It's not that bad, it's just that "TV turned on" high-pitched sound modulated up and down a bit... I think you could get used to living next to it if you didn't know it was there to annoy you. ie: if you had a brand-new 100" flat screen TV that made that noise, you'd probably gladly live with it.:)
I was expecting something much more annoying like two tones half a step off (musically) or something.
Is this really a rewarding job for some people? I can't fathom it.
"Pacifism is a sure route to destruction at the hand of ruthless and evil men"
If we take the stance that life is valuable and that no one should ever die in a conflict of any kind, then doesn't allowing life to be violently destroyed by another actually 'cheapen' life? ie: by not defending its existance?
If people don't have the fortitude to do this kind of research, then we lose the ability to defend civilized society, because those who would destroy it are certainly doing work of their own.
I don't see how parent is a 'Troll'; it sounds like reasonable advice to our budding 'Asok' who posted the original question.
I too have been involved in projects where a bunch of PhD's who think that real life research has "no budget or time pressure" (read: who think they're still in school), have ended up costing taxpayers billions. Literally, and yes that billion is with an 's'. This happened as recently as the last 5 years. Meaning- everyone who has a job in the U.S. got charged because some PhD's wanted to play research.
Stay in academia and be true to yourself if you want to pursue abstract research. That's fine. Please don't apply to work for any commercial company or government lab if you have no intention of actually working on the applied research they need to pay your paycheck. Please.
You see what the joke is, though, you can't just not buy their stuff and have it hurt them, and here's why:
Your choice to not buy cds is what the RIAA claims as "Lost Revenue due to illegal file sharing" to congress. Because according to them, they tell congress they used to make $X/year and now they make $X-Y/year, so, people must be stealing their music. Not that people don't want to buy from them. "Hey, if you're not buying our cds, you must be stealing the music!!11!1!" Therefore, any lost revenue is obviously from file sharing, according to them. More lawsuits please! Strengthen the DMCA!
If the organized crime influence here weren't so bloody obvious it'd be comical. Its like a 1930's Chicago mob story, with the politicians bought off, only this time on a national level, with Billions of dollars in the balance. Meanwhile when the FBI attempts to prosecute corruption in congress, they all (dems and reps, remember they'll all sell you down the river) claim that the FBI can't legally search them. They're all on the take. What a joke.
A: determine honestly to the best of our ability what and when
and how ( leaving if on the table ) we humans will be affected.
and no dilly dallying or politicing, or hiding heads in sand.
B: once we know that, decide how we semicollectively want to respond.
options seem to include getting us off the earth, and letting it
go the way it wants to, while we terraform lifeless ( hopefully )
planets elsewhere, space stations, etc, etc. Or deciding to
taylor earth better to our liking ( would not be my first choice ).
and think of other strategies.
Alright, so to include your argument, my metaphor would continue; "I can decide to burn down my house today and that's a change in an instant. So, my initial analysis holds! Since it didn't rain today, it must be something I did during the last very short day."
Do you see the problem here? The missing link that would hold the argument together is the link from [people's activity] -> [some (MASSIVE) environmental change]. Given the number of variables involved and the overall size of the system, it's irresponsible (and egocentric) from a scientific point of view to claim that humans must be the only possible cause of a perturbation (maybe) in a 168+variable equation.
As someone else pointed out, the trend also correlates to the declining number of ninjas, the rising number of american idol winners, etc. Two numbers both climbing does not indicate correlation. What we have here is a man-robot desperately trying to avoid being marginalized politically, and this is his new pet project.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, his politicization of the topic will prevent any real science from being conducted, because no one will take it seriously. People will/(do?)think it's just another thing for politicians to get soundbytes and money.
but when it comes to things like climate change and other phenomena highly detrimental to my continued existence then the standard of proof is a *little* lower.
It apparently also drops if you're trying to get elected...
Wow, on a 4 billion year old planet you've got a 30 year trend. And you're going to argue that that trend is *caused* by something outside of normal patterns... uh yeah.
"I've gotten less rain at my house today than I did yesterday. Therefore I must be doing something to cause it to rain less!! Nevermind that my house has been here for 47 years".
I think I'll make a transparent presidential campaign out of it, and enlist the help of dim-witted Hollywood residents with more money than brains. Seems like a good idea....
I sure hope if you're from the UK and posting here that you're also voicing your complaints to your gov't officials who are proposing and voting on this stuff...
Let them know it's horsecrap before businesses have to start moving out of the UK to survive.(!)
have *never* owned a PC or Windows. Our IT dept is exclusively Mac. We do everything from desktop publishing to Web development and serving, database development and serving, Unix system administration, etc. No PCs, no Windows--ever. All Mac, all the time.
Wow, you guys have wasted a lot of money on overpriced systems. Seriously, you could have done all of that on systems that cost one fifth to one tenth the cost.
a great many companies, working on critical systems, still refuse to adopt the modern practices that give them the best chance of NOT killing anybody
I've come in contact with a number of (U.S.) companies in the last few years that write various critical applications, (ie: that could kill someone if done wrong) and all of them have had CMMI level 3 or more, or Six Sigma or ISO processes in place. This is not because they're being benevolent, but because their own lawyers would never allow them to sell such a product without covering their own asses. Also, financially it makes more sense to have testing and reviews first to CYA than put up with the possible bad P.R./Lawsuits, etc.
Ok, so since Warden scans against known hashes, wouldn't that just mean if you REALLY wanted to cheat, you write your own cheat, and just DON'T SHARE IT? If Blizzard doesn't know about your cheating program's hash, they can't filter on it.
Also, it occurs to me that since they're only going through part of the CODE section of a running process to generate their hash, (someone else here mentioned that), couldn't you program and run your cheat inside Cygwin? You'd have access to the same packets and everything as usual, and when they used the Windows API to look at what's running they'd see the Cygwin kernel dll and its hash?
Seems like their solution really wouldn't keep anyone out who was really intent on cheating, just maybe the script kiddies...
from what I have seen, project managers and middle management in general make higher salaries than the engineers who are actually doing the work.
You are exactly right with this, and it can't be repeated enough. Those who had toga parties and were drunk all the way through college are the ones who end up making far higher salaries as 'Managers'. Why should I have even bothered with Calc III way back when? I could've just been a manager!
I don't really think this is the cause at all. Think about it: People go to college wanting to make a lot of money, and they look around... Hard sciences make between $40k-60k per year topping out around $90k, and THAT'S IT. Meanwhile, Attorneys can pull down numbers wayyyyy higher than that, as well as many MBAs, etc. Why bother getting an MD if it takes 10 years, when you can go get a JD and be done in 3?
I think it's more the economic rewards of notbeing a Scientist that keeps people away. Think about it: the Scientists and Engineers are the new 'Blue Collar Workers' that actually produce stuff, while the elite managers 'Oversee production'. So why bother getting good at math? If you use it, you're hurting your earning potential.
No one sits around and wrings their hands thinking religious zealots might not like their job choice, but EVERYONE looks at the bottom line, and cash is king.
Plus the MTV generation is taught that science and math are uncool anyway, so obviously people aren't going to be influenced to go check them out for fun...
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Oh, found some headphones...
:)
It's not that bad, it's just that "TV turned on" high-pitched sound modulated up and down a bit... I think you could get used to living next to it if you didn't know it was there to annoy you. ie: if you had a brand-new 100" flat screen TV that made that noise, you'd probably gladly live with it.
I was expecting something much more annoying like two tones half a step off (musically) or something.
Just learned my $10 pc speakers top out at 14k Hz. (apparently 6k too low) Is it just like a high warble or what?
Gee, all you have to do is play light jazz to drive teenagers off... And that solution is <$10. Quite an invention that light jazz.
"Pacifism is a sure route to destruction at the hand of ruthless and evil men"
If we take the stance that life is valuable and that no one should ever die in a conflict of any kind, then doesn't allowing life to be violently destroyed by another actually 'cheapen' life? ie: by not defending its existance?
If people don't have the fortitude to do this kind of research, then we lose the ability to defend civilized society, because those who would destroy it are certainly doing work of their own.
I too have been involved in projects where a bunch of PhD's who think that real life research has "no budget or time pressure" (read: who think they're still in school), have ended up costing taxpayers billions. Literally, and yes that billion is with an 's'. This happened as recently as the last 5 years. Meaning- everyone who has a job in the U.S. got charged because some PhD's wanted to play research.
Stay in academia and be true to yourself if you want to pursue abstract research. That's fine. Please don't apply to work for any commercial company or government lab if you have no intention of actually working on the applied research they need to pay your paycheck. Please.
You see what the joke is, though, you can't just not buy their stuff and have it hurt them, and here's why:
Your choice to not buy cds is what the RIAA claims as "Lost Revenue due to illegal file sharing" to congress. Because according to them, they tell congress they used to make $X/year and now they make $X-Y/year, so, people must be stealing their music. Not that people don't want to buy from them. "Hey, if you're not buying our cds, you must be stealing the music!!11!1!" Therefore, any lost revenue is obviously from file sharing, according to them. More lawsuits please! Strengthen the DMCA!
If the organized crime influence here weren't so bloody obvious it'd be comical. Its like a 1930's Chicago mob story, with the politicians bought off, only this time on a national level, with Billions of dollars in the balance. Meanwhile when the FBI attempts to prosecute corruption in congress, they all (dems and reps, remember they'll all sell you down the river) claim that the FBI can't legally search them. They're all on the take. What a joke.
I need a tylenol.
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple/
A: determine honestly to the best of our ability what and when and how ( leaving if on the table ) we humans will be affected. and no dilly dallying or politicing, or hiding heads in sand.
B: once we know that, decide how we semicollectively want to respond. options seem to include getting us off the earth, and letting it go the way it wants to, while we terraform lifeless ( hopefully ) planets elsewhere, space stations, etc, etc. Or deciding to taylor earth better to our liking ( would not be my first choice ). and think of other strategies.
C: Put the plan into action, if one is needed.
D: PROFIT!And apparently... movie theaters. Oh and shopping malls... yeah.
Alright, so to include your argument, my metaphor would continue; "I can decide to burn down my house today and that's a change in an instant. So, my initial analysis holds! Since it didn't rain today, it must be something I did during the last very short day."
Do you see the problem here? The missing link that would hold the argument together is the link from [people's activity] -> [some (MASSIVE) environmental change]. Given the number of variables involved and the overall size of the system, it's irresponsible (and egocentric) from a scientific point of view to claim that humans must be the only possible cause of a perturbation (maybe) in a 168+variable equation.
As someone else pointed out, the trend also correlates to the declining number of ninjas, the rising number of american idol winners, etc. Two numbers both climbing does not indicate correlation. What we have here is a man-robot desperately trying to avoid being marginalized politically, and this is his new pet project.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, his politicization of the topic will prevent any real science from being conducted, because no one will take it seriously. People will/(do?)think it's just another thing for politicians to get soundbytes and money.
It apparently also drops if you're trying to get elected...
Wow, on a 4 billion year old planet you've got a 30 year trend. And you're going to argue that that trend is *caused* by something outside of normal patterns... uh yeah.
"I've gotten less rain at my house today than I did yesterday. Therefore I must be doing something to cause it to rain less!! Nevermind that my house has been here for 47 years".
I think I'll make a transparent presidential campaign out of it, and enlist the help of dim-witted Hollywood residents with more money than brains. Seems like a good idea....
Mod parent up, that's the first time I've laughed out loud today...
Let them know it's horsecrap before businesses have to start moving out of the UK to survive.(!)
Wow, you guys have wasted a lot of money on overpriced systems. Seriously, you could have done all of that on systems that cost one fifth to one tenth the cost.
Glad I'm not a stockholder...
Dude, you're talking about a company who has one advertising campaign that said, "Buy me, I'm Orange"
Does that sound like an advertisement for intellectual IT people?
I've come in contact with a number of (U.S.) companies in the last few years that write various critical applications, (ie: that could kill someone if done wrong) and all of them have had CMMI level 3 or more, or Six Sigma or ISO processes in place. This is not because they're being benevolent, but because their own lawyers would never allow them to sell such a product without covering their own asses. Also, financially it makes more sense to have testing and reviews first to CYA than put up with the possible bad P.R./Lawsuits, etc.
Ok, so since Warden scans against known hashes, wouldn't that just mean if you REALLY wanted to cheat, you write your own cheat, and just DON'T SHARE IT? If Blizzard doesn't know about your cheating program's hash, they can't filter on it.
Also, it occurs to me that since they're only going through part of the CODE section of a running process to generate their hash, (someone else here mentioned that), couldn't you program and run your cheat inside Cygwin? You'd have access to the same packets and everything as usual, and when they used the Windows API to look at what's running they'd see the Cygwin kernel dll and its hash?
Seems like their solution really wouldn't keep anyone out who was really intent on cheating, just maybe the script kiddies...
http://www.simon.com/giftcard
(Disposable Visa cards) Used them for years with no problems, and they'll mail you the card if you can't go pick one up.
Just google on "Visa Gift Card" and you'll find any number of others doing the same.
'was' implying. Darn preview button.
Yep, that's what I implying. ;)
Political correctness is the new McCarthyism. The prosecution of thought-crime under the banner of 'diversity'. No art is sacred.
Either that or they'll see it driving around with fringe on the windows and neon underneath...
You are exactly right with this, and it can't be repeated enough. Those who had toga parties and were drunk all the way through college are the ones who end up making far higher salaries as 'Managers'. Why should I have even bothered with Calc III way back when? I could've just been a manager!
I think it's more the economic rewards of notbeing a Scientist that keeps people away. Think about it: the Scientists and Engineers are the new 'Blue Collar Workers' that actually produce stuff, while the elite managers 'Oversee production'. So why bother getting good at math? If you use it, you're hurting your earning potential.
No one sits around and wrings their hands thinking religious zealots might not like their job choice, but EVERYONE looks at the bottom line, and cash is king.
Plus the MTV generation is taught that science and math are uncool anyway, so obviously people aren't going to be influenced to go check them out for fun...