Ditto. Malda had all these cool little applets for E that I played around with, and then I noticed there was a link to this little forum I hadn't heard about...
I just checked out the video from HuskyStarcraft, and I guess I must be missing something. Aside from the DRM that forces you to be online to play, and the fact that they censor your character names, how is this an improvement over Diablo 2? It looks like exactly the same game, just at a higher resolution.
Way back in the WoW beta, I remember fantasizing about Blizzard making a Diablo III using some of WoW's technology. By which I meant the best of both worlds, a game that looks and plays like WoW but set in the darker Diablo universe with single player and LAN play. Instead, we get basically the worst of both worlds, a dated look and feel saddled with unnecessary online requirements. Next.
Morrowind and Oblivion both work fine with Virtual CloneDrive. That way you can play without a physical CD, and without requiring a no-CD patch (which break stuff like Morrowind FPS Optimizer and Oblivion Script Extender).
This is an obviously fake site. Do a whois on aptiquant.com and you'll see that it was registered two weeks ago by a Georgia Tech graduate student named Tarandeep Gill. Further, you'll find that the majority of the content on the site was copied verbatim from http://www.centraltest.com/, which is apparently a "real" psychometric evaluation firm. Even the "about us" page features the same profile pictures, but with some of the names and credentials changed.
But it sure was funny watching y'all pat yourselves on the back about how smart you are.
GM offered him $1million for it, with the explicit promise that they'd sweep it under the rug and never develop it further... being ethical, my grandfather told them to stuff it, and ended up never selling the design.
This is obviously not true. Car companies have no vested interest in reducing fuel economy. In 1984 GM was struggling to meet consumer demand for the big, comfortable cars Americans want, while also meeting ever-stricter emissions and fuel economy rules. Since GM really didn't know how to make cars that were both small and good, they were stuck with a stable of large, underpowered cars and small, unpopular ones, and losing market share every year. A technology like you describe would have allowed them to leapfrog the problem altogether; instead of sweeping the technology under the rug, they would have bought the exclusive rights and dominated the market.
Now, maybe if you claimed your grandfather had tried to sell it to Exxon, it might be more credible.
is that the person who thought they were being clever by labeling this a "leak" didn't notice it was an unclassified memo sent to the heads of public agencies.
The rule is not that you can't bring a weapon aboard an airplane, it's that you can't take a weapon through security and into the gate area. The reason should be obvious: if different rules applied to passengers on different types of airplanes, then a person flying on e.g. a private jet could bring a weapon through security and hand it to someone who is flying on a commercial airliner. I'm sure some airports keep general aviation isolated from the airlines, but as the article states, "The airport doesn’t have separate boarding arrangements for private-jet users". So whether or not Jobs was really involved in such an incident, all of this outrage is silly.
This reminded me of an article I read in the early 90s about territorialism and parking spots. Fortunately, I found a version of it on Google. Basically, people will pull out of parking spots more slowly when they know someone is waiting to take the spot after they leave. Ever since I first read that article, I've thought about territorialism when observing bad driving habits -- and working in the electronic tolling industry, I see a lot of it. Fun to see it's being confirmed in new and interesting ways.
As Schneier says in the article, the acceptance of faxed signatures is not nearly as insecure as it seems on the surface, because almost no transactions ever hinge solely on a single faxed document.
I've faxed signed forms for all sorts of things, from insurance forms to e-file authorizations for my tax preparer. In every single case, this was done in the middle of an ongoing process that had been started face to face or by mailing real, signed forms. The faxed documents were always sent after having a phone conversation that confirmed the content of the fax with someone I had already dealt with on the other end.
On the other hand, I've never seen a case where a fax would initiate a transaction on its own, or even determine dollar amounts of an ongoing transaction. They're mostly just used to speed up the process when a signature is needed as a formality, so the potential for abuse is really limited.
I love my KeyTronic E03600QLPS2B-C. I got it for 24 bucks new from Newegg. It doesn't have the annoying loud clacking of the IBM/Lexmark ones, but looks just as nice and has the same layout.
The first IBM-type PC I ever used was an original PC model, and I never really cared that much for the keys. The first PC compatible I owned was an XT clone with a keyboard very much like this one. None of the other keyboards I've had since were nearly as good until I finally got this one.
Frustration with lack of decent support from enterprise software is exactly the reason I switched to Linux in my work apps in the first place.
I develop software for electronic toll collection systems. In 1997, that stuff all ran on things like UnixWare 2.1 with VenturCom real-time extensions. It worked fine when it worked, but if you ever uncovered a bug that was difficult to solve, forget it. We once encountered a problem with the UnixWare 2.03 C library that caused a memory leak every time a file handle was written to. The fix? Upgrade to UW 2.1. Except, the realtime extensions package we had would only run on 2.03. What we needed was a patch to that version of the OS. SCO's answer? Well, that isn't our problem now is it? VenturCom's answer? Buy a new version of our extensions.
After experiences like that, I decided to switch our projects to Linux. In 1997, support for the near-realtime features I needed (memory locking, adjustable priorities, POSIX signals) was pretty poor under Linux, but it was worth working around it to get away from the corporate OSes.
The sad part is, my bosses initially refused to allow me to do that. The reason? There was no official means of support, we would have to maintain the software ourselves! To them, the concept of "support" was just a check box you ticked off somewhere, not something they actually ever had to use. And they had no idea that it was simply easier to go out and find a fix, or fix problems yourself, than to rely on some multilevel telephone hell that usually doesn't know anything in depth about the products it is supposed to help with.
Ironically, today, practically every embedded system in the toll and intelligent transportation industry runs on Linux; it has become the industry standard.
Really, by making this argument, you're making the RIAA's point for them. By making the songs available, she not only distributed them directly, but almost certainly contributed to other people making the songs available to download. Those subsequent downloads would not have happened without her, so she is ultimately responsible for them. And since the number of those subsequent downloads can't be directly proven or disproven, they just estimate the damages based on statistics. Good luck finding a lawyer who can successfully convince a jury the RIAA is wrong about those kinds of numbers.
Any more, it reminds me of the great quote from Ghostbusters where Ray tells Venkman: "You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
You are absolutely right about House being for geeks/nerds/whatever. The "Fall Geek TV Lineup" article confuses the type of TV that IT types actually like with TV that makes fun of IT types. Chuck is the former, House is clearly the latter.
The difference is that House isn't about "geeks", it's simply about competent smart people. Shows about "geeks" are never about competent smart people, they're gimmicks built around a stupid stereotype. The few TV shows in which computer types are portrayed positively tend not to have them as central characters, and then they are usually hot chicks (I'm thinking here of "Las Vegas" and "Standoff", both of which feature very attractive female hacker types in secondary / support character roles). I'm all for hot chick computer types, but can't we ever have male hackers who are not either socially incompetent, evil, or both?
and to think I can't even fscking stand the word
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If "the classic shape of the computer geek is over" then this quote
The influence of geek guru Judd Apatow extends well into the current season. He was director of box-office-smash outsider comedies The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, producer of the blockbuster Superbad, and creator of the nerd-TV gold-standard series Freaks and Geeks, which ran for two years on NBC before attaining cult status. Many of Apatow's past projects are now being cloned for the small screen.
would not be in the article.
These shows are going to continue portraying "geeks" as Dwayne Dibley types, because the mainstream view of a "geek" is still a dork in an ill-fitting short-sleeved buttondown with acne, buck teeth, and his glasses taped together. If you think the picture of "geek chic" in mainstream media is going to transcend that stereotype, you're in for a disappointment.
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Ditto. Malda had all these cool little applets for E that I played around with, and then I noticed there was a link to this little forum I hadn't heard about...
Parnell: "Hello?"
Leila: "Is it you? This is Leila. Are you using a SCRAMBLER?"
Parnell: "I can't hear you, I'm using a SCRAMBLER!"
I just checked out the video from HuskyStarcraft, and I guess I must be missing something. Aside from the DRM that forces you to be online to play, and the fact that they censor your character names, how is this an improvement over Diablo 2? It looks like exactly the same game, just at a higher resolution.
Way back in the WoW beta, I remember fantasizing about Blizzard making a Diablo III using some of WoW's technology. By which I meant the best of both worlds, a game that looks and plays like WoW but set in the darker Diablo universe with single player and LAN play. Instead, we get basically the worst of both worlds, a dated look and feel saddled with unnecessary online requirements. Next.
Morrowind and Oblivion both work fine with Virtual CloneDrive. That way you can play without a physical CD, and without requiring a no-CD patch (which break stuff like Morrowind FPS Optimizer and Oblivion Script Extender).
This is an obviously fake site. Do a whois on aptiquant.com and you'll see that it was registered two weeks ago by a Georgia Tech graduate student named Tarandeep Gill. Further, you'll find that the majority of the content on the site was copied verbatim from http://www.centraltest.com/, which is apparently a "real" psychometric evaluation firm. Even the "about us" page features the same profile pictures, but with some of the names and credentials changed.
But it sure was funny watching y'all pat yourselves on the back about how smart you are.
GM offered him $1million for it, with the explicit promise that they'd sweep it under the rug and never develop it further... being ethical, my grandfather told them to stuff it, and ended up never selling the design.
This is obviously not true. Car companies have no vested interest in reducing fuel economy. In 1984 GM was struggling to meet consumer demand for the big, comfortable cars Americans want, while also meeting ever-stricter emissions and fuel economy rules. Since GM really didn't know how to make cars that were both small and good, they were stuck with a stable of large, underpowered cars and small, unpopular ones, and losing market share every year. A technology like you describe would have allowed them to leapfrog the problem altogether; instead of sweeping the technology under the rug, they would have bought the exclusive rights and dominated the market.
Now, maybe if you claimed your grandfather had tried to sell it to Exxon, it might be more credible.
is that the person who thought they were being clever by labeling this a "leak" didn't notice it was an unclassified memo sent to the heads of public agencies.
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The rule is not that you can't bring a weapon aboard an airplane, it's that you can't take a weapon through security and into the gate area. The reason should be obvious: if different rules applied to passengers on different types of airplanes, then a person flying on e.g. a private jet could bring a weapon through security and hand it to someone who is flying on a commercial airliner. I'm sure some airports keep general aviation isolated from the airlines, but as the article states, "The airport doesn’t have separate boarding arrangements for private-jet users". So whether or not Jobs was really involved in such an incident, all of this outrage is silly.
And here I thought this was going to be an article about Linux 1.2.13.
But who ever heard of a bedroom with a vinyl floor?
and they give those 128kbps MP3s a much warmer sound.
... but I am enjoying all the posts in which people try to show how smart they are by extolling its cumbersome literary devices.
Jesus, I thought I signed onto slashdot, but after reading the comments I realize I must have clicked on Fark by mistake.
This reminded me of an article I read in the early 90s about territorialism and parking spots. Fortunately, I found a version of it on Google. Basically, people will pull out of parking spots more slowly when they know someone is waiting to take the spot after they leave. Ever since I first read that article, I've thought about territorialism when observing bad driving habits -- and working in the electronic tolling industry, I see a lot of it. Fun to see it's being confirmed in new and interesting ways.
As Schneier says in the article, the acceptance of faxed signatures is not nearly as insecure as it seems on the surface, because almost no transactions ever hinge solely on a single faxed document.
I've faxed signed forms for all sorts of things, from insurance forms to e-file authorizations for my tax preparer. In every single case, this was done in the middle of an ongoing process that had been started face to face or by mailing real, signed forms. The faxed documents were always sent after having a phone conversation that confirmed the content of the fax with someone I had already dealt with on the other end.
On the other hand, I've never seen a case where a fax would initiate a transaction on its own, or even determine dollar amounts of an ongoing transaction. They're mostly just used to speed up the process when a signature is needed as a formality, so the potential for abuse is really limited.
I love my KeyTronic E03600QLPS2B-C. I got it for 24 bucks new from Newegg. It doesn't have the annoying loud clacking of the IBM/Lexmark ones, but looks just as nice and has the same layout. The first IBM-type PC I ever used was an original PC model, and I never really cared that much for the keys. The first PC compatible I owned was an XT clone with a keyboard very much like this one. None of the other keyboards I've had since were nearly as good until I finally got this one.
I can sum up both my own reaction, and why the article is fatuous pie in the sky nonsense in four simple letters TLDR
Frustration with lack of decent support from enterprise software is exactly the reason I switched to Linux in my work apps in the first place.
I develop software for electronic toll collection systems. In 1997, that stuff all ran on things like UnixWare 2.1 with VenturCom real-time extensions. It worked fine when it worked, but if you ever uncovered a bug that was difficult to solve, forget it. We once encountered a problem with the UnixWare 2.03 C library that caused a memory leak every time a file handle was written to. The fix? Upgrade to UW 2.1. Except, the realtime extensions package we had would only run on 2.03. What we needed was a patch to that version of the OS. SCO's answer? Well, that isn't our problem now is it? VenturCom's answer? Buy a new version of our extensions.
After experiences like that, I decided to switch our projects to Linux. In 1997, support for the near-realtime features I needed (memory locking, adjustable priorities, POSIX signals) was pretty poor under Linux, but it was worth working around it to get away from the corporate OSes.
The sad part is, my bosses initially refused to allow me to do that. The reason? There was no official means of support, we would have to maintain the software ourselves! To them, the concept of "support" was just a check box you ticked off somewhere, not something they actually ever had to use. And they had no idea that it was simply easier to go out and find a fix, or fix problems yourself, than to rely on some multilevel telephone hell that usually doesn't know anything in depth about the products it is supposed to help with.
Ironically, today, practically every embedded system in the toll and intelligent transportation industry runs on Linux; it has become the industry standard.
What is The Daily Mail's agenda in resurrecting a story from 2006 and republishing it with no dates or locations?
http://www.sinodaily.com/reports/Chinese_Sub_Approached_US_Aircraft_Carrier_Undetected_999.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2179694.shtml
http://madhousethought.blogspot.com/2006/11/chinese-submarine-stalked-uss-kitty.html
A lot of military bloggers speculate it's just the Mail's way of trying to embarrass the Bush administration over its China policy.
Really, by making this argument, you're making the RIAA's point for them. By making the songs available, she not only distributed them directly, but almost certainly contributed to other people making the songs available to download. Those subsequent downloads would not have happened without her, so she is ultimately responsible for them. And since the number of those subsequent downloads can't be directly proven or disproven, they just estimate the damages based on statistics. Good luck finding a lawyer who can successfully convince a jury the RIAA is wrong about those kinds of numbers.
Any more, it reminds me of the great quote from Ghostbusters where Ray tells Venkman: "You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
Er, Phaid post malreported ungood rectify: "House is the former, Chuck is clearly the latter".
You are absolutely right about House being for geeks/nerds/whatever. The "Fall Geek TV Lineup" article confuses the type of TV that IT types actually like with TV that makes fun of IT types. Chuck is the former, House is clearly the latter.
The difference is that House isn't about "geeks", it's simply about competent smart people. Shows about "geeks" are never about competent smart people, they're gimmicks built around a stupid stereotype. The few TV shows in which computer types are portrayed positively tend not to have them as central characters, and then they are usually hot chicks (I'm thinking here of "Las Vegas" and "Standoff", both of which feature very attractive female hacker types in secondary / support character roles). I'm all for hot chick computer types, but can't we ever have male hackers who are not either socially incompetent, evil, or both?
would not be in the article.
These shows are going to continue portraying "geeks" as Dwayne Dibley types, because the mainstream view of a "geek" is still a dork in an ill-fitting short-sleeved buttondown with acne, buck teeth, and his glasses taped together. If you think the picture of "geek chic" in mainstream media is going to transcend that stereotype, you're in for a disappointment.