yeah, 'cause there haven't been any negative effects to that star wars video kid. Glad he didn't have any repercussions to how he looked when he was having fun.
short of some MUDS and MUSHs, I don't think there has ever been any real roleplaying in an mmorpg. It's simply not possible to design in that much choice flexibility and world impact. If my character's actions don't really affect the world state, it's not an RPG.
That's just irresponsible netizen-ry. How could you suggest such a thing. In fact suggesting such a thing could be seen as trying to coordinate a DDoS.
I, on the other hand, was more than happy to visit their home page and see what they had available. For some reason, however, I had to keep reloading to try to get proper page display. This could have been my browser or their site, not sure. After... 50-100 attempts at reload correction, I gave up. Oh well. I sure hope no one else has this problem.
your exact statement supports why discussion of I.D. and other origin theory is Philosophy, not Science, and should be taught in such a class. As the evolutionary theory is capable of some level of scientific investigation, it can be argued to belong in a science course as the only scientifically testable species origin theory. When we get another one, I will argue whole-heartedly for it's inclusion. I would have supported the LA legislation if it stated 'scientifically testable origin theories may be taught as science'
I'll second the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It and a bunch of other series of books follow the Harry Potter theme (young misunderstood and sometimes socially rejected 8-12 year old youth discovers his innate powers and that he's an integral part of a huge good/evil struggle...) These series tend to age with the character. They were released about once a year, and each book picked up a year later (summer camp, etc.) with the main character. So the themes in the book age as well, get more serious or dark, girl-boy issues start to become more important. That said, most of these (and the Percy Jackson series handles this well) keep their subject matter grounded to a 10-12year old level. actual death and killing it kept to a minimum, language and humor are age appropriate, etc.
IIRC that would be a 'container file' similar to what disk compression software did back in the MSDOS 6, Win3.1/95 days. Some USB sticks are set up that way. (Kanguru microdrive is the one our IT unfortunately forces us to use.) Unfortunately, need to execute some code to handle mounting the encrypted portion as a separate drive and doing transparent encrypt/decrypt. That requires their drivers be installed as services, which takes admin the first time. If I go from our government facility to another agency's place, and have files that can legitimately be shared, but which should be encrypted in transit (maybe something unclassified, but FOUO.) we have to go through their IT department to install the (not exactly bug-free) software on their computer. This can take some time (ticketing, software approval, install, etc.)
now, some other companies offer 'driver-less' solutions. (actually, I just checked and Kanguru has some of these in their newer product lineup, but we have to use something FIPS 140-2 certified. I know some sites say FIPS cert pending, anyone else have it?)
Before I saw the computer engineering, I was about to say French/German if you ever thought you'd go on to graduate school. I still have a smattering of German in my repertoire, and it helps whenever I'm doing a literature search and I run into a foreign reference. Japanese comes in a close third.
That said, in computer engineering if you're going software or comms, India and China are likely the countries you'd interact with most.
And finally, if you think a 'government' career would be of interest, we're always looking for Farsi/Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Kurdish, Korean, various African languages, etc.
I would have hoped he'd mentioned Dark Heart of Uukrul. It was uniquely styled if nothing else. Puzzles out the wazoo (luckily you only needed to solve like 8 out of twelve to beat the game. at the time I barely got half of them. there were built in limits to power leveling (at least it slowed you down a bit).
office != data center.
They're not talking about a couple server racks in a closet. They're talking about dedicated supermarket sized server facilities.
Most DOE/DoD labs will have a high-performance computing cluster / supercomputer. That = data center.
Most data centers have had overall efficiency as a secondary metric. Now people are starting to realize how large a portion of their overall hosting costs are related to inefficient hosting.
The idea is to make it easy for dumb consumers. An energy star rating could convince some people to host one place or another, just like it convinces some people to buy one freezer over another.
ahhh... purchasing carbon-offset credits. because if there's a billion times more carbon here where its produced than in the rain forest where you've purchased 'credits' that net-zero will sure as heck cancel out in the global ecosystem. It's like pulling both ends of a piece of string to keep it still. if I pull harder from one end, I can just pull harder from the other to offset it. surely the string will never break from the continually increasing tension.
it was tough for you, but I've always wondered what the experience is like for the person suffering the decline. How aware are they of the decline? Him talking to you about yesterday was sad for you because it brought up the realization that his faculties were degrading. But for him? He was retelling an anecdote, and likely unaware of the decline (at least at the time). I suspect things would get more and more confusing, especially if when lucid he would realize what's occurring.
My government agency just switched from the old pay system to a 'pay for performance' scale. (A lot of us are quite pleased with the change.) I propose Congressional pay be put on a similar scale. I guess the voters would have to regularly determine their performance rating, however. Maybe a few negative pay periods would wake them up a little.
Actually, it's immunity for the telecom companies, not for anyone in the administration who broke laws to get the wiretaps turned on.
I wrote my senator a few months back about the telecom immunity provision. His response (Dem-MD) was that he supports holding the administration, and any specific government individuals, legally responsible if they took illegal steps in getting the warrantless wiretaps. But, he didn't agree with holding the telecom companies liable, as they were acting at the behest of the administration, and he wouldn't want to create future resistance to legal telecom cooperation with the administration by smacking them down on this one.
While I can see his point (put the legal pinch where it belongs on the administration for the illegal authorization), I'd hate to see the telecoms get away scott free when they acted as they did without requiring proof of legal authority for the actions.
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yeah, 'cause there haven't been any negative effects to that star wars video kid. Glad he didn't have any repercussions to how he looked when he was having fun.
short of some MUDS and MUSHs, I don't think there has ever been any real roleplaying in an mmorpg. It's simply not possible to design in that much choice flexibility and world impact. If my character's actions don't really affect the world state, it's not an RPG.
if(failure()) retire(testsubject);
if only we could remotely administer an empathy test.
Still more unrelated news: FBI works with Interpol to get a warrant for the arrest of everyone.
"Sir, everyone has child porn on their computers these days.
we have always been at war with eurasia
That's just irresponsible netizen-ry. How could you suggest such a thing. In fact suggesting such a thing could be seen as trying to coordinate a DDoS.
I, on the other hand, was more than happy to visit their home page and see what they had available. For some reason, however, I had to keep reloading to try to get proper page display. This could have been my browser or their site, not sure. After... 50-100 attempts at reload correction, I gave up. Oh well. I sure hope no one else has this problem.
Iran's package manager keeps my missile up at night...
What if some god like being named the FSM did in fact create all matter and set it in motion to randomly see what would come of it and we came of it?
In that case, teach the scientifically testable portion (evolutionary development) in science class. Leave origin theory in philosophy.
your exact statement supports why discussion of I.D. and other origin theory is Philosophy, not Science, and should be taught in such a class. As the evolutionary theory is capable of some level of scientific investigation, it can be argued to belong in a science course as the only scientifically testable species origin theory. When we get another one, I will argue whole-heartedly for it's inclusion. I would have supported the LA legislation if it stated 'scientifically testable origin theories may be taught as science'
and then they could post a youtube video of it. it'd be the new RR. Fish roll? Fish rick? Rick Fish?
I'll second the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It and a bunch of other series of books follow the Harry Potter theme (young misunderstood and sometimes socially rejected 8-12 year old youth discovers his innate powers and that he's an integral part of a huge good/evil struggle...) These series tend to age with the character. They were released about once a year, and each book picked up a year later (summer camp, etc.) with the main character. So the themes in the book age as well, get more serious or dark, girl-boy issues start to become more important. That said, most of these (and the Percy Jackson series handles this well) keep their subject matter grounded to a 10-12year old level. actual death and killing it kept to a minimum, language and humor are age appropriate, etc.
IIRC that would be a 'container file' similar to what disk compression software did back in the MSDOS 6, Win3.1/95 days. Some USB sticks are set up that way. (Kanguru microdrive is the one our IT unfortunately forces us to use.) Unfortunately, need to execute some code to handle mounting the encrypted portion as a separate drive and doing transparent encrypt/decrypt. That requires their drivers be installed as services, which takes admin the first time. If I go from our government facility to another agency's place, and have files that can legitimately be shared, but which should be encrypted in transit (maybe something unclassified, but FOUO.) we have to go through their IT department to install the (not exactly bug-free) software on their computer. This can take some time (ticketing, software approval, install, etc.)
now, some other companies offer 'driver-less' solutions. (actually, I just checked and Kanguru has some of these in their newer product lineup, but we have to use something FIPS 140-2 certified. I know some sites say FIPS cert pending, anyone else have it?)
Before I saw the computer engineering, I was about to say French/German if you ever thought you'd go on to graduate school. I still have a smattering of German in my repertoire, and it helps whenever I'm doing a literature search and I run into a foreign reference. Japanese comes in a close third.
That said, in computer engineering if you're going software or comms, India and China are likely the countries you'd interact with most.
And finally, if you think a 'government' career would be of interest, we're always looking for Farsi/Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Kurdish, Korean, various African languages, etc.
your body is a wonderland...
at least the NSA is happy letting you think it's unbreakable... :)
I would have hoped he'd mentioned Dark Heart of Uukrul. It was uniquely styled if nothing else. Puzzles out the wazoo (luckily you only needed to solve like 8 out of twelve to beat the game. at the time I barely got half of them. there were built in limits to power leveling (at least it slowed you down a bit).
Most DOE/DoD labs will have a high-performance computing cluster / supercomputer. That = data center.
Most data centers have had overall efficiency as a secondary metric. Now people are starting to realize how large a portion of their overall hosting costs are related to inefficient hosting.
The idea is to make it easy for dumb consumers. An energy star rating could convince some people to host one place or another, just like it convinces some people to buy one freezer over another.
it goes in line with most things they say will be great. Usually, in the end, also horse shit.
mercury/cadmium poisoning unchecked maybe?
ahhh... purchasing carbon-offset credits. because if there's a billion times more carbon here where its produced than in the rain forest where you've purchased 'credits' that net-zero will sure as heck cancel out in the global ecosystem. It's like pulling both ends of a piece of string to keep it still. if I pull harder from one end, I can just pull harder from the other to offset it. surely the string will never break from the continually increasing tension.
yes, yes it can.
it was tough for you, but I've always wondered what the experience is like for the person suffering the decline. How aware are they of the decline? Him talking to you about yesterday was sad for you because it brought up the realization that his faculties were degrading. But for him? He was retelling an anecdote, and likely unaware of the decline (at least at the time). I suspect things would get more and more confusing, especially if when lucid he would realize what's occurring.
My government agency just switched from the old pay system to a 'pay for performance' scale. (A lot of us are quite pleased with the change.) I propose Congressional pay be put on a similar scale. I guess the voters would have to regularly determine their performance rating, however. Maybe a few negative pay periods would wake them up a little.
Actually, it's immunity for the telecom companies, not for anyone in the administration who broke laws to get the wiretaps turned on.
I wrote my senator a few months back about the telecom immunity provision. His response (Dem-MD) was that he supports holding the administration, and any specific government individuals, legally responsible if they took illegal steps in getting the warrantless wiretaps. But, he didn't agree with holding the telecom companies liable, as they were acting at the behest of the administration, and he wouldn't want to create future resistance to legal telecom cooperation with the administration by smacking them down on this one.
While I can see his point (put the legal pinch where it belongs on the administration for the illegal authorization), I'd hate to see the telecoms get away scott free when they acted as they did without requiring proof of legal authority for the actions.