Search for the term "Aluminum Celmet" and all the returns are from the last month or so, all reference the company mentioned here, and are either press releases, stories on tech sites made from press releases, or astroturf on forums. The term "celmet" appears to be a trademark of the company.
I'm very interested in novel battery research, but this one tastes like Ovaltine.
`nuff said, probably. While microtransactions may or not be "evil", I find it a bit strange that the person who wrote this says on her blog: "Games Designer & Programmer (yes I still code)" and very recently described herself as having spent a relatively short time in the industry. Something doesn't add up.
Though the article purports to expose some interesting new misalignment, this is not a new challenge to the military or a host of other organizations. I used to work at IBM in their personal computing division (now known as Lenovo). Our heavy logistics and multiple levels of approval did not allow the company to bring to market fast enough the kinds of machines that could appeal to customers like other companies could. There is, however, a way to leverage large organizations, much as the human body searches for the right antibody for a disease. You produce many different potential solutions, rather than invest all your resources into one or two ‘optimized’ solutions, and once you find one that works, you leverage the ability of a large organization to quickly replicate and apply that solution. So, like some in the article say, it is not a question of having the right people – they probably already do – it’s a question of having the right environment.
And a guy or gal who has the presence of mind and attention to detail to crack viruses probably also has the focus to keep his uniform in good shape, so those are not necessarily mutually exclusive properties.
I love the way he wields his business-speak and manages to use the words leverage, logistics, market, resources, replicate, solutions and optimised with such ease and finesse. Add to that the analogy with the human body and antibodies and I am not sure how this guy is not in charge of the whole world! He's got my vote!
The solution which uses moral means and which works best is the best solution. (The proposed solution has neither property.) To suggest that every solution must be based upon some particular belief system is religion.
What is the solution that uses "moral means" that "works best" resulting in the "best solution" and that does not rely on a belief system?
I didn't realise it was like this. I just filled out the questionnaire.
Referring to a post by MacTO above (and some others, not to single you out -- sorry no offence intended at all), no I don't fit that demographic. I don't agree with child porn or exploitation. I also don't agree with the crap that the current (and previous!) government are trying to shove down citizens throats.
The answer involves things far beyond newbie's understanding.
Your answer is "because"?
What a cop out. If you're going to make ambitious statements at least have a semi-reasonable answer to your assertions. "Because" isn't an argument, or doesn't support an argument; what it really says is "my statement is anecdotal and I have no tangible reasons to support my assertion, so I am just going to say the answer is 'because'". If your whole answer is "because" then you need to reassess your position and develop real answers.
You're completely missing (or ignoring) the scope of the question being asked: "The assignment is to use an OS different from what you normally use."
Running something that looks like crippled Linux under Windows, is not "using OS other than Windows".
I have no idea what you're talking about. Running Linux in a VM hosted by Windows is not a "crippled Linux". Several replies up you mentioned that "the VM is completely dependent on Windows networking". So what? That has nothing at all to do with Linux. Taking it a step further, set up Linux on a spare machine you have laying around somewhere. Install Linux. That machine is completely dependent on your router's and modem networking. I know that you'll respond by saying that the router should be a linux machine connected to a modem connected to something else, but it's all silly. Since when was running Linux dependant upon the underlying network? Never. It's a driver issue. Most people installing Linux, in a non-server environment, are not going to have the machine as a front facing network box. As a user of a desktop installation of Linux your experience is going to be exactly the same whether you're running it in a VM or not. What about the kernel developers? Do you think they don't use VMs? Since they do, are they developing a crippled Linux because they're using a VM to help development? I think you really need to step back and look at the definition of "virtual machine". It sounds like it means something else than what you think it does.
Would have been better had they not recorded the cylinder during what sounds like a tornado, though. Also I am not sure I like her voice... seems a bit strained at points -- e.g. about half way through it sounds as though she struggles (possibly forgetting the lyrics)?
Is PlantStudio still being developed? I occasionally have to do botanical illustration and have stumbled across PlantStudio before, but never evaluated it. Cheers, Craig
Let's get this out of the way first: I agree that child pornography sites should be "blocked" (censored). Better still, nuke them off the internet. No argument from me in that regard.
Ok, now that's out of the way, let's consider something else. Suppose someone accidentally clicks on a link (in a spam email, for example) that leads to a known child pornography site. Yes, people shouldn't click on unknown links in emails, but they do. So, they click on the link and are presented with the "this domain/link is blacklisted" message (or whatever that happens to be). That's fine. The user has been protected from viewing material they don't accidentally want to see. But, is the attempt by the user to resolve the address (or their attempt to visit the site) logged? Could it be logged (yes)? So an innocent, albeit naive (or not so naive person, just interested in legal porn), person be then flagged and reported as someone trying to access child pornography sites? How can you tell if someone was intentionally or not intentionally trying to access the site? Once you're "flagged" how could you defend yourself?
I've been working on my 60x60x60 cube for 17 years now and have 5 cublets in place on one side. This news has ruined my day:-( At my current rate I am never going to finish according to TFA, especially since I am essentially just doing random moves. Damn.
What's funny about this is that when I was in college, my roommate was obsessed with Rubik's cubes. He wrote a program to simulate an arbitrarily sized cube, and would then sit there and solve it. The largest I remember him doing was 42x42x42.
Your roommate is amazing. Anyway, after some deep contemplation I've gotten over the devastation I experienced when reading TFA. I shall now focus my efforts on my continuing efforts (12 years so far) to solve my 100 disk Towers of Hanoi puzzle that I've set up next to my bed in the basement. At least that should be solvable within a convenient amount of time, unlike the silly 60x60x60 Rubik's cube (what could I have been thinking?!) The cube is a bit cumbersome to use anyway as I constructed it out of wood and it weighs too much (8kg). Moving the disks for TOH is much easier and less likely to cause me to have a hernia or develop RSI.
I've been working on my 60x60x60 cube for 17 years now and have 5 cublets in place on one side. This news has ruined my day:-( At my current rate I am never going to finish according to TFA, especially since I am essentially just doing random moves. Damn.
No I think that has been ruled out (the Waverider scramjet cruise missile), basically because the Waverider test took place on March 22, 2011 -- however the timestamps on the video are June 22, 2011 (a mistake of dates in Ichi Tanaka's email).
The thing is that the studio was (is?) in Australia. There are laws that are meant to combat/discourage/stop this kind of employee abuse. I mean, really, the developers should not have had to put up with the alleged pressures and non-pay for overtime, etc, etc.
Based on just the stuff in the linked articles I do have to wonder why the employees didn't seek legal advice and pursue constructive dismissal action. I fucking would have.
Were they idiots? I am not sure. But they sure as hell don't recognise it as something to worry about. Maybe I will follow your recommendation and try and do this myself, but it does make me very angry.
I had the "electric shock" feeling, too, coming off of Paxil. Alcohol is the only thing I trust, nowadays.. it's been around so long that you at least know it's not going to screw up your mind like this synthetic stuff.
I am not sure if your comment is a jest or not. But that's pretty much a good idea. I can stop the electric shocks by getting blind drunk. The other option, since the medical profession (at least here in Australia) does not recognise the side-effect, is to jump of a fucking cliff:)
Adding to my above comment, every single doctor except my current one has suggested to increase the dose to avoid the end of day electric shock sessions. When does that end. Every year they'd increase the dose to alleviate the so-called non-existent electric shocks (which is why I am on 300mg not 75mg). I finally had enough. If the trend continued I'd be doubling my dose every year until I was taking 3.14kg of the drug everyday just to manage the side-effects and STILL not be able to stop taking it and making it HARDER every iteration TO stop taking it. Fortunately I found that a doctor who suggested diazepam and I have that every afternoon when the shocks start. It'd be better not to have any drugs at all though.
I do not suffer from cluster headaches and can't imagine that I'd want to. If they're difficult to alleviate then I honestly feel sorry for those people and can understand doing whatever it takes to alleviate them or find comfort. Even though I do not suffer from cluster headaches I do think I can empathise with those that do, in a kind of tangential way. I take Venlafaxine (Effexor) 300mg per day. This drug is not addictive apparently (semantic smoke and mirrors I reckon because I cannot cease taking it). Anyway, I do take my dose. The problem is that I have "electric shocks" even if I miss the dose by an hour or so. I also get the "electric shocks" towards the end of every day and the basically incapacitate me. I've seen MANY doctors who don't even believe that they exist. I've even had one psychiatrist suggest that I am schizophrenic and that the "electric shocks" are some kind of delusion. I am not schizophrenic, by the way, and the "electric shocks" are not imagined. The medical profession really starts to need listening to their patients! These shocks that I am talking about are not, currently, measurable so therefore they do not exist according to most "doctors" and psychologists and psychiatrists and researchers that I've spoken to. At the same time the cannot suggest a way to get off the "non-addictive" drug they put me on. Can't get withdrawal symptoms from a non-addictive drug so they label it "discontinuation syndrome". Semantic bullshit in other words.
Anyway, the above relates to TFA because I can't see the medical profession accepting this treatment. Perhaps they don't even believe it exists.
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Aside from your apparent confusion between NULL-terminated (0x00) and NUL-terminated ('\0') I completely agree.
Aren't the organic components less durable than inorganic ones by definition?
I see nothing in the definition of organic (or inorganic) that implies or even suggests a measure of durability.
How lovely. Has she paid her respects to Alan Turing yet?
Umm yes. In the linked video.
That Alan Turing was not recognised for his achievements before he was, basically, condemned to death by that same government/monarchy.
Search for the term "Aluminum Celmet" and all the returns are from the last month or so, all reference the company mentioned here, and are either press releases, stories on tech sites made from press releases, or astroturf on forums. The term "celmet" appears to be a trademark of the company.
I'm very interested in novel battery research, but this one tastes like Ovaltine.
Ovaltine? Are you sure? I'm in! *yum*
In my relatively short time in the industry [...]
`nuff said, probably. While microtransactions may or not be "evil", I find it a bit strange that the person who wrote this says on her blog: "Games Designer & Programmer (yes I still code)" and very recently described herself as having spent a relatively short time in the industry. Something doesn't add up.
Yank at Large wrote:
Though the article purports to expose some interesting new misalignment, this is not a new challenge to the military or a host of other organizations. I used to work at IBM in their personal computing division (now known as Lenovo). Our heavy logistics and multiple levels of approval did not allow the company to bring to market fast enough the kinds of machines that could appeal to customers like other companies could. There is, however, a way to leverage large organizations, much as the human body searches for the right antibody for a disease. You produce many different potential solutions, rather than invest all your resources into one or two ‘optimized’ solutions, and once you find one that works, you leverage the ability of a large organization to quickly replicate and apply that solution. So, like some in the article say, it is not a question of having the right people – they probably already do – it’s a question of having the right environment.
And a guy or gal who has the presence of mind and attention to detail to crack viruses probably also has the focus to keep his uniform in good shape, so those are not necessarily mutually exclusive properties.
I love the way he wields his business-speak and manages to use the words leverage, logistics, market, resources, replicate, solutions and optimised with such ease and finesse. Add to that the analogy with the human body and antibodies and I am not sure how this guy is not in charge of the whole world! He's got my vote!
Not an emulator for a whole machine (although you could if you wanted to), but just the CPU. That'd be fun. (If you're a programmer of course).
The solution which uses moral means and which works best is the best solution. (The proposed solution has neither property.) To suggest that every solution must be based upon some particular belief system is religion.
What is the solution that uses "moral means" that "works best" resulting in the "best solution" and that does not rely on a belief system?
I didn't realise it was like this. I just filled out the questionnaire.
Referring to a post by MacTO above (and some others, not to single you out -- sorry no offence intended at all), no I don't fit that demographic. I don't agree with child porn or exploitation. I also don't agree with the crap that the current (and previous!) government are trying to shove down citizens throats.
why not?
Because.
The answer involves things far beyond newbie's understanding.
Your answer is "because"?
What a cop out. If you're going to make ambitious statements at least have a semi-reasonable answer to your assertions. "Because" isn't an argument, or doesn't support an argument; what it really says is "my statement is anecdotal and I have no tangible reasons to support my assertion, so I am just going to say the answer is 'because'". If your whole answer is "because" then you need to reassess your position and develop real answers.
You're completely missing (or ignoring) the scope of the question being asked: "The assignment is to use an OS different from what you normally use."
Running something that looks like crippled Linux under Windows, is not "using OS other than Windows".
I have no idea what you're talking about. Running Linux in a VM hosted by Windows is not a "crippled Linux". Several replies up you mentioned that "the VM is completely dependent on Windows networking". So what? That has nothing at all to do with Linux. Taking it a step further, set up Linux on a spare machine you have laying around somewhere. Install Linux. That machine is completely dependent on your router's and modem networking. I know that you'll respond by saying that the router should be a linux machine connected to a modem connected to something else, but it's all silly. Since when was running Linux dependant upon the underlying network? Never. It's a driver issue. Most people installing Linux, in a non-server environment, are not going to have the machine as a front facing network box. As a user of a desktop installation of Linux your experience is going to be exactly the same whether you're running it in a VM or not. What about the kernel developers? Do you think they don't use VMs? Since they do, are they developing a crippled Linux because they're using a VM to help development? I think you really need to step back and look at the definition of "virtual machine". It sounds like it means something else than what you think it does.
That makes sense... it does sound like she might have been shouting and that would also explain the pause (getting her breath back)
Would have been better had they not recorded the cylinder during what sounds like a tornado, though. Also I am not sure I like her voice... seems a bit strained at points -- e.g. about half way through it sounds as though she struggles (possibly forgetting the lyrics)?
Is PlantStudio still being developed? I occasionally have to do botanical illustration and have stumbled across PlantStudio before, but never evaluated it. Cheers, Craig
Let's get this out of the way first: I agree that child pornography sites should be "blocked" (censored). Better still, nuke them off the internet. No argument from me in that regard.
Ok, now that's out of the way, let's consider something else. Suppose someone accidentally clicks on a link (in a spam email, for example) that leads to a known child pornography site. Yes, people shouldn't click on unknown links in emails, but they do. So, they click on the link and are presented with the "this domain/link is blacklisted" message (or whatever that happens to be). That's fine. The user has been protected from viewing material they don't accidentally want to see. But, is the attempt by the user to resolve the address (or their attempt to visit the site) logged? Could it be logged (yes)? So an innocent, albeit naive (or not so naive person, just interested in legal porn), person be then flagged and reported as someone trying to access child pornography sites? How can you tell if someone was intentionally or not intentionally trying to access the site? Once you're "flagged" how could you defend yourself?
I've been working on my 60x60x60 cube for 17 years now and have 5 cublets in place on one side. This news has ruined my day :-( At my current rate I am never going to finish according to TFA, especially since I am essentially just doing random moves. Damn.
What's funny about this is that when I was in college, my roommate was obsessed with Rubik's cubes. He wrote a program to simulate an arbitrarily sized cube, and would then sit there and solve it. The largest I remember him doing was 42x42x42.
Your roommate is amazing. Anyway, after some deep contemplation I've gotten over the devastation I experienced when reading TFA. I shall now focus my efforts on my continuing efforts (12 years so far) to solve my 100 disk Towers of Hanoi puzzle that I've set up next to my bed in the basement. At least that should be solvable within a convenient amount of time, unlike the silly 60x60x60 Rubik's cube (what could I have been thinking?!) The cube is a bit cumbersome to use anyway as I constructed it out of wood and it weighs too much (8kg). Moving the disks for TOH is much easier and less likely to cause me to have a hernia or develop RSI.
I've been working on my 60x60x60 cube for 17 years now and have 5 cublets in place on one side. This news has ruined my day :-( At my current rate I am never going to finish according to TFA, especially since I am essentially just doing random moves. Damn.
No I think that has been ruled out (the Waverider scramjet cruise missile), basically because the Waverider test took place on March 22, 2011 -- however the timestamps on the video are June 22, 2011 (a mistake of dates in Ichi Tanaka's email).
The thing is that the studio was (is?) in Australia. There are laws that are meant to combat/discourage/stop this kind of employee abuse. I mean, really, the developers should not have had to put up with the alleged pressures and non-pay for overtime, etc, etc.
Based on just the stuff in the linked articles I do have to wonder why the employees didn't seek legal advice and pursue constructive dismissal action. I fucking would have.
Were they idiots? I am not sure. But they sure as hell don't recognise it as something to worry about. Maybe I will follow your recommendation and try and do this myself, but it does make me very angry.
I had the "electric shock" feeling, too, coming off of Paxil. Alcohol is the only thing I trust, nowadays.. it's been around so long that you at least know it's not going to screw up your mind like this synthetic stuff.
I am not sure if your comment is a jest or not. But that's pretty much a good idea. I can stop the electric shocks by getting blind drunk. The other option, since the medical profession (at least here in Australia) does not recognise the side-effect, is to jump of a fucking cliff :)
Adding to my above comment, every single doctor except my current one has suggested to increase the dose to avoid the end of day electric shock sessions. When does that end. Every year they'd increase the dose to alleviate the so-called non-existent electric shocks (which is why I am on 300mg not 75mg). I finally had enough. If the trend continued I'd be doubling my dose every year until I was taking 3.14kg of the drug everyday just to manage the side-effects and STILL not be able to stop taking it and making it HARDER every iteration TO stop taking it. Fortunately I found that a doctor who suggested diazepam and I have that every afternoon when the shocks start. It'd be better not to have any drugs at all though.
I do not suffer from cluster headaches and can't imagine that I'd want to. If they're difficult to alleviate then I honestly feel sorry for those people and can understand doing whatever it takes to alleviate them or find comfort. Even though I do not suffer from cluster headaches I do think I can empathise with those that do, in a kind of tangential way. I take Venlafaxine (Effexor) 300mg per day. This drug is not addictive apparently (semantic smoke and mirrors I reckon because I cannot cease taking it). Anyway, I do take my dose. The problem is that I have "electric shocks" even if I miss the dose by an hour or so. I also get the "electric shocks" towards the end of every day and the basically incapacitate me. I've seen MANY doctors who don't even believe that they exist. I've even had one psychiatrist suggest that I am schizophrenic and that the "electric shocks" are some kind of delusion. I am not schizophrenic, by the way, and the "electric shocks" are not imagined. The medical profession really starts to need listening to their patients! These shocks that I am talking about are not, currently, measurable so therefore they do not exist according to most "doctors" and psychologists and psychiatrists and researchers that I've spoken to. At the same time the cannot suggest a way to get off the "non-addictive" drug they put me on. Can't get withdrawal symptoms from a non-addictive drug so they label it "discontinuation syndrome". Semantic bullshit in other words.
Anyway, the above relates to TFA because I can't see the medical profession accepting this treatment. Perhaps they don't even believe it exists.