It might be nice to know when I am losing someone's interest, but, as an Aspie, I really don't have much to say to NT's anyway. I mean if I could hold conversations that interest a NT I wouldn't need the device in the first place. The reality, however, is that conversations that seem to intrigue NT's hold no interest for me. And for some reason I do not get, NT's do not like to talk about the same couple of topics incessantly. I have learned to do the obligatory greetings, but they are best kept short. Anything else is either about business, which has a finite set of interactions (I am fine within my knowledge base), or involves friends that have similar interests.
I know some aspies want better communications with the NT world, but knowing when the person is bored would, at least for me, be worse because I still wouldn't know what words to speak to make it better. I guess in the long run maybe, after performing some statistical analysis concerning what words make a person bored. But then again, I pretty much already know that people do not want to talk about scifi or computers or world domination, so it is back to square one.
Awhile back I heard of people having their auctions for linux cds deleted without any clear response from ebay. It seems pretty likely now that MS could have simply flagged them as 'suspicious.' Likely the reasoning could be that since it is a homemade computer cd, it could have other software on it as well. A clever way to hinder linux adoption, if true.
With current home entertainment systems as good as they are, who wants to go out and pay all that money to sit in a room full of strangers? Where you can't even pause the movie to go to the pisser? I love my home system, I paid money for it, and I want to enjoy it. I don't want to watch movies I have already seen on it. I wish they would release dvds at the same time as the theaters played it.
King Kong? Who told them it would be a good idea to make King Kong again? Duh, it isn't about the money that is spent on a movie. If all the cheap movies that came out were as good as Star Wreck: In the Pirkining, then I welcome and applaud the demise of the big studios that want to control how we watch everything. Those horrible executives.
When I get a job, I will be finding myself a nice old red LED watch. These old watches are the defacto standard for fine programmers everywhere. LED watch == fine programmer.
Given the total control that this sytem has over the computer, as long as just one weakness can be found, a virus could lockout the computer, hard. The people will not be as accepting should something like that happen. There is still a potential for intellectual mucking on the network side of this system, isn't there?
Not that I would ever do this, but am I the only one who finds the whole thing interesting?
Who hasn't watched a movie with some high rolling criminal dude and thought, on some level, weeeee. Botnets are the perfect area for the average person to enter the world of illegal profit with a minimum of hassle. Be your own crime boss! And nobody dies! No children get sold drugs! This is a chance to make money, and get that special little naughty feeling, with very little moral violation. I just point this out to help emphasize the overall difficulty on stopping this sort of behavior, of course.
I would much rather download media from a nice fat server than from a p2p network, given a choice. P2P is just the best way when most of the people sharing files don't have super bloogity-bloog severs and pipes. No p2p if I'm paying full price.
I don't think the cause is what we should be concerned with. Whether it is man made or natural, there is a change occurring. So assume it is natural, then everybody is happy. What does the evidence then say is the worst that can be expected if it is just after effects of the last ice age, or what have you? The point is that there are some changes occurring, might we not have to cool the planet down no matter the cause?
If it is to be art, it must be captivating for a few, and indiferent for the majority. I guess that means linux is art, too.
but I disagree with that logic anyway. Most people that I know do not like games like I do. In the big picture, the population base of gamers, and of gamers that are only really captivated by one type of game or another, compared to total population of the world puts games in the proper ratio to be considered art. But maybe I should RTFA, I don't know.
There was an article not to far back about how phone tap devices could be tricked, is that applicable to how phone is being spied on now? Should this be a part of every phone call?
addiction? why are we forced to feel guilty if something occupies more than a certain percentage of our time or money (especially if it makes us happy), and why is television allowed to take up so much time?
Why not have a central media server with an old xbox in every room? That's what I do. I don't use it to record TV because I have the awesome ( I mean it ) dish network PVR, but it should doable, right?
I remember an article when the super nintendo came out, they said they made the surfaces non-flat so that you wouldn't set your drinks on it. Seems logical since most kids back then would sit on the floor and play (shorter cables?), and drinks spill easy when sitting on the carpet.
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It might be nice to know when I am losing someone's interest, but, as an Aspie, I really don't have much to say to NT's anyway. I mean if I could hold conversations that interest a NT I wouldn't need the device in the first place. The reality, however, is that conversations that seem to intrigue NT's hold no interest for me. And for some reason I do not get, NT's do not like to talk about the same couple of topics incessantly. I have learned to do the obligatory greetings, but they are best kept short. Anything else is either about business, which has a finite set of interactions (I am fine within my knowledge base), or involves friends that have similar interests. I know some aspies want better communications with the NT world, but knowing when the person is bored would, at least for me, be worse because I still wouldn't know what words to speak to make it better. I guess in the long run maybe, after performing some statistical analysis concerning what words make a person bored. But then again, I pretty much already know that people do not want to talk about scifi or computers or world domination, so it is back to square one.
Awhile back I heard of people having their auctions for linux cds deleted without any clear response from ebay. It seems pretty likely now that MS could have simply flagged them as 'suspicious.' Likely the reasoning could be that since it is a homemade computer cd, it could have other software on it as well. A clever way to hinder linux adoption, if true.
As the current older people are steadily replaced by younger people, more people will get broadband.
With current home entertainment systems as good as they are, who wants to go out and pay all that money to sit in a room full of strangers? Where you can't even pause the movie to go to the pisser? I love my home system, I paid money for it, and I want to enjoy it. I don't want to watch movies I have already seen on it. I wish they would release dvds at the same time as the theaters played it.
HaHa, your a MS groupie!
King Kong? Who told them it would be a good idea to make King Kong again? Duh, it isn't about the money that is spent on a movie. If all the cheap movies that came out were as good as Star Wreck: In the Pirkining, then I welcome and applaud the demise of the big studios that want to control how we watch everything. Those horrible executives.
When I get a job, I will be finding myself a nice old red LED watch. These old watches are the defacto standard for fine programmers everywhere. LED watch == fine programmer.
Given the total control that this sytem has over the computer, as long as just one weakness can be found, a virus could lockout the computer, hard. The people will not be as accepting should something like that happen. There is still a potential for intellectual mucking on the network side of this system, isn't there?
Not that I would ever do this, but am I the only one who finds the whole thing interesting? Who hasn't watched a movie with some high rolling criminal dude and thought, on some level, weeeee. Botnets are the perfect area for the average person to enter the world of illegal profit with a minimum of hassle. Be your own crime boss! And nobody dies! No children get sold drugs! This is a chance to make money, and get that special little naughty feeling, with very little moral violation. I just point this out to help emphasize the overall difficulty on stopping this sort of behavior, of course.
MS outmoding a bunch of computers == I can finally build my cluster
1) As computer scientists, you either know all the languages, or you can pick up a new one overnight.
2) Programs flow here and there. Any decent sized program may be hard to trace even if it is in one language, that is what good documentation is for.
So shouldn't the documentation be sufficient to navigate the program without being concerned with the language each part is implemented in?
a little ghetto where other programmers are afraid to walk at night.
Is that the ghetto called professional-programmerville?
I would much rather download media from a nice fat server than from a p2p network, given a choice. P2P is just the best way when most of the people sharing files don't have super bloogity-bloog severs and pipes. No p2p if I'm paying full price.
I don't think the cause is what we should be concerned with. Whether it is man made or natural, there is a change occurring. So assume it is natural, then everybody is happy. What does the evidence then say is the worst that can be expected if it is just after effects of the last ice age, or what have you? The point is that there are some changes occurring, might we not have to cool the planet down no matter the cause?
but I disagree with that logic anyway. Most people that I know do not like games like I do. In the big picture, the population base of gamers, and of gamers that are only really captivated by one type of game or another, compared to total population of the world puts games in the proper ratio to be considered art. But maybe I should RTFA, I don't know.
Is this guy for real?
Perhaps Google could use their upcoming advertising to encourage all the people not to let this happen.
White, of course. Black heats up to much in the summer.
There was an article not to far back about how phone tap devices could be tricked, is that applicable to how phone is being spied on now? Should this be a part of every phone call?
addiction? why are we forced to feel guilty if something occupies more than a certain percentage of our time or money (especially if it makes us happy), and why is television allowed to take up so much time?
Why not have a central media server with an old xbox in every room? That's what I do. I don't use it to record TV because I have the awesome ( I mean it ) dish network PVR, but it should doable, right?
As a matter of fact, I have my senior project class next semester. Do you have any girls?
Where many young geeks got their start.
I remember an article when the super nintendo came out, they said they made the surfaces non-flat so that you wouldn't set your drinks on it. Seems logical since most kids back then would sit on the floor and play (shorter cables?), and drinks spill easy when sitting on the carpet.
Wow, Easynews sounds great,I'm going to give easynews a try.
Is that free as in beer, or free as in....I dunno, whatever the other one is