I think it's just badly written. My take on it is that it's bandwidth not download limits. So it's probably 1 gigabit connection. The article says "can be shared between 12 to 20 people for "normal" Web access". I suppose 1/20th of a gigabit connection is "normal" access.
Also if you look at http://www.nswnet.net/rurallink/costs/ you'll see they quote AUD$189.00 for a 1GB download limited connection.
As a few people have suggested, why not try combining both? Someone suggested informatics. That sounds research based. EBM is about providing information to General Practitioners (mostly).
If your expertise is more face to face than research, EBM might be the go.
You would of course have to learn a lot of CS first, but you might want to look for a field that is hiring (in case you don't read the "funny" replies) and where you can add to your skills base instead of replacing it. EBM might be just that field. You might also be able to get a start using your existing skills while learning about the CS side of things.
Alltheweb doesn't cache its results (that I can see) and a search for "google sucks" on Google brings up www.google-sucks.org and various other sites claiming that google sucks, but a similar search on alltheweb brings up virtually nothing of interest on its first page and even a site that has "The Internet sucks w/o Google".
A search for "alltheweb sucks" on alltheweb brings up nothing on the first page that's critical of alltheweb. Maybe they aren't big enough to be hated, but the results look, well, sucky.
On that basis alone, I think I'd trust Google to deliver real content over alltheweb.
Seems a little OT, but any post here is either going to be OT or redundant (given that we've already discussed the original article), and Child's Play was mentioned in the post.
Child's Play wasn't done to get the "public" to like gamers, nor to counteract the "games make you a psycho-killer" lobby. It was done to help some kids. You can be cynical and disagree, but so what? Sure it also has the effect of projecting an image of games as fun, as something good for a change, but "two birds with one stone" isn't a crime (provided you stay metaphorical).
In many parts of the world motorcyclists organise "toy runs" where lots of bikies/bikers collect money and toys, meet at a pre-arranged spot and then ride en masse to a children's hospital where they hand the goddies over. This creates an alternative image for the media. They can run a story about bike gangs / speeding "organ donors" or one about subverted stereotypes and outlaws with hearts of gold. It's a cliche either way but at least the toy runs give them the option.
It sounds as though the media didn't know what to make of Child's Play, so they pretended it wasn't there. The kids still got their toys, and if it becomes a regular feature, perhaps the media will have to develop a similar bifurcated view of gamers.
Sure they'll still be tossing a coin, "heads = GTA psychos, tails = human interest story with sick kids", but at least there's a positive stereotype in there too.
This won't change the fact that games, like motorcyclists, span the gamut of psychos and idiots through to saints and whatnot, but it might help a little. Give it time.
Of course, it's worth keeping up just for its own sake too.
Most of the alleged "excerpts" are nothing of the sort. They're just bibliographic entries.
This would be a really useful service if they could distinguish between the books that have *actual* excerpts and those which just had descriptions, TOCs, etc.
That's what I was thinking, but it says "up to 3 minutes of on-screen advertising". Obviously they phrase it this way to make the customers think that 3 mins will be the max, but 0 minutes of advertising meets the "up to 3 mins" requirement, doesn't it?
Of course, if we continue to canvas ways around it and the Metronomy dudes read/....
If you have a digital tacho, that should be fairly easy. The gear position would be trickier. I suppose it could be calculated from data about the bike's gearing, RMP and road speed, but that would be different for every bike. Some Suzukis used to have digital gear indicators between the tacho and speedo, so that would work. I don't know of any modern bikes that still have them though.
If this works, it would make catching plagiarists almost impossible.
1) Google the paper topic 2) Cut'n'paste 3) Run it through the Cornell application 4) Turn it in 5) Collect the grades
Doubtless Cornell University researchers are already modifying this to create software for catching plagiarists. A bit like IronPort buying SpamCop?
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I don't know what it's like in the rest of the world but in Australia there are about four times as many Desert Combat servers as "Vanilla" BF servers, and they are always busier. (DC is, as you might guess, based on both recent Gulf Wars).
This is despite EA Games being very reluctant to support mods. Even the map editor promised shortly after the game was released only came out almost a year later and after a lot of complaining in the BF community. There is now a rudimentary SDK, but this is probably because the suits at EA saw the official expansion packs do comparatively badly and saw how well community made mods (epsecially DC and the Vietnam mod Eve of Destruction) were doing. You need a copy of the original game to play the mods, so reluctantly EA have started to co-operate.
Valve are probably the industry leader in terms of encouraging mods. This is an interesting business model, as it resembles OS while still allowing the games companies to sell licenses. If even EA are moving in that direction, then I think gaming is going to get very interesting (from both the players' and modders' point of view) in the next few years.
The exception to this law is an invention that relates to the employer's R&D or practice, or that results from work an employee did at the company.
IANAL etc, but perhaps California law is responsible here. I don't know what "relates to" or "results from" mean in this context, but it might just mean you can't build on information you acquired from work even if that information is widely available, and you did it in your own time and on your own machine. This is a reason for criticising Californian laws, not Apple.
Old farts like me who are now too scared/sensible to pop a mono can buy a vehicle which does it for them, presumably legally. Except of course we still have to have the cahones to blast it up to 12 mph.
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I assume installing a firewall and blocking UDP ports 135, 137 & 138 and TCP ports 135, 139 & 445 will have the desired effect, but does anyone know of an alternative?
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I think it's just badly written. My take on it is that it's bandwidth not download limits. So it's probably 1 gigabit connection. The article says "can be shared between 12 to 20 people for "normal" Web access". I suppose 1/20th of a gigabit connection is "normal" access.
Also if you look at http://www.nswnet.net/rurallink/costs/
you'll see they quote AUD$189.00 for a 1GB download limited connection.
So was this Kevin Bachus' "first move" after joining up with Infinium Labs?
No. He set up Capital Entertainment Group in I think 2001. He was also with Wild Tangent but seems to have left.
So not much of a success record for him then.
As a few people have suggested, why not try combining both? Someone suggested informatics. That sounds research based. EBM is about providing information to General Practitioners (mostly).
If your expertise is more face to face than research, EBM might be the go.
Try The Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine for an idea of what it's about.
You would of course have to learn a lot of CS first, but you might want to look for a field that is hiring (in case you don't read the "funny" replies) and where you can add to your skills base instead of replacing it. EBM might be just that field. You might also be able to get a start using your existing skills while learning about the CS side of things.
Good luck.
Alltheweb doesn't cache its results (that I can see) and a search for "google sucks" on Google brings up www.google-sucks.org and various other sites claiming that google sucks, but a similar search on alltheweb brings up virtually nothing of interest on its first page and even a site that has "The Internet sucks w/o Google".
A search for "alltheweb sucks" on alltheweb brings up nothing on the first page that's critical of alltheweb. Maybe they aren't big enough to be hated, but the results look, well, sucky.
On that basis alone, I think I'd trust Google to deliver real content over alltheweb.
Seems a little OT, but any post here is either going to be OT or redundant (given that we've already discussed the original article), and Child's Play was mentioned in the post.
Child's Play wasn't done to get the "public" to like gamers, nor to counteract the "games make you a psycho-killer" lobby. It was done to help some kids. You can be cynical and disagree, but so what? Sure it also has the effect of projecting an image of games as fun, as something good for a change, but "two birds with one stone" isn't a crime (provided you stay metaphorical).
In many parts of the world motorcyclists organise "toy runs" where lots of bikies/bikers collect money and toys, meet at a pre-arranged spot and then ride en masse to a children's hospital where they hand the goddies over. This creates an alternative image for the media. They can run a story about bike gangs / speeding "organ donors" or one about subverted stereotypes and outlaws with hearts of gold. It's a cliche either way but at least the toy runs give them the option.
It sounds as though the media didn't know what to make of Child's Play, so they pretended it wasn't there. The kids still got their toys, and if it becomes a regular feature, perhaps the media will have to develop a similar bifurcated view of gamers.
Sure they'll still be tossing a coin, "heads = GTA psychos, tails = human interest story with sick kids", but at least there's a positive stereotype in there too.
This won't change the fact that games, like motorcyclists, span the gamut of psychos and idiots through to saints and whatnot, but it might help a little. Give it time.
Of course, it's worth keeping up just for its own sake too.
Oops. FotR, not FOK. You knew what I meant though.
WARNING - Contains spoilers re the first three minutes of FOK.
Most of the alleged "excerpts" are nothing of the sort. They're just bibliographic entries.
This would be a really useful service if they could distinguish between the books that have *actual* excerpts and those which just had descriptions, TOCs, etc.
I don't know if it would run on such low end machines, but you might consider Nethack.
That's what I was thinking, but it says "up to 3 minutes of on-screen advertising". Obviously they phrase it this way to make the customers think that 3 mins will be the max, but 0 minutes of advertising meets the "up to 3 mins" requirement, doesn't it?
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Of course, if we continue to canvas ways around it and the Metronomy dudes read
If you have a digital tacho, that should be fairly easy. The gear position would be trickier. I suppose it could be calculated from data about the bike's gearing, RMP and road speed, but that would be different for every bike. Some Suzukis used to have digital gear indicators between the tacho and speedo, so that would work. I don't know of any modern bikes that still have them though.
Only if the "pavement" is vertical. Down here we call those walls.
If this works, it would make catching plagiarists almost impossible.
1) Google the paper topic
2) Cut'n'paste
3) Run it through the Cornell application
4) Turn it in
5) Collect the grades
Doubtless Cornell University researchers are already modifying this to create software for catching plagiarists. A bit like IronPort buying SpamCop?
I don't know what it's like in the rest of the world but in Australia there are about four times as many Desert Combat servers as "Vanilla" BF servers, and they are always busier. (DC is, as you might guess, based on both recent Gulf Wars).
This is despite EA Games being very reluctant to support mods. Even the map editor promised shortly after the game was released only came out almost a year later and after a lot of complaining in the BF community. There is now a rudimentary SDK, but this is probably because the suits at EA saw the official expansion packs do comparatively badly and saw how well community made mods (epsecially DC and the Vietnam mod Eve of Destruction) were doing. You need a copy of the original game to play the mods, so reluctantly EA have started to co-operate.
Valve are probably the industry leader in terms of encouraging mods. This is an interesting business model, as it resembles OS while still allowing the games companies to sell licenses. If even EA are moving in that direction, then I think gaming is going to get very interesting (from both the players' and modders' point of view) in the next few years.
IANAL etc, but perhaps California law is responsible here. I don't know what "relates to" or "results from" mean in this context, but it might just mean you can't build on information you acquired from work even if that information is widely available, and you did it in your own time and on your own machine. This is a reason for criticising Californian laws, not Apple.
Old farts like me who are now too scared/sensible to pop a mono can buy a vehicle which does it for them, presumably legally. Except of course we still have to have the cahones to blast it up to 12 mph.
I assume installing a firewall and blocking UDP ports 135, 137 & 138 and TCP ports 135, 139 & 445 will have the desired effect, but does anyone know of an alternative?