No, Burning Man is definately *not* non-profit, nor do they have open books. They say they are like a non-profit, but in reality this is pretty much a figment of their imagination. Frankly, I agree with the parent, they do act like Disney, they maintain a shroud of secrecy and they charge a ridiculous entrance fee ($150+/person, IIRC).
As populations grow, they are going to move into more and more dangerous areas. Given the relative shortness of the human lifespan, any major environmental disaster that occurs with periodicity of more than 30-40 years is going to have humans living in its path. (because humans tend to forget things through generations) Unfortunately since these events are so rare, it is hard to prepare for them. That said, people seem to focus on these things right after a disaster. Remember the New Orleans disaster is one of the largest distructive forces to hit the continental US, regardless of population.
The story has a bad example because Super Mario Brothers is one of the greatest games ever. It's like saying, "I just watched Star Wars again and that movie still gives me the chills, science fiction movies of today aren't as entertaining." I'm willing to bet that if you were to say "an average game from 15 years ago is harder than average game today" I don't think that is true. I can think of some really challenging games that are out now, super monkey ball 2 for the cube is tough, beating the developer ghosts on mario kart dd is hard, etc.
Wow this could be cool. Google could offer high bandwidth, secure content unlike anyone else (although at this point this is speculation). Not only could they be an incredible application service provider they could provide nearly endless bandwidth. google is certainly seems to be doing the right things.
Last week (i believe) Google announced selling more than $4 *billion* in stock. From the company: "We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital and capital expenditures"
General corporate purposes? Yeah right. Google is likely up to something big. And it isn't going to end with maps and im (my personal guess is an os). If goog hasn't peaked, they certainly are going to make a lot of noise falling.
I'm not surprised that they are doing this. If you think about it, 500 million sales == $500 million (this is total sales). As far as I know, that is pretty much small potatoes in this industry. To put this in perspective, Apple had $3.5 billion in revenue for the 2nd quarter of 2005 alone. By rough estimate probably less than $100 million of that is from iTunes. They are going to find ways to bring that number higher. The smart way to do this is to fit a market pricing model, price each piece of music to maximize revenue. If you like B. Spears or whatever (I don't) you will pay more for your music.
Lots of cool marker based diagnostic methods are possible. These methods basically take a non invasive assay and use it to predict whether you have a specific disease/phenotype. Microarrays, proteomics, and analysis of bodily fluids (urine, blood, saliva, etc) all have potential to create noninvasive diagnostics.
Python is a great language, but my worry is about security. I would think that given the previously mentioned cool features, this app would have more security worries than your average all-in-the-same-process cgi extenders.
What a crappy summary, it doesn't even mention what operating system this effects (or how to patch for that matter). "Important facts" from the article:
- Patch MS05-039 will protect you - Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 can not be exploited by this worm, as the worm does not use a valid logon. - Blocking port 445 will protect you (but watch for internal infected systems) - The FTP server does not run on port 21. It appears to pick a random high port.
I'm surprised that computer mods/case mods aren't more popular. They hit the/. community regularly, but I'm surprised we don't see them on TV or on other websites more often.
It is funny how the rules for print on the web seem different than the rules for print on paper, even though there is no legal difference between them (IANAL). Hopefully, people will figure out these copyright issues and Google be able to finish doing what is good for consumers.
I'm very interested to see performance numbers. I am a mac and linux person, and I think it is pretty much accepted that tools aren't quite as snappy on Mac OS X as on pc's. I'm interested to see if that is true on an apples to apples comparison. (That said, there is more to life than being snappy)
These 300GB drives should be very nice for SATA large volume hw raid arrays. A 12 way 3ware card gives a 3.6 TB array, not bad for $5g. (We have several large arrays that are used for storing data. Not good for web or file serving but great to store data that is used routinely.)
I guess I'm not surprised though. Things are getting really competitive for MS right now, with Apple, Google, Yahoo, Linux, etc. If things start really going south for this company, however, expect to see all of those dumb MS patents get pushed upon other companies.
Not surprised that Austrialia backdown from the Google security claims. It sounded a lot to me like they were using that stance for political reasons, given the PR nature of the release (instead of a quiet request to google).
I once did an NSF funded REU internship and it was one of the greater experiences of my life. I met people I'm still friends with, I became a researcher in the area and I still do some of the things I learned then. I highly recommend them, they also are great for the resume when finding a job, when I hire now, internships make a difference. Obviously at the undergraduate level is an excellent time to do this, although many CS/engineering grad students do this successfully. Bio grad students not so much.
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Hmm, what if Hurricane alpha is a major hurricane and then alpha is retired, is this just a finite set of extra names?
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I stand corrected, I didn't realize they published those numbers.
Yes, Burning Man is a (non-profit) corporation.
No, Burning Man is definately *not* non-profit, nor do they have open books. They say they are like a non-profit, but in reality this is pretty much a figment of their imagination. Frankly, I agree with the parent, they do act like Disney, they maintain a shroud of secrecy and they charge a ridiculous entrance fee ($150+/person, IIRC).
The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
Gambling is similar, particularly with all those bots running around.
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As populations grow, they are going to move into more and more dangerous areas. Given the relative shortness of the human lifespan, any major environmental disaster that occurs with periodicity of more than 30-40 years is going to have humans living in its path. (because humans tend to forget things through generations) Unfortunately since these events are so rare, it is hard to prepare for them. That said, people seem to focus on these things right after a disaster. Remember the New Orleans disaster is one of the largest distructive forces to hit the continental US, regardless of population.
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Please tell me you are kidding.
The story has a bad example because Super Mario Brothers is one of the greatest games ever. It's like saying, "I just watched Star Wars again and that movie still gives me the chills, science fiction movies of today aren't as entertaining." I'm willing to bet that if you were to say "an average game from 15 years ago is harder than average game today" I don't think that is true. I can think of some really challenging games that are out now, super monkey ball 2 for the cube is tough, beating the developer ghosts on mario kart dd is hard, etc.
Wow this could be cool. Google could offer high bandwidth, secure content unlike anyone else (although at this point this is speculation). Not only could they be an incredible application service provider they could provide nearly endless bandwidth. google is certainly seems to be doing the right things.
oops I meant to say if "google has peaked, ..."
Last week (i believe) Google announced selling more than $4 *billion* in stock. From the company: "We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital and capital expenditures"
General corporate purposes? Yeah right. Google is likely up to something big. And it isn't going to end with maps and im (my personal guess is an os). If goog hasn't peaked, they certainly are going to make a lot of noise falling.
I'm not surprised that they are doing this. If you think about it, 500 million sales == $500 million (this is total sales). As far as I know, that is pretty much small potatoes in this industry. To put this in perspective, Apple had $3.5 billion in revenue for the 2nd quarter of 2005 alone. By rough estimate probably less than $100 million of that is from iTunes. They are going to find ways to bring that number higher. The smart way to do this is to fit a market pricing model, price each piece of music to maximize revenue. If you like B. Spears or whatever (I don't) you will pay more for your music.
Lots of cool marker based diagnostic methods are possible. These methods basically take a non invasive assay and use it to predict whether you have a specific disease/phenotype. Microarrays, proteomics, and analysis of bodily fluids (urine, blood, saliva, etc) all have potential to create noninvasive diagnostics.
Python is a great language, but my worry is about security. I would think that given the previously mentioned cool features, this app would have more security worries than your average all-in-the-same-process cgi extenders.
What a crappy summary, it doesn't even mention what operating system this effects (or how to patch for that matter). "Important facts" from the article:
- Patch MS05-039 will protect you
- Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 can not be exploited by this worm, as the worm does not use a valid logon.
- Blocking port 445 will protect you (but watch for internal infected systems)
- The FTP server does not run on port 21. It appears to pick a random high port.
This guy should build mod kits for cars to increase oil usage. Even with the expense, *someone* would by them and with volume would come reduced cost.
I'm surprised that computer mods/case mods aren't more popular. They hit the /. community regularly, but I'm surprised we don't see them on TV or on other websites more often.
I bet it smoked while it was running. tweak 3d has some (outdated) stuff on overclocking the P4.
It is funny how the rules for print on the web seem different than the rules for print on paper, even though there is no legal difference between them (IANAL). Hopefully, people will figure out these copyright issues and Google be able to finish doing what is good for consumers.
I'm very interested to see performance numbers. I am a mac and linux person, and I think it is pretty much accepted that tools aren't quite as snappy on Mac OS X as on pc's. I'm interested to see if that is true on an apples to apples comparison. (That said, there is more to life than being snappy)
These 300GB drives should be very nice for SATA large volume hw raid arrays. A 12 way 3ware card gives a 3.6 TB array, not bad for $5g. (We have several large arrays that are used for storing data. Not good for web or file serving but great to store data that is used routinely.)
I guess I'm not surprised though. Things are getting really competitive for MS right now, with Apple, Google, Yahoo, Linux, etc. If things start really going south for this company, however, expect to see all of those dumb MS patents get pushed upon other companies.
Not surprised that Austrialia backdown from the Google security claims. It sounded a lot to me like they were using that stance for political reasons, given the PR nature of the release (instead of a quiet request to google).
I once did an NSF funded REU internship and it was one of the greater experiences of my life. I met people I'm still friends with, I became a researcher in the area and I still do some of the things I learned then. I highly recommend them, they also are great for the resume when finding a job, when I hire now, internships make a difference. Obviously at the undergraduate level is an excellent time to do this, although many CS/engineering grad students do this successfully. Bio grad students not so much.
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IIRC, traditionally computer approaches to solving Go have used a 10x10 board. Maybe that is what the poster was thinking about.