>Why is it that physicists on and in favor of this project (and those that are following this story) are even remotely surprised by the "Create a black hole, and destroy the world" rhetoric?
That's because they failed to mention to everyone that they would remember to save the cheerleader first.
Hooray, one immeasurable statistic (cyber-crime) just passed another one (drug trade), and the person who mentions it just happens to be CEO of a cyber-security related company...?
Kind of reminds me of our software filter where I work. They blocked firefox.exe from running. My solution? I renamed the file to iexplore.exe. Worked like a charm.
Just make sure you don't get fired for knowingly circumventing security measures....
Sorry, that's their EULA. You have two choices when you purchase anything M$, return the package unopened for a full refund or use it. They do not and can not promise it will work and they are not responsible for the actions of others. They regard anything they do beyond the EULA a favor for which you should be grateful, just like they regard anything their software ever does for you. They think you should be so grateful that you do as they say. This is the nature of non free software. Your master may take care of you or they may not and those are the conditions you must agree to if you want to use non free software.
They don't trust you. They made the registration key in the first place to restrict the number of computers you can use before you pay them more. When you call and claim your key does not work, they can't tell the difference between you and someone who's shared their key. Once again, this is the nature of non free software.
That reminded me of that bit from Good Omens:
Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys."
The main reason everyone remembers the date of 9/11 is because it's known as '9/11'. Most often disasters are remembered by the place they hit and/or, in the case of plane crashes, the flight number (eg. Lockerbie/Pan Am 103). Obviously 'New York' is synonymous with so much that it wasn't going to be remembered simply by that and since there were multiple flights involved that wasn't going to be it either.
Actually for most of the world 9/11 is this Thursday.
And what about today!? (Still tomorrow in most of the world as I post this)
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
It's a bit of a misnomer. Perhaps we might rename it: the national "Only Call Sometimes" register.
My thoughts exactly. I'm starting to get fed up with Australia lately. Not only are we seemingly incapable of any independent action, we're now managing to screw up even the simplest (sensible) ideas we 'import' from others.
Sorry if I'm coming across as rude, but at what point did Slashdot become a tech support forum? This seems more like a question for a Windows board, not "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters."
I'd say the editors are even more at fault, as publishing this sort of stuff encourages it even more.
It's not dishonesty, it's learning from your mistakes. Good design is a lot like good code: it usually takes several iterations to be really good, and the final product is often still several iterations from perfection but it is "good enough" to ship.
Microsoft are champions of this method. Take 3 versions before something becomes actually usable, and 5 before its useful - after that things actually become pretty good. (e.g. Sharepoint has a long long way to go yet, whilst things like Office and SQL Server are actually pretty decent...)
would be to host the servers somewhere like the Channel Islands, Luxemburg or similar, where Sony won't have much bullying power.
I guess Sony is missing a small amount of income from people not playing on their servers. IMHO, they're costing themselves a lot more than they'd hope to (re)gain by doing this sort of thing.
In fact, the win-win situation would probably be to offer some of these people a job working on upcoming Everquest stuff, but somehow I doubt that's gonna happen.
Really? The reason why working standards are so low in the games industry is because developers are replaceable. Want to spend more time with your family? There's the door. We have 4 wide-eyed grads waiting outside to take your job. Everyone is replaceble.
But that's exactly the point the previous poster was making. If the developer choosing the door produces a high level of quality code, then it doesn't matter how many grads there are waiting in the line - the end-product will suffer for it.
Of course, management is generally blind to this sort of concept.....
Hear, Hear. That was the only film that gave the list any creditability.
Make sure you see the full version of the movie, not the 're-edited for Americans' version. (The Criterion Collection boxed set has all the different versions plus great commentary.)
Buy monitors. Buy graphics card compatible with monitors. Plug in. Adjust plug to fit. Adapt OS to use screens at maximum resolution. Gloat on internet.
That being said, my wife (Graphic Designer) has recently bought a dual G5 and its whisper quiet. The only time it gets noisy is if you accidentally tell it to boot from a network server that isn't there - this will scare the pants off most people, especially if they're not expecting it (like I wasn't). So I don't know what this guy was doing to get that much noise out of it...
Anyway the G5 is so nice that I'd leave Windows for good if I could (but can't due to having to develop in MS-land - have been dulling the pain by using Cygwin and FreeBSD servers...).
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>Why is it that physicists on and in favor of this project (and those that are following this story) are even remotely surprised by the "Create a black hole, and destroy the world" rhetoric?
That's because they failed to mention to everyone that they would remember to save the cheerleader first.
Learning
University
Students
Assocation
of
America
called. They want their royaltie$.
Oh, and btw - Don't contact LUSAA for learning, that's not why they're there....
http://twitter.com/odoketa/statuses/497676232/
BTW, that platform was my first guess...
Here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200711/multitasking/ so you can focus on the article, and not advertisements or 'page turning'.
I was going to link to this, but presumed that someone else would had done so first.
Mod parent up, a lot more fun watching this review than RTFA.
Hooray, one immeasurable statistic (cyber-crime) just passed another one (drug trade), and the person who mentions it just happens to be CEO of a cyber-security related company...?
Its a damned shame, than, that these people get their panties in such a not over phrases that everyone understands.
"such a not..." - bwahahahaha.
Kind of reminds me of our software filter where I work. They blocked firefox.exe from running. My solution? I renamed the file to iexplore.exe. Worked like a charm.
Just make sure you don't get fired for knowingly circumventing security measures....
You gotta love the creative genius of designing a mission that lasts 20 years and claiming that it will only last 90 days...
If they had said the rovers would last 20 years upfront, they never would have gotten funding for it.
Actually, it's only lasted this long because the little green men come out and fix it when noone's looking.They should get a science fiction writer to create a religion to create an alternative to Islam. Oh.
Xenu is watching you
What happens when you play those nerves backwards?
You turn into Ozzy Osbourne?
Which then begs the question - what happens if Ozzy Osbourne plays them backwards...?
Sorry, that's their EULA. You have two choices when you purchase anything M$, return the package unopened for a full refund or use it. They do not and can not promise it will work and they are not responsible for the actions of others. They regard anything they do beyond the EULA a favor for which you should be grateful, just like they regard anything their software ever does for you. They think you should be so grateful that you do as they say. This is the nature of non free software. Your master may take care of you or they may not and those are the conditions you must agree to if you want to use non free software.
They don't trust you. They made the registration key in the first place to restrict the number of computers you can use before you pay them more. When you call and claim your key does not work, they can't tell the difference between you and someone who's shared their key. Once again, this is the nature of non free software.
That reminded me of that bit from Good Omens:
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Actually for most of the world 9/11 is this Thursday.
And what about today!? (Still tomorrow in most of the world as I post this)
Remember, remember, the 5th of NovemberThe Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
If ((CodeLate==TRUE) && hacker.holding( yourcode )) {
Panic();
} ElseIf (CodeLate==TRUE) {
InventStoryAboutHackerHoldingYourCode();
FeignPanic();
} Else {
Celebrate();
ExperiencePoorSales();
Despair();
}
The good thing about the web, is that 6 year old fuel is just as good as today's, and sometimes it even matures with age...
Here is jwz's not so recent, but totally relevant take on the issue: tabs-vs-spacesIt's a bit of a misnomer. Perhaps we might rename it: the national "Only Call Sometimes" register.
My thoughts exactly. I'm starting to get fed up with Australia lately. Not only are we seemingly incapable of any independent action, we're now managing to screw up even the simplest (sensible) ideas we 'import' from others.
Sorry if I'm coming across as rude, but at what point did Slashdot become a tech support forum? This seems more like a question for a Windows board, not "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters."
I'd say the editors are even more at fault, as publishing this sort of stuff encourages it even more.
"named after everything from 80's bands to romantic interests."
Went there just out of curiousity to see if there were any cool names used, and instead found this as the only music reference:
So they moved on to 1970s pop music: ABBA, the Bee Gees and Engelbert Humperdinck.
Guess I shouldn't have expected much after finding out the Reconnaissance In Virtual Space article was a 'howto' for the whois command....
I can't believe this made slashdot.
The only redeeming feature was that it reminded me I hadn't visited bash.org for a while.
It's not dishonesty, it's learning from your mistakes. Good design is a lot like good code: it usually takes several iterations to be really good, and the final product is often still several iterations from perfection but it is "good enough" to ship.
Microsoft are champions of this method. Take 3 versions before something becomes actually usable, and 5 before its useful - after that things actually become pretty good. (e.g. Sharepoint has a long long way to go yet, whilst things like Office and SQL Server are actually pretty decent...)
would be to host the servers somewhere like the Channel Islands, Luxemburg or similar, where Sony won't have much bullying power.
I guess Sony is missing a small amount of income from people not playing on their servers. IMHO, they're costing themselves a lot more than they'd hope to (re)gain by doing this sort of thing.
In fact, the win-win situation would probably be to offer some of these people a job working on upcoming Everquest stuff, but somehow I doubt that's gonna happen.
Really? The reason why working standards are so low in the games industry is because developers are replaceable. Want to spend more time with your family? There's the door. We have 4 wide-eyed grads waiting outside to take your job. Everyone is replaceble.
But that's exactly the point the previous poster was making. If the developer choosing the door produces a high level of quality code, then it doesn't matter how many grads there are waiting in the line - the end-product will suffer for it.
Of course, management is generally blind to this sort of concept.....
Glad to see Brazil on there though.
Hear, Hear. That was the only film that gave the list any creditability.
Make sure you see the full version of the movie, not the 're-edited for Americans' version. (The Criterion Collection boxed set has all the different versions plus great commentary.)
After seeing the photo in his blog, I can imagine this guy lining up in costume as Harry Potter for the upcoming Goblet of Fire movie....
...news that matters? Absolutely not.
To summarise the article:
Buy monitors. Buy graphics card compatible with monitors. Plug in. Adjust plug to fit. Adapt OS to use screens at maximum resolution. Gloat on internet.
That being said, my wife (Graphic Designer) has recently bought a dual G5 and its whisper quiet. The only time it gets noisy is if you accidentally tell it to boot from a network server that isn't there - this will scare the pants off most people, especially if they're not expecting it (like I wasn't). So I don't know what this guy was doing to get that much noise out of it...
Anyway the G5 is so nice that I'd leave Windows for good if I could (but can't due to having to develop in MS-land - have been dulling the pain by using Cygwin and FreeBSD servers...).