I am so glad that I grew up in the 3dFX Voodoo days for my gaming. The cards were relatively cheap, and spending $200 on one seemed like a huge sum of money. Like, this-is-your-only-Christmas-present money.
Upwards of $1000 for a consumer-grade video card? I've spent less on road-worthy vehicles.
I think that this is more of a "government snitches get stitches" kind of thing, where one assumes that all functions of that organization are bad.
In my view, the problem is that since the police are the only official authority to take such crime-related complaints to in the first place, this leak punishes those that are simply trying to get justice served, who have no other authority to take their complaints or other information to.
On another note, isn't the point of "Anonymous", written into the name and everything, that there is no real structure, that there are no real decision makers beyond everyone individually choosing what they're going to work on, and if they're going to participate with an idea that someone else has? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare "Anonymous" the entity as a medium through which individuals can collaborate for their own projects?
I don't remember enough about the Fidonet nodes that I had access to, but the local BBSes were Stonehenge BBS and Magrathea BBS, both in the Phoenix area.
Stonehenge ran on Wildcat, and was interesting in part because it had the longest un-rolled Tradewars game going, with only two real players left, and not enough resources in the universe left for one to defeat the other.
Then try looking at high voltage manufacturers and at conference room furniture. Leviton, Legrand, and Hubbell all make electrical devices meant for installation in furniture.
I also suggest visiting your local college or university library. They're probably already using this stuff, and will have solutions for both power and data in-place. Take a picture of what you like and look for it on those manufacturers' product catalogs.
I've found that very little is actually new. There have been tablet computers for some time. There have been wearable computers. There has been "social media" since the days of Fidonet. We had "SMS" fifteen years ago with bidirectional alphanumeric pagers and TAP.
Very little is new, it's just reinvented again and again and again. And again, and again. Accept this and just do what you need to do. Eventually you'll come to understand it and won't be stuck with some weird, antiquated version of Firefox running on your Debian 2.4 box because you refuse to change. It doesn't friggin' matter.
Firing too many staff would directly impact the quality of the games produced. But, if your games are already crap to start with then you've already lost the customer base, and unless you can float the labor costs until the next successful game comes out, you're screwed. As you cut staff, what's remaining of the core product gets worse, the customer base shrinks, and you end up losing more money and having to make more cuts.
Just remove the casing and put the SSD board/chips into a microwave...
If anything, physical destruction of an SSD should be even easier... Just pop the chips off the board with a flat knife and cut them into pieces with aviation snips...
A small four-pound sledge and a suitable hard surface to act as an anvil and one can break the aluminum case into bits in a couple minutes and crease and crack the platters to the point that there realistically isn't anything being read from there. If you're REALLY worried, break out the plasma cutter and just cut the platters into bits...
Speaking of bits, Spanish colonial currency were "pieces of eight". "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" is a $0.25 cost. So, eight bits to a full unit... Coincidence for eight bits to a byte, or intentional?
There's a point when the sheer number of paradigm shifts has made the implemented way silly. The power requirements alone should indicate that. I think that the IC in my computer keyboard is powerful enough to handle all of their tasks.
If you ever watch the Terry Gilliam film Brazil, pay attention to the tech. They took a basic tech and never expanded on it to improve it properly. Instead one had three inch screens with Fresnel lenses to make the image bigger, typewriters with electrical switches for keyboards, and such.
My folks used to make home-made noodles for holiday meals when I was a kid. If their product was similar to the expectations of an Asian noodle, then I can definitely comprehend the practicalities of automating the process. Making noodles is not all that hard, so long as a supply of fresh raw materials is kept in supply; a machine could very easily turn out batches as good as what a person could so long as those maintaining the machine don't get lazy about the maintenance.
I read Keeper of the Isis Light one afternoon while waiting in the library for the computer to finish doing something. It wasn't bad, discussed the nature of a colony planet through the eyes of an orphan raised by the household computer system after her parents' deaths and how she was different than the colonists that followed the beacon that her family was ostensibly there to maintain. It's not terribly complex, but passable after a fashion. It lacks the sexuality of many science fiction writers like Piers Anthony.
I also enjoyed The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett. It's a three-part story about what turn out to be aliens that generations-ago crash-landed on Earth on what effectively was an away mission, and how they come to reclaim their ship and their original birthright.
Unfortunately I can think of a lot more fantasy than I can science fiction for the YA reader. Most scifi seems to head into mature themes that a teacher probably can't recommend to a twelve year old on account of parental objection.
My paternal grandparents had close to 20 children over 25 years, of which my father was the last, and many of his older siblings also had huge families. There are three rural counties in the midwest that I had basically considered nonviable from a dating perspective.
Fortunately my parents moved several states away before I was born so it was not an issue.
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...it'll call out, "Feeeed me, Seeeymour!"
I am so glad that I grew up in the 3dFX Voodoo days for my gaming. The cards were relatively cheap, and spending $200 on one seemed like a huge sum of money. Like, this-is-your-only-Christmas-present money.
Upwards of $1000 for a consumer-grade video card? I've spent less on road-worthy vehicles.
So, a different kind of joke then...
Then I think we ought to at least give him Emeritus status!
I think DNF's release was a product of some new company executives that took over Apogee not realizing that it was supposed to be a joke...
That depends on which Natalie Portman movie... If it's Léon, eew...
I think that this is more of a "government snitches get stitches" kind of thing, where one assumes that all functions of that organization are bad.
In my view, the problem is that since the police are the only official authority to take such crime-related complaints to in the first place, this leak punishes those that are simply trying to get justice served, who have no other authority to take their complaints or other information to.
On another note, isn't the point of "Anonymous", written into the name and everything, that there is no real structure, that there are no real decision makers beyond everyone individually choosing what they're going to work on, and if they're going to participate with an idea that someone else has? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare "Anonymous" the entity as a medium through which individuals can collaborate for their own projects?
I don't remember enough about the Fidonet nodes that I had access to, but the local BBSes were Stonehenge BBS and Magrathea BBS, both in the Phoenix area.
Stonehenge ran on Wildcat, and was interesting in part because it had the longest un-rolled Tradewars game going, with only two real players left, and not enough resources in the universe left for one to defeat the other.
This is Yahoo, not Earthlink!
Then try looking at high voltage manufacturers and at conference room furniture. Leviton, Legrand, and Hubbell all make electrical devices meant for installation in furniture.
I also suggest visiting your local college or university library. They're probably already using this stuff, and will have solutions for both power and data in-place. Take a picture of what you like and look for it on those manufacturers' product catalogs.
I've found that very little is actually new. There have been tablet computers for some time. There have been wearable computers. There has been "social media" since the days of Fidonet. We had "SMS" fifteen years ago with bidirectional alphanumeric pagers and TAP.
Very little is new, it's just reinvented again and again and again. And again, and again. Accept this and just do what you need to do. Eventually you'll come to understand it and won't be stuck with some weird, antiquated version of Firefox running on your Debian 2.4 box because you refuse to change. It doesn't friggin' matter.
Maybe all that he has to do is to get a kiss from the pretty girl...
After all, it worked for Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure.
Maybe Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase can make a movie about it...
And make sure that you keep your helmet handy...
that could be their secret...
Firing too many staff would directly impact the quality of the games produced. But, if your games are already crap to start with then you've already lost the customer base, and unless you can float the labor costs until the next successful game comes out, you're screwed. As you cut staff, what's remaining of the core product gets worse, the customer base shrinks, and you end up losing more money and having to make more cuts.
I formatted a hard disk drive last night to use it for something else. Smashing it to pieces would have been much faster and more satisfying.
Just remove the casing and put the SSD board/chips into a microwave... If anything, physical destruction of an SSD should be even easier... Just pop the chips off the board with a flat knife and cut them into pieces with aviation snips...
...is to literally destroy the drive...
A small four-pound sledge and a suitable hard surface to act as an anvil and one can break the aluminum case into bits in a couple minutes and crease and crack the platters to the point that there realistically isn't anything being read from there. If you're REALLY worried, break out the plasma cutter and just cut the platters into bits...
Speaking of bits, Spanish colonial currency were "pieces of eight". "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" is a $0.25 cost. So, eight bits to a full unit... Coincidence for eight bits to a byte, or intentional?
There's a point when the sheer number of paradigm shifts has made the implemented way silly. The power requirements alone should indicate that. I think that the IC in my computer keyboard is powerful enough to handle all of their tasks.
If you ever watch the Terry Gilliam film Brazil, pay attention to the tech. They took a basic tech and never expanded on it to improve it properly. Instead one had three inch screens with Fresnel lenses to make the image bigger, typewriters with electrical switches for keyboards, and such.
My folks used to make home-made noodles for holiday meals when I was a kid. If their product was similar to the expectations of an Asian noodle, then I can definitely comprehend the practicalities of automating the process. Making noodles is not all that hard, so long as a supply of fresh raw materials is kept in supply; a machine could very easily turn out batches as good as what a person could so long as those maintaining the machine don't get lazy about the maintenance.
I read Keeper of the Isis Light one afternoon while waiting in the library for the computer to finish doing something. It wasn't bad, discussed the nature of a colony planet through the eyes of an orphan raised by the household computer system after her parents' deaths and how she was different than the colonists that followed the beacon that her family was ostensibly there to maintain. It's not terribly complex, but passable after a fashion. It lacks the sexuality of many science fiction writers like Piers Anthony.
I also enjoyed The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett. It's a three-part story about what turn out to be aliens that generations-ago crash-landed on Earth on what effectively was an away mission, and how they come to reclaim their ship and their original birthright.
Unfortunately I can think of a lot more fantasy than I can science fiction for the YA reader. Most scifi seems to head into mature themes that a teacher probably can't recommend to a twelve year old on account of parental objection.
Our school district preggo school was called "TAPP". Apparently it stood for "TeenAge Pregnancy Program"...
I'm curious as to which overpaid PhD thought of that one...
My paternal grandparents had close to 20 children over 25 years, of which my father was the last, and many of his older siblings also had huge families. There are three rural counties in the midwest that I had basically considered nonviable from a dating perspective.
Fortunately my parents moved several states away before I was born so it was not an issue.