The real question is, when will it have video conferencing/voip (no more will you have to get up and answer the phone when you're on the throne) and be able to run Tmost current multiplayer games (for people who are just too hardcore for loo breaks)
So obviously, when the next company asks for a reference from your previous employer, you're going to have to say "No, sorry, can't give you that as they'll know where I'm working."
Most companies over here won't even let you through to an interview without having at least the name to talk to for a reference from your previous employer (assuming you have one.)
To be fair, one of the things the Libreoffice peeps have done is started going to town on the "this is awful/redundant code, can you help us rewrite it" thing, complete with one of the nicest ideas I've seen, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
Basically, a list of stuff that needs doing, but they don't necessarily have time for, but is easy enough that a beginner/lower level coder can do the grunt work. Eases people into working with a big project.
What will be interesting to see is if Sony (who have already tried to fast-talk the court into allowing discovery on paypal donors/blog commenters and youtube video watchers) decide that they want to find out the names and addresses of everyone who pays to support geohot, and then try and bring them into the whole show to try and show that he's soliciting pay for his alleged activities.
They already tried to got a court order to wipe this info from the entire internet (until hotz's counsel told the judge how impossible that was) so at this stage, I wouldn't bet against a "asking for donations for your defense is the same as asking for pay for your infringement" argument. Unless there's a strong precedent that this doesn't apply (something some of our american friends would know better than me.)
If they do this, are they also going to place legal limits on the volume with which Ethel, sitting on the tram across from me, is going to talk about whichever soap or celebirty show has her attention this week? If I can't drown out their pathetic and often obnoxious ramblings, what the heck is a sane, rational person supposed to do?
This is my bane, really. It's not the people who don't know the terms, or the difference between the different bits. They're OK. Not being familiar with the jargon, I can relate to. It's the people who seem to think that wilfull ignorance is the best policy. the people who, no matter how many times you explain something, will just answer with "sorry, I don't know much about computers" or "I'm too old/young/stupid/busy" rather than actually try and listen to, or understand the concepts involved.
A lot of this is probably fear, they're already afraid they won't understand, so they take refuge in that predetermined state, but some people actually seem to be proud of their ignorance, and refuse to have their store of knowledge increased. Alsthough, i think what really gets my goat is
Of course, the irony of this is that this problem applies to practically everything these days that requires a modicum of learning.
The debate is, should we be pandering to wilful and prideful ignorance?
Most metal bands that use orchestral or other backing work use these too. At that point, it's a matter of synchronising the live performers with that stuff you's spent a goood deal of money getting that choir or orchestra to record. Thankfully, with the best bands of this type, they tend to try and do as much as possible within the live performance.
To be honest, I think the sheer amount of badly-done artifical pap err pop music has really soured very many people to the concept of backing tapes, and any aid that keeps tempo. Queen used a fair amount of backing tape, and nobody ever said they were fake. Sometimes, you just need a degree of synchronisation, especially when your songs are more compositions than out and out songs (Nightwish, Dream Theatre, et al) which mean that there have to be moments where the band knows, to the instant, where to come in, or back in after a gap, without being able to hear exactly where they are on the tape itself.
As an aid to lousy drummers, I can see why they'd draw ire, but a lot of these drummers are very very good. They just need to keep a lot of things synched up to make their soundscapes work as they should.
Actually, this is a misstatement these days. As part of the deals that mean BT didn't get truly hosed by the monopoly stick, it's ISP division and wholesale (lines) division have some very hefty chinese walls in place.
Depressingly, they still haven't fixed the British English localisation (Not the spell checker, the actual UI and stuff.) There was some hoohah about the en-GB versions after 2.0.2 being broken or something, so OO wouldn't release 'em. Even now, the OO website still has the same guy doing it who doesn't appear to have actually done anything since then.
I was always more into Sinclair User than Crash, to be quite honest.
I used to have one the the +2 series (in my case, the +2A, all the fun of the disk-based version, without the, umm, disk drive.) One thing I did notice was that probably one of the first things to go was the video connections. The modulator board used to come lose from the rest of the system, which meant amusing hours finding the right combination of books to weight down the plug on tehvideo cable to keep everything in proper contact. Of course, at that point, I was still too young to be let near a soldering iron, so no chance of fixing it, alas.
It may just be my connection being screwy, but we appear to have slashdotted addons.mozilla.org as well. Probably all those people rushing to download the 10 extensions they don't want you to have:)
Theoretically, they can. However, I'm sure I recall a story, posted to this very organ, where it was found that the RIAA's "expert" of choice had about as much talent at his task as your average begonia has in the area of advanced particle physics.
I'm not saying that will always be the case, however.
Actually, if you fall under certain categories (jobless, long term sick/disabled, pensioner, low income) you'll still get your fees paid by legal aid, regardless of outcome. Of course, the government aren't happy about this, as it means even the people they don't like can get legal aid.
While I'll agree in principle, I don't see how useful it can be. After all, you don't select an employee because you like their tast in lad-mags (or at least, I hope you don't.) the image you get is also often misleading, as many people (myself included) tend to be somewhat different in their professional lives to how they are in their private lives. As a bit of background maybe, as criteria for selecting for important projects, I find it to be very much a "can't see the wood for the trees" approach.
Likewise, I would be suspicious of giving high sensitivity projects to employees to frequent lots of forum sites, as they might be more inclined to share things.
My, what an.. interesting point of view. So people who are more social are more likely to spill your secrets? The fact that someone likes to discuss things with people means that they are more likely to be telling everyone things you've asked them not to tell people?
Sorry, but I think that's absolute bunk. Knowing what to say and what not to say, what things are secret and what are public, is a large part of learning to be social in any medium. Frankly, I'd be more worried of people selected for such a policy, not less. At the very least, I'd never want to work with them.
This whole argument recently got started with Guild Wars. Nightfall, the third expansion, was set in an area of the game world that more or less corrsponded to Africa/Egypt/the Middle East, and had the corresponding accents and skin tones. The character generator for the game tends towards sin tones that fit into that area of the game world.
Now, on launch, the immediate thing that people started whinging about was that the vast majority of player characters weren't black. Cue people putting threads on boards accusing players of being racist, cue other people telling them to shut up, cue allsorts of childish arguments. People were trying to explain that the area of the world in the game would have run the gamut of skin tones, everyone was getting defensive, and the whole thing was descending into an almost farcical "You're all racist because you won't make a black character" "No I'm not, you're the one who's insisting that I do so." and backwards and forwards from there.
Interestingly, I can't remember the same debate happening when Factions (set in ArenaNet's Pesudo-Orient Analogue) came out. maybe it did and I didn't spot it.
Of course, these are games where you select a skin colour for your player-avatar, unlike the one in the OP. However, I'm with Shadowrun on racism in games. "Why worry about the tanned guy on the subway, when that thing over there has hands the size of your head."
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The real question is, when will it have video conferencing/voip (no more will you have to get up and answer the phone when you're on the throne) and be able to run Tmost current multiplayer games (for people who are just too hardcore for loo breaks)
So obviously, when the next company asks for a reference from your previous employer, you're going to have to say "No, sorry, can't give you that as they'll know where I'm working."
Most companies over here won't even let you through to an interview without having at least the name to talk to for a reference from your previous employer (assuming you have one.)
To be fair, one of the things the Libreoffice peeps have done is started going to town on the "this is awful/redundant code, can you help us rewrite it" thing, complete with one of the nicest ideas I've seen, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
Basically, a list of stuff that needs doing, but they don't necessarily have time for, but is easy enough that a beginner/lower level coder can do the grunt work. Eases people into working with a big project.
What will be interesting to see is if Sony (who have already tried to fast-talk the court into allowing discovery on paypal donors/blog commenters and youtube video watchers) decide that they want to find out the names and addresses of everyone who pays to support geohot, and then try and bring them into the whole show to try and show that he's soliciting pay for his alleged activities.
They already tried to got a court order to wipe this info from the entire internet (until hotz's counsel told the judge how impossible that was) so at this stage, I wouldn't bet against a "asking for donations for your defense is the same as asking for pay for your infringement" argument. Unless there's a strong precedent that this doesn't apply (something some of our american friends would know better than me.)
Underaged at 16? Depends where you are matey (heck, even japan varies by prefecture, let alone the rest of the world.)
Or the classic "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
If they do this, are they also going to place legal limits on the volume with which Ethel, sitting on the tram across from me, is going to talk about whichever soap or celebirty show has her attention this week? If I can't drown out their pathetic and often obnoxious ramblings, what the heck is a sane, rational person supposed to do?
This is my bane, really. It's not the people who don't know the terms, or the difference between the different bits. They're OK. Not being familiar with the jargon, I can relate to. It's the people who seem to think that wilfull ignorance is the best policy. the people who, no matter how many times you explain something, will just answer with "sorry, I don't know much about computers" or "I'm too old/young/stupid/busy" rather than actually try and listen to, or understand the concepts involved.
A lot of this is probably fear, they're already afraid they won't understand, so they take refuge in that predetermined state, but some people actually seem to be proud of their ignorance, and refuse to have their store of knowledge increased. Alsthough, i think what really gets my goat is
Of course, the irony of this is that this problem applies to practically everything these days that requires a modicum of learning.
The debate is, should we be pandering to wilful and prideful ignorance?
Most metal bands that use orchestral or other backing work use these too. At that point, it's a matter of synchronising the live performers with that stuff you's spent a goood deal of money getting that choir or orchestra to record. Thankfully, with the best bands of this type, they tend to try and do as much as possible within the live performance.
To be honest, I think the sheer amount of badly-done artifical pap err pop music has really soured very many people to the concept of backing tapes, and any aid that keeps tempo. Queen used a fair amount of backing tape, and nobody ever said they were fake. Sometimes, you just need a degree of synchronisation, especially when your songs are more compositions than out and out songs (Nightwish, Dream Theatre, et al) which mean that there have to be moments where the band knows, to the instant, where to come in, or back in after a gap, without being able to hear exactly where they are on the tape itself.
As an aid to lousy drummers, I can see why they'd draw ire, but a lot of these drummers are very very good. They just need to keep a lot of things synched up to make their soundscapes work as they should.
Like the Mitch Benn song says "He's evolutions top banana, and he's married to Romana and that kind of makes him King of the Nerds."
Actually, this is a misstatement these days. As part of the deals that mean BT didn't get truly hosed by the monopoly stick, it's ISP division and wholesale (lines) division have some very hefty chinese walls in place.
the three after the decimal point.
and yes, I know different parts of the world use , as the decimal point, and . as the separator. Oh hell, maybe it was just a typo.
Depressingly, they still haven't fixed the British English localisation (Not the spell checker, the actual UI and stuff.) There was some hoohah about the en-GB versions after 2.0.2 being broken or something, so OO wouldn't release 'em. Even now, the OO website still has the same guy doing it who doesn't appear to have actually done anything since then.
"All these search results are yours, except Europa. Attempt no linking there."
Sooner or later, someone's going to try and fake a moon landing on this.
Microsoft to sponsor sequel to Capricorn One perhaps?
As nice and groovy as these guns are, they've been nosed around for about a year now.
I was always more into Sinclair User than Crash, to be quite honest.
I used to have one the the +2 series (in my case, the +2A, all the fun of the disk-based version, without the, umm, disk drive.) One thing I did notice was that probably one of the first things to go was the video connections. The modulator board used to come lose from the rest of the system, which meant amusing hours finding the right combination of books to weight down the plug on tehvideo cable to keep everything in proper contact. Of course, at that point, I was still too young to be let near a soldering iron, so no chance of fixing it, alas.
It may just be my connection being screwy, but we appear to have slashdotted addons.mozilla.org as well. Probably all those people rushing to download the 10 extensions they don't want you to have :)
How about a plugin that auotmatically slashdots the article?
Oh wait...
Theoretically, they can. However, I'm sure I recall a story, posted to this very organ, where it was found that the RIAA's "expert" of choice had about as much talent at his task as your average begonia has in the area of advanced particle physics.
I'm not saying that will always be the case, however.
or SCO.
Oh wait, that kinda didn't work either.
Actually, if you fall under certain categories (jobless, long term sick/disabled, pensioner, low income) you'll still get your fees paid by legal aid, regardless of outcome. Of course, the government aren't happy about this, as it means even the people they don't like can get legal aid.
While I'll agree in principle, I don't see how useful it can be. After all, you don't select an employee because you like their tast in lad-mags (or at least, I hope you don't.) the image you get is also often misleading, as many people (myself included) tend to be somewhat different in their professional lives to how they are in their private lives. As a bit of background maybe, as criteria for selecting for important projects, I find it to be very much a "can't see the wood for the trees" approach.
Likewise, I would be suspicious of giving high sensitivity projects to employees to frequent lots of forum sites, as they might be more inclined to share things.
My, what an.. interesting point of view. So people who are more social are more likely to spill your secrets? The fact that someone likes to discuss things with people means that they are more likely to be telling everyone things you've asked them not to tell people?
Sorry, but I think that's absolute bunk. Knowing what to say and what not to say, what things are secret and what are public, is a large part of learning to be social in any medium. Frankly, I'd be more worried of people selected for such a policy, not less. At the very least, I'd never want to work with them.
This whole argument recently got started with Guild Wars. Nightfall, the third expansion, was set in an area of the game world that more or less corrsponded to Africa/Egypt/the Middle East, and had the corresponding accents and skin tones. The character generator for the game tends towards sin tones that fit into that area of the game world.
Now, on launch, the immediate thing that people started whinging about was that the vast majority of player characters weren't black. Cue people putting threads on boards accusing players of being racist, cue other people telling them to shut up, cue allsorts of childish arguments. People were trying to explain that the area of the world in the game would have run the gamut of skin tones, everyone was getting defensive, and the whole thing was descending into an almost farcical "You're all racist because you won't make a black character" "No I'm not, you're the one who's insisting that I do so." and backwards and forwards from there.
Interestingly, I can't remember the same debate happening when Factions (set in ArenaNet's Pesudo-Orient Analogue) came out. maybe it did and I didn't spot it.
Of course, these are games where you select a skin colour for your player-avatar, unlike the one in the OP. However, I'm with Shadowrun on racism in games. "Why worry about the tanned guy on the subway, when that thing over there has hands the size of your head."