You don't think we didn't hear you muttering amongst yourselves beforehand, do you?
This is a group of tech industry veterans, conditioned by years of D&D.
Everyone knows that NPCs don't hear you unless addressed directly. The party discusses their options, and then the character with the highest charisma conveys the group's chosen statement.
The question of 'Do I or do I not want to know how I'll die?' is explored very interestingly in the collection of fictional short stories 'Machine of Death'
Oculus Rift is going to be asking you to push dual monitors at 60 fps with VSync enabled at whatever resolution they settle on. That's difficult for many cards today.
I don't think it matters any more. Pre-9/11 thinking was that if the plane gets hijacked, let them fly us to Egypt where we'll be hostage for a few days until the US caves to their demands or Rainbow Six (or whoever) shoots them.
Post-9/11 thinking is that if the plane gets hijacked, the pilot is still not going to open his vault doors, and enough of the passengers are willing to risk a real or imagined knife to beat the stuffing out of you.
Even though I don't think it matters any more, doesn't mean that the TSA has figured it out though.
With 'good-enough' integrated video currently shipping on current-gen Intel processors, I think we'll start seeing laptops that can dock onto an external high end video card.
When you're on the go you've got your small-time games and traditional laptop full of movies or term papers or whatever.
When you dock it at home you've now got the horsepower to play graphically intensive games without the full additional price or mental juggling of a second gaming PC.
The issue here is that technology has progressed to a point that we're discovering that it's possible to have a situation that's never been a problem before.
If you look at the warrant process, it's attempting to keep the government from messing with you unless they have 'a good reason'. Having a detective follow a suspect around to see what they do has, up until now, been naturally limited by funding and manpower to cases where the police had 'a good reason', and so we've never had to make up external limits on the activity.
As police activity becomes less and less limited by funding and manpower, we have to check if we need to start imposing outside limitations instead.
Short version is that in a normal environment there is enough rice produced for everyone, but suddenly everyone worries that RIGHT NOW they need to buy all the rice they will eat ALL YEAR, and that causes problems.
The solution was really interesting too. Turns out that Japan artificially insulates it's rice farmers from foreign competition, but to satisfy world trade agreements they buy lots of rice that sits in warehouses and rots. People started negotiations to re-export that rice to countries with a shortfall, and as soon as the word got around that this might happen people went back to normal buying behavior and the problem evaporated without actually moving anything around.
I'm curious why you think the judge would be an idiot to sign such a warrant?
I thought warrants were to keep police from going on fishing expeditions where they just show up at your house and look for something, anything, to bust you for. Demonstrating that someone at that address connected to a tracker, requested a block, and now they'd like legally seize the computer to see if the block arrived seems like the iconic use of a warrant.
...or they take the prison sentence and be given a comfortable retirement by the mob when they are released (as their reward for serving a sentence in silence)...
I can't offer a source (sorry), but I was listening to this podcast on criminal justice a few years ago, and they talked about it being semi-common in Japan for the Yakuza to assassinate their own members in prison. It wasn't because they were afraid the guy would rat them out, it was because he was just a low level employee that they didn't feel like they owed very much to, and it was cheaper to pay for him to be killed then to be obligated to pay his retirement when he got out.
Dude, he's not trying to insult you, he was just using an example. Here, let me offer one that would make you happier:
When your country has a GDP of $14.5 trillion a year, and you've got $15 trillion in debt, You need to raise taxes and you need to reduce spending on things you can limp by without, and pay off that national debt
I've only played the demo, but I've loved them ever since reading their IGF entry (http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2009.php?id=420):
Blockland is a non-competitive multiplayer online sandbox game where players can build with interconnecting plastic bricks which are similar to, but legally distinct from, legos.
"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, "I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't want to be violated in that way," Isaacson recalls. So he waited nine months, while his wife and others urged him to do it, before getting the operation, reveals Isaacson. Asked by Kroft how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision, Isaacson replies, "I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking...we talked about this a lot," he tells Kroft. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it....I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner."
Which means that the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field ultimately claimed the life of it's creator.
No, you know the future has finally arrived when the most successful bullies torment their victims with intelligence and technology instead of burly muscles and indian-burns.
I didn't pay very much for the windows bundle because I already own all these games. Steam has crazy good sales all the time, and I already own everything offered in the current bundle except for Trauma.
The money I threw in was paying for the games again because I like the bundle and I want them to run another one...but yes, I was stingy about it.
I'm confused by the word 'portion' in that last sentence. Is it the variety that's really important, even if the portion of the donation is very small?
In other words, if you used each donation only for producing treatments, does mixing together 10,000 donations get you 10,000 treatments, or 5,000, or 5, or what?
At my workplace, to satisfy anti-discrimination laws we have had to codify 'what we want' in a candidate, and then have an audit trail to demonstrate that we both:
- didn't ever hire people who didn't have what we want
- didn't ever reject people for reasons outside of what we want
I'm only aware of what we want for Software Engineers, but for those I can tell you that for inexperienced hires we are literally forbidden from considering you if you don't have a degree (or are about to get one). Once you crest a few years of experience you're back in the pool, but we do almost all of our hiring from new graduates.
I suspect that my story is becoming increasingly common, and if so that means the number of people like you who can ever get experience without a degree is going to shrink.
Of course, another way would be to bootstrap by writing yourself an assembler in machine code, then a compiler for the source language of that compiler in assembly (using your self-written assembler), and then use that to compile the compiler you got in source (and to get an optimized compiler, compile the compiler with that compiler again). But again, few people have the resources to do so.
I challenge that this is as hard as it sounds. The bootstrapping homebrew compiler doesn't have to be fast or efficient, and doesn't have to produce fast or efficient code, it only has to be *correct* the one time you use it. You'd then use it to compile gcc, which to my understanding is implemented using only C (not c++) features.
So time to bootstrap a correct C-compliant compiler? In my arrogance, I bet it could be done in 6 months by a few dudes in a garage. Which if you're in a field that needs bulletproof compiler trust, is a small investment.
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You don't think we didn't hear you muttering amongst yourselves beforehand, do you?
This is a group of tech industry veterans, conditioned by years of D&D.
Everyone knows that NPCs don't hear you unless addressed directly. The party discusses their options, and then the character with the highest charisma conveys the group's chosen statement.
The question of 'Do I or do I not want to know how I'll die?' is explored very interestingly in the collection of fictional short stories 'Machine of Death'
Can be read for free here: http://machineofdeath.net/ebook
Oculus Rift is going to be asking you to push dual monitors at 60 fps with VSync enabled at whatever resolution they settle on. That's difficult for many cards today.
I don't think it matters any more. Pre-9/11 thinking was that if the plane gets hijacked, let them fly us to Egypt where we'll be hostage for a few days until the US caves to their demands or Rainbow Six (or whoever) shoots them.
Post-9/11 thinking is that if the plane gets hijacked, the pilot is still not going to open his vault doors, and enough of the passengers are willing to risk a real or imagined knife to beat the stuffing out of you.
Even though I don't think it matters any more, doesn't mean that the TSA has figured it out though.
With 'good-enough' integrated video currently shipping on current-gen Intel processors, I think we'll start seeing laptops that can dock onto an external high end video card.
When you're on the go you've got your small-time games and traditional laptop full of movies or term papers or whatever.
When you dock it at home you've now got the horsepower to play graphically intensive games without the full additional price or mental juggling of a second gaming PC.
The issue here is that technology has progressed to a point that we're discovering that it's possible to have a situation that's never been a problem before.
If you look at the warrant process, it's attempting to keep the government from messing with you unless they have 'a good reason'. Having a detective follow a suspect around to see what they do has, up until now, been naturally limited by funding and manpower to cases where the police had 'a good reason', and so we've never had to make up external limits on the activity.
As police activity becomes less and less limited by funding and manpower, we have to check if we need to start imposing outside limitations instead.
Daylight Savings Time is like chopping off your head and standing on it to make yourself taller.
Linked article does not substantiate your claim that Aaron Tilton and his gang of eco-thugs have LDS Church endorsement.
... his gang of LDS Church approved eco-thugs...
Citation Needed.
It's a tangent, but there's a good article on 2008 rice prices freaking out because of the same effect: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/02/141771712/how-fear-drove-world-rice-markets-insane
Short version is that in a normal environment there is enough rice produced for everyone, but suddenly everyone worries that RIGHT NOW they need to buy all the rice they will eat ALL YEAR, and that causes problems.
The solution was really interesting too. Turns out that Japan artificially insulates it's rice farmers from foreign competition, but to satisfy world trade agreements they buy lots of rice that sits in warehouses and rots. People started negotiations to re-export that rice to countries with a shortfall, and as soon as the word got around that this might happen people went back to normal buying behavior and the problem evaporated without actually moving anything around.
And they did it with a lemon! They got their engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burned his house down!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mUC-262Xr4
Tim Samaras is a storm researcher who has captured lightning strikes at 10,000 frames per second:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyUsjsJ-E0c
It's not 1,000,000,000,000 FPS, but it's still pretty cool.
I'm curious why you think the judge would be an idiot to sign such a warrant?
I thought warrants were to keep police from going on fishing expeditions where they just show up at your house and look for something, anything, to bust you for. Demonstrating that someone at that address connected to a tracker, requested a block, and now they'd like legally seize the computer to see if the block arrived seems like the iconic use of a warrant.
...or they take the prison sentence and be given a comfortable retirement by the mob when they are released (as their reward for serving a sentence in silence)...
I can't offer a source (sorry), but I was listening to this podcast on criminal justice a few years ago, and they talked about it being semi-common in Japan for the Yakuza to assassinate their own members in prison. It wasn't because they were afraid the guy would rat them out, it was because he was just a low level employee that they didn't feel like they owed very much to, and it was cheaper to pay for him to be killed then to be obligated to pay his retirement when he got out.
I wonder if that ever happens stateside.
I'm a software developer. My employer has ~5000 employees, and we easily do the majority of our hiring straight out of college.
Including right now, if anyone is looking: http://www.ni.com/careers/
When your country has a GDP of $14.5 trillion a year, and you've got $15 trillion in debt, You need to raise taxes and you need to reduce spending on things you can limp by without, and pay off that national debt
http://blockland.us/Video.html
I've only played the demo, but I've loved them ever since reading their IGF entry (http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2009.php?id=420):
Blockland is a non-competitive multiplayer online sandbox game where players can build with interconnecting plastic bricks which are similar to, but legally distinct from, legos.
Neglected to source the quote in my haste to post. It's from here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/biographer-steve-jobs-regretted-not-having-cancer-surgery-earlier.ars
"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, "I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't want to be violated in that way," Isaacson recalls. So he waited nine months, while his wife and others urged him to do it, before getting the operation, reveals Isaacson. Asked by Kroft how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision, Isaacson replies, "I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking...we talked about this a lot," he tells Kroft. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it....I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner."
Which means that the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field ultimately claimed the life of it's creator.
No, you know the future has finally arrived when the most successful bullies torment their victims with intelligence and technology instead of burly muscles and indian-burns.
I didn't pay very much for the windows bundle because I already own all these games. Steam has crazy good sales all the time, and I already own everything offered in the current bundle except for Trauma.
The money I threw in was paying for the games again because I like the bundle and I want them to run another one...but yes, I was stingy about it.
If the robot arm seizes you by the throat, and you're unable to vocalize the words 'stop choking me!', does it still count as disobeying you?
I'm confused by the word 'portion' in that last sentence. Is it the variety that's really important, even if the portion of the donation is very small?
In other words, if you used each donation only for producing treatments, does mixing together 10,000 donations get you 10,000 treatments, or 5,000, or 5, or what?
At my workplace, to satisfy anti-discrimination laws we have had to codify 'what we want' in a candidate, and then have an audit trail to demonstrate that we both:
- didn't ever hire people who didn't have what we want
- didn't ever reject people for reasons outside of what we want
I'm only aware of what we want for Software Engineers, but for those I can tell you that for inexperienced hires we are literally forbidden from considering you if you don't have a degree (or are about to get one). Once you crest a few years of experience you're back in the pool, but we do almost all of our hiring from new graduates.
I suspect that my story is becoming increasingly common, and if so that means the number of people like you who can ever get experience without a degree is going to shrink.
Of course, another way would be to bootstrap by writing yourself an assembler in machine code, then a compiler for the source language of that compiler in assembly (using your self-written assembler), and then use that to compile the compiler you got in source (and to get an optimized compiler, compile the compiler with that compiler again). But again, few people have the resources to do so.
I challenge that this is as hard as it sounds. The bootstrapping homebrew compiler doesn't have to be fast or efficient, and doesn't have to produce fast or efficient code, it only has to be *correct* the one time you use it. You'd then use it to compile gcc, which to my understanding is implemented using only C (not c++) features.
So time to bootstrap a correct C-compliant compiler? In my arrogance, I bet it could be done in 6 months by a few dudes in a garage. Which if you're in a field that needs bulletproof compiler trust, is a small investment.