I would wholeheartedly agree. Especially, the line "The results are not surprising, interesting, or even insightful". The results were obvious. I play pvp worlds exclusively with coh/cov being one of the weaker pvp game types. Most good players aren't dicks like this unless there was something to fight over. The majority of the people don't want to play with people that just gank/harass others via the methods available in a game. On the other hand, if you are playing in a PvP game/world, shutup and don't whine. You have options, leave, logon a different character that might be able to kill the offending party, get some friends to help, whatever. I prefer games where you can be ganked like Shadowbane where after lvl 20 you are free game unless in the city. Therefore, get some friends. There are always these types of people.
The professor really just exposed his lack of experience in anything related to mmorpgs.
Instead of trying to write their product better, write some feature or features that will bolt onto their product and sell it back to them.
Granted, they are on the only ones to that will buy the code but many times they are far enough behind schedule to want to work with someone. If you are on bad terms then it won't work, having a champion at the company does wonders too.
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He was building the rhetoric to attack/provoke iran. The only thing that cooled that was our report that Iran wasn't building a nuclear bomb. Otherwise, I don't believe for one second that he wasn't on that path. Don't forget that hitting Iran would be nothing like Iraq. There would be few or no troops. Given that only a nuke can penetrate the facilties, it would take alot of work to build momentum to do that. Likely it would be a small ground assault with air support instead of a nuke to take out facility. Now that it has been completely derailed by the report, I agree with you, he won't be able to do anything until he leaves office. I don't agree he doesn't want to do this while at the same time promoting peace in Iraq and Afgan.
The comment was funny if your sphincter isn't all up in a bunch. People laugh at incredibly awful things to relieve tension and to cope with things that are mostly out of their control. US will retain superpower status regardless of a sinking ship. The world is falling mentality doesn't equate to real world that operates at a much higher level of sophistication.
War would be a bad thing, no disagreement there. Bush is itching to bomb them before leaving office probably. Isn't likely to happen now however which is a good thing.
The moral of the story: bury the cables so they don't become anchor food.
Yeah, there isn't any way for them to tell you. Nothing like IM, text msg, or hell, make a pre-recorded phone call. No, you must put crap in your web pages. Now, what happens if i'm using a program that doesn't display anything and I hit some limit? Gee, maybe that http modification thing isn't a good way unless they are really trying to do something else.
Just think, you can have those usb attached lcd picture frames and when you login, your family pics or whatever you want show up making it feel homey. lol.
I've been in companies of all kinds; ones where everyone had hardwalled offices, in cubes, in open areas, "large cubes" that hold 4 people and a little conf. table in the middle. This last design work ok IF the people actually work on the same project so collaboration is higher and you still get some privacy from the general company.
Hardwalled offices were very nice but people seemed to have a habit of creating home companies and doing all sorts of business from their office. Having only managers in office at least keeps the whole company from running home businesses because only the managers get to. lol.
However, without personal effects, no walls, no privacy, more noise, more interrupts, *sigh*. The only reason for this is to lower cost at the expense of the employee.
I bought a laptop from them and an extended warranty and love it. The warranty pays for itself in free battery packs along with fixing problems that occur. Normally I would say extended warranties suck but there are cases where it works. Laptops break depending on how careful you are. Of course, if I had to send the laptop in I would either wipe the data or replace the hard drive.
Now tell me, how many people would rate on both systems and use the same rating? This implies you remember your rating. Maybe I don't know enough about the system but the system is highly suspect unless the user has rated a large quantity of movies that are in both systems and includes many far outside of the mainstream movies.
Honestly, if you are doing things publicly, forget about privacy. More than this can be used to identify you.
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No more than the rest of the world. I don't know anyone that has changed any part of their lives in regard to extremism in the middle east other than maybe not visiting.:) The fact is, media has hyped the 'terror' for their own benefit. Of course, it doesn't mean people aren't fearful I just don't see it. I see the government abusing the supposed fear for their own benefit. That needs to be stopped, can't wait for bush and friends to get out of office.
A catastrophic event could happen and it is prudent to take measures against anyone. We have enough nutcases in the U.S.A. that assuming it is a 'terrorist' doesn't matter. I didn't matter before 9/11 and it doesn't matter after.
Not to mention, if a country decided to sponser something like this and there was event a small taint, I expect 3rd world war as USA starts bombing the crap out of something regardless of whether it will change anything.
But that's the beauty of terrorism, it causes extreme reactions on both sides. At any rate, we do need nuclear power, it makes the most sense. We are way late already in developing this.
Yeah, think V here...as in the movie. FUD with capital F causing supposed sane people believing in freedom to give them up for the fallacy of security. Perceived security isn't security is delusion. Hold freedom tightly because its a bitch to get it back!
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Even so, it's easy enough to get around assuming you have similar software on both ends. Likely if it gets bad enough, the software will change to protect itself.
Not to mention that if this is their solution its stupid. Having designed and installed many boxes that provide per-flow queueing and rate shaping, I'm surprised they did this broken method. Granted, the path going to the user is actually harder to control than the one leaving due to the inflows come from anywhere while outflows come only from your computer. I suppose they need to upgrade their infrastructure. There were sure fast to update to Docsys 1.1, 2+ so they could have bandwidth shaping across the cable. The earlier modems were broken in that regard.:)
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From what I understand, it is worse to sit and have adreneline and other chemicals that are induced by playing a fight/flight game. If you have some physical outlet, it makes the body happy (my technical term:) ) However, I figure this guy had some physical issues to cause him to die.
Hmm George Carlin comes to mind with that statement. That skit on fuck was pretty funny!
I find it amazing how one-sided people are when it comes to gays, religion, etc. I don't care if you want a bj under a bathroom stall, I do care when you haven't clue about equal rights and the legistlation that puts restrictions on personal freedoms such as who to chose as a mate. Oust people for the right reasons, not stupid, media frenzied outrage.
And the whole, convert to muslim and hate america is just amazing. At least America questions itself still instead of suppression/oppression. That's not to say we haven't started a downhill path, we do however still have some measure of control. I can't say that about many other countries - especially third-world countries. Too bad we managed to have a president that took world goodwill and turned it into distrust and anger. Ah well, as long as no-one changes the term limits we can fix it over the next 10 years needed to reverse the dmg.
I think disruptive technology is coming. At least in metro areas where wifi is available. In addition, Google is pushing into the space. Not that I want a some huge company involved with everything web but pushing the price down would be a good thing.
This is more of a lull in the field. It will probably happen in the next few years but I don't see anything in the shortterm.
If they can't follow the rules boot them. It is not criminal but simply school policy. If you don't like it go to another school. They should have to take reasonable measures of making sure students know how to login, etc., and that it can't happen accidentily. I would never support a law to do this but making a company policy whether school or not should be allowed. If students don't like it, don't go there and they will dry up or grin and take it, graduate and build your own school that doesn't have the stupid rules you don't like.
The responsibility is the students and typical of society, people what to sluff it off on the administration or some other entity rather than take the blame themselves.
I thought hawking shows that at the event horizon of a black hole that a particle can split with one going into the black hole and the other escaping. The escaping particle needed to exceed the speed of light in order to make it out.
Taking out people that don't fit into the society because the kill people is quite different than the trite statement above. The only issue I have with the death penalty is deaths of innocent people (hence the long delay in carrying out the death sentence). Keeping them in jail for life would be better.
The fact that people would sing a different tune had there actually been WMD in iraq of any significant portions would have drastically changed the war outlook but not the outcome, it was botched from the beginning.
Terrorism usually defined as delivering a bomb to a key location that happens to be civilians for the sake of random killing (terrorizing the populus) rather that trying to kill military targets; manufacturing facilities, etc. Most people I know don't consider Iraq and other countries inferior but simply behind the industrialization curve. You also use indiscriminate killing of soldiers and civilians. No, I think its purposefull killing of soldiers with innocents getting killed because the soldiers being bombed like to hide behind the civilian shield and obviously intel mistakes happen. That's the unforunate reality of war.
But back to the topic at hand, I really hope the bomber does get his life sentence. I have no issue with protesting even typically civil disobedience, too bad people feel like bombing someone for something that was likely their mistake in the first place. People get burned, not because of paypal but because they didn't verify the end person. Don't use paypal may be the result. It's not paypal's fault that you used their service. I've heard of some lousy tactics by paypal and I avoid using the service in all but specific cases but take responsibility for one's actions. Paypal didn't screw you, they guy on the end did. Sadly, responsibility seems to be played on everyone else except the people actually involved.
Similar to spilling hot coffee into ones lap and suing. Stupid crap like that. Sry, rambling now....
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I've found the complete opposite to be true. Rarely do I find tons of checking tools. Mostly it is design review the arch, implementation, and code. Perform unit testing. The good engineers do better unit testing, thinking about the interactions, wake up at night realizing something is screwed up, and fix their problems proactively.
Everyone 'wants' to use tools but the reality is the overhead is pretty significant so they are avoided. Only in large companies do I see this methodology and even that is fairly rare. If a software failure can kill or hurt someone, I would guess these practices would be used to eek out some better software. For everyone else, there isn't much motivation.
The original statement isn't really true regarding they don't tell people what to work on. It varies between groups and ability. There is however the ability to work on projects not assigned. Their hiring practices don't really select among motivated, driven individuals but their selection criteria does try to rank ability to solve problems in a interview and write code.
That said, the work environment is very good.
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Well, if email and playing music are your only needs then web works great. Honestly, I don't think any of the email/calendar/etc., pieces have anything to do with the OS and whether it is going away.
I have needs for bigger apps, I hate the slowness of using complex web apps (one day this will change - it hasn't), and MMO games that require a full blown OS. I don't care for web mail. I want both, the ability to use my OS mail along with web interfacing. Web mail programs suck (yes, I have gmail and have used yahoo mail although not recently).
What we will see is more light usages of web-based products. The touch screen in the kitchen with all the latest news, email, tunes, whatever delivered for quick review with mobile devices used by the average person (grocery lists, etc.) Just think of that fridge where you punch in your needs on screen white board then pick it up on your phone at the store.
The whole gmail stores your entire history forever bugs me. Who knows, maybe one day I'll get hanged for thinking bush sucks just because Google logged me. Then again, maybe they'll just go to slashdot.:)
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If they didn't aggravate people maybe they wouldn't be skipped so much. They increase the volume of ads in comparison to your show. That is lame. Now I have a loud, obnoxious commercial that I will pick up the remote and skip rather than touch the volume.
Not to mention, there will be 4-6 commercials sometimes rather than just a couple. Add in that some channels pour more commercials in than normal, leads to people who really don't want to watch them.
Honestly, some of them are cool but there are too many.
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Google isn't in the same league as the labs. Where Google strikes gold is the fact they have a huge audience that they can ply their nifty widgets. Widgets is a good term for most of the stuff they create. I see them basically wrapping and putting a better face on the technologies already developed.
Since it takes a bit of time to create really innovative products, they will need more time to turn the crank. Of course, many people use software because its free, not necessarily because its good. Gmail is pretty good but the thought of them storing everything gives me the shivers. The whole 'do no evil' is bullshit.
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Kerry didn't win because he couldn't create an image that stood for something. The media didn't help obviously but he never put forth a plan that could be believed in and that he could execute. (as far as iraq goes) I figured he would bow to world pressure and leave iraq a mess errr a worse mess if that could be believed. *sigh*
I could have been a wuss and voted for someone that didn't have a chance at winning but I didn't, I stood cringing at the fact I voted for that idiot we have in office now.
Of course, had I thought about the supreme court possibly having two replaced judges maybe it would have been worth having him in office. Bush has really screwed up domestic progress, set us back 10 yrs.
Trying to make a language or api or whatever more intelligent doesn't help, it will create other issues. Spreading knowledge of how to do security for a language, api, or whatever is much more useful. The problem is that there are so many crap examples that people just copy and think they are safe.
Trying to protect people from themselves is useless. They'll always find a good way to screw themselves dispite you.:)
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The professor really just exposed his lack of experience in anything related to mmorpgs.
Too bad this is too logical.
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Instead of trying to write their product better, write some feature or features that will bolt onto their product and sell it back to them. Granted, they are on the only ones to that will buy the code but many times they are far enough behind schedule to want to work with someone. If you are on bad terms then it won't work, having a champion at the company does wonders too. Cheers
He was building the rhetoric to attack/provoke iran. The only thing that cooled that was our report that Iran wasn't building a nuclear bomb. Otherwise, I don't believe for one second that he wasn't on that path. Don't forget that hitting Iran would be nothing like Iraq. There would be few or no troops. Given that only a nuke can penetrate the facilties, it would take alot of work to build momentum to do that. Likely it would be a small ground assault with air support instead of a nuke to take out facility. Now that it has been completely derailed by the report, I agree with you, he won't be able to do anything until he leaves office. I don't agree he doesn't want to do this while at the same time promoting peace in Iraq and Afgan.
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The comment was funny if your sphincter isn't all up in a bunch. People laugh at incredibly awful things to relieve tension and to cope with things that are mostly out of their control. US will retain superpower status regardless of a sinking ship. The world is falling mentality doesn't equate to real world that operates at a much higher level of sophistication.
War would be a bad thing, no disagreement there. Bush is itching to bomb them before leaving office probably. Isn't likely to happen now however which is a good thing.
The moral of the story: bury the cables so they don't become anchor food.
Cheers
Yeah, there isn't any way for them to tell you. Nothing like IM, text msg, or hell, make a pre-recorded phone call. No, you must put crap in your web pages. Now, what happens if i'm using a program that doesn't display anything and I hit some limit? Gee, maybe that http modification thing isn't a good way unless they are really trying to do something else.
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Just think, you can have those usb attached lcd picture frames and when you login, your family pics or whatever you want show up making it feel homey. lol.
I've been in companies of all kinds; ones where everyone had hardwalled offices, in cubes, in open areas, "large cubes" that hold 4 people and a little conf. table in the middle. This last design work ok IF the people actually work on the same project so collaboration is higher and you still get some privacy from the general company.
Hardwalled offices were very nice but people seemed to have a habit of creating home companies and doing all sorts of business from their office. Having only managers in office at least keeps the whole company from running home businesses because only the managers get to. lol.
However, without personal effects, no walls, no privacy, more noise, more interrupts, *sigh*. The only reason for this is to lower cost at the expense of the employee.
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I bought a laptop from them and an extended warranty and love it. The warranty pays for itself in free battery packs along with fixing problems that occur. Normally I would say extended warranties suck but there are cases where it works. Laptops break depending on how careful you are. Of course, if I had to send the laptop in I would either wipe the data or replace the hard drive.
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Now tell me, how many people would rate on both systems and use the same rating? This implies you remember your rating. Maybe I don't know enough about the system but the system is highly suspect unless the user has rated a large quantity of movies that are in both systems and includes many far outside of the mainstream movies. Honestly, if you are doing things publicly, forget about privacy. More than this can be used to identify you. Cheers
No more than the rest of the world. I don't know anyone that has changed any part of their lives in regard to extremism in the middle east other than maybe not visiting. :) The fact is, media has hyped the 'terror' for their own benefit. Of course, it doesn't mean people aren't fearful I just don't see it. I see the government abusing the supposed fear for their own benefit. That needs to be stopped, can't wait for bush and friends to get out of office.
A catastrophic event could happen and it is prudent to take measures against anyone. We have enough nutcases in the U.S.A. that assuming it is a 'terrorist' doesn't matter. I didn't matter before 9/11 and it doesn't matter after.
Not to mention, if a country decided to sponser something like this and there was event a small taint, I expect 3rd world war as USA starts bombing the crap out of something regardless of whether it will change anything.
But that's the beauty of terrorism, it causes extreme reactions on both sides. At any rate, we do need nuclear power, it makes the most sense. We are way late already in developing this.
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Yeah, think V here...as in the movie. FUD with capital F causing supposed sane people believing in freedom to give them up for the fallacy of security. Perceived security isn't security is delusion. Hold freedom tightly because its a bitch to get it back! Cheers
Even so, it's easy enough to get around assuming you have similar software on both ends. Likely if it gets bad enough, the software will change to protect itself. Not to mention that if this is their solution its stupid. Having designed and installed many boxes that provide per-flow queueing and rate shaping, I'm surprised they did this broken method. Granted, the path going to the user is actually harder to control than the one leaving due to the inflows come from anywhere while outflows come only from your computer. I suppose they need to upgrade their infrastructure. There were sure fast to update to Docsys 1.1, 2+ so they could have bandwidth shaping across the cable. The earlier modems were broken in that regard. :)
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From what I understand, it is worse to sit and have adreneline and other chemicals that are induced by playing a fight/flight game. If you have some physical outlet, it makes the body happy (my technical term :) ) However, I figure this guy had some physical issues to cause him to die.
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Hmm George Carlin comes to mind with that statement. That skit on fuck was pretty funny!
I find it amazing how one-sided people are when it comes to gays, religion, etc. I don't care if you want a bj under a bathroom stall, I do care when you haven't clue about equal rights and the legistlation that puts restrictions on personal freedoms such as who to chose as a mate. Oust people for the right reasons, not stupid, media frenzied outrage.
And the whole, convert to muslim and hate america is just amazing. At least America questions itself still instead of suppression/oppression. That's not to say we haven't started a downhill path, we do however still have some measure of control. I can't say that about many other countries - especially third-world countries. Too bad we managed to have a president that took world goodwill and turned it into distrust and anger. Ah well, as long as no-one changes the term limits we can fix it over the next 10 years needed to reverse the dmg.
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I think disruptive technology is coming. At least in metro areas where wifi is available. In addition, Google is pushing into the space. Not that I want a some huge company involved with everything web but pushing the price down would be a good thing.
This is more of a lull in the field. It will probably happen in the next few years but I don't see anything in the shortterm.
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The responsibility is the students and typical of society, people what to sluff it off on the administration or some other entity rather than take the blame themselves.
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I thought hawking shows that at the event horizon of a black hole that a particle can split with one going into the black hole and the other escaping. The escaping particle needed to exceed the speed of light in order to make it out.
The fact that people would sing a different tune had there actually been WMD in iraq of any significant portions would have drastically changed the war outlook but not the outcome, it was botched from the beginning.
Terrorism usually defined as delivering a bomb to a key location that happens to be civilians for the sake of random killing (terrorizing the populus) rather that trying to kill military targets; manufacturing facilities, etc. Most people I know don't consider Iraq and other countries inferior but simply behind the industrialization curve.
You also use indiscriminate killing of soldiers and civilians. No, I think its purposefull killing of soldiers with innocents getting killed because the soldiers being bombed like to hide behind the civilian shield and obviously intel mistakes happen. That's the unforunate reality of war.
But back to the topic at hand, I really hope the bomber does get his life sentence. I have no issue with protesting even typically civil disobedience, too bad people feel like bombing someone for something that was likely their mistake in the first place. People get burned, not because of paypal but because they didn't verify the end person. Don't use paypal may be the result. It's not paypal's fault that you used their service. I've heard of some lousy tactics by paypal and I avoid using the service in all but specific cases but take responsibility for one's actions. Paypal didn't screw you, they guy on the end did. Sadly, responsibility seems to be played on everyone else except the people actually involved.
Similar to spilling hot coffee into ones lap and suing. Stupid crap like that. Sry, rambling now.... Cheers
I've found the complete opposite to be true. Rarely do I find tons of checking tools. Mostly it is design review the arch, implementation, and code. Perform unit testing. The good engineers do better unit testing, thinking about the interactions, wake up at night realizing something is screwed up, and fix their problems proactively.
Everyone 'wants' to use tools but the reality is the overhead is pretty significant so they are avoided. Only in large companies do I see this methodology and even that is fairly rare. If a software failure can kill or hurt someone, I would guess these practices would be used to eek out some better software. For everyone else, there isn't much motivation.
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The original statement isn't really true regarding they don't tell people what to work on. It varies between groups and ability. There is however the ability to work on projects not assigned. Their hiring practices don't really select among motivated, driven individuals but their selection criteria does try to rank ability to solve problems in a interview and write code. That said, the work environment is very good. Cheers
Well, if email and playing music are your only needs then web works great. Honestly, I don't think any of the email/calendar/etc., pieces have anything to do with the OS and whether it is going away. I have needs for bigger apps, I hate the slowness of using complex web apps (one day this will change - it hasn't), and MMO games that require a full blown OS. I don't care for web mail. I want both, the ability to use my OS mail along with web interfacing. Web mail programs suck (yes, I have gmail and have used yahoo mail although not recently). What we will see is more light usages of web-based products. The touch screen in the kitchen with all the latest news, email, tunes, whatever delivered for quick review with mobile devices used by the average person (grocery lists, etc.) Just think of that fridge where you punch in your needs on screen white board then pick it up on your phone at the store. The whole gmail stores your entire history forever bugs me. Who knows, maybe one day I'll get hanged for thinking bush sucks just because Google logged me. Then again, maybe they'll just go to slashdot. :)
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If they didn't aggravate people maybe they wouldn't be skipped so much. They increase the volume of ads in comparison to your show. That is lame. Now I have a loud, obnoxious commercial that I will pick up the remote and skip rather than touch the volume. Not to mention, there will be 4-6 commercials sometimes rather than just a couple. Add in that some channels pour more commercials in than normal, leads to people who really don't want to watch them. Honestly, some of them are cool but there are too many. Cheers
Google isn't in the same league as the labs. Where Google strikes gold is the fact they have a huge audience that they can ply their nifty widgets. Widgets is a good term for most of the stuff they create. I see them basically wrapping and putting a better face on the technologies already developed. Since it takes a bit of time to create really innovative products, they will need more time to turn the crank. Of course, many people use software because its free, not necessarily because its good. Gmail is pretty good but the thought of them storing everything gives me the shivers. The whole 'do no evil' is bullshit. Cheers
I could have been a wuss and voted for someone that didn't have a chance at winning but I didn't, I stood cringing at the fact I voted for that idiot we have in office now. Of course, had I thought about the supreme court possibly having two replaced judges maybe it would have been worth having him in office. Bush has really screwed up domestic progress, set us back 10 yrs.
Trying to protect people from themselves is useless. They'll always find a good way to screw themselves dispite you. :)
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