I am not a vegetarian, but I get annoyed at people that proclaim "I am vegetarian. I only eat fish, cheese, and chicken."
Similarly, anyone who was exposed to the computer wrecking virus's of the 90's thru to 2002, know what "infection" really means. I am not a low level coder, only high level languages in a business environment, but I do wonder what some old skoolers must think when they read about a piece of HTML Javascript being described as "Infection".
I am vegetarian, I will eat steak only if its well done.
On the list of preaching, soap box standing zealots, I have found hunters to be the most vocal. Responsibility, conservation, and a given right to engage said pass-time is delivered in fire-brand like sermons.
From my observations, though, for every 1 responsible hunter there seem to be 10 irresponsible.
15 years ago, I did a stint as a volunteer park warden for 6 months. I noted the following:
- Bringing shot deer down to the nearest clearing, often walking tracks, partially butchering the animal and leaving the rest to rot on the track.
- Pot shots and damage to any and all infrastructure.
- "Boredom Kills" - usually birds shot with high powered rifles.
- Hunting dogs left to roam, sometimes till a following weekend, when the hunter would come back.
- Creepy comments to day hikers such as "I saw you long ago from across the valley, i saw you in my scope".
15 years later and hunters will still defend their pass time with the fervor of a rabid PETA campaigner, or Muslim cleric. Saving the world you know. Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...
If the "Future of Graphics Rendering" was a job being advertised and potential candidates were asked to submit their Resume, then Intel's would be very thin.
The job is asking for 5 years experience, with a tertiary qualification, preferably post grad.
In Graphics, Intel has completed High School and done 2 years admin temping.
And yes, I am still bitter about the Intel i740 Graphics Card. Intel are just great at the snowjobs, even suckering John Carmack in a very ancient.plan update:
"Good throughput, good fillrate, good quality, good features.
A very competent chip. I wish intel great success with the 740. I think
that it firmly establishes the baseline that other companies (especially
the ones that didn’t even make this list) will be forced to come up to."
The reality turned out to be what this story will be - smoke and mirrors.
Interesting comment re pieces of cloth, and I have another example.
When I was young(13-16 years) I was involved in Judo. It was difficult, highly formalized, and via tournaments I worked upto a yellow belt. It was as hard as any sport and required a lot of training.
About the same time JuJutsu franchises sprang up which some of my friends were attracted to. It soon became obvious on their mode of operation - issuing belt colors like rewards rather than acievement. Obtaining a yellow belt could be achieved in weeks. Further colors came frequently, and one friend obtained a blue rank in 2 years. This person was barely yellow belt Judo standard.
It was telling, that I had 1 other school friend in Judo, yet about 80 attended JuJutsu. Those colored belts were a strong marketing tool. It was a disgrace.
*Disclaimer: Martial arts qualifications are very different from country to country, region to region. Your mileage may vary.
I did a post grad degree in GIS finishing 2003 haveing done IS degree before then. We used professional map tools for analytical work and presentation.
Two things stood out in the culture of GIS:
- A non importance of solid data handling and storage. Flat files were the order of the day.
- Antialiasing was not prevalent. While not required for anayltical work, in presentation it was, but many big name tools did not make the jump. 8 bit was common.
- Presentation was done by govt depts and were fairly snazzy for the day, in 8bit alisaed glory
Now we see were we are today, and its all to do with the fact non mapping companies have got involved without the hangups of the old GIS attitudes from govt depts, universities, and the big name tool vendors influencing them. Companies like MS, Google, have presented maps and GIS so superior to the traditional industry, that even Depts Lands, Mapping and Survey(or whatever called in your country) are resorting to Google maps.
We now have depts of GIS professionals along with proprietry vendor tools being trounced by private enterprise.
Some 4channers may have their tails between their legs, or wishing to bolster the reputation of the board as a whole.
While references are difficult given the nature of the 4chan board structure, my understanding is that from the recent "Puppy Thrower" video(the east european girl, not the US soldier of some time ago), several innocent people were outed wrongly, including a 13 yo german girl.
The dynamics from this sort of thing, would be similar to a political party rift. You get those that need to, in genuine good concience, act outside the party norm. I see this incident as related, I could be wrong.
I presume you mean actual physical stickers. I purchased a new monitor the other day. Once I got the thick plastic protecting the screen off, two stickers were on each side, and wider than the side trim, overlapping the screen by about 4.5 mm.
I assumed they would just fall away. But no. 20 minutes of careful wetting with water, and the ol' fingernail. Doubly difficult when you can just press hard as you like on the screen itself.
No, people just have short memories. They are "smart" for as long as they remember. Ask an office junior what Entebbe means to them as they'd shrug and mumble dunno.
Entebbe was a big deal for me at school, similar to 9/11 is to todays kids. By the time the next generation rolls around 9/11 will mean what entebbe does.
Ring ring... "Greetings. We are pleased to inform you of our new stock of haemorroid cream has just arrived at your local West Field pharmacy, just 400 yards south from your door step. Joes corner store that you will pass on the way is having two-for-one Coke Day."
March 2011: The first $100 fine is issued after 7 aluminum drink cans are found in her trash. Mrs Megan Bradley pleads she did not realize her 8 yo son put them in. The fine stands.
August 2011: Trash inspectors become dedicated teams trained in the special volatility of domestic incidents, and liaise the results of the inspection results.
October 2011: First worker injury as argument erupts over the fact the little recycle triangle with the 6 in the middle is not on the list of recyclables.
January 2012: Police depts are assigned dedicated SRRU teams (Special Refuse Response Unit).
August 2012: Controversy, when a neighbor films a family dragged onto the lawn, and sat on their knees with bags on their heads. The 15 yo son gets lippy, and is strangled by an SRRU officer with 6 pack plastic rings "to show the boy the importance" of recycling.
Jan 2013: The RRA(Refuse Recycling Act) is introduced and falls under the Dept Homeland Security.
Mar 2013: First "Re-education Camp" built. SRRU get new uniforms. The shirts are a trendy brown color.
I think she walked into a propeller, its taken a chunk out of her chest and reduced her top to tatters. Seriously, I sent a minute squinting trying to make it out, as logic tells me it cant surely be the case. So I'll give MS the benefit of the doubt and say its the effect of the semi transparency.
China is criticised for its human rights. When a female a couple years back was convicted of killing several children her sentence was a bullet fired at close range to the back of the head from an AK47.
It amazes me the number of posts about the Terry Childs case that simply imply: "This sysadmin did things sysadmins shouldnt. *I* shall stand on this soap box and not question the proportion of his offending against the sentence."
Short of the bullet to the back of the head I suspect some on here think he should serve a life sentence.
And these same people denounce other countries for their human rights. Amazing.
I live in New Zealand. Emergency services here run helicoptors. Not just for the old cliche of plucking people of a cliff face, but also for car accidents and medical emergencies in non-urban areas. To provide perspective, a seriously injured person, just 20 minutes from a city may recieve helicoptor service for severe cases.
What defines severe? Is it worth it to the taxpayer?
About 12 years ago, a study was done to put a monetary cost to a citizen loosing their life. Presumably this factored loss of taxable income, consequences of earning potential of spouses, impact and costs to assist a dependant child.
It was in the news even, and it ignited a moral debate.
That cost to society was NZ$1,100,000.
The point being, the cost of the helicoptor recovery was less than this, at about $5000 per hour.
We can perhaps conclue the FBI has done some similar sums, but the poor individual has not fared so well in the cost/benefit analysis. Or someone high up has an interest in a copyright litigation practice.
I had an idea in 1995 about a game. Once I saw Quake with its true 3D, and gib-then-spawn gameplay, I knew one day it could be possible.
And that vision was a game similar to Battlefield etc, but when you got killed your game license terminated. You had to go to the store and purchase another copy.
I know its sounds grossly unfeasible, but I always wondered if a tiny market would stand in the store, holding the box, and think "Holy crap, thats too badass. I am gonna try it."
I was doing papers at university in Satelite imagery in 2001 at time of the trade Towers attack. Our dept had its own image server and direct image purchase ability to many institutions including the satelite owners. We could buy images like you can buy stock photography images of image stock websites.
The Kronos satellite(50cm greyscale resolution, 100cm truecolor) was turned to snap images of the twin towers and we had those images within some 35 minutes of the 9/11 attacks.
The point I make is, when there is the capability, and when the desire is there, pretty much anything is achievable. Someone at Kronos Satellite took it upon themselves to abandon the current photography job and turn the satellite to the twin towers.
Was that person authorised? I have always wondered.
Do not visit this page as if its Photoshop Friday on SomethingAwful, or Worth1000. You will have a sense of disappointed.
I believe the artist has approached this to provide an interpreted contrast between what a 15 year old sees today in his town, and what happened in that exact spot some 70 years ago.
This means there is no seamless transitions. But a conceptual overlay.
Show me the declaration according to the UN charter. Fittingly the US in Afghanistan was like this detainment of this programmer. IE they are pressing an authoritarian mantra.
2) Wikileaks leaked secret documents about the war in afghanistan in a reckless manner that possibly endangered lives of our allies
and soldiers on the battlefield.
Copy pasted from a US millitary speech? Arguably everything could contribute. Protesting against the Mai Lai Massacre killed US soldiers indirectly. Moral lowered by poor opinion back home caused battle errors?
3) A 3 hour border detention is less than someone would be detained for unpaid parking tickets. They did not arrest him. They could have
easily arrested him as a material witness.
It was 3 hours too many
5) He was allowed to leave the country after his conference, not exactly what police states do
Well no, police states do let people go, under agreements of refugee discussions. Not all refugees arrive on a 12" dinghy or scramble over barbed wire walls.
Slashdot Mirror
"so many famous people got infected."
I am not a vegetarian, but I get annoyed at people that proclaim "I am vegetarian. I only eat fish, cheese, and chicken."
Similarly, anyone who was exposed to the computer wrecking virus's of the 90's thru to 2002, know what "infection" really means. I am not a low level coder, only high level languages in a business environment, but I do wonder what some old skoolers must think when they read about a piece of HTML Javascript being described as "Infection". I am vegetarian, I will eat steak only if its well done.
On the list of preaching, soap box standing zealots, I have found hunters to be the most vocal. Responsibility, conservation, and a given right to engage said pass-time is delivered in fire-brand like sermons.
From my observations, though, for every 1 responsible hunter there seem to be 10 irresponsible.
15 years ago, I did a stint as a volunteer park warden for 6 months. I noted the following:
- Bringing shot deer down to the nearest clearing, often walking tracks, partially butchering the animal and leaving the rest to rot on the track.
- Pot shots and damage to any and all infrastructure.
- "Boredom Kills" - usually birds shot with high powered rifles.
- Hunting dogs left to roam, sometimes till a following weekend, when the hunter would come back.
- Creepy comments to day hikers such as "I saw you long ago from across the valley, i saw you in my scope".
15 years later and hunters will still defend their pass time with the fervor of a rabid PETA campaigner, or Muslim cleric. Saving the world you know. Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...
If the "Future of Graphics Rendering" was a job being advertised and potential candidates were asked to submit their Resume, then Intel's would be very thin.
.plan update:
The job is asking for 5 years experience, with a tertiary qualification, preferably post grad.
In Graphics, Intel has completed High School and done 2 years admin temping.
And yes, I am still bitter about the Intel i740 Graphics Card. Intel are just great at the snowjobs, even suckering John Carmack in a very ancient
"Good throughput, good fillrate, good quality, good features. A very competent chip. I wish intel great success with the 740. I think that it firmly establishes the baseline that other companies (especially the ones that didn’t even make this list) will be forced to come up to."
The reality turned out to be what this story will be - smoke and mirrors.
Interesting comment re pieces of cloth, and I have another example.
When I was young(13-16 years) I was involved in Judo. It was difficult, highly formalized, and via tournaments I worked upto a yellow belt. It was as hard as any sport and required a lot of training.
About the same time JuJutsu franchises sprang up which some of my friends were attracted to. It soon became obvious on their mode of operation - issuing belt colors like rewards rather than acievement. Obtaining a yellow belt could be achieved in weeks. Further colors came frequently, and one friend obtained a blue rank in 2 years. This person was barely yellow belt Judo standard.
It was telling, that I had 1 other school friend in Judo, yet about 80 attended JuJutsu. Those colored belts were a strong marketing tool. It was a disgrace.
*Disclaimer: Martial arts qualifications are very different from country to country, region to region. Your mileage may vary.
I did a post grad degree in GIS finishing 2003 haveing done IS degree before then. We used professional map tools for analytical work and presentation.
Two things stood out in the culture of GIS:
- A non importance of solid data handling and storage. Flat files were the order of the day.
- Antialiasing was not prevalent. While not required for anayltical work, in presentation it was, but many big name tools did not make the jump. 8 bit was common.
- Presentation was done by govt depts and were fairly snazzy for the day, in 8bit alisaed glory
Now we see were we are today, and its all to do with the fact non mapping companies have got involved without the hangups of the old GIS attitudes from govt depts, universities, and the big name tool vendors influencing them. Companies like MS, Google, have presented maps and GIS so superior to the traditional industry, that even Depts Lands, Mapping and Survey(or whatever called in your country) are resorting to Google maps.
We now have depts of GIS professionals along with proprietry vendor tools being trounced by private enterprise.
Some 4channers may have their tails between their legs, or wishing to bolster the reputation of the board as a whole.
While references are difficult given the nature of the 4chan board structure, my understanding is that from the recent "Puppy Thrower" video(the east european girl, not the US soldier of some time ago), several innocent people were outed wrongly, including a 13 yo german girl.
The dynamics from this sort of thing, would be similar to a political party rift. You get those that need to, in genuine good concience, act outside the party norm. I see this incident as related, I could be wrong.
"assuming US diplomatic pressure doesn't interfere"
US Diplomatic Pressure - otherwise known as an M1 Abrams Tank.
I presume you mean actual physical stickers. I purchased a new monitor the other day. Once I got the thick plastic protecting the screen off, two stickers were on each side, and wider than the side trim, overlapping the screen by about 4.5 mm.
I assumed they would just fall away. But no. 20 minutes of careful wetting with water, and the ol' fingernail. Doubly difficult when you can just press hard as you like on the screen itself.
Re B).
No, people just have short memories. They are "smart" for as long as they remember. Ask an office junior what Entebbe means to them as they'd shrug and mumble dunno.
Entebbe was a big deal for me at school, similar to 9/11 is to todays kids. By the time the next generation rolls around 9/11 will mean what entebbe does.
"I'm not sure why this is only just being presented on Slashdot"
Groundwork for patent claims?
and after the recent wireless furore...
Ring ring... "Greetings. We are pleased to inform you of our new stock of haemorroid cream has just arrived at your local West Field pharmacy, just 400 yards south from your door step. Joes corner store that you will pass on the way is having two-for-one Coke Day."
Ah, see I interpreted as "This person bought a bike(from shop X), this person has a new baby, etc.
March 2011: The first $100 fine is issued after 7 aluminum drink cans are found in her trash. Mrs Megan Bradley pleads she did not realize her 8 yo son put them in. The fine stands.
August 2011: Trash inspectors become dedicated teams trained in the special volatility of domestic incidents, and liaise the results of the inspection results.
October 2011: First worker injury as argument erupts over the fact the little recycle triangle with the 6 in the middle is not on the list of recyclables.
January 2012: Police depts are assigned dedicated SRRU teams (Special Refuse Response Unit).
August 2012: Controversy, when a neighbor films a family dragged onto the lawn, and sat on their knees with bags on their heads. The 15 yo son gets lippy, and is strangled by an SRRU officer with 6 pack plastic rings "to show the boy the importance" of recycling.
Jan 2013: The RRA(Refuse Recycling Act) is introduced and falls under the Dept Homeland Security.
Mar 2013: First "Re-education Camp" built. SRRU get new uniforms. The shirts are a trendy brown color.
FBI Warning parody according to the IT Crowd for those not seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82Lq2rVB_4
Possible political dig at the end...a US FBI agent assasinating a movie downloader on foreign soil?
I think she walked into a propeller, its taken a chunk out of her chest and reduced her top to tatters. Seriously, I sent a minute squinting trying to make it out, as logic tells me it cant surely be the case. So I'll give MS the benefit of the doubt and say its the effect of the semi transparency.
China is criticised for its human rights. When a female a couple years back was convicted of killing several children her sentence was a bullet fired at close range to the back of the head from an AK47.
It amazes me the number of posts about the Terry Childs case that simply imply: "This sysadmin did things sysadmins shouldnt. *I* shall stand on this soap box and not question the proportion of his offending against the sentence."
Short of the bullet to the back of the head I suspect some on here think he should serve a life sentence.
And these same people denounce other countries for their human rights. Amazing.
The monetary value of a person is known.
I live in New Zealand. Emergency services here run helicoptors. Not just for the old cliche of plucking people of a cliff face, but also for car accidents and medical emergencies in non-urban areas. To provide perspective, a seriously injured person, just 20 minutes from a city may recieve helicoptor service for severe cases.
What defines severe? Is it worth it to the taxpayer?
About 12 years ago, a study was done to put a monetary cost to a citizen loosing their life. Presumably this factored loss of taxable income, consequences of earning potential of spouses, impact and costs to assist a dependant child.
It was in the news even, and it ignited a moral debate. That cost to society was NZ$1,100,000.
The point being, the cost of the helicoptor recovery was less than this, at about $5000 per hour.
We can perhaps conclue the FBI has done some similar sums, but the poor individual has not fared so well in the cost/benefit analysis. Or someone high up has an interest in a copyright litigation practice.
Interesting post.
I had an idea in 1995 about a game. Once I saw Quake with its true 3D, and gib-then-spawn gameplay, I knew one day it could be possible.
And that vision was a game similar to Battlefield etc, but when you got killed your game license terminated. You had to go to the store and purchase another copy.
I know its sounds grossly unfeasible, but I always wondered if a tiny market would stand in the store, holding the box, and think "Holy crap, thats too badass. I am gonna try it."
I'd rather see companies doing this and trying to put forward workable compromises
Certainly works for landmine manufacturers in the US.
The Ottawa Treaty(hint: the US has not agreed to the treaty)
I was doing papers at university in Satelite imagery in 2001 at time of the trade Towers attack. Our dept had its own image server and direct image purchase ability to many institutions including the satelite owners. We could buy images like you can buy stock photography images of image stock websites.
The Kronos satellite(50cm greyscale resolution, 100cm truecolor) was turned to snap images of the twin towers and we had those images within some 35 minutes of the 9/11 attacks.
The point I make is, when there is the capability, and when the desire is there, pretty much anything is achievable. Someone at Kronos Satellite took it upon themselves to abandon the current photography job and turn the satellite to the twin towers.
Was that person authorised? I have always wondered.
"Think of the terrorist children!"
It is technically possible for this to happen, There probably was little feeling in his foot.
This is what a foot looks like in a diabetic patient (warning - gross).
This is a moderate case. This can occur to the ankles.
Do not visit this page as if its Photoshop Friday on SomethingAwful, or Worth1000. You will have a sense of disappointed.
I believe the artist has approached this to provide an interpreted contrast between what a 15 year old sees today in his town, and what happened in that exact spot some 70 years ago.
This means there is no seamless transitions. But a conceptual overlay.
The images are striking for their impact.
"1) The united states is at war in Afghanistan"
Show me the declaration according to the UN charter. Fittingly the US in Afghanistan was like this detainment of this programmer. IE they are pressing an authoritarian mantra.
2) Wikileaks leaked secret documents about the war in afghanistan in a reckless manner that possibly endangered lives of our allies and soldiers on the battlefield.
Copy pasted from a US millitary speech? Arguably everything could contribute. Protesting against the Mai Lai Massacre killed US soldiers indirectly. Moral lowered by poor opinion back home caused battle errors?
3) A 3 hour border detention is less than someone would be detained for unpaid parking tickets. They did not arrest him. They could have easily arrested him as a material witness.
It was 3 hours too many
5) He was allowed to leave the country after his conference, not exactly what police states do
Well no, police states do let people go, under agreements of refugee discussions. Not all refugees arrive on a 12" dinghy or scramble over barbed wire walls.
Within the first week of learning you will encounter loops such as "for", "do" and "while".
Do a search and read about the "fencepost problem".
Realize you need to know these concepts for your loops, while syntacticly correct, may contain a bug.
Programming is not all about just language.