The first image I had was how the Library of Congress has 530 miles of shelving...largely devoted to 19th century crop statistics and similarly riveting reading. Thank GOD that isn't all indexed by Google...yet.
No, what he means is game/players/ have already abandoned the platform...so, quite literally, no one will use it to capacity because no one will be using it/at all/.
Would be to ignore the NIC, but do a blind test of a FPS on identical equipment, always identify the machine being used by the losing party as the old-and-busted hardware, then watch these ass-jockey "gamerz" get into a circle-jerk agreeing with it every time. Then repeat the test but actually introduce the infinitesimal latency these guys can supposedly detect...but report it as only on the winning machine and enjoy watching the same circle-jerk.
Yes, you will find when you go to areas of equivalent standards of living in less developed countries, even a relatively high U.S. income will not be considered anything particularly spectacular...behind the gates, that is.
I setup a personal VPN server at home, then tried tunneling X over it via an SSH connection to see how feasible it was to browse from home while at work. Nifty, except I also knew my office had stealthed VNCs installed on all the machines, thereby rendering any such circumvention completely moot. Fine for your personal machines when you're worried about your provider/government. Not so much when you're worried about what you do on your employer's machines or any machine you don't have absolute control over for that matter.
My company, which CERTAINLY comes under this, last week ordered everyone to pull all their emails prior to 12/1/06 off the servers. You know, we're, uhm, saving space. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Unfortunately, our universities are, for all reasonable intents, owned by industry or at least the major shareholders thereof that sit on the boards and dump piles of cash into buildings to slap their names on. Public universities are just as beholden to this as their private counterparts. Because we've let dollar-democracy rule academia instead of actual democracy, we've sold out to the highest bidders who want instantaneous ROI.
I mean, this really says it all. Golly, I wonder what "Intro to Computers" will look like THERE.
Oh no, don't misunderstand me. The absolute most terrifying portion of your documentary was the shoddy execution of the manual process. That absolutely put the fear of God in me, not least because it was nearly impossible to distinguish between malice and incompetence and a properly functioning system should be able to detect both, distinguish between the two and correct for either. Our current system can detect both, but it can't make the distinction, doesn't reliably correct for it, and most frighteningly, doesn't even enforce the need to care.
I manage critical applications (of the 'people can die if the system breaks down' variety) and the key is the the "high-tech" bits are just PART of the system--and the most untrusted part of them to boot. When I saw this application, my first thought was "Good lord, this is FAR too vertical for the intended purpose." Trusting the same thing to collect, record, count, aggregate and report the same numbers? Crazy. In a proper system, each step of that process should be independently capable of validating the next, interchangeable with another component of arbitrary source, whether it is a collection of people, machines or combination of the above. If they cannot agree, the process should start again from the beginning until they DO. That last bit is the most glaringly obvious problem in our system. When we have total disagreement, all it takes is a Secretary of State to sign off that we officially don't care. In what I do, it would be akin to patient coming in and saying they have asthma, the doctor writing a scrip for Albuterol, the computer registering Preparation-H, the pharmacist dispensing Aspirin and the nurse administering Heroin, then everyone agreeing that the patient got the Albuterol and no one having the means to prove otherwise...then replacing the computer and saying everything's all better now, pity the patient is dead.
I'm glad to see you're going in the direction of correcting the system, not just the unnecessarily fancy blinkenlights.
It is truly inspiring, admirable work you are doing.
In the Texas documents contained in ess2-44336.pdf, there's plenty of condemnation of all the potential issues that are generally raised, which is somewhat reassuring. Sure, one could rip apart all the datafiles and executables looking for weaknesses and outright backdoors, but if there is an indelible physical audit trail, as repeatedly demanded in Texas, there should be absolutely no need to bother looking inside the "black box" as it either matches or it doesn't and if it doesn't, paper trumps bits.
Rather than tear apart systems to determine if they're rigged, we should simply assume that every damned one of them IS rigged and insist on a physical process that can detect it and recover. That's a hell of a lot easier to do than a constant code-review, open-source or not.
Frankly, I'd be MORE comfortable if all the datafiles were in unencrypted plain-text that any moron off the street could modify because that would mean the rest of the process couldn't trust those numbers alone and no one in their right mind with an IQ larger than their shoe size would think otherwise.
How about the machine counts the paper ballot you filled out and drops it in a bin? That's what my precinct uses and most people puzzled over the sight of the one, single touch-screen machine, barely giving it notice, much less use.
The client works on Mac, Linux and Windows, can be installed from and runs in a web browser, you need only enough bandwidth as a VNC connection and if your connection is interrupted for whatever reason, it will save your session state without borking whatever application you happened to be working in.
I hate that term. They might as well say "the poor, unwashed, unfashionable welfare slag" model. Certainly deliberate marketing ploy... however, despite being labeled an "Entry-Level Phone" I just got a Moto L2. No camera, no PDA, just a goddamned phone with some decent messaging features--but it's a Quad-Band GSM "World Phone," unlike damn-near every other f'ing phone sold in the U.S. So, while all my other friends with their $500 ham-sandwich sized Media/PDA phones crippled to [C|T]DMA are left silent while overseas, I just power my little "entry-level" phone up at the gate anywhere in the world while they fumble with their ghetto-ass only-works-in-North-America busted up bling.
I can't wait to see the report tailored for G4, where the small, troll-like species is the intellectually superior master race that breeds pretty people in vats purely for sexual pleasure, spare parts and delicious brightly-colored food cubes.
I fly out of Washington National and Dulles pretty regularly. I have yet to feel even 1/10th as inconvenienced by the security protocols as at London Heathrow or Rome Fiumicino 25 years ago.
The whole industry? How about ANY industry?
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ALL professions carry this risk depending on the personal circumstances. If you are a person who lets your job consume your life, it doesn't matter if you're a short order cook, a Wall Street banker, a Head of State or anything in between.
I puzzled on the Tesco=WalMart as well. Tesco is big, but it is a pretty distinctly different experience from WalMart. For one, they're not all exactly-the-goddamned-same. Hell, some feel like normal department stores.
Considering a circumnavigation of the equator is only 25k miles and London->Los Angeles is only about 5500 miles, it would take a LAX-LHR round-trip every two weeks without fail for six years to truly earn all that in real air miles. Obviously dude got most of that mileage by racking up credit-card miles as no sane person, regardless of business requirement, would keep up a travel schedule that ridiculous for that long without a break.
A) You broke into a system and made it say naughty things five years ago. B) You broke into a system and clearly could have stolen a million dollars, but didn't, fifteen years ago. C) You broke into a system and DID steal a million dollars, thirty years ago.
A) You're 25? Oh, the marketing guys are going to love having you in tech support. 35? I wouldn't put you in the mailroom, you childish twit. B) Once the FBI confirms your prints and finishes chatting with everyone you've known since 1980, let's do lunch. We might have a corner office with your name on it...in about six months. C) Security, please show this man the door and never let him back in.
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The first image I had was how the Library of Congress has 530 miles of shelving...largely devoted to 19th century crop statistics and similarly riveting reading. Thank GOD that isn't all indexed by Google...yet.
No, what he means is game /players/ have already abandoned the platform...so, quite literally, no one will use it to capacity because no one will be using it /at all/.
Yeah, that'd look like shit, even at ten feet.
...at, say, two feet.
How about we shoot for effectively 17" XGA
Would be to ignore the NIC, but do a blind test of a FPS on identical equipment, always identify the machine being used by the losing party as the old-and-busted hardware, then watch these ass-jockey "gamerz" get into a circle-jerk agreeing with it every time. Then repeat the test but actually introduce the infinitesimal latency these guys can supposedly detect...but report it as only on the winning machine and enjoy watching the same circle-jerk.
Yes, you will find when you go to areas of equivalent standards of living in less developed countries, even a relatively high U.S. income will not be considered anything particularly spectacular...behind the gates, that is.
How to tell if you're a paranoid loony. Yes, Lauren, the government is /very/ interested in what you talk about when you're sitting on the loo.
Honestly...
I setup a personal VPN server at home, then tried tunneling X over it via an SSH connection to see how feasible it was to browse from home while at work. Nifty, except I also knew my office had stealthed VNCs installed on all the machines, thereby rendering any such circumvention completely moot. Fine for your personal machines when you're worried about your provider/government. Not so much when you're worried about what you do on your employer's machines or any machine you don't have absolute control over for that matter.
My company, which CERTAINLY comes under this, last week ordered everyone to pull all their emails prior to 12/1/06 off the servers. You know, we're, uhm, saving space. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
http://www.business-sites.philips.com/3dsolutions/ about/Index.html ...after checking the name of his logo, "philips3d.jpg."
and seeing a "GoDaddy" proxied registration.
Come on, guys. Even the most cursory inspection indicates "Fountain Consulting" is phoney-baloney.
Carlin/Black '08
They'd turn this place around... and smack the shit out of it.
Unfortunately, our universities are, for all reasonable intents, owned by industry or at least the major shareholders thereof that sit on the boards and dump piles of cash into buildings to slap their names on. Public universities are just as beholden to this as their private counterparts. Because we've let dollar-democracy rule academia instead of actual democracy, we've sold out to the highest bidders who want instantaneous ROI.
I mean, this really says it all. Golly, I wonder what "Intro to Computers" will look like THERE.
Alphaville, here we come...
Oh no, don't misunderstand me. The absolute most terrifying portion of your documentary was the shoddy execution of the manual process. That absolutely put the fear of God in me, not least because it was nearly impossible to distinguish between malice and incompetence and a properly functioning system should be able to detect both, distinguish between the two and correct for either. Our current system can detect both, but it can't make the distinction, doesn't reliably correct for it, and most frighteningly, doesn't even enforce the need to care.
I manage critical applications (of the 'people can die if the system breaks down' variety) and the key is the the "high-tech" bits are just PART of the system--and the most untrusted part of them to boot. When I saw this application, my first thought was "Good lord, this is FAR too vertical for the intended purpose." Trusting the same thing to collect, record, count, aggregate and report the same numbers? Crazy. In a proper system, each step of that process should be independently capable of validating the next, interchangeable with another component of arbitrary source, whether it is a collection of people, machines or combination of the above. If they cannot agree, the process should start again from the beginning until they DO. That last bit is the most glaringly obvious problem in our system. When we have total disagreement, all it takes is a Secretary of State to sign off that we officially don't care. In what I do, it would be akin to patient coming in and saying they have asthma, the doctor writing a scrip for Albuterol, the computer registering Preparation-H, the pharmacist dispensing Aspirin and the nurse administering Heroin, then everyone agreeing that the patient got the Albuterol and no one having the means to prove otherwise...then replacing the computer and saying everything's all better now, pity the patient is dead.
I'm glad to see you're going in the direction of correcting the system, not just the unnecessarily fancy blinkenlights.
It is truly inspiring, admirable work you are doing.
In the Texas documents contained in ess2-44336.pdf, there's plenty of condemnation of all the potential issues that are generally raised, which is somewhat reassuring. Sure, one could rip apart all the datafiles and executables looking for weaknesses and outright backdoors, but if there is an indelible physical audit trail, as repeatedly demanded in Texas, there should be absolutely no need to bother looking inside the "black box" as it either matches or it doesn't and if it doesn't, paper trumps bits.
Rather than tear apart systems to determine if they're rigged, we should simply assume that every damned one of them IS rigged and insist on a physical process that can detect it and recover. That's a hell of a lot easier to do than a constant code-review, open-source or not.
Frankly, I'd be MORE comfortable if all the datafiles were in unencrypted plain-text that any moron off the street could modify because that would mean the rest of the process couldn't trust those numbers alone and no one in their right mind with an IQ larger than their shoe size would think otherwise.
How about the machine counts the paper ballot you filled out and drops it in a bin? That's what my precinct uses and most people puzzled over the sight of the one, single touch-screen machine, barely giving it notice, much less use.
Citrix.
The client works on Mac, Linux and Windows, can be installed from and runs in a web browser, you need only enough bandwidth as a VNC connection and if your connection is interrupted for whatever reason, it will save your session state without borking whatever application you happened to be working in.
I hate that term. They might as well say "the poor, unwashed, unfashionable welfare slag" model. Certainly deliberate marketing ploy... however, despite being labeled an "Entry-Level Phone" I just got a Moto L2. No camera, no PDA, just a goddamned phone with some decent messaging features--but it's a Quad-Band GSM "World Phone," unlike damn-near every other f'ing phone sold in the U.S. So, while all my other friends with their $500 ham-sandwich sized Media/PDA phones crippled to [C|T]DMA are left silent while overseas, I just power my little "entry-level" phone up at the gate anywhere in the world while they fumble with their ghetto-ass only-works-in-North-America busted up bling.
Oh...and it was free.
I can't wait to see the report tailored for G4, where the small, troll-like species is the intellectually superior master race that breeds pretty people in vats purely for sexual pleasure, spare parts and delicious brightly-colored food cubes.
No, you should realize that your privacy is not truly being invaded to any significant degree more than it already was decades ago.
I fly out of Washington National and Dulles pretty regularly. I have yet to feel even 1/10th as inconvenienced by the security protocols as at London Heathrow or Rome Fiumicino 25 years ago.
ALL professions carry this risk depending on the personal circumstances. If you are a person who lets your job consume your life, it doesn't matter if you're a short order cook, a Wall Street banker, a Head of State or anything in between.
Publishers can both opt-in and opt-out.
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http://books.google.com/googlebooks/publisher_lib
I puzzled on the Tesco=WalMart as well. Tesco is big, but it is a pretty distinctly different experience from WalMart. For one, they're not all exactly-the-goddamned-same. Hell, some feel like normal department stores.
2M miles? 40 trips? US->UK? WTF?
Considering a circumnavigation of the equator is only 25k miles and London->Los Angeles is only about 5500 miles, it would take a LAX-LHR round-trip every two weeks without fail for six years to truly earn all that in real air miles. Obviously dude got most of that mileage by racking up credit-card miles as no sane person, regardless of business requirement, would keep up a travel schedule that ridiculous for that long without a break.
A) You broke into a system and made it say naughty things five years ago.
B) You broke into a system and clearly could have stolen a million dollars, but didn't, fifteen years ago.
C) You broke into a system and DID steal a million dollars, thirty years ago.
A) You're 25? Oh, the marketing guys are going to love having you in tech support. 35? I wouldn't put you in the mailroom, you childish twit.
B) Once the FBI confirms your prints and finishes chatting with everyone you've known since 1980, let's do lunch. We might have a corner office with your name on it...in about six months.
C) Security, please show this man the door and never let him back in.
Even THIS is more scientific than "intelligent design"
...I mean, come on, the friggen VATICAN finds "intelligent design" not only an insult to science, but an insult to GOD.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_D._Unwin
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.p