So the machine A, figures out what its best guess at the "correct" answer is, *then figures out what politically expedient cover story is required afterward*!
I feel Enterprise Software has a good racket going.
1. The software IS expensive. Consumer apps tend to be some $50-$500. Enterprise thinks $30,000 is great. Claim is that with a they have only a few customers, so they have to charge a high price to break even. Really?! If it were priced commodity then tons of small shops would buy it, but then that destroys the bubble market.
2. Direct support on annual plans. Cram as many half-programmed features into the software as possible. I didn't say "many features, half programmed" - I duly meant "half programmed features". One version of our program crashed the entire app if you toggled a drop down. Then you get to charge support calls. Beautiful.
3. The aforementioned Consultants. Yes, config it a little ugly, but why do the consultants have to be billed at $200 an hour? Oh right. That pays for the sales staff that can sell more consulting.
4. Monopoly districts. Locks out competition in case anyone thinks of applying classical economics to the above.
That's why I run a Volatile box and a Verified box. The volatile compy pseudo-lives for strange and wonderful things!
(Digression: This is possible. Create an Expert System that websearches the item to reverse-rank popularity. Then you can tag a Wonderful factor. Fun! Where was I...)
Oh yes. Sophie. Well it seems to want to create books, but apparently fails miserably at the Intuitive factor. I am unable to get any content into a New Book.
( [Magpie] Oh look, when I close, it "drops me into the Squeak Dev. Environment. That explains why they needed a Squeak team as the From side to port it into Java as the To side. Shiny![/Magpie])
Let's subsitute another better known entity as an example.
"The OpenSource office project OpenOffice, may just have been killed by new funding. The original funding organization Sun approved a grant to redevelop the four year project from scratch. The grant was awarded to a Bulgarian company based on their proposal which is simply an exact description, including the UI and the artwork, of the current Open Office. (Having contributed nothing new.) Being an OpenSource project this isn't strictly illegal, but let's say, not nice and definitely not innovative, coming from a former sub-sub contractor on the project. Some of the original, now laid off, developers started FreedomOffice.info trying to salvage the project. As the current version is still somewhat buggy and slow, it might just be enough to alienate all potential users of Sophie to the point that nobody will even try to use the next version."
Clearer? When you submit a proposal for new funding as a replacement for the original Dev team, screenshotting the existing features is a bit slimy.
"Someone does nothing but copy the existing output and claim it's a new direction, and bamboozling the funding organization into giving them the new grant".
I'll settle for the space issues. I hunkered down to get a new monitor, and upgraded from a 19" to a 28" monitor. It feels proportionally right for my desk, so I really cannot imagine any further monitor necessary for a long time.
Well, I don't have the time to compare, but certain apps are generating errors when being asked to run on both "pseudo desktops". Firefox and Opera most notably. Safari & IE7 are currently escaping at least a bit.
A "Hider" would still be operating in the same App space, right? So all the apps would open, and the visibility would be toggled.
This might have modestly serious implications at a deep level.
Heck, just make an account called Thief! No one will see it anyway... unless it's stolen! Invite him in! Set up lots of juicy Pr0n for him... that require logins!. A selection of games... that send info outbound! Meanwhile there's a hardware locator built in that's independent of what OS is on there. Drop by! Chat! Bring your Undercover BlueSuits.
It is by Dream alone I set my life in motion. It is by the juice of green tea & absinthe that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by Dream alone I set my life in motion.
Make sure to give both the books and the MMO the benefits of the doubt. I am prepared to accept if the publishers wind up with only a mediocre translation.
I will be replying the daylights out of this thread since I really liked the series.
It is a tetrology of 4 books, all gorgeously detailed! I really liked that a crucial feature is two AFRICAN characters as lead heroes! One from a modern province, and one a classically trained Bushman.
Tad W. does a brilliant job of showing how the Old Bush Ways could provide crucial insight into our modern era.
I hate MMO's, but I'll probably have to get my own little corner of this one solely because of the books.
Actually, the issue is remarkably similar. Only the enforcement is different.
A: "Leadership of Blizzard is upset that computers are used to get secret advantages".
B: "Leadership of Chess is upset that computers are used to get secret advantages."
For every game there is an unspoken challenge to build an AI to bust it. Some games are easier to crack than others. Checkers is completely toast. WOW is still "only partly broken".
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So the machine A, figures out what its best guess at the "correct" answer is, *then figures out what politically expedient cover story is required afterward*!
Right, it started with Disney ruling the copyright legislation in 1998 and went downhill from there.
For a Silicon Entity, Desire To Be Alive is also very easily programmed.
"If object is within centimeter of off switch, then activate FightOrFlight subroutine".
Friends don't let friends Drink & Derive.
I discovered Overclock Remix, the site for people doing modern interpretations of older tunes. It's my number one source for work music.
Where there's "Someone to Think Of", there's a way. My town figured it out.
1. Close all businesses by curfew. "Think of the overworked Cops" in our case.
2. Enforce Anti-Loiter rules.
I might need a new sig. "Never understimate Big Brother."
I feel Enterprise Software has a good racket going.
1. The software IS expensive. Consumer apps tend to be some $50-$500. Enterprise thinks $30,000 is great. Claim is that with a they have only a few customers, so they have to charge a high price to break even. Really?! If it were priced commodity then tons of small shops would buy it, but then that destroys the bubble market.
2. Direct support on annual plans. Cram as many half-programmed features into the software as possible. I didn't say "many features, half programmed" - I duly meant "half programmed features". One version of our program crashed the entire app if you toggled a drop down. Then you get to charge support calls. Beautiful.
3. The aforementioned Consultants. Yes, config it a little ugly, but why do the consultants have to be billed at $200 an hour? Oh right. That pays for the sales staff that can sell more consulting.
4. Monopoly districts. Locks out competition in case anyone thinks of applying classical economics to the above.
He clearly means Dentistry software. Manage the patient's records, search cavities...
Lucy. Charles Schultz FTW!
"Awww. Be nice and quit bashing Microsoft"
(... Microsoft does yet another unbelieveable act)
That's why I run a Volatile box and a Verified box. The volatile compy pseudo-lives for strange and wonderful things!
(Digression: This is possible. Create an Expert System that websearches the item to reverse-rank popularity. Then you can tag a Wonderful factor. Fun! Where was I...)
Oh yes. Sophie. Well it seems to want to create books, but apparently fails miserably at the Intuitive factor. I am unable to get any content into a New Book.
( [Magpie] Oh look, when I close, it "drops me into the Squeak Dev. Environment. That explains why they needed a Squeak team as the From side to port it into Java as the To side. Shiny![/Magpie])
This is why the internet is wonderful.
I don't even know what "Squeak" is. Something to IceWeasel later. Today's vocab word FTW!
(Looking for new verb to replace "Googling".)
Let's subsitute another better known entity as an example.
"The OpenSource office project OpenOffice, may just have been killed by new funding. The original funding organization Sun approved a grant to redevelop the four year project from scratch. The grant was awarded to a Bulgarian company based on their proposal which is simply an exact description, including the UI and the artwork, of the current Open Office. (Having contributed nothing new.) Being an OpenSource project this isn't strictly illegal, but let's say, not nice and definitely not innovative, coming from a former sub-sub contractor on the project. Some of the original, now laid off, developers started FreedomOffice.info trying to salvage the project. As the current version is still somewhat buggy and slow, it might just be enough to alienate all potential users of Sophie to the point that nobody will even try to use the next version."
Clearer? When you submit a proposal for new funding as a replacement for the original Dev team, screenshotting the existing features is a bit slimy.
"Someone does nothing but copy the existing output and claim it's a new direction, and bamboozling the funding organization into giving them the new grant".
They seriously do this, in their weird onionskin way of hiding sneaky stuff under the guise of stupid mixed with stupid stuff masked under PR noise.
The half extractor for Zip and the half-backup aka System Restore are my favorite examples.
The Digital Age is about Niches & Long Tails. Some of us care about multi-desktops (no matter how poorly done.)
Having 9 items on my taskbar always irritated me. This feels a little cleaner.
(Desperately avoids the $implications)
I'll settle for the space issues. I hunkered down to get a new monitor, and upgraded from a 19" to a 28" monitor. It feels proportionally right for my desk, so I really cannot imagine any further monitor necessary for a long time.
Don't you mean Slashdot?
(To Four Seasons December 1963)
Oh what a relief!
Three Burritos with extra beans
Washed them down with a fizzy drink.
Now the chemistry's workin' me -
Oh my wordy, what a relief!
Two new gasses, from opposite ends,
Like an 'Al song for all his friends!
Really!?
"IDNHT-4" (I Do Not Have Time To Test This.)
Well, I don't have the time to compare, but certain apps are generating errors when being asked to run on both "pseudo desktops". Firefox and Opera most notably. Safari & IE7 are currently escaping at least a bit.
A "Hider" would still be operating in the same App space, right? So all the apps would open, and the visibility would be toggled.
This might have modestly serious implications at a deep level.
Heck, just make an account called Thief! No one will see it anyway ... unless it's stolen! ... that require logins!. A selection of games ... that send info outbound!
Invite him in! Set up lots of juicy Pr0n for him
Meanwhile there's a hardware locator built in that's independent of what OS is on there.
Drop by! Chat! Bring your Undercover BlueSuits.
Life's a Dream.
It is by Dream alone I set my life in motion. It is by the juice of green tea & absinthe that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by Dream alone I set my life in motion.
Make sure to give both the books and the MMO the benefits of the doubt. I am prepared to accept if the publishers wind up with only a mediocre translation.
I will be replying the daylights out of this thread since I really liked the series.
It is a tetrology of 4 books, all gorgeously detailed! I really liked that a crucial feature is two AFRICAN characters as lead heroes! One from a modern province, and one a classically trained Bushman.
Tad W. does a brilliant job of showing how the Old Bush Ways could provide crucial insight into our modern era.
I hate MMO's, but I'll probably have to get my own little corner of this one solely because of the books.
Actually, the issue is remarkably similar. Only the enforcement is different.
A: "Leadership of Blizzard is upset that computers are used to get secret advantages".
B: "Leadership of Chess is upset that computers are used to get secret advantages."
For every game there is an unspoken challenge to build an AI to bust it. Some games are easier to crack than others. Checkers is completely toast. WOW is still "only partly broken".