I'm sure that's fine for the average slashdotter, but what about the average slashdotted site? Now instead of having your server crumple over the volume, it'll be your bank account too.
I'm not for a net where only the rich can afford to be popular.
My guess is one of the founders had some indian blood in him, or was an american history buff.
My guess is that it is exactly what reading the [fine] article reveals it to be:
The game will be developed by the newly revealed Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (named after the real NORAD base where the fictional Stargate Command is located)
having to remember a shitload of cryptic key combinations drives me insane...
That's just it: eventually you don't remember it, you just do it. You may not be able to quickly recite the series of turns you make on your commute between home and work, but you know it when you drive it. You know it so well that when your job relocates to a new building in the same city that a couple times you find yourself automatically driving to the old building, or when you move to a new house you find yourself driving to your old apartment.
When you use it daily, everything goes to your muscle memory (contextual kinesthetics). You no longer think about what buttons you're pushing; you just know how to get from mode A to command B. True, the learning curve would be steep typing on three buttons, steeper than learning stenography, but it could pay off.
And development costs could be defrayed by a grant from a disabled's-interests group.
But in all honesty, I can't think of any killer application
Wearable computing.
Work out not just chording but also sequences of presses of individual keys, chords of keys, and rolling sequences upon the keys and you could have a very small interface on the back of your left hand or wrist upon which you type with your right, and it doubles as a display so if you get lost in the UI it can report its state.
Think of Homer Simpson's dream invention from 2F14, but with a display.
I almost want to be a replicator (talk about an overpowered character!), but playing a lego brick just doesn't sound like the ultimate immersive game experience to me. Besides, we'd need a raid group of like a billion people to do much of anything.:-)
You wouldn't be a single Replicator but rather the hive mind of a swarm of them, like controlling a bunch of Zerg in Starcraft.
Is there something wrong with the phrase "marketing hyperbole" that I'm missing that leads people to the above construction? I read the above and I wonder, what would constitute "parabolic marketing"?
Or is this just a hackish construction that relishes the ambiguity and punnage?
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An expansion pack featuring the Ori would be cool if it added the ability to become a Prior (after a LOT of work serving the Ori).
They'd have to make it so that the required 6 hours of daily Prostration didn't have to be experienced on-line.
JPEGs are too small for the margin of error in the reporting of this 1 PB array. From the article, it appears to be a 1.2 PB array (2400 * 500 GB), presumably to push it over the 1 PiB capacity(*). And that's assuming the whole capacity is available and none of it used for redundancy. (That's a lot of data to lose over one drive failure.)
(*) The difference between 1 PB and 1 PiB is nearly 126 TB! That's a lot of space to miss over not knowing what units you're talking about. Byte @
use more improvisation in all your stories so that its harder to tell the difference between a remembered story and a made up one.
Indeed, the opposite tactic of living the lie is being creatively truthful, and the latter may even be easier to pull off. Confabulate the truth and the actual lies become indistinguishable.
an attack can be executed from around 10 meters and the security broken... in around two hours.
But is it that someone would have to be within 10 feet of you for 2 hours to break it, or is it 10 feet to get the data and 2 hours at any distance to break it at leisure?
In either case, you might want to shield your passport at the movie theater.
The code isn't meant to be "compilable". It's to be used as reference material
Still, critical functionality can be hidden from the source by embedding it in the compiler, such as every secret API Microsoft has. Thus it would not be useful as reference material either as it would be critically incomplete.
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights only apply to technologies present in 1789.
And only the surviving technologies at that. And those older technologies that they feel are a hazard to newer technologies, such as using any life-powered transportation (walking, bicycling, horseback riding) on the Interstate.
I'd rather Google.cn censor its results than pretend that such results do not exist. Rather than suppress results, it should present them in redacted form, with black rescaled 1x1 GIFs in place of the text, so that it becomes very clear to those using it that their search is being censored, that there are other results but that your government has decided you don't need to know them. Making it clear the results are censored like this reduces the evil quotient.
No, I'm not talking about covering the results with such GIFs (like some redacted US government PDFs) where the results are easily discovered underneath them, but rather serving the CSS-scaled black 1x1 GIFs instead of the censored words. Probably some Javascript too to reduce the impact of page bloat.
Source code is nothing, look at all obfuscating source code contest out there ! What this code look ! I know more than one programmer that will encrypt his code to keep his job !
And then there's the compiler. It is very possible for Microsoft to have hidden essential parts of their source code into their own proprietary compiler so that the source is not compilable by anyone else. See Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
And you and the story reminds me of a story from my high school. Two students played chicken on a dirt road one night. One of them got killed, the other had to have some vertebrae fused. No movies or games were blamed for that.
Then the school held an open-casket funeral for the dead student in the gymnasium, placed the casket just inside the entrance where everyone had to walk by it, and marched the entire student body in to attend it! No preparation, no informing us that that was what was going on, you found out when you saw the casket. Worse, the first in decided to hug his parents, so there was this chain of obligatory hugging or hand-shaking going on. Thankfully I was able to avoid doing that.
I would have marched right through that gym and out the door leaving the building, but they had posted a teacher at every exit to deter escape. I learned later that they could not force attendance, but they also didn't have to tell anyone that not attending was an option.
And they put folding chairs for the students on their precious new basketball court on which no one was permitted to walk wearing street shoes lest it get marked, save this special occasion apparently. Oh, the hypocracy!
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Doctors have been looking at retinas for years! It's well known they're a (relatively) easy way to get a look at small blood vessels.
Well, that answers Col. O'Neill's question in "Window of Opportunity", "I ask you, what could possibly be in my eye that could explain all this?"
At least Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't declare war on Mars.
In the butt.
I'm sure that's fine for the average slashdotter, but what about the average slashdotted site? Now instead of having your server crumple over the volume, it'll be your bank account too.
I'm not for a net where only the rich can afford to be popular.
Laserbeak, eject. Operation: mastectomy.
My guess is that it is exactly what reading the [fine] article reveals it to be:
2F14 is the production code number for Homer vs. Patty and Selma.
will disinfect compromised computers, Microsoft said."
After the damage is done to your files?
ZEN: Repair monitors report explosive device attached to primary power channel.
BLAKE: Where?
ZEN: Hold three, access duct seven.
BLAKE: Can the automatics neutralize it?
ZEN: No.
BLAKE: Why not?!
ZEN: There is no damage.
AVON: Computer logic. Until the bomb explodes there is nothing for the repair system to repair. Zen, can you reprogram the automatics?
ZEN: Preemptive interference in crew activity is forbidden.
BLAKE: Oh, he'll clear up after us, but he won't stop us making a mess!
having to remember a shitload of cryptic key combinations drives me insane...
That's just it: eventually you don't remember it, you just do it. You may not be able to quickly recite the series of turns you make on your commute between home and work, but you know it when you drive it. You know it so well that when your job relocates to a new building in the same city that a couple times you find yourself automatically driving to the old building, or when you move to a new house you find yourself driving to your old apartment.
When you use it daily, everything goes to your muscle memory (contextual kinesthetics). You no longer think about what buttons you're pushing; you just know how to get from mode A to command B. True, the learning curve would be steep typing on three buttons, steeper than learning stenography, but it could pay off.
And development costs could be defrayed by a grant from a disabled's-interests group.
But in all honesty, I can't think of any killer application
Wearable computing.
Work out not just chording but also sequences of presses of individual keys, chords of keys, and rolling sequences upon the keys and you could have a very small interface on the back of your left hand or wrist upon which you type with your right, and it doubles as a display so if you get lost in the UI it can report its state.
Think of Homer Simpson's dream invention from 2F14, but with a display.
I almost want to be a replicator (talk about an overpowered character!), but playing a lego brick just doesn't sound like the ultimate immersive game experience to me. Besides, we'd need a raid group of like a billion people to do much of anything. :-)
You wouldn't be a single Replicator but rather the hive mind of a swarm of them, like controlling a bunch of Zerg in Starcraft.
BTW: What's the gate address for earth ?
28 26 5 36 11 29 + P.O.O.
Assuming you're in the Milky Way network. Pegasus-network glyphs are different and have yet to be documented.
I am assuming its designation would be P0X-000.
Sony is known for their hyperbolic marketing:
Is there something wrong with the phrase "marketing hyperbole" that I'm missing that leads people to the above construction? I read the above and I wonder, what would constitute "parabolic marketing"?
Or is this just a hackish construction that relishes the ambiguity and punnage?
An expansion pack featuring the Ori would be cool if it added the ability to become a Prior (after a LOT of work serving the Ori).
They'd have to make it so that the required 6 hours of daily Prostration didn't have to be experienced on-line.
At least you know they're leaving out everything from Stargate Infinity .
1 Peta[byte]?? How many JPEGS would that be?
JPEGs are too small for the margin of error in the reporting of this 1 PB array. From the article, it appears to be a 1.2 PB array (2400 * 500 GB), presumably to push it over the 1 PiB capacity(*). And that's assuming the whole capacity is available and none of it used for redundancy. (That's a lot of data to lose over one drive failure.)
(*) The difference between 1 PB and 1 PiB is nearly 126 TB! That's a lot of space to miss over not knowing what units you're talking about. Byte @
10 meters is about 33 feet, not 10 feet.
I guess I'd better not get a job at NASA.
At least I got it right in the subject.
use more improvisation in all your stories so that its harder to tell the difference between a remembered story and a made up one.
Indeed, the opposite tactic of living the lie is being creatively truthful, and the latter may even be easier to pull off. Confabulate the truth and the actual lies become indistinguishable.
Machine-readable biometrics is the problem. It makes your most personal data accessible in the easiest to disseminate of ways.
an attack can be executed from around 10 meters and the security broken... in around two hours.
But is it that someone would have to be within 10 feet of you for 2 hours to break it, or is it 10 feet to get the data and 2 hours at any distance to break it at leisure?
In either case, you might want to shield your passport at the movie theater.
The code isn't meant to be "compilable". It's to be used as reference material
Still, critical functionality can be hidden from the source by embedding it in the compiler, such as every secret API Microsoft has. Thus it would not be useful as reference material either as it would be critically incomplete.
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights only apply to technologies present in 1789.
And only the surviving technologies at that. And those older technologies that they feel are a hazard to newer technologies, such as using any life-powered transportation (walking, bicycling, horseback riding) on the Interstate.
I'd rather Google.cn censor its results than pretend that such results do not exist. Rather than suppress results, it should present them in redacted form, with black rescaled 1x1 GIFs in place of the text, so that it becomes very clear to those using it that their search is being censored, that there are other results but that your government has decided you don't need to know them. Making it clear the results are censored like this reduces the evil quotient.
No, I'm not talking about covering the results with such GIFs (like some redacted US government PDFs) where the results are easily discovered underneath them, but rather serving the CSS-scaled black 1x1 GIFs instead of the censored words. Probably some Javascript too to reduce the impact of page bloat.
Source code is nothing, look at all obfuscating source code contest out there ! What this code look ! I know more than one programmer that will encrypt his code to keep his job !
And then there's the compiler. It is very possible for Microsoft to have hidden essential parts of their source code into their own proprietary compiler so that the source is not compilable by anyone else. See Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
reminds me of high school where...
And you and the story reminds me of a story from my high school. Two students played chicken on a dirt road one night. One of them got killed, the other had to have some vertebrae fused. No movies or games were blamed for that.
Then the school held an open-casket funeral for the dead student in the gymnasium, placed the casket just inside the entrance where everyone had to walk by it, and marched the entire student body in to attend it! No preparation, no informing us that that was what was going on, you found out when you saw the casket. Worse, the first in decided to hug his parents, so there was this chain of obligatory hugging or hand-shaking going on. Thankfully I was able to avoid doing that.
I would have marched right through that gym and out the door leaving the building, but they had posted a teacher at every exit to deter escape. I learned later that they could not force attendance, but they also didn't have to tell anyone that not attending was an option.
And they put folding chairs for the students on their precious new basketball court on which no one was permitted to walk wearing street shoes lest it get marked, save this special occasion apparently. Oh, the hypocracy!