This is called the Luddite Fallacy, and there are clues the fallacy won't be a fallacy much longer. In the old days workers had alternative industries to relocate to, and automation basically meant more productivity per worker. But there's a limit to that, and I think we're reaching that limit.
A better way of estimating is looking at people who did similar projects, and see what costs they had. Expect to be in the upper range if you're a first-timer.
(an interesting phenomenon from psychology: when you ask people to estimate the time/money they need, you get a vastly different answer than when you ask how much time/money other people in similar situations need)
He could make it earth-sheltered, if the structure will hold. That would put the insulation on the outside, and make sure the neighbours don't complain about 'eye-sores'. Of course, you'd replace the visual appearance completely, and I don't know if he was specifically going for the train-carriage look, but that would be one solution I'd be researching.
I work in a photo-shop, and most photo-kiosk machines don't work like that. They're simply windows-boxes with software running *on top* of it. So if windows auto-runs it, you're already too late depending on the exploit used.
Of course, they could be linux-boxen, but the chain I work at really can't afford to train the minimum-wage personel how to use linux properly, as they have trouble enough using windows. Also, we use various software (one to run the passportphoto-camera for example) and some of those programs are available only on windows.
We do have AV however after earlier viruses really messed up productivity, but we can't afford to have internet at every store as margins in photography have become really slim since the introduction of digital photography.
Well the example the GP mentioned, the Pirates of the Amazon Firefox plugin, is a great example of an unkillable idea. The creators only made it as a sort of prank and university-project and in fact only told a number of their friends about it when they launched it, so when Amazon 'asked' them to take it down after 2 days of internetfrenzy, they did. But google for 'pirates of the amazon', and you can still find a download link under the second hit.
You can express anything in binary. It also depends on which form of quantum computing you're going for, but most involve being able to represent more than 2 states with each 'transistor'.
The DEC guy and the rubber chicken story
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You laugh, but one of DEC's best field service upper level support guys carried a rubber chicken in his tool box. Once, he got called out to fix a dead 11/70 at a critical installation, where a newspaper was waiting to switch over to electronic composition, and lots of money was being lost while this system wouldn't start. This 3rd level tech got called in when the local guys couldn't fix it. It was a very important account, and high up DEC executives were waiting for his, as well as all the managers of the newspaper. This guy walked around the system for a quick visual inspection, and noticed a loose cable in the back of the thing causing the problem. He plugged it in while no one was watching...and then took out his rubber chicken, danced around the system chanting gibberish and waving the chicken, and then hit the boot button...the system started....the DEC managers wanted to fire him, then kill him, but the newspaper folks, who had a sense of hunmor and were so glad he got it going wouldn't hear of it, and insisted that this guy oversee the installation of this gear at all of their other sites...DEC Field Service guys...some of them, they were like that, back in the day...
It's like that with gameboy cartridges as well. Not with Amareto weights, mind you, but if you shifted the cartridge in too far or not far enough, the connectors apparently wouldn't connect.
Freezing is actually multi-functional. When I first read the 'freeze your harddisk'-tip, it was explained that the lower temperatures strengthened the magnetism, and thus made bits easier to read.
Think of the line as 1 second. Every time you make a request you go to the end of the "line." Someone with 99 shell registrars goes to the end of the "line." By the time he gets to the front of the 1 second line, their 99 other requests have also been processed.
Exactly. Think of it as a CPU with a 99 deep pipeline
GP put it wrong. The original Apple vs Apple settlement/court order (I don't remember) specifically stated that Apple computers was allowed to keep using the Apple logo, as long as, and only as long as they didn't do ANYTHING with music. And now they've become a music label by proxy; clearly Apple Corp (the Beatles' label) has 'right on their side'. The only thing I don't understand is how Apple computers could've been so stupid, and why Apple music waited so long with this case.
"(the lack of games at launch were what kept me from buying a Nintendo DS)"
I assume you meant to say PSP, since the DS came with the entire Gameboy Advance library at launch, plus 11 DS only games at launch in North America. Eleven is a slightly above average number of launchtitles for a modern day console.
"The secret is to design a 'language' to write viruses in that makes it almost impossible to write a non-runnable program."
The problem with this idea is that it most likely will fail to achieve it's intended goal: to generate unexpected new viruses that are more infectious than previous ones. The reason is that you have to define the parameters and the boundaries of the parameters. As long as someone has to define in what direction the virus can change, unexpected things are unlikely to happen.
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Oh plenty of countries fuck up. But so few of them do it internationally.
This is called the Luddite Fallacy, and there are clues the fallacy won't be a fallacy much longer. In the old days workers had alternative industries to relocate to, and automation basically meant more productivity per worker. But there's a limit to that, and I think we're reaching that limit.
Where are my mod points..
That sounds like I thought this product was: http://noteslate.com/
Yes...see list of belligerents.
3-8%...per?
There's the catch. The US is vast. 5% per 1000 km adds up, or rather, multiplies over long distances.
Apparently, some people tried the same idea but with a boeing
Ah, my very old sig. Forgot some people have sigs turned on :)
A better way of estimating is looking at people who did similar projects, and see what costs they had. Expect to be in the upper range if you're a first-timer.
(an interesting phenomenon from psychology: when you ask people to estimate the time/money they need, you get a vastly different answer than when you ask how much time/money other people in similar situations need)
Or like this one:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
He basically makes miniature houses, and then makes them as a mobile home to get around regulations.
He could make it earth-sheltered, if the structure will hold. That would put the insulation on the outside, and make sure the neighbours don't complain about 'eye-sores'. Of course, you'd replace the visual appearance completely, and I don't know if he was specifically going for the train-carriage look, but that would be one solution I'd be researching.
I work in a photo-shop, and most photo-kiosk machines don't work like that. They're simply windows-boxes with software running *on top* of it. So if windows auto-runs it, you're already too late depending on the exploit used. Of course, they could be linux-boxen, but the chain I work at really can't afford to train the minimum-wage personel how to use linux properly, as they have trouble enough using windows. Also, we use various software (one to run the passportphoto-camera for example) and some of those programs are available only on windows. We do have AV however after earlier viruses really messed up productivity, but we can't afford to have internet at every store as margins in photography have become really slim since the introduction of digital photography.
Well the example the GP mentioned, the Pirates of the Amazon Firefox plugin, is a great example of an unkillable idea. The creators only made it as a sort of prank and university-project and in fact only told a number of their friends about it when they launched it, so when Amazon 'asked' them to take it down after 2 days of internetfrenzy, they did. But google for 'pirates of the amazon', and you can still find a download link under the second hit.
You can express anything in binary. It also depends on which form of quantum computing you're going for, but most involve being able to represent more than 2 states with each 'transistor'.
In case noone else posted it yet, here's an old story.:
You laugh, but one of DEC's best field service upper level support guys carried a rubber chicken in his tool box. Once, he got called out to fix a dead 11/70 at a critical installation, where a newspaper was waiting to switch over to electronic composition, and lots of money was being lost while this system wouldn't start. This 3rd level tech got called in when the local guys couldn't fix it. It was a very important account, and high up DEC executives were waiting for his, as well as all the managers of the newspaper. This guy walked around the system for a quick visual inspection, and noticed a loose cable in the back of the thing causing the problem. He plugged it in while no one was watching...and then took out his rubber chicken, danced around the system chanting gibberish and waving the chicken, and then hit the boot button...the system started....the DEC managers wanted to fire him, then kill him, but the newspaper folks, who had a sense of hunmor and were so glad he got it going wouldn't hear of it, and insisted that this guy oversee the installation of this gear at all of their other sites...DEC Field Service guys...some of them, they were like that, back in the day...
It's like that with gameboy cartridges as well. Not with Amareto weights, mind you, but if you shifted the cartridge in too far or not far enough, the connectors apparently wouldn't connect.
Freezing is actually multi-functional. When I first read the 'freeze your harddisk'-tip, it was explained that the lower temperatures strengthened the magnetism, and thus made bits easier to read.
A big hearty F.U. from someone living in Holland, approx 3 meters below sea-level, you insensitive clod. Fatalism like yours is fatal in the long-run.
Seems this guy is right though: http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/269 /1/1/
"There is nothing patentable about Blackboard. It introduces nothing new to teaching"/
Nothing new? How about a horrible interface?
Oh wait, that isn't new.
I wouldn't vilify them for knowing how the game is played.
I'd vilify them for being willing participants in that game.
Think of the line as 1 second. Every time you make a request you go to the end of the "line." Someone with 99 shell registrars goes to the end of the "line." By the time he gets to the front of the 1 second line, their 99 other requests have also been processed.
Exactly. Think of it as a CPU with a 99 deep pipeline
GP put it wrong. The original Apple vs Apple settlement/court order (I don't remember) specifically stated that Apple computers was allowed to keep using the Apple logo, as long as, and only as long as they didn't do ANYTHING with music. And now they've become a music label by proxy; clearly Apple Corp (the Beatles' label) has 'right on their side'. The only thing I don't understand is how Apple computers could've been so stupid, and why Apple music waited so long with this case.
"(the lack of games at launch were what kept me from buying a Nintendo DS)"
I assume you meant to say PSP, since the DS came with the entire Gameboy Advance library at launch, plus 11 DS only games at launch in North America. Eleven is a slightly above average number of launchtitles for a modern day console.
"The secret is to design a 'language' to write viruses in that makes it almost impossible to write a non-runnable program."
The problem with this idea is that it most likely will fail to achieve it's intended goal: to generate unexpected new viruses that are more infectious than previous ones. The reason is that you have to define the parameters and the boundaries of the parameters. As long as someone has to define in what direction the virus can change, unexpected things are unlikely to happen.