Yeah right, you're trying to tell me that former Green Bay Packer Michael Anthony Hunt signed up for this? Mike Hunt received a total of two interceptions while playing only twenty two games. Mike Hunt knows how to play the field. It's ridiculous to think that we would waste Mike Hunt, a national treasure that has been enjoyed by millions of burly men, by putting Mike Hunt on a Mars suicide mission!
What's a Bing? Sorry, I'm just too lazy to Google it.
Oh, that's easy! I saw this hip new original television show called Hawaii Five-0 where the characters say "Bing it!" and the dialog flows so naturally in this scene you just have to see it. And when she looks up Clifton Bowles, she just has to push in "C" and then "L" and Clifton Bowles autocompletes because, let's face it, everyone's searching for Clifton Bowles and "CL" is more than enough to complete that search!
Oh yeah, as a viewer that product placement was natural and unforced and subconsciously I find myself saying "Bing it!" more and more in everyday conversations. I've also found myself buying a lot of Bing Crosby CDs, planning my trip to Bing, Iran and drinking a lot of British Bing Cola...
Perfect time to show them what Google really does for them: any page that includes the name of the studio, or any of the movies that the studio has ever made will no longer appear in search results. See how long it takes them to realise their folly.
And then people use Bing because they can't get to RottenTomatoes or IMDB through Google? And everyone says "Google is broken" and they show just how flippant they are when it comes to searching?
No, it's not. It's not even close to that. It's a plastic lower receiver with the rest of the gun being not plastic.
As someone who's taken gun safety, I'm shocked he put himself at risk to test this. Making a shooting bench is fairly trivial. Automating a trigger pulling mechanism is a little more difficult but would require very basic knowledge. I'm surprised someone with access to a 3D printer would be stupid enough to pull a plastic lower receiver up to his face, put his hand on it and pull the trigger until it failed. In gun safety they show you what even an obstructed barrel can result in when firing a gun. That action mechanism would basically become shrapnel for your right hand, left forearm and face.
If these guys want to be taken seriously, they probably should 3D print something that will prevent them from winning a Darwin award.
If 1000 people each spend 5 minutes reading TFS, skimming the comments, and trolling a little here and there, that's 3.17 days *demanded* PER article! A dozen articles a day, and that's like a zillion DAYS A DAY!
That's nothing! Have you seen any of my bookreviews? Between Bennett Haselton and myself we're destroying English speaking civilization one inane wall of text at a time. Muahahahaha!
Okay, you're talking about arbitrage betting and they're seriously hard to find online -- the sites that provide betting are almost in lock step and I've looked into writing ruby code that scrapes this and computes when there's an arbitrage. No luck.
The second major confusion is that you think that a capped market would be forced to make a bet available:
Suppose CappedEx, a futures exchange that limits each user to betting $500, is publishing 4:1 odds of an Obama victory. If you bet $40 that Obama will win and he wins, you get paid $10 (from other users on the exchange), but if he loses, you pay out $40. Meanwhile FreedomEx, an exchange that has no betting limit for any user, is publishing 6:1 odds for Obama winning. Bet $60 on Obama, and you get $10 if he wins, but pay $60 if he loses. On both markets, of course you can bet in the other direction as well.
The answer to this is simple: CappedEx would not offer the bet that creates an arbitrage against FreedomEx.
Let me explain this to you in sports. If the Yankees (a good baseball team) were playing the Houston Astros (one of the worst baseball teams and yes, I know thye're not in the same division) there would be two types of bets for each team. The money line and the spread. The money line bet is is simply that they beat the other team. The spread bet has different odds and usually requires one team beat another team by X points. The spread bet often pays close to 2:1 because the people who calculate those odds that then fluctuate are saying it's 50/50 where it comes down on that line. Then they lower it a bit for their cut. Often times, the bet for the Yankees to beat the Astros just won't be offered. Let's say that if you bet the money line on the Yankees you get $1 for every $100 you bet. Not a great payout but you have to worry about a millionaire showing up and putting a million down and fleecing you for $1,000. As a result there is no way to bet the money line on "for sure" games. Of course if you want to bet money line on the Astros, they'll gladly take your money at, say, 20 to 1 odds. I've been in Vegas during march to watch my alma mater get bounced, I know they'll smile as they take your money on those longshot bets. But they won't let the converse bet happen. There simply is no long tail that they continually push out.
Likewise if you were a capped exchange and you felt like you were getting fleeced, you would simply stop offering that prediction. Sometimes bets and prediction aren't offered just because there's too much randomness that can't be seen yet. Is there something forcing these prediction exchanges to post all possible outcomes?
According to Wikipedia, Natalia Kaspersky, former CEO and co-majority shareholder of Kaspersky Lab released a statement supporting Russia's interest in a countrywide firewall similar to the Great Firewall of China. The definition of 'malware' I most prefer is "Software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems." I see implementations like countrywide firewalls to be little more than disabling computers and computer systems by limiting their ability to connect to other computers. Would you care to comment on why government malware is okay or even desired? Would you care to refute Natalia's position that appears in Kaspersky Lab's Wikipedia article?
Recently you confirmed you're working on an exploit-free OS following all the SCADA attacks. Among other things, you're claiming it is to be written from scratch but I can't find many details on what it's going to look like architecturally. You say:
Architecturally, the operating system is constructed in such a way that even a break-in into any of the components or applications loaded onto it won’t allow an intruder to gain control over it or to run malicious code.
Could you expound on this? Are you writing this code or still in the design phase? Or better yet, could you compare it to something like, say, CentOS or Debian and tell us how your architecture is going to be more secure? I understand you're scoping down the requirements of your OS to be more easily manageable but the skeptic in me feels like it just can't be done. The cat and mouse game must be played in some form or fashion.
I feel like when someone is as deep in malware protection as you are, you're basically running malware and, I assume, developing malware or finding exploitable aspects of software. I notice you "discover" a lot of malware but I don't recall seeing you publish any exploits. How much malware development do you do? Any at all? Is there anyone in your company that attempts to mimic what other malware does so you can better understand it? Do you feel like that is a necessity in the field of malware protection?
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The big-name schools do provide a few benefits:
1. They have more financial aid money available, so there's a decent chance that if you get into, say, Yale, you won't pay even close to the full price. They may even have special programs specifically to help people like you if you're from a historically disadvantaged background (e.g. a scholarship fund set up 50 years ago dedicated to educating people called at the time "Negros").
2. The future movers and shakers are your classmates. If you want friends in high places for cozy patronage jobs, that will help.
3. Everyone around you will think you're brilliant with no other proof whatsoever. For example, my sister went to an Ivy League school, and many of her classmates were hired right out of school to work in "consulting", which is basically a job of traveling around the US giving Powerpoint presentations on topics they knew little to nothing about. They got the jobs specifically due to their Ivy League education.
So basically your defense of these overly expensive schools is nepotism, dumbshits at the top of the pyramid and other horrors of what is wrong with America? Got it. Also I find it amusing that "you need money to make money" also applies to college... "you need money to be unquestionably paid lots of money." This should be closer to a meritocracy not a country of "daddy has contacts."
Also, to invalidate your first point, the article starts with the premise that everyone is coming away $200,000 in debt unless you drop out or skip college so, no, apparently not everyone gets Yale at reduced price. And if $200,000 is the "reduced" price, you should asked to be kissed first.
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Students who want to avoid $200,000 in student-loan debt
Yeah, I don't know how this happens. I mean, I know how it happens... you go to a school on the East Coast so you have the name on your resume. I went to the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities for four years and came out with $20,000 in loans (worked three jobs in college). A coworker's cousin just graduated from George Washington in DC and came out with $250,000 in loans. Tuition rates at the University of Minnesota versus tuition rates at GWU (note that those are per credit hour! and they don't give you every credit over 13 free like they do at the U of MN).
Frankly, I think this article should be titled, "skip the overly expensive college because you'll get a more than adequate education somewhere else." Okay so I have to prove myself in an interview over someone from GWU. Challenge accepted.
And if everyone drops out of college to start their own thing, who are you going to be hiring when your startup needs to transition to a medium to large company? Other dropouts whose ideas were crap. Are you sure you want to advocate this to be a more widespread phenomenon?
Early, off-the-record comments from game developers indicated that the Nintendo's Wii U console horsepower was on par with, or a bit behind the Xbox 360 and PS3, which raised questions about just how 'next-generation' the Wii U would be.
The other possibility is that the consoles experience diminishing returns past the horsepower the modern systems are at for most of the game developer's needs. After enjoying the Wii, the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3, I'm more concerned about the media type they select for the discs as swapping three DVDs to play one game on the XBox 360 is unacceptable when it fits on one PS3 disc. For the love of Zelda, I suspect that popping an SSD into an XBox 360 and running everything from that and forgetting the optical drive would make everything faster (and, yes, I know you then would only be able to do that with downloaded games linked to your profile and not the installed discs that require a disc in the drive to run).
Nintendo may have propped up a relatively weak CPU with considerably more GPU horsepower.
Like the reader comment on that Ars Technica article notes, raw CPU speed hasn't always equaled winning in the console department.
And, frankly, I'm a little disappointed that Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft haven't done a little innovating and created their own technology like SLI/Crossfire to connect several cheap GPUs for their heavy graphics lifting on their machines. I mean their CPU/GPU pairs make it look like we should really start addressing these things with a different name just like RAM started being called cache when it was fast and nestled up against or integrated with the CPU. I guess I'm not really a hardware guy but I feel like we've actually moved toward less inventive ideas for consoles. While that's been good for some aspects (I was able to flash the security sector of a HDD and install it myself on my XBox 360 to add storage) it seems like the architecture has gotten lazy and inbred to just do whatever desktops are doing.
Ebay has things for 20-25$
Did you look at these options before deciding to building your own?
If you're telling me that works and that's the best I can do, then okay, you've got it figured out and I just don't understand antennas at all.
Like I said, I googled and looked for costs. The models that I see on your link that are $30 are 7.72” in length and look like the same things that come with any wireless router. I assume the Verizon Jetpack already has an antenna of this quality. What I was hoping for by asking Slashdot was that someone would belittle me and tell me how to build something more like this but without the $120 price tag since it's probably just a bunch of metal configured a certain way connected to a balun connected to the device. I know where the cell tower is from my parent's house, I just don't know how to construct something that will function better than the little device they have.
Also, I was kind of hoping that there were really cool designs people knew of that consisted more than just "a big stick of metal you point at the tower." However, like I admitted in the submission, I don't know jack shit about antennas.
Don't say that. I imagine there would eventually be an in game trade system which would allow anyone to buy ships and turrets with DCPU-16 software preinstalled.
The whole thing sounds to me like a scheme for transforming smart kids into proper nerds who write assembly and know their P from their I from their D. I like it.
Thank you. I was rather disheartened reading these comments. People are apparently planning on using this game to validate that they have holier than thou intellects over the general populace of gamers. My hope for this game is that it attracts the FPS gamers with its exploration mode and after a while they want to know more about how to program their DCPU-16 and awaken a thirst for knowledge inside them. Of course, that's a hope and may not be reality but I think Notch was alluding to that when he said:
It has a strange Quake-like quality to it: slightly too fast. I think it could be entertaining on LAN play but I don’t think you want to play it over the internet because with latency it’s going to become very unfair because it’s so fast. The goal still is to get it so that you can have a ship with the computer components in. Because then not only can you try the game but the people who want to build stuff for the computer can actually start doing that – it actually has some utility as well.
Basically I imagine the bullies in The Simpsons beating Notch up after they learn that he tricked them into learning.
So first off, nothing is truly finalized yet. Mojang is not some big EA game maker that had a deadline and forces it to happen regardless of how ready the game is or isn't. Instead, according to the interview they have two developers working on 0x10c right now and it sounds like Notch and company are still playing around with a lot of cool ideas. The pricing and revenue streams aren't even cemented yet!
So from the story part of the page you said you skimmed there were sleep chambers that screwed up little endian with big endian and put everyone to sleep for 1 0000 0000 0000 years and now it's 281 474 976 712 644 AD and the first people are starting to wake up. You've got an extremely sparse universe with black holes and lots of empty space.
Now according to the interview the first release will consist only of "you can build a ship and you can play with the computer components in it." And you can design the ship, lay it out more efficiently, etc. However, "Each ship has a generator capable of producing a fixed wattage, and everything you connect to it drains wattage. A cloaking field, for example, might require almost all the power from the generator, forcing you to turn off all computers and dim all lights in order to successfully cloak. The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish." So you're going to have to manage your resources and Notch mentions Faster Than Light (a game I kickstarted and enjoyed).
He also alludes to the possibility of your ship flying around and searching for things, a 3D printer, planetary exploration and that kind of stuff. They're not too clear on how multiplayer will work but it sounds like it's going to mostly be a crew on the same ship. Notch talks about 'launching all nukes at space stations' when he's leading and so it sounds like you'll interact with things outside your ship (probably through your DCPU-16).
It sounds like a lot of these ideas are half baked like the 3D printer that he described:
The idea is that, with things like turrets, you have a 3D printer to build the shell, like a computer case shell, but you still have to put components in there. Players in the game aren’t really engineers – they’re more like pilots, so they can’t build those parts. You have to scavenge for those parts, and find abandoned ships and try to find a working CPU or something. And those could have slightly different attributes: you might find a CPU running at 105% and try to trade that. But you can also mine for basic resources, like if you want a gold computer case – we’ll see if we actually have different materials, but that’s what I want – you have to mine for gold and put it in the 3D printer.
But I'm really excited for this game, even if it is just a Faster Than Light type game where you build a spaceship and outfit it and attack or aid outside ships. You would fight intruders that beam into your ship or repair holes left by attacks/asteroids. You know there's a lot that could still be added or modified in this game and anything with this setting and emulation embedded really excites me.
Mojang is a Swedish game company (mojäng is Swedish for gadget) founded by Markus Persson, Jakob Porsér, and Carl Manneh. Persson has embraced his public fame and is a very avid gamer who goes by the tag 'Notch.' Are you still with me here? Good. They made a fairly popular game that has a counter claiming 8,176,841 have purchased the game.
Mojang is working on two games: Scrolls and 0x10c. You may remember Scrolls from when Bethesda sued them for the name. This story happens to be about the sparse details on 0x10c. Inside this game there will be a central processing unit emulated called the DCPU-16. You can find more information about that in the link to it but the game will center heavily around the user accomplishing tasks with that.
I am the submitter of this story and didn't think it was necessary to clutter the summary with the above information.
Yes - I know I could google these but seriously WTF - TFA reads like some circle jerk post in 4 chan that you need years of inside knowledge just to understand.
I don't think you read either the summary or the fucking article. The very first thing I wrote in the summary establishes who Notch is. The article talks about all the above -- no reason to Google, just click on the links I embedded in the summary.
They should have followed ConocoPhillips and their plans in China. Not only will they not face criminal charges, the government decided not to let the state controlled media report on it until it slipped out via a blog. Darn it! If only the government could control everything, we wouldn't have to worry about everyone else finding out about a little 320 square mile oil spill.
Sven: Hey der Ole, check out dis new app I got on my phone here. Ole: *takes the phone and looks at the screen* Oh hey idn't dat neat? A stock trading app! Sven: Yeah I'm like a big shot power björker now! Börk! Börk! Börk! Ole: Oh ja, you betcha, hey I gotta a hot tip, I'm gonna buy six futures of Ikea for ya. Sven: Ole, you idiot! Stop that, I've only got a few cents on my account. Ole: Oh! Jajaja, oops, you're in da red now. Oofta, I'll fix this here, lemme just sell 'em real quick. Sven: No, stop, you'll just make things worse! Ole: I don't see a 'sell' button on dis thing, oh, I know! *punches some buttons* Oh dear. Oh shoot. Ja, I'm in a little over my head here, Sven. Sven: *grabs the phone* Negative 460 trillion dollars!? OLE, WHAT DID YOU DO? Ole: Oh well, ya see, I just bought negative six shares, ja? To undo me buying six positive shares, ja? And I guess der was like... some underflow involved der? With de app, ja? Ah gosh gee, Sven, I'm sorry, I'll pay ya back after I settle up with da liquor store first, of course.
During a Q&A Session a while back you were asked about people and movements near and dear to your heart and you said "I admire Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, even though I criticize some of the things that they did." I love World War II history and I also find myself in a love-hate situation with Churchill. Could you go into further detail about what specifics lead you to single out these two over leaders like Lincoln, Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin or even historical figures who have enabled information itself like Turing, Shannon, etc?
You're a fan of science fiction and speak Spanish and French. Do you know of any good Spanish and French sci-fi that English speakers should look into? The field seems to be dominated by English writers and I've been making an effort to reach out to foreign authors and looking for translations. And if you don't know of any, who are your current favorite sci-fi authors? Any unknown sleepers that you've found that people should read?
I just read "Roadside Picnic" and it was so good, I was surprised I had not heard of it until recently.
That is the sorry reality of the bazaar Raymond praised in his book: a pile of old festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT "professionals" who wouldn't recognize sound IT architecture if you hit them over the head with it. It is hard to believe today, but under this embarrassing mess lies the ruins of the beautiful cathedral of Unix, deservedly famous for its simplicity of design, its economy of features, and its elegance of execution. (Sic transit gloria mundi, etc.)
Does Kamp have a point? How do you refute his example and his drawn conclusion from it? Have you issued a rebuttal yet?
Your monkish lifestyle would leave most people who work in software screaming for a Lear Jet and you have stated "I've always lived cheaply... like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do." Growing up in the United States, I have been served the koolaid of Capitalism several times and I have been taught that the inherent competition and struggle for money in all aspects of our lives make us the greatest country ever. I've read a lot of your comments on intellectual property reform and I can't help but feel that it just isn't compatible with capitalism. Have you ever had problems rectifying your stance on intellectual property with capitalism? Do you see any problems at all with no copyright or patent laws inside a capitalistic society?
I feel like you have this admirable and altruistic quality where money isn't the ultimate driving force and when you speak to people who base their entire lives around money, there's a fundamental disconnect that is overlooked.
Since you like to comment on both government interaction with businesses and seem to be interested in space travel, what is the appropriate level of the government's role in space? Can you define what is too little and what is too far? What, if anything, should each nation regulate? Are nationalistic programs and races good for space travel or should it just all be privatized and given a sort of 'international waters' anything goes freedom?
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Yeah right, you're trying to tell me that former Green Bay Packer Michael Anthony Hunt signed up for this? Mike Hunt received a total of two interceptions while playing only twenty two games. Mike Hunt knows how to play the field. It's ridiculous to think that we would waste Mike Hunt, a national treasure that has been enjoyed by millions of burly men, by putting Mike Hunt on a Mars suicide mission!
What's a Bing? Sorry, I'm just too lazy to Google it.
Oh, that's easy! I saw this hip new original television show called Hawaii Five-0 where the characters say "Bing it!" and the dialog flows so naturally in this scene you just have to see it. And when she looks up Clifton Bowles, she just has to push in "C" and then "L" and Clifton Bowles autocompletes because, let's face it, everyone's searching for Clifton Bowles and "CL" is more than enough to complete that search!
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Oh yeah, as a viewer that product placement was natural and unforced and subconsciously I find myself saying "Bing it!" more and more in everyday conversations. I've also found myself buying a lot of Bing Crosby CDs, planning my trip to Bing, Iran and drinking a lot of British Bing Cola
Perfect time to show them what Google really does for them: any page that includes the name of the studio, or any of the movies that the studio has ever made will no longer appear in search results. See how long it takes them to realise their folly.
And then people use Bing because they can't get to RottenTomatoes or IMDB through Google? And everyone says "Google is broken" and they show just how flippant they are when it comes to searching?
No, no problem using words instead of numbers. Numbers are boring. Also, you can get it wrong - windows 3,95,98,2000,7. Lol!
So they just went ahead and changed "Windows 8" to "Windows Lol!"? Sounds about right ...
And hey, it's a plastic gun.
No, it's not. It's not even close to that. It's a plastic lower receiver with the rest of the gun being not plastic.
As someone who's taken gun safety, I'm shocked he put himself at risk to test this. Making a shooting bench is fairly trivial. Automating a trigger pulling mechanism is a little more difficult but would require very basic knowledge. I'm surprised someone with access to a 3D printer would be stupid enough to pull a plastic lower receiver up to his face, put his hand on it and pull the trigger until it failed. In gun safety they show you what even an obstructed barrel can result in when firing a gun. That action mechanism would basically become shrapnel for your right hand, left forearm and face.
If these guys want to be taken seriously, they probably should 3D print something that will prevent them from winning a Darwin award.
There are only two options. Both options are super shitty and laced with lies or "half truths."
If 1000 people each spend 5 minutes reading TFS, skimming the comments, and trolling a little here and there, that's 3.17 days *demanded* PER article! A dozen articles a day, and that's like a zillion DAYS A DAY!
That's nothing! Have you seen any of my book reviews? Between Bennett Haselton and myself we're destroying English speaking civilization one inane wall of text at a time. Muahahahaha!
The second major confusion is that you think that a capped market would be forced to make a bet available:
Suppose CappedEx, a futures exchange that limits each user to betting $500, is publishing 4:1 odds of an Obama victory. If you bet $40 that Obama will win and he wins, you get paid $10 (from other users on the exchange), but if he loses, you pay out $40. Meanwhile FreedomEx, an exchange that has no betting limit for any user, is publishing 6:1 odds for Obama winning. Bet $60 on Obama, and you get $10 if he wins, but pay $60 if he loses. On both markets, of course you can bet in the other direction as well.
The answer to this is simple: CappedEx would not offer the bet that creates an arbitrage against FreedomEx.
Let me explain this to you in sports. If the Yankees (a good baseball team) were playing the Houston Astros (one of the worst baseball teams and yes, I know thye're not in the same division) there would be two types of bets for each team. The money line and the spread. The money line bet is is simply that they beat the other team. The spread bet has different odds and usually requires one team beat another team by X points. The spread bet often pays close to 2:1 because the people who calculate those odds that then fluctuate are saying it's 50/50 where it comes down on that line. Then they lower it a bit for their cut. Often times, the bet for the Yankees to beat the Astros just won't be offered. Let's say that if you bet the money line on the Yankees you get $1 for every $100 you bet. Not a great payout but you have to worry about a millionaire showing up and putting a million down and fleecing you for $1,000. As a result there is no way to bet the money line on "for sure" games. Of course if you want to bet money line on the Astros, they'll gladly take your money at, say, 20 to 1 odds. I've been in Vegas during march to watch my alma mater get bounced, I know they'll smile as they take your money on those longshot bets. But they won't let the converse bet happen. There simply is no long tail that they continually push out.
Likewise if you were a capped exchange and you felt like you were getting fleeced, you would simply stop offering that prediction. Sometimes bets and prediction aren't offered just because there's too much randomness that can't be seen yet. Is there something forcing these prediction exchanges to post all possible outcomes?
According to Wikipedia, Natalia Kaspersky, former CEO and co-majority shareholder of Kaspersky Lab released a statement supporting Russia's interest in a countrywide firewall similar to the Great Firewall of China. The definition of 'malware' I most prefer is "Software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems." I see implementations like countrywide firewalls to be little more than disabling computers and computer systems by limiting their ability to connect to other computers. Would you care to comment on why government malware is okay or even desired? Would you care to refute Natalia's position that appears in Kaspersky Lab's Wikipedia article?
Architecturally, the operating system is constructed in such a way that even a break-in into any of the components or applications loaded onto it won’t allow an intruder to gain control over it or to run malicious code.
Could you expound on this? Are you writing this code or still in the design phase? Or better yet, could you compare it to something like, say, CentOS or Debian and tell us how your architecture is going to be more secure? I understand you're scoping down the requirements of your OS to be more easily manageable but the skeptic in me feels like it just can't be done. The cat and mouse game must be played in some form or fashion.
I feel like when someone is as deep in malware protection as you are, you're basically running malware and, I assume, developing malware or finding exploitable aspects of software. I notice you "discover" a lot of malware but I don't recall seeing you publish any exploits. How much malware development do you do? Any at all? Is there anyone in your company that attempts to mimic what other malware does so you can better understand it? Do you feel like that is a necessity in the field of malware protection?
The big-name schools do provide a few benefits: 1. They have more financial aid money available, so there's a decent chance that if you get into, say, Yale, you won't pay even close to the full price. They may even have special programs specifically to help people like you if you're from a historically disadvantaged background (e.g. a scholarship fund set up 50 years ago dedicated to educating people called at the time "Negros").
2. The future movers and shakers are your classmates. If you want friends in high places for cozy patronage jobs, that will help.
3. Everyone around you will think you're brilliant with no other proof whatsoever. For example, my sister went to an Ivy League school, and many of her classmates were hired right out of school to work in "consulting", which is basically a job of traveling around the US giving Powerpoint presentations on topics they knew little to nothing about. They got the jobs specifically due to their Ivy League education.
So basically your defense of these overly expensive schools is nepotism, dumbshits at the top of the pyramid and other horrors of what is wrong with America? Got it. Also I find it amusing that "you need money to make money" also applies to college ... "you need money to be unquestionably paid lots of money." This should be closer to a meritocracy not a country of "daddy has contacts."
Also, to invalidate your first point, the article starts with the premise that everyone is coming away $200,000 in debt unless you drop out or skip college so, no, apparently not everyone gets Yale at reduced price. And if $200,000 is the "reduced" price, you should asked to be kissed first.
Students who want to avoid $200,000 in student-loan debt
Yeah, I don't know how this happens. I mean, I know how it happens ... you go to a school on the East Coast so you have the name on your resume. I went to the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities for four years and came out with $20,000 in loans (worked three jobs in college). A coworker's cousin just graduated from George Washington in DC and came out with $250,000 in loans. Tuition rates at the University of Minnesota versus tuition rates at GWU (note that those are per credit hour! and they don't give you every credit over 13 free like they do at the U of MN).
Frankly, I think this article should be titled, "skip the overly expensive college because you'll get a more than adequate education somewhere else." Okay so I have to prove myself in an interview over someone from GWU. Challenge accepted.
And if everyone drops out of college to start their own thing, who are you going to be hiring when your startup needs to transition to a medium to large company? Other dropouts whose ideas were crap. Are you sure you want to advocate this to be a more widespread phenomenon?
Early, off-the-record comments from game developers indicated that the Nintendo's Wii U console horsepower was on par with, or a bit behind the Xbox 360 and PS3, which raised questions about just how 'next-generation' the Wii U would be.
The other possibility is that the consoles experience diminishing returns past the horsepower the modern systems are at for most of the game developer's needs. After enjoying the Wii, the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3, I'm more concerned about the media type they select for the discs as swapping three DVDs to play one game on the XBox 360 is unacceptable when it fits on one PS3 disc. For the love of Zelda, I suspect that popping an SSD into an XBox 360 and running everything from that and forgetting the optical drive would make everything faster (and, yes, I know you then would only be able to do that with downloaded games linked to your profile and not the installed discs that require a disc in the drive to run).
Nintendo may have propped up a relatively weak CPU with considerably more GPU horsepower.
Like the reader comment on that Ars Technica article notes, raw CPU speed hasn't always equaled winning in the console department.
And, frankly, I'm a little disappointed that Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft haven't done a little innovating and created their own technology like SLI/Crossfire to connect several cheap GPUs for their heavy graphics lifting on their machines. I mean their CPU/GPU pairs make it look like we should really start addressing these things with a different name just like RAM started being called cache when it was fast and nestled up against or integrated with the CPU. I guess I'm not really a hardware guy but I feel like we've actually moved toward less inventive ideas for consoles. While that's been good for some aspects (I was able to flash the security sector of a HDD and install it myself on my XBox 360 to add storage) it seems like the architecture has gotten lazy and inbred to just do whatever desktops are doing.
Something like this costs 30$ http://www.wpsantennas.com/700MHZ-LTE-4G-Antennas.aspx
Ebay has things for 20-25$ Did you look at these options before deciding to building your own?
If you're telling me that works and that's the best I can do, then okay, you've got it figured out and I just don't understand antennas at all.
Like I said, I googled and looked for costs. The models that I see on your link that are $30 are 7.72” in length and look like the same things that come with any wireless router. I assume the Verizon Jetpack already has an antenna of this quality. What I was hoping for by asking Slashdot was that someone would belittle me and tell me how to build something more like this but without the $120 price tag since it's probably just a bunch of metal configured a certain way connected to a balun connected to the device. I know where the cell tower is from my parent's house, I just don't know how to construct something that will function better than the little device they have.
Also, I was kind of hoping that there were really cool designs people knew of that consisted more than just "a big stick of metal you point at the tower." However, like I admitted in the submission, I don't know jack shit about antennas.
Don't say that. I imagine there would eventually be an in game trade system which would allow anyone to buy ships and turrets with DCPU-16 software preinstalled.
The whole thing sounds to me like a scheme for transforming smart kids into proper nerds who write assembly and know their P from their I from their D. I like it.
Thank you. I was rather disheartened reading these comments. People are apparently planning on using this game to validate that they have holier than thou intellects over the general populace of gamers. My hope for this game is that it attracts the FPS gamers with its exploration mode and after a while they want to know more about how to program their DCPU-16 and awaken a thirst for knowledge inside them. Of course, that's a hope and may not be reality but I think Notch was alluding to that when he said:
It has a strange Quake-like quality to it: slightly too fast. I think it could be entertaining on LAN play but I don’t think you want to play it over the internet because with latency it’s going to become very unfair because it’s so fast. The goal still is to get it so that you can have a ship with the computer components in. Because then not only can you try the game but the people who want to build stuff for the computer can actually start doing that – it actually has some utility as well.
Basically I imagine the bullies in The Simpsons beating Notch up after they learn that he tricked them into learning.
So from the story part of the page you said you skimmed there were sleep chambers that screwed up little endian with big endian and put everyone to sleep for 1 0000 0000 0000 years and now it's 281 474 976 712 644 AD and the first people are starting to wake up. You've got an extremely sparse universe with black holes and lots of empty space.
Now according to the interview the first release will consist only of "you can build a ship and you can play with the computer components in it." And you can design the ship, lay it out more efficiently, etc. However, "Each ship has a generator capable of producing a fixed wattage, and everything you connect to it drains wattage. A cloaking field, for example, might require almost all the power from the generator, forcing you to turn off all computers and dim all lights in order to successfully cloak. The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish." So you're going to have to manage your resources and Notch mentions Faster Than Light (a game I kickstarted and enjoyed).
He also alludes to the possibility of your ship flying around and searching for things, a 3D printer, planetary exploration and that kind of stuff. They're not too clear on how multiplayer will work but it sounds like it's going to mostly be a crew on the same ship. Notch talks about 'launching all nukes at space stations' when he's leading and so it sounds like you'll interact with things outside your ship (probably through your DCPU-16).
It sounds like a lot of these ideas are half baked like the 3D printer that he described:
The idea is that, with things like turrets, you have a 3D printer to build the shell, like a computer case shell, but you still have to put components in there. Players in the game aren’t really engineers – they’re more like pilots, so they can’t build those parts. You have to scavenge for those parts, and find abandoned ships and try to find a working CPU or something. And those could have slightly different attributes: you might find a CPU running at 105% and try to trade that. But you can also mine for basic resources, like if you want a gold computer case – we’ll see if we actually have different materials, but that’s what I want – you have to mine for gold and put it in the 3D printer.
But I'm really excited for this game, even if it is just a Faster Than Light type game where you build a spaceship and outfit it and attack or aid outside ships. You would fight intruders that beam into your ship or repair holes left by attacks/asteroids. You know there's a lot that could still be added or modified in this game and anything with this setting and emulation embedded really excites me.
Mojang is working on two games: Scrolls and 0x10c. You may remember Scrolls from when Bethesda sued them for the name. This story happens to be about the sparse details on 0x10c. Inside this game there will be a central processing unit emulated called the DCPU-16. You can find more information about that in the link to it but the game will center heavily around the user accomplishing tasks with that.
I am the submitter of this story and didn't think it was necessary to clutter the summary with the above information.
Yes - I know I could google these but seriously WTF - TFA reads like some circle jerk post in 4 chan that you need years of inside knowledge just to understand.
I don't think you read either the summary or the fucking article. The very first thing I wrote in the summary establishes who Notch is. The article talks about all the above -- no reason to Google, just click on the links I embedded in the summary.
They should have followed ConocoPhillips and their plans in China. Not only will they not face criminal charges, the government decided not to let the state controlled media report on it until it slipped out via a blog. Darn it! If only the government could control everything, we wouldn't have to worry about everyone else finding out about a little 320 square mile oil spill.
Sven: Hey der Ole, check out dis new app I got on my phone here. ... some underflow involved der? With de app, ja? Ah gosh gee, Sven, I'm sorry, I'll pay ya back after I settle up with da liquor store first, of course.
Ole: *takes the phone and looks at the screen* Oh hey idn't dat neat? A stock trading app!
Sven: Yeah I'm like a big shot power björker now! Börk! Börk! Börk!
Ole: Oh ja, you betcha, hey I gotta a hot tip, I'm gonna buy six futures of Ikea for ya.
Sven: Ole, you idiot! Stop that, I've only got a few cents on my account.
Ole: Oh! Jajaja, oops, you're in da red now. Oofta, I'll fix this here, lemme just sell 'em real quick.
Sven: No, stop, you'll just make things worse!
Ole: I don't see a 'sell' button on dis thing, oh, I know! *punches some buttons* Oh dear. Oh shoot. Ja, I'm in a little over my head here, Sven.
Sven: *grabs the phone* Negative 460 trillion dollars!? OLE, WHAT DID YOU DO?
Ole: Oh well, ya see, I just bought negative six shares, ja? To undo me buying six positive shares, ja? And I guess der was like
During a Q&A Session a while back you were asked about people and movements near and dear to your heart and you said "I admire Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, even though I criticize some of the things that they did." I love World War II history and I also find myself in a love-hate situation with Churchill. Could you go into further detail about what specifics lead you to single out these two over leaders like Lincoln, Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin or even historical figures who have enabled information itself like Turing, Shannon, etc?
You're a fan of science fiction and speak Spanish and French. Do you know of any good Spanish and French sci-fi that English speakers should look into? The field seems to be dominated by English writers and I've been making an effort to reach out to foreign authors and looking for translations. And if you don't know of any, who are your current favorite sci-fi authors? Any unknown sleepers that you've found that people should read?
I just read "Roadside Picnic" and it was so good, I was surprised I had not heard of it until recently.
That is the sorry reality of the bazaar Raymond praised in his book: a pile of old festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT "professionals" who wouldn't recognize sound IT architecture if you hit them over the head with it. It is hard to believe today, but under this embarrassing mess lies the ruins of the beautiful cathedral of Unix, deservedly famous for its simplicity of design, its economy of features, and its elegance of execution. (Sic transit gloria mundi, etc.)
Does Kamp have a point? How do you refute his example and his drawn conclusion from it? Have you issued a rebuttal yet?
Your monkish lifestyle would leave most people who work in software screaming for a Lear Jet and you have stated "I've always lived cheaply ... like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do." Growing up in the United States, I have been served the koolaid of Capitalism several times and I have been taught that the inherent competition and struggle for money in all aspects of our lives make us the greatest country ever. I've read a lot of your comments on intellectual property reform and I can't help but feel that it just isn't compatible with capitalism. Have you ever had problems rectifying your stance on intellectual property with capitalism? Do you see any problems at all with no copyright or patent laws inside a capitalistic society?
I feel like you have this admirable and altruistic quality where money isn't the ultimate driving force and when you speak to people who base their entire lives around money, there's a fundamental disconnect that is overlooked.
Since you like to comment on both government interaction with businesses and seem to be interested in space travel, what is the appropriate level of the government's role in space? Can you define what is too little and what is too far? What, if anything, should each nation regulate? Are nationalistic programs and races good for space travel or should it just all be privatized and given a sort of 'international waters' anything goes freedom?