It's crowded, smelly, and slow. You wait for it exposed to the elements. It runs on it's own schedule, not yours. It takes you where it wants to go, leaving you to walk the rest of the way (which can be several kilometers)
I can't support your reasoning, but I certainly would like to believe I'd act the same way.
I wouldn't want my son to die because a cult leader was cruicified 2000 years ago. On the other hand, I do believe that if you're unwilling to defend a society whose values you agree with, and whose values provide you with a fairly safe environment, you are unworthy of that society's support.
In other words, if you're not willing to take up arms to protect your country, get out. I just wish the draft started at around 25 so there would be a hope that the draftees understood the issues and could decide for themselves whether to serve or dodge.
Actually, I'm currently researching 2nd-hand (maybe even new) small PBXs & associated phones. If you burn an extension for your front, rear, & garage door remote controls, you're still left with five valid internal lines to which you can connect a phone. You also get paging, instead of yelling throughout the house.
Once you have that, you just make sure you assign 4-digit extensions and don't mention what they are on your outgoing message (also disable the 0 for general mailbox option). Voila - anyone who doesn't know a valid extension can't get through. I doubt this will be common enough anytime soon that you'll get wardialing telemarketers trying all the possible 2-5 digit extensions in hopes of a hit.
I'm sure once VoIP is even more common, everybody and his brother will be putting out a package for your PC to do the same thing.
Sometimes the easiest solution is the least obvious...
Do we really care if a politician wins by x number of votes? Knowing he got 10% more would be enough, and certainly you could divide the weight of his ballot pile by the weight of the individual ballots to get a good approximation.
Makes recounts damn fast, too - just switch scales and make sure the results match.
I'd have no problem if the worm was reactive and not proactive.
In other words, the author puts the worm on his machine and waits to be attacked... his good worm detects an intrusion attempt by the bad worm, and spreads to the attacking machine - both disabling the bad worm and installing itself in place, waiting for another intrusion attempt.
In this way, you don't get madly multiplying traffic - you get a response to every attack.
As far as I'm concerned, anybody who's computer tries to subvert mine is fair game for an armed response.
Well, as a Canadian who lives in Toronto (one of the country's largest population centres), I haven't heard ANYONE say 'aboot', EVER, except when quoting South Park. 'Eh?' plenty of times, and I even catch myself saying it once in a while, but 'aboot' never. Perhaps the Newfies say it that way, but I'd want a Newfie to confirm it.
Have you ever travelled in Canada and heard 'aboot' yourself, or had someone you know directly (not a friend-of-a-friend) tell you they heard it?
Damn. I blame my 3rd grade teacher who fought against my parents wishes and wouldn't give spelling tests. He had a kind of 'hippie' attitude about it that was common among the young teachers of the era.
I used to be an absolutely horrid speller, but 23 years later I'm only suffering the occasional lapse.
Stupid hippies./I blame my poor handwriting on computers
I don't take so much as an asprin unless I have to - on general principal.
However, I still have all the recommended vaccines, I still get shots as appropriate when going to other countries, and I have accepted morphine on one occasion when in a great deal of pain (though I only let the nurse inject half what the doc authorized).
I don't think it's a good idea to get used to using drugs to control every little problem, so I make sure I only use them when I NEED them.
If anything, Asimov's estate (probably the man himself, since I believe he was still alive at the time) should have complained about USR naming their company after his copyrighted works.
Re:Applauded? maybe but you still go to jail.
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Arrested, but not always convicted. Juries can be smarter than laws.
Perhaps the project managers in the industry tend to have the same issues as the coders... ie, being more involved in the idea of the project and what is 'cool' than in any sort of proper business practice.
It would be interesting to take an IT manager from a non-gaming firm known for getting projects done on time and drop them into a gaming firm and see what happens. Of course, if the root cause is insufficient budgets compensated for by abusing the labour pool, the results would end up being the same.
I'm sure a statistician could calculate the odds - and tell you that for every x planets you find, you've missed y.
Luckily, I don't think the astronomers are looking one star at a time for only an instant - it's probably a computer comparing a helluvalot of observations of a large area and looking for variations in the illumination of any stars in that area. You're still limited by the plane of the system, but in terms of transit, you're limited only to planets with an orbital period less than or equal to your observation period.
Which is why (some) Windows users learned to hide behind NAT or disable their Messenger service - because some spammers moved on from email to direct popups on the desktop.
Really, if someone calls you on your business practices because they're considered nasty... is the best reaction to threaten them?
To be fair, I don't think MS could win this particular battle - almost any business would be willing to deep discount (or offer for free) the first wave of their product to land a long term contract...
Actually, making a huge fluffy-cloud shaped dirigible that could dispense lightning would certainly be a FUNNY way to maim/kill your foes... I'd be more impressed if it could also store large amounts of locust, frogs, and hail for droppage as well.
What we really need to build, though, is a giant floating marble thrown with a giant anamatronic Zeus to throw thunderbolts. Much better.
HSVT last posted a news item on their site regarding a "tetanizing beam weapon" in 2000.
It uses two lasers (not one) to create two ionized pathways through air which are then used to conduct tuned AC; ou choose the power level and frequency which can result in anything from 'lock up skeletal muscles' through 'create excruciating pain' to 'instant death'.
Of course, they have yet to shrink it down to a man-portable size, which is why there haven't been any more press releases.
It's really bugging me that I can't remember ANY of the details, but I recall reading about a revolutionary new polymer with molecules that lined up to give a thin sheet the same effective radiation blocking ability as a much thicker sheet of lead.
Obviously, this would be a major boon to space travel where weight vs radiation shielding tradeoffs are (reluctantly) made at every step.
If anyone out there knows what the hell I'm talking about and has a link, PLEASE post it and preserve my sanity...
Don't animators already insert single-frame porn, etc into these things?
Can you imagine how quickly the client software would get hacked, and how crappy the movie resulting from nothing but single-frame porn shots would be, especially to photosensitive epileptics?
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I've used public transit.
It's crowded, smelly, and slow.
You wait for it exposed to the elements.
It runs on it's own schedule, not yours.
It takes you where it wants to go, leaving you to walk the rest of the way (which can be several kilometers)
In short, public transit can't compete with cars.
I can't support your reasoning, but I certainly would like to believe I'd act the same way.
I wouldn't want my son to die because a cult leader was cruicified 2000 years ago. On the other hand, I do believe that if you're unwilling to defend a society whose values you agree with, and whose values provide you with a fairly safe environment, you are unworthy of that society's support.
In other words, if you're not willing to take up arms to protect your country, get out. I just wish the draft started at around 25 so there would be a hope that the draftees understood the issues and could decide for themselves whether to serve or dodge.
Actually, I'm currently researching 2nd-hand (maybe even new) small PBXs & associated phones. If you burn an extension for your front, rear, & garage door remote controls, you're still left with five valid internal lines to which you can connect a phone. You also get paging, instead of yelling throughout the house.
Once you have that, you just make sure you assign 4-digit extensions and don't mention what they are on your outgoing message (also disable the 0 for general mailbox option). Voila - anyone who doesn't know a valid extension can't get through. I doubt this will be common enough anytime soon that you'll get wardialing telemarketers trying all the possible 2-5 digit extensions in hopes of a hit.
I'm sure once VoIP is even more common, everybody and his brother will be putting out a package for your PC to do the same thing.
Sometimes the easiest solution is the least obvious...
Do we really care if a politician wins by x number of votes? Knowing he got 10% more would be enough, and certainly you could divide the weight of his ballot pile by the weight of the individual ballots to get a good approximation.
Makes recounts damn fast, too - just switch scales and make sure the results match.
I'd have no problem if the worm was reactive and not proactive.
In other words, the author puts the worm on his machine and waits to be attacked... his good worm detects an intrusion attempt by the bad worm, and spreads to the attacking machine - both disabling the bad worm and installing itself in place, waiting for another intrusion attempt.
In this way, you don't get madly multiplying traffic - you get a response to every attack.
As far as I'm concerned, anybody who's computer tries to subvert mine is fair game for an armed response.
I am surprised. No matter how much you try, you can't avoid learning something new once in a while.
Well, as a Canadian who lives in Toronto (one of the country's largest population centres), I haven't heard ANYONE say 'aboot', EVER, except when quoting South Park. 'Eh?' plenty of times, and I even catch myself saying it once in a while, but 'aboot' never. Perhaps the Newfies say it that way, but I'd want a Newfie to confirm it. Have you ever travelled in Canada and heard 'aboot' yourself, or had someone you know directly (not a friend-of-a-friend) tell you they heard it?
I assume South Park picked up 'aboot' from somewhere, but I'll be damned if I know where.
It sounds more like it comes from a Scottish accent than anything else.
Damn. I blame my 3rd grade teacher who fought against my parents wishes and wouldn't give spelling tests. He had a kind of 'hippie' attitude about it that was common among the young teachers of the era.
/I blame my poor handwriting on computers
I used to be an absolutely horrid speller, but 23 years later I'm only suffering the occasional lapse.
Stupid hippies.
I don't take so much as an asprin unless I have to - on general principal. However, I still have all the recommended vaccines, I still get shots as appropriate when going to other countries, and I have accepted morphine on one occasion when in a great deal of pain (though I only let the nurse inject half what the doc authorized). I don't think it's a good idea to get used to using drugs to control every little problem, so I make sure I only use them when I NEED them.
If anything, Asimov's estate (probably the man himself, since I believe he was still alive at the time) should have complained about USR naming their company after his copyrighted works.
Arrested, but not always convicted. Juries can be smarter than laws.
Con artists target the greedy and gulible... They target you and try to convince you that you can scam them.
Conning a con artist is NOT equivalent - you're scamming a person who deliberately targeted you in hopes of stealing from you.
As far as I'm concerned, conning a con artist is like beating the crap out of someone who tries to mug you - something that should be applauded.
Perhaps the project managers in the industry tend to have the same issues as the coders... ie, being more involved in the idea of the project and what is 'cool' than in any sort of proper business practice.
It would be interesting to take an IT manager from a non-gaming firm known for getting projects done on time and drop them into a gaming firm and see what happens. Of course, if the root cause is insufficient budgets compensated for by abusing the labour pool, the results would end up being the same.
I made that decision a couple of movies ago.
I also won't be seeing another over-hyped piece of crap labelled, "Episode III".
I'm sure a statistician could calculate the odds - and tell you that for every x planets you find, you've missed y.
Luckily, I don't think the astronomers are looking one star at a time for only an instant - it's probably a computer comparing a helluvalot of observations of a large area and looking for variations in the illumination of any stars in that area. You're still limited by the plane of the system, but in terms of transit, you're limited only to planets with an orbital period less than or equal to your observation period.
Which is why (some) Windows users learned to hide behind NAT or disable their Messenger service - because some spammers moved on from email to direct popups on the desktop.
The tar pits aren't fully exploited because it's much harder to extract oil from them than to buy it from the Arabs, Russians, South Americans, etc...
Hey, dumbass - if someone is trying to do you harm, using a device designed solely to take their life IS self defence.
Really, if someone calls you on your business practices because they're considered nasty... is the best reaction to threaten them?
To be fair, I don't think MS could win this particular battle - almost any business would be willing to deep discount (or offer for free) the first wave of their product to land a long term contract...
Actually, making a huge fluffy-cloud shaped dirigible that could dispense lightning would certainly be a FUNNY way to maim/kill your foes... I'd be more impressed if it could also store large amounts of locust, frogs, and hail for droppage as well.
What we really need to build, though, is a giant floating marble thrown with a giant anamatronic Zeus to throw thunderbolts. Much better.
HSVT last posted a news item on their site regarding a "tetanizing beam weapon" in 2000.
It uses two lasers (not one) to create two ionized pathways through air which are then used to conduct tuned AC; ou choose the power level and frequency which can result in anything from 'lock up skeletal muscles' through 'create excruciating pain' to 'instant death'.
Of course, they have yet to shrink it down to a man-portable size, which is why there haven't been any more press releases.
Sunuvabitch, but where I couldn't find it the last time I looked, this time it came up as Google hit #1.
It's really bugging me that I can't remember ANY of the details, but I recall reading about a revolutionary new polymer with molecules that lined up to give a thin sheet the same effective radiation blocking ability as a much thicker sheet of lead. Obviously, this would be a major boon to space travel where weight vs radiation shielding tradeoffs are (reluctantly) made at every step. If anyone out there knows what the hell I'm talking about and has a link, PLEASE post it and preserve my sanity...
Don't animators already insert single-frame porn, etc into these things?
Can you imagine how quickly the client software would get hacked, and how crappy the movie resulting from nothing but single-frame porn shots would be, especially to photosensitive epileptics?