Isnt this a day early? Someone needs to get a proper calender!
Nope, someone needs to get a globe, and that would be you. America is but one portion of the world, and it does not contain the International Date Line.
The question is, if you have to judge the competence of two people using their clothing as a criteria, which type of clothing would you think the more technically knowledgeable person is likely to be wearing?
Why is that even remotely resonable as a criteria? No time? Well too bad, then go ahead and make stupid decisions based on pure fluff. Eventually we as a people might figure this one out, but it's not happening today.
i think there's something to be said about perception.
Yes, I have plenty to say about perception. Chiefly that we permit our perceptions to blind us all the time. We let our eyes do the thinking instead of our brains, and jump to incorrect conclusions based on appearance all the time. I dress down for a few reasons:
a) It's comfortable. So screw everyone else who doesn't like my clothes, I'm the one that has to wear them.
b) On purpose, because if people don't want to interact with me because they think I am 'bad' based on my long hair and jeans, that's good, I probably didn't want to interact with shallow idiots like that anyhow. It's a nice little filtering system, as only those willing to seek beyond the appearance will gain the benefit of my time.
c) If I miss a job opportunity because of it, that's also good. No I don't show up to an interview in my worst, ripped up stuff, I do make an effort to wear my 'good jeans' and make sure I've brushed my hair. That's the best you get from my appearance. If I'm not hired because of how I look, then good, I probably wouldn't have been able to stand it there anyhow.
Really, so you mean you can actually predict the true accurate weather instead of the vague generalized guessing that we get on the news? You should be one of the richest people in the world in that case, cool...
There's lots of things we can 'simulate', but 'approximate' is a better term.
In order for a law to be broken, it has to exist first. A killing machine such as this is merely a gun with a remote control. It's not a robot in the sense that there would even be a place for such a law in its programming.
Just making stuff up, but how about this: 500 years from now, movies will have long-since left the theatres, and will be games, played at home in your living room which you can't see because you're encased in a full-body VR suit. Others present with you have their suits on as well, and you're all networked into the story together. Safety issues are somebody else's engineering problem, I'm assuming you can somehow move about without worrying about running into your couch. You participate in the story, with a level of influence on the plot that is determined by the directors and/or writers. You can engage in a movie that only gives you a passive role, a bystander of some sort. Since you're basically an 'extra' there's still lots you'd be able to find interactive and interesting, it would just be with stuff that's not essential to the plot, in the background somewhere. In other productions, you could be the hero, or the bad guy, or one of their friends/henchmen, or whatever. We'd start rating movies on additional statements like, "Was there enough to do in it?" and "You'll lose weight playing this movie".
More and more games are tending toward being interactive movies these days. And movies have subtly drifted in that direction of games, with DVDs where you can see alternate endings and discover hidden things and stuff like that. As both media forms advance in technology, they may grow into each other and become some morph that's sort of like the holodeck, where all the programs are bought/rented from the VRIAA or something like that.
I'm right here sitting in the theatre after paying for the ticket! I'm the guy who did the right thing!
Maybe they're concerned by the possibility that even though you've done the right thing this time, you'll be of a different mind after being subjected to the steaming pile of crap about to play on that big screen. I think those commercials are proof that they know they put out crap.
Wonder what the video game generation will lobby against?
As retro things come back into style more and more, it'll probably be banging rocks and sticks together rhythmically around a fire in a cave. We'll decry this dangerous activity as inherently violent because it involves blunt objects that could potentially be used as weapons, and because someone might get carried away by the demonic beats and fall into the firepit. Additionally, such activities can have ceremonial trappings, which threatens the religious Right, and can also lead to substance abuse. We need to move to ban this before it's too late!
Interestingly, they never spent the time to figure out that some of those billions served were sometimes the same people
At one time, years ago, their sign said "Over 50 billion served". Do you really think that they, and the people driving by those signs, are that bad at math, given that the figure was over 10 times the entire world's human population at the time? Nowadays it just says "billions" because they got tired of changing the sign all the time whenever Bill Clinton wanted lunch.
Overall, I'm not sure I'd want it next to my home.
But I'll bet he just claims he wants it for highspeed access. More likely, he's hoping he can luck out and get super-powers next time there's a lightning storm.
Sure, there's a distinctly different physical sensation between 'challenge' stress and 'icky' stress. You are what you feel, so if you let your feelings guide you make sure to follow the good ones and try to ditch the bad ones. This makes a healthier brain, that succeeds more, leading to further improved stress, further growth, it's a self-feeding thing. It works the same way in reverse. Have a stressed-out unhealthy brain, it makes more mistakes/takes less chances//etc so creates more stress for itself by being all messed up, gets more messed up by that, and finally crashes somewhere living in a cardboard box in an alley.
You can't secure against user stupidity except by scanning each file that they try to execute
That doesn't work either. Telling someone that they are now protected makes them even stupider and more careless. It's like putting on a full suit of armor and then running into the middle of a busy freeway without looking, because you're wearing armor. Still going to get hurt? Yeah you bet!
Really, the only way I could see dropping my precious precious sweet wonderful precious coffee would be if someone chopped off the hand that was holding it. Seriously.
Sony Spokesman: There is no truth to the rumors that the PS3 didn't ship in the spring when we said it would. Look behind me here!
Camera moves to stacks and stacks of boxes. Plain cardboard boxes, and someone has scrawled "Playstation 3" on each one with a magic marker.
Sony Spokesperson: See? There's lots of PS3's, so many we have to keep some of them here in the pressroom. If your local store doesn't have any, that's because they sold out already. And just because none of your friends have one doesn't mean anything, it's a big world. Do you know everyone in New York? No, I didn't think so. Just keep going to the store and looking, you will be lucky some day.
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Just wrap your cellphone in several layers of tinfoil. Problem solved.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
I would like to mention that in addition to the others who have voiced their opinion on this subject that likewise, I.. Oh crap.
Isnt this a day early? Someone needs to get a proper calender!
Nope, someone needs to get a globe, and that would be you. America is but one portion of the world, and it does not contain the International Date Line.
The question is, if you have to judge the competence of two people using their clothing as a criteria, which type of clothing would you think the more technically knowledgeable person is likely to be wearing?
Why is that even remotely resonable as a criteria? No time? Well too bad, then go ahead and make stupid decisions based on pure fluff. Eventually we as a people might figure this one out, but it's not happening today.
i think there's something to be said about perception.
Yes, I have plenty to say about perception. Chiefly that we permit our perceptions to blind us all the time. We let our eyes do the thinking instead of our brains, and jump to incorrect conclusions based on appearance all the time. I dress down for a few reasons:
a) It's comfortable. So screw everyone else who doesn't like my clothes, I'm the one that has to wear them.
b) On purpose, because if people don't want to interact with me because they think I am 'bad' based on my long hair and jeans, that's good, I probably didn't want to interact with shallow idiots like that anyhow. It's a nice little filtering system, as only those willing to seek beyond the appearance will gain the benefit of my time.
c) If I miss a job opportunity because of it, that's also good. No I don't show up to an interview in my worst, ripped up stuff, I do make an effort to wear my 'good jeans' and make sure I've brushed my hair. That's the best you get from my appearance. If I'm not hired because of how I look, then good, I probably wouldn't have been able to stand it there anyhow.
Really, so you mean you can actually predict the true accurate weather instead of the vague generalized guessing that we get on the news? You should be one of the richest people in the world in that case, cool...
There's lots of things we can 'simulate', but 'approximate' is a better term.
Is that where the pot calls the kettle stupid, culminating in a fist-fight?
Considering that Dell's website already sells AMD processors I would guess that you will.
Ah, but getting 210,000 frames per hour is so much better than only getting 205,000 frames per hour!
Theres this game I play with my girlfriend, but it's not a video game.... try it
The trouble with that game is that girlfriends tend to object to the multi-player form.
In order for a law to be broken, it has to exist first. A killing machine such as this is merely a gun with a remote control. It's not a robot in the sense that there would even be a place for such a law in its programming.
Just making stuff up, but how about this: 500 years from now, movies will have long-since left the theatres, and will be games, played at home in your living room which you can't see because you're encased in a full-body VR suit. Others present with you have their suits on as well, and you're all networked into the story together. Safety issues are somebody else's engineering problem, I'm assuming you can somehow move about without worrying about running into your couch. You participate in the story, with a level of influence on the plot that is determined by the directors and/or writers. You can engage in a movie that only gives you a passive role, a bystander of some sort. Since you're basically an 'extra' there's still lots you'd be able to find interactive and interesting, it would just be with stuff that's not essential to the plot, in the background somewhere. In other productions, you could be the hero, or the bad guy, or one of their friends/henchmen, or whatever. We'd start rating movies on additional statements like, "Was there enough to do in it?" and "You'll lose weight playing this movie".
More and more games are tending toward being interactive movies these days. And movies have subtly drifted in that direction of games, with DVDs where you can see alternate endings and discover hidden things and stuff like that. As both media forms advance in technology, they may grow into each other and become some morph that's sort of like the holodeck, where all the programs are bought/rented from the VRIAA or something like that.
I'm right here sitting in the theatre after paying for the ticket! I'm the guy who did the right thing!
Maybe they're concerned by the possibility that even though you've done the right thing this time, you'll be of a different mind after being subjected to the steaming pile of crap about to play on that big screen. I think those commercials are proof that they know they put out crap.
The fourth wave of attackers approaches. Go forth, and conquer them!
:)
I'd actually rather go fourth. Somebody else can be cannon fodder, thank you very much.
Wonder what the video game generation will lobby against?
As retro things come back into style more and more, it'll probably be banging rocks and sticks together rhythmically around a fire in a cave. We'll decry this dangerous activity as inherently violent because it involves blunt objects that could potentially be used as weapons, and because someone might get carried away by the demonic beats and fall into the firepit. Additionally, such activities can have ceremonial trappings, which threatens the religious Right, and can also lead to substance abuse. We need to move to ban this before it's too late!
Interestingly, they never spent the time to figure out that some of those billions served were sometimes the same people
At one time, years ago, their sign said "Over 50 billion served". Do you really think that they, and the people driving by those signs, are that bad at math, given that the figure was over 10 times the entire world's human population at the time? Nowadays it just says "billions" because they got tired of changing the sign all the time whenever Bill Clinton wanted lunch.
Dude, you need to take yourself a little less seriously.
Overall, I'm not sure I'd want it next to my home.
But I'll bet he just claims he wants it for highspeed access. More likely, he's hoping he can luck out and get super-powers next time there's a lightning storm.
Yeah, SimCity 2, SimCity 3, SimCity 4, those indy guys really do innovate. ;)
(I love those games and most of the Sim titles rock, just trying to make a joke)
Sure, there's a distinctly different physical sensation between 'challenge' stress and 'icky' stress. You are what you feel, so if you let your feelings guide you make sure to follow the good ones and try to ditch the bad ones. This makes a healthier brain, that succeeds more, leading to further improved stress, further growth, it's a self-feeding thing. It works the same way in reverse. Have a stressed-out unhealthy brain, it makes more mistakes/takes less chances//etc so creates more stress for itself by being all messed up, gets more messed up by that, and finally crashes somewhere living in a cardboard box in an alley.
You can't secure against user stupidity except by scanning each file that they try to execute
That doesn't work either. Telling someone that they are now protected makes them even stupider and more careless. It's like putting on a full suit of armor and then running into the middle of a busy freeway without looking, because you're wearing armor. Still going to get hurt? Yeah you bet!
Really, the only way I could see dropping my precious precious sweet wonderful precious coffee would be if someone chopped off the hand that was holding it. Seriously.
Sony Spokesman: There is no truth to the rumors that the PS3 didn't ship in the spring when we said it would. Look behind me here!
Camera moves to stacks and stacks of boxes. Plain cardboard boxes, and someone has scrawled "Playstation 3" on each one with a magic marker.
Sony Spokesperson: See? There's lots of PS3's, so many we have to keep some of them here in the pressroom. If your local store doesn't have any, that's because they sold out already. And just because none of your friends have one doesn't mean anything, it's a big world. Do you know everyone in New York? No, I didn't think so. Just keep going to the store and looking, you will be lucky some day.
get past less-than-competent physical security in ways that you couldn't with a pure hard drive.
Next on www.hackaday.com: Modding your external harddrive/memory key to have fake headphones. You supply the fake head-bobbing and humming along.