The IT department that I work in seems to be very close. I'm one of 4 programmers, 1 phone tech, 3 grunts, and 2 network admins. We regulary get together after work for things like LAN parties, D&D, hiking, and other semi-social type things.
"If so, this seems like it may not be the most healthful thing possible. Granted, we're probably not talking about much voltage, but electricity and people are just not a good combination."
Huh? We are exposed to eletricity everyday, in the form of static electricity. Our bodies generate electrical fields, and pick them up from the enviroment. Our bodies are designed to transmit small electrical impulses without any ill effects. Ever been shocked in the winter after walking through a carpeted hallway? That shock is hundreds of times stronger then anything this would cause.
I currently work in the MIS department for a large communications company. The department has 3 coders, including myself. Everything we write ends up internal to the company. We write web baed applications for tracking orders, constomer information, accounting, inventory tracking, and so on. Because everything we do is internal to the company I get to see the results of white I write right away. This is my first programming job, and It's an amazing feeling to actually be writing programs that people will be using every day. Once you get away from the types of things you do in class, like writing a nice sorting routine, and start on things like, "Develop a program to takes scanned PO's, store them in a database for later review, and add a nice interface for it all", things start getting more interesting. I would reccomend you stick with it and at least give a job a try. You are close enough to finishing your education that a little more time won't hurt, you can always use the experience elsewhere.
The point of Linux isn't to wipe out Windows, or even to compete with it. Linux is about creating a free operating system that people will choose if it's the right tool for the job. Linux doesn't have to hurt Windows to be sucsesfull, it just has to keep improving. Just because Microsoft wasn't hurt by this doesn't mean that it isn't a victory for linux.
How would you feel if you wrote a letter to your congressman and then found out that all the mail was burned because a single anthrax spore was found somewhere in the mail sorting complex? I'm pretty sure that the president is more important then someone from the congres. Even if the letter has little chance of being read and responded to it should not be burned before it even gets to it's destination. We elected Bush, our letters to him deserve at least a CHANCE to be heard.
I was listening to NPR on the way home from work today. There was a story about how anthrax spores were found in the area where mail for the whitehouse is tranfered from one mailroom to the next and is checked. Officials were quoted as saying are considering burning all the unopened mail in the facility destined for the whitehouse in order to protect the president and whitehouse staff. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this?
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The ThinkGeek ads are great, I actually look forward to seeing them sometimes because I can't always take the time to look at all the new geek toys that are out there. Sometimes I see something interesting and I click the ad and end up wondering around think geek for over 10-20 minuites. I don't mind if the ads will be like the think geek ads, the ones I dont like are the big flashy ones with the distracting animations that give me a headache from seeing them in my peripheral vision while reading the content. Ohh yeah, I didn't even notice the OSDN navbar until it was mentioned in the story.
"Wasn't this already done in Futurama, when Fry downloaded Lucy Liu's personality and appearance from kidnapster.com into a robot?
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Yeah, but that was funny, and was obviosly a parody making fun of the anti napster people. I really doubt that anyone was swayed not to use napster by it.
"Priority? When have you ever seen a bugfix be a priority? "
Hmm... let's see, many times. If I recal the bugs that allowed codered and nimda to attack computers was patched MONTHS before the virus was even released.
"Oh, so it's ok for me to break into your house to retrieve my stolen DVD player you bought from 'a friend.' "
No, that's not OK, but that's NOT what is happening here. The files they plan on downloading are not locked up inside a house. They are made available on public servers, to the public, on public web and FTP sites.
For example. You steal my DVD player, then put out a table by your sidewalk with a sign that says free on it, then fill the table up with stuff you are giving away. If I choose to bring a bunch of my friends and take everything off of that table that belongs to me in the first place without letting anyone else have anything, then there is nothing wrong with that. And that's what the RIAA is planning on doing. Its up to you to find a way to kep people you don't like out of your servers, but if you place something on a public server ANYONE can take it, and you cant do anything about it short of removing the content, or not making the server public.
"Theft of computer resources is illegal in many countries, and certain parts of the US (such as Oregon). Theft of data is also illegal"
It's not a crime to take something you already own. If the RIAA owns the rights to these songs, and they are available on PUBLIC servers, for anyone to download, on well known ports, then how can it be a crime for them to download? Even if they want to download at very slow rates they could jsut use real 300baud modems to connect to the itnernet. They arn't doing anything wrong then because they are downloading as fast as their hardware allows. The RIAA is fighting back using technology now, and they are getting innovating, that sounds like a challenge to me. Fight them on the same level.
Even better, record a few seconds of the handshake sound of 2 modems and use that at the beginning of every call. That should annoy them enough that they don't bother calling back.
It a perfect computer world it would be possible to write one version of software and have it run under aver OS, on every piece of hardware. That's what this is bringing us one step closer to. If the program runs just as good under linux with an abstraction layer as it does under windows then what's your problem? It doesn't then matter what the target platform was, it works on linux too. Please explain how that could be a bad thing.
There is a Subway here in Gaithersburg, MD that has fountains for both coke and pepsi right next to each other. That's the only place I've ever seen it, and it was kind of freaky.
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..."big, mainstream games that lots of people want to play. the question is, why aren't they? that's almost certainly due to the original authors not being interested in a linux version. "
Thats' easy, it's a licensing issue. If they decide to port a new game who gets the money for it? The orriginal authors, or Loki? If Loki gets the money for it then the orriginal author ends up not making as much money for the windows version because of sales lost to the linux version. If the orriginal author gets the money then Loki loses out. If the money is split then the orriginal author still end up not making as much money.
.. People have been able to export Access & Excel documents to tab deliminated files for years now. Thats why they're not worried about XLM for those apps
People have been able to explort word documents to older word fileformats, and even plain text files since the earliest versions of word.
I am almost finished with my plan to escape evil Bill's clutches forever. I recently bought an Apple ibook (No Microsoft tax!), and will be installing Mandrake 8.0
You know that the OS didn't come free on that computer... So instead of paying the microsoft tax you are paying the Apple Tax. Same thing, only a slightly less evil company.
But it will have peer review, people are most likely going to try and cheat right away. These people are testing the security of the system. If they can't cheat, or there are dramaticly less cheats then the security has done it's job. You will NEVER be able to stop people from cheating, but you can at least slow them down so that legitimate users can enjoy the game for that much longer.
Obscurity not Security, which means it will only be a matter of time before someone figures out a way to cheat just the same...... *sigh*
Normally I'd think you were right, but I got to thinking. There was an artical a few weeks ago about how obscurity isn't such a bad thing, when it is used in conjunction with real security. It makes sence that if you have really good security it just makes it better if you don't reveal all the details about it. Say you have security that can be hacked in about 15 hours, if you hide the details of how it was done it will end up taking longer. Obscurity isn't always a bad thing. If it's used the right way it can make something that's fairly secure even more secure.
": these are non-essential services which the private sector is willing and able to provide"
Ummm.. NO, they are not willing, and they are not able to provide these services. I've lived in an area that is just outisde the range of DSL. The local company keeps pushing the DSL availability date back by 6 months. Same thing with 2-way cable modems. These companies are content with service the customers they have, they are not interested is serving a wider range of people because it just isn't profitable (enough).
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The IT department that I work in seems to be very close. I'm one of 4 programmers, 1 phone tech, 3 grunts, and 2 network admins. We regulary get together after work for things like LAN parties, D&D, hiking, and other semi-social type things.
I currently work in the MIS department for a large communications company. The department has 3 coders, including myself. Everything we write ends up internal to the company. We write web baed applications for tracking orders, constomer information, accounting, inventory tracking, and so on. Because everything we do is internal to the company I get to see the results of white I write right away. This is my first programming job, and It's an amazing feeling to actually be writing programs that people will be using every day. Once you get away from the types of things you do in class, like writing a nice sorting routine, and start on things like, "Develop a program to takes scanned PO's, store them in a database for later review, and add a nice interface for it all", things start getting more interesting. I would reccomend you stick with it and at least give a job a try. You are close enough to finishing your education that a little more time won't hurt, you can always use the experience elsewhere.
The point of Linux isn't to wipe out Windows, or even to compete with it. Linux is about creating a free operating system that people will choose if it's the right tool for the job. Linux doesn't have to hurt Windows to be sucsesfull, it just has to keep improving. Just because Microsoft wasn't hurt by this doesn't mean that it isn't a victory for linux.
umm, no, RIAA is music, and Napster stuff. DeCSS is the MPAA.
Windows NT, 2000, and XP have multiboot loaders. windows 95,98 and ME were meant for people with home systems before multi-booting was more common.
How would you feel if you wrote a letter to your congressman and then found out that all the mail was burned because a single anthrax spore was found somewhere in the mail sorting complex? I'm pretty sure that the president is more important then someone from the congres. Even if the letter has little chance of being read and responded to it should not be burned before it even gets to it's destination. We elected Bush, our letters to him deserve at least a CHANCE to be heard.
I was listening to NPR on the way home from work today. There was a story about how anthrax spores were found in the area where mail for the whitehouse is tranfered from one mailroom to the next and is checked. Officials were quoted as saying are considering burning all the unopened mail in the facility destined for the whitehouse in order to protect the president and whitehouse staff. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this?
The ThinkGeek ads are great, I actually look forward to seeing them sometimes because I can't always take the time to look at all the new geek toys that are out there. Sometimes I see something interesting and I click the ad and end up wondering around think geek for over 10-20 minuites. I don't mind if the ads will be like the think geek ads, the ones I dont like are the big flashy ones with the distracting animations that give me a headache from seeing them in my peripheral vision while reading the content. Ohh yeah, I didn't even notice the OSDN navbar until it was mentioned in the story.
For example. You steal my DVD player, then put out a table by your sidewalk with a sign that says free on it, then fill the table up with stuff you are giving away. If I choose to bring a bunch of my friends and take everything off of that table that belongs to me in the first place without letting anyone else have anything, then there is nothing wrong with that. And that's what the RIAA is planning on doing. Its up to you to find a way to kep people you don't like out of your servers, but if you place something on a public server ANYONE can take it, and you cant do anything about it short of removing the content, or not making the server public.
No, they think they ARE the law.
Even better, record a few seconds of the handshake sound of 2 modems and use that at the beginning of every call. That should annoy them enough that they don't bother calling back.
It a perfect computer world it would be possible to write one version of software and have it run under aver OS, on every piece of hardware. That's what this is bringing us one step closer to. If the program runs just as good under linux with an abstraction layer as it does under windows then what's your problem? It doesn't then matter what the target platform was, it works on linux too. Please explain how that could be a bad thing.
At least Microsoft hasn't tried to link thier Passport technology in with this national ID card
There is a Subway here in Gaithersburg, MD that has fountains for both coke and pepsi right next to each other. That's the only place I've ever seen it, and it was kind of freaky.
maby 3 volts with 10 microns of serface area? Dunno how feasable that is, but thats how I read it.
But it will have peer review, people are most likely going to try and cheat right away. These people are testing the security of the system. If they can't cheat, or there are dramaticly less cheats then the security has done it's job. You will NEVER be able to stop people from cheating, but you can at least slow them down so that legitimate users can enjoy the game for that much longer.