Make people think you're doing them an individual favor. Don't over do it and don't do it to everyone. For example, give certain people, especially those who are nice to you, slightly better equipment or peripherals and make sure they know it but convey it in a hush-hush manner. It's not so much the equipment/software/extra leniency that matters but being treated better than someone else that makes this work. That's how people are. Everyone want to be better or stand out from everyone else; people want to feel special. Those who can help them with that will be given more respect, etc. Also works well with some girls too.
Agreed but I think that kind of situation or attitude is more prevalent than we think. People build their lives around different things. Their "work" (as in the product of their effort, not as in what they do from 9 to 5) becomes their lives. This is especially true of the creative types such as artists and writers but also software engineers. In many ways, software engineering or engineering in general is a hybrid between the arts and the sciences with room for creativity and personal touches. I work with a good group of engineers who are very passionate about their work, much more so than our paychecks can account for. I've seen the same passion turn into despair in bad times as well. Engineers also compound this problem by not being the most social people in the world. Having a network of people to connect to can really soften the pain when things don't go well. Most engineers don't commit suicide but the rate of burning out is rather high.
$40 million USD over 4 years is tiny! Wouldn't it be better to structure it as some sort of X-prize or some sort of incentive system predicated on success? I know it's hard to convince people to pop in a bionic eye so some stranger can tweak it but coming up with some parameters that could be objectively measured without sticking it into someone's body might be doable. X-prize type challenges can trigger research efforts in multiples of the actual prize itself.
X-prize or not, $40 million USD over 4 years is not going to go very far.
If you want to talk about easy digital, packet based networking, then the telegraph is worth a mention. Messages for electronic telegraphs were sent as packets that are later relayed to its final destination. It was also digital in the sense that each character was transmitted as discrete values. Another predecessor to TCP/IP based networking would be the mail system. While it wasn't digital, it was also packet based and as anyone who've used the postal system knows, it's only best effort. For added cost, you can get ack-like behavior with return receipt.
It's not a bribe. It's just a red envelope... for good luck. Happy New Year... in May.
I joke but that's what actually happened when my grandmother had a telephone line installed in China. She wanted to make sure it doesn't mysterious get cut after the installation is done.
And people need to remember that software developers like to take advantage of new capabilities in the OS. What that means is that in a couple of years, new software coming out won't run on Windows XP, if that's not the case already. Microsoft is thinking ahead instead of worrying about the past, which to their credit they've been more backwards compatible than most vendors.
You mean like the time when they kicked North Korea's ass out of South Korea? Yeah that was an UN action (Resolution 84). Or how it served as a forum for the US and USSR to work out the Cuban Missile Crisis instead of fighting it out? How about the first Persian Gulf war, the one that's approved by the UN and not based on bullshit? Don't we wish we listened to the UN instead of Bush and Fox News the second time around?
The UN is huge and has many organs. Most of them are successful enough that you never hear about them and the work that they do. Of course there are failures but a world without the UN would be a far worse place.
Asking a question like that on Slashdot will inevitably lead to: 1. A flame war over which book/scientist is the most important 2. An outpouring of obscure references as every nerd tries to out-nerd the other with more and more obscure references
Did you even bother reading the wikipedia article? "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (October 2007)"
I know very little of medicine and biology but how do stem cells treatments work? I imagine stem cells being used to treat patients don't come from the patients themselves right? If so, wouldn't the body reject it? And what stops stem cells from becoming tumors? From TFA, "An article in last week's PLoS Medicine describes a teenage boy's brain tumor after receiving a fetal stem cell treatment in Russia." Basically, in theory and in simple terms, how are stem cell treatments suppose to work?
Last I recall a MSDN license isn't free. It's actually fairly expensive but gives you access to most, if not all, of Microsoft's excellent development tools.
First, I think the relationship between running injuries and shoes might be reversed. There's a group of people called overpronates who are prone to injuries and need "control" or "stability" shoes. Those shoes are among the most expensive. I have a mild case of it; my arches look flat from a distance but leave normal looking prints behind. My shoes have more padding than normal to help that. I also have orthodics to help more. The combination of both have basically stopped me from getting shin splints. I have had that problem in nearly two years, despite upping my mileage more than 100% over that period of time.
Second, from what I've read the Stanford track team, who inspired the Nike Free shoes, run bare foot but only once a week. They don't practice all the time that way. They also run it on grass.
The argument for running barefoot is compelling though and it's something I want to try some day, perhaps starting with something like Nike Free. Also, I'm not sure how well that carries over to distance running that I do. One of the benefits of barefoot running is that you tend to land the ball of your feet. However, long distance running tend to involve more heel striking with short, low strides. I might do what the Stanford track team does, which is to mix it in but for shorter distances.
Wait, do Klingons use Webex? I know the Borgs Twitter but it's always the same line over and over. They've got a social network that would make Facebook look absolutely amateurish.
I agree with you on most parts but I think people on Slashdot has perpetuated this idea that OS X will save you from your own incompetence. This shows it's clearly not the case so we should stop using the ability to save an user from their own incompetence as a criteria when talking about OS security, even when that OS is Windows. Even on OS X, I'm very cautious and they deserve a lot of credit for making it easy for me to do so. Overhyping OS X or any beloved product is only going to end up giving ourselves a black eye in the end.
While what you say it's true, taken in the context of Slashdot, it's a double standard. Whenever a trojan hits Windows, people are talking about how poorly designed Windows security is and how the user usually always runs as "administrator". People bring up how on Ubuntu and OS X, you have to sudo or login to do administrative things. Apparently that only works to a certain extend. I use and love my Macbook Pro but let's have some fairness here (not specifically you but Slashdot in general).
As someone who grew up in Florida, I wonder did these guys forget something? How do you hurricane proof solar panels??? You can't exactly put steel reinforced concrete in front of them to block incoming projectiles that fly around during a hurricane. Solar panels might make sense in the Mojave desert but not so sure about Florida where the entire state is at risk of being hit by a hurricane every year. I guess they can swap the panels out for wind generators during a hurricane. Maybe a tidal generator or wave generator would work better. Florida does have the longest coast line of any state.
If Google was going for a lock-in via the API, why would they show people a way to port AppEngine apps so that it can run on normal Django? What Google is going for is the ability to scale their infrastructure faster and cheaper than anyone else. They're counting on their economy of scale being better than anyone else's so that it's actually cheaper than for you to run your own datacenter. That's the whole idea behind cloud computing right? Whether that pans out is another story but that's what Google is leverage, not an API lock-in.
Either Slashdot is 9 days behind on its calendar or we've just discovered the best job in the world. If the latter, how do I sign up to work as an investigator for the Swedish government?
Unless of course you have two oceans to separate you from the realities of war. Maybe the terrorists wanted us to have a taste of our own medicine? We're technically at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Korea (no peace treaty) so does that make it OK for an Iraqi or a Taliban to drop a bomb in the middle of NYC? I agree with the spirit of what you're saying and I think we agree that many of us are shielded from the suffering of war so have a distorted view. However, I'm not sure it's correct to say that all civilians are fair targets during war. As much as possible, we should avoid killing civilians and causing a humanitarian crisis. There's a lot grey areas in between never going to war and massacring everyone you see.
If they had made a movie would it have been not so tasteless? If you think the game is tasteless but a movie isn't then it's a matter of the limitations you think of games as a medium to convey some human experience. Also, why is a game about a recent war tasteless but WWII is a very popular theme for most games? Do you think WWII was somehow cleaner or easier? From what I gathered WWII was pretty gruesome too, as is any war.
How the battle was is a foregone conclusion as is any historical battle. Putting 50 years in between or showing it in a different medium doesn't change the nature of war itself. So before making up your mind about it, how about giving the production a chance to do something meaningful? It could end up tasteless but it could be transcendental but that has to do with how they make the game, not the era they're depicting. If nothing else, how recent the battle was gives us more information about its actual nature rather than some glorified account that we often see about past wars.
Not talking tough for a guy who's 5'9" (or whatever height over 4'9" that I presume you must be to be dissing short people). Jokes aside, if even the threat of some dictator in some insignificant country is enough to derail some great undertaking of strong nations, hasn't the dictator already won? The monetary cost and risks associated with maintaining a nuclear stockpile isn't cheap. If all the major nations in the world agreed to a nuclear free world, it makes no sense to it to be derailed because of an insignificant dictator. Doing so would be like letting the dumbest kid in the group decide where to go because everyone's afraid that he might cry. If it means kicking his ass (or ridding the world of nukes by using it on him, j/k), then do so. It doesn't make sense letting the fear of someone insignificant derail a great undertaking. There might be other good reasons for maintaining a stockpile but Kim Jong Il is not one of them.
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Make people think you're doing them an individual favor. Don't over do it and don't do it to everyone. For example, give certain people, especially those who are nice to you, slightly better equipment or peripherals and make sure they know it but convey it in a hush-hush manner. It's not so much the equipment/software/extra leniency that matters but being treated better than someone else that makes this work. That's how people are. Everyone want to be better or stand out from everyone else; people want to feel special. Those who can help them with that will be given more respect, etc. Also works well with some girls too.
Agreed but I think that kind of situation or attitude is more prevalent than we think. People build their lives around different things. Their "work" (as in the product of their effort, not as in what they do from 9 to 5) becomes their lives. This is especially true of the creative types such as artists and writers but also software engineers. In many ways, software engineering or engineering in general is a hybrid between the arts and the sciences with room for creativity and personal touches. I work with a good group of engineers who are very passionate about their work, much more so than our paychecks can account for. I've seen the same passion turn into despair in bad times as well. Engineers also compound this problem by not being the most social people in the world. Having a network of people to connect to can really soften the pain when things don't go well. Most engineers don't commit suicide but the rate of burning out is rather high.
$40 million USD over 4 years is tiny! Wouldn't it be better to structure it as some sort of X-prize or some sort of incentive system predicated on success? I know it's hard to convince people to pop in a bionic eye so some stranger can tweak it but coming up with some parameters that could be objectively measured without sticking it into someone's body might be doable. X-prize type challenges can trigger research efforts in multiples of the actual prize itself.
X-prize or not, $40 million USD over 4 years is not going to go very far.
But it would definitely be a "French" problem if the thing blows up in a spectacular fashion.
When SAP said that Waste Management has the evidence, they meant they throw it out in the trash so technically WM has it now.
Do humans eat chimps or gorillas? Or is the similarity too much for us to stomach (pun partially intended)?
If you want to talk about easy digital, packet based networking, then the telegraph is worth a mention. Messages for electronic telegraphs were sent as packets that are later relayed to its final destination. It was also digital in the sense that each character was transmitted as discrete values. Another predecessor to TCP/IP based networking would be the mail system. While it wasn't digital, it was also packet based and as anyone who've used the postal system knows, it's only best effort. For added cost, you can get ack-like behavior with return receipt.
It's not a bribe. It's just a red envelope... for good luck. Happy New Year... in May.
I joke but that's what actually happened when my grandmother had a telephone line installed in China. She wanted to make sure it doesn't mysterious get cut after the installation is done.
And people need to remember that software developers like to take advantage of new capabilities in the OS. What that means is that in a couple of years, new software coming out won't run on Windows XP, if that's not the case already. Microsoft is thinking ahead instead of worrying about the past, which to their credit they've been more backwards compatible than most vendors.
You mean like the time when they kicked North Korea's ass out of South Korea? Yeah that was an UN action (Resolution 84). Or how it served as a forum for the US and USSR to work out the Cuban Missile Crisis instead of fighting it out? How about the first Persian Gulf war, the one that's approved by the UN and not based on bullshit? Don't we wish we listened to the UN instead of Bush and Fox News the second time around?
The UN is huge and has many organs. Most of them are successful enough that you never hear about them and the work that they do. Of course there are failures but a world without the UN would be a far worse place.
Stop sucking on Fox News' teats.
Asking a question like that on Slashdot will inevitably lead to:
1. A flame war over which book/scientist is the most important
2. An outpouring of obscure references as every nerd tries to out-nerd the other with more and more obscure references
Did you even bother reading the wikipedia article? "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (October 2007)"
It doesn't answer the questions I asked.
I know very little of medicine and biology but how do stem cells treatments work? I imagine stem cells being used to treat patients don't come from the patients themselves right? If so, wouldn't the body reject it? And what stops stem cells from becoming tumors? From TFA, "An article in last week's PLoS Medicine describes a teenage boy's brain tumor after receiving a fetal stem cell treatment in Russia." Basically, in theory and in simple terms, how are stem cell treatments suppose to work?
Last I recall a MSDN license isn't free. It's actually fairly expensive but gives you access to most, if not all, of Microsoft's excellent development tools.
First, I think the relationship between running injuries and shoes might be reversed. There's a group of people called overpronates who are prone to injuries and need "control" or "stability" shoes. Those shoes are among the most expensive. I have a mild case of it; my arches look flat from a distance but leave normal looking prints behind. My shoes have more padding than normal to help that. I also have orthodics to help more. The combination of both have basically stopped me from getting shin splints. I have had that problem in nearly two years, despite upping my mileage more than 100% over that period of time.
Second, from what I've read the Stanford track team, who inspired the Nike Free shoes, run bare foot but only once a week. They don't practice all the time that way. They also run it on grass.
The argument for running barefoot is compelling though and it's something I want to try some day, perhaps starting with something like Nike Free. Also, I'm not sure how well that carries over to distance running that I do. One of the benefits of barefoot running is that you tend to land the ball of your feet. However, long distance running tend to involve more heel striking with short, low strides. I might do what the Stanford track team does, which is to mix it in but for shorter distances.
Wait, do Klingons use Webex? I know the Borgs Twitter but it's always the same line over and over. They've got a social network that would make Facebook look absolutely amateurish.
The question is itself self defeating. Changes happen so there is no most secure OS. To be an IT admin for the Dalai Lama, one must pay attention.
I agree with you on most parts but I think people on Slashdot has perpetuated this idea that OS X will save you from your own incompetence. This shows it's clearly not the case so we should stop using the ability to save an user from their own incompetence as a criteria when talking about OS security, even when that OS is Windows. Even on OS X, I'm very cautious and they deserve a lot of credit for making it easy for me to do so. Overhyping OS X or any beloved product is only going to end up giving ourselves a black eye in the end.
While what you say it's true, taken in the context of Slashdot, it's a double standard. Whenever a trojan hits Windows, people are talking about how poorly designed Windows security is and how the user usually always runs as "administrator". People bring up how on Ubuntu and OS X, you have to sudo or login to do administrative things. Apparently that only works to a certain extend. I use and love my Macbook Pro but let's have some fairness here (not specifically you but Slashdot in general).
As someone who grew up in Florida, I wonder did these guys forget something? How do you hurricane proof solar panels??? You can't exactly put steel reinforced concrete in front of them to block incoming projectiles that fly around during a hurricane. Solar panels might make sense in the Mojave desert but not so sure about Florida where the entire state is at risk of being hit by a hurricane every year. I guess they can swap the panels out for wind generators during a hurricane. Maybe a tidal generator or wave generator would work better. Florida does have the longest coast line of any state.
If Google was going for a lock-in via the API, why would they show people a way to port AppEngine apps so that it can run on normal Django? What Google is going for is the ability to scale their infrastructure faster and cheaper than anyone else. They're counting on their economy of scale being better than anyone else's so that it's actually cheaper than for you to run your own datacenter. That's the whole idea behind cloud computing right? Whether that pans out is another story but that's what Google is leverage, not an API lock-in.
Either Slashdot is 9 days behind on its calendar or we've just discovered the best job in the world. If the latter, how do I sign up to work as an investigator for the Swedish government?
Unless of course you have two oceans to separate you from the realities of war. Maybe the terrorists wanted us to have a taste of our own medicine? We're technically at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Korea (no peace treaty) so does that make it OK for an Iraqi or a Taliban to drop a bomb in the middle of NYC? I agree with the spirit of what you're saying and I think we agree that many of us are shielded from the suffering of war so have a distorted view. However, I'm not sure it's correct to say that all civilians are fair targets during war. As much as possible, we should avoid killing civilians and causing a humanitarian crisis. There's a lot grey areas in between never going to war and massacring everyone you see.
If they had made a movie would it have been not so tasteless? If you think the game is tasteless but a movie isn't then it's a matter of the limitations you think of games as a medium to convey some human experience. Also, why is a game about a recent war tasteless but WWII is a very popular theme for most games? Do you think WWII was somehow cleaner or easier? From what I gathered WWII was pretty gruesome too, as is any war.
How the battle was is a foregone conclusion as is any historical battle. Putting 50 years in between or showing it in a different medium doesn't change the nature of war itself. So before making up your mind about it, how about giving the production a chance to do something meaningful? It could end up tasteless but it could be transcendental but that has to do with how they make the game, not the era they're depicting. If nothing else, how recent the battle was gives us more information about its actual nature rather than some glorified account that we often see about past wars.
Not talking tough for a guy who's 5'9" (or whatever height over 4'9" that I presume you must be to be dissing short people). Jokes aside, if even the threat of some dictator in some insignificant country is enough to derail some great undertaking of strong nations, hasn't the dictator already won? The monetary cost and risks associated with maintaining a nuclear stockpile isn't cheap. If all the major nations in the world agreed to a nuclear free world, it makes no sense to it to be derailed because of an insignificant dictator. Doing so would be like letting the dumbest kid in the group decide where to go because everyone's afraid that he might cry. If it means kicking his ass (or ridding the world of nukes by using it on him, j/k), then do so. It doesn't make sense letting the fear of someone insignificant derail a great undertaking. There might be other good reasons for maintaining a stockpile but Kim Jong Il is not one of them.