As for precedent, both Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven (coauthors of Footfall, amongst other works) were a significant part of the push in the 80's to develop what is now National Missile Defense.
As for precedent, both Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote actual scenes into some of their books (including Footfall), where the hapless government rounded up a bunch of balding geek-a-zoid sci-fi writers as non-traditional "technical experts" to help strategy and intel efforts against an unusual threat.
If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a minimum sentence of 1 year suspended, plus time served in county lockup, plus 40 hours community service. Or something useless like that.
When it comes right down to it, do you really have confidence that a judge and/or jury will impose 65 years of incarceration for sending penis pill emails? (Yes, I know there is more to the charges than that.) Kenneth Lay was only facing 20~30 years if he didn't appeal the judgement to a higher power.
How do we chase and choke out race conditions and deadlocks in testing?
Using testing to iron out concurrency errors is a losing proposition....
Develop a design that is robust to the concurrency errors that slip through the modeling and analysis process.
This sounds like a chicken-and-egg situation. Even with all the pencil-paper-uml exercises available, you can rarely "develop" a design without accidentally introducing races due to assumptions and then debugging to find and exorcise them from the design. Even your written language can get stuck in recursion or circular dependencies. It's no wonder that multi-threading can be very difficult.
And when I'm hungry, I hop in my "Tuareg", take the "Beltway" to exit "34", park at the "Piggly Wiggly", pick up a few "ribeyes" and a case of "Mountain Dew". At home I fire up the "Weber" and pretty soon I can start eating.
MARCIA COYLE:...
Nevada is one of 20 states that has a law that says basically, if a police officer has a reasonable belief that you are involved in a crime and he asks you for identification, you must identify yourself. You don't have to produce a document. But you have to say who you are. This police officer in Nevada was investigating a domestic assault. He stopped Larry Hibble who was possibly the perpetrator of the assault and did ask him to identify himself. Hibble refused 11 times, was arrested under the Nevada law.
JEFFREY BROWN: He left no doubt about it -- 11 times.
MARCIA COYLE: Right; 11 times. He was arrested and fined $250. He turned around and challenged the law saying it violated the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution which protects you against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution which says you have a right not to make a self-incriminating statement.
JEFFREY BROWN: Now the court did not buy those two arguments but it was quite close.
You've never graded school essays, then. The "it is about how [paste]..." gambit is a staple of weak-minded students who find it the easiest way to think they are avoiding plagiarism on a technicality.
Spyware is still on the move. Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their image, but still doing fishy things.
through the magic of super-lazy editing staff, becomes,
Jamie found an interesting story about how Spyware is still on the move. It talks about how Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their image, but still doing fishy things.
Hm, I think WIRED has done an article like this, and c|net, and I'm pretty sure Slashdot has gone through all this again. Makes me feel so old to re-live all these formula "knews" articles again and again.
I like the sentiment, but there are some serious gameplay issues to work out when you say "ignore everything about that person/account."
You just put an object on the ground. Can a person you're ignoring pick it up? Can you see or pick up items they drop? Can you walk through land registered to them? On fighting MOGs, can they surprise-attack your friend (who doesn't ignore them but didn't notice them) right in front of you, and won't that be a bit hard to understand until too late? Can you just ignore a guard who is blocking a path and walk through them? Can you just ignore one or more of the world creators and walk through the walls and locks and monsters and other barriers they put there to control the game experience? What does it take to make someone un-ignorable, and how will you guarantee someone so entrusted doesn't abuse that power?
Er, I hope you meant that in jest-- there have been a number of incidents with PDF files that had virtual "blackout" rectangles floating over the text, but the actual redacted text was still stored in the PDF as well.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/05/pdf_ radacting_f.html
Honestly, when was the last time you searched for articles based on their community tags? Oh, wait, can you even search for articles with their community tags on Slashdot yet? While it's theoretically possible to find it useful to search for "puppy basketball" on a photo site, how often would you be searching for terms that the photographer herself didn't think of adding when she uploaded the shot?
Adding simple fortune-cookie CGI scripts, html tables with round corners, and javascript mouse-hover-active colors doesn't really make a site more useful. Sure, they can add to the mood if everything else is already well thought-out, but they can't save a bad site. That's Web 1.0 gloss.
With the newer sites, there's just as much crap that adds practically nothing. Expandable submenus in sidebars with cute > marks, dynamic community tagging options, dynamic community inbox viewing and sorting, and the ever-present use of rich gradient shading in every header tag. That's Web 2.0 gloss.
Hrm... I seem to have described an awful lot of Slashdot features. Curious.
Of course, all those mothers out there who have just gotten into Wii games should get a copy of Cooking Mama. It's a kitchen sim of sorts, with lots of little tasks like cutting, peeling, stirring and serving food bits. Some of the recipes look pretty interesting.
Or maybe your mom should get YOU this game, to let you learn a bit more about how to feed yourself properly, and not make her do all the kitchen work!
Everyone else pointed to the relative complexity, but I think it's more than that.
There are not many televisions in the workplace-- it's a toy for your leisure.
There are often more computers than desired at the workplace-- it's a tool of commerce. Many people just don't want that sort of thing to be prominent in their home lives too.
Most stick-shift cars have an "economy lamp" on the dash, where it lights up at a certan RPM to remind you to shift up and remain in a low-RPM state at the same speed. I have never met a stick-shift driver, from granny to miser to newbie, who gave a rat's ass about that economy lamp, and in fact several who tape or paint over it, so as not to be distracted by the lamp's incessant nagging.
Steve: Hey, PR flack, the Hotmail group has been hemorrhaging users ever since I sugges... er, those idiots decided to "update" that user interface. How can we make that sound like a good thing?
PR Flack: Easy, Mr. Ballmer. Voi la
More than 20 million users provided feedback to the new-look Hotmail...
This is defined on a regional or national level, as all laws are. There are definitely certain jurisdictions that do not require penetration to qualify as legal rape. The world isn't binary, the world doesn't work like a textbook.
What annoys me about this is that the controversy comes back over and over. The BBS communities, USENET, the MUSH/MOO communities, the MMORPGs, and the blogospheres, have all rehashed all this. If it was as simple and easily defined as you make it out to be, it would not generate so much heat, would it?
Regardless of the terminology from harrassment to assault to rape, and regardless of how things transpired physically, someone felt powerless and irrevocably hurt, and someone else meant it that way. At what point is it morally justifiable to hold the perpetrator culpable to allow justice for the victim?
Perhaps you need to get some exercise for your vocabulary of the English language, so that these new and unfamiliar words do not frighten you so much.
Haa? It's pidgin, bradda. You some haoli, you not know pidgin no real English. You learn pidgin lidat because da kine real English too much hana hana. Mahalo!
I think it's more of a "Sorry, we asked you to make a financial offer, but the price you quoted is too high, so we're going to go to MySpace and have them give us the page for free." But who's counting?
I mean, I agree with your skepticism about his choice of example, but there's plenty of new markets to tap and it's silly to dismiss any demographic outright.
The "designed for the computer illiterate" statement is absolutely true, regardless of how it stacks up against other OSes. During Windows 95 development, the core team's mantra was to think about every feature and how "Brad Silverberg's Mom" would be able to use it. Brad Silverberg was the executive product manager for Win3.1 and Win95, and whether it was accurate or not, the group's mental image of his mom was that she was a complete novice who might barely be able to understand the relationship between an icon and a document.
Now it's possible that Brad's Mom was just TOO dumb for Win95, or would have been just as happy with an Apple, or toughed it out until she understood what a command prompt was, or hired her son to help her out with the recipe database, but you can't say that Windows isn't designed for the computer illiterate.
I tend to agree that Canon's DSLRs have had a consistently bad white-balance for tungsten. They leave the scene fairly orange under most incandescent conditions. Other than that, I prefer their output to the output I've seen from Nikon and Pentax. WB can be fixed to suit when you shoot raw. Noise and oversharpening can't.
Slashdot Mirror
As for precedent, both Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote actual scenes into some of their books (including Footfall), where the hapless government rounded up a bunch of balding geek-a-zoid sci-fi writers as non-traditional "technical experts" to help strategy and intel efforts against an unusual threat.
If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a minimum sentence of 1 year suspended, plus time served in county lockup, plus 40 hours community service. Or something useless like that.
When it comes right down to it, do you really have confidence that a judge and/or jury will impose 65 years of incarceration for sending penis pill emails? (Yes, I know there is more to the charges than that.) Kenneth Lay was only facing 20~30 years if he didn't appeal the judgement to a higher power.
Majikthise: "We'll take care of the eternal verities, thank you very much."
"That's right," shouted Vroomfondel, "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
And when I'm hungry, I hop in my "Tuareg", take the "Beltway" to exit "34", park at the "Piggly Wiggly", pick up a few "ribeyes" and a case of "Mountain Dew". At home I fire up the "Weber" and pretty soon I can start eating.
Not since 21 June 2004: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june04/scot us_6-21.html
You've never graded school essays, then. The "it is about how [paste]..." gambit is a staple of weak-minded students who find it the easiest way to think they are avoiding plagiarism on a technicality.
Hm, I think WIRED has done an article like this, and c|net, and I'm pretty sure Slashdot has gone through all this again. Makes me feel so old to re-live all these formula "knews" articles again and again.
I like the sentiment, but there are some serious gameplay issues to work out when you say "ignore everything about that person/account."
You just put an object on the ground. Can a person you're ignoring pick it up? Can you see or pick up items they drop? Can you walk through land registered to them? On fighting MOGs, can they surprise-attack your friend (who doesn't ignore them but didn't notice them) right in front of you, and won't that be a bit hard to understand until too late? Can you just ignore a guard who is blocking a path and walk through them? Can you just ignore one or more of the world creators and walk through the walls and locks and monsters and other barriers they put there to control the game experience? What does it take to make someone un-ignorable, and how will you guarantee someone so entrusted doesn't abuse that power?
Er, I hope you meant that in jest-- there have been a number of incidents with PDF files that had virtual "blackout" rectangles floating over the text, but the actual redacted text was still stored in the PDF as well. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/05/pdf_ radacting_f.html
Honestly, when was the last time you searched for articles based on their community tags? Oh, wait, can you even search for articles with their community tags on Slashdot yet? While it's theoretically possible to find it useful to search for "puppy basketball" on a photo site, how often would you be searching for terms that the photographer herself didn't think of adding when she uploaded the shot?
Adding simple fortune-cookie CGI scripts, html tables with round corners, and javascript mouse-hover-active colors doesn't really make a site more useful. Sure, they can add to the mood if everything else is already well thought-out, but they can't save a bad site. That's Web 1.0 gloss.
With the newer sites, there's just as much crap that adds practically nothing. Expandable submenus in sidebars with cute > marks, dynamic community tagging options, dynamic community inbox viewing and sorting, and the ever-present use of rich gradient shading in every header tag. That's Web 2.0 gloss.
Hrm... I seem to have described an awful lot of Slashdot features. Curious.
Of course, all those mothers out there who have just gotten into Wii games should get a copy of Cooking Mama. It's a kitchen sim of sorts, with lots of little tasks like cutting, peeling, stirring and serving food bits. Some of the recipes look pretty interesting.
Or maybe your mom should get YOU this game, to let you learn a bit more about how to feed yourself properly, and not make her do all the kitchen work!
Everyone else pointed to the relative complexity, but I think it's more than that.
There are not many televisions in the workplace-- it's a toy for your leisure.
There are often more computers than desired at the workplace-- it's a tool of commerce. Many people just don't want that sort of thing to be prominent in their home lives too.
Most stick-shift cars have an "economy lamp" on the dash, where it lights up at a certan RPM to remind you to shift up and remain in a low-RPM state at the same speed. I have never met a stick-shift driver, from granny to miser to newbie, who gave a rat's ass about that economy lamp, and in fact several who tape or paint over it, so as not to be distracted by the lamp's incessant nagging.
Steve: Hey, PR flack, the Hotmail group has been hemorrhaging users ever since I sugges... er, those idiots decided to "update" that user interface. How can we make that sound like a good thing?
PR Flack: Easy, Mr. Ballmer. Voi la
This is defined on a regional or national level, as all laws are. There are definitely certain jurisdictions that do not require penetration to qualify as legal rape. The world isn't binary, the world doesn't work like a textbook.
What annoys me about this is that the controversy comes back over and over. The BBS communities, USENET, the MUSH/MOO communities, the MMORPGs, and the blogospheres, have all rehashed all this. If it was as simple and easily defined as you make it out to be, it would not generate so much heat, would it?
Regardless of the terminology from harrassment to assault to rape, and regardless of how things transpired physically, someone felt powerless and irrevocably hurt, and someone else meant it that way. At what point is it morally justifiable to hold the perpetrator culpable to allow justice for the victim?
Haa? It's pidgin , bradda. You some haoli, you not know pidgin no real English. You learn pidgin lidat because da kine real English too much hana hana. Mahalo!
I think it's more of a "Sorry, we asked you to make a financial offer, but the price you quoted is too high, so we're going to go to MySpace and have them give us the page for free." But who's counting?
"we will buy new when those fail" is what we were told
"Your successor will buy new when these fail." is the correct response to this.
I mean, I agree with your skepticism about his choice of example, but there's plenty of new markets to tap and it's silly to dismiss any demographic outright.
First question: boolean search. You'll need up to seven marbles.
The "designed for the computer illiterate" statement is absolutely true, regardless of how it stacks up against other OSes. During Windows 95 development, the core team's mantra was to think about every feature and how "Brad Silverberg's Mom" would be able to use it. Brad Silverberg was the executive product manager for Win3.1 and Win95, and whether it was accurate or not, the group's mental image of his mom was that she was a complete novice who might barely be able to understand the relationship between an icon and a document.
Now it's possible that Brad's Mom was just TOO dumb for Win95, or would have been just as happy with an Apple, or toughed it out until she understood what a command prompt was, or hired her son to help her out with the recipe database, but you can't say that Windows isn't designed for the computer illiterate.
I tend to agree that Canon's DSLRs have had a consistently bad white-balance for tungsten. They leave the scene fairly orange under most incandescent conditions. Other than that, I prefer their output to the output I've seen from Nikon and Pentax. WB can be fixed to suit when you shoot raw. Noise and oversharpening can't.