I don't know... Imagine what that would be like for, say, Metallica. Fans with an incentive to kill their idols : Expensive albums... BAM! Download for free.
Well, my rig is much older and I run crysis on a nv6800, and a 1.8GHz cpu. So the gameplay sucks. The difference is that I spent a lot less money on hardware, ergo, I got a lot more sucky gameplay for my money. Or in other words, my suck per buck ratio is a lot higher. Yeah.
> what's the real value of these surveillance programs? The establishment wants to stay on top of the game. They don't give a shit about your so-called rights. I know that sounds harsh, but there you have it.
Not that I'd get violent, but the idea to trash the device would certainly cross my mind:) It's bad enough that every free square meter is plastered over with ads. They are usually butt-ugly and annoying. Buses, tv, billboards on buildings, products you buy, you name it. Always an ad trying to peddle some product I don't need.
However, this tech could be used on the battlefield for transmitting orders over large distances if it can be fitted in a small portable format, bolted onto a troop transport, or something along those lines.
This could also be used for 'Voice of God' pranks. "Rod... Todd... This is God." *grin*
Unfortunately, that would teach them the flaws of the system, so they can iron out most of the bugs if they ever want to implement this on a larger scale.
Let's hope they realize what a horrible idea it is to treat kids like criminals by putting them under constant surveillance, and just drop the project. Treat people like criminals, and most of them will behave like criminals. RFID surveillance will do nothing positive for safety because it is easily circumvented. If anything, it will only piss off enough kids that they will hate going to school even more.
This amounts to control through fear. The best way to teach people to cooperate in a constructive way is through mutual respect. Kids are no angels, but this is no way to improve the situation. (Perhaps teachers/school admins who sponsor this idea should get permanent implants so the kids can see what Mr Jones & Mrs Smith are up to in the broom cabinet during lunch breaks... I'm sure they wouldn't like that very much:-)
Not that I RTFA, but judging from the summary, this smells like slashvertisement for the iPhone, being close to christmas and all. And the iPhone being at the same level of awesomeness as the ability to turn *-type blood into O-type blood ? Whatever.
Your example reminds me of Einstein's pal, Fritz Haber.
He drove his wife Carla Immerwahr nuts by demanding she be a housewife (like Reiser) while she a chemistry researcher with ambitions, and it was not a happy marriage. She committed suicide, coincidentally right after Haber introduced gas warfare in WW1 and killed 5000+ allied soldiers at the first front line trial in Ypres. (Look it up on wikipedia, it's a colorful story.)
Interesting detail : Fritz Haber received a nobel prize for the "Haber" process for production of ammonia. He also invented zyklon B.
It depends on your life experience and the thickness of your skin, I guess.
One man's cynicism is another man's humour. The latter probably has more life experience and deals with it through a sense humour that may seem offending and inappropriate to the former.
If you've never seen a murder scene, it's shocking if you do, and you'd need some time to deal with it if it's staring you in the face. Then again, most people relate to the morbid oneliners made by tv actors playing detectives and laugh heartily. We are desensitized to TV violence and related jokes... meanwhile we can't swear on TV or show a nice rack of tits. Same thing.
Under stressful situations, it's often difficult dealing with hyper-sensitive types that try to impose political correctness and are offended, for example, by things George Carlin might say, just because they close their eyes to the sometimes grotesque unpleasantries of reality.
Humour helps put things in perspective. If bad stuff happens, the humour will be either dark/sarcastic/cynical/laconic, or irrelevant.
It's important to know your audience, though. No use offending the people around you to prove what a badass you are by poking fun at things you know are painful to them.
I agree on PVCS. There's much better tools for version control, and cheaper too. PVCS is unwieldy, slow and bloated. For small to medium sized dev shops, tools like SVN or Perforce are adequate, with plenty of plugins for tracking tools, Eclipse, etc. Bigger dev shops usually don't have a choice and are already stuck with some vendor specific closed-source monstrosity that only interfaces correctly with that vendor's other tools. (Read: vendor lockin is teh suck.)
Tangentially, I heard there is a new version control feature in Visual Studio that's supposed to be the bees knees... (but I wouldn't hold my breath - after seeing MS's previous VC tool (VSS) fall over and die, corrupting the whole source repository in the process... Painful! *cough* backups *cough*.) </ramble>
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I don't know... Imagine what that would be like for, say, Metallica.
Fans with an incentive to kill their idols :
Expensive albums... BAM! Download for free.
Well, my rig is much older and I run crysis on a nv6800, and a 1.8GHz cpu.
So the gameplay sucks.
The difference is that I spent a lot less money on hardware, ergo, I got a lot more sucky gameplay for my money.
Or in other words, my suck per buck ratio is a lot higher.
Yeah.
Interesting video.
(Although I have to admit that when seeing those naked rotors, my first thought was "Manhacks!")
I'd like to see how it holds up against Calista Flockhart footage and not go Division By Zero.
Unless you're married. Or in prison. But I repeat myself.
The last three articles weren't enough?
Of course not.
It's stay-happy-news from the whaa-no-new-fps-in-my-xmas-stocking dept.
(...It can get awfully lonely in this basement with no new games to distract me.)
Let me guess... the phone is a present for your mother in law ?
> what's the real value of these surveillance programs?
The establishment wants to stay on top of the game.
They don't give a shit about your so-called rights.
I know that sounds harsh, but there you have it.
Not that I'd get violent, but the idea to trash the device would certainly cross my mind :)
It's bad enough that every free square meter is plastered over with ads. They are usually butt-ugly and annoying. Buses, tv, billboards on buildings, products you buy, you name it. Always an ad trying to peddle some product I don't need.
However, this tech could be used on the battlefield for transmitting orders over large distances if it can be fitted in a small portable format, bolted onto a troop transport, or something along those lines.
This could also be used for 'Voice of God' pranks.
"Rod... Todd... This is God." *grin*
My guess is, it's caused by a crack in the crust below the sea bottom, with sand filling the opened gap. Just guessing, though.
Rules of grammar do not apply to Roman emperors and particle scientists.
Better waste resources to beat the second thermodynamics law...
I don't know... Stupidity seems to be perpetual and ubiquitous. We just need to find a way to combust it, and voila.
(At the risk of invoking godwin...)
Technically, the same sort of behaviour was sufficient to get plenty of German officials the noose at the Nueremberg trials.
All the world's a stage. Feh.
guilty.
Sir, you're a credit to your species.
How is life in a cave, anyway ?
Unfortunately, that would teach them the flaws of the system, so they can iron out most of the bugs if they ever want to implement this on a larger scale.
:-)
Let's hope they realize what a horrible idea it is to treat kids like criminals by putting them under constant surveillance, and just drop the project.
Treat people like criminals, and most of them will behave like criminals.
RFID surveillance will do nothing positive for safety because it is easily circumvented. If anything, it will only piss off enough kids that they will hate going to school even more.
This amounts to control through fear. The best way to teach people to cooperate in a constructive way is through mutual respect. Kids are no angels, but this is no way to improve the situation.
(Perhaps teachers/school admins who sponsor this idea should get permanent implants so the kids can see what Mr Jones & Mrs Smith are up to in the broom cabinet during lunch breaks... I'm sure they wouldn't like that very much
Oh well, this year, it's an RFID chip. Next year, an 80 ft satellite dish ?
Not that I RTFA, but judging from the summary, this smells like slashvertisement for the iPhone, being close to christmas and all.
And the iPhone being at the same level of awesomeness as the ability to turn *-type blood into O-type blood ?
Whatever.
Your example reminds me of Einstein's pal, Fritz Haber.
He drove his wife Carla Immerwahr nuts by demanding she be a housewife (like Reiser) while she a chemistry researcher with ambitions, and it was not a happy marriage.
She committed suicide, coincidentally right after Haber introduced gas warfare in WW1 and killed 5000+ allied soldiers at the first front line trial in Ypres.
(Look it up on wikipedia, it's a colorful story.)
Interesting detail : Fritz Haber received a nobel prize for the "Haber" process for production of ammonia.
He also invented zyklon B.
Irony : Haber was of jewish origin.
> ...see if I can do stupid stuff and get away with it.
That's a good summary of an average working day, actually.
is it compatible with Comcast ?
Try "Stellarium". (free software)
;)
http://www.stellarium.org/
Set the appropriate time and location, and let it search for Perseus; the comet is in that general direction.
(Or were you joking about the fabulous star-gazing weather in the UK ?
Note to self : don't forget to bring a towel.
It depends on your life experience and the thickness of your skin, I guess.
One man's cynicism is another man's humour. The latter probably has more life experience and deals with it through a sense humour that may seem offending and inappropriate to the former.
If you've never seen a murder scene, it's shocking if you do, and you'd need some time to deal with it if it's staring you in the face. Then again, most people relate to the morbid oneliners made by tv actors playing detectives and laugh heartily. We are desensitized to TV violence and related jokes... meanwhile we can't swear on TV or show a nice rack of tits. Same thing.
Under stressful situations, it's often difficult dealing with hyper-sensitive types that try to impose political correctness and are offended, for example, by things George Carlin might say, just because they close their eyes to the sometimes grotesque unpleasantries of reality.
Humour helps put things in perspective.
If bad stuff happens, the humour will be either dark/sarcastic/cynical/laconic, or irrelevant.
It's important to know your audience, though. No use offending the people around you to prove what a badass you are by poking fun at things you know are painful to them.
I agree on PVCS. There's much better tools for version control, and cheaper too. PVCS is unwieldy, slow and bloated.
For small to medium sized dev shops, tools like SVN or Perforce are adequate, with plenty of plugins for tracking tools, Eclipse, etc.
Bigger dev shops usually don't have a choice and are already stuck with some vendor specific closed-source monstrosity that only interfaces correctly with that vendor's other tools. (Read: vendor lockin is teh suck.)
Tangentially, I heard there is a new version control feature in Visual Studio that's supposed to be the bees knees... (but I wouldn't hold my breath - after seeing MS's previous VC tool (VSS) fall over and die, corrupting the whole source repository in the process... Painful! *cough* backups *cough*.) </ramble>