I grew up in NE Indiana. It flooded 1 time in 20 years (1963-1983). And most of the people did not need any kind of 4wd during that flood.
I now live in Minnesota. I get around just fine in my mini-van....which hauls stuff for the office, kids, parents, etc... and 99% of the time, it's fine in the winter. What about that other 1%? Can you say SNOW DAY!!!!! If you're not a physician on-call, stay home when it snows more than 12" overnight. Make a fire. Roast marshmallows with the kids (they're not going to school and you don't have any other daycare options).
If you are competing with Microsoft, you better hope they always keep someone between developers and users. That'll make it easier for you to beat them. All you have to do is put your developers together with users and you'll have a competitive advantage.
This is a patent on a dumb way to develop software. Nothing to see here, move along.
Hack the game progam, not the chip. Remove or bypass the code that checks with the TPM chip. This is not a new idea. It's been done for a very long time. The technique and counters are well understood.
and other anthologies are good sources of new authors for me. I buy one book...Year's Best SF10. I get to read a bunch of unusually good short stories and the authors often have larger bodies of work available.
I recently discovered Alistair Reynolds very good work this way. Buy on Amazon if you don't have a good library. In my experience Barnes & Noble and Borders usually stock their SF and F sections with mostly dreck.
It's brilliant. The lawyer in GTA IV is modeled on Jack Thompson. In the game, the protagonist kills the Jack Thompson surrogate and receives an award.
Either Jack Thompson is correct and GTA IV teaches the players to model their behavior on the game...in which case, Jack is going to be shot by GTA IV players. Or Jack is wrong and gets to live.
Be right and you die, be wrong and you live. What's it gonna be Jack?
The clay tablet with a sharp reed replaced the stone chisel rapidly from about 4300 BC. It was the dominant classroom note-taking technology until ink and paper came into fashion around 2500 BC.
You see, I was in elementary school when clay plus reed replaced the stone plus chisel. With stone and chisel, the noise and dust were horrible distractions. The clay was silent and dust free. A huge improvement. Oh, and the clay (and stone) have MTBF's in the trillions of hours as long as you don't leave them exposed to the elements or shatter them in anger upon descending the mount and finding your followers worshipping a big-ass golden farm animal.
What do you want to do when you're done with your undergrad years?
Go work for a company? Small? Big? What kind of business? Look at the companies you want to work for and see who they hire.
Start your own business? Why bother with college at all then?
Go into research/academia? What grad program do you want to get into? What kind of schools are their students attending?
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incompetent boobs.
The bullying thing is a small problem compared to the idiocy. I left my last job 10 years ago to run my own company(ies) after I realized my boss, the owner of the company, was not going to let the company succeed if it meant doing things better than he could do them himself. Classic case of founder throttling the business. If there's going to be an idiot in charge, it might as well be me.
Before that I worked for a company where the most senior VP would scream obscenities at managers in meetings if things weren't working out the way he wanted them. He wouldn't scream at anyone approximately his size or larger who would look him squarely in the eye and adopt a physical posture that telegraphed a readiness to punch him in the gut if he tried that crap.
If you promote people into IT management because... they stick around for a long time AND talented people do not stick around for a long time....
Well incompetent IT management is to be expected.
The solution is to have different color schemes on the employee ID badges. The color of your badge reflects your percentile ranking in your most recent performance appraisal and your salary. People will strive to "make level" to get the gold badge instead of the brown badge. A dozen or so designs should do the trick.
And never forget that the contract employees always get the yellow badge. That way, the full-time employees, who happen to do the same job for 1/2 the money, will feel good about not having to wear that Yellow badge.
You live on the planet earth, right? Where is your vibrant and free society? The USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany? Hah. Try smoking a joint on a public street and see how long you remain vibrant and free. Or, if smoking dope isn't your thing, try, as a female, taking your shirt off in public (not at the beach). And see how long you remain vibrant and free. Minutes. Maybe an hour at best. Then, you're on your way to the hoosegow.
Go to a McDonald's at lunch time and look for your vibrant and free society. It's freakin' mythology. That's what it is. You're free to do exactly what the majority want you to do and the minute you step out of line, you're going to get taken down a peg and placed in jeopardy of physical abuse until you straighten up and fly right.
I've been using them for domain hosting and e-mail hosting. Their e-mail service is letting a ton of spam through and rejecting at least 4 of my customers for reasons that are, at best, dubious. I have had those customers send to me at gmail and they have not had trouble.
Did you ever notice, that there are no fat humans in the Star Trek future? Where did the obese 1/3rd of humanity go? Did they use transporters to beam the fat out?
I agree that normal browsing and P2P are going to look obviously different so hiding P2P within HTTP is not going to be too difficult to detect. However, P2P could look a lot like an FTP download. How's traffic analysis going to be able to tell the difference between a P2P movie download that looks like FTP from real and legit FTP?
Slashdot Mirror
Ya maroon.
I grew up in NE Indiana. It flooded 1 time in 20 years (1963-1983). And most of the people did not need any kind of 4wd during that flood.
I now live in Minnesota. I get around just fine in my mini-van....which hauls stuff for the office, kids, parents, etc... and 99% of the time, it's fine in the winter. What about that other 1%? Can you say SNOW DAY!!!!! If you're not a physician on-call, stay home when it snows more than 12" overnight. Make a fire. Roast marshmallows with the kids (they're not going to school and you don't have any other daycare options).
If you are competing with Microsoft, you better hope they always keep someone between developers and users. That'll make it easier for you to beat them. All you have to do is put your developers together with users and you'll have a competitive advantage.
This is a patent on a dumb way to develop software. Nothing to see here, move along.
From the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. And in the form of scrap metal sent over in containers that brought shoes on their trip east.
>> First off, they should have considered that before they sold it to us, not my problem they can't provide what they said they would.
Actually, it is your problem if you bought it and they can't provide it.
from 1995. It was lame when it was made and it's lamer today.
art (a TV series) imitating art (an MMO) imitating art (MMO's imitate SF or Fantasy literature) imitating whatever it is SF imitates.
...with a couple of deep dish pizza's.
Man, that pepperoni and cheese with onion was some great augmentation.
How will you augment your reality today?
P.S. Web Mashups are soooooo 2 years ago.
Hack the game progam, not the chip. Remove or bypass the code that checks with the TPM chip. This is not a new idea. It's been done for a very long time. The technique and counters are well understood.
I suppose it's not great, but it beats prison time in the USA.
and other anthologies are good sources of new authors for me. I buy one book...Year's Best SF10. I get to read a bunch of unusually good short stories and the authors often have larger bodies of work available.
I recently discovered Alistair Reynolds very good work this way. Buy on Amazon if you don't have a good library. In my experience Barnes & Noble and Borders usually stock their SF and F sections with mostly dreck.
program .NET. He probably doesn't know how to program OS/X any better, but he feels better. And, for Mac fanboys, it's all about the feelings.
It's brilliant. The lawyer in GTA IV is modeled on Jack Thompson. In the game, the protagonist kills the Jack Thompson surrogate and receives an award.
Either Jack Thompson is correct and GTA IV teaches the players to model their behavior on the game...in which case, Jack is going to be shot by GTA IV players. Or Jack is wrong and gets to live.
Be right and you die, be wrong and you live. What's it gonna be Jack?
a 16 year old girl...
They already send photos of their vaginas, why not smell too?
You can have FTL travel. What I really want is to travel faster than death.
is designed to keep Americans fenced in? It's not to keep the Mexicans fenced out? Perhaps it is the exception that proves the rule.
The clay tablet with a sharp reed replaced the stone chisel rapidly from about 4300 BC. It was the dominant classroom note-taking technology until ink and paper came into fashion around 2500 BC.
You see, I was in elementary school when clay plus reed replaced the stone plus chisel. With stone and chisel, the noise and dust were horrible distractions. The clay was silent and dust free. A huge improvement. Oh, and the clay (and stone) have MTBF's in the trillions of hours as long as you don't leave them exposed to the elements or shatter them in anger upon descending the mount and finding your followers worshipping a big-ass golden farm animal.
We can buzz around the moon in Ethanol-powered moon buggies!
What do you want to do when you're done with your undergrad years?
Go work for a company? Small? Big? What kind of business? Look at the companies you want to work for and see who they hire.
Start your own business? Why bother with college at all then?
Go into research/academia? What grad program do you want to get into? What kind of schools are their students attending?
incompetent boobs.
The bullying thing is a small problem compared to the idiocy. I left my last job 10 years ago to run my own company(ies) after I realized my boss, the owner of the company, was not going to let the company succeed if it meant doing things better than he could do them himself. Classic case of founder throttling the business. If there's going to be an idiot in charge, it might as well be me.
Before that I worked for a company where the most senior VP would scream obscenities at managers in meetings if things weren't working out the way he wanted them. He wouldn't scream at anyone approximately his size or larger who would look him squarely in the eye and adopt a physical posture that telegraphed a readiness to punch him in the gut if he tried that crap.
If you promote people into IT management because ... they stick around for a long time AND talented people do not stick around for a long time....
Well incompetent IT management is to be expected.
The solution is to have different color schemes on the employee ID badges. The color of your badge reflects your percentile ranking in your most recent performance appraisal and your salary. People will strive to "make level" to get the gold badge instead of the brown badge. A dozen or so designs should do the trick.
And never forget that the contract employees always get the yellow badge. That way, the full-time employees, who happen to do the same job for 1/2 the money, will feel good about not having to wear that Yellow badge.
You live on the planet earth, right? Where is your vibrant and free society? The USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany? Hah. Try smoking a joint on a public street and see how long you remain vibrant and free. Or, if smoking dope isn't your thing, try, as a female, taking your shirt off in public (not at the beach). And see how long you remain vibrant and free. Minutes. Maybe an hour at best. Then, you're on your way to the hoosegow.
Go to a McDonald's at lunch time and look for your vibrant and free society. It's freakin' mythology. That's what it is. You're free to do exactly what the majority want you to do and the minute you step out of line, you're going to get taken down a peg and placed in jeopardy of physical abuse until you straighten up and fly right.
I saw this in practice in 1997. I don't know how old it was at the time.
I've been using them for domain hosting and e-mail hosting. Their e-mail service is letting a ton of spam through and rejecting at least 4 of my customers for reasons that are, at best, dubious. I have had those customers send to me at gmail and they have not had trouble.
I'm moving off godaddy.
Did you ever notice, that there are no fat humans in the Star Trek future? Where did the obese 1/3rd of humanity go? Did they use transporters to beam the fat out?
I agree that normal browsing and P2P are going to look obviously different so hiding P2P within HTTP is not going to be too difficult to detect. However, P2P could look a lot like an FTP download. How's traffic analysis going to be able to tell the difference between a P2P movie download that looks like FTP from real and legit FTP?