I find myself feeling the same dredge of IT myself. Couple that with a long career with the Federal Government, I started wondering if if it was too late to do what I wanted to do when I grew up? I chose to take the hard road and retrain while continuing in IT, but with a family and a full time job, it can be tough. I am looking at electronic engineering with hopes that there is some way to transition when the time is right. The tough part for guys like us is having to make that transition without sacrificing the income level we have become accustomed to. It really is a blind leap with no real security that new career prospects will be available when I am done, but to do nothing will lead to further regret later on in life.
As a DoD Network Specialist, I can say that the DoD has one of the most secure networks in the world. As it has been said, our users have to go through training before they are allowed to use Classed and Unclassed terminals, regular refresher training, and annual reviews. Most military bases have larger network infrastructures that a lot of international corporations and we maintain a staff that monitors network activity 24/7. As far as our use of Microsoft products, those have to be certified by DoD standards before they are adopted, including any subsequent updates. As with any security scheme, it is always susceptible to human error and that is what we constantly (painfully) try to improve.
I dont see the problem acknowleging the fact that you used Microsoft-provided software to create a game. If your THAT good, you would want that kind of recognition anyway.
So what your trying to say is you really know nothing about Trek and how, while other touched on scientific concepts, Trek brought them to the for-front of real science. Now-a-days you mention call faster-than-light travel, without refering it to Warp Speed. Teleportation, clam-shell cell phones, and ultra-sonic medical injectors are all Trek-related innovations. If you dont like Trek, that's fine, but dont build an argument on how it is somehow "sub-par" if you have no real understanding of it in the first place.
2 generations?! Why not just let the disease run it's course and kill as many people as it can until the human race developes a natural immunity or is wiped off the face of the Earth? Who decides what motive are worthy enough to save a life? If someone discovers a cure for AIDS, I think they should me more famous than any rockstar, who cares what drove them to do it. Scientific succeses are only matched by their failures, does that mean we should stop trying? No. What sort of cop-out is using canned statements like "meddling with nature"? If we didnt "meddle with nature" we would still be dying from Polio or small pox. No cure is 100% certain and noone can predict the long-term effects of any treatment. Who knew, when it was discovered, that diseases easily treated with Penicillin would evolve to become resistant to it.
I have to disagree. I think doing a TOS remake and a post Next Gen series can happily coexist. I think Paramount wants to erase the train-wreck that was Enterprise.
It's about time everyone stopped believing the hype that B&B was speading that Trek needed a break. What it needed was someone that gave a damn about it and that's what we have in JJ Abrams. For all you that just know Trek from the green slave-girls and Shatners over-dramatic acting need to know that Kirk was actually the third captain of the Enterprise, a young upstart, who had a reputation for taking unnessesary risks. Spock was an outcast to his entire people, not just for being half human, but for joining Starfleet. Bones had nearly gotten himself kicked out of Starfleet and lost nearly lost his licence to pratice medicine, twice! And lets not for get Scotty's perchance for the aile, which got him labled a drunk and insubordinant.
Now imagine it's the beginning of the Earth-Klingon cold war, and you assemble this crew, put them on one of 12 ships-of-the-line, and send them off the explore the part of space that has, by that time, already made two starships disappear and turned the previous captain of the Enterprise into crippled mute.
Let the festivities commence!
It seems a lot of/.ers do. So this beggers the question. Why hasn't someone here come up with a better idea? Could it be that a lot of folks "knowledge" comes from their "Google-Fu"?
Global warming or Ice Age, it doesnt matter. As we have throughout history and as other species are capable of, we will adapt to whatever climate changes befall us. It seems to me most who clammor about Global Warming wish for others to imagine some End-of-Days senario where millions of people die because of a sudden and abrupt weather uphevil.
Many species of plant and animal life that depend of frigile ecco-system will perish as may some primative human cultures, but humanity will carry one with little disruption. Is there a need for us to ween ourselves off fossil fuels? Yes. Is it because we'll all die if we dont? No.
Anyone with any forsight could see that all these gadgets are beginning to have overlapping functionality. With this in mind, one can presume that in the future, all the functions of mobile devices (Wifi, bluetooth, telephone, data storage and processing, etc..) will be incorperated into one device for on the go. This device will compliment our "at-home" device allowing use to reach back to this device to utilize it's capabilities on the go. Eventually we will have just the mobile device and the home device.
The War on the internet. It will be as successful as the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. The internet provides an even playing field for all. Anyone with a mind to attack is just as vulnerable to attack. The information Genie is out of the bottle and, as China is slowly learning, knowledge cannot be withheld from those who seek it.
You can ponder the wonders of a Unified Theory of Everything, discuss the discovery ad-nausium, even hang it on a wall for all to admire, but no one without a PHD in Astrophysics will give a rat's if this doesnt get us off this rock a few centuries faster than expected.
A lot of folks seem to be using centrifugal force and gravity interchangably. This is incorrect thinking and in this case they were seeing the effects being applied to sensors not directly attached to the disk. This is the same gravity produced by a large stationary mass.
"IF" this is a real first step to artificial gravity (big if), then this is the natural progression to warp drive.
Artificial Gravity - Gravity Shielding - Anti Gravity - Continuum Distortion - Warp Drive. My own scale.
Artificial gravity has been dangled in front of our noses for years, by alien nuts, pseudo-scientist, and garage engineers. Like cold fusion and zero-point energy, it's always much-adu-about-nothing. Ya know what, just park a starship in orbit before you tell us about another "break-through" in artificial gravity.
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I find myself feeling the same dredge of IT myself. Couple that with a long career with the Federal Government, I started wondering if if it was too late to do what I wanted to do when I grew up? I chose to take the hard road and retrain while continuing in IT, but with a family and a full time job, it can be tough. I am looking at electronic engineering with hopes that there is some way to transition when the time is right. The tough part for guys like us is having to make that transition without sacrificing the income level we have become accustomed to. It really is a blind leap with no real security that new career prospects will be available when I am done, but to do nothing will lead to further regret later on in life.
As a DoD Network Specialist, I can say that the DoD has one of the most secure networks in the world. As it has been said, our users have to go through training before they are allowed to use Classed and Unclassed terminals, regular refresher training, and annual reviews. Most military bases have larger network infrastructures that a lot of international corporations and we maintain a staff that monitors network activity 24/7. As far as our use of Microsoft products, those have to be certified by DoD standards before they are adopted, including any subsequent updates. As with any security scheme, it is always susceptible to human error and that is what we constantly (painfully) try to improve.
So are hackers busting 128 bit encryption now? Are they hijacking VPNs? Hacking enterprise router? What is the problem with e-voting?
I dont see the problem acknowleging the fact that you used Microsoft-provided software to create a game. If your THAT good, you would want that kind of recognition anyway.
So what your trying to say is you really know nothing about Trek and how, while other touched on scientific concepts, Trek brought them to the for-front of real science. Now-a-days you mention call faster-than-light travel, without refering it to Warp Speed. Teleportation, clam-shell cell phones, and ultra-sonic medical injectors are all Trek-related innovations. If you dont like Trek, that's fine, but dont build an argument on how it is somehow "sub-par" if you have no real understanding of it in the first place.
One step closer to my Iron Man armor. Call me crazy, but the tech is not so far-fetched.
Align about 10,000 of these things in an array and run some heuristic software through them. Instant AI.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060 513
nuff said!
Believe that! When the Goverment (read Military) goes IPv6, half the corporate US is going too.
These are the most profound words I have heard in a long time. Even as a Christian myself we cannot deny the benefits science has brough society.
2 generations?! Why not just let the disease run it's course and kill as many people as it can until the human race developes a natural immunity or is wiped off the face of the Earth? Who decides what motive are worthy enough to save a life? If someone discovers a cure for AIDS, I think they should me more famous than any rockstar, who cares what drove them to do it. Scientific succeses are only matched by their failures, does that mean we should stop trying? No. What sort of cop-out is using canned statements like "meddling with nature"? If we didnt "meddle with nature" we would still be dying from Polio or small pox. No cure is 100% certain and noone can predict the long-term effects of any treatment. Who knew, when it was discovered, that diseases easily treated with Penicillin would evolve to become resistant to it.
It's a look at how the real world (ish) response to the emergance of people with superpowers.
Military VOiP is already secure! That is all.
Do you really think Kirk got a Constitution class Starship right out of the acadamy? Check again!
I have to disagree. I think doing a TOS remake and a post Next Gen series can happily coexist. I think Paramount wants to erase the train-wreck that was Enterprise.
It's about time everyone stopped believing the hype that B&B was speading that Trek needed a break. What it needed was someone that gave a damn about it and that's what we have in JJ Abrams. For all you that just know Trek from the green slave-girls and Shatners over-dramatic acting need to know that Kirk was actually the third captain of the Enterprise, a young upstart, who had a reputation for taking unnessesary risks. Spock was an outcast to his entire people, not just for being half human, but for joining Starfleet. Bones had nearly gotten himself kicked out of Starfleet and lost nearly lost his licence to pratice medicine, twice! And lets not for get Scotty's perchance for the aile, which got him labled a drunk and insubordinant. Now imagine it's the beginning of the Earth-Klingon cold war, and you assemble this crew, put them on one of 12 ships-of-the-line, and send them off the explore the part of space that has, by that time, already made two starships disappear and turned the previous captain of the Enterprise into crippled mute. Let the festivities commence!
It seems a lot of /.ers do. So this beggers the question. Why hasn't someone here come up with a better idea? Could it be that a lot of folks "knowledge" comes from their "Google-Fu"?
I had been wondering how to create lasers small enough to make a palm-mounted version of a laser-induced-plasma-channel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-Induced_Plasma_ Channel
Now I have it.
Global warming or Ice Age, it doesnt matter. As we have throughout history and as other species are capable of, we will adapt to whatever climate changes befall us. It seems to me most who clammor about Global Warming wish for others to imagine some End-of-Days senario where millions of people die because of a sudden and abrupt weather uphevil. Many species of plant and animal life that depend of frigile ecco-system will perish as may some primative human cultures, but humanity will carry one with little disruption. Is there a need for us to ween ourselves off fossil fuels? Yes. Is it because we'll all die if we dont? No.
Anyone with any forsight could see that all these gadgets are beginning to have overlapping functionality. With this in mind, one can presume that in the future, all the functions of mobile devices (Wifi, bluetooth, telephone, data storage and processing, etc..) will be incorperated into one device for on the go. This device will compliment our "at-home" device allowing use to reach back to this device to utilize it's capabilities on the go. Eventually we will have just the mobile device and the home device.
The War on the internet. It will be as successful as the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. The internet provides an even playing field for all. Anyone with a mind to attack is just as vulnerable to attack. The information Genie is out of the bottle and, as China is slowly learning, knowledge cannot be withheld from those who seek it.
You can ponder the wonders of a Unified Theory of Everything, discuss the discovery ad-nausium, even hang it on a wall for all to admire, but no one without a PHD in Astrophysics will give a rat's if this doesnt get us off this rock a few centuries faster than expected.
A lot of folks seem to be using centrifugal force and gravity interchangably. This is incorrect thinking and in this case they were seeing the effects being applied to sensors not directly attached to the disk. This is the same gravity produced by a large stationary mass.
"IF" this is a real first step to artificial gravity (big if), then this is the natural progression to warp drive. Artificial Gravity - Gravity Shielding - Anti Gravity - Continuum Distortion - Warp Drive. My own scale.
Artificial gravity has been dangled in front of our noses for years, by alien nuts, pseudo-scientist, and garage engineers. Like cold fusion and zero-point energy, it's always much-adu-about-nothing. Ya know what, just park a starship in orbit before you tell us about another "break-through" in artificial gravity.