He should have taken the deal and been happy. At worst, he would have had 250k in the bank and been seen as a mid-level character in a popular trilogy.
As it is, he's pretty much ruined his career by his actions. Who's gonna hire him now?
I am still moderately confused how the website claims he has a cult following. Even if he had an action figure, he didn't deserve one more than Switch or the others did. His character really wasn't that important.
I didn't say it didn't hurt. I was agreeing, and simplying extending the point. The previous post said that the styrofoam cup would slow down a lot. I think it would nearly stop.
On ground level, assuming a calm day, the styrofoam cup would lose almost all of it's inertia almost immediately after leaving your hand. It wouldn't go 10 feet in the direction the car was travelling once it left your hand.
Try throwing a styrofoam cup and see how far it goes. Doesn't go far.
... that would be enough for me to feel pretty confident of us finding a green guy within a few dozen light years. I just don't feel confident making assumtions based on a statistical sample of one.
A few dozen light years might be pushing the odds a bit. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the idea that there might be intelligent life out there, but most of the proponents of it suggest that it's gotta exist due to the size of the universe.
Even Carl Sagan would probably say that the odds of nearby intelligent life is incredibly small.
*Please, no jokes about no intelligent life here. Those have been done to death already.*
But it would have been really interesting if the concentration of such heat at such a small level might have had an affect on matter itself. Perhaps discover some kind of "subspace".
Of course, since it's been proved that there is no ether, the chance of it is less likely.
"Further, a critical element of being able to stop these viruses is to have sufficient knowledge about them to be able to write them." This is not so. First of all, over two thirds of existing viruses are created by modifying existing variants. It does not take much skill to be able to modify virus source code in that way - a reasonably intelligent 10-year old kid can do that. Is that all the skill you are going to require your students to demonstrate?
*Writing* a virus is not at all the same thing as *modifying* an existing virus.
If the class were simply to teach people how to be script kiddies, that would be one thing. But it's about more than that.
Frankly, my impression from his article is that either he's overreacting to the existance of a class, or he's afraid of potential competition.
I almost sent them money myself, but then got a bit confused about their funding situation.
I couldn't tell if sending money to them would be merely altruistic, and I'd get just as much direct benefit out of flushing my money down the toilet, or if sending money meant I'd own a small piece of them, or even merely have the option of buying stock in them cheaper than others when, and if, they go public.
In the 80's, pc's were largely for hobbyists. The original Apple was designed by, for, and sold to hobbyists.
A huge percentage of the people who bought computers were buying them for the sake of the computers rather any other reason. They wanted something to play with, program with, and explore. Even in schools, 99% of them were bought to teach programming.
Nowadays, the machines are sold for primarily non-programming purposes. People want home machines for email and doing their taxes, and maybe playing games. (They want to see this new thing called the world wide web.) Even updating a web site or blog doesn't require programming.
Currently, I doubt if 1 in 20 computer users ever do, or want to do, any programming. (linux users mostly fall into that 1 in 20)
Today's machines aren't primarily for hobbyists anymore. It's been corporatized and the suits sell machines now.
Naturally, no one is going to provide programming functionality to every box if 95% of your customers don't want it and can't understand it. Why develop it as part of the OS then?
It makes a lot of sense to separate it out from the operating system and sell it as an additional program. After all, if the compiler came with Windows, it could never stay competitive with separate compilers. If it did, it would probably prevent other compilers from doing well. (IE vs netscape. *cough* *cough*)
Now, linux is a different story. Linux users tend to have a much higher percentage of programmer vs mere user.
Of course, it would be nice if the ps/2 and xbox allowed coding for free. But both Sony and MS are basically monopolies, and neither has any interest in helped the hacker-minded modify their systems. If they did, they wouldn't have added the "security* features that require mod-chips to defeat.
The company got bought and killed all our projects. Then they lied and said they weren't closing our office (the purchaser had another office 15 miles away.) 3 months later, they announced they were closing our office.
Pretty much our entire department quit, but we didn't decide to do it as a group. Everyone just found other jobs. The only ones left were a DBA workaholic and an immigrant woman who spent most of her time using AOL over the company internet.
Since there seems to be 7 cubes, it probably isn't actually a real 4d cube, although I don't know for sure.
There was a sci-fi channel movie called "HyperCube". They showed what they described as a 2d rendering of what it might look like. Can't describe it though.
Slashdot Mirror
Did I say anything about him not being important?
He had an important part, but he was still a mid-level character. He wasn't a bit part, but not in the same class as Neo and Trinity.
Heck, the CAT was important. If the cat hadn't been there, Neo wouldn't have seen him twice and the group would have been trapped upstairs.
Does this mean that the cat should get a contract for the other two movies too?
As I was reading this, I thought to myself, he's right. This is a global economy. This is natural and normal, even if we aren't happy about it.
Then he got to the point where he's preaching about spirituality, and he lost me at that point.
Hey, I'm not defending the fool.
He should have taken the deal and been happy. At worst, he would have had 250k in the bank and been seen as a mid-level character in a popular trilogy.
As it is, he's pretty much ruined his career by his actions. Who's gonna hire him now?
I am still moderately confused how the website claims he has a cult following. Even if he had an action figure, he didn't deserve one more than Switch or the others did. His character really wasn't that important.
Erg. $29 for what amounts to the regular dvd.
What's the deal with some of these prices. I still can't buy "Star Wars I" for less than $25 at the local stores. Everything else has an srp of $20.
Maybe I'll just rent it and copy it.
Oh crap.
There goes my retirement.
Wonder if it's too late to return all these things to the store.
Well, to be fair, the webite claims no affiliation with Marcus Chong himself.
Dunno if it's true, but it would mean the mcat coalition (Marcus Chong As Tank Coalition) itself is asking for people to support the mcat coalition.
Marcus himself may not be asking for anything.
Seven Days.
I didn't say it didn't hurt. I was agreeing, and simplying extending the point. The previous post said that the styrofoam cup would slow down a lot. I think it would nearly stop.
I'll go farther than that. (no pun intended)
On ground level, assuming a calm day, the styrofoam cup would lose almost all of it's inertia almost immediately after leaving your hand. It wouldn't go 10 feet in the direction the car was travelling once it left your hand.
Try throwing a styrofoam cup and see how far it goes. Doesn't go far.
... that would be enough for me to feel pretty confident of us finding a green guy within a few dozen light years. I just don't feel confident making assumtions based on a statistical sample of one.
A few dozen light years might be pushing the odds a bit. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the idea that there might be intelligent life out there, but most of the proponents of it suggest that it's gotta exist due to the size of the universe.
Even Carl Sagan would probably say that the odds of nearby intelligent life is incredibly small.
*Please, no jokes about no intelligent life here. Those have been done to death already.*
It looks like the link was removed from his site.
At least, I couldn't find it.
But it would have been really interesting if the concentration of such heat at such a small level might have had an affect on matter itself. Perhaps discover some kind of "subspace".
Of course, since it's been proved that there is no ether, the chance of it is less likely.
I disagree.
"Further, a critical element of being able to stop these viruses is to have sufficient knowledge about them to be able to write them."
This is not so. First of all, over two thirds of existing viruses are created by modifying existing variants. It does not take much skill to be able to modify virus source code in that way - a reasonably intelligent 10-year old kid can do that. Is that all the skill you are going to require your students to demonstrate?
*Writing* a virus is not at all the same thing as *modifying* an existing virus.
If the class were simply to teach people how to be script kiddies, that would be one thing. But it's about more than that.
Frankly, my impression from his article is that either he's overreacting to the existance of a class, or he's afraid of potential competition.
But these aren't exactly monomolectular. Sure, the nanotubes themselves are, but they aren't one long nanotube. They are jumbled together.
One long nanotube might do what you are talking about, but these aren't likely to.
I almost sent them money myself, but then got a bit confused about their funding situation.
I couldn't tell if sending money to them would be merely altruistic, and I'd get just as much direct benefit out of flushing my money down the toilet, or if sending money meant I'd own a small piece of them, or even merely have the option of buying stock in them cheaper than others when, and if, they go public.
I'm still not sure.
Office Space.
I couldn't remember either, but did a dejanews lookup.
In the 80's, pc's were largely for hobbyists. The original Apple was designed by, for, and sold to hobbyists.
A huge percentage of the people who bought computers were buying them for the sake of the computers rather any other reason. They wanted something to play with, program with, and explore. Even in schools, 99% of them were bought to teach programming.
Nowadays, the machines are sold for primarily non-programming purposes. People want home machines for email and doing their taxes, and maybe playing games. (They want to see this new thing called the world wide web.) Even updating a web site or blog doesn't require programming.
Currently, I doubt if 1 in 20 computer users ever do, or want to do, any programming. (linux users mostly fall into that 1 in 20)
Today's machines aren't primarily for hobbyists anymore. It's been corporatized and the suits sell machines now.
Naturally, no one is going to provide programming functionality to every box if 95% of your customers don't want it and can't understand it. Why develop it as part of the OS then?
It makes a lot of sense to separate it out from the operating system and sell it as an additional program. After all, if the compiler came with Windows, it could never stay competitive with separate compilers. If it did, it would probably prevent other compilers from doing well. (IE vs netscape. *cough* *cough*)
Now, linux is a different story. Linux users tend to have a much higher percentage of programmer vs mere user.
Of course, it would be nice if the ps/2 and xbox allowed coding for free. But both Sony and MS are basically monopolies, and neither has any interest in helped the hacker-minded modify their systems. If they did, they wouldn't have added the "security* features that require mod-chips to defeat.
The company got bought and killed all our projects. Then they lied and said they weren't closing our office (the purchaser had another office 15 miles away.) 3 months later, they announced they were closing our office.
Pretty much our entire department quit, but we didn't decide to do it as a group. Everyone just found other jobs. The only ones left were a DBA workaholic and an immigrant woman who spent most of her time using AOL over the company internet.
Troll? Give me a freaking break. I *wasn't* trolling.
Oh yeah, that makes it *MUCH* easier to understand.
Since there seems to be 7 cubes, it probably isn't actually a real 4d cube, although I don't know for sure.
There was a sci-fi channel movie called "HyperCube". They showed what they described as a 2d rendering of what it might look like. Can't describe it though.
Celsius? Fahrenheit? Is temp a matter of the metric system? I thought the metric system was just measures of size and weight.
Excuse me. I'm just an ignorant american.
80 degrees Fahrenheit! Ye gods, where is the humanity!
I gotta have the a/c on to at least a max of 75!
So, would that be 53 times room temp or what?
Not really much pressure though.
I think it's mostly blocking stray molecules of air that get in from leaks until the leaks can be patched.
Ok. Now THAT was funny.