Ah, highschool. That was a fun time. Being the only one who was computer literate, I remember editing the batch file for PFS Write to display messages on other students' screens as they booted.
Once that was figured out, the teacher was getting mad so I made it erase itself once they pressed a key, so when they tried to tattle... Nothing.
While my Intel gma3100 has been -amazing- for compiz, it's been absolute crap for gaming... Especially while running compiz. (Can't run opengl and compiz at the same time on Intel, it can't handle it.) The drivers are pretty amazingly solid.
But I've been wanting to game on this computer as well, and I miss my nVidia card. I was just about to break down and buy one... Maybe I'll just wait a while longer and see what happens with ATI's drivers. It would be -so- great to continue not having to deal with restricted drivers and yet have a powerful card.
Kudos to ATI for making good on their promise, and for supporting the open source community in general.
Or was too stupid to code it right the first time.
I'm not calling him stupid... That was the example he was trying to get across. By this metric, stupid programmers that commit a lot because of mistakes are rated as highly as highly-motivated, caring programmers who commit a lot because they have a lot of additions to make.
A theory only means that someone has suggested it might be so. A 'law' is a theory that has never been disproven and has stood the test of time, and has scientific data to back it up.
Creationism -is- a theory... It just has no evidence.
Gravity -is- a theory... One that has lasted long enough and has enough data to be called a Law.
Evolution -is- a theory... One that has lasted a long time, but has not enough data to be called a Law yet.
The facts about 'evolution' are clear... That we have fossils that show every indication of being from a few years to millions of years ago, and that these fossils are different in different time periods. We have no proof of why they changed... It could be the FSM periodically extends his noodly appendage and upgrades animals based on their experience points for all we know. But evolution is rational and fits the facts. It has never yet been proven wrong.
Evolution is actually only part of the equation, even... Something has to -cause- the changes in order for evolution and natural selection to do their things. The theory is that radiation from the sun slowly mutates genes so that natural selection can pick the better version.
Lot of theory work there. Personally, I think it's right. But if something proves it wrong, it won't be the end of the world... It'll just be time to start thinking of a better theory. In the end, the pastafarians might be right... It's too bad there's no way to prove or disprove the 'noodly appendage' theory.
"Certainly"? Not certainly. Natural selection is the process by which some animals survive better than others by having certain traits. Horses that run faster are less likely to meet the glue factory before reproduction than slower horses, for example. It's still 'natural selection', it's just that environment has changed.
Cats and dogs go through similar things.
Assuming 'natural selection' is true and not a false hypothesis, this fits the pattern. If it's false, then this may not be the same thing at all after all.
You may be happier, but you may not be a better programmer for it.
Yes, I let the IDE do the heavy 'thinking' most times, but I also find it helpful to have an understand of what's going on. I have never actually programmed anything in assembly, but just learning how things worked definitely made me sharper when it came to the logic necessary to make things happen.
In fact, I've never found a language yet that made me say 'Wow, I'm dumber for having learned that.'
Yeah, I've had internet voice chats go the same way... 2 seconds is pretty painful at first, but you get used to it. I'd have a hard time bitching about it if I were talking to someone on the moon... Or even if I were on the moon talking to someone back home.
It never makes sense to use any 1 thing 'everywhere', but if people would actually stick to the standard and use it intelligently, XML could be very beneficial.
Unfortunately, as you point out, very few do. I'm sick of not-quite-standard crap as well. It's a nightmare to work with... Even moreso than no standard would have been.
Actually, I'm surprised the let you bring a phone in -at all-. Sure, the old one can't take pictures, but both of them can CALL someone. Call someone that knows to not make any noise, put it on speakerphone and they can hear -everything- that's said in the jury room.
I heard about this a while back, and that's why I've bought -nothing- on my 360 via XBox Live since then. My box is already glitchy and I"m just waiting for it to decide to die.
I also heard that there -is- a way for them to convert the content over, but that they won't do it for most people. I forget the exact details now, but it involved shipping it to them for them to handle it. Obviously, they don't admit it's possible very often... And I assume that's because they'd have to do it with almost every console they fix, further adding to the delays and cost.
And nobody is stopping you from doing that. Get multiple OpenIDs. Get them from different providers, if you like. You can still do it your way while the lazy ones (me included) use single sign-on and makes our lives a little simpler.
Of course it didn't kill it. But it made way for -other- entertainment to get its foot in the door. I can't find anything to cite now, but I remember hearing that it's never been as popular as it once was and that strike was why.
If this strike had lasted as long, it would have had the same effect.
For years I have only watched shows that I want to watch. I have not flipped channels, searching for something to watch, in all that time.
What is my secret?
I have hobbies. Too many of them. TV shows are each a hobby and I am drawn to the interesting ones like a moth to a flame. But the boring ones interest me not at all, and channel flipping less so. I've always got something else I've rather do.
The problem is not that 'television is awful', the problem is that you have nothing else you'd rather be doing. Games, playing guitar, making model planes... Anything is better for you than mindlessly channel-flipping.
I seem like I'm preaching, but I'm not. It's simply the answer to your problem.
Spore started as an experiment by Will Wright that later got folded back into the company. I'm sure they're all really leery of it still and don't want to invest in making this game for every processor known to man with some kind of proof that it'll actually sell. The Internet Hype Machine (tm) has managed to convince them it'll sell well enough to put it on a few of them, but it'll have to actually sell before they'll feel comfortable with more. Wright isn't God at the company, merely a very, very strong influence. It's quite obvious that if it were up to him, they'd have launched all the consoles with everything else all at once.
It might have been because they wanted the site to survive the announcement. The page is mostly there, except for this at the top:
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Why does it matter? A -year- with no evidence whatsoever. How it that fair no matter why he couldn't get bail? That's a year of his life he'll -never- get back. I don't know about you, but I have precious little time as it is. Losing a year would be like losing a limb.
Yeah, because I'm -so- worried that someone will pretend to be my father to try to get my password from me.
No, this is only useless if companies don't use it.
I'm glad to see Google is backing this so I can use it on my personal domain as well. I already use SPF and it -did- cut down on the spammers that were impersonating my domain.
I feel I have misrepresented the situation. We were worried that it took so little time to decide not-guilty. So we reviewed everything to make sure there was no argument. We were trying to find any reason to have a real discussion on whether he was guilty or not. Try though we might, we found nothing.
They would have had to -prove- his guilt to me before I'd have voted that way. And I feel most of the others there felt the same, too, though I can't prove that. The reason we were so quick to come up with not-guity was that each of us felt the prosecutor had proven nothing.
I will admit that the prosecutor was absolutely astounded that we came back with not-guilty, though. I supposed there's a chance that all of us were abnormal.
I sat on jury duty of a druggie bum that might have attacked the guy who let him live in his house. Why? For the money in his wallet.
The only evidence: The girl that lived there saw him running out of the house. From next door, where she was at a party. She admitted on the stand that she had done drugs the day before court.
Everything screamed 'guilty' except the lack of -any- evidence. It tooks us only a few minutes to reach a not-guilty verdict. We decided to stop and review everything to see if we could find -any- reason to find him guilty. We could not. It was unanimous.
So no, even though we assumed he did it, we were completely unable to find him guilty. Heck, if they'd put the girl on the stand, we'd have been as likely to think she did it, as she was the only witness and had just as much motive.
It's not 'very easy' to prosecute without evidence.
The worst part of the case was finding out they had kept him in jail for almost a year with zero evidence. And then the prosecutor said that 'New York' wanted him. Judge asked if they had papers, and they didn't, so they finally let him go.
Him, we were probably better off with behind bars... But that could have been -any- of us. They can and do hold people for years at a time with no evidence. Very scary.
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Or perhaps he was right. There are some people that would actually think that dying is better than being gay. In that case, you aren't hurting them to kill them, you're giving them a gift. NOT killing them would be hurting them.
It's a truly fsck'd up way of thinking, but there -are- those who think that way. It is indeed much better to think in terms of the other person instead of terms of yourself, for this situation and others.
I enjoyed Journeyman, but it didn't seem to really be going anywhere. The only mystery was how and why they (and the targets) were picked. Everything else was just... drama. They needed to seriously get things rolling or I was going to quit watching anyhow. I haven't missed the show, unlike others.
Yes, it's true that cars are a bandaid on the distance problem. 'Inventions' are mostly bandaids on problems. Very few inventions actually 'solve' the problem. (Solve meaning that the problem no longer exists.)
But I used the car analogy because it is pretty clear that a bandaid is the best we'll ever have for the problem. We may think and think and think, but our next best solution will -still- be a bandaid. There is no way for us to be in 2 places at once or travel instaneously. At best, we might create a device that lowers it to a few minutes instead of hours or days. (The distance problem involves the entire universe, not just this planet. Once we can travel anywhere on earth in seconds, we will reach for the stars if we haven't already.)
So yes, the same is true for security. We can continue to create bandaids for security, but we will never 'solve' the problem.
My point was that there is a proper amount of time and effort to spend on security, and we're probably pretty near that point. (I think we have a little ways to go yet... Many people still aren't security-minded.)
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Ah, highschool. That was a fun time. Being the only one who was computer literate, I remember editing the batch file for PFS Write to display messages on other students' screens as they booted.
Once that was figured out, the teacher was getting mad so I made it erase itself once they pressed a key, so when they tried to tattle... Nothing.
I had so much fun with that little prank.
Or maybe they aren't as stupid as we think... Maybe, just maybe... They did this on purpose to give global awareness to this censorship.
Maybe I give them too much credit... But it's possible.
While my Intel gma3100 has been -amazing- for compiz, it's been absolute crap for gaming... Especially while running compiz. (Can't run opengl and compiz at the same time on Intel, it can't handle it.) The drivers are pretty amazingly solid.
But I've been wanting to game on this computer as well, and I miss my nVidia card. I was just about to break down and buy one... Maybe I'll just wait a while longer and see what happens with ATI's drivers. It would be -so- great to continue not having to deal with restricted drivers and yet have a powerful card.
Kudos to ATI for making good on their promise, and for supporting the open source community in general.
Or was too stupid to code it right the first time.
I'm not calling him stupid... That was the example he was trying to get across. By this metric, stupid programmers that commit a lot because of mistakes are rated as highly as highly-motivated, caring programmers who commit a lot because they have a lot of additions to make.
A theory only means that someone has suggested it might be so. A 'law' is a theory that has never been disproven and has stood the test of time, and has scientific data to back it up.
Creationism -is- a theory... It just has no evidence.
Gravity -is- a theory... One that has lasted long enough and has enough data to be called a Law.
Evolution -is- a theory... One that has lasted a long time, but has not enough data to be called a Law yet.
The facts about 'evolution' are clear... That we have fossils that show every indication of being from a few years to millions of years ago, and that these fossils are different in different time periods. We have no proof of why they changed... It could be the FSM periodically extends his noodly appendage and upgrades animals based on their experience points for all we know. But evolution is rational and fits the facts. It has never yet been proven wrong.
Evolution is actually only part of the equation, even... Something has to -cause- the changes in order for evolution and natural selection to do their things. The theory is that radiation from the sun slowly mutates genes so that natural selection can pick the better version.
Lot of theory work there. Personally, I think it's right. But if something proves it wrong, it won't be the end of the world... It'll just be time to start thinking of a better theory. In the end, the pastafarians might be right... It's too bad there's no way to prove or disprove the 'noodly appendage' theory.
Wait, I meant the Christians might be...
"Certainly"? Not certainly. Natural selection is the process by which some animals survive better than others by having certain traits. Horses that run faster are less likely to meet the glue factory before reproduction than slower horses, for example. It's still 'natural selection', it's just that environment has changed.
Cats and dogs go through similar things.
Assuming 'natural selection' is true and not a false hypothesis, this fits the pattern. If it's false, then this may not be the same thing at all after all.
I didn't believe you at first, so I read the article... Now, I'm not sure even your excuse is enough. Horrendous.
You may be happier, but you may not be a better programmer for it.
Yes, I let the IDE do the heavy 'thinking' most times, but I also find it helpful to have an understand of what's going on. I have never actually programmed anything in assembly, but just learning how things worked definitely made me sharper when it came to the logic necessary to make things happen.
In fact, I've never found a language yet that made me say 'Wow, I'm dumber for having learned that.'
Yeah, I've had internet voice chats go the same way... 2 seconds is pretty painful at first, but you get used to it. I'd have a hard time bitching about it if I were talking to someone on the moon... Or even if I were on the moon talking to someone back home.
It never makes sense to use any 1 thing 'everywhere', but if people would actually stick to the standard and use it intelligently, XML could be very beneficial.
Unfortunately, as you point out, very few do. I'm sick of not-quite-standard crap as well. It's a nightmare to work with... Even moreso than no standard would have been.
Christ, how often do you go to jury duty?
Actually, I'm surprised the let you bring a phone in -at all-. Sure, the old one can't take pictures, but both of them can CALL someone. Call someone that knows to not make any noise, put it on speakerphone and they can hear -everything- that's said in the jury room.
I heard about this a while back, and that's why I've bought -nothing- on my 360 via XBox Live since then. My box is already glitchy and I"m just waiting for it to decide to die.
I also heard that there -is- a way for them to convert the content over, but that they won't do it for most people. I forget the exact details now, but it involved shipping it to them for them to handle it. Obviously, they don't admit it's possible very often... And I assume that's because they'd have to do it with almost every console they fix, further adding to the delays and cost.
And nobody is stopping you from doing that. Get multiple OpenIDs. Get them from different providers, if you like. You can still do it your way while the lazy ones (me included) use single sign-on and makes our lives a little simpler.
Of course it didn't kill it. But it made way for -other- entertainment to get its foot in the door. I can't find anything to cite now, but I remember hearing that it's never been as popular as it once was and that strike was why.
If this strike had lasted as long, it would have had the same effect.
For years I have only watched shows that I want to watch. I have not flipped channels, searching for something to watch, in all that time.
What is my secret?
I have hobbies. Too many of them. TV shows are each a hobby and I am drawn to the interesting ones like a moth to a flame. But the boring ones interest me not at all, and channel flipping less so. I've always got something else I've rather do.
The problem is not that 'television is awful', the problem is that you have nothing else you'd rather be doing. Games, playing guitar, making model planes... Anything is better for you than mindlessly channel-flipping.
I seem like I'm preaching, but I'm not. It's simply the answer to your problem.
Spore started as an experiment by Will Wright that later got folded back into the company. I'm sure they're all really leery of it still and don't want to invest in making this game for every processor known to man with some kind of proof that it'll actually sell. The Internet Hype Machine (tm) has managed to convince them it'll sell well enough to put it on a few of them, but it'll have to actually sell before they'll feel comfortable with more. Wright isn't God at the company, merely a very, very strong influence. It's quite obvious that if it were up to him, they'd have launched all the consoles with everything else all at once.
It might have been because they wanted the site to survive the announcement. The page is mostly there, except for this at the top:
/home2/haiku2/webapps/website/gallery2/lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 384. ;)
warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: User haiku2_gallery already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in
Why does it matter? A -year- with no evidence whatsoever. How it that fair no matter why he couldn't get bail? That's a year of his life he'll -never- get back. I don't know about you, but I have precious little time as it is. Losing a year would be like losing a limb.
I hope it wasn't rare, because that has been my single positive experience with the justice system. (None of them directly involved me, really.)
The judge in this case was also very nice. Afterwards, he came and talked to us, and even let us ask questions we had.
It was a very positive experience and I actually look forward to jury duty again if I'm called. (I was dreading it before that time.)
Yeah, because I'm -so- worried that someone will pretend to be my father to try to get my password from me.
No, this is only useless if companies don't use it.
I'm glad to see Google is backing this so I can use it on my personal domain as well. I already use SPF and it -did- cut down on the spammers that were impersonating my domain.
I feel I have misrepresented the situation. We were worried that it took so little time to decide not-guilty. So we reviewed everything to make sure there was no argument. We were trying to find any reason to have a real discussion on whether he was guilty or not. Try though we might, we found nothing.
They would have had to -prove- his guilt to me before I'd have voted that way. And I feel most of the others there felt the same, too, though I can't prove that. The reason we were so quick to come up with not-guity was that each of us felt the prosecutor had proven nothing.
I will admit that the prosecutor was absolutely astounded that we came back with not-guilty, though. I supposed there's a chance that all of us were abnormal.
Wrong.
I sat on jury duty of a druggie bum that might have attacked the guy who let him live in his house. Why? For the money in his wallet.
The only evidence: The girl that lived there saw him running out of the house. From next door, where she was at a party. She admitted on the stand that she had done drugs the day before court.
Everything screamed 'guilty' except the lack of -any- evidence. It tooks us only a few minutes to reach a not-guilty verdict. We decided to stop and review everything to see if we could find -any- reason to find him guilty. We could not. It was unanimous.
So no, even though we assumed he did it, we were completely unable to find him guilty. Heck, if they'd put the girl on the stand, we'd have been as likely to think she did it, as she was the only witness and had just as much motive.
It's not 'very easy' to prosecute without evidence.
The worst part of the case was finding out they had kept him in jail for almost a year with zero evidence. And then the prosecutor said that 'New York' wanted him. Judge asked if they had papers, and they didn't, so they finally let him go.
Him, we were probably better off with behind bars... But that could have been -any- of us. They can and do hold people for years at a time with no evidence. Very scary.
Or perhaps he was right. There are some people that would actually think that dying is better than being gay. In that case, you aren't hurting them to kill them, you're giving them a gift. NOT killing them would be hurting them.
It's a truly fsck'd up way of thinking, but there -are- those who think that way. It is indeed much better to think in terms of the other person instead of terms of yourself, for this situation and others.
I enjoyed Journeyman, but it didn't seem to really be going anywhere. The only mystery was how and why they (and the targets) were picked. Everything else was just... drama. They needed to seriously get things rolling or I was going to quit watching anyhow. I haven't missed the show, unlike others.
Yes, it's true that cars are a bandaid on the distance problem. 'Inventions' are mostly bandaids on problems. Very few inventions actually 'solve' the problem. (Solve meaning that the problem no longer exists.)
But I used the car analogy because it is pretty clear that a bandaid is the best we'll ever have for the problem. We may think and think and think, but our next best solution will -still- be a bandaid. There is no way for us to be in 2 places at once or travel instaneously. At best, we might create a device that lowers it to a few minutes instead of hours or days. (The distance problem involves the entire universe, not just this planet. Once we can travel anywhere on earth in seconds, we will reach for the stars if we haven't already.)
So yes, the same is true for security. We can continue to create bandaids for security, but we will never 'solve' the problem.
My point was that there is a proper amount of time and effort to spend on security, and we're probably pretty near that point. (I think we have a little ways to go yet... Many people still aren't security-minded.)