So how do you frag somebody in this game? Cut the rope when somebody is in a tree elevator? Drown them when they are exploring the ship? Crush them under the tree? Run them over on the tram? Blow up the furnance?
Or I guess the old tried and true method, "Hey! Check out this book!"
Please study and learn from the final scene. Mulder laying in bed next to Scully. Mulder, sad, depressed, and a bit down and out. Scully, supportive, caring, and sort of helpless.
What can Scully do to lift Mulder's, ummm, spririts? What can any woman do? If you can't figure out the rest, then well, the human species will somehow continue without you.
Mulder is a lot smarter than I thought. Cool move, dude! I know what you are hoping for.
This is comical, insightful, sad, and interesting. People that write software now find a conscience. This is something that scientists have faced for many, many years. Welcome to the club. But keep in mind that other professions (medical, legal, etc...) have also addressed this problem.
You are nothing special. Don't think that you are. You are not. Personal ethics has been around for at longer than you have been.
For every Civil Rights lawyer, there is a person chasing after ambulances. For every scientist in opposition to nuclear proliferation, there is another trying to make the perfect bomb. Cure for cancer? Try biochemical warfare. Do these follow some oath? Not really. Why should the software profession be so different? Are you all more ethical than these other groups? Okay, you want to be as ethical as medical doctors. Okay. Yah sure.
Me thinks that you think to highly of yourselves. Slashdot, New for Nerds, Stuff that matters. Legos, Star Wars, anime, the Simpsons, the X-Files, Everquest, Gamecube, and now ethics.Tis harsh, but grow up!
I've grappled with this issue since I was an undergrad many, many years ago. There is no easy answer. I'll be very blunt and hope that this debate continues. Get your butt out of your face, stop sitting on the roses, smell the roses, and learn a bit about humanity. Some of you have, many of you haven't. Many nerds don't care about this or have never personally faced this problem.
This can viewed as flamebait. If trying to make one think is flamebait, then okay. This should not be insightful; it just says that you have been living in a fog. Troll? Actually, this is a troll.
In the early days of the Mac there was MacPlaymate. Bitmap graphics, and of course sound. Play it enough times, and *you* might turn into First Person, ummm, "Shooter."
Speaking of mathematical expressions of conflicts and war making...
The best Polish test pilot defected to the US during the midst of the Cold War. After being debriefed, the Pentagon decided to reward him by allowing him to fly the then state-of-the-art F-15 fighter plane. After all, this Polish pilot had flown the best the Soviets had to offer. It was thought that he could provide some insight into the differences and similarities between the Western and Iron Curtain fighter planes.
So he jumped in the F-15, but then just sat there looking at all the gizmos, buttons, and displays. He was absolutely frozen with bewilderment. Finally, he slowly crawled out and said, "I'm sorry, but I was just a simple pole in a complex plane."
This is kind of sad. Simson Garfinkel (co-auther of "Practical Unix & Internet Security") writes a nice article about collecting and analyzing network traffic. As an aside, he comments about SCSI versus IDE.
What ensues? A debate about SCSI vs IDE. Talk about your trolls.
Why aren't we discussing network forensics? Besides basic network security, there are a lot of ramifications to this as Garfinkel alludes to in the summary.
Slightly OT, but this is a story of a contract/warranty that the average Joe can understand.
A while back in Hawaii, there was a used car dealer by the name of Lippy Espinda. You might have seen him as he used to appear as Hawaii-50; he played a street wise, know everything police informer. Anyway, he once ran this commercial where he said something like this.
People ask me, "Hey Lippy? Do you have a warranty on your cars that you sell?" I tell them, when when you drive away in your car, and you see me waving at you, warranty is good. When I stop waving, no more warranty.
Parts of a EULA's are something like that. The software company is waving at you from the time that you look at a box of software at CompUSA until you buy it, bring it home and click the Accept button. Then they stop waving.
I got to play the arcade version of BattleZone (great game for its time), and the SGI version. When bzflag came out, we used to do "network testing" with it. Dog and Arena were also good for "network testing."
There was another relatively obscure version of BZ. It ran under Apollo DomainOS. I believe that the program was written by a few geophysics graduate students at MIT back in the mid 80's.
When Netscape first released the source code *four* years ago...
There were no/. user accounts/logins. One could post as a AC (as I used to do), or could post using any nick of your choosing. Linux stories on the web were rare (and newsworthy for a/. story). IIRC, beowulf cluster jokes were funny back then, and First Posts! were still the norm. Hot grits was something I would eat, not something that I would consider pouring down my pants. Thank You.
Probably the most important aspect of the deep sea hydrothermal vents was the confirmation of the Archaea branch of the the phylogenetic tree (tree of life); the other two branches are Bacteria and Eucarya (e.g., plants and animals). This discovery was made by one of the genome projects.
We tend to focus on the big critters, while forgetting that it is the little folks (microbial) that make up most of the Earth's biomass.
As for giant squid, there was a previous/. story about that (story link had a nice video clip).
People focus on how much the Pixar movies grossed at the box-office and in DVD/VHS sales. Also keep in mind that there is another profitable market out there that is readily protected as we all know.
Go into a Disney Store at your local shopping mall. What do you see? Buzz, Woody, and Sully everywhere. Copyright protected merchandise that will be around for generations of kids. Then there is stuff like Disney on Ice.
Slashdot Mirror
How about, "I have a four digit slashdot user number.
Trust me, this *always* works. You wanna buy a four digit slashdot user id?:-)
So how do you frag somebody in this game? Cut the rope when somebody is in a tree elevator? Drown them when they are exploring the ship? Crush them under the tree? Run them over on the tram? Blow up the furnance?
Or I guess the old tried and true method, "Hey! Check out this book!"
Perhaps, but I think they both have something to do with being rear-ended.
Please study and learn from the final scene. Mulder laying in bed next to Scully. Mulder, sad, depressed, and a bit down and out. Scully, supportive, caring, and sort of helpless.
What can Scully do to lift Mulder's, ummm, spririts? What can any woman do? If you can't figure out the rest, then well, the human species will somehow continue without you.
Mulder is a lot smarter than I thought. Cool move, dude! I know what you are hoping for.
is that "Space Jam" had Bugs.
This is comical, insightful, sad, and interesting. People that write software now find a conscience. This is something that scientists have faced for many, many years. Welcome to the club. But keep in mind that other professions (medical, legal, etc...) have also addressed this problem.
You are nothing special. Don't think that you are. You are not. Personal ethics has been around for at longer than you have been.
For every Civil Rights lawyer, there is a person chasing after ambulances. For every scientist in opposition to nuclear proliferation, there is another trying to make the perfect bomb. Cure for cancer? Try biochemical warfare. Do these follow some oath? Not really. Why should the software profession be so different? Are you all more ethical than these other groups? Okay, you want to be as ethical as medical doctors. Okay. Yah sure.
Me thinks that you think to highly of yourselves. Slashdot, New for Nerds, Stuff that matters. Legos, Star Wars, anime, the Simpsons, the X-Files, Everquest, Gamecube, and now ethics.Tis harsh, but grow up!
I've grappled with this issue since I was an undergrad many, many years ago. There is no easy answer. I'll be very blunt and hope that this debate continues. Get your butt out of your face, stop sitting on the roses, smell the roses, and learn a bit about humanity. Some of you have, many of you haven't. Many nerds don't care about this or have never personally faced this problem.
This can viewed as flamebait. If trying to make one think is flamebait, then okay. This should not be insightful; it just says that you have been living in a fog. Troll? Actually, this is a troll.
In the early days of the Mac there was MacPlaymate. Bitmap graphics, and of course sound. Play it enough times, and *you* might turn into First Person, ummm, "Shooter."
Speaking of mathematical expressions of conflicts and war making...
The best Polish test pilot defected to the US during the midst of the Cold War. After being debriefed, the Pentagon decided to reward him by allowing him to fly the then state-of-the-art F-15 fighter plane. After all, this Polish pilot had flown the best the Soviets had to offer. It was thought that he could provide some insight into the differences and similarities between the Western and Iron Curtain fighter planes.
So he jumped in the F-15, but then just sat there looking at all the gizmos, buttons, and displays. He was absolutely frozen with bewilderment. Finally, he slowly crawled out and said, "I'm sorry, but I was just a simple pole in a complex plane."
This is kind of sad. Simson Garfinkel (co-auther of "Practical Unix & Internet Security") writes a nice article about collecting and analyzing network traffic. As an aside, he comments about SCSI versus IDE.
What ensues? A debate about SCSI vs IDE. Talk about your trolls.
Why aren't we discussing network forensics? Besides basic network security, there are a lot of ramifications to this as Garfinkel alludes to in the summary.
Does anyone else just feel absolutely tiny when they find thousands of entire galaxies in a small patch of the sky?
Yes, especially when you consider that the entire universe could be contained in a single atom in your fingernail.
Don't mess with Elmo. He was far more influence and power than you think.
Pings in Space!
Fork! Fork! Fork!
Hey! You in luck this time! Best Buy is having a sale on all the software it carries. Every item only $19.95!
Send your wonderful IT Staff down to Best Buy to purchase everything you need!
Slightly OT, but this is a story of a contract/warranty that the average Joe can understand.
A while back in Hawaii, there was a used car dealer by the name of Lippy Espinda. You might have seen him as he used to appear as Hawaii-50; he played a street wise, know everything police informer. Anyway, he once ran this commercial where he said something like this.
People ask me, "Hey Lippy? Do you have a warranty on your cars that you sell?" I tell them, when when you drive away in your car, and you see me waving at you, warranty is good. When I stop waving, no more warranty.
Parts of a EULA's are something like that. The software company is waving at you from the time that you look at a box of software at CompUSA until you buy it, bring it home and click the Accept button. Then they stop waving.
I got to play the arcade version of BattleZone (great game for its time), and the SGI version. When bzflag came out, we used to do "network testing" with it. Dog and Arena were also good for "network testing."
There was another relatively obscure version of BZ. It ran under Apollo DomainOS. I believe that the program was written by a few geophysics graduate students at MIT back in the mid 80's.
Hey, my sig is somewhat pertinent to this post!
In a data center no one can hear you scream.
I would also be careful eating lunch.
As Gary Owens would say, "Direct from beautiful downtown Burbank..."
You bet your bippy!
When Netscape first released the source code *four* years ago...
/. user accounts/logins. One could post as a AC (as I used to do), or could post using any nick of your choosing. Linux stories on the web were rare (and newsworthy for a /. story). IIRC, beowulf cluster jokes were funny back then, and First Posts! were still the norm. Hot grits was something I would eat, not something that I would consider pouring down my pants. Thank You.
There were no
Hmmm, I need to know just one very important piece of information before I can truly trust you. How much karma do you have?
Probably the most important aspect of the deep sea hydrothermal vents was the confirmation of the Archaea branch of the the phylogenetic tree (tree of life); the other two branches are Bacteria and Eucarya (e.g., plants and animals). This discovery was made by one of the genome projects.
/. story about that (story link had a nice video clip).
We tend to focus on the big critters, while forgetting that it is the little folks (microbial) that make up most of the Earth's biomass.
As for giant squid, there was a previous
Go into a Disney Store at your local shopping mall. What do you see? Buzz, Woody, and Sully everywhere. Copyright protected merchandise that will be around for generations of kids. Then there is stuff like Disney on Ice.
Note to self: Don't hide snakelike robotic tail down the front of one's pants when trying to impress opposite sex.
The most disturbing thing you ever saw? Try browsing /. at a -1 threshold.
Go to NOAA NGDC topographic/bathymetric web site. There is a bunch of data and images that you can download. There are even some software.
In case you don't know, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admininstration, National Geophysical Data Center.
Yup, and make sure you disable java script before going to their web-site.