can't remember the exact theory, something about a comet from the alien's home planet seeding life on earth, or the other way around... nothing like old Fox sci/fi shows.
I'm at a remote site, on a customer's network. If they are having that much stress and spending that much time checking email, but them on a web based client, it'll slow them down bigtime.../grumbles about OWA...
I would imagine that the e.Coli can survive surrounded by the simple hyrdocarbons, the bacteria doesn't produce gasoline, with all it's addatives and refinements.
Somebody drops the ball when a backup tape goes missing. Laptop gets stolen isn't that much of a stretch, but a server? You would think something like this would blow away any confidence people have in this company... Company I work for wipes all computers / servers that get shipped, and the image is pushed over a secure network, hard drive encryption or not, and we don't even have much in the way of confidential information.
William ("Willie" or "Will") Crowther (born 1936) is a computer programmer and caver. He is best known as the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of game design and created a new game genre, text adventures.
[edit] Biography During the early 1970s Crowther worked at defense contractor and Internet pioneer Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). Following his divorce from his wife Patricia, Crowther began using his spare time to develop a simple text-based adventure game in FORTRAN on BBN's PDP-10. He created it as a diversion his daughters Sandy and Laura could enjoy when they came to visit. (Montfort, 2003, pp. 85-87)
In Adventure, the player moves around an imaginary cave system by entering simple, two-word commands and reading text describing the result. Crowther used his extensive knowledge of cave exploration as a basis for the game play, and there are many similarities between the locations in the game and those in Mammoth Cave, particularly its Bedquilt section. (Montfort, 2003, p. 88) In 1975 Crowther released the game on the early ARPANET system, of which BBN was a prime contractor. (Montfort, 2003, p. 89)
In the Spring of 1976, he was contacted by Stanford researcher Don Woods, seeking his permission to enhance the game. Crowther agreed, and Woods developed several enhanced versions on a PDP-10 housed in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) where he worked. (Montfort, 2003, p. 89) Over the following decade the game gained in popularity, being ported to many operating systems, including personal-computer platform CP/M.
The basic game structure invented by Crowther (and based in part on the example of the ELIZA text parser) was carried forward by the designers of later adventure games. Marc Blank and the team that created the Zork adventures cite Adventure as the title that inspired them to create their game. They later founded Infocom and published a series of popular text adventures.
The location of the game in Colossal Cave was not a coincidence. Will and his first wife Pat Crowther were active and dedicated cavers in the 1960s and early 1970s--both were part of many expeditions to connect the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems. Pat played a key role in the September 9, 1972 expedition that finally made the connection. (Brucker, 1976, p. 299)
Will has also played an important role in the development of rock climbing in the Shawangunks in New York State. He began climbing there in the 1950s and continues to climb today. He made the first ascent of several classic routes including Arrow, Hawk, Moonlight, and Senté. Some of these routes sparked controversy because protection bolts were placed on rappel; a new tactic that Crowther and a several others began to use at the time. The community reaction to this technique was an important part of the evolution of climbing ethics in the Shawangunks and beyond.
Can anyone not behind a retarded proxy post any specs on why PS3 clusters, besides geek value? I'd be interested in knowing more about heat issue, what type of actual performance, etc. Game consoles are one thing I honestly never expected to see a cluster of done outside of a basement.
How is easy, could either use a crane on a heavy duty utility truck, or even a wench to get it up on a trailer if it's already on a sled, or has a relatively flat bottom. A bulldozer can way more than that, and they manage to move them with broken tracks. As far as the unnoticed part goes, I can't make any comments on the security of the place, but it wouldn't be a stretch to see something like that just put in a yard somewhere without a 24hr gaurd or camera system...
I saw the word 'databases', that count? I do think it's newsworthy though; it could be argueed that he is more responsible than anyone else for Bush not only getting elected, but also re-elected. Like him or not, that's something that effects nerds and muggles alike.
Hm. I wonder if anyone makes a phone case / carrier that's made with wire mesh or tinfoil to stop signal. That would be something I would be interested in, wouldn't use it all the time, to married to the convience of incoming calls, but I could see situations where someone wouldn't want to be tracked, or give others the ability to find them. Granted, several of the instances I am seeing are for illegal activies...
Not saying i'm for this in any way, but if the phone were provided free, and the add company paid for the phone / service via the adds, I could see older people on budgets, or broke teens not having a problem trading freedoms for services.
I'm going to trademark the periond./. will just become/
next thing you know people will have a patent on things like using a shopping cart online, which would really screw over online retailers. If a non artistically inclined four year old can make it with a box of crayons, it should be public domain...
and your eyes are probably tougher than a balloon well obviously, how could a simple piece of dense rubber compete with non-shielded organic cells... I don't think this guy even understands the concept of a sunburn...
Dr. Raymond Stantz: It can't be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?!
Dr. Raymond Stantz: It can't be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray?!
Winston Zeddemore: Oh, sh**!
Dr. Raymond Stantz: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
"Good news. The National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000 school board members, just released a report declaring fears of hammers are overblown. In fact, after surveying 1,277 students, "the researchers found exactly one student who reported they'd beat a fellow student to death without their parents' permission. (They described this as "0.08 percent of all students.") The report reminds educators that schools initially banned hammer use in shop class before they'd realized how educational it was. Now instead they're urging schools to include hammers in all shop classes!"
Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and the internet isn't dangers, not keeping track of usage by kids who don't know any better is dangerous.
If common sense was that common, everybody would have it.
When I started building PC's, i386 was still new, and in a pretty big area of texas there were maybe 100 people that could decently build a PC. I spent my time trying to learn all I could, because hardware was were the real money was.... Then plug and play came out, and any monkey can build a pc, wether they do it well or not. It's nice to see a geek getting his other involved, done this twice in the past and was a disaster both times, but I want to see the story were the geek got his other coding with him, or compiling thier own lovebird kernel, not throwing parts together.
I liked the way they portrayed the issue in Event Horizon; took me a while to be able to watch Sam Neill in any other film without getting the creeps after that one. They had the guy expel all the air in his lungs that he could, he survived outside for a few seconds, got frozen, and I want to say his eyes didn't survive the vacum, don't remember too well.
Just thought it would be cool if a flash of light arrived durring our life time from when two cores or larger suns passed each other in a no passing zone, etc.
will this start to see this happening during our lifetime, or has it already? And I'm refering to us being able to see it, not when it actually happens.
And the truck analogy brings so many bad puns to mind, honking to pass, galactic traffic cops, etc...
I don't know why, but when I saw
The amount of spam that "spam king" Robert Alan Soloway, indicted under the CAN-SPAM Act, is accused of sending over a period of four years is now pumped out about every 30 seconds, around the clock, around the world. I heard Michael Gross in my mind...
"the possibilities for disaster boggles the mind" .
Local college is seeing the number of female MIS graduates steadily grow, can't say anything about CS. Course that doesn't mean they actually use the degrees for IT work either... I just feel sorry for any woman that is stuck in a stereo-typical IT shop. Lots of the guys I've worked with weren't exactly graced with social skills...
While I am sure the numbers they have are much more accurate than how many millions I cost the music industry by downloading one song, I am curious as to the accuracy of the report, and what all is quantified. Majority of my salary (helpdesk) can be comprised of fixing the types of crap mentioned... never thought I'd have malware and viruses to thank for job security...
RIAA figures, Consumer Reports figures, all calculated in Taiwan.
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can't remember the exact theory, something about a comet from the alien's home planet seeding life on earth, or the other way around... nothing like old Fox sci/fi shows.
How long before the savy ones start hiding? On another note I could also see this as a tool companies use to find wiki whistleblowers.
I'm at a remote site, on a customer's network. If they are having that much stress and spending that much time checking email, but them on a web based client, it'll slow them down bigtime.../grumbles about OWA...
I would imagine that the e.Coli can survive surrounded by the simple hyrdocarbons, the bacteria doesn't produce gasoline, with all it's addatives and refinements.
Somebody drops the ball when a backup tape goes missing. Laptop gets stolen isn't that much of a stretch, but a server? You would think something like this would blow away any confidence people have in this company... Company I work for wipes all computers / servers that get shipped, and the image is pushed over a secure network, hard drive encryption or not, and we don't even have much in the way of confidential information.
Had to go to wiki for this one...
William ("Willie" or "Will") Crowther (born 1936) is a computer programmer and caver. He is best known as the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of game design and created a new game genre, text adventures.
[edit] Biography
During the early 1970s Crowther worked at defense contractor and Internet pioneer Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). Following his divorce from his wife Patricia, Crowther began using his spare time to develop a simple text-based adventure game in FORTRAN on BBN's PDP-10. He created it as a diversion his daughters Sandy and Laura could enjoy when they came to visit. (Montfort, 2003, pp. 85-87)
In Adventure, the player moves around an imaginary cave system by entering simple, two-word commands and reading text describing the result. Crowther used his extensive knowledge of cave exploration as a basis for the game play, and there are many similarities between the locations in the game and those in Mammoth Cave, particularly its Bedquilt section. (Montfort, 2003, p. 88) In 1975 Crowther released the game on the early ARPANET system, of which BBN was a prime contractor. (Montfort, 2003, p. 89)
In the Spring of 1976, he was contacted by Stanford researcher Don Woods, seeking his permission to enhance the game. Crowther agreed, and Woods developed several enhanced versions on a PDP-10 housed in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) where he worked. (Montfort, 2003, p. 89) Over the following decade the game gained in popularity, being ported to many operating systems, including personal-computer platform CP/M.
The basic game structure invented by Crowther (and based in part on the example of the ELIZA text parser) was carried forward by the designers of later adventure games. Marc Blank and the team that created the Zork adventures cite Adventure as the title that inspired them to create their game. They later founded Infocom and published a series of popular text adventures.
The location of the game in Colossal Cave was not a coincidence. Will and his first wife Pat Crowther were active and dedicated cavers in the 1960s and early 1970s--both were part of many expeditions to connect the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems. Pat played a key role in the September 9, 1972 expedition that finally made the connection. (Brucker, 1976, p. 299)
Will has also played an important role in the development of rock climbing in the Shawangunks in New York State. He began climbing there in the 1950s and continues to climb today. He made the first ascent of several classic routes including Arrow, Hawk, Moonlight, and Senté. Some of these routes sparked controversy because protection bolts were placed on rappel; a new tactic that Crowther and a several others began to use at the time. The community reaction to this technique was an important part of the evolution of climbing ethics in the Shawangunks and beyond.
Can anyone not behind a retarded proxy post any specs on why PS3 clusters, besides geek value? I'd be interested in knowing more about heat issue, what type of actual performance, etc. Game consoles are one thing I honestly never expected to see a cluster of done outside of a basement.
hm. I guess that having a 10 ton wench on your truck would be a pretty scarry thing...
How is easy, could either use a crane on a heavy duty utility truck, or even a wench to get it up on a trailer if it's already on a sled, or has a relatively flat bottom. A bulldozer can way more than that, and they manage to move them with broken tracks. As far as the unnoticed part goes, I can't make any comments on the security of the place, but it wouldn't be a stretch to see something like that just put in a yard somewhere without a 24hr gaurd or camera system...
I saw the word 'databases', that count? I do think it's newsworthy though; it could be argueed that he is more responsible than anyone else for Bush not only getting elected, but also re-elected. Like him or not, that's something that effects nerds and muggles alike.
Hm. I wonder if anyone makes a phone case / carrier that's made with wire mesh or tinfoil to stop signal. That would be something I would be interested in, wouldn't use it all the time, to married to the convience of incoming calls, but I could see situations where someone wouldn't want to be tracked, or give others the ability to find them. Granted, several of the instances I am seeing are for illegal activies...
Not saying i'm for this in any way, but if the phone were provided free, and the add company paid for the phone / service via the adds, I could see older people on budgets, or broke teens not having a problem trading freedoms for services.
I'm going to trademark the periond. /. will just become /
next thing you know people will have a patent on things like using a shopping cart online, which would really screw over online retailers. If a non artistically inclined four year old can make it with a box of crayons, it should be public domain...
Dr. Raymond Stantz: It can't be! Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?! Dr. Raymond Stantz: It can't be! Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray?! Winston Zeddemore: Oh, sh**! Dr. Raymond Stantz: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
I'd rather deal with airport security than install programs on my girlfriend's vista laptop...
"Good news. The National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000 school board members, just released a report declaring fears of hammers are overblown. In fact, after surveying 1,277 students, "the researchers found exactly one student who reported they'd beat a fellow student to death without their parents' permission. (They described this as "0.08 percent of all students.") The report reminds educators that schools initially banned hammer use in shop class before they'd realized how educational it was. Now instead they're urging schools to include hammers in all shop classes!"
Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and the internet isn't dangers, not keeping track of usage by kids who don't know any better is dangerous.
If common sense was that common, everybody would have it.
When I started building PC's, i386 was still new, and in a pretty big area of texas there were maybe 100 people that could decently build a PC. I spent my time trying to learn all I could, because hardware was were the real money was.... Then plug and play came out, and any monkey can build a pc, wether they do it well or not. It's nice to see a geek getting his other involved, done this twice in the past and was a disaster both times, but I want to see the story were the geek got his other coding with him, or compiling thier own lovebird kernel, not throwing parts together.
I liked the way they portrayed the issue in Event Horizon; took me a while to be able to watch Sam Neill in any other film without getting the creeps after that one. They had the guy expel all the air in his lungs that he could, he survived outside for a few seconds, got frozen, and I want to say his eyes didn't survive the vacum, don't remember too well.
Just thought it would be cool if a flash of light arrived durring our life time from when two cores or larger suns passed each other in a no passing zone, etc.
will this start to see this happening during our lifetime, or has it already? And I'm refering to us being able to see it, not when it actually happens.
And the truck analogy brings so many bad puns to mind, honking to pass, galactic traffic cops, etc...
Local college is seeing the number of female MIS graduates steadily grow, can't say anything about CS. Course that doesn't mean they actually use the degrees for IT work either... I just feel sorry for any woman that is stuck in a stereo-typical IT shop. Lots of the guys I've worked with weren't exactly graced with social skills...
While I am sure the numbers they have are much more accurate than how many millions I cost the music industry by downloading one song, I am curious as to the accuracy of the report, and what all is quantified. Majority of my salary (helpdesk) can be comprised of fixing the types of crap mentioned... never thought I'd have malware and viruses to thank for job security...
RIAA figures, Consumer Reports figures, all calculated in Taiwan.