they invented the Vulcans to infiltrate the fledgling UFP. :-P
Never *ever* trust a Vulcan.
I think you'll find that the black-and-white color scheme is actually copied from New Zealand sporting teams (who don't seem to be able to think past variations like 'tall blacks' 'all whites' 'black caps' and of course 'all blacks').
"the government as a whole need to set some long term plans"
I believe that this is one of the major flaws in democratic governments; they *cannot* plan very far ahead, maybe 4 years, 8 at the most.