So what's your take on a game like Guild Wars? They place a decent amount of emphasis on PVP, but since they have a 4character/account set and they let you create new (maximum level, best quality-equipment, use-any-skill-or-item-you've-found-and-unlocked free) PVP-only characters trivially, so you can swap your PVP characters in and out with relative ease.
It isn't as good as an arm that allows for feeling, but hey, think of what happens when a bionic arm that allows you to feel has an error. Ouchies.
Presumably there's some limitation in design the human-machine interface- the actual parts that stimulate the nerve endings to make them think they're feeling something- which would preclude them from generating any exceedingly intense pain.
In 2010, you will probably still be able to send the same sorts of pretty messages pretending to from be J Random AOLer's bank or John Q Public's eBay account, which link you to a site that looks almost excactly the same, and which scrape their email and passwords. The exact same message? Probably not. But take a look at the dozens of Nigerian-419 scams which are still basically unchanged since their inception...
Petty crime has plenty of 'local' variables like where the police hang out, which places have alarms and electronics, et cetera, but most have similar principles; electronic crimes have different rootkits and different websites to fake and emails to send and addresses to harvest and spam filters to bypass, but again, most have similar principles. Unless you're manufacturing the (crowbar|rootkit/botnet) things won't change much.
Seriously, though, how does a guy end up with a name like this in computer programming? It sounds made-up! Then again, I've heard some very, very odd names...
Nothing profound here, but... I have a Gnome desktop, dual-display, but with a laptop, so I keep all my controls on one desktop. I have a window list on the bottom, with just the windows, desktop switcher, show-desktop button. On top, I have the application menus and such, shortcuts to terminals that I often use (quick-launch ssh sessions and such), and the nifty toys (volume meter, screenshot, et cetera). On the left side, I have this little panel on auto-hide, so that if I can mouse over it I can see all my shiny CPU/network/etc usage meters, and a few obscure but useful shortcuts.
Actually, their next version of Notes (code-name 'Hannover' if I recall correctly) will be more or less completely rewritten using SWT.
That said, Notes is a pretty ugly email client. But it's more than an ugly email client. It's a distributed database replication application, not entirely unlike, say, Access, except a dead dog is a better database than Access. Notes just-so-happens happens to use one of those databases for email. And there's probably way too much stuff in the other, non-mail databases at IBM to make a switch possible.
Yes, but, if you want to look far enough, you also need to consider that it'll take a while to look that far. Since light only travels at a measly one light-year per year, then even if space were as small as the Milky Way galaxy you'd need to be looking out the telescope for what, 30,000 years? before you see yourself there. And that's if nothing gets in the way to block the light.
Of course, the real universe is millions and billions of light-years across...
I can sit and doodle all day in my notepad instead of taking notes if I wish to. Does that mean notepads are suddenly bad for studying?
To me, that's somewhat funny because it's true...
Option 1, in addition to ruining the surface, would take too much energy (which is a problem with the lunar lawnmower as well) and would also not block the lunar winds which are also dusty
Lunar... winds? Does that not imply a lunar... atmosphere?
Oh, give them some credit. There's a lot of effort and design that goes into organizing such a big mess of supercomputing, keeping everything streamlined, keeping processes on thousands of different processors talking to each other, deciding what to do if one processor decides to fail, et cetera et cetera. There is real work and real innovation present- perhaps not as glamorous or even as useful as faster general-purpose microprocessor cores, but don't sell them short, either.
A couple things here. First, we'll review the definition of 'toxic':
Of, relating to, or caused by a toxin or other poison: a toxic condition; toxic hepatitis.
Capable of causing injury or death, especially by chemical means; poisonous
Los Angeles smog may be somewhat noxious (harmful to living things; injurious to health: noxious chemical wastes), but it is not toxic. I suppose there have been toxic smogs before (consider the great London smogs of the 1800s, up until the 1950s) but these were never caused by automobile exhaust, and in either case there are extensive regulations against emissions which are not directly related to energy costs.
The tone of the original post ("We will use oil until the world is toxic!" and "What is the point of enriching a nation if it become toxic in 50 years?") would have you think that if we all drive our cars, the entire nation will be turned into a festering wasteland such that merely existing in it is liable to kill you. You want toxic, you say? The land around Chernobyl is somewhat toxic, I guess. But in 50 years, if the oil runs out and we switch to whatever wonderful alternative energy sources we have, we will be able to breathe the crisp clean air, and it really won't make all that much of a difference that people were burning fossil fuels a decade or five ago.
I'm sure GoogleWatch loves this latest development: they now have to fear Google's stastics-gathering scripts on every page, in addition to the regular regimen of Google ads. I suppose a simple AdBlock filter with wildcards would work on the scripts readily enough, though.
without a google ad on every page or some script I don't see how they can track user behavior on the site
You just answered the question: some script on every page. What's so hard about that? Maybe you just don't have the skills of Google's potential customers for this feature.
What is the point of enriching a nation if it become toxic in 50 years?
While I appreciate your concern for the environment, I'll draw the line somewhere before we say that burning gasoline (or other hydrocarbon-based energy sources like coal and oil derivatives) in accordance with a 'cheap energy' bit of economic planning has the capacity to make the nation or the world 'toxic'. You have license to shout all you want to about global warming and CO2 emissions and melting glaciers which may or may not be over- or under- hyped, but toxic? You're kidding. It's not happening, especially in a developed nation like the United States.
The other thing to consider is that we are not going to wake up one morning and suddenly hear on the news that 'peak oil' has occurred and now there is no more oil left and the world as we know it is going to collapse. People (you!) see it coming a long ways away, and as the supply diminishes, the price of gas will increase, purely as a result of economics. And what will happen then? People will develop substitutes for their previously oil-burning activities.
Yes, because when I order a server over the mail or the internet, I pay only in $1 bills, because I want to keep myself safe from identity theft. Paper money... I love it! 3
You're right. We need a psychopathic homocidal AI computer running this ship, who tries to kill off the crew. We could call it something like HAL as a joke, since that's one-letter-before IBM.
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So what's your take on a game like Guild Wars? They place a decent amount of emphasis on PVP, but since they have a 4character/account set and they let you create new (maximum level, best quality-equipment, use-any-skill-or-item-you've-found-and-unlocked free) PVP-only characters trivially, so you can swap your PVP characters in and out with relative ease.
Presumably there's some limitation in design the human-machine interface- the actual parts that stimulate the nerve endings to make them think they're feeling something- which would preclude them from generating any exceedingly intense pain.
Petty crime has plenty of 'local' variables like where the police hang out, which places have alarms and electronics, et cetera, but most have similar principles; electronic crimes have different rootkits and different websites to fake and emails to send and addresses to harvest and spam filters to bypass, but again, most have similar principles. Unless you're manufacturing the (crowbar|rootkit/botnet) things won't change much.
Seriously, though, how does a guy end up with a name like this in computer programming? It sounds made-up! Then again, I've heard some very, very odd names...
Nothing profound here, but...
I have a Gnome desktop, dual-display, but with a laptop, so I keep all my controls on one desktop. I have a window list on the bottom, with just the windows, desktop switcher, show-desktop button. On top, I have the application menus and such, shortcuts to terminals that I often use (quick-launch ssh sessions and such), and the nifty toys (volume meter, screenshot, et cetera). On the left side, I have this little panel on auto-hide, so that if I can mouse over it I can see all my shiny CPU/network/etc usage meters, and a few obscure but useful shortcuts.
- are very heavy
- get cramped, bored
- need food
- need water
- need air
Robotic probes just run off a power supply. Now consider which is cheaper to launch.That said, Notes is a pretty ugly email client. But it's more than an ugly email client. It's a distributed database replication application, not entirely unlike, say, Access, except a dead dog is a better database than Access. Notes just-so-happens happens to use one of those databases for email. And there's probably way too much stuff in the other, non-mail databases at IBM to make a switch possible.
Of course, the real universe is millions and billions of light-years across...
You need a camera to spy on your wife in the shower? I think most happy couples can just use eyeballs....
Can we say, "P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pentium!!!" anybody?
Dude, are you paying ANY attention to this fiasco whatsoever? You'd scan for $sys$joke.
I can sit and doodle all day in my notepad instead of taking notes if I wish to. Does that mean notepads are suddenly bad for studying?
To me, that's somewhat funny because it's true...
Lunar... winds? Does that not imply a lunar... atmosphere?
Clearly you have not seen Paul Mutton's 'Shakespeare Social Networks' application (based off his PieSpy IRC bot...
Home of the Underdogs, for all those under-rated games of yesteryear.
Serendipity? It even has a shiny "HTMLarea" option which is WYSIWYG, which is even more 'humane' than this Textile doohickey.
Oh, give them some credit. There's a lot of effort and design that goes into organizing such a big mess of supercomputing, keeping everything streamlined, keeping processes on thousands of different processors talking to each other, deciding what to do if one processor decides to fail, et cetera et cetera. There is real work and real innovation present- perhaps not as glamorous or even as useful as faster general-purpose microprocessor cores, but don't sell them short, either.
- Of, relating to, or caused by a toxin or other poison: a toxic condition; toxic hepatitis.
- Capable of causing injury or death, especially by chemical means; poisonous
Los Angeles smog may be somewhat noxious (harmful to living things; injurious to health: noxious chemical wastes), but it is not toxic. I suppose there have been toxic smogs before (consider the great London smogs of the 1800s, up until the 1950s) but these were never caused by automobile exhaust, and in either case there are extensive regulations against emissions which are not directly related to energy costs.The tone of the original post ("We will use oil until the world is toxic!" and "What is the point of enriching a nation if it become toxic in 50 years?") would have you think that if we all drive our cars, the entire nation will be turned into a festering wasteland such that merely existing in it is liable to kill you. You want toxic, you say? The land around Chernobyl is somewhat toxic, I guess. But in 50 years, if the oil runs out and we switch to whatever wonderful alternative energy sources we have, we will be able to breathe the crisp clean air, and it really won't make all that much of a difference that people were burning fossil fuels a decade or five ago.
I'm sure GoogleWatch loves this latest development: they now have to fear Google's stastics-gathering scripts on every page, in addition to the regular regimen of Google ads. I suppose a simple AdBlock filter with wildcards would work on the scripts readily enough, though.
You just answered the question: some script on every page. What's so hard about that? Maybe you just don't have the skills of Google's potential customers for this feature.
While I appreciate your concern for the environment, I'll draw the line somewhere before we say that burning gasoline (or other hydrocarbon-based energy sources like coal and oil derivatives) in accordance with a 'cheap energy' bit of economic planning has the capacity to make the nation or the world 'toxic'. You have license to shout all you want to about global warming and CO2 emissions and melting glaciers which may or may not be over- or under- hyped, but toxic? You're kidding. It's not happening, especially in a developed nation like the United States.
The other thing to consider is that we are not going to wake up one morning and suddenly hear on the news that 'peak oil' has occurred and now there is no more oil left and the world as we know it is going to collapse. People (you!) see it coming a long ways away, and as the supply diminishes, the price of gas will increase, purely as a result of economics. And what will happen then? People will develop substitutes for their previously oil-burning activities.
Yes, because when I order a server over the mail or the internet, I pay only in $1 bills, because I want to keep myself safe from identity theft. Paper money... I love it! 3
I mean, what do you have against elderberry wine?
You're right. We need a psychopathic homocidal AI computer running this ship, who tries to kill off the crew. We could call it something like HAL as a joke, since that's one-letter-before IBM.