If Sig Sauer (I'm assuming it's a gun company, though I'm not familiar with the name) blindly paid some guy to promote their guns, then they committed a pretty greivous error. It is deadly (in a figurative sense) for a company to just hand their image to an unknown. If that person goes and shoots up a crowd, then he's most likely not mentally sound, and Sig Sauer has a problem on their hands from giving guns to a lunatic.
You can be sure that IBM had a significant say in this propaganda beyond merely funding it. A stable, stolid blue-chip company will not pay some lunatic just "to give them some publicity." IBM had a large stake in this and a large say. They want to change their image to appeal to the next generation of CTO's and other large corporate buyers.
I suppose for someone relatively unthinking, it wouldn't be hard to believe that the graffiti campaign was legal. I mean, they have 12-story pictures of Ru Paul painted on buildings in New York, surely a few 3" circles on the sidewalk (that really don't look altogether unattractive) can't hurt.
They got funding from an existing marine turbine customer to develop the prototype, about $300000-$400000 I think. I think the owner had lready thought up the idea and put a little work into plans, and just needed to build it.
In the bike, the rider is integrated into the aerodynamic profile. He sits fetal position, like in many drag bikes, so he's not sitting up and sucking wind. The bike has been clocked over 200mph, the speed at which the radar guns chickened out, and the speedometer read about 240.
I heard a piece on this bike on NPR this morning, and they said that indeed this is the bike that Leno has. They had a short interview with him, and Leno argued that he has something that goes this fast, so that at normal speeds it's well within its zone of performance... riiiight
I heard a piece about this bike on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning. The company mainly installs used marine turbines into boats, and was interested in tyring to build a bike like this. They got funding (about $300,000) from an existing customer to build a prototype. Now this Louisiana Y2K Superbike is the fastest production motorcycle in the world, and the waiting list is a few years, probably significantly longer with the newfound publicity.
On NPR, they mentioned that Jay Leno has one, and also had an interview with the inventor/owner/creator, who mentioned that in speed tests on an airport runway, he broke 200MPH before the Sheriff's radar guns hit their measuring limit, and that he's been pulled over by cops who encouraged him to speed so they could clock something going that fast.
All in all, sounds like an interesting feat of engineering. One can only imagine what somebody will invent to best this puppy...
I heard on NPR this morning that the military was interested, but they didn't mention specifically that it was for hostage situations. However, the bike in its current incarnation is a one-seater, and not of Harley-Davidson comfort, more a curl up into a fetal position and pretend you're a bullet sort of ride. It wouldn't be easy to add additional seating space while still keeping the aerodynamic profile that allows it to hit such high speeds.
I suppose you're paying for the parts and labor, not really for the rarity factor. I'm sure the company, whose regular business is installing used marine turbine engines, still makes a good enough profit on each. I heard on NPR that they have customers lined up for the next five years or so, and that will probably increase with the recent publicity.
Personally I think this is lame. If you want to see through walls, fine: It makes playing games lame, but thats your choice. But wow have a lot of people cried over this. As if crying is going to make any of this stop. Oh well, Asus will remove the driver, and anyone who wants it will just keep using it.
As the article points out, crying did make it stop. Now, crying can't reverse the damage already done by previously released drivers, but if nobody had complained, then Asus wouldn't have changed anything. Ok, so the cat's out of the bag to a degree. This doesn't mean that the drivers will be readily available for casual cheaters in the future, and as existing drivers become obsolete, the problem will be nearly completely solved. See what a bunch of cry babies can do?
Our school uses a system called FoolProof on both Macs and PCs...it's a pretty decent program, but I've never spent too much time trying to circumvent it. We don't actually use the computers enough to want to...they're all there, but constantly being used by people learning how to type in Word.
That's sort of the point of his statement. If you look at the next sentence, you see that he criticizes this action. In my school, the kids who are the larges disciplinary problems have become friends with the administrators (I assume the administrators feel this is a good thing, that in befriending the child, they can fix him). This just serves to alienate the people who are not offenders. I get no recognition or respect from the administration for performing well academically, besides a form letter given to honor-roll students, but the troublemakers get personal attention, and as a result more freedom in the school. That doesn't make sense.
The IT person in our (public) school district, like most administrators, makes a rather hefty sum of money. Administration salaries are a significant step up from teacher salaries, because bureaucracy is apparently worth a lot of money. However, I don't know how competent this guy is, because the only interaction I've had with him is when he disbanded the student-run tech club that had been maintaining the High School server and web page. (No, we weren't doing his job for him...he's more district-wide, arranging for LANs/WANs/net access and establishing technology policies.) Anyway, it seems he does his job fairly well, even if he is an ass.
My high school AP English teacher runs all of our typed papers (we have to give her an electronic copy) through plagiarism.org. This website will (for a fee) compare documents/essays/term papers/etc. to its huge established database of papers found in books and online. In addition, I believe that it adds new papers that are run through it to the overall database, so it builds itself up, and intra-class cheating can be caught.
This threat is probably an effective deterrent to plagiarism, as the penalties in our (public) school are fairly harsh for decent students (removal from honors society, 0 on the assignment, disciplinary action). It seems that the professor could have used this, and had access to an even larger accumulative database.
I think the younger generation isn't as much a reference to calendar age, as how long one's been using a computer. Kids my age (16) who have been interested in computers for more than four or five years definitely used, if didn't grow up on DOS. Additionally, many elderly people have only been using computers for a very short time, and are hardly even accustomed to the GUIs of Windows and AOL..."command line" is a completely foreign concept to them.
I'm one of the former high school 1st level (actually every level) tech support employees you speak of. The ISP I worked for used ISP Power, and though it was bloated, I didn't mind it that much. However, I had no other experience to compare it to. What makes a good piece of software different from ISP Power? I'd be interested to know how much less annoying my job could've been.:)
But Open Source is not necessarily free. If it were, then a good chunk of Mundie's argument that's not true now, would be. Open Source software could hardly be a major part of any successful business model if it were inherently free of charge.
I visited the site a few weeks ago, and signed up for the mailing list. I received no indication about this subscription deal, or else I would gladly have paid.
Google doesn't want to be the next Yahoo. They just want to be the best damn search engine around. Yahoo has built itself up as a portal, incorporating search with a glut of other functionality, a lot of which is really good (hence their popularity). However, in Google's market - search engine - they're the best, as seen by Yahoo's (and other people's) licensing of Google's database, infrastructure, and searching and categorizing methods.
As posted elsewhere, you might want to check out TsN. They've been broadcasting Tribes 1 matches for quite some time (always with commentary, sometimes with a video stream as well...basically as you described it, with camera control done by one person, whose image is broadcast to streaming viewers), and are getting to Tribes 2 now (not video yet, that I know of).
TsN is great. Even though I don't have the bandwidth to listen to matches while doing anything else, it's still interesting when I get the chance. In addition to the TsN TV which they've done a number of times, they have DJs giving a play-by-play over Shoutcast for a couple matches nearly every night. This has been great for the competitive team-based matches. Important matches for top ladder spots in the OGL have drawn tons of listeners tuning in. In downtime between matches, like a regular radio station, they broadcast music, or even host gaming- and Tribes-related talk shows.
Even in writing/language, where it is often criticized and carries a negative connotation, it can be effective. In speaking to a large group, it helps to reiterate one's point a few times. While this is redundant, it helps to emphasize the major purpose of one's argument, and saying one thing a few ways makes it more likely that it has been presented in a fashion that someone will understand.
In most other (not language) senses, redundancy is always a good thing: RAID, redundant networks as mentioned in this article. Redundancy means security and protection against failures of one thing in a chain. Space Shuttles and other risky ventures have redundant mechanisms so that the failure of one does not immediately constitute a mission- or life-threatening emergency.
I don't know how often this decelerator kicks in, what load is required to push the processor over its maximum dissipation as prescribed in the design spec. If it only kicks in as often as seatbelts/airbags/ABS do in cars, and then it's really needed, then that's good. However, if the processor is constantly pushing the limits of the specification, and having to throttle down, then that's bad. If your airbag in your car deployed every time you went over a speedbump, that'd be bad. From the Intel paper, I get the impression that it's designed not to be used too often, but I'd rather see the results of independent field tests (with a range of normal cooling mechanisms, from good to bad, and external temperatures) than rely solely on marketing/technical papers from Intel. The initial problem is that the CPU is designed to underclock itsefl hugely at all, but then once you realize it could be beneficial, it's a matter of under what circumstances and how often it actually does it.
Well, it's a word that sounds similar to "Hippocratic," the adjective relating to Hippocrates, most often used in the phrase "Hippocratic Oath," the inaccurately attributed oath that aspiring medical practitioners take. This is clearly a call out to the M.D.s of the world, who have a deep grasp of human anatomy, and therefore enjoy a professional enlightenment brought about by good smut. I'm sure it was just a simple phonetic typo made by a rather rushed poster who didn't have the time or desire to preview.
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If Sig Sauer (I'm assuming it's a gun company, though I'm not familiar with the name) blindly paid some guy to promote their guns, then they committed a pretty greivous error. It is deadly (in a figurative sense) for a company to just hand their image to an unknown. If that person goes and shoots up a crowd, then he's most likely not mentally sound, and Sig Sauer has a problem on their hands from giving guns to a lunatic.
You can be sure that IBM had a significant say in this propaganda beyond merely funding it. A stable, stolid blue-chip company will not pay some lunatic just "to give them some publicity." IBM had a large stake in this and a large say. They want to change their image to appeal to the next generation of CTO's and other large corporate buyers.
I suppose for someone relatively unthinking, it wouldn't be hard to believe that the graffiti campaign was legal. I mean, they have 12-story pictures of Ru Paul painted on buildings in New York, surely a few 3" circles on the sidewalk (that really don't look altogether unattractive) can't hurt.
They got funding from an existing marine turbine customer to develop the prototype, about $300000-$400000 I think. I think the owner had lready thought up the idea and put a little work into plans, and just needed to build it.
Yeah, according to the website, it does. It's just a (slightly if at all) modified helicopter turbine...probably not too fuel efficient.
In the bike, the rider is integrated into the aerodynamic profile. He sits fetal position, like in many drag bikes, so he's not sitting up and sucking wind. The bike has been clocked over 200mph, the speed at which the radar guns chickened out, and the speedometer read about 240.
I heard a piece on this bike on NPR this morning, and they said that indeed this is the bike that Leno has. They had a short interview with him, and Leno argued that he has something that goes this fast, so that at normal speeds it's well within its zone of performance... riiiight
I heard a piece about this bike on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning. The company mainly installs used marine turbines into boats, and was interested in tyring to build a bike like this. They got funding (about $300,000) from an existing customer to build a prototype. Now this Louisiana Y2K Superbike is the fastest production motorcycle in the world, and the waiting list is a few years, probably significantly longer with the newfound publicity.
On NPR, they mentioned that Jay Leno has one, and also had an interview with the inventor/owner/creator, who mentioned that in speed tests on an airport runway, he broke 200MPH before the Sheriff's radar guns hit their measuring limit, and that he's been pulled over by cops who encouraged him to speed so they could clock something going that fast.
All in all, sounds like an interesting feat of engineering. One can only imagine what somebody will invent to best this puppy...
I heard on NPR this morning that the military was interested, but they didn't mention specifically that it was for hostage situations. However, the bike in its current incarnation is a one-seater, and not of Harley-Davidson comfort, more a curl up into a fetal position and pretend you're a bullet sort of ride. It wouldn't be easy to add additional seating space while still keeping the aerodynamic profile that allows it to hit such high speeds.
I suppose you're paying for the parts and labor, not really for the rarity factor. I'm sure the company, whose regular business is installing used marine turbine engines, still makes a good enough profit on each. I heard on NPR that they have customers lined up for the next five years or so, and that will probably increase with the recent publicity.
Personally I think this is lame. If you want to see through walls, fine: It makes playing games lame, but thats your choice. But wow have a lot of people cried over this. As if crying is going to make any of this stop. Oh well, Asus will remove the driver, and anyone who wants it will just keep using it.
As the article points out, crying did make it stop. Now, crying can't reverse the damage already done by previously released drivers, but if nobody had complained, then Asus wouldn't have changed anything. Ok, so the cat's out of the bag to a degree. This doesn't mean that the drivers will be readily available for casual cheaters in the future, and as existing drivers become obsolete, the problem will be nearly completely solved. See what a bunch of cry babies can do?
Our school uses a system called FoolProof on both Macs and PCs...it's a pretty decent program, but I've never spent too much time trying to circumvent it. We don't actually use the computers enough to want to...they're all there, but constantly being used by people learning how to type in Word.
That's sort of the point of his statement. If you look at the next sentence, you see that he criticizes this action. In my school, the kids who are the larges disciplinary problems have become friends with the administrators (I assume the administrators feel this is a good thing, that in befriending the child, they can fix him). This just serves to alienate the people who are not offenders. I get no recognition or respect from the administration for performing well academically, besides a form letter given to honor-roll students, but the troublemakers get personal attention, and as a result more freedom in the school. That doesn't make sense.
The IT person in our (public) school district, like most administrators, makes a rather hefty sum of money. Administration salaries are a significant step up from teacher salaries, because bureaucracy is apparently worth a lot of money. However, I don't know how competent this guy is, because the only interaction I've had with him is when he disbanded the student-run tech club that had been maintaining the High School server and web page. (No, we weren't doing his job for him...he's more district-wide, arranging for LANs/WANs/net access and establishing technology policies.) Anyway, it seems he does his job fairly well, even if he is an ass.
My high school AP English teacher runs all of our typed papers (we have to give her an electronic copy) through plagiarism.org. This website will (for a fee) compare documents/essays/term papers/etc. to its huge established database of papers found in books and online. In addition, I believe that it adds new papers that are run through it to the overall database, so it builds itself up, and intra-class cheating can be caught.
This threat is probably an effective deterrent to plagiarism, as the penalties in our (public) school are fairly harsh for decent students (removal from honors society, 0 on the assignment, disciplinary action). It seems that the professor could have used this, and had access to an even larger accumulative database.
I think the younger generation isn't as much a reference to calendar age, as how long one's been using a computer. Kids my age (16) who have been interested in computers for more than four or five years definitely used, if didn't grow up on DOS. Additionally, many elderly people have only been using computers for a very short time, and are hardly even accustomed to the GUIs of Windows and AOL..."command line" is a completely foreign concept to them.
I'm one of the former high school 1st level (actually every level) tech support employees you speak of. The ISP I worked for used ISP Power, and though it was bloated, I didn't mind it that much. However, I had no other experience to compare it to. What makes a good piece of software different from ISP Power? I'd be interested to know how much less annoying my job could've been. :)
But Open Source is not necessarily free. If it were, then a good chunk of Mundie's argument that's not true now, would be. Open Source software could hardly be a major part of any successful business model if it were inherently free of charge.
I visited the site a few weeks ago, and signed up for the mailing list. I received no indication about this subscription deal, or else I would gladly have paid.
Google doesn't want to be the next Yahoo. They just want to be the best damn search engine around. Yahoo has built itself up as a portal, incorporating search with a glut of other functionality, a lot of which is really good (hence their popularity). However, in Google's market - search engine - they're the best, as seen by Yahoo's (and other people's) licensing of Google's database, infrastructure, and searching and categorizing methods.
As posted elsewhere, you might want to check out TsN. They've been broadcasting Tribes 1 matches for quite some time (always with commentary, sometimes with a video stream as well...basically as you described it, with camera control done by one person, whose image is broadcast to streaming viewers), and are getting to Tribes 2 now (not video yet, that I know of).
Ooops, blank-out moment... the OGL is at http://www.ogl.org, not .com...
Sorry
TsN is great. Even though I don't have the bandwidth to listen to matches while doing anything else, it's still interesting when I get the chance. In addition to the TsN TV which they've done a number of times, they have DJs giving a play-by-play over Shoutcast for a couple matches nearly every night. This has been great for the competitive team-based matches. Important matches for top ladder spots in the OGL have drawn tons of listeners tuning in. In downtime between matches, like a regular radio station, they broadcast music, or even host gaming- and Tribes-related talk shows.
Redundant != bad
Even in writing/language, where it is often criticized and carries a negative connotation, it can be effective. In speaking to a large group, it helps to reiterate one's point a few times. While this is redundant, it helps to emphasize the major purpose of one's argument, and saying one thing a few ways makes it more likely that it has been presented in a fashion that someone will understand.
In most other (not language) senses, redundancy is always a good thing: RAID, redundant networks as mentioned in this article. Redundancy means security and protection against failures of one thing in a chain. Space Shuttles and other risky ventures have redundant mechanisms so that the failure of one does not immediately constitute a mission- or life-threatening emergency.
Redundancies have been made redundant.
Well, uh...that IS sort of their purpose in the first place.
I don't know how often this decelerator kicks in, what load is required to push the processor over its maximum dissipation as prescribed in the design spec. If it only kicks in as often as seatbelts/airbags/ABS do in cars, and then it's really needed, then that's good. However, if the processor is constantly pushing the limits of the specification, and having to throttle down, then that's bad. If your airbag in your car deployed every time you went over a speedbump, that'd be bad. From the Intel paper, I get the impression that it's designed not to be used too often, but I'd rather see the results of independent field tests (with a range of normal cooling mechanisms, from good to bad, and external temperatures) than rely solely on marketing/technical papers from Intel. The initial problem is that the CPU is designed to underclock itsefl hugely at all, but then once you realize it could be beneficial, it's a matter of under what circumstances and how often it actually does it.
Well, it's a word that sounds similar to "Hippocratic," the adjective relating to Hippocrates, most often used in the phrase "Hippocratic Oath," the inaccurately attributed oath that aspiring medical practitioners take. This is clearly a call out to the M.D.s of the world, who have a deep grasp of human anatomy, and therefore enjoy a professional enlightenment brought about by good smut. I'm sure it was just a simple phonetic typo made by a rather rushed poster who didn't have the time or desire to preview.
Nothing more to see here. Move along.