The problem with this assessment and every other post I've seen here, is that none of you people have the slightest idea of what an IT degree is. So as someone who got a degree in what most of you would refer to as IT, let me clear things up.
1) Generally, it's not "IT" its "MIS" or "IS" as in Management Information Systems (at least in most US universities)
2) MIS/IS is part of a business school. That means you will be taking Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Management, and Economics courses in addition to your IS related classes.
3) MIS/IS graduates DO NOT become system administrators. I interned in a Network Operations department of a company essential assisting the sysadmins. Nothing I was studying was preparing me to be a sysadmin. What I was studying, was being the sysadmins boss, the Manager/Directors of IT.
4) Your technical classes will generally be higher level. You will not become a C++ or Java expert, but you will learn the fundementals of writing code so that learning C++ or Java will be relatively easy. Also, you will be able to look at a piece of code and get the gist of what it's suppose to do. You will be somewhat of a Jack-of-all-trades when it comes to the technical stuff, but no expert in any in particular. If you do want to be an expert in one of these areas, either do CS, engineering, or learn it on your own time
5) Your more advanced MIS/IS classes will talk more about ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and other large enterprise wide systems. Start learning who SAP is and what they do. Most CS and computer engineers have no idea what I'm talking about right now, but you will. The focus here is understanding technical solutions to companywide problems and also having the accounting/fincance/marketing background to back up these decisions. When I explain MIS to CS or engineers, I usually say "We're nerds who know what ROI is." To which they say "What's ROI?". To which I say "Exactly." (If you go down the IS route, you will find out that ROI is Return on Investment and means everything when trying to convince a CFO why your company should adopt an Enterprise Content Management system.
6) Most MIS/IS grads go into consulting (like I did). Consulting companies are constantly recruiting and they pay very well and if you want to do everything and anything tech. related, this is the industry for you. You also make lots of contacts at many different companies that you may want to work at when consulting starts to get old.
I know this post is probably 3 days too late, and no one will see it, but it's unfortunate because I haven't seen a single post that actually understands what getting an IT DEGREE means as opposed to what is broadly referred to as the IT INDUSTRY.
I think the problem here is that the author's definition of a B game is a little off. I think what the author refers to as B games are more like D games, in that they just plain don't work. The programming is buggy, the game play is quirky and frustrating and overall just not fun to play at all. When I think of a B movie, I think about awesomely bad or totally strang and bizarre story lines, bad acting, poor production quality (like grainy film quality, boom-mic or other objects/people in the frame). This is all what makes the movie funny. A game can be perfectly playable (little to no bugs, non-frustrating game play) and still have all of the B movie qualities. I think "Zero Wing's" "All your base are belong to us" comes to mind for most of us. How about really corny cut scenes. The storyline of the game could be something so stupid and pointless that it's hilarious (think something like "Dude, Where's My Car" or "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" as a video game). A D-Game is something that was poorly implemented and should never have made it to the store shelves. A B-Game is implemented relatively well, but the designers were smoking some really good shit.
Agreed. I have seen signs that say "Left lane closed due to traffic accident 2 miles." The idea being that if you everyone gets out of the left lane nice and early, there won't be a slowdown like when they all have merge at once. Unfortunately, no one pays attention to the sign and keeps on speeding ahead in the left lane. When they get to where the lane ends, there's a huge jam as everyone has to merge over at the last minute.
You can put out signs saying whatever you want. It doesn't mean people will take it's advice or adhere to a speed limit. I think the best idea is what the GGP posted in response to the GP. Just have two large trucks physically pace the traffic leading up to the affected area so that traffic keeps moving.
The GP clearly doesn't understand the time value of money. In some cases it's cheapest to pay everything up front. But in cases where the interest owed on the the product is less than the interest you can earn in a high yield savings account, then using credit is your best friend. For example, a colleague of mine just bought a new car. He was going to pay cash because he didn't want to pay extra on interest, but the interest was below 1%. Since accounts like ING Orange Savings pay 4.5%, he found that if he financed the car on this 1% auto loan, he could pay off the tax of the car from the interest he earns by not paying it all up front. I generally don't make it a habit of buying anything I can't afford with the cash I have, but credit allows me to wait 30 days to pay it off. Giving me not only time to move funds from one place to another, but also gives me 30 more days to earn interest on that amount of money.
Also 7-11 is a well know and generally well thought of brands.
I never exactly thought of 7-11 as a quality brand. But that might be because I live in Wawa country. In the Delaware Valley area of Pennsylvania/NJ/Delaware, if there is a Wawa across the street from a 7-11, 9 out of 10 people will go to the Wawa. In fact, I live a block away from a 7-11 and 2 blocks from a Wawa. Wawa is always packed, 7-11 is always empty. But enough about how great Wawa is. 7-11 has that stereotypical convenience store image. The Kwik-E-Mart on the Simpsons was modeled after one (at least it looks like it). And what do you think of when you imagine a 7-11? Store clerkes who don't speak english. Not particularly clean. Rotting hot-dogs that have been on the rack since Reagan was president. Slurpees/Squishees that are just sugary slurm over ice that rot your teeth and freeze your brain. Pre-made sandwiches that might give you an STD. I could go on.
As far as re-branding as Kwick-E-Mart? Hard to say. The Kwick-E-Mart from the Simpsons embraces all of the horrible stereotypes of 7-11 and ignores any of the good qualities. It could be good for sales in just sort of a novelty, make fun of yourself, kind of way. I certainly wouldn't re-brand the entire chain though. I'd be very interested to see how this works out.
As someone who used to do a lot of end user support for friends and family, I am thoroughly convinced that computers can smell fear. I don't know how many times someone has complained about a problem, called me over, and then when they try to replicate it, the computer behaves like an angel. I always tell them that it is because the computer can smell fear. They get a little chuckle out of it, but to me it's no joke. I'm dead serious.
Nina was not a "mail order bride", but somebody Hans met while he was working in Russia.
While I don't know this for sure, but at least the way the article words it, she very likely was a mail order bride. For instance, in the part where the author describes their first meeting, he says...
An American walks into a warm café looking for a woman he's supposed to meet...Then he spots her. She's beautiful, with dark hair and a smile that makes you hold your breath. But it's her voice that captures him. He finds the Russian inflection in her perfect English enchanting.
This sentence says a lot in that 1)The meeting is intentional, not a random pickup in a bar, and 2)He has never met her previously, neither in person, nor over the phone. Written correspondence is possible, though.
The other women he met through the Russian bride service on his regular trips here didn't impress him. They weren't like her. He can talk to her. And there's something else, something magical about her. On their first night together, Reiser later tells his father, they conceive a child. Five months later, they are married.
This one can be interpreted multiple ways. In one way, she is yet another mail order bride. In another, he has previously tried mail order brides and they were all crap. She's not a mail order bride and she's a keeper. I interpreted it in the first way. This is yet another mail order bride. He had had bad luck with the previous "candidates", but this one turns out to be good. The writer goes on about what (possibly) makes her different from the other mail order brides: English skills, a doctor, chemistry. Although the whole doctor thing is curious. If she is in fact a doctor, then why would she be a mail order bride? I don't know much about the "industry" but I wouldn't think someone who is good looking, has a career and comes from wealth (assuming her parents were successful as doctors), would want to be a mail order bride. A lot of people here on slashdot are speculating a setup involving the Russian mafia, which might explain this, but it seems there is a lot of mystery involved in this case.
The police seem to be focusing only on Reiser, which is probably a mistake. Reiser could be guilty. There certainly is a lot of evidence that points towards him, and he doesn't have answers for big questions like his car. However, in my mind, there is at least 3 suspects in this disappearance (let's not forget, there is no proof that Nina is alive or dead, so we can't call it a murder). Reiser's "friend" should be high on that list. There's the whole affair, money issues, admitted to have killed eight people. His "church" sounds peculiar too. In my mind Nina is a suspect. We don't know if she's dead, she could have been kidnapped, or she could be trying to fake her own death or just plain disappear for a while. This one's just a real head scratcher. It reminds me of the movie "Hollywoodland" about the death/murder/suicide of George Reeves, TV's Superman from the 50's. No one can really explain who did it, you can only really speculate and everyone's got a motive.
I think that sums it up. As funny as it may sound, or as offensive it may sound (i guess to MySpacers), you just saved everyone who hasn't RTFA a lot of time. The author has so much trouble defining the two "classes" and coming up with names for them. It is so much simpler to define than what the author conveys. You want two alternative terms than the "Hegemonic" and the "Subaltern"? How about College/College-bound and NOT College/College-bound users. That's it right there. It's obvious just from the history of the two sites. Facebook being a college only site, was only college students. When it opened its doors to high school kids, only the college-bound ones wanted in, because this was the first step in establishing their college social life. The rest just kept doing what they were doing with MySpace and interacting with the high school graduates who didn't go to college (because they were excluded).
I prefer this classification so much more because it steers away (for the most part) from using the high school clique labels. The author wants us to think that only jocks and popular people go to college and burnouts, emo's, artsy people and that really weird kid in the corner don't go to college. Not quite the case. Burnouts go to college in either Vermont or Colorado. The artsy kids go to art school, or a school with a strong art program. That really weird kid in the corner goes to MIT and becomes the next Bill Gates (yeah that's right, you didn't know he was really smart. Now he's going to take over the world in order to get revenge on all of you assholes). The emo's go wherever.
Now this is not all to say that everyone goes to college. This is all IF they go to college, and I understand that I am making sweeping generalizations, which is not really fair to these groups, but it's all in good fun, and based mostly on what I have observed. I'm just trying to prove the point that there is a much easier way to classify the Facebook/MySpace users without resorting to school cafeteria labels.
As mentioned in the first thread, Mythic.TV sells the Dragon. It's a fully working computer and MythTV setup in a HTPC form factor (looks like a piece of stereo equipment) that is based on KnoppMyth. It's pretty nice looking and is apparently very quiet. It's pricey though (over $1k), but all the hard work has been done for you. A great way to make MythTV accessible to those who don't have the Linux know-how.
Personally, I really enjoyed building my MythTV system. For me, it's always an ongoing project, but that's because I always have new ideas I want to try out. That's the great thing about MythTV. If you can dream it, you can do it (or at least try to).
No you're not the only one. But I wouldn't exactly say it's going to flop. I think it will do well, just as most other smart phones and pda's do well. Nothing overwhelming. It may seem like a flop just from the amount of hype that Apple and AT&T are trying to generate. There certainly will not be any long lines or opening day campers. There will be no fights breaking out and there will not be riots in the streets when the supply iPhones runs short. When people are in the market for a new phone, they will likely look into the iPhone. Some will bite, many won't. I can certainly see market share picking up in the next few years though.
Didn't the Tesla just string a bunch of NiMH or lithium ion batteries together from laptops?
Yes they did, but with pretty decent results. The Tesla Roadster can go 200 miles on a single charge. That will almost get you from New York City to Boston (technically 217 miles, so maybe do a quick charge when you stop for lunch). It also goes from completely dead to fully charged in just under 4 hours. So essentially you get 50 miles per hour of charging. Not too bad. Tesla is also heavily investing in improving the battery technology, so their best is yet to come. According to their web site, they are now sourcing their battery technology to other companies. While the cross-country road trip (and trucking) is out of the question (for now) an electric car is a reality for the daily commute.
I'd like to take this chance to try and set the record straight when it comes to pirating Windows. Without getting into the morality of pirating in general, pirating Windows is still helping Windows. Sure Microsoft doesn't get the revenue for the software, but they get the market share. And that's really what the OS market is about. First you get the OS market share, then you push the OS exclusive apps, then you get money, then you buy the khakis, then you get the girls (or something like that). Why do you think Microsoft has sold Windows to parts of the developing world for as low as $3? They don't care if you pay for their OS as long as you use it.
The moral of this story: The only way to "stick-it" to Microsoft, is to not use their products at all, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
...the people who switch from IE to Safari weren't going to try an open source browser anyway. We're talking about people who think that little blue E on their desktop is "the web".
Actually, these people are not going to switch from IE to Safari. They are not going to switch to anything. Like you said, that little blue E on their desktop is "the web". Therefore, Safari can only compete with IE in the same respect that Firefox can compete with IE. Basically, you're market is "the switchers". These are people who know enough to understand what a web browser is, and probably are also aware of/already using Firefox or Opera. There is the default browser users (IE) and then there's everybody else. Firefox is the king of "everybody else". If Safari really wants to (and I'm not really sure they want to) they could compete with Firefox and Opera. If anything, Apple should be rooting for Firefox while simultaneously competing with them. Being the dominant "Switcher Browser", they are in the best position to help enlighten people about the world of the non-IE web browser. Once someone is used to the idea that the little E on the desktop is only one of many web browsers, then that person is now able to choose a different browser (if they want to). Maybe they'll choose Firefox or Safari or stick with IE. Or maybe it will be that new open source browser of the future that hasn't been created yet. Safari and all of the "everyone else" crowd needs to first remove the wool pulled over peoples eyes, before they can compete with IE.
Hopefully users of Safari on OS X will start seeing less problems caused by web developers that have forgotten about them soon.
Well as someone working on a web portal for a high profile client, we currently block anyone not using IE and Firefox because a) Some of the pages don't render proplerly and some other features break; and b) because the client has decided that the marketshare was too small for us to spend our time trying to make the portal compatible with Safari. In the past half hour since hearing about Safari for Windows and actually installing it and taking it for a spin on our site, we may be rethinking that policy. MOST of the portal works perfectly fine. Most of the things that don't work can be easily fixed with some style sheet tweaking. The only major defect is that I can't login to the portal. I'm not sure how hard that is to fix (i just find the bugs, I don't fix them), but if it can be squeezed into an upcoming patch release, then Safari users may finally be welcome to the site (and all you Opera and Konqerer folks too).
On another note, this Windows release has been a godsend for those doing web developing and testing. In order to check that our "block safari" script works, I would have to either use Opera or boot up Knoppix and use Konqerer. Even still, Safari would sneak through and I had to use Konquerer on Knoppix AND change the user agent to spoof to Safari. PITA, but no more!
I think Versus is probably the exact reason they are accepting placeshifting. The NHL is getting shafted on TV coverage because the only channel you can watch hockey on is Versus. NBC sometimes will play games on weekends if you're lucky. Other than that, it's up to your local sports network. And even they are turning away from hockey. This year's playoff season was probably the worst covered in recent years. I couldn't watch a NJ Devils game in New Jersey unless I had Fox Sports Net 2. Unfortunately I don't have the second iteration of a regional cable channel.
And to all of you saying no one watches hockey, all I can say is that last night I was watching hockey on TV and it was a great game. So you don't like hockey...most of you here don't even like sports. There are plenty of fans out there. You all sound like the Windows zealots who think that no one ever uses Linux on the desktop.
Wow, didn't know Netscape was still developing. I was under the assumption that Mozilla/Seamonkey took over Netscape's role, but hey, you learn something new everyday. I was also wondering what the point of developing Netscape really is. I mean everyone uses Firefox, and if you want the extra bloat, you can use Seamonkey. But then it hit me. Netscape's core is Firefox. All they really did was take Firefox and repackage it with their own selection of extensions. Seamonkey is also the same, but with different extensions. So this indicates to me that Firefox needs to really get back to basics. The Firefox team should work on keeping their browser lean and mean. Just the basics to get the job done and keep improving Gecko. The Netscapes and Seamonkeys and Flocks out there can worry about packaging features, and most of us geeks will "roll our own." Essentially, Firefox becomes more like the Linux Kernel and Netscape et. al. become the distributions (OK OK I know Gecko is probably more like the kernel, but work with me here).
Wal-Mart is known for brutally squeezing its suppliers for every possible reduction--year after year.
This is all too true, and I despise Wal-Mart for it, but this is also Dell we're talking about. Dell has done just as much for lean production and supply networks as Wal-Mart. The reason Dell can sell so cheaply is not just because of their direct model, it's because they also have the clout to put demands on their suppliers. For instance, Dell requires that suppliers have a warehouse within a certain radius of their assembly plant. I have no doubts that if anyone can meet Wal-Mart's demands it's Dell. Also, keep in mind that this is the computer/electronics industry, so price drops are a given, even without Wal-Mart's influence. As the article linked in the grandparent's post, one way to stay alive when dealing with Wal-Mart is to constantly have fresh products so that Wal-Mart doesn't have historical data or competitor retail pricing to dictate what the price should be. Everything Dell makes is obsolete by the time it gets to the customer anyway, so no problem in keeping the product fresh. HP and Dell may end up priced identically on the Wal-Mart shelves, but that's ok, they can compete on quality and features instead.
Standardization is good, but I think there are some serious drawbacks to it in the laptop market. While I would love to be able to build my own laptop in the same way I do with my desktops, part of inovating the laptop market is making it more mobile. Laptops were introduced because people wanted mobile computing, but today's laptops can still have a lot of room for improvement. Even this new thin laptop has room for improvement on just mobility alone. The great thing about the proprietary parts, is that you can make them in any shape you want, standards be damned, to shrink your machine down. Even if all laptops were to jump to one standard now, I don't think we really have any good standards. Hardly any of today's quasi-standard laptop parts would work in this new thing.
I see laptops following more of a PDA/Cellphone form. Laptops will be just another mobile device, or even THE ONLY mobile device (they can do it all in one small package). The parts will all become tightly integrated and they will be so commoditized that you won't even try to fix it if it breaks, you would just replace it.
In my opinion, the second POTC was identical in quality to the second Matrix. Both were unnecessary sequels to great movies (I'm much more partial to Matrix though). Both upped the budget on special effects. Both also chose to focus more on special effects than on the actual storyline. Reloaded had these 20 min fight scenes that costs millions and then had to pause for some story before the next 20 minute million dollar fight. Dead Man's Chest was similar. Huge budget with amazing special effects, but I found the actual story hard to follow because the dialogue explaining the plot was often rushed in the middle of action sequences. Plus the story was just not as compelling (also I think the crappy local theater I saw it in cut off the first five minutes and I was totally confused. Can anyone tell me what happened before the title credits appeared?) Both also ended with a cliffhanger and and the third installment is premiering only a year later (cause we all can't wait to find out what happens next. I just hope the third POTC doesn't ruin the first the way the third Matrix did.
When my family FINALLY got around to getting a decent family PC, we had a whopping 3GB. I was hot shit on the block for about 6 months.
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Actually I wouldn't be surprised if "To Catch that dumbass who responds to SPAM" is next on the list. They recently have done "To catch an ID theif." Actually a pretty interesting investigation. They confronted people who thought they had internet girlfriends/boyfriends who happened to also be shipping packages for their alleged significant others. These people were shocked and embarrased, but they then helped track the criminals by playing along for a little longer and shipping packages with tracking devices. It was really interesting to see where that package ended up and even more interesting when they tried to lure the "girlfriend" into another "lucrative business deal" followed by a "My name is Chris Hansen..." unmasking. Pure gold.
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The problem with this assessment and every other post I've seen here, is that none of you people have the slightest idea of what an IT degree is. So as someone who got a degree in what most of you would refer to as IT, let me clear things up. 1) Generally, it's not "IT" its "MIS" or "IS" as in Management Information Systems (at least in most US universities)
2) MIS/IS is part of a business school. That means you will be taking Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Management, and Economics courses in addition to your IS related classes.
3) MIS/IS graduates DO NOT become system administrators. I interned in a Network Operations department of a company essential assisting the sysadmins. Nothing I was studying was preparing me to be a sysadmin. What I was studying, was being the sysadmins boss, the Manager/Directors of IT.
4) Your technical classes will generally be higher level. You will not become a C++ or Java expert, but you will learn the fundementals of writing code so that learning C++ or Java will be relatively easy. Also, you will be able to look at a piece of code and get the gist of what it's suppose to do. You will be somewhat of a Jack-of-all-trades when it comes to the technical stuff, but no expert in any in particular. If you do want to be an expert in one of these areas, either do CS, engineering, or learn it on your own time
5) Your more advanced MIS/IS classes will talk more about ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and other large enterprise wide systems. Start learning who SAP is and what they do. Most CS and computer engineers have no idea what I'm talking about right now, but you will. The focus here is understanding technical solutions to companywide problems and also having the accounting/fincance/marketing background to back up these decisions. When I explain MIS to CS or engineers, I usually say "We're nerds who know what ROI is." To which they say "What's ROI?". To which I say "Exactly." (If you go down the IS route, you will find out that ROI is Return on Investment and means everything when trying to convince a CFO why your company should adopt an Enterprise Content Management system.
6) Most MIS/IS grads go into consulting (like I did). Consulting companies are constantly recruiting and they pay very well and if you want to do everything and anything tech. related, this is the industry for you. You also make lots of contacts at many different companies that you may want to work at when consulting starts to get old.
I know this post is probably 3 days too late, and no one will see it, but it's unfortunate because I haven't seen a single post that actually understands what getting an IT DEGREE means as opposed to what is broadly referred to as the IT INDUSTRY.
I think the problem here is that the author's definition of a B game is a little off. I think what the author refers to as B games are more like D games, in that they just plain don't work. The programming is buggy, the game play is quirky and frustrating and overall just not fun to play at all. When I think of a B movie, I think about awesomely bad or totally strang and bizarre story lines, bad acting, poor production quality (like grainy film quality, boom-mic or other objects/people in the frame). This is all what makes the movie funny. A game can be perfectly playable (little to no bugs, non-frustrating game play) and still have all of the B movie qualities. I think "Zero Wing's" "All your base are belong to us" comes to mind for most of us. How about really corny cut scenes. The storyline of the game could be something so stupid and pointless that it's hilarious (think something like "Dude, Where's My Car" or "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" as a video game). A D-Game is something that was poorly implemented and should never have made it to the store shelves. A B-Game is implemented relatively well, but the designers were smoking some really good shit.
Agreed. I have seen signs that say "Left lane closed due to traffic accident 2 miles." The idea being that if you everyone gets out of the left lane nice and early, there won't be a slowdown like when they all have merge at once. Unfortunately, no one pays attention to the sign and keeps on speeding ahead in the left lane. When they get to where the lane ends, there's a huge jam as everyone has to merge over at the last minute.
You can put out signs saying whatever you want. It doesn't mean people will take it's advice or adhere to a speed limit. I think the best idea is what the GGP posted in response to the GP. Just have two large trucks physically pace the traffic leading up to the affected area so that traffic keeps moving.
The GP clearly doesn't understand the time value of money. In some cases it's cheapest to pay everything up front. But in cases where the interest owed on the the product is less than the interest you can earn in a high yield savings account, then using credit is your best friend. For example, a colleague of mine just bought a new car. He was going to pay cash because he didn't want to pay extra on interest, but the interest was below 1%. Since accounts like ING Orange Savings pay 4.5%, he found that if he financed the car on this 1% auto loan, he could pay off the tax of the car from the interest he earns by not paying it all up front. I generally don't make it a habit of buying anything I can't afford with the cash I have, but credit allows me to wait 30 days to pay it off. Giving me not only time to move funds from one place to another, but also gives me 30 more days to earn interest on that amount of money.
As far as re-branding as Kwick-E-Mart? Hard to say. The Kwick-E-Mart from the Simpsons embraces all of the horrible stereotypes of 7-11 and ignores any of the good qualities. It could be good for sales in just sort of a novelty, make fun of yourself, kind of way. I certainly wouldn't re-brand the entire chain though. I'd be very interested to see how this works out.
As someone who used to do a lot of end user support for friends and family, I am thoroughly convinced that computers can smell fear. I don't know how many times someone has complained about a problem, called me over, and then when they try to replicate it, the computer behaves like an angel. I always tell them that it is because the computer can smell fear. They get a little chuckle out of it, but to me it's no joke. I'm dead serious.
This sentence says a lot in that 1)The meeting is intentional, not a random pickup in a bar, and 2)He has never met her previously, neither in person, nor over the phone. Written correspondence is possible, though. This one can be interpreted multiple ways. In one way, she is yet another mail order bride. In another, he has previously tried mail order brides and they were all crap. She's not a mail order bride and she's a keeper. I interpreted it in the first way. This is yet another mail order bride. He had had bad luck with the previous "candidates", but this one turns out to be good. The writer goes on about what (possibly) makes her different from the other mail order brides: English skills, a doctor, chemistry. Although the whole doctor thing is curious. If she is in fact a doctor, then why would she be a mail order bride? I don't know much about the "industry" but I wouldn't think someone who is good looking, has a career and comes from wealth (assuming her parents were successful as doctors), would want to be a mail order bride. A lot of people here on slashdot are speculating a setup involving the Russian mafia, which might explain this, but it seems there is a lot of mystery involved in this case.
The police seem to be focusing only on Reiser, which is probably a mistake. Reiser could be guilty. There certainly is a lot of evidence that points towards him, and he doesn't have answers for big questions like his car. However, in my mind, there is at least 3 suspects in this disappearance (let's not forget, there is no proof that Nina is alive or dead, so we can't call it a murder). Reiser's "friend" should be high on that list. There's the whole affair, money issues, admitted to have killed eight people. His "church" sounds peculiar too. In my mind Nina is a suspect. We don't know if she's dead, she could have been kidnapped, or she could be trying to fake her own death or just plain disappear for a while. This one's just a real head scratcher. It reminds me of the movie "Hollywoodland" about the death/murder/suicide of George Reeves, TV's Superman from the 50's. No one can really explain who did it, you can only really speculate and everyone's got a motive.
I think that sums it up. As funny as it may sound, or as offensive it may sound (i guess to MySpacers), you just saved everyone who hasn't RTFA a lot of time. The author has so much trouble defining the two "classes" and coming up with names for them. It is so much simpler to define than what the author conveys. You want two alternative terms than the "Hegemonic" and the "Subaltern"? How about College/College-bound and NOT College/College-bound users. That's it right there. It's obvious just from the history of the two sites. Facebook being a college only site, was only college students. When it opened its doors to high school kids, only the college-bound ones wanted in, because this was the first step in establishing their college social life. The rest just kept doing what they were doing with MySpace and interacting with the high school graduates who didn't go to college (because they were excluded).
I prefer this classification so much more because it steers away (for the most part) from using the high school clique labels. The author wants us to think that only jocks and popular people go to college and burnouts, emo's, artsy people and that really weird kid in the corner don't go to college. Not quite the case. Burnouts go to college in either Vermont or Colorado. The artsy kids go to art school, or a school with a strong art program. That really weird kid in the corner goes to MIT and becomes the next Bill Gates (yeah that's right, you didn't know he was really smart. Now he's going to take over the world in order to get revenge on all of you assholes). The emo's go wherever.
Now this is not all to say that everyone goes to college. This is all IF they go to college, and I understand that I am making sweeping generalizations, which is not really fair to these groups, but it's all in good fun, and based mostly on what I have observed. I'm just trying to prove the point that there is a much easier way to classify the Facebook/MySpace users without resorting to school cafeteria labels.
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As mentioned in the first thread, Mythic.TV sells the Dragon. It's a fully working computer and MythTV setup in a HTPC form factor (looks like a piece of stereo equipment) that is based on KnoppMyth. It's pretty nice looking and is apparently very quiet. It's pricey though (over $1k), but all the hard work has been done for you. A great way to make MythTV accessible to those who don't have the Linux know-how.
Personally, I really enjoyed building my MythTV system. For me, it's always an ongoing project, but that's because I always have new ideas I want to try out. That's the great thing about MythTV. If you can dream it, you can do it (or at least try to).
No you're not the only one. But I wouldn't exactly say it's going to flop. I think it will do well, just as most other smart phones and pda's do well. Nothing overwhelming. It may seem like a flop just from the amount of hype that Apple and AT&T are trying to generate. There certainly will not be any long lines or opening day campers. There will be no fights breaking out and there will not be riots in the streets when the supply iPhones runs short. When people are in the market for a new phone, they will likely look into the iPhone. Some will bite, many won't. I can certainly see market share picking up in the next few years though.
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I'd like to take this chance to try and set the record straight when it comes to pirating Windows. Without getting into the morality of pirating in general, pirating Windows is still helping Windows. Sure Microsoft doesn't get the revenue for the software, but they get the market share. And that's really what the OS market is about. First you get the OS market share, then you push the OS exclusive apps, then you get money, then you buy the khakis, then you get the girls (or something like that). Why do you think Microsoft has sold Windows to parts of the developing world for as low as $3? They don't care if you pay for their OS as long as you use it.
The moral of this story: The only way to "stick-it" to Microsoft, is to not use their products at all, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
1) What company do you work for?
2) Are you hiring?
On another note, this Windows release has been a godsend for those doing web developing and testing. In order to check that our "block safari" script works, I would have to either use Opera or boot up Knoppix and use Konqerer. Even still, Safari would sneak through and I had to use Konquerer on Knoppix AND change the user agent to spoof to Safari. PITA, but no more!
I think Versus is probably the exact reason they are accepting placeshifting. The NHL is getting shafted on TV coverage because the only channel you can watch hockey on is Versus. NBC sometimes will play games on weekends if you're lucky. Other than that, it's up to your local sports network. And even they are turning away from hockey. This year's playoff season was probably the worst covered in recent years. I couldn't watch a NJ Devils game in New Jersey unless I had Fox Sports Net 2. Unfortunately I don't have the second iteration of a regional cable channel.
And to all of you saying no one watches hockey, all I can say is that last night I was watching hockey on TV and it was a great game. So you don't like hockey...most of you here don't even like sports. There are plenty of fans out there. You all sound like the Windows zealots who think that no one ever uses Linux on the desktop.
Wow, didn't know Netscape was still developing. I was under the assumption that Mozilla/Seamonkey took over Netscape's role, but hey, you learn something new everyday. I was also wondering what the point of developing Netscape really is. I mean everyone uses Firefox, and if you want the extra bloat, you can use Seamonkey. But then it hit me. Netscape's core is Firefox. All they really did was take Firefox and repackage it with their own selection of extensions. Seamonkey is also the same, but with different extensions. So this indicates to me that Firefox needs to really get back to basics. The Firefox team should work on keeping their browser lean and mean. Just the basics to get the job done and keep improving Gecko. The Netscapes and Seamonkeys and Flocks out there can worry about packaging features, and most of us geeks will "roll our own." Essentially, Firefox becomes more like the Linux Kernel and Netscape et. al. become the distributions (OK OK I know Gecko is probably more like the kernel, but work with me here).
In Soviet Russia, credit card applies for you!
Sweeet! Using Fedora 7 is going to be more fun than I expected. Except I probably won't remember much of the experience the next morning.
I'm not sure which is funnier: The post itself, or that someone modded it "Informative".
Standardization is good, but I think there are some serious drawbacks to it in the laptop market. While I would love to be able to build my own laptop in the same way I do with my desktops, part of inovating the laptop market is making it more mobile. Laptops were introduced because people wanted mobile computing, but today's laptops can still have a lot of room for improvement. Even this new thin laptop has room for improvement on just mobility alone. The great thing about the proprietary parts, is that you can make them in any shape you want, standards be damned, to shrink your machine down. Even if all laptops were to jump to one standard now, I don't think we really have any good standards. Hardly any of today's quasi-standard laptop parts would work in this new thing.
I see laptops following more of a PDA/Cellphone form. Laptops will be just another mobile device, or even THE ONLY mobile device (they can do it all in one small package). The parts will all become tightly integrated and they will be so commoditized that you won't even try to fix it if it breaks, you would just replace it.
In my opinion, the second POTC was identical in quality to the second Matrix. Both were unnecessary sequels to great movies (I'm much more partial to Matrix though). Both upped the budget on special effects. Both also chose to focus more on special effects than on the actual storyline. Reloaded had these 20 min fight scenes that costs millions and then had to pause for some story before the next 20 minute million dollar fight. Dead Man's Chest was similar. Huge budget with amazing special effects, but I found the actual story hard to follow because the dialogue explaining the plot was often rushed in the middle of action sequences. Plus the story was just not as compelling (also I think the crappy local theater I saw it in cut off the first five minutes and I was totally confused. Can anyone tell me what happened before the title credits appeared?) Both also ended with a cliffhanger and and the third installment is premiering only a year later (cause we all can't wait to find out what happens next. I just hope the third POTC doesn't ruin the first the way the third Matrix did.
I'm only 23 and I still said "Man I'm old".
When my family FINALLY got around to getting a decent family PC, we had a whopping 3GB. I was hot shit on the block for about 6 months.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if "To Catch that dumbass who responds to SPAM" is next on the list. They recently have done "To catch an ID theif." Actually a pretty interesting investigation. They confronted people who thought they had internet girlfriends/boyfriends who happened to also be shipping packages for their alleged significant others. These people were shocked and embarrased, but they then helped track the criminals by playing along for a little longer and shipping packages with tracking devices. It was really interesting to see where that package ended up and even more interesting when they tried to lure the "girlfriend" into another "lucrative business deal" followed by a "My name is Chris Hansen..." unmasking. Pure gold.