I was going to ask how much the drones cost, and what's the cheapest method someone could think of to have a 50% or better chance of bringing one down? Rifle bullet? Toy rocket? Quadcopter with target tracker and some explosive?
"It's simple," you say, "we'll just start with recursion
Recursing away so recursively looped.
Then throw in recursively nested arrays
Of arrays of arrays in self-referenced groups.
And projecting these vectors selected respectively
Gives us the index detected en route
To these pointers to pointers to sixteen-dimensional
Structures we'll have your code simply compute.
Now when your cross-referenced, cross-platform hypercode
Threads are recached in a microchip core
Can you tell how the business third quarter's affected?
Speak now - you've a one-minute window, no more."
How long before such data generation is available as a purchasable service? Either buy one fake online life in monthly installments, or buy the bulk pack - eighteen online lives, each of which might plausibly be about you, but which are inconsistent with each other.
They're the things which are indirectly the cause of you having to click through multiple pages to read one article, if they haven't provided a print-friendly version and if you don't immediately close down windows with half-articles in.
Not to mention there's no law saying they can't flag the article as one which is about to be altered because of this law, and the time and date at which it will be altered. There's also no law saying revisionists can't be notified of any such flags...
On that note, can I alter every single website in Italy by complaining that its content (regardless of whatever it actually is) is offensive to me because it doesn't contain the phrase "[Name of politician proposing this law] Is An Idiot"?
There are definite similarities, to the point that I wonder if Vinge was only slightly exaggerating the "in the zone" focus known to people who really get into their work while hours slip by. Artists, programmers, people who build toothpick replicas of battleships - it can happen to almost anyone.
My guess would be in that case that the mass-structure of the supernova is to blame. I can easily imagine a core expansion where both neutrinos and photons get generated by the same process, but the neutrinos pass straight through the mass of the supernova and streak off into interstellar space, whereas the photons bounce around inside the relatively slow-moving gas and plasma cloud doing a psuedo-random walk for three hours before the traffic, as it were, clears enough for them to get a clear run at the Milky Way.
I dunno. Sure, the overall percentage of watchable stuff might be decreasing, but the output is growing faster. There's probably ten or twenty movies a year just out of Hollywood that are actually worth watching. Who cares if there are eighty thousand crap ones? It's the same with TV shows - there are some really good ones, even if they're not the same genre as famous shows of yesteryear.
DVD and Blu-ray box sets are flying off the shelves, and torrents are more popular than ever. Someone somewhere must be producing something watchable.
This is why you get a commitment in stone from the relevant CIO or CEO that if anyone - ANYONE - asks for reinstatement of a resource which has been removed for security reasons, that request may not be approved by anyone who does not understand precisely why the resource was removed in the first place.
Failing that, you get a commitment that anyone approving the reinstatement of the removed resource will personally cover the costs - all the costs - of any security issue (no matter what the source) arising during the resource's reinstatement.
I sometimes wonder if people document everything about their job and then offer to sell the documentation to the company, or make sure it's part of their personal possessions so that in the event of their demise, their estate could sell it back to the company in order to increase the inheritance going to family.
Ask the larger company to initially rent you back to the smaller company four days a week until the smaller company makes the decision that your ongoing worth to them is not sufficient to keep paying your contract rates.
This has the following advantages:
1) You get a higher rate of pay immediately;
2) You are immediately profitable to the larger company;
3) The decision as to when is the best time for you to wrap up at the smaller company is made by the smaller company and not you;
4) You still have one day a week to bring yourself up to speed with the environment and people at the larger company, so that when you finish up at the smaller company you can hit the ground running at the larger one; and
5) The smaller company can decide to drop you down from four days a week to three to two and so on as they train up your replacement(s), thus saving them money and giving you more time at the larger company.
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I was going to ask how much the drones cost, and what's the cheapest method someone could think of to have a 50% or better chance of bringing one down? Rifle bullet? Toy rocket? Quadcopter with target tracker and some explosive?
"It's simple," you say, "we'll just start with recursion
Recursing away so recursively looped.
Then throw in recursively nested arrays
Of arrays of arrays in self-referenced groups.
And projecting these vectors selected respectively
Gives us the index detected en route
To these pointers to pointers to sixteen-dimensional
Structures we'll have your code simply compute.
Now when your cross-referenced, cross-platform hypercode
Threads are recached in a microchip core
Can you tell how the business third quarter's affected?
Speak now - you've a one-minute window, no more."
How long before such data generation is available as a purchasable service? Either buy one fake online life in monthly installments, or buy the bulk pack - eighteen online lives, each of which might plausibly be about you, but which are inconsistent with each other.
"You have: a hammer..."
Counting all the money they make off suckers?
Of course, in the IT industry, 'some change in technology' comes along every week.
They're the things which are indirectly the cause of you having to click through multiple pages to read one article, if they haven't provided a print-friendly version and if you don't immediately close down windows with half-articles in.
Gestures might be taken up a bit more with the recent surge in tablets.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why he's an ex-conservative politician.
I'd still like the opportunity to upload sound profiles, though. Have your car sound like a Ferrari, a Harley, or a TIE fighter!
Not to mention there's no law saying they can't flag the article as one which is about to be altered because of this law, and the time and date at which it will be altered. There's also no law saying revisionists can't be notified of any such flags...
On that note, can I alter every single website in Italy by complaining that its content (regardless of whatever it actually is) is offensive to me because it doesn't contain the phrase "[Name of politician proposing this law] Is An Idiot"?
There are definite similarities, to the point that I wonder if Vinge was only slightly exaggerating the "in the zone" focus known to people who really get into their work while hours slip by. Artists, programmers, people who build toothpick replicas of battleships - it can happen to almost anyone.
Or just insist that all internet banking go through bank sites hosted on country-internal servers.
Sword-o-gram!
He doesn't even see the code any more. He just sees blonde, brunette, Goatse...
My guess would be in that case that the mass-structure of the supernova is to blame. I can easily imagine a core expansion where both neutrinos and photons get generated by the same process, but the neutrinos pass straight through the mass of the supernova and streak off into interstellar space, whereas the photons bounce around inside the relatively slow-moving gas and plasma cloud doing a psuedo-random walk for three hours before the traffic, as it were, clears enough for them to get a clear run at the Milky Way.
This is exactly why we need the Public-Smartinator 3000!
So when it comes to upgrading a country quickly, we should grin and bear it?
I dunno. Sure, the overall percentage of watchable stuff might be decreasing, but the output is growing faster. There's probably ten or twenty movies a year just out of Hollywood that are actually worth watching. Who cares if there are eighty thousand crap ones? It's the same with TV shows - there are some really good ones, even if they're not the same genre as famous shows of yesteryear.
DVD and Blu-ray box sets are flying off the shelves, and torrents are more popular than ever. Someone somewhere must be producing something watchable.
This is why you get a commitment in stone from the relevant CIO or CEO that if anyone - ANYONE - asks for reinstatement of a resource which has been removed for security reasons, that request may not be approved by anyone who does not understand precisely why the resource was removed in the first place.
Failing that, you get a commitment that anyone approving the reinstatement of the removed resource will personally cover the costs - all the costs - of any security issue (no matter what the source) arising during the resource's reinstatement.
See if the smaller company is willing to allow telecommuting?
I sometimes wonder if people document everything about their job and then offer to sell the documentation to the company, or make sure it's part of their personal possessions so that in the event of their demise, their estate could sell it back to the company in order to increase the inheritance going to family.
It's an unpaid seven and a half hours a week. That's like being given a seven thousand pound raise AND every Friday off!
Ask the larger company to initially rent you back to the smaller company four days a week until the smaller company makes the decision that your ongoing worth to them is not sufficient to keep paying your contract rates.
This has the following advantages:
1) You get a higher rate of pay immediately;
2) You are immediately profitable to the larger company;
3) The decision as to when is the best time for you to wrap up at the smaller company is made by the smaller company and not you;
4) You still have one day a week to bring yourself up to speed with the environment and people at the larger company, so that when you finish up at the smaller company you can hit the ground running at the larger one; and
5) The smaller company can decide to drop you down from four days a week to three to two and so on as they train up your replacement(s), thus saving them money and giving you more time at the larger company.
Was it faster than the speed of light at the bottom of a gravity well?