Also, while most BitTorrent software is mostly secure, eMule was notorious for its own bugs and security holes - you didn't have to download anything dodgy, just announce your presence on the net letting the attacker to connect to your client, exploit a vulnerability in its ed2k protocol handling, and infect your computer with whatever they wanted using eMule as the backdoor.
The difference is, for every 4 stupid things the US introduces, 3 are fought and 2 are shot down. For that amount, UK introduces 2 stupid things and both pass with little or no opposition.
You believe news until they start talking about you. News -sounds- believable. That's what they are all about.
I saw 3 different sources write about 3 completely different and totally unrelated things I was involved in (not even opinions, just plain information) and every time it was so hopelessly, blatantly wrong and inaccurate I kept my palm to my head wondering what kind of moron it takes to screw it up so completely, take plain, simple, public and common facts and get them reversed, mangled, confused, mixed up and beaten into a shape of something quite known but totally irrelevant.
Three different journalists, relating three completely different things to various unrelated media of completely different focus, and each of them managed to fuck it up completely and write total lies - not intentionally, just displaying total incompetence and complete lack of any basic understanding of the subject.
I think this is inherent to the industry. This must be something about psyche of people who choose the job. Just like all psychiatrists are slightly crazy, all reporters seem to be short on the skill of understanding of the world.
OTOH Incandesent can be modulated really fast by switching just as well. Think transmissive liquid crystal screen, the same kind as used in switching 3D glasses.
It costs $1. It is worth about that much. People would buy your games for that much back then too. Except there was no digital distribution to speak of back then, media costs would kill the enterprise.
he'd sold 200,000 copies on XBox indie games at $1 each, minus Microsoft's $30 cut (which is actually extremely reasonable as industry figures go) he's made $140,000 off a game that could be made in less than a week.
Either you'd made a typo there or I don't get something. Could you explain these figures? It doesn't add up for me. Is he selling for $31, MS taking $30, him $1? Or did you mean 30%?
I still have my portable Panascanic cassette recorder. Most of my friends got caught, the name is pretty good. Meanwhile I bought it in full awareness of what I was buying, and it was still pretty good and very cheap.
depends... JIT means no surplus in storage or waiting empty-handed for delivery, not "1 hour from production line to shop". The primary reason is minimizing storage expenses and unnecessary surplus purchases. Minimizing the time from raw material to retail is just a side result, but it doesn't mean uneconomical transport methods to get it there faster.
If it takes 3 weeks for a ship to cross the ocean, it's still okay with JIT. It's calculated into the algorithm, it means the train to load the cargo into will be available within a couple hours after the ship arrival, and the logistic center will have trucks to unload the train available when it arrives... but switching a few palettes in port while transporting the cargo from the ship to the train is perfectly possible... and because everything is calculated to the minute, you can plan the theft to least detail, and the cargo doesn't "rest" long enough for anyone to get curious and spot the difference.
...there's the "electric taste" too. There are no taste receptors for it, it's the current that triggers all kinds of receptors (taste, touch, cold, hot) simultaneously.
You should give Javascript a second chance. It seems like a toy on the surface, but once you uncover a second depth, it becomes very interesting. For starters, you can put on the left side of assignment operator things you would never expect any language could allow you to put there.
Advanced Javascript programs are composed in 90% of very tricky Javascript rewriting Javascript into some completely different language (and looking progressively less like Javascript), and then 10% of extremely straightforward business logic in the new language that matches the problem perfectly and looks almost but not quite entirely unlike Javascript.
Sometimes I wished `break` could take argument of how many levels it should break out of, but usually abstracting the entry to a function and replacing break with return fixed that.
Sometimes I found myself writing:
do {.... if(something) continue;... if(something_else) break;... } while(0);
but it was a rare crutch and it still kept scopes clear. No ability to jump into middle of a loop without initialization.
Perl as introduction to programming for kids? You will be lucky if they put you in prison for life, for child abuse. If they don't, you'll have the misfortune to spend the rest of your miserable and short life in the grim world you will have created, filled by monstrosities from worst nightmares.
If BASIC was mutilating the young minds, Perl is in the line of Cthulhu summoning with minors.
Yep... that essentially means neither NASA nor any governmental institution is in position to develop ANY iPhone apps. They are in a lose-lose situation.
OTOH, I wonder, if I could apply for Apple Developer license, then decline its terms, and since I'm not bound by its terms, publish it. They might still try to sue me for copyright violation but I can imagine several "fair use" scenarios where I would be legal to reveal it.
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Also, while most BitTorrent software is mostly secure, eMule was notorious for its own bugs and security holes - you didn't have to download anything dodgy, just announce your presence on the net letting the attacker to connect to your client, exploit a vulnerability in its ed2k protocol handling, and infect your computer with whatever they wanted using eMule as the backdoor.
I wonder how would the results compare if they used a decently equipped PC instead of a PS3...
So what, flag them all, send them to GTMO and let God sort them.
There's no way NONE of them is a terrorist.
The difference is, for every 4 stupid things the US introduces, 3 are fought and 2 are shot down. For that amount, UK introduces 2 stupid things and both pass with little or no opposition.
You believe news until they start talking about you.
News -sounds- believable. That's what they are all about.
I saw 3 different sources write about 3 completely different and totally unrelated things I was involved in (not even opinions, just plain information) and every time it was so hopelessly, blatantly wrong and inaccurate I kept my palm to my head wondering what kind of moron it takes to screw it up so completely, take plain, simple, public and common facts and get them reversed, mangled, confused, mixed up and beaten into a shape of something quite known but totally irrelevant.
Three different journalists, relating three completely different things to various unrelated media of completely different focus, and each of them managed to fuck it up completely and write total lies - not intentionally, just displaying total incompetence and complete lack of any basic understanding of the subject.
I think this is inherent to the industry. This must be something about psyche of people who choose the job. Just like all psychiatrists are slightly crazy, all reporters seem to be short on the skill of understanding of the world.
Of course none does. But one could build one strictly for signal transmission purposes.
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. "
OTOH Incandesent can be modulated really fast by switching just as well. Think transmissive liquid crystal screen, the same kind as used in switching 3D glasses.
It costs $1. It is worth about that much. People would buy your games for that much back then too. Except there was no digital distribution to speak of back then, media costs would kill the enterprise.
he'd sold 200,000 copies on XBox indie games at $1 each, minus Microsoft's $30 cut (which is actually extremely reasonable as industry figures go) he's made $140,000 off a game that could be made in less than a week.
Either you'd made a typo there or I don't get something. Could you explain these figures? It doesn't add up for me. Is he selling for $31, MS taking $30, him $1? Or did you mean 30%?
but that counts against XBox, not Nokia.
I still have my portable Panascanic cassette recorder.
Most of my friends got caught, the name is pretty good. Meanwhile I bought it in full awareness of what I was buying, and it was still pretty good and very cheap.
still, why did they bother with a lead cast of actual i7 (very obviously fake, but quite detailed) instead of just a rectangular block of lead?
they are solid lead casts. not a gram of silica.
depends... JIT means no surplus in storage or waiting empty-handed for delivery, not "1 hour from production line to shop". The primary reason is minimizing storage expenses and unnecessary surplus purchases. Minimizing the time from raw material to retail is just a side result, but it doesn't mean uneconomical transport methods to get it there faster.
If it takes 3 weeks for a ship to cross the ocean, it's still okay with JIT. It's calculated into the algorithm, it means the train to load the cargo into will be available within a couple hours after the ship arrival, and the logistic center will have trucks to unload the train available when it arrives... but switching a few palettes in port while transporting the cargo from the ship to the train is perfectly possible... and because everything is calculated to the minute, you can plan the theft to least detail, and the cargo doesn't "rest" long enough for anyone to get curious and spot the difference.
...there's the "electric taste" too. There are no taste receptors for it, it's the current that triggers all kinds of receptors (taste, touch, cold, hot) simultaneously.
just you wait as this news reaches 4chan...
...elegant weapons for more civilized times... ;)
Yes, yes, the the dark side is so easy to reach, so powerful and tempting!
You should give Javascript a second chance. It seems like a toy on the surface, but once you uncover a second depth, it becomes very interesting. For starters, you can put on the left side of assignment operator things you would never expect any language could allow you to put there.
Advanced Javascript programs are composed in 90% of very tricky Javascript rewriting Javascript into some completely different language (and looking progressively less like Javascript), and then 10% of extremely straightforward business logic in the new language that matches the problem perfectly and looks almost but not quite entirely unlike Javascript.
*shrug*
I never found myself in need of use GOTO.
Sometimes I wished `break` could take argument of how many levels it should break out of, but usually abstracting the entry to a function and replacing break with return fixed that.
Sometimes I found myself writing:
do { .... ... ...
if(something) continue;
if(something_else) break;
} while(0);
but it was a rare crutch and it still kept scopes clear. No ability to jump into middle of a loop without initialization.
Perl as introduction to programming for kids?
You will be lucky if they put you in prison for life, for child abuse.
If they don't, you'll have the misfortune to spend the rest of your miserable and short life in the grim world you will have created, filled by monstrosities from worst nightmares.
If BASIC was mutilating the young minds, Perl is in the line of Cthulhu summoning with minors.
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Yep... that essentially means neither NASA nor any governmental institution is in position to develop ANY iPhone apps. They are in a lose-lose situation.
OTOH, I wonder, if I could apply for Apple Developer license, then decline its terms, and since I'm not bound by its terms, publish it. They might still try to sue me for copyright violation but I can imagine several "fair use" scenarios where I would be legal to reveal it.
besides, it's rude not to help a fellow time traveler nerd who just emerged from the Past and looks to establish a small base in our times.