Verifying age solely on-line is darn near impossible...
eID. Nearly every Belgian has one.
Just pop it into your cardreader, enter your PIN-code and your age is verified.
Oh it also has digital signing and other neat gizmo's:)
Don't forget the cost of food to power your body's extra movement necessary to unplug the console.
Ah, but most Americans have too much stored energy in their bodies.
Don't tell me that 3 hours of low-intensity movement will cost you that much energy. If you insist on that, you're just plainly lazy.
One fitness-session would cost you more in energy and in subscription fees.
Why don't you grab to your bag of chips to refuel for typing that message there, checking that "annonymous" box alone must've at least cost you 1Cal.
I can't stop imagening you as a sugar and crapfood junky who can't see his own wiener. (that's a two-sided problem).
So what you're saying is that a single amateur inexperienced coder coding in his free time gets more done and spends less effort than a team of 5 persons working under a manager since the team wastes their time in meetings and other organisational matters ?-)
It depends how you look at it.
If you work on bigger projects, you'll see that you can't just "go ahead and hack it together", cause you'll fuck your co-developers over and they need to know what you've changed in the code cause they need to work with it. And they'd like to know why you went out of your way to do a certain thing. You'd want your freedom in coding but also a system and style of coding to not be stuck with digging through spaghetti-code and what not.
It can "feel" very counter-productive cause you can't just do everything you want to (depends on the company and the team though) and have to document your code but it serves a reason things should be somewhat organized and being sure everyone is on the same level. Just look at Netscape, they were forced into a entire rewrite, because they felt it became "unmanageble" over time.
software project vs physical source lines of code ...
Since when is the size of a project and needed resources expressed in lines of code?
Consider a 5 person project with one manager. They're building an "innovating revolutionary" program.
Bob came up with the same idea, but codes in his free time...
However Bob is less organized in his coding, and still is "learning" so his code will be less efficient.
The team releases their version, as does Bob.
Bobs program counts more lines then the teams' but the team put more resources into managing the project and communicating back and forth between 6 people which takes alot of organisation, meetings, brainstorms and some sort of coding-standards/protocols to be able to work together on the same code when Bob just turned on his PC whenever and just coded away.
Now which project is 'bigger'?
Bob's project? or the teams'?
Bob has written much more code but the team put alot more time and resources in theirs.
You'd be surpriced how government offices are run...
Employees who hook the -unused- built-in 56K modem into the phoneline to bypass filters to be able to read personal emails and what not, infecting the network without an admin being able to do much other then glueing the sockets shut to physically make it impossible to use that modem.
Government employees aren't particulary the brightest or security-aware lot; I've heard quite shocking stories of consultants working for [Belgian] government instances.
WWF has an article about it. I picked it up somewhere else though...
To be honest I always thought you had the more sturdy greyish TP to be recycle and "economical", but they are alot more expensive.
Regular TP packaging -here in Belgium- rarely states it's manufactured out of recycled paper, only that its packaging is recyclable...
I don't manufacture TP myself, so I honestly wouldn't be able to say for certain. But I couldn't find a statement on the internet of someone who actually does.
I can't wait to wipe my ass with titanium nano-fibers!
This is a real concern actually, the western world is wiping their asses with the rainforrests.
Perhaps this softof "paper" will prove to be a plausable alternative? I really hope so...
If you can't feel there's something wrong and abnormal with your body (broken leg, biting on tongue, finger stuck in a blender,...) you wont act to protect it. Not damaging yourself wouldn't be a "reflex" anymore, but a contious process with not always the highest priority. Like an Interrupt request versus an API-call.
Just imagine a client looking up an adress or email to contact someone he had a meeting with / phone conversation or anything really, and stumbling on ms. X her profile where she's whoring herself or any content that could be offensive to any of your clients.
There are things where you want to keep neutral about as a company (political issues, current affairs, racism...) or do not want to be associated with (mentions or display of druguse, your amateur porn movie, stories about how slutty you are, ignorance and hateful behaviour,...). Your employees will form together what you will across your clients. If you can find dirt, they will be able to find dirt.
I'd think of releasing some crappy 2D remake of the original duke nukem, call it Duke Nukem Forever, release it with the next "collectors' edition" of Duke Nukem for PSP, mobile phones, whatever and just let it all go away.
How long do you think it takes to develop a physics engine? And do you think with each game released there's a new engine used?
Each generation of games builds further on a specific physics engine to cut that development time, which is almost most cases overhead -if there's an engine already out there employing the latest technology. You'll have a quasi simular "gameplay experience" over each generation. It's like saying HL2, which took about 5-6 years to build, is "old gameplay" and all the games that will come out being based off the Source Engine.
I thought DNF was developing their own physics engine after trashing the Unreal engine because it didn't meet their expectations, so they hit the reset-button on the project after a few years I thought.
Think I'm joking? try going a week without going online
Put 90% of all households without tv for a week...
It should prove quite interesting as people will have on average 3 hours extra time, when nearly everyone feels they have "no" time.
I don't own a tv myself anymore, it's dead time. Sleeping is more efficient way to rest and living a life yourself is more forfilling then projecting yourself into an emulated life watching these "reality"-things then gazing into a lightbox.
It seems like a new trend to get things like this "public" in order to get back to the offenders, using the open and more and more community-like nature of the internet.
I wouldn't be surpriced if in a while these you-are-a-criminal-bitch! webpages start popping up plentyful as people seem to feel they "can do something" and hunting the offenders down, having direct result as it exposes them in their own social network (blog/myspace/...) having a bigger impact (a "most in my direct environment and social network dissaproved" vs. "some stupid cop 'caught me'") or perhaps, for some, it's way to be able to mock someone. It's fascinating to see it resembling an old custom where criminals were publically humiliated and displayed on the townsquare for everyone to enjoy.
The guy with the laptop distressed me and I felt relief him getting exposed in his questionable activities. It really looked like the guy explicitely intended to sell some broken laptop and profit off of it. Judging from the pictures though, this girl seems to be rather young and lower class, just wanting to get in on the whole technology gadgets-train and saw an opportunity. I don't approve of it, and think she just should've given the sideKick back without going all racist and intimidating over it. But it seems less of a threat. Although, it appeared she felt "untouchable" by the way she communicated back. I suppose being critisized by a wold-audience personally adressed to you will do more then a criminal record which means in certain circles how "tough" and "gansta" you are.
I do wonder what the long term damage will be as many companies track your name on the internet before hiring...
You should watch century of the self if you get the chance. It lays out how the psyche of people have subtly being manipulated for both commercials as policital reasons.
The documentary shocked me as I've never thought it would've been as well defined and with as clearly defined "goals".
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Wouldn't that rather be "SELECT TOP 1 FROM Posts WHERE sid=#06/06/07/194246#" ?
I even read a story about a woman losing her husband in an accident, but there was still some sperm of him frozen somewhere and she had still his child. I couldn't be bothered to look up a link for that though...
wouldn't it make much more sense to purchase an office full of cheap Dells
You clearly don't work with Terminal Servers.If you have an office filled with Dells, you will require personell physically present to maintain these PCs, follow up and/or pay for support-contracts. Being physically there for someone having mail-problems and such is a waste or resourches.
With [a|some] Terminal server[s] you have typically less people managing the server, on a central point. Connecting clients cannot screw up as much as when you'd have a OS for each and every Desktop. Also think about managing licences, and virus attacks.
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After all, he is a Muslim. He might blow himself up, and then what? He could get sued for inciting terrorism.
As a matter of fact, at first the blog had pictures of 9/11 attacks and the metro bombings supposedly from the laptop indicating enthousiasm for these events. People suggested in comments on the blog to inform instance to have the guy locked away for perving and terroristic idealism.
It is true from your perspective, but not to everyone in the universe hence it's not universal.
Behaviour of Americans is ultimately weird to me, doesn't mean my perception is universal.
I agree...
i'm still using my Geforce TI4200; I bought it cheap cause the DirectX9.0 cards were coming out and I didn't feel like going for the premature bugs and such.
There hasn't really been a game I couldn't play; I've finshed Halflife 2, all Need For Speed titles, all GTA titles, and so many more...
So why would I need to fork out 300-600 for playing what I can play now, but "better"?
Nothing has felt as sluggish and jaggy as trying to play Blood II with a voodoo2 card. on a P200.
Are kids these days spoiled rotten? I had to work to finance my PC-spending, and I still do.
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My gf just got hers just a few months ago as well.
:p
Maybe I just was very lucky
Nearly ;)
At least in this region (Vlaams Brabant); I've got mine for about 2 years now...
Verifying age solely on-line is darn near impossible ...
:)
eID. Nearly every Belgian has one.
Just pop it into your cardreader, enter your PIN-code and your age is verified.
Oh it also has digital signing and other neat gizmo's
Don't forget the cost of food to power your body's extra movement necessary to unplug the console.
Ah, but most Americans have too much stored energy in their bodies.
Don't tell me that 3 hours of low-intensity movement will cost you that much energy. If you insist on that, you're just plainly lazy.
One fitness-session would cost you more in energy and in subscription fees.
Why don't you grab to your bag of chips to refuel for typing that message there, checking that "annonymous" box alone must've at least cost you 1Cal.
I can't stop imagening you as a sugar and crapfood junky who can't see his own wiener. (that's a two-sided problem).
What are the implications running a crawler..?
Makes it your Google, MSN-search, Yahoo, AskJeeves, altavista, hotbot and many more illegal?
Or are they *again* going to be forced to filter out what "might be [illegal|offensive] in [state|country] xyz"...
It depends how you look at it.
If you work on bigger projects, you'll see that you can't just "go ahead and hack it together", cause you'll fuck your co-developers over and they need to know what you've changed in the code cause they need to work with it. And they'd like to know why you went out of your way to do a certain thing. You'd want your freedom in coding but also a system and style of coding to not be stuck with digging through spaghetti-code and what not.
It can "feel" very counter-productive cause you can't just do everything you want to (depends on the company and the team though) and have to document your code but it serves a reason things should be somewhat organized and being sure everyone is on the same level. Just look at Netscape, they were forced into a entire rewrite, because they felt it became "unmanageble" over time.
Since when is the size of a project and needed resources expressed in lines of code?
Consider a 5 person project with one manager. They're building an "innovating revolutionary" program.
Bob came up with the same idea, but codes in his free time... However Bob is less organized in his coding, and still is "learning" so his code will be less efficient.
The team releases their version, as does Bob.
Bobs program counts more lines then the teams' but the team put more resources into managing the project and communicating back and forth between 6 people which takes alot of organisation, meetings, brainstorms and some sort of coding-standards/protocols to be able to work together on the same code when Bob just turned on his PC whenever and just coded away.
Now which project is 'bigger'?
Bob's project? or the teams'?
Bob has written much more code but the team put alot more time and resources in theirs.
You'd be surpriced how government offices are run...
Employees who hook the -unused- built-in 56K modem into the phoneline to bypass filters to be able to read personal emails and what not, infecting the network without an admin being able to do much other then glueing the sockets shut to physically make it impossible to use that modem.
Government employees aren't particulary the brightest or security-aware lot; I've heard quite shocking stories of consultants working for [Belgian] government instances.
WWF has an article about it. I picked it up somewhere else though...
To be honest I always thought you had the more sturdy greyish TP to be recycle and "economical", but they are alot more expensive.
Regular TP packaging -here in Belgium- rarely states it's manufactured out of recycled paper, only that its packaging is recyclable...
I don't manufacture TP myself, so I honestly wouldn't be able to say for certain. But I couldn't find a statement on the internet of someone who actually does.
I can't wait to wipe my ass with titanium nano-fibers!
This is a real concern actually, the western world is wiping their asses with the rainforrests.
Perhaps this softof "paper" will prove to be a plausable alternative? I really hope so...
What's up with the war fixation people? [in America]
One word: overcompensation.
I agree. Creating a robotic clone of a human isn't really what should be attempted as humans' nature is quite competitive and dominating.
AI with a sense of "self" and with an ego could give quite disturbing scenario's.
Because "pain" protects you from yourself damaging your body
If you can't feel there's something wrong and abnormal with your body (broken leg, biting on tongue, finger stuck in a blender, ...) you wont act to protect it. Not damaging yourself wouldn't be a "reflex" anymore, but a contious process with not always the highest priority. Like an Interrupt request versus an API-call.
Just imagine a client looking up an adress or email to contact someone he had a meeting with / phone conversation or anything really, and stumbling on ms. X her profile where she's whoring herself or any content that could be offensive to any of your clients.
There are things where you want to keep neutral about as a company (political issues, current affairs, racism ...) or do not want to be associated with (mentions or display of druguse, your amateur porn movie, stories about how slutty you are, ignorance and hateful behaviour, ...). Your employees will form together what you will across your clients. If you can find dirt, they will be able to find dirt.
they already did it a few times.
How long do you think it takes to develop a physics engine? And do you think with each game released there's a new engine used?
Each generation of games builds further on a specific physics engine to cut that development time, which is almost most cases overhead -if there's an engine already out there employing the latest technology. You'll have a quasi simular "gameplay experience" over each generation. It's like saying HL2, which took about 5-6 years to build, is "old gameplay" and all the games that will come out being based off the Source Engine.
I thought DNF was developing their own physics engine after trashing the Unreal engine because it didn't meet their expectations, so they hit the reset-button on the project after a few years I thought.
Think I'm joking? try going a week without going online
Put 90% of all households without tv for a week...
It should prove quite interesting as people will have on average 3 hours extra time, when nearly everyone feels they have "no" time.
I don't own a tv myself anymore, it's dead time. Sleeping is more efficient way to rest and living a life yourself is more forfilling then projecting yourself into an emulated life watching these "reality"-things then gazing into a lightbox.
There are more things like this, I'm sure.
It seems like a new trend to get things like this "public" in order to get back to the offenders, using the open and more and more community-like nature of the internet.
I wouldn't be surpriced if in a while these you-are-a-criminal-bitch! webpages start popping up plentyful as people seem to feel they "can do something" and hunting the offenders down, having direct result as it exposes them in their own social network (blog/myspace/...) having a bigger impact (a "most in my direct environment and social network dissaproved" vs. "some stupid cop 'caught me'") or perhaps, for some, it's way to be able to mock someone. It's fascinating to see it resembling an old custom where criminals were publically humiliated and displayed on the townsquare for everyone to enjoy.
The guy with the laptop distressed me and I felt relief him getting exposed in his questionable activities. It really looked like the guy explicitely intended to sell some broken laptop and profit off of it. Judging from the pictures though, this girl seems to be rather young and lower class, just wanting to get in on the whole technology gadgets-train and saw an opportunity. I don't approve of it, and think she just should've given the sideKick back without going all racist and intimidating over it. But it seems less of a threat. Although, it appeared she felt "untouchable" by the way she communicated back. I suppose being critisized by a wold-audience personally adressed to you will do more then a criminal record which means in certain circles how "tough" and "gansta" you are.
I do wonder what the long term damage will be as many companies track your name on the internet before hiring...
You should watch century of the self if you get the chance. It lays out how the psyche of people have subtly being manipulated for both commercials as policital reasons.
The documentary shocked me as I've never thought it would've been as well defined and with as clearly defined "goals".
Wouldn't that rather be "SELECT TOP 1 FROM Posts WHERE sid=#06/06/07/194246#" ?
here you go.
I even read a story about a woman losing her husband in an accident, but there was still some sperm of him frozen somewhere and she had still his child. I couldn't be bothered to look up a link for that though...
You clearly don't work with Terminal Servers.If you have an office filled with Dells, you will require personell physically present to maintain these PCs, follow up and/or pay for support-contracts. Being physically there for someone having mail-problems and such is a waste or resourches.
With [a|some] Terminal server[s] you have typically less people managing the server, on a central point. Connecting clients cannot screw up as much as when you'd have a OS for each and every Desktop. Also think about managing licences, and virus attacks.
As a matter of fact, at first the blog had pictures of 9/11 attacks and the metro bombings supposedly from the laptop indicating enthousiasm for these events. People suggested in comments on the blog to inform instance to have the guy locked away for perving and terroristic idealism.
That sentence is universally true
It is true from your perspective, but not to everyone in the universe hence it's not universal.
Behaviour of Americans is ultimately weird to me, doesn't mean my perception is universal.
I agree... i'm still using my Geforce TI4200; I bought it cheap cause the DirectX9.0 cards were coming out and I didn't feel like going for the premature bugs and such.
There hasn't really been a game I couldn't play; I've finshed Halflife 2, all Need For Speed titles, all GTA titles, and so many more...
So why would I need to fork out 300-600 for playing what I can play now, but "better"?
Nothing has felt as sluggish and jaggy as trying to play Blood II with a voodoo2 card. on a P200. Are kids these days spoiled rotten? I had to work to finance my PC-spending, and I still do.