Heh. You forgot the bit about not getting any items at the end, something which is usually true for 35 out of the 40 people in the group, even if you succeed.
I used to play a MUD where the amount of time you played had a measurable effect on your combat abilities. So, I took 3 weeks of my life to max out my character, and THEN realized that, in order to be a true badass, I had to sit around and do nothing for 6 months to a year. End of the road for me. Sheesh.
On a related note I just hit 60 for the second time in WoW putting my total time played at about a month. Since I started in the beta, and have played pretty consistently since then, I don't really view that as excessive. I mean, 1/14th of my time? No big deal. I spent more like 9/14ths of my time at work or asleep...Now THAT is a freaking waste.
The only negative is that I don't watch TV with my wife as much as I used to.
WoW is hosted by AT&T, not Blizzard, and they haven't had a "verified" dupe yet, though there were some supposed dupes that people were using to fleece money form the gullible. Might want to check your facts.
Meh. The servers work fine, it's the load balancing that could use some work. If everyone and their mother wants to be on ONE specific server, there are bound to be problems.
God, Hercules...I'd blotted it out. At what point does it seem a good idea to apply christian ethos to greek mythology, especially when, at the same time, you're destroying the actual story.
Pshh. You don't know much about it. If people don't like a reporters articles, they get threats, nasty phone calls, nasty emails, nasty phone calls to their house, lawsuits, political strongarming, the works. People take it out on your fricking kids. The only reason I bother to own a gun is because my wife's a reporter...It's a hell of a lot more likely that someone comes gunning for her because of something she wrote, than any other home defense scenario.
Reporters are generally pretty thick-skinned about stuff like that; it's a hazard of the trade, when you may have to write something nasty about someone you consider to be a friend. And reading/. should tell you how bad people can be...I get crap all the time from wankers who think that my holding a belief different from theirs means I'm deserving of serious abuse.
Reporters get that same crap all the time, email, snail mail, and phone, and there isn't any "anonymous" when you're a reporter...Your name and picture are right out there, so you'll get people up in your face in the grocery store, especially if you weigh in on anything remotely political. God forbid you write about global warming, abortion, or the death penalty.
I don't know why they pulled it, but if they pulled it because the chick who wrote it got her feelings hurt I'll be blown away. I can't imagine someone that thin skinned and/or naive working at the Post...That's a prestigious newspaper; you have to be a badass, and have years of experience to get a job there. More likely the tone of the discourse horrified the pointy hairs, and they pulled it so there wouldn't be profanity on their website.
It's almost like crazy patents are stifling innovation...Who'da thunk it?
Seriously, as long as you have to pay, and pay, and pay just for the methods to work with x or y type of gene so that you can SEE what your drugs are doing, you're not going to be zipping along at record pace. And, as ridiculous as IP law has become, I can't imagine you'd be comfortable bouncing ideas off your peers at other labs...I mean, the point of that is to see if they have a solution, but if they have a solution, then they'll probably throw a cup of hot coffee in your face and run down to the patent office.
What did they think was going to happen when they started this crap?
Sure, because who will pay to repair the potholes in the information superhighway if we don't have toll internet?
All toll data services are going the way of the dinosaur. Screw the Telcoms, if they start pulling this stuff, I hope their customers leave them in droves.
God, I had to do Scheme/Lisp...I even went to two different schools so I had it TWICE.
I'll tell you one thing though, I never had problems with recursion ever again. Too bad I've never had a use for it in my professional life...Iteration is less elegant, but more efficient.
RIAA: "See the nice juicy carrot, you know you want the carrot" Congress: "Mmmmmm, carrot" RIAA: "Now we want you to pass a law making it legal for our representatives to hunt iPod users, because piracy supports terrorism, and all iPod users are pirates." Congress: "Welll, I don't know...there are a lot of iPods out there..." RIAA: "This is a stick. This is what you get when you don't get the carrot. Wouldn't you rather have the carrot?" Congress: "Well, yea, but we can't just..." RIAA: "BAD CONGRESS! *WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK* BAD LEGISLATORS MAKE THE BABY JESUS CRY! *WHACK* *WHACK*" Congress: "Owwwww...okay, okay"
That's would be Windows, Jim. Almost all of the NT line started with a line of hex on a blue screen. And XP & ME still had memory registers in hex on the bsod.
I work with this guy whose whole job is to maintain a legacy mainframe. He can look at an outqueue, just glance at it, and tell you immediately what jobs failed. He'll call me up if the filesize on the input files is off kilter, and can tell from the most hopelessly obscure error message what the actual problem is.
Thirty years experience will do that to you. Moreover, thirty years experience will do that to any of us. We have built in junk filters because we've seen the amazing bluescreen a zillion times. Our eyes automatically zero in on the actual error, because we've trained them to do it, error after error, for 16-19 years now.
The problem is, there is no way you can teach experience. In a way that's good because if you could, most of us'd be out of a job. But in situations like this, is damn inconvenient.
Frankly, I am more and more coming to this point of view, as far as users are concerned. Let them think the tiny god could become angry with them if they browse the wrong folders, or tamper with the holy configurations.
You can't teach them enough to be fully competent. If you teach them a little, you just make them dangerous, able to screw up on a much more profound level.
Solution? Teach them as little as possible.
This goes against my grain. I love teaching people things. But whenever I show someone how to do something, inevitably, destruction ensues.
How many user problems arise from them trying to install software? Solution: make it so they can't install software. Give them access to system files? Not if you don't want them to throw them away later, out of boredom. Let them configure their own apps? Are you out of your MIND?
I used to work in my university computer lab. When you logged into a computer, it would build your system profile for you, from stored settings (not thin client, mind you, it pulled down everything you needed and wrote it on the local harddrive). Applications were served from central servers. Files were saved in your serverside directory.
When you logged off, it went through and ran a cleanup app that expunged every trace of your presence, checked all the system files, and replaced any that had been modified in ANY WAY. Five minutes later, a perfectly clean machine was ready for another user. The only real problem we had with it was that it was rough as hell on the harddrive, so the replacement rate was pretty high.
Every place I've worked since then, I've longed for that level of control. No viruses, no wierd errors. Worst case scenario, you replace the harddrive and run a build script.
I think the biggest issue anyone could have with Linux is that it comes with too much stuff by default.
For a mission critical app with a zillion dollars worth of hardware riding on it, I might be more comfortable putting my faith in a much tighter, more easy to audit OS. Not that there aren't Linuxes like that, but they're usually not supported by the big Linux support companies, and that is the second reason why I might go with IBM or SUN, for example.
I assume that means they must be using Solaris or AIX or BSD or some other less..."flawed" operating system. I sure as hell hope they're not running windows.
Not really sure what Symantec could add to open source...Maybe put some work into an antivirus that works on linux natively, which would be closed source, and cost 65 dollars, and sit on the shelves for a year because no one who runs linux would buy a symantec product to run on it.
Defintely a testament to their marketing department though, that their name is "associated" with security to the degree that the government just randomly gives them grants.
This is an exellent point. Why is a submission by some random geek better than a submission by someone who is involved? I'm not saying blatant ads on the front page, but if someone releases a product and wants geek exposure, they should be allowed to submit.
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Heh. When WoW cuts into THAT, I'll know I'm addicted.
Heh. You forgot the bit about not getting any items at the end, something which is usually true for 35 out of the 40 people in the group, even if you succeed.
I used to play a MUD where the amount of time you played had a measurable effect on your combat abilities. So, I took 3 weeks of my life to max out my character, and THEN realized that, in order to be a true badass, I had to sit around and do nothing for 6 months to a year. End of the road for me. Sheesh.
On a related note I just hit 60 for the second time in WoW putting my total time played at about a month. Since I started in the beta, and have played pretty consistently since then, I don't really view that as excessive. I mean, 1/14th of my time? No big deal. I spent more like 9/14ths of my time at work or asleep...Now THAT is a freaking waste.
The only negative is that I don't watch TV with my wife as much as I used to.
WoW is hosted by AT&T, not Blizzard, and they haven't had a "verified" dupe yet, though there were some supposed dupes that people were using to fleece money form the gullible. Might want to check your facts.
Meh. The servers work fine, it's the load balancing that could use some work. If everyone and their mother wants to be on ONE specific server, there are bound to be problems.
God, Hercules...I'd blotted it out. At what point does it seem a good idea to apply christian ethos to greek mythology, especially when, at the same time, you're destroying the actual story.
Pshh. You don't know much about it. If people don't like a reporters articles, they get threats, nasty phone calls, nasty emails, nasty phone calls to their house, lawsuits, political strongarming, the works. People take it out on your fricking kids. The only reason I bother to own a gun is because my wife's a reporter...It's a hell of a lot more likely that someone comes gunning for her because of something she wrote, than any other home defense scenario.
/. should tell you how bad people can be...I get crap all the time from wankers who think that my holding a belief different from theirs means I'm deserving of serious abuse.
Reporters are generally pretty thick-skinned about stuff like that; it's a hazard of the trade, when you may have to write something nasty about someone you consider to be a friend. And reading
Reporters get that same crap all the time, email, snail mail, and phone, and there isn't any "anonymous" when you're a reporter...Your name and picture are right out there, so you'll get people up in your face in the grocery store, especially if you weigh in on anything remotely political. God forbid you write about global warming, abortion, or the death penalty.
I don't know why they pulled it, but if they pulled it because the chick who wrote it got her feelings hurt I'll be blown away. I can't imagine someone that thin skinned and/or naive working at the Post...That's a prestigious newspaper; you have to be a badass, and have years of experience to get a job there. More likely the tone of the discourse horrified the pointy hairs, and they pulled it so there wouldn't be profanity on their website.
It's almost like crazy patents are stifling innovation...Who'da thunk it?
Seriously, as long as you have to pay, and pay, and pay just for the methods to work with x or y type of gene so that you can SEE what your drugs are doing, you're not going to be zipping along at record pace. And, as ridiculous as IP law has become, I can't imagine you'd be comfortable bouncing ideas off your peers at other labs...I mean, the point of that is to see if they have a solution, but if they have a solution, then they'll probably throw a cup of hot coffee in your face and run down to the patent office.
What did they think was going to happen when they started this crap?
Sure, because who will pay to repair the potholes in the information superhighway if we don't have toll internet?
All toll data services are going the way of the dinosaur. Screw the Telcoms, if they start pulling this stuff, I hope their customers leave them in droves.
That would be the best Ornithology club name ever.
God, I had to do Scheme/Lisp...I even went to two different schools so I had it TWICE.
I'll tell you one thing though, I never had problems with recursion ever again. Too bad I've never had a use for it in my professional life...Iteration is less elegant, but more efficient.
Thanks for sharing. Your opinion matters...Just not to me.
It's 'cause you searched for "pornography" instead of "Teenaged Tit Freaks"...jeez, man, that's like a basic internet skill.
Carrot and the Stick.
RIAA: "See the nice juicy carrot, you know you want the carrot"
Congress: "Mmmmmm, carrot"
RIAA: "Now we want you to pass a law making it legal for our representatives to hunt iPod users, because piracy supports terrorism, and all iPod users are pirates."
Congress: "Welll, I don't know...there are a lot of iPods out there..."
RIAA: "This is a stick. This is what you get when you don't get the carrot. Wouldn't you rather have the carrot?"
Congress: "Well, yea, but we can't just..."
RIAA: "BAD CONGRESS! *WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK* BAD LEGISLATORS MAKE THE BABY JESUS CRY! *WHACK* *WHACK*"
Congress: "Owwwww...okay, okay"
Don't get high and mighty about it. This drug is more useful to rapists than it is to victims. Welcome to Roofie mark II.
That's would be Windows, Jim. Almost all of the NT line started with a line of hex on a blue screen. And XP & ME still had memory registers in hex on the bsod.
I work with this guy whose whole job is to maintain a legacy mainframe. He can look at an outqueue, just glance at it, and tell you immediately what jobs failed. He'll call me up if the filesize on the input files is off kilter, and can tell from the most hopelessly obscure error message what the actual problem is.
Thirty years experience will do that to you. Moreover, thirty years experience will do that to any of us. We have built in junk filters because we've seen the amazing bluescreen a zillion times. Our eyes automatically zero in on the actual error, because we've trained them to do it, error after error, for 16-19 years now.
The problem is, there is no way you can teach experience. In a way that's good because if you could, most of us'd be out of a job. But in situations like this, is damn inconvenient.
Frankly, I am more and more coming to this point of view, as far as users are concerned. Let them think the tiny god could become angry with them if they browse the wrong folders, or tamper with the holy configurations.
You can't teach them enough to be fully competent. If you teach them a little, you just make them dangerous, able to screw up on a much more profound level.
Solution? Teach them as little as possible.
This goes against my grain. I love teaching people things. But whenever I show someone how to do something, inevitably, destruction ensues.
How many user problems arise from them trying to install software? Solution: make it so they can't install software. Give them access to system files? Not if you don't want them to throw them away later, out of boredom. Let them configure their own apps? Are you out of your MIND?
I used to work in my university computer lab. When you logged into a computer, it would build your system profile for you, from stored settings (not thin client, mind you, it pulled down everything you needed and wrote it on the local harddrive). Applications were served from central servers. Files were saved in your serverside directory.
When you logged off, it went through and ran a cleanup app that expunged every trace of your presence, checked all the system files, and replaced any that had been modified in ANY WAY. Five minutes later, a perfectly clean machine was ready for another user. The only real problem we had with it was that it was rough as hell on the harddrive, so the replacement rate was pretty high.
Every place I've worked since then, I've longed for that level of control. No viruses, no wierd errors. Worst case scenario, you replace the harddrive and run a build script.
Mmmm, Solaris 8, my bread and butter.
There is a lot to be said for slow and steady, though I like the layout of Linux better.
I think the biggest issue anyone could have with Linux is that it comes with too much stuff by default.
For a mission critical app with a zillion dollars worth of hardware riding on it, I might be more comfortable putting my faith in a much tighter, more easy to audit OS. Not that there aren't Linuxes like that, but they're usually not supported by the big Linux support companies, and that is the second reason why I might go with IBM or SUN, for example.
I assume that means they must be using Solaris or AIX or BSD or some other less..."flawed" operating system. I sure as hell hope they're not running windows.
Too bad, because I saw it, and it's so effing depressing it would have swept the awards. Hands down, no problem.
Not a blow? Of course not! It is the culmination of DRM technology! Now they have a DVD that is perfectly secure!
Many heads will rest easy, tonight.
And twice as bloated.
Not really sure what Symantec could add to open source...Maybe put some work into an antivirus that works on linux natively, which would be closed source, and cost 65 dollars, and sit on the shelves for a year because no one who runs linux would buy a symantec product to run on it.
Defintely a testament to their marketing department though, that their name is "associated" with security to the degree that the government just randomly gives them grants.
This is an exellent point. Why is a submission by some random geek better than a submission by someone who is involved? I'm not saying blatant ads on the front page, but if someone releases a product and wants geek exposure, they should be allowed to submit.