You're wrong, there is no difference between eavesdroping and tunneling.
The white paper
http://www.magiqtech.com/registration/MagiQWhitePa per.pdf
uses your example (so called tunneling) as a demonstration of the system.
Ye,s outsourcing is a fad. With all the source code that's currently passing in their hand, with all the experience they're building, it won't take long before Indian companies stop doing outsourcing for us and compete directly with US software companies. US companies now make great profits by hiring engineers for a 1/10th of the cost but still sell their shit at the same price. But what's gonna happen when Indian companies start offering competing solutions for 1/10th of the price? US CEOs will be out of job. Investments are gonna go to india and the western world will stop innovating.
Seriously, am I the only one thinking that we're totally screwed? It starts by moving all the junior jobs over there (my company does't hire juniors anymore but outsource "trivial" tasks instead), and in 5 years their juniors will have become cost-effective seniors and managers (and get much better things to do than trivial tasks), while here we'll have nobody to train and manage. Pretty soon they wont be interested doing just outsourcing (which will have given them a lot of nice proprietary source code to look at) but will drive innovation and create cheaper competing products instead, so even America's CEOs will be out of jobs. Except maybe for a few niche markets, like entertainment (video games, movie industry fx) or military contracts (good luck trying to get hired on those even if you're american born), I think software engineering as a profession is gonna die here (but Open Source is nice if you like software as a hobby though).
That's why I'm planning to get an MS in system administration, hair styling or pizza delivery (have you read "Snow Crash"?).
ok, sorry for the rant, let's code tight and hope I'm wrong (maybe in two years the cost of life in Bangalore will catch up with ours, or the opposite)
Is there a limit to what actions should be allowed in a virtual reality software?
Should anything that is illegal in real live be banned from virtual reality? (e.g. some politician wanted to ban certain racing games because they were depicting illegal street racing.)
If virtual murder is ok, what about things like rape or child molestation?
Some argue that since nobody is getting hurt in a virtual world, any theme should be allowed (with mature restriction), and ultimately it's the market that's gonna decide what is popular/acceptable.
It's off topic, but it's true that *120* people die on the road on average each day in the USA. That's 120 deaths that could have been avoided for most of them. That's 120 deaths and how many crippled for live? Compare that to the one US soldier that gets killed on average each day in Irak... who got killed for a cause (arguable maybe) doing his job.
I blame the media: they report once a while fatal car crashes but ignore the thousands who died in between. That gives a false sense of security.
How about, at the end of each tv news report, display the names of yesterday's road victims in 4 columns of 3 rows? Probably too much to bear for the average viewer and that wouldn't please the car maker sponsors either...
The selling pitch of the XBox for developers is "The XBox supports the latest DirectX API". Portability as to do with the available APIs and their tools MSFT provides (for sound, networking and graphics) really, nothing to do with the actual chip running them. MSFT got into deep trouble when contracting NVidia to produce the XBox chip, as did NVidia (they spent so much resources on it, it put them behind in the graphics race).
I was using the same solution at work (I'm a coder) for almost a year. Disadvantages: no playlists, so you end up swapping CDRs quite often. It's also a major pain to organize your CDRs: if you've ripped 12 CDs in one CDR it's already hard to list them all on the disk, but if you have to burn hundreds of individual songs (from the ol'napster days) on one CDR, you gotta keep some sort of separate catalog to be able to find what you want to listen. I eventually got an 40gig IPod and I'm saving at least 30 min a day from not having to manipulate CDRs and I now enjoy my library much more (takes only a few seconds to switch album or playlist and therefore keep me in the zone more easily by selecting the right music to match my mood).
I wish they could improve lag by such a factor:P Lag (>300ms) is mostly annoying real time distributed systems like online multiplayer games or voice over IP.
"Okay how about this then, once you have bought the machine you can do whatever the hell you want with it. "
You're not allowed to hack a gun you've bought to make it full automatic. You're not allowed to add a combustion engine to a bicycle you've bought and expect to be able to race in "Le Tour De France" either... You can purchase an XBox, but you're not allowed to use it as a hammer on somebody else's skull.
In the real world, there is really no such thing as "you can do whatever the hell you want with it."
"Very soon we are going to need an actual lawsuit to reassert out rights as the public to use devices we purchase in any manner we deem fit."
What about your right to purchase a non automatic machine gun and hack it to be able to shoot full auto?
Dream on, buddy...
Hey, I'm from Europe too an I've moved to the USA 6 years ago.
Of course I didn't get a job right away (that's really hard unless you already work abroad for an american company), I came here on a student visa. Once you get a Master degree (in one year min), you get a one year working permit for practical training. So I got a job, then switched to H1 status, then won a green card at the diversity lottery (note the software company I work for now gets GC for all its employees).
So I guess you didn't try hard enough.
You see the selection process is not "Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.", it's "Unless I'm really willing to make the commitment and effort to come to the USA".
And of course, it doesn't hurt to be really good at what you do.
Yes, yes, but keep in mind that there is also a non-negligable chance that you'll end up tripping over a cable, falling head first into a bucket of food grade peroxide... thank god the DOOM3 engine is done.
Yeah, we've been using Linux at work for development(web, java).
When more admin/management ppl joined our startup, of course, they were using laptop running windows.
Then powerpoint, excel, doc documents started being passed around. We would always get into issues trying to work on them in Linux... hopefully we had to start using VMWare to run windows in linux so we could test our code on multiple platform, so we end up using VMWare/windows to work on office documents.
Personally the biggest problem with Linux is the apps. I still prefer to pay $500 to use Photoshop than to use the Gimp for free. Ok, that's very pricey for a third world country. Also, I've been hoping for linux gaming to catch up (I got RTCW and Quake3 on Linux), but it never seems to take off (other than for the servers)... it's a shame, I guess Linux users are too used to get things for free!
Besides the formatting got screwed up. My "Man, get your facts..." was referring to his "info" that MSFT was gonna force ppl to get Live by publishing games that requires it.
It's just another distorsion (some games are only played online, like EverQuest on PC, nothing to do with MSFT grand scheme of screwing us all).
This guy just heard "An XBox game requires a $100 box controller!!!!" how shocking!!
You call that a fact? He is clueless.
WTF does the fact that capcom has released a game that requires a special controller has to do with blaming MSFT and deciding not to buy an XBox??
DC also had a game that required a $100 controller. So what?
"Microsoft is making it difficult to buy an X-BOX without also making additional purchases, namely X-BOX Live! Some of the newer games, and especially many games on the horizon and in development, will simply not be playable without an X-BOX Live subscription."
Dude, where you're getting that from?
It's obvious you're not much of a gamer.
You're probably referring to MMORG like PSO. By definition these games are only played online.
"There is also at least one game out now for the X-BOX that virutally requires the purchase of an additional controller which costs nearly $100.00. "
Steel Battalion.
It's an amazing game from Capcom that requires a custom design controller to simulate control of a giant mech.
Man, get your facts straight before spreading shitty anti-MS rumors.
"It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in most bookstores."
Pffff, car service manuals are necessary for maintenance in order to assure the safety of the passengers and fellow human beings. Car service manuals don't tell you how to turn your car into a dragster.
In the same spirit of distorsion, what about the right of modding a semi-automatic gun into full automatic mode?
But, ok let ppl mod their own XBox as much as they want, but I'm all for banning these from XBox Live!.
Online playing needs rule just like any other "competition" (no doping at the Olympics, precise car specs in racing,...).
Would it be possible to improve it with an attitude control system (gyro + CPU) and still keep the weight and power need at a minimum?
There was a post a while ago about the military developing a mini-drone plane.
But the real advantage of a mini helico is the ability to hover and manoeuver in small indoor spaces.
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You're wrong, there is no difference between eavesdroping and tunneling. The white paper http://www.magiqtech.com/registration/MagiQWhitePa per.pdf
uses your example (so called tunneling) as a demonstration of the system.
The idea of making huge amounts of money by selling patterns of air pressure change is kind of flimsy to start with. No?
Ye,s outsourcing is a fad.
With all the source code that's currently passing in their hand, with all the experience they're building, it won't take long before Indian companies stop doing outsourcing for us and compete directly with US software companies.
US companies now make great profits by hiring engineers for a 1/10th of the cost but still sell their shit at the same price.
But what's gonna happen when Indian companies start offering competing solutions for 1/10th of the price?
US CEOs will be out of job.
Investments are gonna go to india and the western world will stop innovating.
... Bush to announce that he will increase Amtrak's budget by 5% each year in order to get a working american Maglev by 2030?
The solution is easy: just change the currency rate to be 1 Rupee = 1$
Seriously, am I the only one thinking that we're totally screwed?
It starts by moving all the junior jobs over there (my company does't hire juniors anymore but outsource "trivial" tasks instead), and in 5 years their juniors will have become cost-effective seniors and managers (and get much better things to do than trivial tasks), while here we'll have nobody to train and manage.
Pretty soon they wont be interested doing just outsourcing (which will have given them a lot of nice proprietary source code to look at) but will drive innovation and create cheaper competing products instead, so even America's CEOs will be out of jobs.
Except maybe for a few niche markets, like entertainment (video games, movie industry fx) or military contracts (good luck trying to get hired on those even if you're american born), I think software engineering as a profession is gonna die here (but Open Source is nice if you like software as a hobby though).
That's why I'm planning to get an MS in system administration, hair styling or pizza delivery (have you read "Snow Crash"?).
ok, sorry for the rant, let's code tight and hope I'm wrong (maybe in two years the cost of life in Bangalore will catch up with ours, or the opposite)
Is there a limit to what actions should be allowed in a virtual reality software? Should anything that is illegal in real live be banned from virtual reality? (e.g. some politician wanted to ban certain racing games because they were depicting illegal street racing.) If virtual murder is ok, what about things like rape or child molestation? Some argue that since nobody is getting hurt in a virtual world, any theme should be allowed (with mature restriction), and ultimately it's the market that's gonna decide what is popular/acceptable.
It's off topic,
but it's true that *120* people die on the road on average each day in the USA.
That's 120 deaths that could have been avoided for most of them. That's 120 deaths and how many crippled for live?
Compare that to the one US soldier that gets killed on average each day in Irak... who got killed for a cause (arguable maybe) doing his job.
I blame the media: they report once a while fatal car crashes but ignore the thousands who died in between. That gives a false sense of security.
How about, at the end of each tv news report, display the names of yesterday's road victims in 4 columns of 3 rows? Probably too much to bear for the average viewer and that wouldn't please the car maker sponsors either...
The selling pitch of the XBox for developers is "The XBox supports the latest DirectX API".
Portability as to do with the available APIs and their tools MSFT provides (for sound, networking and graphics) really, nothing to do with the actual chip running them.
MSFT got into deep trouble when contracting NVidia to produce the XBox chip, as did NVidia (they spent so much resources on it, it put them behind in the graphics race).
I was using the same solution at work (I'm a coder) for almost a year.
Disadvantages: no playlists, so you end up swapping CDRs quite often. It's also a major pain to organize your CDRs: if you've ripped 12 CDs in one CDR it's already hard to list them all on the disk, but if you have to burn hundreds of individual songs (from the ol'napster days) on one CDR, you gotta keep some sort of separate catalog to be able to find what you want to listen.
I eventually got an 40gig IPod and I'm saving at least 30 min a day from not having to manipulate CDRs and I now enjoy my library much more (takes only a few seconds to switch album or playlist and therefore keep me in the zone more easily by selecting the right music to match my mood).
I wish they could improve lag by such a factor :P
Lag (>300ms) is mostly annoying real time distributed systems like online multiplayer games or voice over IP.
... the XPRIZE!
"Okay how about this then, once you have bought the machine you can do whatever the hell you want with it. "
You're not allowed to hack a gun you've bought to make it full automatic.
You're not allowed to add a combustion engine to a bicycle you've bought and expect to be able to race in "Le Tour De France" either...
You can purchase an XBox, but you're not allowed to use it as a hammer on somebody else's skull.
In the real world, there is really no such thing as "you can do whatever the hell you want with it."
"Very soon we are going to need an actual lawsuit to reassert out rights as the public to use devices we purchase in any manner we deem fit." What about your right to purchase a non automatic machine gun and hack it to be able to shoot full auto? Dream on, buddy...
Hey, I'm from Europe too an I've moved to the USA 6 years ago. Of course I didn't get a job right away (that's really hard unless you already work abroad for an american company), I came here on a student visa. Once you get a Master degree (in one year min), you get a one year working permit for practical training. So I got a job, then switched to H1 status, then won a green card at the diversity lottery (note the software company I work for now gets GC for all its employees). So I guess you didn't try hard enough. You see the selection process is not "Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.", it's "Unless I'm really willing to make the commitment and effort to come to the USA". And of course, it doesn't hurt to be really good at what you do.
Yes, yes, but keep in mind that there is also a non-negligable chance that you'll end up tripping over a cable, falling head first into a bucket of food grade peroxide... thank god the DOOM3 engine is done.
"Cucumbers on a Pizza!! Are you crazy?!"
Yeah, we've been using Linux at work for development(web, java). When more admin/management ppl joined our startup, of course, they were using laptop running windows. Then powerpoint, excel, doc documents started being passed around. We would always get into issues trying to work on them in Linux... hopefully we had to start using VMWare to run windows in linux so we could test our code on multiple platform, so we end up using VMWare/windows to work on office documents.
Personally the biggest problem with Linux is the apps. I still prefer to pay $500 to use Photoshop than to use the Gimp for free. Ok, that's very pricey for a third world country.
Also, I've been hoping for linux gaming to catch up (I got RTCW and Quake3 on Linux), but it never seems to take off (other than for the servers)... it's a shame, I guess Linux users are too used to get things for free!
Besides the formatting got screwed up.
My "Man, get your facts..." was referring to his "info" that MSFT was gonna force ppl to get Live by publishing games that requires it.
It's just another distorsion (some games are only played online, like EverQuest on PC, nothing to do with MSFT grand scheme of screwing us all).
This guy just heard "An XBox game requires a $100 box controller!!!!" how shocking!! You call that a fact? He is clueless. WTF does the fact that capcom has released a game that requires a special controller has to do with blaming MSFT and deciding not to buy an XBox?? DC also had a game that required a $100 controller. So what?
"Microsoft is making it difficult to buy an X-BOX without also making additional purchases, namely X-BOX Live! Some of the newer games, and especially many games on the horizon and in development, will simply not be playable without an X-BOX Live subscription." Dude, where you're getting that from? It's obvious you're not much of a gamer. You're probably referring to MMORG like PSO. By definition these games are only played online. "There is also at least one game out now for the X-BOX that virutally requires the purchase of an additional controller which costs nearly $100.00. " Steel Battalion. It's an amazing game from Capcom that requires a custom design controller to simulate control of a giant mech. Man, get your facts straight before spreading shitty anti-MS rumors.
"It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in most bookstores." Pffff, car service manuals are necessary for maintenance in order to assure the safety of the passengers and fellow human beings. Car service manuals don't tell you how to turn your car into a dragster. In the same spirit of distorsion, what about the right of modding a semi-automatic gun into full automatic mode? But, ok let ppl mod their own XBox as much as they want, but I'm all for banning these from XBox Live!. Online playing needs rule just like any other "competition" (no doping at the Olympics, precise car specs in racing, ...).
Would it be possible to improve it with an attitude control system (gyro + CPU) and still keep the weight and power need at a minimum? There was a post a while ago about the military developing a mini-drone plane. But the real advantage of a mini helico is the ability to hover and manoeuver in small indoor spaces.
Coupled with a wireless camera link, this would make a perfect recon system for the military or law enforcement. Add a weapon to it,...