Have you considered that maybe they were right? I mean we seem to be moving back to the mainframe concept but under a different name (Cloud computing, SOA, web-based applications etc). This time round it is physically implemented as a remote blade rack rather than a big cpu box down the hall but it is all basically the same 'dumb client' concept.
Better burn so better efficiency/more power and less emissions, at least in theory. Of course not burning gasoline at all is a still better approach but the car industry seems to be refusing to go that far. I Guess there's also the benefit to home experimenters that if this gets adopted, old cars will become a cheap source of powerful lasers that run on 12v:-)
It seems car companies are highly resistant to giving up on gasoline engines. It probably explains why hybrid cars are all styled so ugly. Anyway even hybrid is really not much of an improvement unless you're a car salesman.
I guess they are all tooled up to make gasoline cars and don't want to pay for retooling or the effort required to change to another tech, regardless of the damage to the planet their business model causes.
I bet these guys are getting funding from the car companies to come up with any excuse to keep gasoline engines being sold instead of having to actually deal with change.
its great news, but doesn't fix the problem. I guess now all the RIAA will do is shift their efforts to people that earn too much to get Pro Bono, but still dont earn enough to be able to defend themselves against being hounded with litigation. In fact this is probably most of us.
>> So essentially, the 20k miles driver has 75k miles more driving experience than the lower milliage driver....
Yeah they might be more experienced as a result of driving 3X more miles, but they're also 3X more exposed to the risk of an accident caused by someone else too.
You can't directly calculate experience and ability (not least because even for a given driver they're not constant over even a single day or journey) so basically they jsut use a formula like 'n accidents occur per mile driven as a state or national average'. They just assume everyone is average. Yes it does benefit the worst drivers at the cost of the best, but then democracy is always like that, which is why democracy sucks.
Their products suck badly, their licencing sucks badly, their monopoly sucks badly, their whole attitude sucks really badly. They're so overdue to be brought down.
Top-end graphics are usually a significant disadvantage as companies like EA always use it as a lame replacement for actual gameplay. Its got to a point where I purposely avoid games that have high-end graphics as its a sure indicator that the game itself will suck.
I mean look at Crysis. Other than being fairly pretty, its really just a predictable and yawn-worthy 'shoot everything' game that plays like its on rails. BioShock is even worse. Its basically a movie. There's no way you're not eventually going down that preset path.
With both games, after you've killed the final boss there is nothing to do but replay exactly the same game. Consequently those games for me had a total installed time of about 2 weeks and their CDs are now just mouldering away on my bookshelf beacuse I have a total lack of desire to waste time replaying exactly the same experience. I already know what every part of it would be like.
$45 * 2 spent for a total of 2 weeks play doesn't represent good value to me. Honestly I'd rather go and play Tetris or Sudoku. I'm still playing those after years.
Actually not true. If you don't know either a username or password its essentially impossible number of combinations to try to log in, however given one (it doesnt matter which), it becomes viable to use various approaches to get the other.
You must be American. As a Brit in the US it amazes me how just about all Americans seem to think that Monty Python represents the current British culture and that we all have every line memorised.
It would be like us Brits expecting the whole of the US to be like Gilligans Island. oh wait...
>>> I've been considering a full-time Masters degree in a specialized Computer Science area such as databases or Web development, but I don't know if the financial cost and the loss of a year's income and experience can justify it.
Unfortuately the.com era produced an effect where everybody and their dog got a quickie CS Masters and got programming work just because they saw Steve Jobs and Bill Gates driving Ferraris. Not because they actually had any interest in, or even real clue about computers. As soon as the economy levelled out they were the first people to get fired or bail out and go back to being a realtor or whatever. Also because there were so many of them and the usual scenario was that they had no actual technical skills, it permanently damaged the whole environment and credability of good developers that actually could do the job.
Now the economy is bad again, as a hiring manager I'm seeing the same pattern of monkies that actually think adding 9 month CS masters to their humanities (or whatever) degree will make them able to play equally with (or even be superior to) Engineers-by-nature having a 3 or 4 year CS Batchelors degree and multiple years of relevant work experience.
My answer is if the only interest you have in any subject is because of the money you MIGHT earn from it, then don't waste your life. Anyway you're never gonna actually make it in a field you don't otherwise give a crap about.
except they would gladly take your extra money, then still find ways to incorporate things that are really advertisements, but technically not in some unnoticeable legal detail.
Why the heck does the law make an imessuarably small dent in a megacorporations profits more important than fraud being perpetrated against a citizen? its ridiculous and very wrong.
>> windows Terminal Server licenses aren't too expensive and the remote desktop experience is silky smooth.
BWAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks for that. I needed a laugh. Silky smooth? Having to do anything remotely technical via Terminal Server is the biggest pain in the butt I've ever experienced. BTW if you're really not a paid shill for Microsoft then WTF are you smoking?
>> I think they were heading to a place where Skynet was basically an emotional creature trapped by its programming
Exactly. It would have probably turned out to have PMS and be bipolar too, and any other ugly human traits they can burden it with. I mean who gives a crap. I just want to be entertained with escapism, not brought down further to struggle with 'human' issues, injected soley to cover up an otherwise dull storyline, and that otherwise have no plausible basis for existence in the show. Especially when in order to justify the existence of said issues they have to warp Hollywood's already hopelessly unrealistic and internally inconsistent view of science and technology to a point well beyond even naive credibility.
Whether you like to accept it or not, women and men are psychobiologically different. Meaning, there are observable, quantifiable and consistent physical differences in the brain and its chemistry based solely on gender.
As a result, women consistently perform worse at spatial-based tasks than men. Women consistently perform better at communications-based tasks than men. There are millions of well-conducted experiments and studies that re-prove the existence of these and other gender-based differences over and over again.
It frustrates the hell out of me that the loony 'Politically Correct' regime is so enforced on us and continues to reduce to denial any innate gender difference even in the face of hard evidence.
Most 'normal' people now feel they can't even openly raise the possibility, much less the FACT that we actually are mentally differently-abled BECAUSE of gender.
Society as a whole will not properly develop until we accept the existence of gender-based ability differences, including mental, as a fact and move on.
>> No one credible claims that females have less ability to learn mathematics or crunch numbers in most cases
Whether you like to accept it or not, women and men are psychobiologically different. Meaning, there are observable, quantifiable and consistent physical differences in the brain and its chemistry based solely on gender.
As a result, women consistently perform worse at spatial-based tasks than men. Women consistently perform better at communications-based tasks than men. There are millions of well-conducted experiments and studies that re-prove the existence of these and other gender-based differences over and over again.
It frustrates the hell out of me that the loony 'Politically Correct' regime is so enforced on us and continues to deny any innate gender difference even in the face of hard evidence. Most 'normal' people now feel they can't even openly raise the possibility, much less the FACT that we actually are mentally differently-abled BECAUSE of gender.
Society as a whole will not properly develop until we accept the existence of gender-based ability differences, including mental, as a fact and move on.
Its worrying that the drive head came into contact with the surface. This shouldnt ever be physically possible no matter what happens on the drive interface or how bad a current surge you had, so it sounds like you screwed something up when you replaced the electronics or more likely, the heads.
Given your innate ability to screw hardware up, If I were you at this point I would accept my own limitations and give the drive to a professional recovery service. Make sure you give them the original electronics and heads too.
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Have you considered that maybe they were right? I mean we seem to be moving back to the mainframe concept but under a different name (Cloud computing, SOA, web-based applications etc). This time round it is physically implemented as a remote blade rack rather than a big cpu box down the hall but it is all basically the same 'dumb client' concept.
Better burn so better efficiency/more power and less emissions, at least in theory. :-)
Of course not burning gasoline at all is a still better approach but the car industry seems to be refusing to go that far.
I Guess there's also the benefit to home experimenters that if this gets adopted, old cars will become a cheap source of powerful lasers that run on 12v
It seems car companies are highly resistant to giving up on gasoline engines. It probably explains why hybrid cars are all styled so ugly. Anyway even hybrid is really not much of an improvement unless you're a car salesman.
I guess they are all tooled up to make gasoline cars and don't want to pay for retooling or the effort required to change to another tech, regardless of the damage to the planet their business model causes.
I bet these guys are getting funding from the car companies to come up with any excuse to keep gasoline engines being sold instead of having to actually deal with change.
its great news, but doesn't fix the problem.
I guess now all the RIAA will do is shift their efforts to people that earn too much to get Pro Bono, but still dont earn enough to be able to defend themselves against being hounded with litigation. In fact this is probably most of us.
>> So essentially, the 20k miles driver has 75k miles more driving experience than the lower milliage driver....
Yeah they might be more experienced as a result of driving 3X more miles, but they're also 3X more exposed to the risk of an accident caused by someone else too.
You can't directly calculate experience and ability (not least because even for a given driver they're not constant over even a single day or journey) so basically they jsut use a formula like 'n accidents occur per mile driven as a state or national average'. They just assume everyone is average. Yes it does benefit the worst drivers at the cost of the best, but then democracy is always like that, which is why democracy sucks.
in 1000 years DVD format will still be used and drives will still be available. NOT.
Their products suck badly, their licencing sucks badly, their monopoly sucks badly, their whole attitude sucks really badly.
They're so overdue to be brought down.
So NOT true.
If money is the only critera you care about then you already made the wrong choice by becoming a Software Developer.
Top-end graphics are usually a significant disadvantage as companies like EA always use it as a lame replacement for actual gameplay. Its got to a point where I purposely avoid games that have high-end graphics as its a sure indicator that the game itself will suck.
I mean look at Crysis. Other than being fairly pretty, its really just a predictable and yawn-worthy 'shoot everything' game that plays like its on rails. BioShock is even worse. Its basically a movie. There's no way you're not eventually going down that preset path.
With both games, after you've killed the final boss there is nothing to do but replay exactly the same game. Consequently those games for me had a total installed time of about 2 weeks and their CDs are now just mouldering away on my bookshelf beacuse I have a total lack of desire to waste time replaying exactly the same experience. I already know what every part of it would be like.
$45 * 2 spent for a total of 2 weeks play doesn't represent good value to me. Honestly I'd rather go and play Tetris or Sudoku. I'm still playing those after years.
>> Usernames aren't as critical.
Actually not true. If you don't know either a username or password its essentially impossible number of combinations to try to log in, however given one (it doesnt matter which), it becomes viable to use various approaches to get the other.
Blue = become alliance, Yellow = become horde
$319 for a graphical program launcher loaded with DRM? wow.
>> that's entirely consistent with what should be American values.
Are you being arrogant or just ignorant in presuming that American values are somehow intrinsically better than anyone elses?
...except you know that AT&T will just pass any extra costs on to guess who?
Ahh yes... Imagine the endless happy hours possible if they would just release a computer version of Mornington Crescent...
You must be American.
As a Brit in the US it amazes me how just about all Americans seem to think that Monty Python represents the current British culture and that we all have every line memorised.
It would be like us Brits expecting the whole of the US to be like Gilligans Island. oh wait...
>>> I've been considering a full-time Masters degree in a specialized Computer Science area such as databases or Web development, but I don't know if the financial cost and the loss of a year's income and experience can justify it.
Unfortuately the .com era produced an effect where everybody and their dog got a quickie CS Masters and got programming work just because they saw Steve Jobs and Bill Gates driving Ferraris. Not because they actually had any interest in, or even real clue about computers. As soon as the economy levelled out they were the first people to get fired or bail out and go back to being a realtor or whatever. Also because there were so many of them and the usual scenario was that they had no actual technical skills, it permanently damaged the whole environment and credability of good developers that actually could do the job.
Now the economy is bad again, as a hiring manager I'm seeing the same pattern of monkies that actually think adding 9 month CS masters to their humanities (or whatever) degree will make them able to play equally with (or even be superior to) Engineers-by-nature having a 3 or 4 year CS Batchelors degree and multiple years of relevant work experience.
My answer is if the only interest you have in any subject is because of the money you MIGHT earn from it, then don't waste your life. Anyway you're never gonna actually make it in a field you don't otherwise give a crap about.
except they would gladly take your extra money, then still find ways to incorporate things that are really advertisements, but technically not in some unnoticeable legal detail.
Why the heck does the law make an imessuarably small dent in a megacorporations profits more important than fraud being perpetrated against a citizen? its ridiculous and very wrong.
>> windows Terminal Server licenses aren't too expensive and the remote desktop experience is silky smooth.
BWAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks for that. I needed a laugh. Silky smooth? Having to do anything remotely technical via Terminal Server is the biggest pain in the butt I've ever experienced.
BTW if you're really not a paid shill for Microsoft then WTF are you smoking?
...as if there weren't enough already.
You can bet this thing will entirely operate on the presumption that every PC runs windows.
>> I think they were heading to a place where Skynet was basically an emotional creature trapped by its programming
Exactly. It would have probably turned out to have PMS and be bipolar too, and any other ugly human traits they can burden it with. I mean who gives a crap. I just want to be entertained with escapism, not brought down further to struggle with 'human' issues, injected soley to cover up an otherwise dull storyline, and that otherwise have no plausible basis for existence in the show. Especially when in order to justify the existence of said issues they have to warp Hollywood's already hopelessly unrealistic and internally inconsistent view of science and technology to a point well beyond even naive credibility.
BTW you're right, I loved the movie.
Whether you like to accept it or not, women and men are psychobiologically different. Meaning, there are observable, quantifiable and consistent physical differences in the brain and its chemistry based solely on gender.
As a result, women consistently perform worse at spatial-based tasks than men. Women consistently perform better at communications-based tasks than men. There are millions of well-conducted experiments and studies that re-prove the existence of these and other gender-based differences over and over again.
It frustrates the hell out of me that the loony 'Politically Correct' regime is so enforced on us and continues to reduce to denial any innate gender difference even in the face of hard evidence.
Most 'normal' people now feel they can't even openly raise the possibility, much less the FACT that we actually are mentally differently-abled BECAUSE of gender.
Society as a whole will not properly develop until we accept the existence of gender-based ability differences, including mental, as a fact and move on.
>> No one credible claims that females have less ability to learn mathematics or crunch numbers in most cases
Whether you like to accept it or not, women and men are psychobiologically different. Meaning, there are observable, quantifiable and consistent physical differences in the brain and its chemistry based solely on gender.
As a result, women consistently perform worse at spatial-based tasks than men. Women consistently perform better at communications-based tasks than men. There are millions of well-conducted experiments and studies that re-prove the existence of these and other gender-based differences over and over again.
It frustrates the hell out of me that the loony 'Politically Correct' regime is so enforced on us and continues to deny any innate gender difference even in the face of hard evidence.
Most 'normal' people now feel they can't even openly raise the possibility, much less the FACT that we actually are mentally differently-abled BECAUSE of gender.
Society as a whole will not properly develop until we accept the existence of gender-based ability differences, including mental, as a fact and move on.
Its worrying that the drive head came into contact with the surface. This shouldnt ever be physically possible no matter what happens on the drive interface or how bad a current surge you had, so it sounds like you screwed something up when you replaced the electronics or more likely, the heads.
Given your innate ability to screw hardware up, If I were you at this point I would accept my own limitations and give the drive to a professional recovery service. Make sure you give them the original electronics and heads too.