Shheeet! When I was In school computers were in central Govt depts only. And our teacher had Naturist Magazines on his desk. Thats how things have changed.
This is unfortunately become true. I repeat here a quote from a early child teacher at a pre-school center on the glass walls: "It is for the protection of the staff".
This is why speeches and retoric from the US are turning to IP.
I predict that in the future, when technology/infrastructure/utilities can run at little cost, IP(or specifically the revenue stream thereof) will be the new oil.
A country will be invaded for failure to adhere to IP.
I purchased BattleField Bad Company 2 three weeks ago. Of the desired 25 or so times I have tried to connect for online play I have been able to play perhaps 4 times over those three weeks.
If their beta demos are worse than this gaming experience then they will deserve what they get.
The fact this vendor has announced this is highly unusual. I think they have been burned:
a. Either their involvement in Australia has cost them other more valuable contracts.
b. They mis-stepped and are being forced to maintain the system beyond their expectations.
Either way, I suspect this contract is now a ball & chain around their ankle. They want out.
By saying "PC and MAC", TFA disregards handheld and small devices. These may be dominant players in the medium term(till they are as powerful as PC's and Macs). HTML5 may have an edge, especially with the iPad attitude of limited Flash support
MS (& IE) do not carry the wieght anymore that they did a couple years back. When HTML5 is required for YouTube IE becomes second fiddle. Google decides when the Ax falls.
Here in New Zealand we are rather famous for it. Thus if a person escapes from prison then inturn shoots someone in a robbery, the NZ way is to immediately look past the person who pulled the trigger and to the prisons/parole board or other entity that they might be able to get some entitlement(money) from.
(PS in NZ, financial libilities do not fall onto individuals)
Pay Pal Sucks comes up everytime there is a story about Pay Pal. Suspiciously, the "Alernatives To Paypal" section is but one vendor. In fact the "Alternatives" button leads you to the vendors website.
A list of various alternatives would be fine. But just the one, it passes discredit to the whole site. Are the stories even real?
I agree. The first example does get pity from me, and I support every assistance to improve their circumstances. As for hunting, while I not keen on the concept, I have no problem with it. Most hunters would be distressed to see an animal suffer. The 2nd slashdot effect is to always clamor for grey areas. I thinks its black and white. The above examples you cite are different to the person who stood on a kitten till their stilleto heel pierced its head, then posted in online and thought it funny. Summary.
I like to think I am as objective as they come. I am for privacy. I hate "for the children" mentality.
But when it comes to animal abuse, I loose some of that rationality. Animal abusers are dangerous and cant be trusted. And I believe it is a behavior that once practiced may never leave a person. They may suppress it for the rest of their lives, but underneath the potential is there to harm people, especially given a one in a million encounter.
From Wikipedia: "Cruelty to animals is one of the three components of the Macdonald triad, indicators of violent antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. According to the studies used to form this model, cruelty to animals is a common (but not with every case) behavior in children and adolescents who grow up to become serial killers and other violent criminals.
It has also been found that animal cruelty in children is frequently committed by children who have witnessed or been victims of abuse themselves. In two separate studies cited by the Humane Society of the United States roughly one-third of families suffering from domestic abuse indicated that at least one child had hurt or killed a pet.[41]".
Sure, let animal abusers serve their time. Even give'em a job. Good luck feeling inner piece when your daughter says she is going camping with him, when his little discresion in life was nailing a cat to a plank of wood while performing some autopsy while it was still alive. Over the course of an hour.
"The Windows emulator worked well too. Mikhail launched Warcraft 3, and the game worked smoothly. So did the dictionary software and a digital library available on the disk. and What is interesting for a North Korean product is the near-total absence of propaganda – unless you treat the word “red” in its name as an instance.
and Mikhail did test the antivirus, however, which (along with the firewall) was built from scratch by North Korean coders rather than re-written from an open source applications. It did well at finding and killing the viruses offered to it.
Objectively speaking its a pretty decent effort. And re The comments Firefox has been "poached", the start screen is firefox, and i feel they renamed it only.Lets face it, what does "Firefox" mean?
And no, I am not typing this while Dear Leader is standing behind me.
FTFA: "Meanwhile, the couple said they had reduced their water usage from 299,221 gallons in 2007 to 58,348 gallons in 2009."
Hmm, I wonder if this is to do with revenue from water supply.
In my town, water metering is being implemented over time. As infrastructure is serviced, new metering tech in being roled out. At some point we will have to pay when the scheme is finalized.
Coincidentily, the permit fees for watertanks has been put up, to the point it is like any of the "green" decisions: high capital outlay(factoring in the fees) to the the point one asks if financial return in 10 years is worth it.
I am going to be a bit more pragmatic and look at the cause. At my work, we all appear to be lazy, ie timelines are pushed, things get pushed off the list, and, in a less-than-ideal-world way we are under performance pressure. This results in what I call the 80-20 result. Things get done to 80% and are called finished.
I suspect an employees KPI's are calculated on "Applications processed" rather than some other measure.
The only savior to the USPO in when the Govt decides there is international strategic advantage to a robust IP system.
Which could be sooner rather than later. I predict IP will become the new oil reserves. When a country is invaded for IP disputes, we know we are home. The USPO will dance a happy jig as they get Homeland Security like funding.
But when it failed, I'd be in the middle of a curve on the highway when all power steering went out.
Even on proven solid-as-rocks hydraulic power steering you would have seen no assistance at those speeds.
The only exception would have been very old american cars especially chryslers that had full power assist at all conditions.
They need to do this because so much happens on the client side.
With the SL viewer and the Linden Lab servers, the relationship is somewhat like HTML javascript form verification with some but not complete server input cleansing.
They have been expanding input checking at the server side but it is lagging behind.
If I could use a simplified example:
The server sends to the viewer all avatars in a scene. A scene is a viewable distance which is 64 meters to 512 meters governed by the slider in your graphics preferences. The avatar scanner distance is hard-coded to a max of 16 avatars in the viewer. The scanner distance default is 96m. But some minor fiddling in the.NET code, you can change avatar scan distances and avatars in a scene, so with an individuals viewing distance also increased we see gross increases in bandwidth at the server side.
Moving from that to the buzzwords of DRM and copyright laws(DMCA etc), the server sends the hash keys to the viewer of server assets(textures etc). It is somewhat trivial to match these keys to what it in RAM in form of a texture.
Simply put the Second Life viewer can be modified to be an indexer of Digital Works created by both Linden Labs and users.
This means LL has lost control of content, and it is content that gives Second Life a competitive advantage in 3D perpetual world games.
"PHP programmers with knowledge of MySQL are a dime a dozen"
There have been posts recently lamenting the fact Management see software developers and other IT personel not as professionals but almost as blue collar.
I guess the definitive turning point will be when they dont attend the xmas function with the corperate services section of there place of employment but rather the labor section - drivers, cleaners etc.
I upgraded my DH account to virtual PS. Its interesiting seeing the performance and resource graphs. You slide your RAM allocation slider to just under your avg usage. This is the guaranteed allocation with twice that for bursts. It works well, if your site is popular you, slide your slider. Everyone wins, they dont get bogged down, and your site remains responsive. If your site is small with little traffic slide it down to as little as 150mb RAM. The one nag for me is no POSTGRESQL support. MYSQL it is for now.
"This just goes to show how much IE is holding us back
I work for a small DNA services company and that is a burgeoning industry. We are pretty young but we match the advancing industry with our own very aggressive, but smart style.
One of our young team in a meeting the other day, said in regard to a particular DNA trait technology: "Let come down off the top rope with an elbow to the throat of {our competitor}. They are like the Internet Explorer of DNA. Lets fuck 'em up.".
I do like our meetings. But yeah, if we were google, we wouldnt be able to hold back our your pit bulls. And I bet Google have a few that are chewing their chains to hit MS and Flash with HTML 5. Off the top rope so to speak.
My "third email" is a gmail and is for my one weakness in life: big breast websites(subscription based).
Oddly, I get no spam. I do get the odd newsletter and update "notices". What I also get is the occassional promotion from old sites I subscribed to, which I do like to get.
How Gmail manages to work out what I want and do not want, and gets it right is either very clever or very chilling.
I agree. However the context is not what media report on.
And when lines such as "The following statement" and 'We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online." appear first up like that you are in trouble. So yeah, I did RTFA and quoted the entire first paragraph from their statement. An opening paragraph that reads like Conroy himself wrote. Poor job to the PR people indeed.
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Shheeet! When I was In school computers were in central Govt depts only. And our teacher had Naturist Magazines on his desk. Thats how things have changed.
This is unfortunately become true. I repeat here a quote from a early child teacher at a pre-school center on the glass walls: "It is for the protection of the staff".
This is why speeches and retoric from the US are turning to IP.
I predict that in the future, when technology/infrastructure/utilities can run at little cost, IP(or specifically the revenue stream thereof) will be the new oil.
A country will be invaded for failure to adhere to IP.
I purchased BattleField Bad Company 2 three weeks ago. Of the desired 25 or so times I have tried to connect for online play I have been able to play perhaps 4 times over those three weeks.
If their beta demos are worse than this gaming experience then they will deserve what they get.
The fact this vendor has announced this is highly unusual. I think they have been burned:
a. Either their involvement in Australia has cost them other more valuable contracts.
b. They mis-stepped and are being forced to maintain the system beyond their expectations.
Either way, I suspect this contract is now a ball & chain around their ankle. They want out.
By saying "PC and MAC", TFA disregards handheld and small devices. These may be dominant players in the medium term(till they are as powerful as PC's and Macs). HTML5 may have an edge, especially with the iPad attitude of limited Flash support
MS (& IE) do not carry the wieght anymore that they did a couple years back. When HTML5 is required for YouTube IE becomes second fiddle. Google decides when the Ax falls.
Postage stamps mis-printed are worth quite a bit of money. One with a post mark can potentially make you a millionaire.
Interesting that a few of these could end up worth more than their original bretheran.
The entitlement mindset is often quite incidious.
Here in New Zealand we are rather famous for it. Thus if a person escapes from prison then inturn shoots someone in a robbery, the NZ way is to immediately look past the person who pulled the trigger and to the prisons/parole board or other entity that they might be able to get some entitlement(money) from.
(PS in NZ, financial libilities do not fall onto individuals)
Pay Pal Sucks comes up everytime there is a story about Pay Pal. Suspiciously, the "Alernatives To Paypal" section is but one vendor. In fact the "Alternatives" button leads you to the vendors website.
A list of various alternatives would be fine. But just the one, it passes discredit to the whole site. Are the stories even real?
I agree. The first example does get pity from me, and I support every assistance to improve their circumstances. As for hunting, while I not keen on the concept, I have no problem with it. Most hunters would be distressed to see an animal suffer. The 2nd slashdot effect is to always clamor for grey areas. I thinks its black and white. The above examples you cite are different to the person who stood on a kitten till their stilleto heel pierced its head, then posted in online and thought it funny. Summary.
I like to think I am as objective as they come. I am for privacy. I hate "for the children" mentality.
But when it comes to animal abuse, I loose some of that rationality. Animal abusers are dangerous and cant be trusted. And I believe it is a behavior that once practiced may never leave a person. They may suppress it for the rest of their lives, but underneath the potential is there to harm people, especially given a one in a million encounter.
From Wikipedia: "Cruelty to animals is one of the three components of the Macdonald triad, indicators of violent antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. According to the studies used to form this model, cruelty to animals is a common (but not with every case) behavior in children and adolescents who grow up to become serial killers and other violent criminals. It has also been found that animal cruelty in children is frequently committed by children who have witnessed or been victims of abuse themselves. In two separate studies cited by the Humane Society of the United States roughly one-third of families suffering from domestic abuse indicated that at least one child had hurt or killed a pet.[41]".
Sure, let animal abusers serve their time. Even give'em a job. Good luck feeling inner piece when your daughter says she is going camping with him, when his little discresion in life was nailing a cat to a plank of wood while performing some autopsy while it was still alive. Over the course of an hour.
From the full review:
"The Windows emulator worked well too. Mikhail launched Warcraft 3, and the game worked smoothly. So did the dictionary software and a digital library available on the disk.
and
What is interesting for a North Korean product is the near-total absence of propaganda – unless you treat the word “red” in its name as an instance.
and
Mikhail did test the antivirus, however, which (along with the firewall) was built from scratch by North Korean coders rather than re-written from an open source applications. It did well at finding and killing the viruses offered to it.
Objectively speaking its a pretty decent effort. And re The comments Firefox has been "poached", the start screen is firefox, and i feel they renamed it only.Lets face it, what does "Firefox" mean?
And no, I am not typing this while Dear Leader is standing behind me.
FTFA: "Meanwhile, the couple said they had reduced their water usage from 299,221 gallons in 2007 to 58,348 gallons in 2009."
Hmm, I wonder if this is to do with revenue from water supply.
In my town, water metering is being implemented over time. As infrastructure is serviced, new metering tech in being roled out. At some point we will have to pay when the scheme is finalized.
Coincidentily, the permit fees for watertanks has been put up, to the point it is like any of the "green" decisions: high capital outlay(factoring in the fees) to the the point one asks if financial return in 10 years is worth it.
Mine safety is for homos you terrorist sympathizer!
Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut
Its not curious. Don't confuse his desire to censor, restrict, or otherwise hinder the people's access to free information(the internet).
Doesn't mean he won't allow every resource into that same tech if security/administration needs it...especially if it achieves the former.
The USPO is getting lazy
I am going to be a bit more pragmatic and look at the cause. At my work, we all appear to be lazy, ie timelines are pushed, things get pushed off the list, and, in a less-than-ideal-world way we are under performance pressure. This results in what I call the 80-20 result. Things get done to 80% and are called finished.
I suspect an employees KPI's are calculated on "Applications processed" rather than some other measure.
The only savior to the USPO in when the Govt decides there is international strategic advantage to a robust IP system.
Which could be sooner rather than later. I predict IP will become the new oil reserves. When a country is invaded for IP disputes, we know we are home. The USPO will dance a happy jig as they get Homeland Security like funding.
But when it failed, I'd be in the middle of a curve on the highway when all power steering went out. Even on proven solid-as-rocks hydraulic power steering you would have seen no assistance at those speeds. The only exception would have been very old american cars especially chryslers that had full power assist at all conditions.
They need to do this because so much happens on the client side.
.NET code, you can change avatar scan distances and avatars in a scene, so with an individuals viewing distance also increased we see gross increases in bandwidth at the server side.
With the SL viewer and the Linden Lab servers, the relationship is somewhat like HTML javascript form verification with some but not complete server input cleansing. They have been expanding input checking at the server side but it is lagging behind.
If I could use a simplified example: The server sends to the viewer all avatars in a scene. A scene is a viewable distance which is 64 meters to 512 meters governed by the slider in your graphics preferences. The avatar scanner distance is hard-coded to a max of 16 avatars in the viewer. The scanner distance default is 96m. But some minor fiddling in the
Moving from that to the buzzwords of DRM and copyright laws(DMCA etc), the server sends the hash keys to the viewer of server assets(textures etc). It is somewhat trivial to match these keys to what it in RAM in form of a texture.
Simply put the Second Life viewer can be modified to be an indexer of Digital Works created by both Linden Labs and users.
This means LL has lost control of content, and it is content that gives Second Life a competitive advantage in 3D perpetual world games.
"PHP programmers with knowledge of MySQL are a dime a dozen"
There have been posts recently lamenting the fact Management see software developers and other IT personel not as professionals but almost as blue collar.
I guess the definitive turning point will be when they dont attend the xmas function with the corperate services section of there place of employment but rather the labor section - drivers, cleaners etc.
Drivers and cleaners being a dime a dozen.
I upgraded my DH account to virtual PS. Its interesiting seeing the performance and resource graphs. You slide your RAM allocation slider to just under your avg usage. This is the guaranteed allocation with twice that for bursts. It works well, if your site is popular you, slide your slider. Everyone wins, they dont get bogged down, and your site remains responsive. If your site is small with little traffic slide it down to as little as 150mb RAM. The one nag for me is no POSTGRESQL support. MYSQL it is for now.
In New Zealand, the IRD(Inland Revenue) take the view that unpaid wages is unpaid tax to them.
If this occurred in New Zealand, the premises would be under IRD control by lunchtime.
"This just goes to show how much IE is holding us back
I work for a small DNA services company and that is a burgeoning industry. We are pretty young but we match the advancing industry with our own very aggressive, but smart style.
One of our young team in a meeting the other day, said in regard to a particular DNA trait technology: "Let come down off the top rope with an elbow to the throat of {our competitor}. They are like the Internet Explorer of DNA. Lets fuck 'em up.".
I do like our meetings. But yeah, if we were google, we wouldnt be able to hold back our your pit bulls. And I bet Google have a few that are chewing their chains to hit MS and Flash with HTML 5. Off the top rope so to speak.
"I keep three email accounts....."
My "third email" is a gmail and is for my one weakness in life: big breast websites(subscription based).
Oddly, I get no spam. I do get the odd newsletter and update "notices". What I also get is the occassional promotion from old sites I subscribed to, which I do like to get.
How Gmail manages to work out what I want and do not want, and gets it right is either very clever or very chilling.
I agree. However the context is not what media report on.
And when lines such as "The following statement" and 'We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online." appear first up like that you are in trouble. So yeah, I did RTFA and quoted the entire first paragraph from their statement. An opening paragraph that reads like Conroy himself wrote. Poor job to the PR people indeed.