If you can pass a critical thinking or logic exam that was well constructed, then you have just demonstrated that you can think critically and logically. At that point, you are ahead of 90% of the populace of the US today.
And 90% of us population will not pass such a test. At which point either the test is dumbed down and/or subject excluded from general curriculum .
Logic and critical thinking are applicable to everyday life. You're making the assumption that people who were taught them would not use them, but you have not supported that belief with any facts. Obviously if they are never taught them (as most aren't) they won't apply them. What makes you think if they are taught, they won't apply them even when it provides them an obvious advantage
Most of non retards apply logic and critical thinking when it is obvious to them. "Intuitively" -That is a general trait of higher animals. Problem is they cannot apply it to non-obvious things, to subjects which are beyond their comprehension.And sadly topics such as evolution and politics are way beyond that. As a good example of failure to apply logic is how prone an average person is to obvious scams. How many people play lottery, casinos despite knowing odds are way swayed not in their favor?
If a person does not learn, then then the topic was not taught. They are two sides of the same coin. Assigning books to read and handing out multiple choice tests is not necessarily teaching.
Oh what it is then? Assigning personal teacher for every person? With the same material and same teachers,in same environment some people some do not learn , some do and some even go out of their way to get knowledge form beyond what was given to them on silver platter.
My point still the same- general ( 90%) of population is too dumb to be thought "logic, scientific method,math,physics" . It is not news - it been always like that. And environment cant change much of that, yes you can tech 98% of populace to read, but you can not teach the dumb much beyond that.
Below and average intelligence people are not becoming interested in topics . They consume whichever is pushed to them trough mass media , without doing mcuh of independent thinking and analysis at all.
Math, physics, the scientific method, logic, and problem solving are all learnable by a person of average or below average intelligence
Oh come one. "learnable" to the point at which they can pass test/exam. But not really understanding it . . Many who are just do not care ( a lot of pretty smart people I knew who never really cared about subjects beyond passing exam/test mark) . And average/below average....- they have trouble passing exam/test mark,let alone understanding the subject.
f you're never taught the skills needed to critically evaluate information and make logical decisions
What point is to teach those skills to somebody unwilling to apply them.There is a lot of whining that too much for what is taught in school is not usefull in "real world".A lot of things are already taught,yet people do not learn
Well please do not speak of all schools. I know there were/ are some good schools which used to teach exactly that. In my country they were not exactly "public" - they were high schools for gifted students and pupils were though advanced math and physics, complete with scientific method , logic,problem solving etc. You had to pass pretty tough exam to be enrolled - there was no point in admitting non-smart student,as they would slow the learning pace down.
Did it change big picture? -no,dumb people stayed dumb people in regular schools,and geniuses could make they way trough without those privileged schools either....
Remember that from the evolutionary point of view, humans aren't "better" than apes, any more than apes are "better" than fish or fish are "better" than amoebas. Each one fits into a niche without driving out the older species. It's only our bias that puts us on the top of an evolutionary ladder.
From evolutionary point of view we ARE better than apes. Because we are much more successful in taking evolutionary niches. Heck we are better than anything evolution created so far because we expanded so successfully ( driving to extinction hundreds of thousands of other species on the way).And we continue to do so. Our evolutionary advantage is our brain which allows our to create effective tools and maintain sophisticated society . this advantages turned out to be a revolutionary.We are now indeed the king of all species and the most successful product of evolution on earth so far.
Many green hippies would not agree (as they believe destruction of other species and environment is not a sign of progress) - yet they fail to understand that the ability to change environment is higher evolutionary step than a mere ability to adapt to it.
Methinks transmission of the images is problems as well , though the actual abuse is obviously worse. But again those hypocritic " think of the children" never make a dent in in me - look at statsitics and see how many children die from preventable disesases, hunger , in wars, abuse by their relatives etc. etc. What pisses me off about sheeple regarding fear mongering issues (such as "chidlren " or "terrorists") is that people refuse to look at where actual problems is. 5 thousand people died in 9/11- this is absolutely nothing compared to other preventable causes of death .
For start shuttind down and air polluting facicilties (such as coal plants) and replacing them with clean energy(nuclear reactors) would save millions eash year dying from bad air induced disease (such as lung cancer) . Getting some taxes out of filthy rich corps to make globally avaialble clean air and food would save another 5-10 millions. Promoting AI research and replacing human drivers with AI would save 50k of people dying in mostly preventable car accident each fuckign year. - Then you can start solving issues such minor things as suicides (in many developed countries suicides double the amount of homocides)
And yeah after all those are solved,then you can raise minor non-issues such as a couple hundred children abuse and a few terrorists induced death. How about that?
What's worse, if they try to introduce any kind of basic DRM, ala Steam, they get trashed for it. They just can't win, hence the move to consoles and the growth of crappy console ports to the PC.
ohh.And consoles are epitome of creativity and brilliance.yeah right.10 times. If piracy is such a killer why do consoles do not have great games? Seriously there I can count with one my hand games which a I had any inclination to play whatsoever which were being released exclusively for consoles . There are a lot of crappy games for PCs but I can easily give you hundred examples of truly great games .
Big money came to gaming market and it follows hollywood trends- stupid franchises , sequels , remakes with concentration on the shiney.Nothing wrong with the shiney -but gameplay should be there as well. I mean PC gaming of 90s was full of innovations and groundbreaking milestones. Since 2000 - not so much (except in graphics department). And of course MMORPG - this crack takes out gamer out of life,let alone other ("lesser") games.I know when had my mmorpg run I didnt play any single player game whatsoever. I didnt even express any interest in anything other than my current game,my alts, my leet pk skills,my guild, my loot. They are addictive to the point you simply do not want anything else except running in this treadmill to next level/skill/loot/raid. And we just wow becoming converting another large batches of gamers into mmorpg drones .
Combination of all factors -lack of good games,MMORPGs,steep HW requiremnts , invasive DRM -all those contribute. Blaming it all on such minor factor as piracy is just an excuse.
Well in this example the problem lies in buggy software,not with OS per se. I had my share of troubles with some bad software (lately symantec server product - veritas and corporate AV tend to have those problems) - but it purely ISV lacking common sense and quality control. And it was solved pretty easily - I wrote a vbs script to automate removal of several dozen entries and run this script from my workstation to execute and and clean up all affected machines
In absolute numbers there is more of bad 3d party apps under windows -mostly because there is just more software for MS platform.
What really makes my day is that I can write and admin script using well documented API and it will "just work" for windows platform - most of my script work for all win machines in the office (from win2k pro sp4 to w2k3 x64 r2 enterprise) without any modifcation or exception handling code. -I couldn't dream about something like that under linux , as none of the distros have stable management infrastructure,except maybe redhat (and it is lacking comparing to windows) . -Linux distros cant even agree on same place to keep config files,let alone provide consistent interface/API for them (and windows not only does that - it provides it in centralized manner).
MS really does an excellent job providing unified management and administration interface to its whole stack (not only OSes but AD, Exchange,SQL -you name it ) and maintains this interface well . As an example - WMI provided new ways to manage computer trough scripting . It is really excellent tool - but win2k didn't support it initially . yet M$ added support to it so I dont have to think that half of my machines support WMI and half don't.Another example is your registry -I have command line way , script way,api way to manipulate registry.Including batches of remote machines - and those machines can be diffrenet "builds" (w2k,winxp,w2k3). For linux distro i would have to tailor the script for each specific distro , ohh,and btw worry about setting up infrastructre for secure remote authenticaion as well ( all modern winos do that out of the box).
Course it is not all roses there , but compared to OSS I do prefer consistency and if you want "simplicity" to mishmash of OSS any day.
p.s. And I do have a little clue about *nix/OSS- I do maintain scores of apps using OSS stacks (firewall/spamfilters,tomcat/jboss app servers) . -I did play around debian/redhat etc and we have several workstation running suse. In small niche OSS may work very well - but as infrastructure...- It lacks vision and design for that, You cant have such thing when linux cant even maintain stable API/binary compatibility .
Have you? What is so difficult about it? *nix lack standards,ease of use for user and centralized administration for admins. Saving couple hundred bucks on licenses is not worth the hassle in 90% of cases - even with all MS problems (which are proprietary interfaces ) . If you manage corporate environment with dozens of applications,hundreds servers and network devices and appliances of top of numerous desktop clients you do want unified environment which for most of the time " just works" TM.And guess what? -it ain't OSS stack. Sure tomcat/Apache here and there, some*nixes on a few appliances,maybe *nix based firewall , few nifty OSS utilities but backbone is AD , Exchange, MS SQL and W2k3 servers.
Stop FUD please.If you cant figure out 2k3 after managing 2k you have no fucking right to be called "15 year windows IT veteran".Heck you have no place whatsoever in IT .
I don't know there were scores of PC games even back then . -heck in fact at that time in Russia there was practically no "other computers" besides mainframes and IBM PC compatible. I played my first games at ibm pc xt at my grand dad's office . Unbelievable amount of man hours were wasted in soviet Russia by employees playing prince, cat, m1 abrams, arkanoid, Sopwith etc.. on their "work" computers .
The only thing available to general people were self made zx spectrum clones, but catch it was "self made" from parts -so generally you couldn't have one unless you or somebody in your family could build one (e.g. was experienced electronic engineer with loads of spare time) .
So heck I wouldnt call windows 1.0 era pcs "only for work" - there was no sweeter game pc for me than trusty russian clone of ibm 8086.
"Half"??? Jeez man you probably work with some uber coders. Code and places I seen are more like 90% of wrappers around stolen code and 3d party libraries. And of course the thin veener of "proprietary buisness logic" and UI -usually the most horrible and ugly parts of applications.
I suspect as personal body armor improves firearms will improve too. - Same way anti-tank projectiles did. Next step is cumulative projectiles -if the armor because so dense and hard to penetrate,just burn it trough. Protection vs cumulative projectiles is expensive in terms of space and weight and while tank can afford it (barely) I doubt personal body vest can.
Though before that I think there is still quite enough room to improve bullets and ammo.
Ok from personal experience thats all balooney . In a big chain food store I worked as cahsier/stocker typical pay for cahiers was $7/h.I worked for $9 and that was only because I did night shifts at start. Stocker get payed 8-9$ , very good stocker with 3 year experience after several "raises" was making $10.Now "key positions" (such as depart manager, cashier supervisor ) were paid whopping $12-$14 and hour. Heck freaking assitant store manager was making only $16/h .
That was in North Virginia. ANd I do know that other food stores were paying same scale . Walmart in the area paid less. Non-food stores (kohl's, sears) paid little bit more. But- all of them were around lower ~$10 bracket for starting positions and ~$15 for "key".
Fuck this "career" . In a black period of my life I worked as a cashier in food store. -Thats most mind numbing,most unsatisfying job I ever had unpleasure to slave . If being midnless retarded drone is your idea of "career"... I would prefer working as net admin for $6 than cashier for $17.5
Gotta tell you, the last upgrade I put out with DRM on it -- sales increased 400%. Its not that big of a market to attract the crackers
Dou you mind sharing the secret? I am actually looking for non intruisive but at least somewhat effective system for software which is distributed online .
Not really . Freelance was formally successor to Privateer series and bad one at that . There ara also X-tension series from egosoft , which can be qualified as a decent successor. But there were no actual games except elite series which used extensively procedural content generation,elite II-III were especially impressive in their time -you had whole galaxy,complete with planets you could land onto,asteroid fields , trade traffic,etc.
Uhmm Elite III came out shortly after II. Elite III -First Encounter. It was basically souped up elite 2. Now elite IV is a vaporware thing and Braben seem to stop creating anything meaningful in gaming world long time ago .
Though that doesn't mean elite1-3 weren't great. Tes1-2 (Arena and Daggerfall) were also another fine examples of procedural content generation.- those games were brilliant and ahead of time , but sadly no one followed the idea with modern techniques and hardware . Spore has potential to turn the minds back to idea of really creating worlds,instead of a prestaged short rail track with pretty graphics .
- Epic, big worlds to explore and change,that's what I hope Spore will inspire .
"The creation of this basically malicious content was wrong and should be punished by the Law" -I cant believe it I am reading this on slashdot . What there is no people here who wrote viruses/worms as on of their first exercise in system programming? I mean everyone I know who was any good with computers wrote a few of those. It is challenging and interesting task (more so than writing yet another stupid business/reporting app ).It gives you useful insights into what really program are and how computer systems really work. There are tons of very interesting code and techniques involved in writing good viruses,worms,malware, rootkits etc.
Now distributing those with malicious intention is another thing.But for writing? It is akin to punishing for thought crime. - It is in the same boat as RIAA/MPAA/BSA vouching for crime penalty for reverse engineering and research in encryption . Sadly Brainwashing is so effective than it affects even the core community of hackers and computer geeks.
Opera is fast.Blazing fast. Very sleek and neat on surface.Auto saving sessions combined with blazing fast startup/rendering is easily the most attractive feature. Underneath it though... -Interface for customizing toolbars/search engines is awful.In fact I didn't find a way to resize search bar . Widgets are just toys and I didn't . find any useful ones. But damn its blazing fast
Firefox.. -well good old firefox I was using since beta and on my linux boxes.Though I stopped recently due to being annoyed by crashes and incompatibility with MSDN. -Well inspired by opera I found extension which saves sessions - remedies crashing problem.IEtab extensions renders msdn well (but not exchange web access). Still pretty slow - but extensions make up for it. Would be my browser of choice if was more stable and ietab is more polished. -Extensions really bring firefox over competition .
IE7...well better than IE6. They fixed annoying bug with disappearing link addresses in status bar. Tabs are done well (ie they did not screwed anything up).Tab preview is on par with firefox extension. Other than that.... - Their session save things is annoyance (each time you close browser you have to checkbox and click button -no way to save sessions by default). No real innovation besides tabs and no good "add-ons" (ie7 lsita as addons mostly 3d party progs such as getright ). But well it renders MSDN and exchange webmail access the BEST!
Tab preview extensions easily better than ie7/opera one
What else? Pink little dragons? There is nothing in the brain except biological neural networks (you know the kind when feedback is largely a function of chemicals ) therefore consciousness is product of those networks
memory market actually has companies competing.I remember 98-2002 was very rough for memory manufacturers . They were sustaining huge loses and some memory manufacturers were forced to leave the market.As a consumer I cant complain in this case -they needed to do that for survival.Alternatively we would have left with monopoly or duopoly - other manufacturers would go bankrupt.
On the other hand look at intel or,cough,cough M$.M$ got slap on the wrist and intel got nothing ( for 8 years intel were not allowing AMD to get any significant market share,even though technically AMD processors were superior to intel all that time , now when conroe is out watch Intel crush AMD )
I said group policies , not groups. group policies are very powerful management tool in AD (you can use practically for anything -from audit levels on servers,to controllling ms office setting on user desktops). Oh and I have to use Selinux even to just use group based acl's?
And webmin is just basic stuff (accounts/groups) - it does not let you do half of what AD tools do.
I did try very hard to find a comparable tool in OSS world to AD, and the closest thing I found was Novell directory,bu sadly it neither OSS,neither free and require licensing per client (to heck with it we already own anything neccesary for AD). Trhow in MS exchange integration with AD and you have no real alternative in todays real world to MS AD.
Oh yeah and it has group policies (together with ACL) for anything and everything in a nice unified way with a simple interface? LDAP is just a directory protocol.AD is a unified management tool for a lot of things in enterprise (including authenticaion,audit, security, environment settings).I saw so called "ldap " tools for Linux -which basically make you write your own LDAP queries and create schema by yourself for anything semi complicated (and yeah I can do that in windows too - just I never have to resort to it).
I think voiding MS copyright in EU would be really good . -That will effectively make legal using the stolen source code(win2k source was stolen) and selling products based on it . ReactOs/Wine could legally use it in Europe code to implement better windows compatibility (effectively avoiding current lock-down by M$) and opening MS standards.
I don't believe M$ OS and products are bad -they are very good , problem with them is that they are all closed and try to impact interoperability in every imaginable and unimaginable way.That would be huge market for companies to compete in without,and M$ effective de-facto lock-in would instead become the base for open standards. -WE would get compatibility with existing hardware/software and openness in the future.
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If you can pass a critical thinking or logic exam that was well constructed, then you have just demonstrated that you can think critically and logically. At that point, you are ahead of 90% of the populace of the US today.
.And sadly topics such as evolution and politics are way beyond that. As a good example of failure to apply logic is how prone an average person is to obvious scams. How many people play lottery, casinos despite knowing odds are way swayed not in their favor?
,in same environment some people some do not learn , some do and some even go out of their way to get knowledge form beyond what was given to them on silver platter.
,math ,physics" . It is not news - it been always like that. And environment cant change much of that, yes you can tech 98% of populace to read, but you can not teach the dumb much beyond that.
And 90% of us population will not pass such a test. At which point either the test is dumbed down and/or subject excluded from general curriculum .
Logic and critical thinking are applicable to everyday life. You're making the assumption that people who were taught them would not use them, but you have not supported that belief with any facts. Obviously if they are never taught them (as most aren't) they won't apply them. What makes you think if they are taught, they won't apply them even when it provides them an obvious advantage
Most of non retards apply logic and critical thinking when it is obvious to them. "Intuitively" -That is a general trait of higher animals. Problem is they cannot apply it to non-obvious things, to subjects which are beyond their comprehension
If a person does not learn, then then the topic was not taught. They are two sides of the same coin. Assigning books to read and handing out multiple choice tests is not necessarily teaching.
Oh what it is then? Assigning personal teacher for every person? With the same material and same teachers
My point still the same- general ( 90%) of population is too dumb to be thought "logic, scientific method
Below and average intelligence people are not becoming interested in topics . They consume whichever is pushed to them trough mass media , without doing mcuh of independent thinking and analysis at all.
,let alone understanding the subject.
.There is a lot of whining that too much for what is taught in school is not usefull in "real world" .A lot of things are already taught ,yet people do not learn
Math, physics, the scientific method, logic, and problem solving are all learnable by a person of average or below average intelligence
Oh come one. "learnable" to the point at which they can pass test/exam. But not really understanding it . . Many who are just do not care ( a lot of pretty smart people I knew who never really cared about subjects beyond passing exam/test mark) . And average/below average....- they have trouble passing exam/test mark
f you're never taught the skills needed to critically evaluate information and make logical decisions
What point is to teach those skills to somebody unwilling to apply them
Well please do not speak of all schools. I know there were/ are some good schools which used to teach exactly that. In my country they were not exactly "public" - they were high schools for gifted students and pupils were though advanced math and physics, complete with scientific method , logic ,problem solving etc. You had to pass pretty tough exam to be enrolled - there was no point in admitting non-smart student ,as they would slow the learning pace down.
,dumb people stayed dumb people in regular schools ,and geniuses could make they way trough without those privileged schools either....
Did it change big picture? -no
Remember that from the evolutionary point of view, humans aren't "better" than apes, any more than apes are "better" than fish or fish are "better" than amoebas. Each one fits into a niche without driving out the older species. It's only our bias that puts us on the top of an evolutionary ladder.
.And we continue to do so. Our evolutionary advantage is our brain which allows our to create effective tools and maintain sophisticated society . this advantages turned out to be a revolutionary .We are now indeed the king of all species and the most successful product of evolution on earth so far.
From evolutionary point of view we ARE better than apes. Because we are much more successful in taking evolutionary niches. Heck we are better than anything evolution created so far because we expanded so successfully ( driving to extinction hundreds of thousands of other species on the way)
Many green hippies would not agree (as they believe destruction of other species and environment is not a sign of progress) - yet they fail to understand that the ability to change environment is higher evolutionary step than a mere ability to adapt to it.
Methinks transmission of the images is problems as well , though the actual abuse is obviously worse. But again those hypocritic " think of the children" never make a dent in in me - look at statsitics and see how many children die from preventable disesases, hunger , in wars, abuse by their relatives etc. etc. What pisses me off about sheeple regarding fear mongering issues (such as "chidlren " or "terrorists") is that people refuse to look at where actual problems is. 5 thousand people died in 9/11- this is absolutely nothing compared to other preventable causes of death .
,then you can raise minor non-issues such as a couple hundred children abuse and a few terrorists induced death. How about that?
For start shuttind down and air polluting facicilties (such as coal plants) and replacing them with clean energy(nuclear reactors) would save millions eash year dying from bad air induced disease (such as lung cancer) . Getting some taxes out of filthy rich corps to make globally avaialble clean air and food would save another 5-10 millions. Promoting AI research and replacing human drivers with AI would save 50k of people dying in mostly preventable car accident each fuckign year. -
Then you can start solving issues such minor things as suicides (in many developed countries suicides double the amount of homocides)
And yeah after all those are solved
What's worse, if they try to introduce any kind of basic DRM, ala Steam, they get trashed for it. They just can't win, hence the move to consoles and the growth of crappy console ports to the PC.
ohh
Big money came to gaming market and it follows hollywood trends- stupid franchises , sequels , remakes with concentration on the shiney
Combination of all factors -lack of good games
Well in this example the problem lies in buggy software ,not with OS per se. I had my share of troubles with some bad software (lately symantec server product - veritas and corporate AV tend to have those problems) - but it purely ISV lacking common sense and quality control. And it was solved pretty easily - I wrote a vbs script to automate removal of several dozen entries and run this script from my workstation to execute and and clean up all affected machines
,except maybe redhat (and it is lacking comparing to windows) . -Linux distros cant even agree on same place to keep config files ,let alone provide consistent interface/API for them (and windows not only does that - it provides it in centralized manner).
,SQL -you name it ) and maintains this interface well . As an example - WMI provided new ways to manage computer trough scripting . It is really excellent tool - but win2k didn't support it initially . yet M$ added support to it so I dont have to think that half of my machines support WMI and half don't.Another example is your registry -I have command line way , script way ,api way to manipulate registry .Including batches of remote machines - and those machines can be diffrenet "builds" (w2k ,winxp,w2k3). For linux distro i would have to tailor the script for each specific distro , ohh ,and btw worry about setting up infrastructre for secure remote authenticaion as well ( all modern winos do that out of the box).
In absolute numbers there is more of bad 3d party apps under windows -mostly because there is just more software for MS platform.
What really makes my day is that I can write and admin script using well documented API and it will "just work" for windows platform - most of my script work for all win machines in the office (from win2k pro sp4 to w2k3 x64 r2 enterprise) without any modifcation or exception handling code. -I couldn't dream about something like that under linux , as none of the distros have stable management infrastructure
MS really does an excellent job providing unified management and administration interface to its whole stack (not only OSes but AD, Exchange
Course it is not all roses there , but compared to OSS I do prefer consistency and if you want "simplicity" to mishmash of OSS any day.
p.s. And I do have a little clue about *nix/OSS- I do maintain scores of apps using OSS stacks (firewall/spamfilters,tomcat/jboss app servers) . -I did play around debian/redhat etc and we have several workstation running suse. In small niche OSS may work very well - but as infrastructure...- It lacks vision and design for that, You cant have such thing when linux cant even maintain stable API/binary compatibility .
Have you? What is so difficult about it? *nix lack standards ,ease of use for user and centralized administration for admins. Saving couple hundred bucks on licenses is not worth the hassle in 90% of cases - even with all MS problems (which are proprietary interfaces ) . If you manage corporate environment with dozens of applications ,hundreds servers and network devices and appliances of top of numerous desktop clients you do want unified environment which for most of the time " just works" TM .And guess what? -it ain't OSS stack. Sure tomcat/Apache here and there, some*nixes on a few appliances ,maybe *nix based firewall , few nifty OSS utilities but backbone is AD , Exchange, MS SQL and W2k3 servers.
Stop FUD please .If you cant figure out 2k3 after managing 2k you have no fucking right to be called "15 year windows IT veteran" .Heck you have no place whatsoever in IT .
I have it installed . -ACID2 test still looks same old screwed IE6 way . It is really better than IE6 ( it has tabs!) but not by much
I don't know there were scores of PC games even back then . -heck in fact at that time in Russia there was practically no "other computers" besides mainframes and IBM PC compatible. I played my first games at ibm pc xt at my grand dad's office . Unbelievable amount of man hours were wasted in soviet Russia by employees playing prince, cat, m1 abrams, arkanoid, Sopwith etc.. on their "work" computers .
The only thing available to general people were self made zx spectrum clones, but catch it was "self made" from parts -so generally you couldn't have one unless you or somebody in your family could build one (e.g. was experienced electronic engineer with loads of spare time) .
So heck I wouldnt call windows 1.0 era pcs "only for work" - there was no sweeter game pc for me than trusty russian clone of ibm 8086.
"Half"??? Jeez man you probably work with some uber coders. Code and places I seen are more like 90% of wrappers around stolen code and 3d party libraries. And of course the thin veener of "proprietary buisness logic" and UI -usually the most horrible and ugly parts of applications.
I suspect as personal body armor improves firearms will improve too. - Same way anti-tank projectiles did. Next step is cumulative projectiles -if the armor because so dense and hard to penetrate ,just burn it trough. Protection vs cumulative projectiles is expensive in terms of space and weight and while tank can afford it (barely) I doubt personal body vest can.
Though before that I think there is still quite enough room to improve bullets and ammo.
Ok from personal experience thats all balooney . In a big chain food store I worked as cahsier/stocker typical pay for cahiers was $7/h .I worked for $9 and that was only because I did night shifts at start. Stocker get payed 8-9$ , very good stocker with 3 year experience after several "raises" was making $10 .Now "key positions" (such as depart manager, cashier supervisor ) were paid whopping $12-$14 and hour. Heck freaking assitant store manager was making only $16/h .
That was in North Virginia. ANd I do know that other food stores were paying same scale . Walmart in the area paid less. Non-food stores (kohl's, sears) paid little bit more. But- all of them were around lower ~$10 bracket for starting positions and ~$15 for "key".
Fuck this "career" . In a black period of my life I worked as a cashier in food store. -Thats most mind numbing ,most unsatisfying job I ever had unpleasure to slave . If being midnless retarded drone is your idea of "career" ... I would prefer working as net admin for $6 than cashier for $17.5
Gotta tell you, the last upgrade I put out with DRM on it -- sales increased 400%. Its not that big of a market to attract the crackers
Dou you mind sharing the secret? I am actually looking for non intruisive but at least somewhat effective system for software which is distributed online .
Not really . Freelance was formally successor to Privateer series and bad one at that . There ara also X-tension series from egosoft , which can be qualified as a decent successor. But there were no actual games except elite series which used extensively procedural content generation ,elite II-III were especially impressive in their time -you had whole galaxy ,complete with planets you could land onto ,asteroid fields , trade traffic ,etc.
Uhmm Elite III came out shortly after II. Elite III -First Encounter. It was basically souped up elite 2. Now elite IV is a vaporware thing and Braben seem to stop creating anything meaningful in gaming world long time ago .
.- those games were brilliant and ahead of time , but sadly no one followed the idea with modern techniques and hardware . Spore has potential to turn the minds back to idea of really creating worlds ,instead of a prestaged short rail track with pretty graphics . ,that's what I hope Spore will inspire .
Though that doesn't mean elite1-3 weren't great. Tes1-2 (Arena and Daggerfall) were also another fine examples of procedural content generation
- Epic, big worlds to explore and change
"The creation of this basically malicious content was wrong and should be punished by the Law" -I cant believe it I am reading this on slashdot . What there is no people here who wrote viruses/worms as on of their first exercise in system programming? I mean everyone I know who was any good with computers wrote a few of those. It is challenging and interesting task (more so than writing yet another stupid business/reporting app ) .It gives you useful insights into what really program are and how computer systems really work. There are tons of very interesting code and techniques involved in writing good viruses ,worms ,malware, rootkits etc.
.But for writing? It is akin to punishing for thought crime. - It is in the same boat as RIAA/MPAA/BSA vouching for crime penalty for reverse engineering and research in encryption . Sadly Brainwashing is so effective than it affects even the core community of hackers and computer geeks.
Now distributing those with malicious intention is another thing
IE7 beta 3
.Blazing fast. Very sleek and neat on surface.Auto saving sessions combined with blazing fast startup/rendering is easily the most attractive feature. Underneath it though... -Interface for customizing toolbars/search engines is awful .In fact I didn't find a way to resize search bar . Widgets are just toys and I didn't . find any useful ones. But damn its blazing fast
.well better than IE6. They fixed annoying bug with disappearing link addresses in status bar. Tabs are done well (ie they did not screwed anything up) .Tab preview is on par with firefox extension. Other than that.... - Their session save things is annoyance (each time you close browser you have to checkbox and click button -no way to save sessions by default). No real innovation besides tabs and no good "add-ons" (ie7 lsita as addons mostly 3d party progs such as getright ). But well it renders MSDN and exchange webmail access the BEST!
Firefox 1.5.0.4
Opera 9.1
Opera is fast
Firefox.. -well good old firefox I was using since beta and on my linux boxes.Though I stopped recently due to being annoyed by crashes and incompatibility with MSDN. -Well inspired by opera I found extension which saves sessions - remedies crashing problem.IEtab extensions renders msdn well (but not exchange web access). Still pretty slow - but extensions make up for it. Would be my browser of choice if was more stable and ietab is more polished. -Extensions really bring firefox over competition .
IE7..
Tab preview extensions easily better than ie7/opera one
What else? Pink little dragons? There is nothing in the brain except biological neural networks (you know the kind when feedback is largely a function of chemicals ) therefore consciousness is product of those networks
memory market actually has companies competing .I remember 98-2002 was very rough for memory manufacturers . They were sustaining huge loses and some memory manufacturers were forced to leave the market .As a consumer I cant complain in this case -they needed to do that for survival .Alternatively we would have left with monopoly or duopoly - other manufacturers would go bankrupt.
,cough,cough M$ .M$ got slap on the wrist and intel got nothing ( for 8 years intel were not allowing AMD to get any significant market share ,even though technically AMD processors were superior to intel all that time , now when conroe is out watch Intel crush AMD )
On the other hand look at intel or
I said group policies , not groups. group policies are very powerful management tool in AD (you can use practically for anything -from audit levels on servers ,to controllling ms office setting on user desktops). Oh and I have to use Selinux even to just use group based acl's?
,bu sadly it neither OSS ,neither free and require licensing per client (to heck with it we already own anything neccesary for AD). Trhow in MS exchange integration with AD and you have no real alternative in todays real world to MS AD.
And webmin is just basic stuff (accounts/groups) - it does not let you do half of what AD tools do.
I did try very hard to find a comparable tool in OSS world to AD, and the closest thing I found was Novell directory
Oh yeah and it has group policies (together with ACL) for anything and everything in a nice unified way with a simple interface? LDAP is just a directory protocol .AD is a unified management tool for a lot of things in enterprise (including authenticaion ,audit, security, environment settings) .I saw so called "ldap " tools for Linux -which basically make you write your own LDAP queries and create schema by yourself for anything semi complicated (and yeah I can do that in windows too - just I never have to resort to it).
I think voiding MS copyright in EU would be really good . -That will effectively make legal using the stolen source code(win2k source was stolen) and selling products based on it . ReactOs/Wine could legally use it in Europe code to implement better windows compatibility (effectively avoiding current lock-down by M$) and opening MS standards.
.That would be huge market for companies to compete in without ,and M$ effective de-facto lock-in would instead become the base for open standards. -WE would get compatibility with existing hardware/software and openness in the future.
I don't believe M$ OS and products are bad -they are very good , problem with them is that they are all closed and try to impact interoperability in every imaginable and unimaginable way