Yay! Just what the world needs, more archane, archaic taxation systems that mean that you have to employ people just so you can be sure that the government is taking the right amount of money from you.
And if you pay too much - forget it, you'll never see that money again. If you pay too little, they'll take you to court and add huge fines.
You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't even quit the damn game.
Well in Summer, we get up to 5 programs Not Worth Watching -
BBC1 - Wimbeldon Court 1
BBC2 - Wimbeldon Court 2
ITV - Wimbeldon Court 1
Ch4 - Wimbeldon Court 1
Ch5 - Some film about a tennis player
Makes me glad I'm more addicted to games than TV.
Let's not forget that Turing's life was pretty much destroyed when his homosexuality became public knowledge.
AFAIK he was robbed by one of his lovers and when he reported it to the police and they found out the relationship between the two they arrested Turing on charges of Lewd and Immoral Acts. This lead to a persecution that destroyed any chance of his working again, and eventually his life.
Hell of a way to treat a man who saved hundreds, maybe thousands of lives by breaking the Enigma cypher.
Who knows how much more advanced our understanding of AI's might be if it wasn't for institutionalised homophobia?
It depends on how smart they are with the games released. I think that the dual-screen format would be perfect for CRPG's, as you could have a switchable stats/map/inventory/etc screen on one, and action on the other.
Maybe I'm just biased tho - I prefer CRPG's to anything else.
God I love seeing shiny new gizmos coming out.
Not cos' I can afford them by any stretch of the imagination, but it means that the thing I've been wanting for the last 3 months is soon to be that much closer to my budget cos' it's becoming outdated...
In the past 2 weeks I've had to remove Master-Search's little pressie from our works server, and Cool Web Search from my housemate's computer. I swear, I spend more time protecting these damn things than using them
I love it - it's great for using to confunse and annoy supposedly "hardcore" trekkies who get all their info out of magazines.
And no, I'm not a trekkie, I'm just an animation fan who shared a house with one a few years back.
I started a Math/Computing joint degree course, and talking to people on both sides I worked out that there was about a 1/3rd overlap between the courses.
Course this meant I ended up doing 4/3 of a degree. Which didn't sit well with my plans of having a social life so something had to give.
My point is that there is always going to be a level of overlap - maths goes a lot easier if you know how to get a machine to crunch the numbers for you, and computing studies need a certain level of numeracy.
Oh, and set theory is just bloody essential if you end up anywhere near databases.
I'm thinking about the one involving putting the fox to guard the chickens.
Seriously, I hope this convinces people to not use Hotmail etc - now with guaranteed spam...
God, don't talk to me about feature creep. ATM I'm involved in writing a stock control system and every fortnight there's a meeting about it - that tends to tack on 1 week of re-writes, 1 week of error testing last meeting's new features, and 1 week of new features...
and they wonder why no progress is ever made
>1)Unbelievably simple to use
A UI consisting of a simple form displayed on a touchscreen, with a confirm/deny when a choice is made. Not too hard.
2)COMPLETELY secure
Physical security. No connection to other devices/internet. Stored data encrypted with a _different key_ for each machine so that if one is stolen the whole system isn't compromised.
3)Leaves a completely correct and permanent trail for recounting
Okay, this is the potential toughie. One possible solution is for an internally stored secondary backup device - hell it might even be a paper printout. Either that or a receipt of voting given to each voter though there might be fun and games collecting those for a recount;>
4)Relatively cheap to roll out
Have you seen governmental budget figures recently? Cheap is not an issue.
Actually the biggest hurdle is that of voter authentification - without a universal ID system then checking would be...problematic to say the least.
But that's a whole new can of worms I'm not going into here.
There is an absolute fortune waiting for the first company that can produce a reliable and secure e-voting system. So why do we see so many shoddy solutions that show their shortcomings the moment they go live?
The technology is there. It just needs someone to say "Right, let's stop pissing about and actually make something that people can have a bit of faith in."
So...I send my credit card details to Russia and some nice company will protect me from RIAA.
Riiiight. And as an added bonus I suppose I'll get 10% off my next Russian Bride too?
to commercial ethanol production on a scale where it can be a usable fuel for such things as transport. To be honest, I wonder how much closer we would be to that goal if ethanol wasn't thought of firstly by our culture as a means of getting drunk .
Lemme guess...
"Well it's finished...now what."
"Well, we need a target to test it on, something small and hard to hit."
"Hey - bet you couldn't hit the ISS from here..."
I'd be interested by their definition of autonomous - are we talking this thing cruising around looking for a target, or are we talking an operator flagging a missile spotted by something else and the machine taking over from there.
Either way, brace yourselves for a thousand Terminator/Robotic master references.
That kind of thinking is along the lines of the old joke about the airplane that had it's engines fail one by one, with the captain announcing that they're going to be delayed by another hour with each failure, and somebody saying when they're down to 1 engine "I hope that the last one doesn't fail or we're gonna be up here forever"
Fail-over and redundant systems are neccessary in a situation like this where any mistake can result in impressive accident. To limp on on 3 gyros for so long is faulty thinking, and goes to show just how badly the cutbacks are affecting space exploration.
Unfortunately it's very difficult to drum up support for what looks like a purely scientific venture when unemployment is rising and so many other projects urgently demand resources.
What we need is a proper international effort, free of political grandstanding and nationalism.
Like that's ever gonna happen. Maybe humanity needs to grow up a bit first before trying to climb out of it's crib.
"With any luck, it'll be able to lie dormant until Rick Berman dies a horrible death."
Well, if we can get the right fanboy pissed off enough then that might not be all that long.
"Stabbed to death with a set of Spock ears..what a way to go..."
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Yay! Just what the world needs, more archane, archaic taxation systems that mean that you have to employ people just so you can be sure that the government is taking the right amount of money from you.
And if you pay too much - forget it, you'll never see that money again. If you pay too little, they'll take you to court and add huge fines.
You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't even quit the damn game.
Well in Summer, we get up to 5 programs Not Worth Watching -
BBC1 - Wimbeldon Court 1
BBC2 - Wimbeldon Court 2
ITV - Wimbeldon Court 1
Ch4 - Wimbeldon Court 1
Ch5 - Some film about a tennis player
Makes me glad I'm more addicted to games than TV.
Let's not forget that Turing's life was pretty much destroyed when his homosexuality became public knowledge.
AFAIK he was robbed by one of his lovers and when he reported it to the police and they found out the relationship between the two they arrested Turing on charges of Lewd and Immoral Acts. This lead to a persecution that destroyed any chance of his working again, and eventually his life.
Hell of a way to treat a man who saved hundreds, maybe thousands of lives by breaking the Enigma cypher.
Who knows how much more advanced our understanding of AI's might be if it wasn't for institutionalised homophobia?
It depends on how smart they are with the games released. I think that the dual-screen format would be perfect for CRPG's, as you could have a switchable stats/map/inventory/etc screen on one, and action on the other.
Maybe I'm just biased tho - I prefer CRPG's to anything else.
God I love seeing shiny new gizmos coming out.
Not cos' I can afford them by any stretch of the imagination, but it means that the thing I've been wanting for the last 3 months is soon to be that much closer to my budget cos' it's becoming outdated...
In the past 2 weeks I've had to remove Master-Search's little pressie from our works server, and Cool Web Search from my housemate's computer. I swear, I spend more time protecting these damn things than using them
...wish welcome our new sexually ambivalent robotic masters...
Goddamn I need to stop watching so much anime and reading so many webcomics. You do not want to know what's going through my mind right now.
I love it - it's great for using to confunse and annoy supposedly "hardcore" trekkies who get all their info out of magazines.
And no, I'm not a trekkie, I'm just an animation fan who shared a house with one a few years back.
I started a Math/Computing joint degree course, and talking to people on both sides I worked out that there was about a 1/3rd overlap between the courses.
Course this meant I ended up doing 4/3 of a degree. Which didn't sit well with my plans of having a social life so something had to give.
My point is that there is always going to be a level of overlap - maths goes a lot easier if you know how to get a machine to crunch the numbers for you, and computing studies need a certain level of numeracy.
Oh, and set theory is just bloody essential if you end up anywhere near databases.
I'm thinking about the one involving putting the fox to guard the chickens.
Seriously, I hope this convinces people to not use Hotmail etc - now with guaranteed spam...
Just think of the Dynamo you're gonna need to keep that mother powered when the batteries start to fail.
We tried installing MS04-014. It totally secured our network - it shut down out ADSL link until we removed it.
Thanks guys...
God, don't talk to me about feature creep. ATM I'm involved in writing a stock control system and every fortnight there's a meeting about it - that tends to tack on 1 week of re-writes, 1 week of error testing last meeting's new features, and 1 week of new features...
and they wonder why no progress is ever made
Nah - Cage Match
With chainsaws.
Would sort out the men from the boys.
>1)Unbelievably simple to use ;>
A UI consisting of a simple form displayed on a touchscreen, with a confirm/deny when a choice is made. Not too hard.
2)COMPLETELY secure
Physical security. No connection to other devices/internet. Stored data encrypted with a _different key_ for each machine so that if one is stolen the whole system isn't compromised.
3)Leaves a completely correct and permanent trail for recounting
Okay, this is the potential toughie. One possible solution is for an internally stored secondary backup device - hell it might even be a paper printout. Either that or a receipt of voting given to each voter though there might be fun and games collecting those for a recount
4)Relatively cheap to roll out
Have you seen governmental budget figures recently? Cheap is not an issue.
Actually the biggest hurdle is that of voter authentification - without a universal ID system then checking would be...problematic to say the least.
But that's a whole new can of worms I'm not going into here.
There is an absolute fortune waiting for the first company that can produce a reliable and secure e-voting system. So why do we see so many shoddy solutions that show their shortcomings the moment they go live?
The technology is there. It just needs someone to say "Right, let's stop pissing about and actually make something that people can have a bit of faith in."
Dude, your gamer roots are showing...
Thank you soooo much. I just got a mental image of a bunch of ageing hippies in latex...
It's gonna take a lot of alcohol to get _that_ one out.
How's about opening up a new e-mail account, and hooking them up to an electric chair that delivers 1 volt per spam mail it gets...
So...I send my credit card details to Russia and some nice company will protect me from RIAA.
Riiiight. And as an added bonus I suppose I'll get 10% off my next Russian Bride too?
to commercial ethanol production on a scale where it can be a usable fuel for such things as transport. To be honest, I wonder how much closer we would be to that goal if ethanol wasn't thought of firstly by our culture as a means of getting drunk .
Lemme guess...
"Well it's finished...now what."
"Well, we need a target to test it on, something small and hard to hit."
"Hey - bet you couldn't hit the ISS from here..."
I'd be interested by their definition of autonomous - are we talking this thing cruising around looking for a target, or are we talking an operator flagging a missile spotted by something else and the machine taking over from there.
Either way, brace yourselves for a thousand Terminator/Robotic master references.
That kind of thinking is along the lines of the old joke about the airplane that had it's engines fail one by one, with the captain announcing that they're going to be delayed by another hour with each failure, and somebody saying when they're down to 1 engine "I hope that the last one doesn't fail or we're gonna be up here forever"
Fail-over and redundant systems are neccessary in a situation like this where any mistake can result in impressive accident. To limp on on 3 gyros for so long is faulty thinking, and goes to show just how badly the cutbacks are affecting space exploration.
Unfortunately it's very difficult to drum up support for what looks like a purely scientific venture when unemployment is rising and so many other projects urgently demand resources.
What we need is a proper international effort, free of political grandstanding and nationalism.
Like that's ever gonna happen. Maybe humanity needs to grow up a bit first before trying to climb out of it's crib.
"With any luck, it'll be able to lie dormant until Rick Berman dies a horrible death."
Well, if we can get the right fanboy pissed off enough then that might not be all that long.
"Stabbed to death with a set of Spock ears..what a way to go..."