While that's a lovely anecdote it's also complete rubbish. The "stress" on the body for doing such a thing would make those girls require substantially more photo-shopping due to related symptoms even producing very much the opposite effect trying to be achieved by causing significant bloating. Long term it would make their models even harder to maintain given the body's response to calories after starvation.
*sigh* Has the geek crowd at large become so far removed from the opposite sex that they cannot even recognized the extreme anatomical deficiencies inherent in the interface? Get out of the basement and sell an epic flying mount every once in a while... Sheesh.
That's speculation. What evidence can you provide to show that the communication protocols used are anything more secure than off-the-shelf consumer grade? Thiskind of crapmakes me highly suspicious.
Dammit! Why can't NASA get their story right. It's neither helium, nor water, nor methane, nor diamonds or gold that they need to be finding. We need oil dammit, oil! If we ever want to see a human set foot on Mars we to find massive underground oceans of light sweet crude!
I am aware in as much as is made publicly available. Are you? Or just one of the sheeple acting as ideologue for the neo-cons intent on maintaining the status-quo for the empire? For nearly every action of the Iranian government people are beating the drum against, it is possible to find an equivalent action perpetrated by the U.S. government. Iran's biggest crime is not falling in lock-step with the role assigned to it by western powers. How dare they attempt to rise to the level influence and power of Saudi Arabia and Israel right? How dare they think themselves meritorious of the glory their nation once had before the west stole it from them. Come down sir, come down off your pedestal and see the world through the eyes of the other 99% of the world population.
You say you would not take Iran at their word but in light of the past 50+ years of U.S. history that we even know about, how can anyone take the U.S. government at it's word? We criticize the China, we criticize Russia, Venezuela, North Korean, Libya, Iran, etc. of telling lies, of spreading propaganda to paint pictures favorably or dis-favorably to suit the needs of the regime but I tell you the U.S. is no less dishonorable, no less a liar. We cover up that which is inconvenient, we sow seeds discord, spread lies and tell tales to support our agenda. We might not always be as blatant, but that's simply because we are better organized and better financed.
Yes, and quite frankly good on them. We have no business invading their airspace. Further, this sort of thing exposes in a very blatant way how the DoD and the contractors responsible for developing these vehicles have made little to no effort to safeguard them from radio interference. This is particularly troubling given our substantial and growing dependence upon these vehicles and downright scary when you consider the fact that they're weaponizing many of them.
"Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small."
This coupled with other statements regarding "retirement" to me structure a rather specific narrative. Perhaps "burnt out" is a rather strong statement but all the same he's clearly stating he wants to slow down and play the role of the sage elder/grandpa.
It is true that "indy" has been around for a while, but next to none as successful as Minecraft. At least with respect to commercial titles, permissive modding did not include reverse engineering binaries for the purpose of hacking and replacing actual game functionality. It has been mostly additive through a plug-in model, or custom levels, skins, etc.. this sort of thing would never fly. As for "release when playable, continue dev. indefinitly" there have long been so called "expansion packs." However, to my knowledge continual evolution only exists for non-commercial indy games and a few MMOs such as EvE and WoW. Both of which have been obviously quite successful.
They're voluntarily exchanging a cube for a long leash. I don't see it as unreasonable, but rather a fair trade. Flexibility to work where and possibly when they want. In exchange they trade their physically present human supervisor for an automated screen-capture software. This isn't a web cam in the bathroom type intrusion, merely an alternate form of the same supervision they'd receive if they were physically present at the office.
Minecraft's biggest impact is in its business model. Independent publishing, pre-release releases to help evolve the game toward a substantially more favorable final, permissive behavior towards modders, etc.. The concept and success of the game in and of itself was a fortunate but largely accidental strike.
I read this as "I'm burnt out. I'm tired of the front lines and really just want to play the role of grandpa now. Take up a hobby, mentor some youngsters..."
While I haven't investigated it, I would suspect that Windows' DNS functionality isn't quite so pluggable as it is for the *nix OSs. It may well just be impractical to implement.
bloody, messy, cost countless lives (for both sides) and be completely abhorrent. It's supposed to be that way because that's the only way to not have war. If we make it nice, clean, neat, and remote then the victor can tell any tale they want. Slaughtered millions at the hands of robot jocks thousands of miles away? No, they surrendered peacefully with minimal bloodshed. Thousands of casualties taking out the enemy HQ? No, it was a precision strike that killed only the bad guys. Not even dust settled on the neighboring buildings... This pursuit is shameful.
Now see, here we have a problem... Given the filth that have come from that place I honestly cannot tell which way you're going with that. The mods think you're insightful but even that could be for reasons that go either way and I find that very disturbing. If this was the goal then well done. If not, then next time please choose another target. Depending on which way you want to go, K Street or Boise, ID for instance...
I understand what you're saying but at the same time software that wastes compute resources is also wasting dollars. Dollars needlessly spend on employee hours (waiting for operations to complete), new/upgraded hardware to cope, and one that many people might not realize extra software development, maintenance and support costs. Inefficient software quite often reflects a poor implementation under the hood and frequently behind the wheel. One thing nearly every engineering discipline recognizes is that the fewer moving parts a system has the inherently more reliable and maintainable that system becomes. This is no different with software. Software bloat is the bane of those trying to implement features to support new requirements and a nightmare for those trying to ensure quality control. Software bloat often shows up in the user interface as well in poorly implemented workflows that further slow down productivity.
Contrary to popular opinion, fancy GUIs replete with eye-candy generally aren't the problem--normally they're built on top of highly abstracted, well optimized and tested frameworks--it's evolution. One of the more common sources of inefficiency is software bloat. Bloat can even plague software that was initially well constructed. Over time, after several iterations of evolution the feature requests, the various modifications and the resulting baggage train required to support them can grow substantially and weigh down a system. It isn't that the bloat is a requirement of a given feature set per-se but rather reflects a set of compromises made necessary by an initial architecture that wasn't designed to support them. Management and even sometimes the engineers have a hard time accepting that a significant or even complete tear down and reconstruction with a new architecture is the best and most appropriate choice. One of the easiest and most notable places this problem can be recognized is in web browsers. Take a trip down memory lane and compare the features, bloat, and usability of the various web browser throughout time.
That's a great idea, but in practice you will be forced to spend 80% or more of your time pissing on all the fires. Very often you "are" forced to spread yourself thin, very thin, because if you don't the whole building is in imminent danger of collapsing around you while you are replacing the door.
And some are sweatshop code monkeys or BestBuy clerks--that care nothing for their job--simply trying to collect a paycheck so they can buy Call of Duty {x}. Jobs to them are an unfortunately but necessary means to an end. The fewer hours and the less they actually have to do the better.
I'm familiar with that kind of mess... Best advise is to piss on all the fires as quickly as they arise and unfortunately put in over-time putting in place alternative implementations that prevent it from happening again. During those brief intervals when something isn't burning survey the land and determine the highest risk (read cost and likelihood of failure) and take proactive steps to mitigate. At first you'll feel like you're in the worst kind of hell but eventually, things will start to come in place and you'll be able to enjoy your hard earned vacation. Further, it's quite probable that you don't have a complete knowledge of the technology being used. Get it. There's no substitute for actually knowing what you're doing. It's unfortunately far too common for people with no time and/or interest to search the web for a snippet of code, or set of procedure steps and hack these into place with out the slightest clue what they're doing nor the consequences thereof. It's usually better to go sharpen the ax before you go into the woods even if it seems like it will take more time. Trust me, it will pay dividends later.
It's a passive experience. Why should I simply watch a bunch of morons parade around on a reality show set. Let me be the "moron..."
Scheduling is fixed. Who says I am available or interested in watching the content I want to watch at the time dictated by the broadcaster? Sure if I want to jump through a variety of hoops I can "time-shift" but that's a pain and doesn't take care of the "Oops I didn't realize that was on...", or the "I forgot to record it..."
You're forced into taking omnibus and outrageously expensive "packages" of content rather than a-la-carte "channels" or better still pay-per-view VOD of any program desired. I don't want to pay for 300+ channels of crap I never watch. For that matter I don't really want to pay for the 20+ out of 24 hours of crap I don't watch for those channels I do.
You're limited to only the crap that everyone else in my subscriber base wants to watch (or at least stomachs). Maybe I'd like to watch something out of Japan, U.A.E., UK, etc.
Did I mention it's expensive beyond all reason? I don't care if you can throw a 3D pie at me or fill my living room with the smell of Snookie's flatulent. It's too expensive. Some 33% of my time is wasted on commercials and on top of that I have to shell out $100+/month for BASIC cable? Are you people out of your fracking mind?
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While that's a lovely anecdote it's also complete rubbish. The "stress" on the body for doing such a thing would make those girls require substantially more photo-shopping due to related symptoms even producing very much the opposite effect trying to be achieved by causing significant bloating. Long term it would make their models even harder to maintain given the body's response to calories after starvation.
*sigh* Has the geek crowd at large become so far removed from the opposite sex that they cannot even recognized the extreme anatomical deficiencies inherent in the interface? Get out of the basement and sell an epic flying mount every once in a while... Sheesh.
Agreed. But have you while playing Farmville? That's the point...
That's speculation. What evidence can you provide to show that the communication protocols used are anything more secure than off-the-shelf consumer grade? This kind of crap makes me highly suspicious.
Dammit! Why can't NASA get their story right. It's neither helium, nor water, nor methane, nor diamonds or gold that they need to be finding. We need oil dammit, oil! If we ever want to see a human set foot on Mars we to find massive underground oceans of light sweet crude!
I am aware in as much as is made publicly available. Are you? Or just one of the sheeple acting as ideologue for the neo-cons intent on maintaining the status-quo for the empire? For nearly every action of the Iranian government people are beating the drum against, it is possible to find an equivalent action perpetrated by the U.S. government. Iran's biggest crime is not falling in lock-step with the role assigned to it by western powers. How dare they attempt to rise to the level influence and power of Saudi Arabia and Israel right? How dare they think themselves meritorious of the glory their nation once had before the west stole it from them. Come down sir, come down off your pedestal and see the world through the eyes of the other 99% of the world population.
You say you would not take Iran at their word but in light of the past 50+ years of U.S. history that we even know about, how can anyone take the U.S. government at it's word? We criticize the China, we criticize Russia, Venezuela, North Korean, Libya, Iran, etc. of telling lies, of spreading propaganda to paint pictures favorably or dis-favorably to suit the needs of the regime but I tell you the U.S. is no less dishonorable, no less a liar. We cover up that which is inconvenient, we sow seeds discord, spread lies and tell tales to support our agenda. We might not always be as blatant, but that's simply because we are better organized and better financed.
Yes, and quite frankly good on them. We have no business invading their airspace. Further, this sort of thing exposes in a very blatant way how the DoD and the contractors responsible for developing these vehicles have made little to no effort to safeguard them from radio interference. This is particularly troubling given our substantial and growing dependence upon these vehicles and downright scary when you consider the fact that they're weaponizing many of them.
Not quite true if you read on...
"Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small."
This coupled with other statements regarding "retirement" to me structure a rather specific narrative. Perhaps "burnt out" is a rather strong statement but all the same he's clearly stating he wants to slow down and play the role of the sage elder/grandpa.
Absolutely. This man can be substantially credited with inspiring me as a child to pursue the software engineering career I now enjoy.
It is true that "indy" has been around for a while, but next to none as successful as Minecraft. At least with respect to commercial titles, permissive modding did not include reverse engineering binaries for the purpose of hacking and replacing actual game functionality. It has been mostly additive through a plug-in model, or custom levels, skins, etc.. this sort of thing would never fly. As for "release when playable, continue dev. indefinitly" there have long been so called "expansion packs." However, to my knowledge continual evolution only exists for non-commercial indy games and a few MMOs such as EvE and WoW. Both of which have been obviously quite successful.
They're voluntarily exchanging a cube for a long leash. I don't see it as unreasonable, but rather a fair trade. Flexibility to work where and possibly when they want. In exchange they trade their physically present human supervisor for an automated screen-capture software. This isn't a web cam in the bathroom type intrusion, merely an alternate form of the same supervision they'd receive if they were physically present at the office.
Minecraft's biggest impact is in its business model. Independent publishing, pre-release releases to help evolve the game toward a substantially more favorable final, permissive behavior towards modders, etc.. The concept and success of the game in and of itself was a fortunate but largely accidental strike.
I read this as "I'm burnt out. I'm tired of the front lines and really just want to play the role of grandpa now. Take up a hobby, mentor some youngsters..."
Knowledge is power but he who controls the information reigns supreme.
While I haven't investigated it, I would suspect that Windows' DNS functionality isn't quite so pluggable as it is for the *nix OSs. It may well just be impractical to implement.
Well to be fair a couple weeks ago one of my Windows machines did flash a BSOD before auto-rebooting.
bloody, messy, cost countless lives (for both sides) and be completely abhorrent. It's supposed to be that way because that's the only way to not have war. If we make it nice, clean, neat, and remote then the victor can tell any tale they want. Slaughtered millions at the hands of robot jocks thousands of miles away? No, they surrendered peacefully with minimal bloodshed. Thousands of casualties taking out the enemy HQ? No, it was a precision strike that killed only the bad guys. Not even dust settled on the neighboring buildings... This pursuit is shameful.
Now see, here we have a problem... Given the filth that have come from that place I honestly cannot tell which way you're going with that. The mods think you're insightful but even that could be for reasons that go either way and I find that very disturbing. If this was the goal then well done. If not, then next time please choose another target. Depending on which way you want to go, K Street or Boise, ID for instance...
I understand what you're saying but at the same time software that wastes compute resources is also wasting dollars. Dollars needlessly spend on employee hours (waiting for operations to complete), new/upgraded hardware to cope, and one that many people might not realize extra software development, maintenance and support costs. Inefficient software quite often reflects a poor implementation under the hood and frequently behind the wheel. One thing nearly every engineering discipline recognizes is that the fewer moving parts a system has the inherently more reliable and maintainable that system becomes. This is no different with software. Software bloat is the bane of those trying to implement features to support new requirements and a nightmare for those trying to ensure quality control. Software bloat often shows up in the user interface as well in poorly implemented workflows that further slow down productivity.
Contrary to popular opinion, fancy GUIs replete with eye-candy generally aren't the problem--normally they're built on top of highly abstracted, well optimized and tested frameworks--it's evolution. One of the more common sources of inefficiency is software bloat. Bloat can even plague software that was initially well constructed. Over time, after several iterations of evolution the feature requests, the various modifications and the resulting baggage train required to support them can grow substantially and weigh down a system. It isn't that the bloat is a requirement of a given feature set per-se but rather reflects a set of compromises made necessary by an initial architecture that wasn't designed to support them. Management and even sometimes the engineers have a hard time accepting that a significant or even complete tear down and reconstruction with a new architecture is the best and most appropriate choice. One of the easiest and most notable places this problem can be recognized is in web browsers. Take a trip down memory lane and compare the features, bloat, and usability of the various web browser throughout time.
That's a great idea, but in practice you will be forced to spend 80% or more of your time pissing on all the fires. Very often you "are" forced to spread yourself thin, very thin, because if you don't the whole building is in imminent danger of collapsing around you while you are replacing the door.
I have a strong hunch that that is not funny.
That's lovely and all but where do you get on and where do you get off that crazy merry-go-round?
And some are sweatshop code monkeys or BestBuy clerks--that care nothing for their job--simply trying to collect a paycheck so they can buy Call of Duty {x}. Jobs to them are an unfortunately but necessary means to an end. The fewer hours and the less they actually have to do the better.
I'm familiar with that kind of mess... Best advise is to piss on all the fires as quickly as they arise and unfortunately put in over-time putting in place alternative implementations that prevent it from happening again. During those brief intervals when something isn't burning survey the land and determine the highest risk (read cost and likelihood of failure) and take proactive steps to mitigate. At first you'll feel like you're in the worst kind of hell but eventually, things will start to come in place and you'll be able to enjoy your hard earned vacation. Further, it's quite probable that you don't have a complete knowledge of the technology being used. Get it. There's no substitute for actually knowing what you're doing. It's unfortunately far too common for people with no time and/or interest to search the web for a snippet of code, or set of procedure steps and hack these into place with out the slightest clue what they're doing nor the consequences thereof. It's usually better to go sharpen the ax before you go into the woods even if it seems like it will take more time. Trust me, it will pay dividends later.