Awhile back on Slashdot (I'm too lazy to find the link) there was an article on Captcha's being attacked by Spammers who would set up a porno site requiring user registration using, the Captcha in mind to crack, then forwarding the results to the anti-captcha bot.
Vision-recognition systems be dammed, all a spammer needs to do is use the inherent need of apparently most of the male race to look at pictures of naked women to get what he needs. I don't know if a counter was ever found to this method either...
you suggest C++ with good reason, next to Assembler; IMHO it's one of the best languages for game programming. Granted game programming language pluses are speed and granular level control, at the sacrifice of user friendliness.
Then again if you're programming for a deadline project, maybe a simpler project coded in a higher up language, If you're a C++ programmer and using Windows, think C#, all the syntax none of the headaches though a bit slower since you're compiling to IL. If you're in a *nix environment I'd consider a simple Java game with the same considerations (similar to C++, none of the headaches and slower). Choose appropriately.
Forks also = shared devlopment time = apps that support one fork but not other = fragmentation = bad thing.
This is one of the advantages and one of the problems of Open source vs. closed source. Consequently Windows has a benefit here. Say what you will but the windows development base is fairly unified and a concentration of efforts is easier; though admittedly less innovative than Linux granted forking produces new ideas.
Not meant to be Linux bashing in favor of windows but this goes to show how windows isn't dying any time soon...
Bush: "We must further our ambitions in space"...or something like that anyways
Now I see this posted... Now admittedly 1 billion is a pretty big price to save Hubble (would probably be more practical just to send up a new one) but is there a newer one in the near Horizon even?
Politics and space mix badly...but then again what else is new...
Might be your best one, legal remedies overseas get sickening. Particularly in the India(is that jurisdiction?) judicial system. Something most outsourcing companies really don't understand, if the sh*t hits the fan on your contract the best case scenario is that it would take you a while to legally get compensation; worst case scenario is that the courts tend to favor the natives to their country more than the foreigners and you're out of luck.
Agreed in part, however I question how much of senile depression is resulting from old age vs. being a part of old age. As I said in parent, nothing seemed to work. Whereas pumping just about anyone full of Prozac in other depression cases I've seen in younger people seems to work, but not with Grandma. Which leads me to any of 2 possible conclusions:
1) The "I'm depressed because I'm old and frail" depression is so severe that nothing currently available can conquer it.
2) The depression is a part of the mental aging and not resulting from the rest of aging. The 2 aging processes are separate and independent.
Which means, respectively that one of 2 solutions needs to be developed:
1) Finding stronger depression therapy.
2) Solving the puzzle behind mental aging as well as physical aging.
The only thing I'm worried about in slow speed exploration after the human living that long problem is solved, is the machine living that long. The average lifespan of a hard drive to the best of my experience has been 5 years, and I don't think I've had any gadget longer than 10 years before malfunction. The middle of the Solar system is a long way to go to Earth for a replacement part...
Granted I didn't RTWFA (Read the whole f*ck*ng article), but no I don't want to live forever. Why take as a case in point my grandparents. One of which just recently died at 94, and the other one is still alive at 95. Both of them, since about age 85 onward have been depressed to the point of which the only thing apparently running/ran through their minds was "kill me...kill me...". No amount of family contact/therapy/meds seemed to help this. So rather than spend about 910 years thinking "Kill me...Kill me..." I think I'll just ask to die at 85 a nice happy man. Then again I've known some happy old people so YMMV...
Well I'm with Earthlink DSL (SBC is the phone company) in Orange County and I'm impressed. Outages are few (maybe once every 3 months that I notice). It's fairly quick too. Currently I get 1.5Mbps down with 128kbps up for $50/month.
The only thing I don't like about Earthlink is attempting to get a Static IP from them, I've been in their Queue for a Static IP for 4 months with no success. Then again there is an IP address shortage. However they keep billing me $15/month extra for the static IP, so monthly I get to have a chat with their customer service for a credit. Annoying, maybe I should just cancel my static IP address request outright and live with it.
Cable in this area is served by Adelphia, and I've heard enough crappy things about them to stay far away...I'd probably sooner go satellite Internet if I needed a route other than DSL.
Dumping Netflix for Bittorrent??? I see an automated copyright infringement notice in your future....
1) Hook everything up for remote access, so then I can do anything short of a cold start anywhere.
2) Got another geek in your complex? Good, another admin to split the work. If not I'll train somebody there with the basics (where the power switches are, some of the remote admin stuffs, etc). I'd have a hard time believing that nobody else in an entire complex wouldn't be reasonably intelligent and trainable in computers to where he could do some of the basic things needed for day to day work in a network.
Well reverse situation here, I have a good rapport with my neighbors (one of them even has my apartment key and watches over my cat) so yeah I'd be willing to work something out in this situation. YMMV
I'd probably opt to cooperate rather than isolate, specifically:
1) Contact the neighbors (door to door, flyers, etc) and inform them of the problem, offer to secure their WAP's and put them on a Wi-Fi co-op that would give the entire complex a single Wi-Fi connection
2) Contact an ISP that's willing (I know Speakeasy, Slashdot's sponsor is doing this) and get a big pipe from them (High power DSL or T-1)
3) Set up one WAP as the main station and configure everyone else as a repeater
Advantages:
1) Big fat Wi-Fi pipe
2) Wide range (entire complex and then some)
3) Everyone has tighter security if you know how to set up Wi-Fi properly
4) Joint budgets make this more affordable
Disadvantages:
1) Bandwidth hogs (though it can be mitigated)
2) Bickering neighbors or those who refuse for whatever reasons (good diplomacy skills here)
3) Large initial expense (those T-1's aren't cheap if you go that route, good equipment and setup charge investments involved)
So far it hasn't been a problem in my area, I personally appreciate being the one secure well guarded WAP with 3 other Default SSID's around me:-D
Unfortunately if this isn't plausible for you, I fear you might be stuck going 802.11a or how about just plugging in the ol' cat 5/6 again?
For those who think that's funny, you haven't been to Hawaii yet, so screwed up by imported species of plants and animals, hardly anything native is left...
Aaaaah but we're not talking about pure programming per se, just something fun to get the kids interested in creating things with computers. Forget algorhithims and output, I just want them to draw something easily with the little turtle and we'll work from there.
way to start on computers, as it is simple and imaginative. If you can find a PC Logo Emulator/program I'd start with that:-) and I'm sure there is one available out there.
You know what also would probably be an easy way to get someone in on programming? Straight up line number GW-Basic or AppleBasic. Simple, and teaches basic programming concepts fairly well (If statements, loops, etc with simple input and output). Beats trying to teach the principles of OO design at an early age. Little baby steps would be key...
NOOOOOOooooooo.....I've been blinded by marketing, how could this happen, I must be getting older and more gullible. The sad part too is that the AMD equivalent looks to be about $100 cheaper than the Centrino Notebook I bought.
*sigh* I must redeem myself immediately, I know, I'll install BSD on this notebook and like it!!!
They still rock in one spot, the mobile processor market. I just got a new laptop with their Centrino processor and it's awesome. Loads of power, and I can run for 3 hrs easily. I was looking for a similar offer from AMD but to no avail.
But yeah in the desktop/server market in general I'd give AMD first pick now. Truly the innovator at this point.
Also I'd be nervous if I were AMD, a quick glance at the balance sheets shows Intel has a helluva lot more working capital then AMD, it's amazing what a 600lb gorilla can do to a 100lb skinny guy. Then again AMD has always been nimble enough and they've come up with something innovative to beat Intel, and they'll do it again...
Amazon has had the best shipment record of any other online store with me to date, items often come sooner than I expected, but I think maybe one late item that I can remember. I will trust Amazon over any online store to date to ship what I need on time.
Generally you don't get much of a choice, it's a condition of you buying a house in that given neighborhood.
However yeah I'd agree with you and at least attempt to make sure any house I bought was a non HOA area. Granted I really don't care what color the house is painted, and noise issues are often handled by the police, etc...
Seriously, take a look at my resume (http://www.codesweep.com/about.cfm) you will see that there are plenty of interesting jobs on it (and I haven't throughly revised it in awhile, I could state more). While my college degree is a footnote at the bottom. While Cal Poly Pomona is a good school, it doesn't matter based on what's more attractive, the work or the school.
Bottom line: Find a good (even if cheap) job NOW. Failing that, grab an open source project at http://www.sourceforge.net and contribute something to get your name on the developers list. Something, anything for your resume besides a degree (whether Ivy League or State U) is paramount to a good job. If you can accomplish this, it won't matter if your degree says "WTF Coding University".
Well my dad mostly does consumer law and besides he's not THAT good with the computer. "Linux...what's that?" However if SCO declares bankruptcy over this, my dad would be delighted to pick over the pieces:-)
For example, my Dad is a lawyer and a damn good one. I fix his computer for free no questions asked. When some big bad corporate bully comes picking on me for no apparent reason (aka a big overcharge on a bill or a denied insurance claim), I turn my dad on them, think of it as an M1A1 Abrams handling the big bad bully...in the end it all works out I think:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Awhile back on Slashdot (I'm too lazy to find the link) there was an article on Captcha's being attacked by Spammers who would set up a porno site requiring user registration using, the Captcha in mind to crack, then forwarding the results to the anti-captcha bot.
Vision-recognition systems be dammed, all a spammer needs to do is use the inherent need of apparently most of the male race to look at pictures of naked women to get what he needs. I don't know if a counter was ever found to this method either...
you suggest C++ with good reason, next to Assembler; IMHO it's one of the best languages for game programming. Granted game programming language pluses are speed and granular level control, at the sacrifice of user friendliness.
Then again if you're programming for a deadline project, maybe a simpler project coded in a higher up language, If you're a C++ programmer and using Windows, think C#, all the syntax none of the headaches though a bit slower since you're compiling to IL. If you're in a *nix environment I'd consider a simple Java game with the same considerations (similar to C++, none of the headaches and slower). Choose appropriately.
Forks also = shared devlopment time = apps that support one fork but not other = fragmentation = bad thing. This is one of the advantages and one of the problems of Open source vs. closed source. Consequently Windows has a benefit here. Say what you will but the windows development base is fairly unified and a concentration of efforts is easier; though admittedly less innovative than Linux granted forking produces new ideas. Not meant to be Linux bashing in favor of windows but this goes to show how windows isn't dying any time soon...
Bush: "We must further our ambitions in space"...or something like that anyways
Now I see this posted... Now admittedly 1 billion is a pretty big price to save Hubble (would probably be more practical just to send up a new one) but is there a newer one in the near Horizon even?
Politics and space mix badly...but then again what else is new...
What's on paper is one thing, what is fact is another...I'm quite well eductated thank you...
Might be your best one, legal remedies overseas get sickening. Particularly in the India(is that jurisdiction?) judicial system. Something most outsourcing companies really don't understand, if the sh*t hits the fan on your contract the best case scenario is that it would take you a while to legally get compensation; worst case scenario is that the courts tend to favor the natives to their country more than the foreigners and you're out of luck.
Agreed in part, however I question how much of senile depression is resulting from old age vs. being a part of old age. As I said in parent, nothing seemed to work. Whereas pumping just about anyone full of Prozac in other depression cases I've seen in younger people seems to work, but not with Grandma. Which leads me to any of 2 possible conclusions:
1) The "I'm depressed because I'm old and frail" depression is so severe that nothing currently available can conquer it.
2) The depression is a part of the mental aging and not resulting from the rest of aging. The 2 aging processes are separate and independent.
Which means, respectively that one of 2 solutions needs to be developed:
1) Finding stronger depression therapy.
2) Solving the puzzle behind mental aging as well as physical aging.
The only thing I'm worried about in slow speed exploration after the human living that long problem is solved, is the machine living that long. The average lifespan of a hard drive to the best of my experience has been 5 years, and I don't think I've had any gadget longer than 10 years before malfunction. The middle of the Solar system is a long way to go to Earth for a replacement part...
Granted I didn't RTWFA (Read the whole f*ck*ng article), but no I don't want to live forever. Why take as a case in point my grandparents. One of which just recently died at 94, and the other one is still alive at 95. Both of them, since about age 85 onward have been depressed to the point of which the only thing apparently running/ran through their minds was "kill me...kill me...". No amount of family contact/therapy/meds seemed to help this. So rather than spend about 910 years thinking "Kill me...Kill me..." I think I'll just ask to die at 85 a nice happy man. Then again I've known some happy old people so YMMV...
Well I'm with Earthlink DSL (SBC is the phone company) in Orange County and I'm impressed. Outages are few (maybe once every 3 months that I notice). It's fairly quick too. Currently I get 1.5Mbps down with 128kbps up for $50/month.
The only thing I don't like about Earthlink is attempting to get a Static IP from them, I've been in their Queue for a Static IP for 4 months with no success. Then again there is an IP address shortage. However they keep billing me $15/month extra for the static IP, so monthly I get to have a chat with their customer service for a credit. Annoying, maybe I should just cancel my static IP address request outright and live with it.
Cable in this area is served by Adelphia, and I've heard enough crappy things about them to stay far away...I'd probably sooner go satellite Internet if I needed a route other than DSL.
Dumping Netflix for Bittorrent??? I see an automated copyright infringement notice in your future....
2 things
1) Hook everything up for remote access, so then I can do anything short of a cold start anywhere.
2) Got another geek in your complex? Good, another admin to split the work. If not I'll train somebody there with the basics (where the power switches are, some of the remote admin stuffs, etc). I'd have a hard time believing that nobody else in an entire complex wouldn't be reasonably intelligent and trainable in computers to where he could do some of the basic things needed for day to day work in a network.
Well reverse situation here, I have a good rapport with my neighbors (one of them even has my apartment key and watches over my cat) so yeah I'd be willing to work something out in this situation. YMMV
I'd probably opt to cooperate rather than isolate, specifically:
:-D
1) Contact the neighbors (door to door, flyers, etc) and inform them of the problem, offer to secure their WAP's and put them on a Wi-Fi co-op that would give the entire complex a single Wi-Fi connection
2) Contact an ISP that's willing (I know Speakeasy, Slashdot's sponsor is doing this) and get a big pipe from them (High power DSL or T-1)
3) Set up one WAP as the main station and configure everyone else as a repeater
Advantages:
1) Big fat Wi-Fi pipe
2) Wide range (entire complex and then some)
3) Everyone has tighter security if you know how to set up Wi-Fi properly
4) Joint budgets make this more affordable
Disadvantages:
1) Bandwidth hogs (though it can be mitigated)
2) Bickering neighbors or those who refuse for whatever reasons (good diplomacy skills here)
3) Large initial expense (those T-1's aren't cheap if you go that route, good equipment and setup charge investments involved)
So far it hasn't been a problem in my area, I personally appreciate being the one secure well guarded WAP with 3 other Default SSID's around me
Unfortunately if this isn't plausible for you, I fear you might be stuck going 802.11a or how about just plugging in the ol' cat 5/6 again?
For those who think that's funny, you haven't been to Hawaii yet, so screwed up by imported species of plants and animals, hardly anything native is left...
Aaaaah but we're not talking about pure programming per se, just something fun to get the kids interested in creating things with computers. Forget algorhithims and output, I just want them to draw something easily with the little turtle and we'll work from there.
way to start on computers, as it is simple and imaginative. If you can find a PC Logo Emulator/program I'd start with that :-) and I'm sure there is one available out there.
You know what also would probably be an easy way to get someone in on programming? Straight up line number GW-Basic or AppleBasic. Simple, and teaches basic programming concepts fairly well (If statements, loops, etc with simple input and output). Beats trying to teach the principles of OO design at an early age. Little baby steps would be key...
NOOOOOOooooooo.....I've been blinded by marketing, how could this happen, I must be getting older and more gullible. The sad part too is that the AMD equivalent looks to be about $100 cheaper than the Centrino Notebook I bought.
*sigh* I must redeem myself immediately, I know, I'll install BSD on this notebook and like it!!!
They still rock in one spot, the mobile processor market. I just got a new laptop with their Centrino processor and it's awesome. Loads of power, and I can run for 3 hrs easily. I was looking for a similar offer from AMD but to no avail.
But yeah in the desktop/server market in general I'd give AMD first pick now. Truly the innovator at this point.
Also I'd be nervous if I were AMD, a quick glance at the balance sheets shows Intel has a helluva lot more working capital then AMD, it's amazing what a 600lb gorilla can do to a 100lb skinny guy. Then again AMD has always been nimble enough and they've come up with something innovative to beat Intel, and they'll do it again...
Amazon has had the best shipment record of any other online store with me to date, items often come sooner than I expected, but I think maybe one late item that I can remember. I will trust Amazon over any online store to date to ship what I need on time.
Generally you don't get much of a choice, it's a condition of you buying a house in that given neighborhood.
However yeah I'd agree with you and at least attempt to make sure any house I bought was a non HOA area. Granted I really don't care what color the house is painted, and noise issues are often handled by the police, etc...
How many times can you piss off the neighbors before the homeowner's association punishes you, coupled with the desire to please your audience?
Still though, oh the humanity Alek, couldn't you just leave one string of lights internet controlled next year? Wouldn't be too bad...
heh, my employer at the time paid for it :-)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Seriously, take a look at my resume (http://www.codesweep.com/about.cfm) you will see that there are plenty of interesting jobs on it (and I haven't throughly revised it in awhile, I could state more). While my college degree is a footnote at the bottom. While Cal Poly Pomona is a good school, it doesn't matter based on what's more attractive, the work or the school.
Bottom line: Find a good (even if cheap) job NOW. Failing that, grab an open source project at http://www.sourceforge.net and contribute something to get your name on the developers list. Something, anything for your resume besides a degree (whether Ivy League or State U) is paramount to a good job. If you can accomplish this, it won't matter if your degree says "WTF Coding University".
Well my dad mostly does consumer law and besides he's not THAT good with the computer. "Linux...what's that?" However if SCO declares bankruptcy over this, my dad would be delighted to pick over the pieces :-)
Well I consider it a trade of sorts....
:-)
For example, my Dad is a lawyer and a damn good one. I fix his computer for free no questions asked. When some big bad corporate bully comes picking on me for no apparent reason (aka a big overcharge on a bill or a denied insurance claim), I turn my dad on them, think of it as an M1A1 Abrams handling the big bad bully...in the end it all works out I think